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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
Prognosis of NAFLD and AFLD
No full textIntroduction : les stéatopathies métaboliques et alcooliques représentent un enjeu socio-économique majeur pour nos sociétés modernes. Syndrome métabolique et consommation d’alcool co-existent fréquemment dans la population et la consommation d’alcool est actuellement le seul paramètre permettant de faire le diagnostic différentiel entre NAFLD et MFLA. L’objectif de notre étude était de déterminer les facteurs de risque de morbimortalité chez des patients atteints de maladie chronique du foie alcoolo-métabolique. Méthodes : cette étude de cohorte observationnelle monocentrique avec recueil prospectif des données a inclus 3365 patients avec une mesure d’élasticité hépatique valide entre le 1er Janvier 2003 et le 31 Décembre 2016. Nous avons analysé durant un suivi médian de 54 mois la mortalité globale, spécifique, et la survenue d’évènements chez 1667 patients avec une MFLA et 1698 avec une NAFLD. Résultats : une consommation d’alcool modérée inférieure à 14 verres par semaine était associée à une morbimortalité plus élevée chez les patients NAFLD, et la présence d’un syndrome métabolique à une morbimortalité plus élevée chez les patients avec MFLA. L’élasticité hépatique mesurée par FibroScan® était un facteur prédictif indépendant de morbimortalité (globale et spécifique). Un modèle combinant élasticité hépatique et paramètres cliniques permettait une très bonne prédiction de la mortalité toutes causes avec un C-index de Harrell à 0,81. L’élasticité hépatique seule avait une excellente performance pour la prédiction des événements hépatiques avec un C-index de Harrell à 0,91. Conclusion : la consommation d’alcool et la présence d’un syndrome métabolique agissent de façon synergique sur la morbimortalité hépatique mais également extra-hépatique des patients. Il est donc important d’agir sur ces deux facteurs de risque afin d’éviter la survenue des complications. Par ailleurs, l’élasticité hépatique est un prédicteur indépendant de la morbimortalité en pratique clinique et permet de stratifier les patients les plus à risque en lieu et place de la biopsie hépatique.Backround and aims: non-alcoholic and alcohol-related fatty liver disease are a major socio-economic issue for our modern societies. Metabolic syndrome and alcohol frequently co-exist in the population and alcohol consumption is currently the only parameter allowing differential diagnosis between AFLD and NAFLD. We aim to assess the prognosis of patients with NAFLD or AFLD. Methods: this monocentric observational cohort study with prospective data included 3,365 patients with a valid liver stiffness measure between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2016. During a median follow-up of 54 months, we analyzed overall, specific mortality and the occurrence of events in 1667 patients with AFLD and 1698 patients with NAFLD. Results: even moderate alcohol consumption of less than 14 glasses a week was associated with higher morbimortality in patients with NAFLD, and the presence of metabolic syndrome was associated with higher morbimortality in patients with AFLD. Liver stiffness measured by FibroScan® was an independent predictive factor of global and specific morbimortality. A model combining liver stiffness and clinical parameters allowed a very good prediction of all-cause mortality with a Harrell C-index at 0.81. Liver stiffness alone had excellent performance in predicting liver events with a Harrell C-index at 0.91. Conclusion: alcohol consumption and metabolic syndrome each contribute to progressive liver disease and extra-hepatic morbimortality of patients. It seems to be important to act on these two risk factors in order to avoid complications. In addition, liver stiffness is an independent predictor of morbimortality in clinical practice and allows stratification of the most at-risk patients in place of liver biopsy
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn 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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