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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Façonnage de comportement robotique basé sur des signaux instructifs non labellisées
No full textLa plupart des systèmes d'apprentissage interactifs actuels s'appuient sur des protocoles prédéfinis qui peuvent être contraignants pour l'utilisateur. Cette thèse aborde le problème de l'interprétation des instructions, afin de relâcher la contrainte de prédéterminer leurs significations. Nous proposons un système permettant à un humain de guider l'apprentissage d'un robot, à travers des instructions non labellisées. Notre approche consiste à ancrer la signification des signaux instructifs dans le processus d'apprentissage de la tâche et à les utiliser simultanément pour guider l'apprentissage. Cette approche offre plus de liberté à l'humain dans le choix des signaux qu'il peut utiliser, et permet de réduire les efforts d'ingénierie en supprimant la nécessité d'encoder la signification de chaque signal instructif.Nous implémentons notre système sous la forme d'une architecture modulaire, appelée TICS, qui permet de combiner différentes sources d'information: une fonction de récompense, du feedback évaluatif et des instructions non labellisées. Cela offre une plus grande souplesse dans l'apprentissage, en permettant à l'utilisateur de choisir entre différents modes d'apprentissage. Nous proposons plusieurs méthodes pour interpréter les instructions, et une nouvelle méthode pour combiner les feedbacks évaluatifs avec une fonction de récompense prédéfinie.Nous évaluons notre système à travers une série d'expériences, réalisées à la fois en simulation et avec de vrais robots. Les résultats expérimentaux démontrent l'efficacité de notre système pour accélérer le processus d'apprentissage et pour réduire le nombre d'interactions avec l'utilisateur.Most of current interactive learning systems rely on predefined protocols that constrain the interaction with the user. Relaxing the constraints of interaction protocols can therefore improve the usability of these systems.This thesis tackles the question of interpreting human instructions, in order to relax the constraints about predetermining their meanings. We propose a framework that enables a human teacher to shape a robot behaviour, by interactively providing it with unlabeled instructions. Our approach consists in grounding the meaning of instruction signals in the task learning process, and using them simultaneously for guiding the latter. This approach has a two-fold advantage. First, it provides more freedom to the teacher in choosing his preferred signals. Second, it reduces the required engineering efforts, by removing the necessity to encode the meaning of each instruction signal. We implement our framework as a modular architecture, named TICS, that offers the possibility to combine different information sources: a predefined reward function, evaluative feedback and unlabeled instructions. This allows for more flexibility in the teaching process, by enabling the teacher to switch between different learning modes. Particularly, we propose several methods for interpreting instructions, and a new method for combining evaluative feedback with a predefined reward function. We evaluate our framework through a series of experiments, performed both in simulation and with real robots. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework in accelerating the task learning process, and in reducing the number of required interactions with the teacher
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