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A Celebration of West Point Authors, January - June 2021
Get PDFHighlighting the 318 collected works of scholarship published and presented between January - June 2021.https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/1041/thumbnail.jp
A Celebration of West Point Authors
Get PDFToday, we celebrate the more than 100 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between July and December 2016. In addition, we will hear four short excerpts of publications or presentations around the topic of security.https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/1015/thumbnail.jp
Benefits and Barriers to Participation in Cycling for Non-Traditional Cyclists
No full textLeadership and Learning in Organizations capstone projectAll Bodies on Bikes is a volunteer organization that views itself as a movement to create size inclusivity in biking through education, creating a welcoming environment and education for new riders, welcoming people of all sizes and fitness levels, as well as reaching out to the industry to develop products for riders of all sizes. The challenge All Bodies on Bikes wanted to examine was how to increase opportunities for non-traditional cyclists to join in the sport.
To understand the challenge of creating an organization that caters to non-traditional cyclists, I created a survey to examine the demographics of the community, motivations for riding, whether those motivations are intrinsic or extrinsic, barriers to participation for non-traditional participants in cycling and outdoor sports, as well as using the Optimal Distinctiveness Theory and inclusion as a framework for how participants might view their identity as it intertwines with the All Bodies on Bikes community.
My findings include demographics and center around three main themes: Identities, Participation, and Motivation. Participants identify with All Bodies on Bikes in both expected and unexpected ways. All Bodies on Bikes is more diverse in all demographic categories than the wider cycling community, and this difference is a strength as their members feel like their diversity is valued and they are welcomed and seen. Based on the adjusted Motivations of Marathoners scale, the participants with the highest levels of self-reported participation in All Bodies on Bikes had a statistically significantly higher agreement with motivation subscales related to affiliation, life meaning, personal goal achievement, emotional coping, life management, and recognition scales. While community is an important driving factor for the survey participants, the personal factors and factors related to intrinsic motivation are of higher importance than extrinsic factors such as recognition
A Celebration of West Point Authors, Jan-Jun 2019
Get PDFToday we celebrate the more than 300 works of scholarship produced at the Academy between January and June 2019. This event highlights published and ongoing research into character and character development.https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/1021/thumbnail.jp
A Celebration of West Point Authors, July - December 2019
Get PDFHighlighting the 456 collected works of scholarship published and presented between July - December 2019.https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/1022/thumbnail.jp
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
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