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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Fen bu fan kui bo dao ji guang qi de shi yan yu li lun yan jiu

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    As an effective compact coherent light source, distributed feedback (DFB) waveguide laser has attracted much attention recently. Sol-gel Mass synthesized at low temperatures is a very useful optical material. DFB waveguide lasers based on sol-gel glasses were experimentally and theoretically investigated in this thesis. In addition, microring lasers based on a conjugated polymer, which is emerging as an important class of laser material, were also studied in this thesis.DFB lasing characteristics of various dyes in zirconia waveguides and in solutions were investigated. Intensity modulation and polarization modulation were used to generate the laser action. The laser output showed different polarization characteristics and threshold energy variation when the feedback mechanism was changed from intensity modulation to polarization modulation. In addition, near infrared (NIR) wide-band tuning DFB lasing operation was achieved in NIR dve-doped sol-gel waveguides by using intensity modulation.Microring cavities were fabricated by depositing poly(2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene) (MEH-PPV) on glass fibers by a dip coating method. Laser emissions in whispering gallery modes using microring cavities were observed by pumping with a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser. The threshold energy of the MEH-PPV microring laser was as low as 10 nJ per pulse. The polarization characteristics of the microring lasers were studied and a polarization model was developed to explain the observed phenomena.Theoretical expressions for the angle-dependent coupling coefficients of DFB lasers were derived to explain the polarization properties of the DFB lasers. The coupling and gain coefficients of the two orthogonal polarization components of DFB lasers are strongly dependent on the intersection angle and the polarization states of the two crossing pump heams. The experimental results of DFB lasing in dye solutions have verified our theoretical predictions.Titania zirconia organically modified silicate (TiO2-ZrO 2-ORMOSIL) DFB waveguide lasers were demonstrated. The output polarization and output wavelength of TiO2-ZrO2-ORMOSIL DFB waveguide lasers were found to be dependent on the polarization of the crossing pump beams from a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser. Up to sixteen Output wavelengths corresponding to eight pairs of polarized output from eight propagation modes were observed simultaneously for a planar waveguide with a thickness of 6.7 mum.Two-photon-pumped DFB lasing action with a narrow linewidth output was demonstrated in zirconia waveguides doped with trans-4-[p-( N-hydroxyethyl-N-methylamino)styryl]-N-methylpyridinium p-toluene sulfonate a compound that shows strong two-photon upconverted emission around 620 nm. Transient gratings for coherent scattering were generated in the waveguides by crossing two 1.06 mum beams. DFB laser emission with the linewidth as narrow as 60 pm was observed. Operating at the third-order Bragg condition, tunable TE mode laser emission was achieved from 618 to 640 nm. TM output modes from the DFB laser were observed when the crossing beams were changed from s-polarized to p-polarized.Wang Jun = 分佈反饋波導激光器的實驗與理論研究 / 王俊."September 2006."Adviser: King Young Wong.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: B, page: 1702.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-183).Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.Abstracts in English and Chinese.School code: 1307.Wang Jun = Fen bu fan kui bo dao ji guang qi de shi yan yu li lun yan jiu / Wang Jun

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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 Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In 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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