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The Work of Cultural Intermediaries and the Enduring Distance between Production and Consumption
No full textThis article raises some critical questions about cultural intermediaries as both a descriptive label and analytic concept. In doing so, it has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide some clarification, critique and suggestions that will assist in the elaboration of this idea and offer possible lines of enquiry for further research. Second, it is argued that whilst studying the work of cultural intermediaries can provide a number of insights, such an approach provides only a partial account of the practices that continue to proliferate in the space between production and consumption. Indeed, in significant ways, a focus on cultural intermediaries reproduces rather than bridges the distance between production and consumption. The paper focuses on three distinct issues. First, some questions are raised about the presumed special significance of cultural intermediaries within the production/consumption relations of contemporary capitalism. Second, how 'creative' and active cultural intermediaries are within processes of cultural production is discussed. Third, specific strategies of inclusion/exclusion adopted by this occupational grouping are highlighted in order to suggest that access to work providing 'symbolic goods and services' is by no means as fluid or open as is sometimes claimed
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Deleaster negus Cuccodoro & Makranczy, 2013, new species
No full text<i>Deleaster negus</i> new species Figs 2, 5, 10, 21-24 <p>HOLOTYPE (♂): ETHIOPIA: SNNPR [Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region], Gamu Gofa, Gughe Mts., 6km SW Chencha, 6.2031°N, 37.5605°E, 2515m, 05.VIII.2008, leg. J. Beck, automatic light trap (7-11pm), edge of a large pasture next to forest fragment in good condition, apart from dead wood collecting (NHMB).</p> <p>PARATYPES (9): same data as holotype, 2♂, 3♀ (NHMB), 1♂, 1♀ (MHNG), 1♂ (MRAC), 1♂ (NHMW).</p> <p>DESCRIPTION: Measurements (n = 10: unit = mm): HW = 1.27 (1.22-1.31); TW = 1.09 (1.04-1.12); PW = 1.19 (1.15-1.23); SW = 1.73 (1.66-1.86); AW = 2.05 (1.95- 2.22); HL = 0.85 (0.83-0.87); EL = 0.51 (0.48-0.54); TL = 0.13 (0.10-0.15); PL = 1.02 (0.97-1.06); SL = 2.09 (1.98-2.21); SC = 1.96 (1.81-2.10); FB = 4.32 (4.05-4.56); BL = 7.11 (6.18-7.89).</p> <p> Similar to <i>D. pectinatus</i>, from which it may be distinguished as follows: habitus as in Fig. 2; scape and pedicel almost concolorous with flagellum; head as in Fig. 5; vertex with markedly curved, broad grooves (with the remnants of the ocelli in their middle) extending anterolaterally from middle of neck margin to middle of inner eyes margin, forming together a rather U-shaped impression surrounding the disc, filled with dense granulose microsculpture unlike the imbricate microsculpture filling most of the groove delineating dorsal part of neck; pronotum (Fig. 5) with hind angles evenly rounded; presence of two rather strongly protruding knob-like elevations near posterior pronotal angles; presence of deep, curved pronotal subbasal impression; medial pronotal groove very fine, indistinct posteriorly, an indistinct coriaceous/substrigulate microsculpture in directionality surrounding the centre of pronotal disc, but there missing on larger spots, leaving the surface smooth and shiny; elytra with postscutellar area gently depressed till middle of suture; posterior portion of elytral disc not swollen; posterior portion of sutural margin on level with disc; abdomen with laterosternites moderately broad; pubescence on laterobasal parts of tergites not directed outwards; pectinate middle (comb) of apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII as in Fig. 10.</p> <p>Sexual characters: Female abdominal sternite VIII expanded subapically, subtriangular, narrowly rounded apically and with couple of tiny (and occasionally also 1-2 larger) incisions on apical margin. Male abdominal tergite IX as in Fig. 23; tergite X as in Fig. 24; sternite VIII with slightly and narrowly produced apex, with membranous edge; aedeagus as in Figs 21-22.</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet 'negus' refers to the title of king in Ethiopia.</p> <p>It is a noun in apposition.</p> <p> DISTRIBUTION: The species is known only from Ethiopia, from its type locality that lies more south than that of <i>D. pectinatus</i> Fauvel.</p> <p> COMMENTS: <i>Deleaster negus</i> is the only Afrotropical member of the genus to possess on the abdominal tergite VIII a comb with a minute mesal denticle in combination with the posterior portion of the elytral disc lacking hump.</p>Published as part of <i>Cuccodoro, Giulio & Makranczy, György, 2013, Review of the Afrotropical species of Deleaster Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae), pp. 537-547 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (4)</i> on pages 546-547, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5823328">10.5281/zenodo.5823328</a>
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
A class of piecewise cubic interpolatory polynomials
No full textA new class of C1 piecewise—cubic interpolatory polynomials is defined, by generalizing the definition of cubic X-splines given recently by Clenshaw and Negus (1978). It is shown that this new
class contains a number of interpolatory functions which present practical advantages, when compared with the conventional cubic
spline
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
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