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No. 714 Randall J. Olson
No full textTranscript (50, 33, 40, 43 pages) of two interviews by Anne Peterson with Randall J Olson of the University of Utah Ophthalmology Department on 8 February, 8 March, 25 April, and 29 April 2013. Part of the University Oral History Project, Everett Cooley Collection tape numbers U-3199, U-3202, U-3206, and U-3207Dr. Randall J Olson (b. 1947), CEO of the University of Utah\u27s Moran Eye Center, discusses his life and career in four interviews. The first two cover his childhood, education and early career; the last two, his time on the faculty of the University of Utah. He was born in Glendale, California, to a father from Utah and a mother from southern California. His father served in the Pacific Theater of World War II. A sickly child, he moved with his family to Salt Lake City when a teenager to follow his father\u27s appointment in the metallurgy department at the University of Utah. Dr. Olson graduated from Highland High School, where he me Pat Shea, though he likes to say he dropped out since he left high school a year early to attend the University of Utah. He served an LDS mission to Sweden, where he discovered running, and then went to medical school at the University of Utah. He met his wife in the 1960s and was married in 1970. Dr. Olson was in Sweden for a medical fellowship during the "Seven Crown Crisis," and graduated in 1973. He moved on to ophthalmology at UCLA in 1974, and nearly forty years later is still thrilled with his decision to pursue that field. Dr. Olson spent time in Honduras on another fellowship, worked at LSU in New Orleans helping them set up a premium eye care facility, and then returned to the University of Utah in 1979, for which he credits Herb Kaufman. Made Chief of Cornea, he aggressively expanded his tiny division and has never stopped. Early programs involved outreach into neighboring states and his successful drive to make ophthalmology a department. He discusses numerous colleagues, remembering especially David Apple and Alan Crandall from his early years at the"U" In the mid-1980s Dr. Olson spent some time in Saudi Arabia at the King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operated on the King\u27s stepmother. The late 1980s found the Department of Ophthalmology needing to expand, and Dr. Olson worked closely with philanthropist John A. Moran to create the Moran Eye Center, which first opened in 1993 and then in 2003 upgraded to a much larger facility. Dr. Olson discusses fundraising at great length, but also spends time discussing the role of Wayne Imbrescia, currently the ambulatory care director for the entire University of Utah health sciences operation, in making the Moran function. He discusses the process of funding and building the new Moran Eye Center and describes the Center\u27s research and international outreach programs in detail, but also shares memories of his son\u27´s cancer and of his own experience with eye surgery. Project: University of Utah Oral History. Interviewer: Anne Peterso
A numerical model of equatorial waves with application to the seasonal upwelling in the Gulf of Guinea
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1981.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND LINDGREN.Bibliography: leaves 118-120.by Randall J. Patton.M.S
A Meeting of Minds: In Recognition of the Contributions of Randall J. Cohrs
Full text linkA Special Issue in memory of Randall J. Cohrs, Ph.D. Topics include original research reports on a variety of viruses as well as reviews and commentaries on Randy’s contributions to many investigations
A Meeting of Minds: In Recognition of the Contributions of Randall J. Cohrs
No full textA Special Issue in memory of Randall J. Cohrs, Ph.D. Topics include original research reports on a variety of viruses as well as reviews and commentaries on Randy’s contributions to many investigations
Letters from Randall J. Parenteau of KTI Environmental Group, operators of Maine
No full textLetters from Randall J. Parenteau of KTI Environmental Group, operators of Maine Energy in Biddeford and Penobscot Energy Recovery in Orrington, and Randy Walsh of Clean Water Action of New Hampshire, in reponse to the November 3, 1994, Casco Bay Weekly article Mercury Rising
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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