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Making Systemic Design Increasingly Accessible: Building the bench
No full textSystemic design is an important methodology, set of tools, and approaches that collectively help us address the increasing complexity of our time. The need for its application is great, but adoption, while growing, is not to the level of the need.
The Circular Design Lab was launched to bring systemic design to community members interested in learning and using it to help with local challenges. We’ve spent the last few years experimenting with different approaches and formats in service of our three aims: build community, build capacity, and drive change. Over the last year, we’ve focused on developing a guide with a focus on making it approachable for people with little or no experience with systemic design.
In our activity session, we share a bit of our history and then break into discussion groups to share experiences and ideas. The goal of doing so is to help all participants (and facilitators) make systemic design more approachable in the service of growing our community and fostering broader impacts.
At the end of the session, we’ll come back together to share some of the key insights and ideas. We’ll also offer an opportunity to join a chat group to carry the conversation forward in service of continued sharing and learning.
Background
Systemic Design is an important methodology, set of tools, and approaches that collectively help us address the increasing complexity of our time. The need for its application is great, but adoption, while growing, is not to the level of the need. The Circular Design Lab was launched with the idea of bringing Systemic Design to community members who wanted to address local challenges. We did so with three aims: build community, build capacity, and drive beneficial change.
What we’re up to
We’ve spent the last year developing a guide to help others start efforts like CDL. In doing so, one focus has been on making it approachable for people with little or no experience with systemic design.
We’re now in the latter stages of creating the first draft of our Systemic Design Guide, a resource that we have developed with a focus on making it accessible to people with little or no experience with these ideas, approaches, and tools. The guide’s front matter introduces the CDL’s purpose and outlines the rest of the book. The main body is broken into two parts. The first part shares our shared philosophy around leading change, as well as a section that aims to help newcomers to systemic design find their own path. The second part is deep dive into our framework, which includes suggested tools and approaches for each phase. The back matter includes a glossary of relevant terms, an index of relevant toolkits, and links to related resources.
As we work to finalize the first draft (which we intend to iterate as the guide is used and we receive feedback), we are now thinking more about how to engage with relevant audiences within and beyond the systemic design community. How do we get people with no experience using systemic design to pick it up, and more importantly, how do we bring more people to the practice in general?
Our session
With those questions in mind, we’ll share a quick overview in the activity session of our efforts with the Circular Design Lab, including our current aims and plans for the guide. From there, we’ll break out into discussion groups to share experiences around bringing newcomers to systemic design, as well as to discuss ideas and possibilities to test. At the end of the session, we’ll share key insights from the breakouts. We’ll also offer an opportunity to join a chat group to carry the conversation forward in service of continued sharing and learning (and maybe we’ll find other ways to connect and collaborate further if that’s of interest).
The goal of the session is straightforward. We want everyone who participates to share and learn from each other in the service of making systemic design grow in its impact. We want to continue working to make it approachable for people with little or no experience with systemic design so that we all might have a greater positive impact through the others who come along
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
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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