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Sex Estimation In Forensic Anthropology Using the Radius, Femur, and Scapula
No full textOne of the most essential aspects of conducting a forensic anthropological analysis is estimating the sex of an unknown individual. This can narrow down missing persons lists by a large margin. Research continues to show that the pelvis is the best indicator of sex due to the morphological differences between males and females. However, the pelvis is not always available. Forensic anthropologists are often left with an incomplete skeleton, leaving other bones to be relied upon to estimate the sex of a person. According to Spradley and Jantz (2011), the metric use of the postcranial skeleton for estimating sex provides more accurate results than both metric and nonmetric traits of the skull. Further, some postcranial elements prove to be more accurate than others. In their findings, the radius, femur, and scapula were among the highest scoring estimators for sex. The purpose of this research is to compare the sexing accuracy of the radius, femur, and scapula with the Texas State University Donated Skeletal Collection to those results found among the same postcranial elements in Spradley and Jantz’s research. The sample used for Spradley and Jantz was taken from the Forensic Anthropology Data Bank (FDB) which is comprised of donated individuals and forensic cases in the Southeastern United States. This study will serve as validation to ascertain if Spradley and Jantz’s results can be used on other skeletal remains from around the country by using the Texas State University Donated Skeletal Collection.Anthropolog
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
The effect of mobility impairment in cortical and trabecular structure
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Fluctuating Asymmetry: A Craniofacial Comparison to Better Understand Central American and Mexican Migration
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