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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
Neurophysiological and neuroendocrine development in adolescents born to women with gestational diabetes mellitus
Get PDFGDM affects more than one in ten live births globally, and incidence rates are increasing alongside the obesity epidemic. There is a substantial body of evidence indicating that children born to women with GDM are at increased risk of neurodevelopmental abnormalities and of developing diabetes and metabolic disorder during childhood or later in life. However, very little is known about the underlying physiology. This thesis describes research utilising transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a form of non-invasive brain stimulation, to investigate candidate physiological processes possibly underlying GDM-related neurodevelopmental sequelae. In Chapter 2, research is presented that suggests that children of women with GDM have lower cortical excitability and unpredictable inhibitory neuroplastic responses to continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS), a repetitive form of TMS designed to induce a long-term depression-like neuroplastic response. Recent research suggests that a relatively simple technique—namely, the indirect measurement of the corticospinal volleys elicited by TMS (I-waves)—can strongly predict the response to cTBS and, further, that the variability in responses may reflect in part variability in the interneuron networks activated by TMS, rather than in neuroplastic mechanisms. Given the high variability in neuroplastic responses observed in Chapter 2, the aim of following chapters was to apply this technique to GDM-exposed adolescents. First, however, this technique was applied for the first time to adolescents to determine its validity. In Chapter 3, the association between I-waves and the neuroplastic response to cTBS was determined to be present in adolescents. Surprisingly, however, the association was not detected in males and appeared to weaken with advancing age. In Chapter 4, this association was not found to differ between adolescents exposed to GDM and a control group. However, the altered neuroplastic response to cTBS observed in Chapter 2 was not replicated. The combination of the results presented in Chapters 2 and 4 suggest that differences in cortical excitability and synaptic plasticity induced by GDM may be subtle and difficult to replicate without much larger samples and more sensitive techniques. Nevertheless, they may represent important avenues of research, especially when considering that globally (especially in the developing world) most cases of GDM and GDM-related developmental pathology are significantly more severe. In Chapter 5, it is shown that GDM exposure is associated with decreased pre-awakening and morning cortisol secretion but a similar cortisol awakening response (CAR). Given that altered cortisol profiles are associated with metabolic pathology, this may represent an important pathway between GDM exposure and later metabolic dysfunction. Further, cortisol has important roles in the brain, including in synaptic plasticity, so altered cortisol secretion may prove important to the neurodevelopmental outcomes experienced by individuals born to women with GDM. Millions of children are born each year having experienced GDM during gestation, and these numbers are climbing. The research in this thesis contributes to the important and growing body of research describing the pathophysiological features of GDM exposure with the goal of reducing neurodevelopmental morbidity and the substantial health and economic impacts of GDM.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Medical School, 202
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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