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    Preface [to Rehearsing Science and Art to re-connect culture and nature]

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    [Extract] According to some “western” ways of thinking, culture originates and exists solely in humans. This understanding of culture involves continual attempts to escape the deterministic forces of nature and has led to increasing transformations of the world for primarily human benefit while the natural world is tasked with absolving careless and frequently abusive human actions. From the beginning of the industrial revolution, this kind of development has increasingly caused saturations and depletions, with repercussions in all areas of life. Over this same period, science in its drive to understand the world through converged meaning has dominated technology while art which embraces multiple divergence of meanings and is often effective in moving our emotional lives, has become devalued. Science and art were once great collaborators and are not dissected from one another in some practices and ways of thinking. Could greater associations between the arts and the sciences transform dominant western ways and lead to more viable models for the development of human culture without destroying nature?[...]Na tradição ocidental, o conceito de Cultura é uma originalidade humana. Uma busca de liberdade, que vai sendo construída como resultado de um esforço de subtracção ao determinismo das forças da Natureza. Com esse intuito, o impacto da intervenção dos seres humanos na transformação do mundo, em prol do seu próprio bem-estar, tem sido progressivamente crescente. Até hoje, o mundo natural foi sempre capaz de absorver o impacto descuidado e, frequentemente, abusivo, da acção humana. Contudo, sobretudo a partir da revolução industrial, este tipo de desenvolvimento da cultura humana, não tem sido possível senão à custa de uma crescente saturação e esgotamento, com repercussões em todas as áreas da vida. Durante este mesmo período a ciência, na procura de compreender o mundo através da convergência de significados, tem dominado a tecnologia; enquanto a arte, que abraça a multiplicidade e a divergência, adereçando eficazmente a nossa vida emocional, tem sido desvalorizada. A Ciência e a Arte foram, em tempos, grandes colaboradoras e, pelo menos para algumas maneiras de pensar e fazer, não se encontram de todo separadas uma da outra. Poderão as artes e as ciências construir associações que contribuam para o surgimento de modelos mais viáveis para a construção da cultura humana?The research that led to this edition is being supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology IP (FCT) and by the European Social Fund, under the Human Capital Operational Programme from Portugal 2020 Programme (PostDoctoral Fellowship number SFRH/BPD/100638/2014)

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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
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