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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
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
Modèles analytiques et évaluation de performances dans les grands réseaux mobiles ad hoc.
No full textIn this thesis, we study different aspects of communication protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Our goal is to provide analytical models for each of these aspects and to combine the models in order to evaluate the entire system's performance. We consider protocols of all layers starting from medium access control. We begin our study with the IEEE 802.11 protocol and we show via analytical means that the channel access delays follow an asymptotic power law distribution. Based on this result, we discuss a cross-layer protocol with the goal to provide delay based QoS guarantees in multi-hop wireless networks. The next topic involves the scalability of link state routing protocols in massive ad hoc networks. We compare theoretical results on the capacity of wireless networks with the achievable bounds when we take into account the protocol operation and overhead. We adapt the information theoretic bounds to multicast communications and we propose MOST, a protocol for multicast routing which yields optimal performance in the asymptotic case of large ad hoc networks. We then study the behavior of TCP and the impact of the heavy tailed delays observed previously in TCP tra c autocorrelations, again in the context of large networks. In the final part we are concerned with network management and organization, in order to provide user services satisfying QoS constraints. We take here a more general approach regarding the network setting, which consists in placing replicated servers in appropriate locations, based on QoS information obtained from lower layers. In this thesis, we study different aspects of communication protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Our goal is to provide analytical models for each of these aspects and to combine the models in order to evaluate the entire system's performance. We consider protocols of all layers starting from medium access control. We begin our study with the IEEE 802.11 protocol and we show via analytical means that the channel access delays follow an asymptotic power law distribution. Based on this result, we discuss a cross-layer protocol with the goal to provide delay based QoS guarantees in multi-hop wireless networks. The next topic involves the scalability of link state routing protocols in massive ad hoc networks. We compare theoretical results on the capacity of wireless networks with the achievable bounds when we take into account the protocol operation and overhead. We adapt the information theoretic bounds to multicast communications and we propose MOST, a protocol for multicast routing which yields optimal performance in the asymptotic case of large ad hoc networks. We then study the behavior of TCP and the impact of the heavy tailed delays observed previously in TCP tra c autocorrelations, again in the context of large networks. In the final part we are concerned with network management and organization, in order to provide user services satisfying QoS constraints. We take here a more general approach regarding the network setting, which consists in placing replicated servers in appropriate locations, based on QoS information obtained from lower layers. In this thesis, we study different aspects of communication protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Our goal is to provide analytical models for each of these aspects and to combine the models in order to evaluate the entire system's performance. We consider protocols of all layers starting from medium access control. We begin our study with the IEEE 802.11 protocol and we show via analytical means that the channel access delays follow an asymptotic power law distribution. Based on this result, we discuss a cross-layer protocol with the goal to provide delay based QoS guarantees in multi-hop wireless networks. The next topic involves the scalability of link state routing protocols in massive ad hoc networks. We compare theoretical results on the capacity of wireless networks with the achievable bounds when we take into account the protocol operation and overhead. We adapt the information theoretic bounds to multicast communications and we propose MOST, a protocol for multicast routing which yields optimal performance in the asymptotic case of large ad hoc networks. We then study the behavior of TCP and the impact of the heavy tailed delays observed previously in TCP tra c autocorrelations, again in the context of large networks. In the final part we are concerned with network management and organization, in order to provide user services satisfying QoS constraints. We take here a more general approach regarding the network setting, which consists in placing replicated servers in appropriate locations, based on QoS information obtained from lower layers. In this thesis, we study different aspects of communication protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Our goal is to provide analytical models for each of these aspects and to combine the models in order to evaluate the entire system's performance. We consider protocols of all layers starting from medium access control. We begin our study with the IEEE 802.11 protocol and we show via analytical means that the channel access delays follow an asymptotic power law distribution. Based on this result, we discuss a cross-layer protocol with the goal to provide delay based QoS guarantees in multi-hop wireless networks. The next topic involves the scalability of link state routing protocols in massive ad hoc networks. We compare theoretical results on the capacity of wireless networks with the achievable bounds when