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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Support of Facility Management Processes by using NFC-Smartphones explained by a building cleaning process
Get PDFMit Integration der Near Field Communication (NFC) Technologie zur kontaktlosen Erfassung von Daten auf Smartphones ergeben sich neue Anwendungsmöglichkeiten für Industrie und Privatanwender. Diese Forschungsarbeit widmet sich der mobilen Unterstützung eines im infrastrukturellen Gebäudemanagement beheimateten Facility-Management (FM) Prozesses, dem eines Gebäudereinigungsdienstes. Die Dokumentenerfassung zur Unterstützung der Prozesse wurde bislang mit Hilfe stationärer CAFM-Systeme bewerkstelligt. Dabei handelt es sich um Systeme zur Erfassung und zur Verwaltung von FM-Daten. Mobile Systeme sind gerade in dieser Branche begehrt, besonders zur Arbeitszeit- und Leistungskontrolle. Es soll die Frage beantwortet werden, inwieweit es möglich ist mit Hilfe eines Smartphones und dem Einsatz der NFC-Technologie den FM-Prozess eines Gebäudereinigungsdienstes geeignet zu unterstützen, zu optimieren und alle papierbasierten Prozesse zu ersetzen. Kann der gesamte Dokumentationsprozess ohne Einschränkung der Benutzerfreundlichkeit auf einem Smartphone stattfinden? Leistungserbringer, Auftragnehmer und Endnutzer sind jene drei Rollen, welche am Geschäftsprozess aktiv teilnehmen. Es wurde untersucht, welche mobilen Softwarelösungen bereits existieren und welche Technologien zur mobilen Datenerfassung im FM bereits eingesetzt werden. Auf Basis der untersuchten Lösungen entstand ein Konzept für ein auf NFC basierendes mobiles System für Smartphones zur Unterstützung der FM-Prozesse. Dabei wurde die Rolle des Endnutzers in die Nutzung der NFC-Infrastruktur aktiv miteinbezogen. Auftragnehmer werden durch den Einsatz des Systems beim Qualitätssicherungsprozess unterstützt, und Leistungserbringern wurde zusätzlich zur Protokollierung auch die Möglichkeit einer Selbstkontrolle auf Basis der Bewertungsrichtlinien gegeben. Das Konzept basiert auf der Vision des Internet of Things, welches sich mit der Integration von realen Objekten in das Internet befasst. Die Existenz von drei NFC-Tag Gruppen in Zusammenarbeit mit einem Webservice, welcher die Anbindung an das CAFMSystem simuliert, ermöglichte die Realisierung eines Smartphone Prototyps für das Android- Betriebssystem. Durch die notwendige Bedingung NFC-Tags zu schützen konnte in Verbindung mit einer Authentifizierungsprozedur auf NDEF-formatiereten NFC-Tags diese Problematik im Reader/Writer Modus gelöst werden. Personal-Tags werden für die Anmeldung verwendet, Raum-Tags werden zur Identifikation von Räumlichkeiten eingesetzt und Aktions-Tags sind notwendig um Arbeitsaktionen tätigen zu können. Da die Benutzerfreundlichkeit eines solchen Systems eine wichtige Rolle spielt, wurde das erarbeitete Konzept und somit der umgesetzte Prototyp Probanden zum Usability-Test vorgelegt. Hiermit sollten Mängel erfasst werden um das Konzept und den Prototyp entsprechend zu überarbeiten. Die zentralen Ergebnisse dieser Forschungsarbeit waren, dass die Probanden durchwegs derMeinung waren, die Nutzung eines solchen Systems jedenfalls der papierbasierten Variante zu bevorzugen.While the integration of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for contactless detection of data on smartphones arises, a new scope of applications for industry and consumers can be established. This research thesis is dedicated to aiding infrastructural building management processes in the context of facility management (FM) of a building cleaning service. Until now the collection of documents to aid the processes has been accomplished with stationary CAFM systems, which are systems to gather and manage FM data. Mobile systems are in a high demand, especially in the FM industry. They can be used for working controls and quality assurance. This thesis should answer the question what extent it is possible with the help of a smartphone and the use of the NFC technology to optimize, assist and replace all paper based processes. Can the entire documentation process take place on a smartphone without restricting its usability? Service providers, contractors and endusers are the three roles that actively participate in the business process. It was examined which mobile software solutions already exist and which technologies are being used for mobile data collection in FM. Based on the reviewed solutions, a concept for a mobile NFC based smartphone system has been formed to support the FM processes. The role of the enduser has been actively involved in the use of the NFC infrastructure. Contractors will be supported by the use of the system during the quality assurance process and providers have the possibility of self-control based on valuation guidelines in addition to log their work. The concept is based on the vision of the Internet of Things which deals with the integration of real objects into the Internet. The existence of three NFC tag groups in cooperation with a web service which simulates the connection to the CAFM system, allowed the realization of a smartphone prototype for the Android operating system. The essential condition to protect NFC tags could be achieved in conjunction with an authentication procedure on NDEF formatted NFC tags. For this purpose the reader/writer mode was used. Personal-tags are used for registration, room-tags are used for identification of premises and action-tags are necessary to be able to make work actions. Since the usability of such a system plays an important role, the developed concept and thus the implemented prototype were submitted to a usability test with probands. Conceptual and prototyped issues should be covered to revise them accordingly. The main results of this research show that the probands consistently favoured the use of such a system over paper based systems
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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