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DAASE: Dynamic Adaptive Automated Software Engineering
No full textThe dataset comprises fitness landscape data for "Clarifying the Differences in Local Optima Network Sampling Algorithms", S. L. Thomson, G. Ochoa and S. Verel, The 19th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP, part of EvoStar 2019), 24-26 April 2019, Leipzig, Germany. The dataset is extracted local optima networks for the 30 Quadratic Assignment Problem instances that are sampled in the paper according to two different methodologies: using a snowball sampling approach, and using an iterated local search based algorithm. Also included is optimisation data for the instances, obtained by running iterated local search and robust tabu search on them multiple times.The dataset is organised into three 'zip' files. 'OptimisationRuns.zip' is the optimisation data obtained by running iterated local search and tabu search on the instances. The instances are all part of the Quadratic Assignment Problem Library (QAPLIB, http://anjos.mgi.polymtl.ca/qaplib/). 'SnowballLocalOptimaNetworkSamples.zip' and 'ILSLocalOptimaNetworkSamples.zip' contain 90 local optima networks each, in each case three for each instance, each constructed using a different set of sampling parameters. Additional details are in the 'readme.txt' file
A transformational conservative? Constructing Ronald Reagan's presidential legacy, c.1984-1998
Full text linkThis thesis explores the construction of Ronald Reagan’s legacy during his years as President
of the United States, and in the period immediately following his departure from office.
As the
first successful two-term president since Dwight Eisenhower, the Reagan administration had
significant opportunities to influence how the public understood his legacy.
Drawing on original archival research and oral history interviews, this thesis
demonstrates that Ronald Reagan and his administration were actively seeking to influence his
presidential legacy while he was still in the White House. Far from being content to allow
historians to appraise his legacy, these actors carefully sought to shape public perceptions of
Reagan through a variety of means. Beginning in the aftermath of the Iran-Contra scandal, this
thesis first outlines the evolution of this strategy, before exploring its implementation and
assessing its successes. The first chapter of the thesis explores the strategy itself, and the
following three chapters outline the various ways this strategy was implemented during
Reagan’s presidency, in broadly chronological order. Doing so allows for a thorough analysis
of these projects and their successes and failures. The final chapter uses three case studies of
different legacy-building projects in the 1990s to examine how legacy building efforts
continued and evolved once Reagan and his administration had left the White House, and how
new organisations began to clash with the original legacy builders.
My central argument is that the Reagan administration made a concerted effort to
influence his presidential legacy, beginning while Reagan was still in office. What began as a
short-term damage control exercise to rehabilitate a wounded president quickly evolved into a
project aimed at shaping public perceptions of Reagan and ensuring a positive legacy for the
outgoing president. I also argue that this project of legacy building did not stop when Reagan
and his administration left office. Legacy building continued, albeit with different tools, well
into the 1990s and beyond. If we accept that our perceptions of the past have been influenced
by the conscious efforts of a group of concerned individuals, then we ought to have a clear
understanding of what they sought to achieve and why. Doing so enhances our understanding
of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the broader history of modern American conservatism, and
Reagan’s ongoing status as a modern conservative icon
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
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
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