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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
A framework for modeling complex integrated building systems at whole-building scale with co-simulation: applied to a coupled simulation between a facade system model and a whole building energy model
No full textMay 2018School of ArchitectureWithin the context of the designing and constructing systems for the built environment, the increasing complexity of environmental and ecological systems requirements has led to the widespread adoption of building energy modeling (BEM) across the architecture and engineering (AE) industry. Within this inquiry, the requirements of advanced integrated facades (AIFs) are examined as use cases for the development of novel computation techniques to model and quantify building integrated energy capture technologies that could support significant progress towards clean on-site energy self-sufficiency. An AIF may add a multitude of benefits to the building such as clean on-site energy, moderated heat gain, daylighting, increased visual comfort, and improved human comfort. Reliable methods to simulate the impact of these complex technologies at whole-building scale are not currently available to building designers. Using conventional BEM to model the impacts of the integrated systems on whole-building energy metrics is either too time consuming with a project’s timeline or infeasible with the modeling tool’s prescribed functionality. Typical BEM methods, in order to facilitate access and ease of use, are developed for whole-building simulation at an annual time-scale, therefore they are too coarse-grained to accurately model the simultaneous interactions of an AIF, especially when combined with ambient energy capture technologies. A method called co-simulation is emerging across multiple fields as a standard for coupling models developed within different modeling environments. In buildings research and engineering, computational system models are developed to quantify the transport phenomena of a building system that would otherwise be infeasible to simulate with BEM or CFD. Co-simulation provides a method for building energy analysts to more readily study emerging integrated building systems using computational system models coupled with conventional BEM tools, like EnergyPlus. Leveraging co-simulation features developed into EnergyPlus, this research proposed the use of the method to model and quantifying two emerging AIFs using whole-building energy metrics. Within the scope of this thesis, a novel model has been co-developed, called the Modular Network Model, that is capable of modeling AIFs by discretizing the building envelope systems into repeatable modules, which are combined using a network model method and balanced using conservation of mass and energy to solve for the simultaneous transport phenomena and the systems’ interaction with the building. As a proof-of-concept test, the Modular Network Model was applied to model the Building envelope-Integrated, Transparent, Concentrating Photovoltaic and Thermal (BITCoPT) system at whole-building scale, capable of modeling the simultaneous energy and mass transport phenomena necessary to quantify the photovoltaic electrical generation, thermal energy collection, modulated solar heat gain, and cavity thermodynamics. The Modular Network Model of the BITCoPT system was coupled and co-simulated with EnergyPlus, an industry standard BEM software, thereby allowing designers to more readily study the impact of the system on whole-building energy metrics, while reducing model development time. The process was repeated for the EcoCeramic Envelope System (EES), whereby a computational system model was developed within the Modelica system modeling language, following the same modeling structure of the Modular Network Model. The EES system model was developed to model the interactions between the outdoor air temperature, wind, and radiation with the ceramic system and thermal fluid cavity. The EES model was exported as a Functional Mock-up Unit (FMU) and co-simulated within EnergyPlus as a thermally adaptive building envelope with solar hot water collection that provided energy to building heating. Co-simulation between the AIF system models and building energy models improved the predictions of the systems’ impact on building energy consumption metrics and heat transfer performance as demonstrated through the comparative analysis shown in Chapters 3, 4, and 5.Ph
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn 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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