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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
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
La dynamique spatiale et temporelle des débâcles et embâcles de glace sur la rivière Chaudière
No full textLa rivière Chaudière, ce cours d'eau de la rive sud du Saint-Laurent à Québec, s'est vu être la source de multiples inondations dans l'histoire beauceronne. Une partie importante de ses colères est attribuable aux embâcles de glace et à l'inévitable débâcle qui les initie. La compréhension des causes de ces embâcles est nécessaire afin d'agir, pour le mieux, sur le phénomène d'embâcle et cette étude s'inscrit dans cette ligne de pensée. L'étude vise à décrire, caractériser et quantifier la dynamique spatio-temporelle de la débâcle et des embâcles de glace sur la rivière Chaudière par des observations de terrain au cours des hivers 2018-2019 et 2019-2020. Pendant ces hivers, des dizaines de caméras autonomes et de GPS-trackers ont été installés à des endroits stratégiques. Grâce à cette instrumentation, à l'emploi d'outils tiers (données hydrométriques; CEHQ et COBARIC, images satellites; Sentinel-HUB) et à sa présence sur le terrain, l'auteur a pu reconstruire en détail la chronologie spatio-temporelle des débâcles sur la rivière Chaudière. Les observations montrent que les débâcles printanières s'initient d'abord en Haute Chaudière, et ensuite en Moyenne et Basse Chaudière presque simultanément. La débâcle est d'abord complétée en Haute Chaudière, ensuite en Basse Chaudière et finalement vient la Moyenne Chaudière où des vestiges d'embâcles hivernaux ont retardé le départ des glaces entre Saint-Joseph et Beauceville. Dans le segment le plus amont, la Haute Chaudière, les glaces ont été mises en mouvement lorsque le débit a atteint entre 60 et 200 m³/s (station Saint-Georges) et à un indice de dégel entre 20 et 80 °C-J. Plus à l'aval, en Moyenne Chaudière, c'est entre 220 et 1000 m³/s (station Saint-Georges), lorsque l'indice de dégel se situait entre 110 et 180 °C-J, que la majorité des glaces se sont mises en mouvement. En Basse Chaudière, c'est plutôt entre 140 et 710 m³/s (station Saint-Georges), et lorsque l'indice de dégel variait autour de 125 °C-J, que les glaces ont été évacuées du cours d'eau. Lors de ces deux saisons d'observation seulement, 51 embâcles de glace ont été répertoriés, illustrant le caractère dynamique de la Chaudière. La forte majorité d'entre eux était contenue dans le segment de la Moyenne Chaudière, démontrant sa forte capacité pour la rétention des glaces. Les plus longs, et ceux ayant contribué à des inondations, se sont formés entre Beauceville et Saint-Georges, témoignant du risque élevé qui plane sur les riverains dans ce tronçon. Les îles, bifurcations du chenal et changements de pente représentent les styles géomorphologiques les plus susceptibles d'obstruer le passage des glaces. Les relâchements d'embâcles ont engendré des ondes d'eau voyageant à des célérités de l'ordre de 1.5 m/s à 7.0 m/s. Les plus élevées ont été estimées entre Beauceville et Saint-Georges. Plus en aval, dans la section des « eaux mortes » (Moyenne Chaudière), la plaine inondable amortit l'onde et tend à réduire sa vitesse de propagation. C'est dans cette section que les plus faibles valeurs ont été estimées. Les patrons spatio-temporels de la débâcle, les seuils hydrométéorologiques de mobilisations des glaces, les sites d'embâcles et les célérités d'ondes d'eau, tous identifiés dans ce mémoire, peuvent servir à la conception d'ouvrages du génie, ainsi que pour le développement d'un système d'alerte précoce.The Chaudière River, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, is well known for its frequent flooding events. An important part of those floods is caused by ice jams associated with the inevitable breakup that precedes them. In order to eventually alleviate the impacts of ice jam flooding events, knowledge must be acquired from observations of the breakup dynamics, which is the aim of this study. The goal of this study is to describe, characterize and quantify the spatiotemporal dynamics of the breakup events and ice jams along the Chaudière river. During the winters 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, tens of autonomous cameras and GPS-trackers were installed at strategic locations along the river. With this instrumentation, the use of third-party tools (hydrometric data; CEHQ and COBARIC, satellite images; Sentinel-HUB) along with his presence on the field, the author was able to reconstruct the detail of each breakup events. The resulting observations showed that spring breakups are initiated in upper reach of the river, the Haute Chaudière, and then after, almost simultaneously, in the Moyenne and Basse Chaudière segments. The breakup is usually first completed in the Haute Chaudière, then in Basse Chaudière, and lastly in Moyenne Chaudière where mid-winter ice jams have been seen to delay the ice clearing between Saint-Joseph and Beauceville. In the Haute Chaudière, ice movements began when the flow rate was between 60 and 200 m³/s (Saint-Georges station) and when the ice decay index was between 20 and 80 °C-J. In Moyenne Chaudière, it is when the discharge varied from 220 to 1000 m³/s (Saint-Georges station) and when the ice decay index was between 110 to 180 °C-J that the ice moved and eventually cleared. In Basse Chaudière, ice movements were observed between 140 m³/s and 710 m³/s (station Saint-Georges), and when the ice decay index was about 125 °C-J. During these two winter seasons, 51 ice jams were observed. The vast majority of them was found in the Moyenne Chaudière reach, demonstrating its strong capacity for ice retention. The longest jams, and those that contributed to flooding, were found between Beauceville and Saint-Georges, which translates a higher risk for the riparian residents along this reach. Islands, channel bifurcations and slope changes were the most susceptible geomorphological features to initiate ice jamming. Ice jam generated water waves ('Javes') that travelled at a celerity ranging from 1.5 m/s to 7.0 m/s. In the "eaux mortes" reach (Moyenne Chaudière), the floodplains dampened the waves and therefore reduced the velocities. The highest velocities were observed between Beauceville and Saint-Georges. Breakup patterns, hydrometeorological thresholds of ice mobilization, ice jam sites and javes celerity, all identified in this thesis, can serve as basis for engineering design, including the implementation of an early warning system
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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