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The collapse and the spiral: Law, culture and science fiction
No full textThis chapter introduces the volume and chapters to come. It begins by noting how science fiction is entwined with thinking about law, and especially how the sense of time – of pasts, futures and alternatives – resonates with legal thinking. Having briefly considered some of the founding works on law and science fiction, this chapter then turns to the remaining chapters in this volume. The book is divided into four parts. Part I: ‘Foundation – science fiction as legal theory’ manifests the archive of how science fiction has materialised within and through legal discourses. Part II: ‘High castle – science fiction as legal theory’ is a collection of chapters that take science fiction seriously as popular jurisprudence, and as containing critiques of, and alternatives to, core concepts from the received traditions of legal theory. Part III: ‘The shadow proclamation – fevered legality in sci-fi franchises’ contains chapters that examine the law and legality within three globally successful televisual popular science fiction franchises. Part IV: Others’ presents contributions that use science fiction to think about forms of legality required to empower, entreat and make well others who are often the object and not the subject of law.No Full Tex
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
The legal imaginary and science fiction
No full textThis chapter introduces the volume and the chapters to come. It opens with a haunting, observing that the positive project of law has been enveloped by the spectre of culture. Law has no meaning and no purchase without its cultural location. The idea of the imaginary, to connect cultural texts, tropes, memes and myths to rules and institutions, is introduced and the context of the legal imagery is explained. It is noted that law and technology scholarship inherently engages with speculating about technological futures and that science fiction often is the well that scholars draw upon in that speculation. Having established the relations between law and technology, science fiction and the legal imaginary, this chapter then introduces the core sites examined in the chapters of the volume. These are the regulation of space, both planetary and extra-planetary space, the digital and the corporation. Through these introductions, the essentiality of time and time-sense to law and the imaginary becomes identified.No Full Tex
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
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