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Koty i Mysli: Basni
No full textMikhalkov and Racheva are at it again, and here -- as far as I can tell -- better than ever. The title is translated Cats and Thoughts: Fables. The illustrations are nicely done here. The rhythm of this book, with the exception of a few longer fables, is text left and full-page colored illustration right. As the closing T of C (79) shows, there are here thirty-two fables, with an afterword by Irakly Andronykov. I now have something like ten books of Mikhalkov and Racheva. Soon it will be time to check for repeats among the fables that they present.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: RussianSergei Mikhalko
Koty i Mysli: Basni
No full text"Here is an earlier copy of a book already in the collection.under 1983. A few things are different. On some pages, like 25, one can note a difference in color density. Generally, the illustrations here are not as sharp as in the later edition. Many titles are in simple lettering rather than the more striking cursive script of the later book. Page numbers are in standard position at the bottom of the page rather than to the side of text. The T of C on 79 is in one column, not two as in the later edition. I will repeat remarks that I made earlier of that later edition. Mikhalkov and Racheva are at it again, and here -- as far as I can tell -- better than ever. The title is translated "Cats and Thoughts: Fables." The illustrations are nicely done here. The rhythm of this book, with the exception of a few longer fables, is "text left and full-page colored illustration right." As the closing T of C (79) shows, there are here thirty-two fables, with an afterword by Irakly Andronykov. I now have something like ten books of Mikhalkov and Racheva. Soon it will be time to check for repeats among the fables that they present."This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: RussianSergei Mikhalko
Basni B Prose
No full textStrange things keep happening. I have a book with identical bibliographical information, including author, artist, and publisher, but it was published in 1968 and had some 48 pages. This book totally transforms that one in its 58 pages. The dust jacket is gone. The front cover was, on the dust-jacket, a dog and a rabbit strolling, and, on the cover itself, a two-colored mask. Now the cover features a hilarious cat and an artist rabbit. The mask has moved onto the inside front-cover. The title-page and frontispiece are identical in the two versions. The bibliographical material on the verso of the title-page has been drastically reduced here, and there seems to be no reference to 1968. From there on, direct comparison becomes difficult. There are common pages, like 11 here matching 7 there. Frequently, the gray background of 1968 yields to a black background here, as on 23 here as against 19 there. This printing includes orange dots or partial dots at the bottom of text pages; they were not in the 1968 version. Mikhalkov lives! I have no doubt that I will soon find an updated version of this very book.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: RussianSergei Mikhalko
Reprioritizing the Requirements in Agile Software Development: Towards a Conceptual Model from Clients' Perspective
Get PDFContinuous and client-centric requirements reprioritization forms the very core of today’s agile approaches. In this paper, we report on results of a grounded theory study on agile requirements prioritization methods. The outcome is a conceptual model for understanding the inter-iteration prioritization process from client’s perspective. The latter is derived from the authors’ experiences and by using empirical data, published earlier by other authors
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
Sprint Planning with a Digital Aid Tool: Lessons Learnt
Get PDFManaging the product’s backlog is a major task in agile projects. This case study reports on one organization’s experiences from the transition to a backlog management tool and its contribution to improving sprint planning.. Our key lessons learnt are that a tool is particularly appropriate to organize and specify backlog items in a transparent manner and to handle dependencies. However, we also observed an overhead in backlog management and in reporting during meetings. The concrete project settings play the paramount role in whether such a tool helps or harms the process
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
Sensitivity to stimulus onset and offset in the S-cone pathway
No full textAbstractPrevious work [Vassilev, А., Mihaylova, M., Racheva, K., Zlatkova, M., & Anderson, R. S. (2003). Spatial summation of S-cone ON and OFF signals: Effects of retinal eccentricity. Vision Research, 43, 2875–2884; Vassilev, A., Zlatkova, M., Krumov, A., & Schaumberger, M. (2000). Spatial summation of blue-on yellow light increments and decrements in human vision. Vision Research, 40, 989–1000] has shown that spatial summation of brief S-cone selective stimuli depends on their polarity, increments or decrements, suggesting involvement of S-ON and OFF pathways, respectively. This assumption was tested in two experiments using a modified two-color threshold method of Stiles to selectively stimulate the S-cones. In the first experiment we measured detection threshold for small 100ms S-cone selective increments and decrements presented within three types of temporal window, rectangular, ramp onset/rapid offset and rapid onset/ramp offset. The ramp-onset threshold was higher than the ramp-offset threshold regardless of stimulus sign. In the second experiment we measured reaction time (RT) with near-threshold stimuli spatially coincident with the background to avoid spatial contrast. RT distribution for S-cone selective 500ms increments and decrements was unimodal and followed stimulus onset. An increase of stimulus duration to 1000 and 2000ms resulted in the appearance of responses following stimulus offset. The results suggest that, for brief S-cone selective increments or decrements, the human visual system is more sensitive to stimulus onset than to stimulus offset. Only for longer stimuli is the offset important, probably due to slow adaptation at a postreceptoral level
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