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A coin hoard with an animal-headed gold bracelet from the vicinity of Philippeville
No full textIn December 2010 the second author received a message from Mr Jean Elsen, director of an auction house in Brussels, that he had acquired a Celtic gold hoard, which — apart from some 15 gold coins — also included a decorated gold bracelet. As in the case of the hoard from Fraire, 1 here too the context information was minimal and the finder remained anonymous to us. According to Mr Elsen the hoard was found in the vicinity of Philippeville (B), which is in the direct neighbourhood of Fraire and Thuin. 2 The finder, however, did not want to give information about the exact findspot. The finds were reportedly collected in two concentrations within a distance of only a few meters; the first one included the bracelet and six Nervian staters, the second one four Eburonean staters and five quarter staters (see below). The fact that all the finds were found at a very close distance from each other and that all coins belonged to the Fraire/Amby horizon (see below), makes it plausible that we are dealing with the remains of a single hoard, which was slightly scattered by later soil disturbances. This is not certain, however; we may be also dealing here with two separate hoards that had been deposited more or less at the same time
Three gold hoards from Thuin
No full textThuin is situated in the Belgian province of Hainaut near the confluence of the river Sambre and its tributary the Biesmelle (fig. 1). The area on the southern bank of the Sambre is characterised by hills with a stony loam topsoil that covers sandstone and schist. Immediately to the south of Thuin are two forested hills, the Bois du Grand Bon Dieu and the Bois de Luiseul, separated by the Biesmelle valley. The former contains a partly ramparted and ditched fortification of the éperon barré type, which is enclosed on the southern and western sides by the Biesmelle valley and on the northern side by the Ry valley. 2 The site lies at an altitude of 170 m and about 20 m above the adjacent valley. An excavation by the Université Libre de Bruxelles, headed by Pierre Bonenfant and Eric Huysecom, has been conducted on the eastern side, at the entrance to the éperon barré. This work uncovered the remains of a fortified site from the Neolithic and Iron Age, with the Iron Age site covering an area of 13 ha. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from the principal rampart of the fortification has given a calibrated date of between 90 BC and 60 AD (with 68.2 % probability), thus making a date of the most recent fortification in the Late La Tène period very plausible.
Eight gold hoards from the Low Countries. A synthesis
No full textThis volume publishes eight new gold hoards from the Late Iron Age that have been found in central Belgium (Fraire, Thuin-1,-2,-3, Philippeville, Orp-le-Grand, Heers) and the Southern Netherlands (Amby) (see fig. 1). While brief find reports have been published on the hoards of Heers, Fraire and Thuin-1, the remaining five have not previously appeared in the literature. The study of these eight hoards has yielded a wealth of new information on the archaeological contexts in which they were found, on the dating of the coinages they contain and on the social role of the coins in the societies of the time. An interesting feature is the mixed nature of five of the eight hoards, which tells us which coinages were in circulation at the same time. The hoard finds have also proved a treasure trove for coin die research. We have been able to identify large numbers of die connections between coins from the different hoards, which has laid the foundation for a comprehensive quantification and seriation of the dies used for several of the coinages. This has enabled us to comment on the relative dating of the hoards and the volume of the coin emissions
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
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