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ARCS collaboration tools
No full textThe Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) has been supporting a wide range of Collaboration Services and Tools which have been allowing researchers, groups and research communities to share ideas and collaborate across organisational boundaries.-----\ud
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This talk will give an introduction to a number of exciting technologies which are now available. Focus will be on two main areas of Video Collaboration Tools, allowing researchers to talk face-to-face and share data in real-time, and Web Collaboration Tools, allowing researchers to share information and ideas with other like-minded researchers irrespective of distance or organisational structure. A number of examples will also be shown of how these technologies have been used with in various research communities.-----\ud
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A brief introduction will be given to a number of services which ARCS is now operating and/or supporting such as:---\ud
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* EVO – A video conferencing application, which is particularly suited to desktop or low bandwidth applications.---\ud
* AccessGrid – An open source video conferencing and collaboration tool kit, which is great for room to room meetings.---\ud
* Sakai – An online collaboration and learning environment, support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.---\ud
* Plone – A ready-to-run content management system, that provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.---\ud
* Wikis – A way to easily create, edit, and link pages together, to create collaborative websites
Playing the Game: Leopold II's Foundation of the Congo Free State
No full textIn this paper the author analyzes how King Leopold II received support for the International Africa Association in the United States and Europe. More specifically, the author will determine whether Leopold gained his support through persuasion or deception. The first chapter contains documents from scientists, philosophers and governmental agencies during the Victorian era, and argues that western ethnocentrism gave rise to "White Man's Burden" (defined as bringing western civilization to the rest of the globe in this paper), and that colonial governments used spreading civilization as justification for using the "inferior races" for their benefit. The second chapter provides a brief overview of the events leading up to and including the Berlin Conference, and identifies the significant occurrences that allowed Leopold II to obtain sovereignty of the Congo. In the third and final chapter, the author analyzes these key events, and debates whether Leopold was successful due to his humanitarian appeal or my means of deception. The author concludes that Leopold gained the Congo from deception and not persuasive techniques
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
Developing Reusable Portals for Scripted Scientific Codes
No full textA new portal for running scientific numerical codes on the Grid is presented. Particular emphasis is placed on portlet reusable and portability. We find that the JSR-168 standard is adequate for creating portable single portlets. For portals consisting on many portlets we present a simple, portable communication system. For Grid-based portlets, coupling to a specific portlet container or service architecture is difficult to avoid. Strategies for avoiding such coupling, and future directions in shared portlet development are outlined
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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