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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
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
Μελέτη των αλληλεπιδράσεων σωματιδίων σκόνης - κλίματος με τη χρήση ενός κλιματικού μοντέλου περιοχής
No full textThis PhD dissertation investigates various dust-climate intertwined processes using a regional climate model (RegCM4) that includes a detailed online dust production-transport-deposition scheme. The evaluation of the model is conducted using numerous ground-based gridded observational, satellite-derived and re-analysis datasets such as LIVAS, CRU, ERA-interim, CERES, TRMM and CMSAF. In the first one an encyclopedic description of dust related processes (emission, transport, deposition) is given followed by an analytical description of the online dust scheme of RegCM4. The second chapter describes the observational and modeling datasets used. In the third chapter the sensitivity of dust bin size discretization in the regional climate model RegCM4 for the period 2007-2014 over the Sahara and the Mediterranean is investigated. Two discretization methods of the dust size distribution are applied, keeping the total mass constant: 1) the default RegCM4 4-bin approach, where the size range of each bin is calculated using an equal, logarithmic separation of the total size range of dust, using the diameter of dust particles and 2) a newly implemented 12-bin approach with each bin defined according to an isogradient method where the size ranges are dependent on the dry deposition velocity of dust particles. The new dust binning approach increases the dust column burden by 4% and 3% for fine and coarse particles respectively, which increases DOD by 10% over the desert and the Mediterranean. In the fourth chapter the westward Trans-Atlantic transport of dust from the Sahara towards the South and Central America is simulated using the regional climate model RegCM4 for the period December 2006 to November 2014. According to RegCM4 the total dust deposition for the examined 8 year period is 4.3±0.4 Tg•yr-1, 154.5±10.7 Tg•yr-1 and 10.3±0.6 Tg•yr-1 for the Amazon basin, the Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean respectively. Dry deposition is the dominant deposition process in the Atlantic accounting for 88.9% of the total deposition in contrast to Caribbean where wet deposition accounts for 85.4%. In the Amazon basin dry deposition takes up to 67.4% of total deposition. In the fifth chapter the radiative direct and semi-direct effect of dust is explored using the regional climate model RegCM4 over the Mediterranean, Sahara and Sahel. The simulations cover a historical decade which spans from 1999-01-01 to 2009-11-30 and a future decade that ranges from 2089-01-01 to 2099-11-30. The future atmospheric climate changes are driven by the Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 (RCP4.5). The results for the historical period show that the direct RE of dust dominates in comparison to the semi-direct RE in both winter and summer, although during summer the semi-direct effect in the longwave spectrum accounts for almost 50% of total radiative effect over some parts of the desert. In the future period the dust concentration are spatially similar to the historical period but enhanced over the desert (+8%). When dust is radiatively active in a future climate simulation it can decrease the summer daily maximum temperature by 0.3°C over Sahel and increase it locally in eastern Sahara and western Sahel up to 0.2°C.