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Nelson P. Craven, Chick Bradford, Ross Clay
No full textBlack-and-white photograph of three bass singers practicing for a performance of Handel\u27s "Messiah" by the Salt Lake Oratorio Society. Left to right: Nelson P. Craven, Charles (Chick) Bradford, Ross Clay
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
Marriage record of Hill, Nelson P. and James, Mattie L.
No full textMarriage license for Nelson P. Hill and Mattie L. James. H. Holman was the officiant
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
Noise generated by flow over perforated surfaces
No full textThis work deals with the prediction of the noise generated by unsteady flow over the surface of acoustically absorbent duct linings. Ffowcs William's analysis of the acoustics of turbulence near sound absorbent linings is used as a theoretical basis. An equivalent source model is used to describe the radiated sound in terms of the mass flow driven through the circular perforations of a liner surface by hydrodynamic pressure fluctuations. The assumption of a realistic form for the turbulent velocity fluctuations in the liner perforations makes clear the inherent dependence of the radiated noise on the Strouhal number based on hole diameter. The predictions of the equivalent source model are in excellent agreement with measurements made of the noise radiated by liner surfaces in a free jet test rig. The model and the experimental data are further used to predict successfully the level of surface generated noise in attenuator sections of low speed flow ducts.</p
The matroid secretary problem for minor-closed classes and random matroids
No full textWe prove that for every proper minor-closed class M of Fp-representable matroids, there exists an O(1)-competitive algorithm for the matroid secretary problem onM. This result relies on the extremely powerful matroid minor structure theory being developed by Geelen, Gerards, and Whittle. We also note that, for asymptotically almost all matroids, the matroid secretary algorithm that selects a random basis, ignoring weights, is (2 + o(1))-competitive. In fact, assuming the conjecture that almost all matroids are paving, there is a (1 + o(1))-competitive algorithm for almost all matroids
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