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Tang Wei
No full text This article discusses the Tang Wei incident, which evolved across the first half of 2008, during the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Tang Wei is a Chinese actress whose breakthrough role in Ang Lee’s film Lust, Caution caused a sensation amongst Chinese audiences. The nudity and sex scenes in the film were explicit, and as such challenged accepted norms in film content. This aspect of the film, combined with the characterization of a national traitor as a heroine, caused deep concern among some parties involved in film regulation and censorship. The argument presented here is that Tang Wei, who was singled out for criticism and upon whom travel and work restraints were placed in the aftermath of the film’s release, was made a scapegoat for the disgust experienced by a masculinist political class when faced with female dissent and sexuality. </jats:p
Tang Wei: Sex, the city, and the scapegoat in Lust, Caution
No full textThis article discusses the Tang Wei incident, which evolved across the first half of 2008, during the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Tang Wei is a Chinese actress whose breakthrough role in Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution caused a sensation amongst Chinese audiences. The nudity and sex scenes in the film were explicit, and as such challenged accepted norms in film content. This aspect of the film, combined with the characterization of a national traitor as a heroine, caused deep concern among some parties involved in film regulation and censorship. The argument presented here is that Tang Wei, who was singled out for criticism and upon whom travel and work restraints were placed in the aftermath of the film's release, was made a scapegoat for the disgust experienced by a masculinist political class when faced with female dissent and sexuality
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
Physical modeling of pile load tests in sand using the similitude and compressibility concepts
No full textSubmission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01The student, Andrea Tang Wei Lin, accepted the attached license on 2025-05-05 at 15:20.The student, Andrea Tang Wei Lin, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2025-05-05 at 15:49.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2025-05-07 at 08:57.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #22216 on 2025-10-19 at 19:17:02This study addresses the limited evidence supporting the application and reliability of the similitude and compressibility concepts to predict the behavior of full-scale prototype piles in loose sand through scaled pile load tests. Therefore, this research aims to provide a means to reduce costs associated with field-scale pile load testing by validating the similitude concept to lateral load-lateral displacement relationships (p-y curves). To fill this gap, the methodology for this research involves careful selection of model sand with similar compressibility characteristics as the prototype and utilizing the similitude concept to determine appropriate scaling factors for the model test. Six case histories are examined, each detailing the test set up, soil conditions, and the performance of instrumented single pile foundations under different loading conditions. The thesis is intended to compile and provide preliminary analysis of case histories of lateral and axial pile load tests performed in sand profiles as well as the preliminary evaluation of p-y curves adapted to allow normalization with effective vertical stress by the similitude concept. Since the results in this thesis are limited to the lateral loading case histories, future work is suggested to explore the application of the normalization/similitude concepts to axial load-axial displacement relationships (t-z curves) of driven piles in sand as well as to perform small-scale axial and lateral pile load tests to validate the similitude and compressibility concepts. Validating these concepts with respect to p-y and t-z curves will allow multiple scaled model pile tests to be performed at low-stress levels to better understand prototype pile behavior in sand deposits
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
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