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Outbreak : cases in real-world microbiology / Rodney P. Anderson.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-306) and index.Book fair 2012xvii, 318 p. :Integrates headline-making disease outbreaks into microbiology coursework to provide critical content to college-age students.
• Presents case studies covering a wide variety of subject areas, including general, medical, environmental, and industrial microbiology.
• Integrates current outbreaks that are featured in news headlines into the classroom for added relevance.
• Features a discovery-oriented answer key that directs students to appropriate reference material rather than providing complete answers to the study questions.
• Introduces students to the relevance of diverse social, economic, political, and religious issues that exist in various parts of the world.
• Provides case studies of varying levels of difficulty.
• Presents complete information about each disease and microbe covered
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
Rodney Kephart: Fukuoka Camp, Japan, World War II
No full textOral history interview with Rodney Kephart, a civilian contractor taken prisoner by the Japanese Army following the surrender of Wake Island on 23 December 1941. He was imprisoned at Fukuoka Camp 18 in Japan and was liberated following the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
Rodney P. Kephart was born on 3 July 1917 in Spencer, Iowa. He was an ordained Episcopal priest and died on 5 February 2002 in Stanley, North Dakota
Rodney P. Rodrigue took over the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Co. in 1991,
No full textRodney P. Rodrigue took over the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Co. in 1991, and since then has doubled ridership on the line and helped revive Belfast harbor. Rodrigue would like to add shops, a marina and a railroad museum to the Belfast waterfront area, but some in the Waldo County town want to explore other options. Details
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
Philological Studies in honour of Walter Miller, edited by Rodney P. Robinson (The University of Missouri Studies, XI, 3), 1936
No full textVallette Paul. Philological Studies in honour of Walter Miller, edited by Rodney P. Robinson (The University of Missouri Studies, XI, 3), 1936. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 40, 1938, n°1. pp. 87-88
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