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Awang-Ngah, Zainab. "Exploring the factors related to academic publication productivity among selected Malaysian academic engineers." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366600.
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Moos, Daniel D. Hawkins Peggy L. Morin Patricia J. Hadenfeldt Sharon. "Barriers to the publication of scientific literature by academic certified registered nurse anesthetists." Click here for access, 2009. http://www.csm.edu/Academics/Library/Institutional_Repository.
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Thesis (Ed. D)--College of Saint Mary -- Omaha, 2009.A dissertation submitted by Daniel D. Moos in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor in Education with an emphasis on Health Professions Education. This dissertation has been accepted for the faculty of College of Saint Mary by: Peggy Hawkins, RN, PhD, chair ; Patricia J. Morin, RN, PhD, committee member ; Sharon Hadenfeldt, CRNA, PhD, committee member. Includes bibliographical references.
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Ngah, Zainab Awang. "Exploring the factors related to academic publication productivity among selected Malaysian academic engineers and scientists." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2001. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27437.
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This is an exploratory study, which aims to examine the factors affecting the research publication productivity of academic engineers and scientists from the National University of Malaysia (UKM) and University of Malaya (UM). This study aims to identify problems, as well as increase the understanding of factors conducive for a productive academic research environment.
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Li, Yongyan. "Writing for international publication : the case of Chinese doctoral science students /." access abstract and table of contents access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-en-b21471459a.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2006."Submitted to Department of English and Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-316)
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Muller, Theron. "An exploration of the experiences of Japan-based English language teachers writing for academic publication." Thesis, Open University, 2018. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57835/.
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This thesis examines knowledge production practices within higher education by exploring the experiences of Japan-based language teachers writing for academic publication. Global practices of knowledge production as encoded in high-prestige published academic texts are of ongoing research interest. However, the exploration of author practices of writing for academic publication is a relatively new area of interest which I pursue in this thesis. The investigation of the writing for academic publication practices of Japan-based language teachers presented here helps to further expand the empirical research base and facilitates critical examination of the processes underlying writing for academic publication more broadly. This thesis is primarily based on research into the writing for publication practices of seven Japan-based authors, exploring why they write for academic publication and the practices that underlie their writing. The study employs an ethnographically informed methodology, incorporating multiple sources of data, including interviews, different versions of manuscripts submitted for publication, and the correspondence surrounding those manuscripts. These multiple sources facilitate exploring the complex processes behind writing for academic publication. Methodological tools from academic literacies and critical discourse analysis are applied to examine the authors' writing for academic publication practices and the processes their manuscripts go through during submission, review, and revision along their trajectories toward publication. This thesis illustrates the hidden complexities underlying academic knowledge production and examines the processes that shape what can be and is published. Key findings include the heterogeneity of writing for publication practices among the authors, the complexity of the trajectories of published manuscripts, and how the ideologies expressed in the authors' published manuscripts have been shaped by the review and revision process. A key contribution of the thesis is the methodology developed to investigate writing for academic publication practices, specifically regarding analysis of text publication trajectories.
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Cutler, Sarah L. ""An irresistible invitation" : enhancing academic publication in rhetoric and composition by inviting online peer commentary /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2945.pdf.
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Ploisawaschai, Suthee. "The development of authorial identity among senior academic scholars on the trajectory of professorship." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19812.
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Recent social theories related to academic literacies suggest that academic writing is not a mere text production but also an identity performance; hence, the notion of ‘authorial identity’ which involves two dimensions: the identity as academic authors (personal dimension) and the identity in writing (textual dimension). This thesis presents a study into the development of authorial identity among senior academic scholars on the trajectory of professorship through interviews and textual analysis of their published papers sampled across their early and later career. Three full professors from a UK university participated in this study, which was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, the professor participants’ accounts of their personal dimension of authorial identity through interviews signal common themes regarding the influence of the recent academic climate on their personal experience of growth in relation to their endeavour to improve the quality of their academic scholarship. In the second phase, the metadiscourse-based textual analysis of their sampled academic papers indicates several features of their identity performance in writing over time, which form the basis for the professor participants’ reflection on their textual dimension of authorial identity in the third phase in order to explore how their papers are embedded in and related to the social contexts of academic publication, especially the peer review process and the research assessment framework. The research findings from this study not only shed light on the developmental pathway in academic writing from the same academic scholars over time but also provide an illuminating account of how they have developed themselves as well as their writing on the trajectory of professorship. Further, the findings from all three research phases are discussed together in relation to relevant social theories to offer a theoretical contribution to the research area of academic literacies, writing, identity and scholarship.
