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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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
A uniform Artin–Rees property for syzygies in rings of dimension one and two
No full textAbstractLet (R,m,k) be a local Noetherian ring, let M be a finitely generated R-module and let I⊂R be an m-primary ideal. Let F={Fi,∂i} be a free resolution of M. In this paper we study the question whether there exists an integer h such that InFi∩ker(∂i)⊂In−hker(∂i) holds for all i. We give a positive answer for rings of dimension at most two. We relate this property to the existence of an integer s such that Is annihilates the modules ToriR(M,R/In) for all i>0 and all integers n
Changes in 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring during the 2009 earthquake at L'Aquila
No full textOn April 6, 2009, at 03:32 A.M., an earthquake reaching
the magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale (6.3 according to
US Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information
Center)1 and lasting 27 seconds struck L’Aquila. Quakes of
lesser intensity were perceived at earlier and later times.
During this event, we had the opportunity to evaluate 2
different 24-hour blood pressure ambulatory recordings.
Our data offer further support to the hypothesis that sustained
blood pressure and heart rate elevations, likely due to
sympathetic nervous system activation, may represent 2
fundamental mechanisms responsible for the increased cardiovascular
event rates reported immediately after an
earthquak
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