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Russell, Alex (Death, 1907-05-06)
No full textAddress: City Hospital- 540 W. 6th St.Age at death: 33135/Pg.54/1907/M Col. S/Indiana/Dr. M. E. Wilson/F. W. Lewis/Kokomo, IndianaOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'Runk-Ryan'
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
The understanding of sensory descriptors of wine by Australian-Italian and Vietnamese Non-expert consumers
No full textHow do non-wine experts use sensory language to describe wine? A compatison between vietnamese, italians and autralian
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
UNDERSTANDING AND DESCRIBING THE SENSORY EXPERIENCE OF WINE FOR ITALIAN, VIETNAMESE AND AUSTRALIAN NONEXPERT CONSUMERS
No full textIt has been repeatedly acknowledged that the appreciation of wine depends to some extent on the drinker’s level of interest and their degree of expertise. Experts and non-experts (i.e. standard consumers) differ in their ability to identify the properties of wine, both in their memory of other wines they have drunk (which is useful for comparison purposes) and in the language they use to talk about wine (which affects the richness and variety of the description). The present thesis focuses on this last aspect, that is, the language used to describe the sensory properties of wine, and in particular on the understanding that standard consumers have of 64 frequently used descriptors. We have addressed this topic from a cross-cultural perspective and have worked on the assumption that opposition (i.e. heavy–light, strong–delicate, mature-immature etc) is a key configuration in descriptions relating to the sensorial characteristics of wine. In the first chapter, the framework of the problem, in terms of the cultural traditions surrounding wine, is set. The study focuses in particular on Italian wine (representing a country with a well-established tradition of producing and drinking wine), Australian wine (representing a country which is relatively new to the production of wine) and finally a part involving participants from Vietnam, a country with long established tradition of rice wine, but a certain degree of familiarity with imported grape wine which is drunk on special social occasions (see section 1.1). These three cultural areas form the basis of this thesis. Chapter 1 deals with the international language of wine from the point of view of the descriptors used by experts for its sensory properties (section 1.2). The importance of opposites in the language used and the conceptualization of wine according to experts is discussed (section 1.3). A number of studies on cross-cultural aspects relating to the description of wine in previous literature are touched upon, but these are not specifically related to opposition (section 1.4). The second chapter represents the core of the thesis from an experimental point of view. The original experiment carried out in Italy is described (Bianchi et al., 2020; section 2.1), followed by the two experiments carried out for the purposes of this thesis with Vietnamese participants (section 2.2) and Australian participants (section 2.3). The main issue concerns whether opposites can potentially play a role in modelling the dimensions evoked by common descriptors of wine, not only in the lexicon used by experts and professionals, but also with reference to non-expert consumers, considering also whether the findings hold from a cross-cultural point of view (that is, for Italy, Australia and Vietnam). We consider that it was relevant to establish empirically whether the conceptualization of the properties of wine in terms of dimensions and opposites as referred to by experts works well for standard consumers and also works equally well in countries with very different wine traditions. The motivation for this is based on the hope that once a “configuration” has been established (Paradis, 2008) it can be used to bridge the gap between experts and non-experts so that the terms and dimensions referred to are attributed the same or at least similar meanings. This is an interesting aspect to consider not only in terms of basic research, but also as applied to research relating to the marketing and advertising of wine. One of the main results of the research presented in this thesis is that in more than 80% of cases, both the Australian and Vietnamese participants were able to find what they considered to be an opposite for the target properties presented. The percentage is similar to that found in the previous study carried out with Italian participants. This indicates that opposites represent a potential common ground between expert and non-expert ways of communicating about wine, independently of people’s knowledge. The critical question regarded the extent to which the standard consumers who participated in the three studies were consistent in their choice of opposites. There was a great deal of variability between the properties in terms of how many different opposites were chosen by the participants. For the most ambiguous terms, we found that an average of 4 different opposites were identified for every 10 participants. The degree of ambiguity was slightly higher for the Vietnamese and Australian participants than for the Italian participants. The fact that this result indicates that the dimensions relating to wine are often ambiguous represents a potential source of misunderstanding. Even if wine producers carefully select the words they use to describe the characteristics of their products, standard consumers may still interpret them in a different way. Many more studies are of course needed to investigate further in order to fully understanding this phenomenon. We believe that, despite its limitations, this thesis may well suggest a useful direction for future research to follow
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