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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
Genetic of Long QT, Brugada and Other Channelopathies
No full textIn the early nineties the seminal work of Mark Keating and his group introduced the concept that inherited DNA abnormalities of the genes encoding cardiac ion channels create an arrhythmogenic substrate predisposing to sudden cardiac death (1-3). Despite Keating and coworkers mainly focused on the Long QT Syndrome (LQTS), it became shortly evident that genes encoding ion channels represent the genetic substrate for several other arrhythmogenic syndromes occurring in the structurally intact heart that are frequently labeled as “idiopathic ventricular fibrillation”.
In the last ten years, thank to the concerted effort of several research teams around the world, major conceptual innovations have occurred in the field of inherited arrhythmogenic syndromes. At least ten genes have been associated with genetically determined electrical instability of the heart confirming the high genetic heterogeneity of arrhythmogenic diseases. It is now recognized that for each clinical entity (long QT Syndrome, catecholaminergic VT ...) there are multiple genetic substrates. Remarkably, genotype-phenotype correlation studies have highlighted the presence of major distinguishing features of each genetic variant of inherited arrhythmogenic diseases suggesting that each of them should be regarded as a separate disease. For example, albeit all LQTS patients share the electrocardiographic feature of prolonged QT interval, the phenotypical differences that exist in the different genetic forms outweigh the apparent similarities. Accordingly, the development of gene-specific risk stratification algorithms and gene-specific treatments are being developed suggesting that when genetic testing will becomes available as a routine procedure, diagnosis of inherited diseases and their management will be based on the genetic defect of the individual patient. This will require that the classification and the nomenclature of inherited arrhythmogenic syndromes is redefined incorporating not only the phenotype but also the molecular substrate and its functional consequences. Here we propose a novel classification for inherited arrhythmogenic diseases that is centered on the genetic defect rather than on the clinical manifestations. In this classification we identify three major clusters of diseases based on the control of similar subcellular pathways (transmembrane action potential control, intracellular calcium handling, targeting or anchoring proteins): 1) diseases of voltage-dependent ion channels, 2) diseases of intracellular calcium handling proteins 3) diseases of anchoring proteins. Each cluster includes one or more disease types according to the specific function of the abnormal proteins. We will therefore define as affected by “IKr disease” patients with genetic defect on the genes encoding HERG and MIRP proteins that are the alpha- and the beta- subunit of the IKr conducting channel. To distinguish patients affected by mutations on each specific gene, disease subtypes are identified such as in the previous example the term LQT1 and LQT5 diseases will identify mutations on KCNH2 and on KCNE2, respectively (table I). This classification reflects the complexity of arrhythmogenic diseases but it provides a scheme to formulate a comprehensive diagnosis that incorporates multiple information spanning from the genetic defect to the function of the affected protein and to the clinical phenotype.
Applying the proposed classification we will describe the molecular basis of the different diseases, their functional consequences and the distinguishing phenotypical features of each sub-type: clinical aspects related to clinical management of patients with this syndromes are discussed in chapters (Moss LQT, Schwartz LQT, Napolitano CPVT, Brugada BRUGADA)
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
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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