we take into account the protocol operation and overhead. We adapt the information theoretic bounds to multicast communications and we propose MOST, a protocol for multicast routing which yields optimal performance in the asymptotic case of large ad hoc networks. We then study the behavior of TCP and the impact of the heavy tailed delays observed previously in TCP tra c autocorrelations, again in the context of large networks. In the final part we are concerned with network management and organization, in order to provide user services satisfying QoS constraints. We take here a more general approach regarding the network setting, which consists in placing replicated servers in appropriate locations, based on QoS information obtained from lower layers. In this thesis, we study different aspects of communication protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Our goal is to provide analytical models for each of these aspects and to combine the models in order to evaluate the entire system's performance. We, consider protocols of all layers starting from medium access control. We begin our study with the IEEE 802.11 protocol and we show via analytical means that the channel access delays follow an asymptotic power law distribution. Based on this result, we discuss a cross-layer protocol with the goal to provide delay based QoS guarantees in multi-hop wireless networks. The next topic involves the scalability of link state routing protocols in massive ad hoc networks. We compare theoretical results on the capacity of wireless networks with the achievable bounds when we take into account the protocol operation and overhead. We adapt the information theoretic bounds to multicast communications and we propose MOST, a protocol for multicast routing which yields optimal performance in the asymptotic case of large ad hoc networks. We then study the behavior of TCP and the impact of the heavy tailed delays observed previously in TCP tra c autocorrelations, again in the context of large networks. In the final part we are concerned with network management and organization, in order to provide user services satisfying QoS constraints. We take here a more general approach regarding the network setting, which consists in placing replicated servers in appropriate locations, based on QoS information obtained from lower layers. In this thesis, we study different aspects of communication protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Our goal is to provide analytical models for each of these aspects and to combine the models in order to evaluate the entire system's performance. We consider protocols of all layers starting from medium access control. We begin our study with the IEEE 802.11 protocol and we show via analytical means that the channel access delays follow an asymptotic power law distribution. Based on this result, we discuss a cross-layer protocol with the goal to provide delay based QoS guarantees in multi-hop wireless networks. The next topic involves the scalability of link state routing protocols in massive ad hoc networks. We compare theoretical results on the capacity of wireless networks with the achievable bounds when we take into account the protocol operation and overhead. We adapt the information theoretic bounds to multicast communications and we propose MOST, a protocol for multicast routing which yields optimal performance in the asymptotic case of large ad hoc networks. We then study the behavior of TCP and the impact of the heavy tailed delays observed previously in TCP tra c autocorrelations, again in the context of large networks. In the final part we are concerned with network management and organization, in order to provide user services satisfying QoS constraints. We take here a more general approach regarding the network setting, which consists in placing replicated servers in appropriate locations, based on QoS information obtained from lower layers.Dans cette thèse, nous étudions les différents aspects des protocoles de communication pour les réseaux mobiles ad hoc. Notre but est d'établir des modèles analytiques pour chacun de ces aspects et de combiner les modèles pour évaluer la performance du système en entier. Nous considérons les protocoles de toutes les couches, à partir de la couche de contrôle d'accès au canal. Nous commençons notre étude avec le protocole IEEE 802.11 et nous démontrons que les délais d'accès au canal suivent une distribution polynomiale. Basés sur ce résultat, nous présentons un protocole inter-couche an d'offrir des garanties de qualité de service de délai dans les réseaux sans l multi-sauts. Le prochain sujet abordé est la scalabilité des protocoles de routage d'état de liens dans les réseaux ad hoc massifs. Nous comparons les résultats théoriques connus sur la capacité des réseaux sans l avec les bornes atteignables quand on tient compte du trac de contrôle des protocoles utilisées. Nous adaptons les bornes théoriques à la communication multicast et nous proposons MOST, un protocole multicast qui atteint des performances asymptotiquement optimales dans les grands réseaux mobiles ad hoc. Ensuite, nous étudions le comportement du protocole TCP et l'impact des délais polynomiaux observés précédemment par rapport aux auto corrélations du trac TCP, toujours dans le contexte de grands réseaux. Finalement, nous nous intéressons à l'organisation et la gestion du réseau, an d'offrir des services de qualité garantie. Notre approche peut être appliquée dans un contexte général et consiste à placer des serveurs répliqués dans le réseau, selon les informations de qualité de service fournies par les couches inferieures
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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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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