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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
Images in the aftermath : the space-time of war in lebanese cinema, from the “new lebanese cinema” (1975) to contemporary artistic practices (1990 till this day) .
No full textLa thèse propose moins un inventaire des films du cinéma libanais que le relevé et l’analyse de formes cinématographiques et de pratiques artistiques contemporaines répondant aux drames, aux incertitudes, aux crises identitaires et aux amnésies forcées entraînées durablement par la guerre civile (1975-1990). à partir de la notion d’ « images d’après », on étudie la crise de la représentation qui affecte tant les modes de narration, les discours, la figuration que les formes individuelles et collectives de la mémoire et de l’histoire. de ce « nœud de tensions » découle un art de l’effritement du langage, de l’espace, du temps. une temporalité sismique problématise et brise la linéarité et la factualité, bouleversant les catégories du réel et de l’imaginaire, du documentaire et de la fiction. ce processus est d’abord questionné à travers le lyrisme et la distanciation critique de cinéastes comme borhane alaouié, maroun bagdadi et jocelyne saab, puis à travers le travail de la génération des joana hadjithomas et khalil joreige, lamia joreige, jayce salloum, mohamed soueid, akram zaatari : outre le recours fictionnel et figuratif à une temporalité spectrale conduisant ghassan salhab à faire surgir le fantastique, les créations artistiques libanaises d’après-guerre inventent et explorent une syntaxe et des matériaux esthétiques complexes capables de recréer et renouer des liens authentiques avec le réel. les œuvres d’après-guerre qui sont étudiées traduisent une pratique créatrice discursive et poétique caractérisée par l’utilisation de divers supports médiatiques, et dont la dynamique a pour source et pour effet de penser les événements traumatiques et de les historiciser.The thesis proposes less of an inventory of lebanese films, but more so it aims to collect and analyze the cinematographic forms and contemporary artistic practices that respond to tragedies, uncertainties, identity crises, and forced amnesia resulting from the incessant civil war (1975-1990.) using the notion of ‘images in the aftermath,’ the thesis explores the crisis of representation that impacts the modes of storytelling, addressing of speech, and figuration, as well as individual and collective forms of memory and history. from this ‘knot of tensions’ stems an art of erosion of language, space, and time. a seismic temporality problematizes and breaks the linear and factual, which shakes the core of categories that are linked to the real and the imaginary, documentary and fiction. this process is at firsthand questioned with lyricism and critical distancing by filmmakers such as borhane alaouié, maroun bagdadi, and jocelyne saab, then through the works of a generation including joana hadjithomas and khalil joreige, lamia joreige, jayce salloum, mohamed soueid, and akram zaatari. in addition to the fictional and figurative use of a spectral temporality leading artists such as ghassan salhab to exploit the fantastic, the lebanese artistic creations of the post-war era invent and explore a new syntax and complex aesthetic tools capable of recreating and renewing authentic ties with the real. the post-war works that are observed and studied transliterate a creative and discursive practice that is poetic, and characterized with the use of various media whose dynamics invoke the ability to think of, and apprehend, the traumatic events that may then be historicized
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
PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS ON COOLING SET POINT TEMPERATURE IN RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS IN BEIRUT CITY
Get PDFDr. Nesreene Ghaddar, Professor: Advisor/Committee Chairperson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Kamel Ghali, Professor: Co-Advisor/Member of Committee
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Ghassan Chehab: Member of Committee
Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringThis study examines the potential impact of different configurations of building envelope material including external walls and windows on the final cooling energy consumption in a typical residential apartment in Beirut city that uses conventional DX split units in living room and bedroom zones using HAP software. MED-ENEC study is used to benchmark the Business as Usual (BAU) construction scenario of a case study apartment simulated in HAP that uses single walls and single glazing for windows. After the HAP (BAU) model is validated with MED-ENEC at 78 kWh/m2.year, five different scenarios that include different envelope configurations are simulated to assess possible energy savings, cost savings from EDL and generator subscription, in addition to CO2 emissions reduction
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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