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JobPlan --- a new integrated representation and planner for batch job workflow automation
No full textThis dissertation presents a new representation and action logic for integrated planning, scheduling, execution monitoring and sensing. These features were motivated by the problem of computer batch job management but are applicable to any domain entailing these forms of reasoning. The existing planning literature has primarily focussed on providing highly efficient representations and algorithms which address specific aspects of planning and sensing. However no single planning framework currently combines the requisite integrated abilities of managing durative triggered actions in an open world environment. The dissertation's contributions are a multi-purpose planning and sensing representation and an associated partial order action logic to support these features. Plans and beliefs are represented as a workflow state machine governed by a clearly defined dynamics. Time based goals are handled by treating time as a fluent. The implementation and evaluation of a prototype planner ``JobPlan" on key domain scenarios illustrating these features is presented.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Tracey D. Lal
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
Play fighting as a strategy to cope with aggressive behaviours among youth with social disadvantages in Italy
No full textThe notion that physical activity can contribute to the promotion of positive behaviours finds support in the claim that sport is useful in the character building of youths in particular. It is commonly spread the idea that sport and physical education allows youths to experience a wide range of situations which enable them with the shaping of different forms of global citizenship. Despite the fact that this claim is strongly supported by sport and education policy makers, little empirical investigation has addressed the question. Additionally, nowadays youths can be highly affected by complexity and rapid changes of modern societies, becoming vulnerable to psychological problems, experiencing social disadvantages, and showing high rates of antisocial and aggressive behaviours. This conditions can hamper the quality of educational experiences and youths can be caught in a vicious cycle of disadvantages. For purposes of this chapter, the school and particularly inclusive physical education is considered as an ideal setting where young people’s socio-emotional problems can be recognized and addressed.
In the first part of the chapter, the social fabric of Italian youths is detailed. The demographic reduction of the young population, which has progressively affected the country since the end of the Sixties, the recent increase in the number of youngsters with an immigrant background and the economic crisis represent serious concerns both for the development of an inclusive and fair society and for the health and quality of life of young generations. Strategies to contrast aggressive behaviours among youths and effective policies of inclusion aimed at ensuring the equality of opportunity in all domains of life are urgently needed. The idea that to play fight, players have to assume inherently fair behaviour and to control their compulsiveness and aggression stimulated the authors of this chapter to implement play fighting as a strategy to cope with aggressive behaviour in school physical education and extra-curricular programs. Thus, in the second part of the chapter, findings of interventional studies are showed, and effects among youths from a disadvantaged background are considered. Results of the presented studies showed that in the short term, play fighting seems to significantly reducing aggressive behaviours among youths, with a particular positive effect on the physical dimension of aggression. The chapter concludes with general implications and brief suggestions for future directions for research and practice
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
APY871873__supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Examination of a day programme for eating disorders: impact on 3-month follow-up by psychiatric comorbidity
No full textSupplemental material, APY871873__supplemental_material for Examination of a day programme for eating disorders: impact on 3-month follow-up by psychiatric comorbidity by Tracey D Wade, Ertimiss Eshkevari, Corree Guerin, Jasmine Smith and Daniela Hoskin in Australasian Psychiatry</p
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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