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Seven experiments that could change the world: a do-it-yourself guide to revolutionary science
No full textSeven experiments are proposed in this book that the author believes, if any are successful, will alter how the reader perceives the world. The purpose of the book is to draw attention to areas of research neglected as a result of conventional habits of thought. The descriptions of the experiments are intended to focus the topics under discussion. One of the experiments in the book aims to test the hypothesis that many dogs and cats know that their owners are coming home before they actually arrive. Rupert Sheldrake has also written "The Presence of the Past" and "The Rebirth of Nature"
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
Por uma ciência livre de dogmas
Get PDFO biólogo britânico Rupert Sheldrake é conhecido pela hipótese dos campos mórficos, onde propõe um novo conceito de transmissão de informação no tempo e no espaço. Formado em Ciências Naturais pelo Clare College, da Universidade de Cambridge, Sheldrake estudou filosofia e história da ciência na Universidade Harvard, nos Estados Unidos. Em seguida retornou à Inglaterra para doutorar-se em bioquímica por Cambridge – onde se tornou diretor do departamento de Bioquímica, dedicando-se às pesquisas sobre o desenvolvimento de plantas e o envelhecimento celular. Por um ano, de 1968 a 1969, ele trabalhou no Departamento de Botânica da Universidade de Malaya, em Kuala Lumpur, na Malásia – localizada no sudeste asiático –, onde estudou a floresta tropical. De 1974 a 1985, foi consultor do instituto internacional de pesquisa em culturas para o clima semiárido tropical (ICRISAT, de International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), em Hiderabade, India. O contato com as culturas asiáticas teve forte impacto em seu pensamento, mas ele atribui a sua hipótese a bases mais europeias, como o pensamento do filósofo estadunidense Charles S. Pierce (1839-1914). Mais recentemente, de 2005 a 2010, Sheldrakefoi diretor do Projeto Perrott-Warrick, financiado pelo Trinity College, de Cambridge. Atualmente faz parte do corpo docente do Schumacher College, um centro de estudos avançados em Dartington, Devon, e é professor visitante do Graduate Institute, em Connecticut, nos EUA, entre outros institutos. Seu livro mais recente, The Science Delusion, com título provisório em português A Ciência da Ilusão e lançamento previsto no Brasil para março de 2014 pela editora Cultrix, toca num ponto nevrálgico: os dogmas que dominam, muitas vezes de forma inconsciente, a cultura acadêmica ocidental
The sense of being stared at and other aspects of the extended mind
No full textNew Yorkxii, 369 p.: bibl., index; 22 c
Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery
No full textIn Science Set Free, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world\u27s most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas that are not only limiting, but also dangerous for the future of humanity --Front jacket flap.https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-big-history/1098/thumbnail.jp
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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