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Maurtin-Cairncross, Anita. "Creating 'space' for publication: challenges faced by women academic staff members at historically Black South African universities." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2003. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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In this study an attempt was made to explore the challenges with regard to publications experienced by academic women at three selected Historically Black Universities (HBUs). Although based predominantly within a feminist qualitative metholodogical framework, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used in this study. Based on the findings of the study, the recommendations illustrated participants' responses. Some of the recommendations illustrated participants' expressed need of staff development with a specific focus on training in publication skillsmentoring and support networks
assistance and support for their publishing venture at both institutional and departmental level and the development of strategies that would assist academic women in 'juggling' their personal and academic roles.
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Kiopa, Agrita. "The prevalence and productivity effects of close friendship in academic science." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47695.
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This dissertation examines the prevalence of friendship and its effects on productivity in academic science from the perspective of networked social capital. It seeks to understand what friendship is in the context of the professional environment, what distinguishes it from other professional relationships, and how it affects the function and the outcomes of science. The study was motivated by the increased emphasis of collaboration as a means of fostering research competitiveness. The research reported here was performed as part of the National Science Foundation project "NETWISE I: Women in Science and Engineering: Network Access, Participation, and Career Outcomes" (Grant # REC-0529642).
The importance of friendship in the context of academic science has often been implied and anecdotal, but it has not been elucidated or empirically tested. This dissertation seeks to address this gap. The unit of analysis in the model is the individual. The dissertation conceptualizes friendship as one aspect of a collaborative relationship and thus an important determinant of a scientist's social capability of pool relevant resources for the purposes of productivity. It hypothesizes that professional and personal roles form an integrative relationship within collaborative ties and that such complementarity benefits individual goal attainment, specifically with regard to publication productivity.
The results of the study show that friendship has a strong positive effect on an individual's publication productivity, which is comparable to the effect of collaboration across organizational boundaries. The results also show that while friendship is fairly prevalent in collaborative relationships, some groups of scientists are more likely to have friends among their closest collaborators than other groups; that friendships differ from other collaborative relationships in that they more often form between individuals of the same status, provide a greater variety of productivity-relevant resources such as knowledge, advice, endorsements of one's reputation, and introductions to potential collaborators; and that friendship facilitates the mobilization of these resources from personal collaborative networks for productivity purposes.
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Spinaci, Gianmarco. "RAJE: RAsh Javascript Editor." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12974/.
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Anno dopo anno, specialmente per quanto riguarda la comunità del Semantic Web, molti ricercatori per far fronte ai problemi che il formato PDF porta con se (dalla di coltà ad essere interpretato dai calcolatori all’inaccessibilità per utenti con disabilità visive), hanno iniziato a parlare di ”pubblicazione accademica in HTML”. Ad oggi alcune conferenze e journal hanno iniziato ad accettare articoli scienti ci e paper in questo formato: EKAW, PeerJ e Springer. Uno dei problemi principali di HTML è la sua grande quantità di elementi, che può portare ad ambiguità da parte di due o più elementi visualizzati nello stesso modo, ma semanticamente diversi. RASH è un sotto- insieme di elementi HTML, 32 per la precisione, che si occupano di de nire una sintassi chiara e semplice per documenti scienti ci in HTML, al ne di, tra le altre cose, eliminare ambiguità tra gli elementi.
Gli autori e i ricercatori che adottano RASH come formato, sanno che hanno a loro disposizione il framework RASH, che consente di visualizzare, validare e convertire il documento. RASH e il suo framework sono basati sulla più completa libertà da parte degli utenti ad utilizzare i tool che più preferiscono, anche autori che scelgono di creare documenti con altri formati o editor, per esempio Microsoft Word e OpenO ce, sono completamente supportati e coperti dalla conversione in RASH.
Il normale sviluppo di un articolo RASH, non convertito da altri formati, ad ora avviene tramite text o markup editor, che necessitano di alcune, seppur minime, conoscenze di HTML. Una parte che il framework non è riuscita ancora a coprire è la sempli cazione della redazione di un articolo RASH. Questa tesi parla di RAJE che è l’editor WYSIWYG che produce documenti RASH ben formattati e validati, nascondendo la di coltà e le tecnicità agli utenti. Il documento in output è pronto per essere convertiti in formato TeX e inviati a conferenze, giornali scienti ci o workshop.
