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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
Clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis and assessment of respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a use case
No full textIn this thesis we propose a framework for designing, developing, a clinical decision support systems (CDSS) offering a suite of services for the early detection and assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and then demonstrate how these services can be integrated into the work-flow of healthcare providers. Furthermore, we focus on supporting spirometry, one of the main diagnostic tools in respiratory disease assessment. We present two methods to offer decision support in assuring the quality of a spirometry test that can be easily embedded into the CDSS framework. The first method is a novel algorithm that relies on a set of rules operating on 23 new parameters to define a high quality test. The second is a machine-learning approach, where we optimise the distinction between a good quality spirometry test and a poor one using a set of supervised-learning classifiers and hyper-parametersEn esta tesis proponemos un marco para el diseño y desarrollo de un Sistema de Soporte de Decisión Clínica (SSDC) que ofrezca un conjunto de herramientas para el diagnóstico y la evaluación de las enfermedades pulmonares. Al mismo tiempo demostramos como estos servicios se pueden integrar en el flujo de trabajo del personal sanitario. Además, nos centramos en la ayuda en espirometría, una de las herramientas de diagnóstico principales en la evaluación de enfermedades pulmonares. Presentamos dos métodos de SSDC que tienen como objetivo asegurar la calidad de las pruebas de espirometría, y que se pueden integrar en el marco del SSDC. El primero es un nuevo algoritmo basado en un conjunto de reglas que definen lo que es considerado como una prueba de alta calidad. El segundo es un enfoque de aprendizaje supervisado donde se optimiza la distinción entre una prueba correcta de espirometría y una de mala calida
Clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis and assessment of respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a use case
Get PDFIn this thesis we propose a framework for designing, developing, a clinical decision support systems (CDSS) offering a suite of services for the early detection and assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and then demonstrate how these services can be integrated into the work-flow of healthcare providers. Furthermore, we focus on supporting spirometry, one of the main diagnostic tools in respiratory disease assessment. We present two methods to offer decision support in assuring the quality of a spirometry test that can be easily embedded into the CDSS framework. The first method is a novel algorithm that relies on a set of rules operating on 23 new parameters to define a high quality test. The second is a machine-learning approach, where we optimise the distinction between a good quality spirometry test and a poor one using a set of supervised-learning classifiers and hyper-parametersEn esta tesis proponemos un marco para el diseño y desarrollo de un Sistema de Soporte de Decisión Clínica (SSDC) que ofrezca un conjunto de herramientas para el diagnóstico y la evaluación de las enfermedades pulmonares. Al mismo tiempo demostramos como estos servicios se pueden integrar en el flujo de trabajo del personal sanitario. Además, nos centramos en la ayuda en espirometría, una de las herramientas de diagnóstico principales en la evaluación de enfermedades pulmonares. Presentamos dos métodos de SSDC que tienen como objetivo asegurar la calidad de las pruebas de espirometría, y que se pueden integrar en el marco del SSDC. El primero es un nuevo algoritmo basado en un conjunto de reglas que definen lo que es considerado como una prueba de alta calidad. El segundo es un enfoque de aprendizaje supervisado donde se optimiza la distinción entre una prueba correcta de espirometría y una de mala calida
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
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
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