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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
We 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
Combinando modelos de predição e técnicas de visualização para melhorar a análise de desempenho de aplicações baseadas em tarefas irregulares
Parallel application performance analysis is an essential and a continuous step towards understanding and optimizing any high-performance program. Nowadays, ubiquitous and complex heterogeneous architectures turn this job even more burdensome. While paradigms like task-based ease programming through its abstractions and its runtime system, the analysis of such applications demand attention because of its specific view of the applications. Likewise, the analysis of irregular applications built upon specific data structures need to consider its abstractions and behavior to improve and facilitate an analyst’s work. Thus, the current work proposes strategies to enhance the performance analysis of irregular task-based applications and propose application-centric visualization panels to represent performance according to the elimination tree structure, the foundation of many direct sparse factorization methods. The strategies rely on tracing information for collecting task performance data. Since task-based applications can create many tasks and huge trace files, the proposed automatic mechanism for anomalous task classification based on regression models allows highlighting specific groups of problematic tasks and guiding the analysis process. The visualization techniques represent the tree structure and describe application-specific concepts like tree and node parallelism, child and parent dependencies, and communications. Those strategies are applied to the qr_mumps sparse task-based solver in an extensive set of experiments. The anomalous detection mechanism exposed four different task anomaly sources, guiding a solution that improved performance by up to 24% by reducing task interference. The elimination tree visualization panels allowed detailed comparisons between different application and runtime configurations, revealing other sources of inefficiency. The experiments also involved testing the qr_mumps application in a real computational simulation application, where it presented better performance than other parallel solvers. The results demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed strategies to guide the performance analysis of irregular task-based applications and enhance the performance representation of elimination-tree based applications.A análise de desempenho de aplicações paralelas trata-se de uma etapa essencial e contínua para entender e otimizar aplicações de alto desempenho. Arquiteturas heterogêneas hoje estão onipresentes e tornam esse trabalho ainda mais oneroso. Enquanto paradigmas como a programação baseada em tarefas facilitam o desenvolvimento por meio de abstrações e o sistema de runtime, sua análise exige mais atenção devido a sua visão específica da aplicação. Da mesma forma, análises de aplicações irregulares e construídas sobre estruturas de dados específicas precisam considerar tais características para facilitar o trabalho de analistas. Assim, este trabalho propõe estratégias para aprimorar a análise de desempenho de aplicações baseadas em tarefas irregulares usando painéis de visualização específicos, representando o desempenho de acordo com a estrutura da árvore de eliminação, alicerce de muitos métodos de fatoração esparsa direta. As estratégias utilizam informações de rastreamento para coletar dados de desempenho de tarefas. Como aplicações baseadas em tarefas podem gerar grandes arquivos de rastreamento, é proposto um mecanismo para classificação de tarefas anômalas com base em modelos de regressão que permite destacar tarefas problemáticas automaticamente, direcionando a análise. As técnicas de visualização representam a estrutura da árvore e comportamentos específicos da aplicação, como o paralelismo da árvore e dos nós, dependências entre nós filhos e pais, e comunicações. Essas estratégias são aplicadas ao solver esparso baseado em tarefas qr_mumps em um conjunto de experimentos. Os modelos de regressão expuseram quatro fontes de anomalias, guiando uma solução que melhorou o desempenho em até 24% ao reduzir a interferência entre tarefas. Os painéis de visualização da árvore de eliminação permitiram comparações detalhadas entre diferentes configurações da aplicação e runtime, revelando outras fontes de ineficiência. Também usamos o qr_mumps em uma aplicação de simulação computacional, onde ele apresentou melhor desempenho do que outros solvers paralelos. O estudo demonstrou a utilidade das técnicas propostas para guiar a análise de desempenho de aplicações baseadas em tarefas irregulares e melhorar a representação do desempenho de aplicações construídas sobre árvores de eliminação
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We 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.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
In 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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