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Brown), (E Ashley Rogers. "Building a Better Mousetrap: Capturing New Data in ISI Journal Citation Reports and Local Journal Utilization Reports to Support Academic Collection Managers." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/312.
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The ISI provides librarians with tools such as the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and the institution specific Local Journal Utilization Report (LJUR) to aid in the management of serials collections. These tools enable librarians to respond quickly to changes in publishing practices and purchasing options. While available literature often criticizes ISI data, few studies provide concrete recommendations for improvement. This study explores two extensions to LJUR: (1) adding citation date and (2) creating institution specific impact factors. In addition, I explore the degree to which self-citations influence the ISI impact factor. Publication and citation calculations are made for three prominent southern universities’ research chemists using a corpus of full text articles drawn from 27 American Chemical Society (ACS) journals and stored in an Oracle database. The ACS research corpus impact factor simulation and ACS research corpus self-citation omission impact factor are also created and compared with current JCR data.
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Song, Sun Yung. "Non-native English Speaking Doctoral Students' Writing for Publication in English: A Sociopolitically-oriented Multiple Case Study." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1388489335.
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Grass, Julia, Alexander Strobel, and Anja Strobel. "Cognitive Investments in Academic Success: The Role of Need for Cognition at University." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-226546.
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Previous research has shown that Need for Cognition (NFC), the individual tendency to engage in and enjoy cognitive endeavors, contributes to academic performance. Most studies on NFC and related constructs have thereby focused on grades to capture tertiary academic success. This study aimed at a more comprehensive approach on NFC’s meaning to success in university. We examined not only performance but also rather affective indicators of success. The current sample consisted of 396 students of different subjects with a mean age of 24 years (139 male). All participants took part in an online survey that assessed NFC together with school performance and further personality variables via self-report. Success in university was comprehensively operationalized including performance, satisfaction with one’s studies, and thoughts about quitting/changing one’s major as indicators. The value of NFC in predicting tertiary academic success was examined with correlation analyses and path analysis. NFC significantly correlated with all success variables with the highest correlation for study satisfaction. Path analysis confirmed the importance of NFC for study satisfaction showing that NFC had a significant direct effect on study satisfaction and via this variable also a significant indirect effect on termination thoughts. This study clearly indicates that NFC broadly contributes to the mastery of academic requirements and that it is worthwhile to intensify research on NFC in the context of tertiary education.
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Fromageot-Laniepce, Virginie. "Les pratiques de la recherche en archéologie à l'heure du numérique : l'évolution de la recherche d'information et de la publication de 1955 à nos jours." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100113.
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Avec les progrès des technologies numériques et des réseaux, les archéologues sont appelés à réfléchir à la grande diversité des supports pour la consultation des connaissances archéologiques. L’objectif de cette recherche est de comprendre les caractéristiques de la publication scientifique en ligne et les solutions qu’elle apporte au travail de l’archéologue.La première partie de cette étude, dédiée à l’histoire de la recherche d’information et de la publication en archéologie, dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle en France, examine les expériences des précurseurs des bases de données, puis des pionniers du traitement des textes des publications, dans la mesure où ils furent des observateurs avisés des problèmes de lecture des publications archéologiques et de l’utilisation des informations contenues. Dans la seconde partie, l’étude aborde les questions de l’élaboration de la publication scientifique en ligne, de l’apparition de l’internet à aujourd’hui, dans le contexte d’une diffusion qui tend à mettre à la disposition de chacun une large partie de l'information (Libre accès). Elle définit le processus de l’édition scientifique en ligne pour l’archéologie, à partir d’une enquête sur les fréquents supports de diffusion en ligne des ouvrages et des revues scientifiques imprimés et sur la formation de publications numériques natives, suivie d’une analyse de conceptions au sein de l’UMR 7041 Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité avec différents partenaires. Les résultats permettent de mieux comprendre les besoins fondamentaux de la communauté archéologique et de l’aider à organiser ces entreprises éditorialesThe nature of publishing in archaeology is changing with the advancement of digital media, and archaeologists are deeply involved in the evolution of print and digital publication. This research aims to understanding the characteristics of digital publication and the solutions it offers to archaeological research.The first part of this study concerns the history of information retrieval and publication in the second half of the twentieth century in France. It examines the foundations of archaeological computing and the start of automatic documentation in the discipline (later becoming database applications and data processing), and how other past experiences have contributed to formalizing archaeological reflection and writing.The second part of the study surveys the development of digital publishing in archaeology through time and within the context of Open Access. Through an evaluation of websites that disseminate printed books and journals as well as those publishing only in digital form, the process of online dissemination is defined (and with reference to experiences from the Unit of “Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité” with key publishing stakeholders). The results provide a key to better understand the needs of the archaeological community and assist in developing current approaches to archaeological publishing
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Watanabe, Alexandra Sayuri. "Revisão sistemática: imunoterapia específica para venenos de hymenoptera." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5146/tde-31102006-123849/.
