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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
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
Magneto-hydrodynamic focusing: A new technology for point of care diagnostics
No full textErkrankungen des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems sind die häufigste Todesursache weltweit mit einem Anteil von 12,2 Prozent. Es wird geschätzt, dass 300.000 Menschen in Deutschland jährlich einen Myokardinfarkt erleiden. Mit über 50.000 Sterbefällen pro Jahr zählt der akute Myokardinfarkt (AMI) zur zweithäufigsten Todesursache in Deutschland. Die lebensbedrohliche Situation wird durch einen plötzlichen Verschluss der Koronararterien ausgelöst, sodass Muskelgewebe nicht mehr mit Sauerstoff und Nährstoffen versorgt wird. Wird das Gefäß nicht innerhalb weniger Stunden durch entsprechende therapeutische Maßnahmen wieder geöffnet, stirbt das Muskelgewebe ab. Der Tod kann durch die verringerte Pumpleistung mit Zusammenbruch des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems (kardiogener Schock) oder durch Herzrhythmusstörungen eintreten. Bei Verdacht auf einen Myokardinfarkt ist daher keine Zeit zu verlieren. In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde die Versorgung der Patienten von der Detektion eines Myokardinfarkts am Ort des Geschehens (Point of Care) bis zu einer genauen Analyse des Infarkts im Krankenhaus stetig weiterentwickelt. Die Detektion biomedizinisch relevanter Marker im Blut nimmt dabei einen immer höheren Stellenwert ein. Der Goldstandard zur Diagnose ist die Bestimmung von kardialem Troponin T im Blut, welches schon bei geringen Schädigungen des Herzmuskels in das Blut abgegeben wird. Aufgrund der optischen Eigenschaften von Blut birgt die Detektion dieses Biomarkers zahlreiche Problematiken. Bislang sind daher am Point of Care nur qualitative Aussagen zu einem Myokardinfarkt möglich. Genauere Analysen können erst in größeren Versorgungszentren mit entsprechendem apparativen Aufwand durchgeführt werden. Aussagen zur Schwere des Infarkts am Point of Care könnten in Zukunft zu einer schnellen eingeleiteten Therapie und einer besseren Patientenversorgung führen. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein neues Messkonzept auf Basis oszillierender magnetisierbarer Partikel zur quantitativen Detektion von kardialem Troponin T entwickelt und untersucht. Voraussetzung dafür ist eine Nachweismethode, bei der magnetisierbare Partikel ihre mechanischen Eigenschaften durch biologische Komplexbildungen mit nicht magnetisierbaren Partikeln bei Anwesenheit von Troponin T ändern. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich als Schwerpunkt mit der theoretischen Auslegung des Nachweisverfahrens auf Basis einer Masseänderung und der Bestimmung des dadurch veränderten Oszillationsverhaltens der magnetisierbaren Partikel in Vollblut. Das Oszillationsverhalten lässt sich durch ein optisches Detektionssystem analysieren, wodurch auf die Menge des vorliegenden Troponin T geschlossen werden kann. Dies ist ein erster Schritt von qualitativen zu quantitativen Aussagen am Point of Care. Neben der theoretischen Auslegung des Systems werden erste Messungen von im Blut sichtbaren Partikeln auf Basis des neuen Systems durchgeführt und im Anschluss diskutiert.Cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of death in the world with 12.2% of the world population affected every year. Estimated 300.000 people in Germany suffer from a heart attack every year. With 50.000 incidences solely in Germany, the acute myocardial infarct (AMI) is the second frequent cause of death. The life-threatening situation in case of a myocardial infarct comes from a sudden block of coronary arteries and resulting starvation and oxygen depletion in the heart muscle tissue. If the affected vessel will not be opened during a period of one hour via therapeutic countermeasures, the muscle tissue starts to die. Death comes from a decreasing pumping rate of the heart resulting in a breakdown of the cardiovascular system (cardiac shock) or from a cardiac arrhythmia. If a myocardial infarct is suspected, no time should be lost. In the last decades, there had been a refinement of patient treatment from detection of the myocardial infarct at the Point of Care to highly precise analysis of the infarct in the hospital. Therefore, detection of relevant biomedical markers in the blood gains more and more value. The gold standard for diagnosis is the measurement of the blood cardiac troponin T concentration. Cardiac troponin T is released into the blood stream very early in case of an infarct. However, due to optical properties of blood, detection of this biomarker bears some problems. Today only qualitative information can be gathered at the Point of Care. Precise conclusions can only be determined in the clinics with expensive laboratory equipment and complex process steps. Evaluation of the severity of AMI at the Point of Care and faster therapy response could lead to a better patient outcome. In this work, a new principle of cardiac troponin T detection based on oscillating magnetizable particles will be presented. Therefore, a detection assay is required, in which magnetizable particles change their properties via biotechnological complex formation with non-magnetizable particles, thus changing their mechanical properties. This work mainly describes the theory of the measurement system design and detection of the change in oscillation due to complex formation of different particles in whole blood. Suitable optical detection systems recognize this change in oscillation and evaluation of cardiac troponin T amount is possible. This is a first step towards quantitative measurement of troponin T at the Point of Care. Besides the theoretical characterization of the developed system, first measurements of particles, which are visible in blood, based on the new system will be presented and discussed
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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