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[Statement of Travis R. Benkendorfer, February 5, 1964 #2]
No full textCarbon copy of a statement by Travis R. Benkendorfer given in the city of Houston, Texas. Benkendorfer states that he spoke to a stripper named Pixie Lynn while working at the Midnight Lounge on November 23, 1963. Pixie Lynn said that she had attended some "gay" parties while in Dallas but had never heard of Jack Ruby
The Image of the Invisible God – An Exegetical Study of Colossians 1:15–20
No full textGiven the human propensity for making and using various kinds of images, it is little surprise that religious-philosophical authors from various ancient cultures used the concept of an »image« when speaking of the divine. What does the author of Colossians mean to convey by calling Jesus Christ the »image of the invisible God«? Through an examination of various image discourses and a detailed exegetical study of Colossians 1:15–20, Travis R. Niles situates the image concept of Colossians within the image discourse of the first century A.D. and elucidates its specific contours
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Some Factors Influencing Populations of European Corn Borer [Pyrausta nuilalis (Hbn.)] in the North Central States
No full textEverett, Travis R.; Chiang, H. C.; Hibbs, E. T.. (1958). Some Factors Influencing Populations of European Corn Borer [Pyrausta nuilalis (Hbn.)] in the North Central States. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200762
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Improving block sharing in the Write Anywhere File Layout file system
Get PDFThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 41).It is often useful in modern file systems for several files to share one or more data blocks. Block sharing is used to improve storage utilization by storing only one copy of a block shared by multiple files or volumes. This thesis proposes an approach, called Space Maker, which uses garbage collection techniques to simplify the up-front cost of file system operations, moving some of the more difficult block tracking work, such as the work required to clean-up after a file delete, to a back-end garbage collector. Space Maker was developed on top of the WAFL file system used in NetApp hardware. The Space Maker is shown to have fast scan performance, while decreasing the front-end time to delete files. Other operations, like file creates and writes have similar performance to a baseline system. Under Space Maker, block sharing is simplified, making a possible for new file system features that rely on sharing to be implemented more quickly with good performance.by Travis R. Grusecki.M.Eng
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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