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Free/Open Source Software - A General Introduction
No full textThe world of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) changes rapidly.
New technologies and with them, new opportunities, come and go at an ever
increasing speed. The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement is
one such development that is playing out before us today. It is many things -
revolutionary development process, disruptive technology, ideological movement,
new knowledge and standards, and more. It offers many opportunities for
governmental, private sector, and educational institutions. Organizations, as well
as developing nations, that take advantage of FOSS and implement them
appropriately stand to gain much, while those that fail to take advantage of this
opportunity may find their ICT development lagging behind that of comparable
organizations..
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
Libérer le potentiel révolutionnaire de la technologie des chaînes de blocs pour le développement humain
Full text linkVersion anglaise disponible dans la Bibliothèque numérique du CRDI: Unpacking the disruptive potential of blockchain technology for human developmentDes technologies, vieilles comme nouvelles, propulsent la vague actuelle d’innovation partout dans le monde. L’intelligence artificielle, la robotique et l’apprentissage machine gagnent du terrain et sont déployés dans une grande variété de contextes à l’échelle mondiale. Une technologie plutôt énigmatique, mais dont on entend souvent parler, est la chaîne de blocs, une technologie émergente développée dans le cadre du bitcoin, une cryptomonnaie inventée en 2008. Alors que les innovations dans les domaines de l’intelligence artificielle et de la robotique semblent avoir un côté sombre, de nombreuses personnes considèrent les chaînes de blocs comme une plateforme pour un changement positif, voire révolutionnaire
Unpacking the disruptive potential of blockchain technology for human development
Full text linkFrench version available in IDRC Digital Library: Libérer le potentiel révolutionnaire de la technologie des chaînes de blocs pour le développement humainTechnologies old and new are propelling the current wave of innovation around the world. Artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning are all gaining new ground and being deployed in a wide variety of contexts globally. One of the more cryptic but oft-hyped technologies is blockchain, an emergent technology developed as part of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency invented in 2008. Whereas Artificial Intelligence and robotics innovations seem to have a dark side, many perceive blockchain technology as a platform for positive and even radical change
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
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