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A hipersensibilidade a veneno de Hymenoptera representa importante problema do ponto de vista de saúde da população, uma vez que pacientes alérgicos aos componentes do veneno podem desenvolver reações graves, às vezes fatais. A única profilaxia efetiva em pacientes sensibilizados é a imunoterapia veneno específica. Objetivos: avaliar as evidências científicas a respeito dos efeitos da imunoterapia específica utilizada na profilaxia secundária das reações graves em pacientes sensibilizados a veneno de Hymenoptera, por meio da realização de uma revisão sistemática. Métodos: a estratégia de busca seguiu as recomendações do Grupo de Pele da Colaboração Cochrane. A pesquisa foi realizada nas seguintes bases de dados: MEDLINE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, The Cochrane Library), EMBASE, LILACS, SciSEARCH e nas referências de artigos mais relevantes. Todos os ensaios clínicos controlados e randomizados envolvendo imunoterapia com veneno de Hymenoptera versus imunoterapia com placebo ou apenas seguimento dos pacientes foram avaliados. Dois revisores de forma independente (ASW e LAMF) avaliaram a elegibilidade e a qualidade metodológica de cada ensaio clínico e extraíram os dados. O risco de reações sistêmicas, conseqüentes a ferroada acidental ou a teste de provocação com o inseto responsável, após a imunoterapia específica, foi avaliado por meio do cálculo do odds ratio e do respectivo intervalo de confiança de 95%. Resultados: 2267 resumos foram identificados. A maioria dos artigos foi excluída pelas seguintes razões: os estudos não eram controlados e randomizados ou não satisfaziam alguns critérios de inclusão. Apenas quatro estudos foram analisados. A idade dos pacientes variou entre dois e 65 anos. Apenas um estudo comparou imunoterapia com veneno de formiga contra placebo (Brown et al.) e três estudos (Hunt et al., Schubert et al. e Valentine et al.) comparam imunoterapia com venenos de abelha e vespa contra placebo ou seguimento de pacientes. Em cada estudo, o odds ratio para reações sistêmicas foi: Hunt et al.- Grupo I (veneno) x III (placebo): 0,10 (0,01
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Edminster, Judith Rhoades. "The diffusion of new media scholarship [electronic resource] : power, innovation, and resistance in academe / by Judith R. Edminster." [Tampa, Fla. : s.n.], 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000035.
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Fidalgo, Ana Carolina Afonso. "Relatório de estágio em Edição na Almedina." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17133.
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Mestrado em Estudos EditoriaisO presente relatório refere-se às atividades concretizadas durante o estágio em edição realizado no Departamento Editorial das Edições Almedina entre outubro de 2015 e março de 2016. Começar-se-á com uma visão geral da história da editora e do grupo editorial. De seguida, são descritas as particularidades da política editorial e da gestão dentro da Almedina. Na última secção são relatadas as várias tarefas concretizadas durante o estágio, divididas em quatro categorias principais.
The present report refers to the activities carried out during the publishing internship that took place at Edições Almedina’s Editorial Department from October 2015 to March 2016. To begin with, an overview of the history of the publishing house and the editorial group is provided. Secondly, the particularities of Almedina’s editorial policies and management are outlined. In the final and main section, an account is given concerning the diverse tasks accomplished during the internship, divided in four main categories.
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Botma, Y., and L. Roets. "Ways to improve research outputs of nurse academics in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 11, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/624.
