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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Quantitative assessment of the phospholipid membrane damage exerted by the pore-forming toxins

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    Dėl bakterijų atsparumo antibiotikams didėję būtinybė molekuliniame lygmenyje suprasti jų virulentiškumo veiksnius. Daugelis bakterinių virulentiškumo veiksnių sutrikdo membranos vientisumą. Proceso ypatumai vis dar yra neaiškus, nes trūksta kiekybinių metodų leidžiančių tikru laiku įvertinti poras formuojančiais toksinais (PFT) sukurtus pažeidimus fosfolipidinėse membranose. Šio projekto kslas – sukurti kokybinę eksperimentinę metodiką, kartu su kompiuterinės analizės priemonėmis, leidžiančia įvertinti funkcinę žalą, kurią sukelia PFT membranose, naudojant prieinamą elektrocheminio impedanso spektroskopijos (EIS) metodą. Projekte bus pasinaudota paviršiuje įmobilizuotų membranų technologija išvystyta mūsų grupėje, ir integruota daugiadisciplininę prieigą, kuri apims elektrocheminių ir atominės jėgos mikroskopijos (AFM) metodų integravimą kartu su sudėtingų molekulinių struktūrų atsako į elektrini stimulą skaitiniu modeliavimu. Projekte bus panaudoti EIS ir AFM vaizdinimo metodų galimybes, siekiant sukurti patogų EIS duomenų analizes algoritmą su dirbtiniu intelektu algoritmais grįstomis membranų mikro-geometrijos analizės priemonėmis, leidžiančioms tiksliai numatyti paviršiuje įmobilizuotų membranų EIS atsaką, pažeistų atsitiktinai išsidėsčiusiais 1-25 nm skersmens defektais. Sukurta metodika leis vartotojui išspręsti atvirkštinę problemą ir nustatyti defektų tankį ir dydį realių laiku naudojantis tik EIS duomenimis. Tai sukurs eksperimentatoriams reikalingą įrankį PFT indukuotų pažeidimų membranose tyrimams bei prisidės prie tolimesnio EIS eksperimentinių pajėgumų tobulinimo įvairiose mokslinių tyrimų ir plėtros srityse, apimančiose sudėtingas membranų ir baltymų sąveikas.Growing concerns about overuse of an biotics pose challenges towards understanding of the molecular level factors responsible for the virulence. Many bacterial virulence factors impair membrane integrity. The details of the processes remain elusive because of the lack of quantitative techniques to measure in real-time the impairment of the phospholipid membranes by pore-forming toxins (PFTs). This project aims at developing the experimental methodology supported by the computer analysis tools that allows quantitative assessment of the functional damage exerted by the cytolytic PFTs to the membranes using affordable methodology of the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The project takes advantage of the tethered phospholipid bilayer membrane technology developed in the proposing group as well as the multidisciplinary approach, which involves integration of the electrochemical and atomic force microscopy imaging techniques with the modelling of the response of complex molecular structures to electric stimuli. The project will combine the power of the EIS and imaging techniques such as atomic force microscopy (AFM) to develop a convenient EIS data analysis framework with the artificial intelligence based micro-geometry assessment tools allowing to precisely predict the response of EIS from tethered bilayers randomly populated with poly disperse ensembles of nanosize (1-25 nm) defects. Ultimately, the framework will allow user to solve the inverse problem of accessing both density and size of defects in real-time providing using only EIS data. This will provide experimenters needed instruments to study membrane impairment processes by PFTs and will contribute to further expanding experimental capabilities of EIS into various fields of research and development involving complex membrane/protein interactions

    Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In 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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