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Some heat islands
No full text‘Bloody Queensland, a new heatwave warning every week!’ reads a reply on an ABC emergency alert recalling the old Queensland tourism slogan, ‘beautiful one day, perfect the next’. It’s Saturday 11 February 2023, Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle, or is it tc Gabbie?, tc Gabs?, is threatening ruin on Norfolk Island but has merely brought a heatwave to South East Queensland — low intensity.Full Tex
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Swimming Across the Pacific: A Novel Swimming Interface for VR Author One Author Two Some Address
No full textLocomotion interfaces to virtual reality environments present many challenges as well as exciting opportunities. Many researchers have examined classes of human movement such as walking, flying, and bicycling as means of locomotion in VR. By contrast, little has been explored in swimming. We outline the current state of development of the Swimming Across the Pacific (SAP) project which aims to replicate the feel of swimming in a virtual environment. Unlike other explorations into virtual swimming, SAP centres on the locomotive aspect of swimming- staying afloat and moving on the surface of the water. The SAP system is comprised of the swimming harness and a virtual ocean environment. The harness suspends the swimmer in a prone position that allows for swimming motions, while the accompanying graphic system renders the scene of sky, sea waves and ocean floor. Sensors on the swimmer’s wrists, legs, and head are used to synchronise the virtual counterpart seen from the firstperson perspective through a head-mounted display. Initial user feedback suggests that our system is capable of providing a sensation of swimming without highly sophisticated hardware. Key words: Virtual reality, swimming, locomotion interface.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Reconsideration of Some and Any
No full textTraditional accounts of some and any are reexamined. First, it is found that those traditional accounts are not necessarily satisfactory. Also, a number of pieces of evidence show some and any do not have a syntactic polarity relation. The following provides supporting evidence for this. Some in non-affirmative clauses is not an idiomatic usage. It is the same as the regular some in affirmative clauses. Any occurring with singular count nouns provides good evidence that this type of any is not a quantifier, and that it has no polarity relation to some. Any used in a negative clause expresses a total denial of quantity of the noun modified. This total denial of quantity also shows that any is not a polarity opposite of some. Seemingly, the unspecified quantitative sense of some is applied to any with a plural count noun in interrogative or conditional clauses. Even this apparent syntactic polarity relation between any and some is dubious when considering that this type of any clauses has a "zero-or-at-least-a-minimum-number" sense.Traditional accounts of some and any are reexamined. First, it is found that those traditional accounts are not necessarily satisfactory. Also, a number of pieces of evidence show some and any do not have a syntactic polarity relation. The following provides supporting evidence for this. Some in non-affirmative clauses is not an idiomatic usage. It is the same as the regular some in affirmative clauses. Any occurring with singular count nouns provides good evidence that this type of any is not a quantifier, and that it has no polarity relation to some. Any used in a negative clause expresses a total denial of quantity of the noun modified. This total denial of quantity also shows that any is not a polarity opposite of some. Seemingly, the unspecified quantitative sense of some is applied to any with a plural count noun in interrogative or conditional clauses. Even this apparent syntactic polarity relation between any and some is dubious when considering that this type of any clauses has a "zero-or-at-least-a-minimum-number" sense.departmental bulletin pape
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Radial Structure of Some
No full textTraditional dictionaries provide various senses of the quantifier some, but do not show their interconnection. Linguistic studies in the past give detailed analyses of the word, but do not seem to grasp a cognitive picture of its semantic whole. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the senses of this quantifier are radially structured. It is assumed that the core sense of some is "not a few/little or not many/much, but an unspecified number or amount between them; the number/amount that some refers to is sometimes fairly large and sometimes fairly small depending on the context." It is argued that from this core sense other senses are extended.Traditional dictionaries provide various senses of the quantifier some, but do not show their interconnection. Linguistic studies in the past give detailed analyses of the word, but do not seem to grasp a cognitive picture of its semantic whole. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the senses of this quantifier are radially structured. It is assumed that the core sense of some is "not a few/little or not many/much, but an unspecified number or amount between them; the number/amount that some refers to is sometimes fairly large and sometimes fairly small depending on the context." It is argued that from this core sense other senses are extended.departmental bulletin pape
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
The decisional process for a family tourist experience: some evidence from a Sicilian sample
No full textThe tourist sector and above all the hotel one nowadays is more and more specialized in satisfying particular needs. To identify typical tourist needs of Sicilian families, and get a valuable product definition, we investigate the consumer behaviour, and before, the features of the persons that in a family take the decision to go on holiday and their motivations. But, who does decide inside the family? Which target the tourist operators should consider in defining family tourist services? We start our discussion by considering three hypotheses: H1) children influence the type (destination, accommodation, duration, etc.) of family vacation; H2) the way of influencing in connected to their age; H3) there is no difference in role between mother and father in the decision process.
The empirical survey uses a questionnaire divided in different sections: demographic details (settlement, education, employment, etc.), type and evaluation of previous holiday experiences and reservation channels, persons involved in the choosing process and selecting items, services really included during the vacation.
The considered sample involves 100 Sicilian families selected with the help of a not for profit association of parents: “Noi Genitori. Famiglia e Società”.
The results coming from a correlational analysis confirm the first and the second hypothesis but not completely the last one: mother and father play different role in connection with the different step of the decisional process.
Coming from the data processing, the survey offers first advices to hotel entrepreneurs and managers in order to define in a more effective way their services and their communication strategies; the results highlight that an effective definition should consider, firstly, which conception of family inspires the target. The results emphasize that different persons with a specific family role usually occupy a particular position in the decision process (planning, selecting the destination and services, etc.). The results stress the importance of the vacation as an opportunity to make stronger the family mood
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