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Published ArticleIn academia, evidence of scholarship, e.g. published articles, is required for career progression. A consensus-seeking design was used to identify ways in which nurse academics in sub-Saharan Africa could be mentored to increase their publications. Convenient sampling was done and data were gathered through two nominal groups. Only 9 of the 24 participants who had at least a master's degree have had an article published. Nurses in sub-Saharan Africa who acquire master's and doctoral degrees should be mentored to get their findings published in journals. Developmental network mentoring appeared to be more appropriate for mentoring nurse academia over geographical distances than individual dyad mentoring relationships.
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Nivens, Ryan Andrew, and Samuel Otten. "Assessing Journal Quality in Mathematics Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/246.
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Smith, Terry L. "Recent Trends in Software Engineering Research As Seen Through Its Publications." UNF Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/205.
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This study provides some insight into the field of software engineering through analysis of its recent research publications. Data for this study are taken from the ACM's Guide to Computing Literature (GUIDE) They include both the professionally assigned Computing Classification System (CCS) descriptors and the title text of each software engineering publication reviewed by the GUIDE from 1998 through 2001.
The first part of this study provides a snapshot of software engineering by applying co-word analysis techniques to the data. This snapshot indicates recent themes or areas of interest, which, when compared with the results from earlier studies, reveal current trends in software engineering.
Software engineering continues to have no central focus. Concepts like software development, process improvement, applications, parallelism, and user interfaces are persistent and, thus, help define the field, but they provide little guidance for researchers or developers of academic curricula.
Of more interest and use are the specific themes illuminated by this study, which provide a clearer indication of the current interests of the field. Two prominent themes are the related issues of programming-in-the-large and best practices.
Programming-in-the-large is the term often applied to large-scale and long-term software development, where project and people management, code reusability, performance measures, documentation, and software maintenance issues take on special importance. These issues began emerging in earlier periods, but seem to have risen to prominence during the current period.
Another important discovery is the trend in software development toward using networking and the Internet. Many network- and Internet-related descriptors were added to the CCS in 1998. The prominent appearance and immediate use of these descriptors during this period indicate that this is a real trend and not just an aberration caused by their recent addition.
The titles of the period reflect the prominent themes and trends. In addition to corroborating the keyword analysis, the title text confirms the relevance of the CCS and its most recent revision.
By revealing current themes and trends in software engineering, this study provides some guidance to the developers of academic curricula and indicates directions for further research and study.
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Craig, Ayshea Joanna. "Publishing practices and the role of publication in the work of academics in the mathematics education research community in England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020705/.
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This thesis explores the publishing practices of the mathematics education research community in England with the aim of better understanding the ways in which education research is shaped by its social, institutional and political context. This is of vital importance in debates about its goals, nature and future, particularly at a time of rapid change in the higher education sector, with changing funding patterns, a drive for research 'impact' and the association of publication with accountability through the Research Assessment Exercise and the Research Excellence Framework. Mathematics education research is explored on three levels: as a field, following Bourdieu; through its external relations with other areas of research, with institutions, government and society; and through the sense-making of individuals who are part of it. The focus on publications cuts an analytical cross-section/seam across these three levels since publication is intimately bound up in both internal and external struggles. Interviews with academics and social network analysis of publication data are brought together through an analysis of existing literature which examines the autonomy, boundaries, entry conditions and doxa of mathematics education research as a field. Semi-structured interviews with nine academics at English universities were used to reconstruct some of the narrative resources drawn on in making sense of publishing practices. These suggest that positive narratives around the value of publication to the research field itself are lacking. This finding is linked to the nature of education research as a field of study connected to professional practice, as well as to the link between publication and accountability. Exploratory social network analysis of publication data from fourteen mathematics education research journals over a ten-year period allowed a structural examination of the patterns that the ties formed by collaboration. This analysis was then linked with interview data on individual positioning within the field, suggesting the varied ways in which similar patterns of collaboration arise. Implications are drawn for mathematics education research in the UK and for the role of publication in social sciences research, particularly in a field of study connected with professional practice.
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Datar, Ashlesha. "The impact of changes in kindergarten entrance age policies on children's academic achievement and the child care needs of families." Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand, 2003. http://www.rand.org/publications/electronic/ed.html.
