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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
Linking community engagement and ecosystem services assessment as a tool for the rural landscape management. An applicative case for the Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo Alto Molise Biosphere Reserve
Full text linkThe landscape issues are becoming actual always more, because we live in world that we are transforming so fast that sometimes we cannot recognize what we are surrounded by. The landscape has a dynamic character so its continuous transformation cannot be stopped, neither ignored, but it is a civic duty to manage the landscape, unless to destroy or degrade the matters and functions that can allow the natural and semi-natural ecosystems to work in balance.
With this premise, the present thesis work aims at exploring the link between the community engagement and the ecosystem services (ES) assessment as a potential tool for improving the decision-making process aimed at the landscape management, especially focused on the rural landscape. The research starts by analyzing the Italian and European regulatory and address frameworks for the landscape management for setting the features of rural landscape and about which its fragilities and potentialities are shown. These aspects need to be balanced by an aware and integrated planning where all the diverse beneficiaries are called to take care about the rural landscape, for managing their own future well-being.
The community engagement is a priority to consider in the landscape management, because people who live and enjoy the landscape have the duty to understand how it is transforming and, in consequence of their needs and future perspectives, they have the possibility to decide in what direction orient the management actions. Hence, more attention needs to be given to the participation practices in the decision-making processes. Many examples from Europe, Italy and Vermont are shown that include the community engagement as a fundamental tool to reach, first, a common vision, and then to plan the actions for improving the conservation and/or the transformation of the landscape according to a shared intervention line. These case studies present a high variety of participative modalities and the reasons at the basis of the involvement.
Involving stakeholders in the landscape management is important but it is not enough. Indeed, people’s actions for performing the landscape management have relevant responsibility for driving changes in terms of ecosystems functions, and, consequently, related services. Thus, a basic step for improving the landscape management is to increase and deepen the knowledge by assessing the ES. A broad overview of the ES approach is given, from global to local scale, by focusing the attention mostly on the important role played by the social perception of the landscape ES by stakeholders and how this knowledge can be integrated into decision-making processes for improving the landscape management. For this purpose, a methodological “twofold approach” to include a framework of objective and subjective data aimed at an integrated and multidisciplinary landscape management is presented.
Finally, an application of this proposed approach is shown in the area of Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo Alto Molise Biosphere Reserve, in Central-Southern Italy. The research is mostly oriented to investigate the subjective data correlated to this landscape, in particular by analyzing the ES perception of different stakeholders, while the objective data are considered already available thanks to several researches that have been carried on during the years. The application presented in the thesis represents a first attempt that wants to put in practice a general and theoretical approach, which derives from the analysis of inputs and good examples reported in this work.Il tema del paesaggio è sempre molto attuale, soprattutto in relazione alle trasformazioni repentine che talvolta non ci permettono di riconoscerne taluni caratteri. La sua dinamicità non può essere arrestata né ignorata, tuttavia gestire il paesaggio è un dovere civile, a meno di distruggere o degradare la funzionalità degli ecosistemi naturali e semi-naturali che ne costituiscono la base.
In tale ambito, la presente tesi ha lo scopo di indagare la relazione tra il coinvolgimento delle comunità locali e la valutazione dei servizi ecosistemici (SE) come potenziale strumento per migliorare il processo decisorio finalizzato alla gestione del paesaggio, soprattutto focalizzandosi sul paesaggio rurale. La ricerca parte dall’analisi dei sistemi normativi e di indirizzo italiani ed europei in materia di paesaggio nei quali collocare le caratteristiche del paesaggio rurale, del quale sono descritte le fragilità e le potenzialità. Questi ultimi aspetti devono essere bilanciati da una pianificazione accorta ed integrata, dove tutti i diversi beneficiari sono chiamati a prendersi cura del paesaggio rurale per poter gestire il loro benessere futuro.
Il coinvolgimento delle comunità locali è una priorità nella gestione del paesaggio, in quanto le persone che lo vivono e ne fruiscono hanno il dovere di comprendere come esso si stia trasformando e, in seguito ai loro bisogni e prospettive future, hanno la possibilità di decidere verso quale direzione orientare le azioni di gestione. Dunque, maggiore attenzione deve essere data alle pratiche di partecipazione nei processi decisori. Sono mostrati numerosi esempi dall’Europa, dall’Italia e dal Vermont che inquadrano il coinvolgimento delle comunità locali, attraverso svariate modalità, quale strumento fondamentale per raggiungere, innanzitutto, una visione comune, e successivamente per pianificare le azioni volte a migliorare la conservazione e/o la trasformazione del paesaggio secondo una linea di intervento condivisa.
Includere gli stakeholder nella gestione del paesaggio è importante ma non sufficiente. Infatti, le persone che incidono sul paesaggio con le proprie azioni hanno una rilevante responsabilità nel guidare i cambiamenti delle funzioni degli ecosistemi e, di conseguenza, dei relativi servizi. Dunque, un passo fondamentale per migliorare la gestione del paesaggio è di accrescere e approfondire le conoscenze attraverso la valutazione dei SE. Viene data una visione generale dell’approccio dei SE, dalla scala globale a quella locale, concentrando l’attenzione soprattutto sull’importante ruolo giocato dalla percezione sociale dei SE del paesaggio espressa dagli stakeholders e come queste conoscenze possano essere integrate nei processi decisori. Per questo scopo si propone una metodologia definita “approccio duplice”, che include appunto due componenti, una costituita da dati oggettivi l’altra da dati soggettivi, finalizzato ad una gestione integrata e multidisciplinare del paesaggio.
Infine, si mostra l’applicazione del “duplice approccio” nell’area della Riserva della Biosfera Collemeluccio-Montedimezzo Alto Molise, nel centro-sud Italia. Tale ricerca è orientata soprattutto a conoscere i dati soggettivi correlati a questo paesaggio, in particolare mediante l’analisi della percezione dei SE espressa da diversi stakeholders, invece i dati oggettivi sono considerati già disponibili grazie a numerose ricerche condotte nell’area nel corso degli anni. Questa applicazione rappresenta un primo tentativo per mettere in pratica un approccio generale e teorico, risultato dall’analisi di buoni e stimolanti esempi, riportati nel presente lavoro di tesi.Dottorato di ricerca in Management and conservation issues in changing landscapes (XXVI ciclo
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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