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Jonathan Hay, Sensuous Surfaces : The Decorative Object in Early Modern China, 2010
No full textPearce Nick. Jonathan Hay, Sensuous Surfaces : The Decorative Object in Early Modern China, 2010. In: Études chinoises, n°30, 2011. pp. 248-252
Student use of OER and self-assessment
No full textThis case study is based on three projects funded by SCORE, which looked at various aspects of student use and experience of OER and assessment: 1) ‘OERs, e-assessment and learning’; 2) ‘SCORE Higher: using OER to explore self-assessment for first year postgraduate researchers’; and 3) ‘Developing students as content scavengers’. The second project forms the central core of the case study, with the two other projects feeding in their respective findings where appropriate
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
Exotic granodiorite lithics from Structure 5 at West Kennet, Avebury World Heritage Site, Wiltshire, UK
No full textVariations 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
Object histories in prehistoric Britain: a stone macehead from the West Kennet Avenue occupation site, southern Britain
No full textMaceheads are distinctive perforated stone objects that occur in Neolithic and Bronze Age sites across Europe. Maceheads of different forms have been found across Britain, but with a marked concentration in Scotland and especially in Orkney. Widely regarded as ceremonial objects, they have been invariably interpreted as weapons, or symbols of power and political authority. Such interpretations, however, do not generally rely on detailed technological studies. For the most part, the way maceheads were used or treated in different contexts remains rather elusive. Recent excavations at the West Kennet Avenue occupation site, located a few hundred meters from the massive henge at Avebury, Southern Britain, brought to light a stone macehead. The site represents a significant episode of Middle Neolithic occupation, a period for which settlement evidence is generally scarce, and is located in a region in which maceheads are uncommon. Previous research on British prehistoric maceheads has demonstrated a strong association between stone maceheads and Grooved Ware sites dating to the later Neolithic, whilst earlier Middle Neolithic examples made from antler are often associated with burials. Therefore, the occurrence of a stone macehead on a Middle Neolithic settlement site is intriguing. The all-over polished ovoid macehead is grey to reddish brown in colour and, like many other examples across Britain and Europe, is broken. Inspired by Annelou van Gijn’s rigorous attention to object biographies, this paper will attempt to bring to life the biographical associations of the macehead. Questions about the making, use and breaking (intentional or not) of the macehead will be addressed through detailed technological and microwear analysis
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