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Valentine, Alexander J. (Alexander Joseph). "The media as watchdog in the commercialisation of science : a case study of 6 publications." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17410.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The role of the media as a watchdog for the social institution of science is viewed as part of the media’s role to protect society. In this regard, the role of media was studied in reporting the phenomenon of the commercialisation of academic research at universities. The current study was conducted by analysing articles in 2 scientific journals (Science and Nature) and 4 printed newspapers (The New York Times, London Times, Mail & Gaurdian, Business Day) for the year 2003. The methods of investigation for each publication included the number of articles covering the topic, the percentage coverage, headline analysis, summary of contents and analysis of the themes. The New York Times had more articles on the topic of the “commercialisation of science at universities” than the other publications. However, based on the number of issues per year, Science and Nature had a greater coverage of the topic than The New York Times. Based on the analyses of the articles, it is concluded that The New York Times had the most balanced and informed coverage of all the issues and stakeholders involved in the commercialisation of science at universities. This is attributed to the The New York Times’s position of standing outside the realm of science and its experience in covering broad issues.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die rol van die media as ‘n waghond vir die sosiale instelling van die wetenskap, word gesien as deel van die media se rol as die beskermer van die samelewing. In hierdie opsig is die media se rol in die verslaglewering van die kommersialisering van die wetenskap by universiteite ondersoek. Hierdie studie is uitgevoer deur artikels in 2 wetenskaplike vaktydskrifte (Science en Nature) en 4 koerante (The New York Times, London Times, Mail & Guardian, Business Day) vir die jaar 2003, te analiseer. Die metodes wat gebruik is om elke artikel te ontleed, het die aantal artikels, die persentasie van artikels in elke publikasie, hoofopskrif analise, opsomming van inhoud en ‘n analise van die artikel se tema, ingesluit. The New York Times het meer artikels omtrent die onderwerp, die “kommersialisering van die wetenskap by universiteite”, as die ander publikasies gehad. Gebaseer op die aantal uitgawes per jaar, het Science en Nature meer aandag geskenk aan die onderwerp as The New York Times. Volgens die analises van die artikels, word afgeleui dat The New York Times die mees gebalanseerde en ingeligte dekking gehad het oor die betrokke sake en partye in die “kommersialisering van die wetenskap by universiteite”. Dit word toegeskryf aan die The New York Times se posisie as buitestaander in die wetenskap en die koerant se ondervinding om ‘n wye veld te dek.
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Edminster, Judith R. "The Diffusion of New Media Scholarship: Power, Innovation, and Resistance in Academe." Scholar Commons, 2002. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1520.
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Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are an evolving genre of graduate student research that is gaining widespread acceptance among universities in the international community. ETDs are also beginning to diffuse slowly among American universities; however, a number of issues continue to work against more rapid adoption among intitutions in the United States. This dissertation examines ETDs as an evolving electronic research genre by (1) historicizing the situated development of its predecessor, the traditional print dissertation, in nineteenth century German and American Universities; (2) reporting on the current state of the Networked Digital Library of Electronic Theses and Dissertations, an initiative of Virginia Polytechnic University; (3) analyzing ETDs as a technological innovation undergoing the diffusion process according to Emmet Roger's Diffusion of Innovation Theory; and (4) presenting the results of an ETD pilot project case study carried out at the University of South Florida.
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Metz, Rosalyn. "Conducting Online Research Undergraduate Preferences of Sources." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/289.
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When students write research papers they use a variety of sources in their paper. These sources range from web pages to research articles. The purpose of this study was to decide whether or not undergraduate students would choose to use scholarly or non-scholarly sources when presented with both types of sources in a set of search results. Twenty Duke University students were recruited for the study. They were given a research topic and asked to perform a search. Both the search results and interface were fabricated by the researcher in order to control the experimental environment. The students were asked to rate the sources found in the results, choose four sources to use for their research scenario, and finally, were asked to explain reasoning behind their choices. The findings concluded that the students in this study were more likely to choose scholarly sources over non-scholarly sources and give these scholarly sources higher ratings.
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Roberts, Anthea Elizabeth. "Is International Law International?" Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/124611.
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International lawyers are familiar with the question:
“Is international law law?” But this thesis instead asks the
question: “Is international law international?” Using a
variety of methods, this work sheds light on some of the ways in
which international law as a transnational legal field is
constructed by international law academics, and is conceptualized
in international law textbooks, in the five permanent members of
the Security Council: the People’s Republic of China, the
French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of
America. It explores how different national communities of
international lawyers construct and pass on their understandings
of “international law” in ways that belie the field’s claim
to universality, perpetuating certain forms of difference and
dominance. By adopting a comparative approach, it aims to make
international lawyers more aware of the frames that shape their
own understandings of and approaches to the field, as well as how
these might be similar to or different from the frames adopted by
those coming from other states, regions or geopolitical
groupings. It also examines how some of these patterns might be
disrupted as a result of shifts in geopolitical power, such as
the movement from unipolar power toward greater multipolarity and
the growing confrontations between Western liberal democratic
states (like the United States, the United Kingdom, and France)
and non-Western authoritarian states (like China and Russia).
