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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    Optimization of grain number, size and yield as affected by plant spacing and genotype in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

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    Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Bibliography: leaves 72-75.Not availabl

    Modélisation sémantique d'un outil d'analyse et d'exploration d'images histopathologiques

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    Semantic modelling of a histopathology image exploration and analysis tool. Recently, anatomic pathology (AP) has seen the introduction of several tools such as high-resolution histopathological slide scanners, efficient software viewers for large-scale histopathological images and virtual slide technologies. These initiatives created the conditions for a broader adoption of computer-aided diagnosis based on whole slide images (WSI) with the hope of a possible contribution to decreasing inter-observer variability. Beside this, automatic image analysis algorithms represent a very promising solution to support pathologist’s laborious tasks during the diagnosis process. Similarly, in order to reduce inter-observer variability between AP reports of malignant tumours, the College of American Pathologists edited 67 organ-specific Cancer Checklists and associated Protocols (CAP-CC&P). Each checklist includes a set of AP observations that are relevant in the context of a given organ-specific cancer and have to be reported by the pathologist. The associated protocol includes interpretation guidelines for most of the required observations. All these changes and initiatives bring up a number of scientific challenges such as the sustainable management of the available semantic resources associated to the diagnostic interpretation of AP images by both humans and computers. In this context, reference vocabularies and formalization of the associated knowledge are especially needed to annotate histopathology images with labels complying with semantic standards. In this research work, we present our contribution in this direction. We propose a sustainable way to bridge the content, features, performance and usability gaps between histopathology and WSI analysis.La formalisation des données cliniques est réalisée et adoptée dans plusieurs domaines de la santé comme la prévention des erreurs médicales, la standardisation, les guides de bonnes pratiques et de recommandations. Cependant, la communauté n'arrive pas encore à tirer pleinement profit de la valeur de ces données. Le problème majeur reste la difficulté à intégrer ces données et des services sémantiques associés au profit de la qualité de soins. Objectif L'objectif méthodologique de ce travail consiste à formaliser, traiter et intégrer les connaissances d'histopathologie et d'imagerie basées sur des protocoles standardisés, des référentiels et en utilisant les langages du web sémantique. L'objectif applicatif est de valoriser ces connaissances dans une plateforme pour faciliter l'exploration des lames virtuelles (LV), améliorer la collaboration entre pathologistes et fiabiliser les systèmes d'aide à la décision dans le cadre spécifique du diagnostic du cancer du sein. Il est important de préciser que notre but n'est pas de remplacer le clinicien, mais plutôt de l'accompagner et de faciliter ses lourdes tâches quotidiennes : le dernier mot reste aux pathologistes. Approche Nous avons adopté une approche transversale pour la représentation formelle des connaissances d'histopathologie et d'imagerie dans le processus de gradation du cancer. Cette formalisation s'appuie sur les technologies du web sémantique

    Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness Dataset: Mali, Koulikoro (2024)

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    Anonymous participant level dataset including variables for visual acuity, spectacle use, lens status, cause of vision impairment, cataract surgical history, barriers to cataract surgery and population count data for five-year age-gender groups for males and females 50 years and older
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