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Connecting Music and Literature. On the Collaborative Work of Clemens Gadenstätter and Lisa Spalt, and its Interpretation
No full textThis volume brings together a collection of essays focusing on selected aspects of inter- and multidisciplinarity in contemporary Austrian culture. These include the connections between literature and the media, literature and the visual arts, literature and travel, and the visual arts and public space. The individual contributions deal with central figures in the Austrian arts, including Thomas Bernhard, Franzobel, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke, Peter Turrini and Doron Rabinovici, as well as collective ventures such as Walter Grond's Odysseus project and the museum in progress. They analyse the impact of connections between disciplines on the cultural landscape in contemporary Austria, as well as examining the limits of such interaction between disciplines
A model study of coastal breakwaters the performance of seabee armour units
No full textOur coasts are open to attack from the oceans. There are many options open to the engineer attempting to limit the damage to our coastline. This work tested the Seabee, a particular variety of concrete armour unit, for use on sea walls, breakwaters and revetments. The research was performed in a regular wave channel with a level bed 13m long, side walls of 465 mm (extended to 650 mm in the region of the model) and a width of 455 mm. A constant water depth of 300 mm was maintained throughout. The research explored the influence of the fundamental design parameters of the Seabee unit on run-up and reflection performance.By careful selection of wave climate it was possible to generate regular, well formed waves which covered both the desired range of wave steepness and Surf Similarity for slopes of 1:1.5, 1:2.1, 1:2.4, 1:2.6 and 1:3.6. Measurement of reflection and run-up was by means of capacitance probes attached to a PC based data logging system. Data analysis programs were written which run under Matlab®.Smooth, non-porous slopes were tested at each gradient as well as monotonic Seabee arrays at an assumed model scale of 1:20. The unit heights tested were 0.52 m , 0.68 m, 0.88 m and 0.96 m with an axial bore of 0.65 m. A layout was devised utilising units of different heights in an ordered pattern, called an upstand array.Tests of smooth slope run-up demonstrated good agreement with the generally accepted empirical models, including prediction of wave breaking. Two mathematical models were derived which fitted the observed run-up and run-down on the Seabee arrays with very good correlation. Statistical analysis showed that the run-up performance of the Seabee unit is largely dependent upon the unit aspect ratio - the taller units exhibiting greater run-up. The same models were fitted to the upstand layout which showed considerably reduced run-up. The performance of the Seabee was shown to compare well that that of other armour types. In addition, a constant relative roughness factor was shown to be unsuitable for predicting run-up on Seabees.</p
Lead optimisation: what you should know!
No full textLead Optimisation (LO) is a critical part of the drug discovery process as it is the part where all efforts that go into earlier parts of the process (Target Identification, HTS, Hit-to-Lead, Lead Identification) are crystallised into a single compound, the candidate drug. The optimisation phase is like a treasure hunt, and discovery projects can take many paths to discover their treasured molecule. In this chapter we have chosen to focus on the practicalities of how the LO project can be organised, and what different property issues the project may face as it attempts to find an efficient path forward to find a suitable candidate drug for development. This multiparameter optimisation dance can have many issues, often interconnected. We discuss approaches to many of these problems and offer advice on how project members should think about tackling issues in a holistic way. In this way we hope to support projects in understanding the right issues to tackle at the right time. We offer some tips, and examples, of successes, and suggest that identifying the issue to tackle is key to establishing robust hypotheses to test and so drive projects forward. Our goal in this chapter is to aid project thinking about the best way forward
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
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
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