Στην παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή χρησιμοποιήθηκε το κλιματικό μοντέλο περιοχής RegCM4, για τη μελέτη των διάφορων διεργασιών που αφορούν την ατμοσφαιρική σκόνη και το κλίμα. Το RegCM4 περιλαμβάνει ένα λεπτομερές σχήμα εκπομπής, μεταφοράς και εναπόθεσης της σκόνης. Η αξιολόγηση του μοντέλου πραγματοποιείται με τη χρήση διάφορων δεδομένων παρατήρησης από επίγειους σταθμούς, δορυφορικές μετρήσεις και δεδομένα μοντέλων επ-ανάλυσης (LIVAS, CRU, ERA-interim, CERES, TRMM και CMSAF). Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο αναλύονται περιγραφικά οι διεργασίες σκόνης που λαμβάνουν μέρος στην ατμόσφαιρα και μια αναλυτική περιγραφή του σχήματος σκόνης που χρησιμοποιεί το RegCM4. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο γίνεται παρουσίαση του RegCM4 και δεδομένων παρατηρήσεων και δορυφορικών μετρήσεων. Το τρίτο κεφάλαιο εξετάζει την ευαισθησία του μοντέλου στον αριθμό των ομάδων μεγέθους σκόνης (bin) που χρησιμοποιεί. Η περίοδος αναφοράς είναι μεταξύ 2007 και 2014 και το χωρικό πεδίο ορισμού περιλαμβάνει την Σαχάρα την Μεσόγειο και ένα τμήμα της Ευρώπης. Δύο μέθοδοι διαχωρισμού των ομάδων μεγέθους σκόνης. Η πρώτη προκαθορισμένη μέθοδος του μοντέλου δημιουργεί 4 ομάδες μεγέθους σκόνης, όπου η έκταση κάθε ομάδες ορίζεται ισο-λογαριθμικά χρησιμοποιώντας την διάμετρο των σωματιδίων σκόνης (4bin-isolog). Στην δεύτερη περίπτωση οι ομάδες σκόνης είναι 12 και η έκταση κάθε ομάδας ορίζεται σύμφωνα με την ταχύτητα ξηρής εναπόθεσης των σωματιδίων σκόνης (12bin-isogradient). Η καινούργια μέθοδος διαχωρισμού των ομάδων σκόνης αυξάνει τις συγκεντρώσεις των μεγάλων και μικρών σωματιδίων σκόνης κατά 4% και 3% αντίστοιχα. Επίσης, αυξάνει το οπτικό βάθος της σκόνης κατά 10% πάνω από την Μεσόγειο και την Σαχάρα. Το τέταρτο κεφάλαιο μελετά την μεταφορά σκόνης από την Σαχάρα προς τον Ατλαντικό και την ήπειρο της Αμερικής χρησιμοποιώντας το κλιματικό μοντέλο περιοχής RegCM4 για την περίοδο Δεκέμβριος 2006 με Νοέμβριο 2014. Το μέσο οπτικό βάθος του μοντέλου προσομοιώνεται ικανοποιητικά, με μια μικρή (0.05) υποεκτίμηση/υπερεκτίμηση για το Νότιο και Βόρειο τμήμα του Ατλαντικού ωκεανού αντίστοιχα. Σύμφωνα με το RegCM4 η συνολική εναπόθεση σκόνης για την 8ετή περίοδο εξέτασης είναι 4.3±0.4 Tg•yr-1, 154.5±10.7 Tg•yr-1 και 10.3±0.6 Tg•yr-1 για την λεκάνη του Αμαζονίου, τον Ατλαντικό ωκεανό και την Καραϊβική αντίστοιχα. Η ξηρή εναπόθεση παίζει πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο στον Ατλαντικό (88.9%) και την Καραϊβική (85.4%), ενώ η υγρή εναπόθεση είναι αρκετά σημαντική στην λεκάνη του Αμαζονίου (67.4%). Η τρίτη ενότητα αποτελεσμάτων εξετάζει την άμεση και ήμι-άμεση επιρροή της σκόνης στην ακτινοβολία πάνω από την Μεσόγειο, την Σαχάρα και την Σαχέλ για την πρώτη (1999-01-01 εώς 2009-11-30) και την τελευταία (2089-01-01 to 2099-11-30) δεκαετία του 21ου αιώνα. Η μελλοντική κλιματική αλλαγή προσομοιώνεται σύμφωνα με το σενάριο εκπομπών θερμοκηπικών αερίων RCP 4.5. Η άμεση επίδραση της σκόνης στην ακτινοβολία είναι ισχυρότερη από την ήμι-άμεση την ψυχρή και την θερμή περίοδο του έτους, αν και κατά την διάρκεια του καλοκαιριού η ήμι-άμεση επιρροή της σκόνης στην μεγάλου μήκους ακτινοβολίας φτάνει το 50% πάνω ορισμένες περιοχές της ερήμου. Στην μελλοντική δεκαετία οι συγκεντρώσεις της σκόνης και η επίδραση της στην ακτινοβολία, την θερμοκρασία και τα νέφη ενισχύεται. Επίσης, η επίδραση της σκόνης στις μελλοντικές κλιματικές προβολές μειώνει την άνοδο της θερμοκρασία λόγω κλιματικής αλλαγής κατά 0.3°C πάνω από την Σαχέλ και την ενισχύει κατά 0.2°C πάνω από την ευρύτερη περιοχή της Σαχάρας
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
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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