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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
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
Immunologische Veränderungen in einer Kohorte hochgradig adipöser Patienten mit komorbider Depression
Get PDFPrevalence of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and obesity are ever-increasing and a major public health concern. The two conditions are strongly linked on an epidemiological level, with both disorders favouring development of the other by approximately 50 % and increasing overall morbidity in the general population. This comorbidity could be in part driven by converging biological pathways, including inflammatory processes. As chronic low-grade inflammation is present in both MDD and obesity, the study of potential immunogenic shifts in patients with obesity and comorbid depressive symptoms may shed light on putative shared mechanisms.
Multicolour flow cytometry of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) was used for characterization of immune phenotypes. Immune cell population frequencies of patients with severe obesity and comorbid depression (n = 10) were compared to obese (n = 17) and lean controls (n = 20) without psychiatric symptoms and correlated with clinical characteristics.
The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was used for assessment of depressive symptoms and depression defined by a cut-off ≥ 10.
Patients with obesity and comorbid depressive symptoms showed reduced amounts of cytotoxic natural killer cells, CD8+ effector memory T cells and dendritic cells in comparison to normal-weight controls. Frequencies of regulatory T cells were increased in patients with obesity and comorbid depression, compared to obese patients without depression. The amount of circulating CD4+ central memory T cells was elevated in obese patients with comorbid depression compared to lean controls. Furthermore, frequencies of cytotoxic natural killer cells, dendritic cells and CD4+ central memory T cells significantly correlated with PHQ scores in the total sample. A higher waist-hip-ratio (WHR) was associated with lower frequencies of dendritic cells.
Together, these results are suggestive of a possible depression-specific immune dysregulation in patients with obesity.Depression und Adipositas sind hochprävalent in der Allgemeinbevölkerung und stellen eine starke Belastung für die Betroffen, Angehörigen und das allgemeine Gesundheitssystem dar. Epidemiologisch wurde eine stabile, bidirektionale Assoziation von Depression und Adipositas nachgewiesen, beide Erkrankungen erhöhen das Risiko für das Auftreten der jeweils anderen um circa 50 %. Dieser
Zusammenhang könnte eventuell durch konvergierende pathophysiologische Vorgänge erklärt werden, da beide Krankheitsbilder mit chronischen, systemischen Entzündungsvorgängen assoziiert sind. Besonders Patienten mit atypischer
Depressionssymptomatik, welche gesteigerten Appetit, Gewichtszunahme, Fatigue und Hypersomnie umfasst, zeigen signifikante Assoziationen mit erhöhten Entzündungsparametern im Blut. Die Immunphänotypisierung von Patienten mit hochgradiger Adipositas und komorbider Depression bietet eine Möglichkeit, diese Mechanismen genauer zu erforschen. Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Untersuchung der
relativen Verteilung verschiedener Immunzellpopulationen im Blut adipöser Patienten mit depressiver Symptomatik (n = 10) im Vergleich zu einer adipösen (n = 17) und einer normalgewichtigen Kohorte (n = 20). Depression wurde durch eine Punktzahl von ≥ 10 des Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) Fragebogens definiert. Mittels
Durchflusszytometrie wurden die zellulären Komponenten des angeborenen und des
adaptiven Immunsystems analysiert, auf Gruppenunterschiede getestet und die Ergebnisse mit klinischen Parametern korreliert. Im Blut adipöser Patienten mit komorbider Depression fanden sich signifikant reduzierte Zahlen zytotoxischer
natürlichen Killerzellen und dendritischer Zellen, sowie eine Zunahme von CD4+
zentralen T-Gedächtniszellen und regulatorischen T Zellen im Vergleich zur
gesunden Kontrollgruppe. Die Menge zytotoxischer natürlicher Killerzellen und CD4+
zentraler T-Gedächtniszellen korrelierte signifikant mit dem Schweregrad der
Depression, aber nicht mit Taille-Hüft-Verhältnissen. Die Reduktion dendritischer
Zellen zeigte einen Zusammenhang mit Depression und Taille-Hüft-Verhältnissen.
Diese Ergebnisse suggerieren potenziell depressionsspezifische Auswirkungen auf das Immunsystem bei Patienten mit hochgradiger Adipositas
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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