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Poggio Bracciolini’s International Reputation and the Significance of Bryn Mawr, MS. 48
Get PDFPoggius Florentinus delighted in his local identity but he also, famously, had an international career, being in attendance at the Council of Constance, being resident in England for four years (1419-1422) and seeking employment at the imperial court. What is less recognized is how he sought for his literary works audiences far beyond his home-city and how some non-Italians were willingly collaborators in this creation of an international reputation. It has not been noticed before how a remarkable witness to this process is now housed in the Special Collections of Bryn Mawr. It, like other manuscripts in the library, reached its present location because of that twenty-century friend of Poggio and alumna of the college, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan. It now has the shelfmark ms. 48 and is a collection of Poggio’s dialogues. What has not been recognized is that we can identify both its scribe and its illuminator and, by doing so, shed new light on Poggio’s fortuna on the far side of Europe, in his one-time home of England
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
Collegewomen.org: Documenting the History of Women’s College Students
No full textThis paper will report on the development of the Collegewomen.org project, a collaborative digital project among the American women’s colleges formerly known as the Seven Sisters: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and Radcliffe (now part of Harvard University) to create a searchable collection of diaries, letters, scrapbooks and photographs documenting students’ lives from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project has been funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2014 and 2016, and is currently live in a beta site at www.collegewomen.org. The letters and diaries written by the first generations of women to attend college in the United States tell compelling stories of their struggles and ambitions as they negotiated new roles for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through these writings, their writings, the students discussed political reform and women’s rights; career opportunities and discrimination; sexuality and body image; traditions and campus culture; religion, race and class; and the challenges of living through wars, civil strife, depressions and epidemics. Large number of these student writings are found in the archives of women’s colleges, and together they tell not only important individual stories, but also a critical, and largely understudied, part of the larger story of the transformation of American society and women’s place in that society during those critical years. In-depth research using these student writings has been impeded by their dispersal across multiple institutions and by the difficulty of locating comparable materials across institutions. By bringing digital versions of the these collections together in a single searchable database, the value of the collections will be greatly increased by the ability to see the writings in conversation with each other, as part of a larger phenomenon in the history of women in America, rather than as isolated fragments that document only the history of the individual colleges. The paper will examine not only the goals of the project, but also the technical and organizational work required to build and sustain a collaborative digital archive. It will also discuss the outreach and supplemental content that is needed to make the stories in the digital archive come alive for not only scholars and students, but also a broader audience of alumnae and high school students. Finally, the paper will discuss future development of the project, and the potential for including student writings from other women’s institutions in both the United State and internationally
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
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