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A Study of ANobii Users’ Preference Structure on Their Leisure Reading Seeking Behavior
No full text本研究以aNobii網路書櫃為研究平台，探討網路書櫃使用者以不同瀏覽管道尋找有興趣的休閒讀物時，其主觀評價與客觀成效表現是否有差異。本研究試圖採用精確性與非精確性概念的評估指標，希望能更貼近休閒讀物尋書之需求。研究中導入行銷學偏好結構的概念，以讀者閱讀的偏好結構作為使用者變項，探討讀者個人偏好結構是否會影響其使用不同推薦工具瀏覽尋書的結果。研究採用準實驗設計，自變項為aNobii上三種導覽工具（朋友書櫃、相似書櫃、同作者書籍）以及受試者個人偏好結構（偏好發展程度、偏好同質性、閱讀涉入程度）；依變項為實驗後問卷搜集的受試者主觀評價，以及在實驗中系統自動於背景搜集的客觀檢索成效。
研究結果發現：一、不同導覽工具的確有所差異。使用者認為同作者書籍較符合其偏好，實際檢索成效亦較佳，但瀏覽起來最無趣；而最不符合偏好的朋友書櫃，卻是三者中瀏覽過程最有趣、亦最能擴展讀者閱讀視野的管道。二、讀者對不同導覽工具的主觀評價結果與客觀檢索成效並不完全一致，但若細就精確性與非精確性的概念區分，可發現主觀與客觀的結果有接近的趨勢。三、讀者的個人偏好結構的確會影響其瀏覽尋書的評價與成效，如偏好發展程度與偏好同質性愈高者，使用同作者書籍瀏覽尋書的客觀成效明顯較佳；閱讀涉入程度愈高者，朋友書櫃中愈容易遇到重覆的已知書籍等等。因此，若此類平台未來能建立讀者的個人偏好結構資訊檔，集有足夠的研究資訊，或許對使用者的服務能更切合所需，也能令使用者的偏好結構與其閱讀需求之間的關係更為清晰。This study aimed to explore how users search books they are interested in with different browsing tools in online bookshelf, aNobii, and whether the performance in subjective perspective and objective results will be different. To meet the demands of users’ leisure reading, we use accuracy and novelty as evaluation indicators. Besides, applying the concept of preference structure widely used in marketing as our independent variable, we attempted to investigate whether readers’ preference structure will influence results of book selection with different recommendation tools.
A quasi-experimental design was adopted where all 40 participants searched alternately with the three book finding tools. There are two independent variables in the research, three browsing tools in aNobii-- friends, similar readers, and the author, and preference structure including preference development, preference homogeneity, and degree of reading involvement. The dependent variables are subjective perspective collected by questionnaires after the experiment and objective search results retrieved by the computer during the experiment.
Some major findings are as follows. First, different browsing tools were found to affect users’ book selection behaviors. Users thought that browsing by author could help them find books better matching their reading preference. It produced a higher accuracy. However, users felt it was less interesting when choosing books by authors. On the contrary, users considered browsing friends’ bookshelf to be most interesting. Books found in friends’ bookshelf may not fit their reading preference but helped users broaden their horizon. Second, performance in subjective perspective and objective search results did not align with each other , which suggested they captured different aspects of user experience . Furthermore, readers’ preference structures were found to affect their browsing results. For instances, search results were better when the reader’s preference is highly developed and homogenous. Also, the reader with high reading involvement was found to be more likely to find books they had already known during browsing friends’ bookshelf.
Thus, if we can build users’ reading preference profile to collect enough information for research, we can supply service that meet users’ needs in the future. Moreover, it can help us understand the relation between readers’ preference structure and reading needs
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
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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