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Shaping shadows: a practice of expansion painting
No full textShaping Shadows: A Practice of Expansion Painting is a practice-based doctoral thesis. It centres upon a sustained art practice, offering a body of new work as a means to extend an understanding of painting in the expanded field. The practice in question is defined as a ‘sense’ of painting space, which operates through painterly compositional methods but developed through site-specific considerations of architectural spaces, bodies, and differing levels of consciousness when interacting in such spaces. The artworks range in scale from small punctuations in a room to large installations that fill and resonate with a defined space. The works are typically constructed out of unobtrusive materials, notably Japanese tissue papers, fabric, MDF board and wood, but crucially they are also ‘made’ of the immaterial elements of light, air and shadows. In differing ways, the works are experienced and completed by both artist and viewers, so establishing a set of conditions in which one’s individual thoughts and space-body dynamics are in play.Rather than simply presenting the work as further examples of painting in the expanded field (i.e. as a discursive, conceptual re-categorisation of painting), the thesis explores through its art practice a form of ‘expansion painting’, by which it is meant the artist’s sense of painting deliberates upon an expanded awareness of spaces, the in/visible materialities of light, shadow, air, and memories that accumulate from inner, private imagery and external shapes, patterns and forms. As a key element, medium and metaphor, shadow is at the heart of my practice research. It is both a component of practice and a metaphor of ambivalence (being both of and outside of an object, and suggestive of both distinctive and indistinct forms). Shadow becomes an ideal term and site of practice to build and examine subtle as well as alternative systems or structures, often ones that echo or ‘shadow’ existing dynamics of space, so that a ‘relief’ of images emerge, and/or are activated (as experienced physically in the space, and in the mind while engaging in the work). As such, the resulting artworks seek to provide an awareness of ‘being’ through what is referred to as ‘structures of ambiguity’.The thesis is brought together through both its practice and a written component. The latter offers an Introduction, setting out the main themes and concepts as well as ‘Notes on Practice’, which presents a ‘catalogue’ of the artworks produced. These opening components are followed by two main chapters. Chapter 1, ‘Painting in the Expanded Field’, establishes the historical and theoretical debates of painting in the expanded field and draws upon more recent literatures specific to the expansion of painting. It then considers the artist’s own work in relation to a series of examples of historical and contemporary practice (including remarks on the influence of minimalist art, as well as three specific case studies of contemporary artists whose works explore similar themes and material practice). Crucially, through ‘practicing’ a sense of painting space – defined as expansion painting – a phenomenological reading is undercurrent, which in turn enables a critical consideration of ‘structures of ambiguity’, which is the focus of Chapter 2, ‘Structures of Ambiguity: Grid, Frame, Screen and Stage’. This chapter offers an explicit account and contextualising of the mediums, materials and effects of the works. It leads to another way of seeing, as a deconstruction of space and in-between spaces. The thesis document concludes with ‘Finish: a Practice of Expansion Painting’, which draws together the key themes of the research through further contextualization of art history and theory. Expansion painting is not simply derived from historical, theoretical and philosophical debate, but must emerge through making and viewing the artwork as an open-ended experience. The artworks ‘finish’ at different moments of our being; they also respond to intellectual debates about the status of painting after the modern; and they are made of a very particular im/material ‘finish’ that is the signature of the practice. The underlying problematic of this thesis is the consideration of where objects and experiences begin and end, where boundary lines do or do not run. The ‘shaping’ of shadows is an attention to existing, spatial structures and their confluence with virtual structures of thought and experience. Thus, the medium of painting itself is pushed and pulled in this research, both expanding upon theoretical debates of the ‘expanded field’, as well as advancing its own practical inquiry. Indeed, ‘painting’ is presented as an exemplar of thinking and making.<br/
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
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
Developing the Competency Model of Prosecutors in Taiwan─The Convergence of Law and Psychology
No full text檢察制度之革新乃司法改革之重點項目，而檢察人力資源的問題，更牽動著整個檢察制度改革之成敗。事實上，人力資源的問題並非僅只是數量上的增加便得以解決，一個優秀檢察官應該具有什麼樣的條件，更是吾人所不容忽視的議題。有鑑於過往研究的侷限性，本論文試圖引進工商心理學的理論，以期在觀點上加以整合，並運用實證研究的方式，在方法上提供不同之創新思維。
本論文首先藉由工商心理學的人力資源系統觀，回顧既有的法學文獻，進而提出：「檢察官與法官具有不同的工作條件需求」、「甄選、訓練與績效考核乃一連串之人事制度歷程」、「檢察官之條件需求並不僅限於道德倫理以及法律專業」、「改造檢察官人事制度之前提乃探索其條件需求」等觀點。為因應這樣的侷限與展望，本論文進而提出「才能模式」的理論模式，這個起源於心理學家McClelland在1973年所提出的整合性概念，是一個強調「個人─工作」相互契合之條件需求，並盛行於當今全球的人力資源管理領域。
此外，為求理論上的驗證，本論文運用實證研究方法，以建構出「我國檢察官之才能模式」，並透過「行為事例晤談法」以及「關鍵事例晤談法」，訪問受訪地檢署優秀的主任檢察官以及檢察官，進而萃取出：「專業職能」、「自我管理」、「檢察官精神」、以及「組織統籌」等四個才能類別，並包含十六個檢察官應有之才能向度。
總之，為因應這樣的才能需求，在未來檢察官人事制度之革新，包括：司法官考試、司法官訓練、法學教育、績效管理與評鑑等，即可藉由本研究之成果得到參考的依據，以提升檢察官之人力品質，進而確保司法之品質與國人之信賴。It is the innovation of prosecutorial system involved in the formulation of prosecutorial human resource that plays a significant role in the reformation of the judicial system. In fact, not only in terms of increasing the number of members, but also improving the quality of prosecutors we should keep in mind when thinking on the problems of prosecutorial human resource. Furthermore, in consideration of the limitation in past reports, this thesis tries to synthesize not merely the views, but also the approaches between different subjects by introducing the theories and research methods of Industrial and Organization Psychology.
First of all, according to the review of existent legal papers by using of the systematic view of human resource, this thesis brings some prospect, among them, considering the different qualification needed between the judges and prosecutors, synthesizing the integral processes of prosecutorial human resource management, and finding the qualification of a prosecutor which includes more than morality and legal knowledge. Consequently, this thesis tries to find the solutions by providing “competency model” which was published in 1973 by a psychologist, McClelland, and has an enormous vogue in the sphere of human resource management nowadays. Besides, this research interviews in the district prosecutors office, extracts the competences, and develops the competency model of prosecutors in Taiwan by BEI (Behavioral-Event Interviews) and CIT (Critical Incident Technique).
In brief, according to the competency model, not only the innovation of prosecutorial system which includes selection, training, performance appraisal of prosecutors, and the legal education can be accomplished, but also the quality of judicial system and the belief of nationals will be assured
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
The Key Successful Factors Study of Integrated Circuit Design Enterprise: A Case Study of A Company
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