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Gu, Xin. "Modelling the academic publishing system: a data-driven agent-based approach." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354744.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Academic publication is used to disseminate and advance knowledge. It also provides a measure of individual research performance for career advancement and personal prestige. Furthermore, it is one measure of university performance and productivity for global rankings and government policy purposes. This research is motivated by the importance of academic publication to these various stakeholders, and aims to address the following research question: How can the academic publishing system be explained by modelling the strategic behaviours of scholars and academic journals? This research uses existing literature to define the strategic publishing behaviours of scholars and the strategic approaches of academic journals associated with publication. These investigations are then used to develop a conceptual model of the academic publishing system. The conceptual model is then operationalised using an agent-based modelling and simulation approach. Finally, real-world data is used to parameterise and validate this model. This research question is addressed through the empirical analysis of bibliometric data, and the implementation of the agent-based model. The analysis aims to fully understand the quantitative status of the academic publishing system, in order to calibrate and validate the agent-based model. Academic journals are characterised using 13 attributes that are captured across bibliographic data sources. The quantitative relationships among these journal characteristics are analysed over four impact-oriented journal quartiles to further characterise journal types. Cluster analysis of data collected for 11,427 scholars, and their 284,128 journal publications, identifies six types of scholars: singleton, small-team low performer, small-team high performer, big-team strategist, free-style follower, and life-time warrior. The empirical analysis identifies new, previously undescribed, growth patterns of academic journals and scholars, and contributes a characterisation of scholar types that provides a robust and holistic conceptualisation of academic publishing behaviours. A methodological approach of coupling the agent simulation with empirical research is introduced. It uses empirical data to set the parameters of the conceptual agent-based model that best reflects the scholars’ strategic publishing-decision processes. The simulation results validate independent historical data at both macro- (growth patterns of scholars and their publications, as well as the performance measures of scholars) and micro-levels (number of scholars and their publications for each calendar year). Thus, the thesis contributes a new typology of academic publishing strategy, and empirical journal characterisation. This informs a new understanding of the individual and collective behaviours that lead to a variability in research outcomes between scholar types. Importantly, it provides a framework that can be used to optimise the distribution of scholar types within teams and institutions, with the aim of maximising research outputs.
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Lin, Wen-Jyh, and 林文智. "A Platform Construction of Academic E-journal Public Reviewing and Publication." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24421534752989208814.
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碩士國立東華大學
高階經營管理碩士在職專班
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Abstract The purpose of this research is to modify the paper reviewing system for e-journal and wishes to organize the scholars and experts who are in different domains to operate the public reviewing which is assisted by the information platform, in older to make the e-journal public reviewing and publishing fairly, objectively and efficiently. The program of this research is to apply e-mail, database, homepage technology, ..., etc. information technology in WWW to develop an open e-journal discussion and public reviewing model. This can solve long reviewing time problems. In this research, Fuzzy Delphi Linguistic Variable is used to construct the e-journal reviewing model. The presentation of this e-journal reviewing model is integrated by ASP home-page design program and SQL Server database system. Finally, the public reviewing total score and the article discussed paper content provides academic journal’s chief editor to decide the e-journal publication approves or refutes based on the public reviewing and publishing system. In this research, the Public Peer Reviewing, Public Reviewing and Public Publication are proposed. According to the achievement of the proposed platform, a model of the e-journal publication provides for the academic publishers and the following researchers.
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Yu, Wen-Ching, and 余玟靜. "A Study on the Cognition and Attitude of Academic Librarians toward Journal Article Publication." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04443293980872504768.
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Chiu, Shu-Yan, and 邱淑妍. "A Study of Organizing of Mainland China Publication of the Academic Library in Taiwan Area." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69172161194114743663.
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Sitenei, Grace C. "A comparison of research and publication patterns and output among academic Librarians in Eastern and Southern Africa between 1990 to 2006." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/61.
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Submitted to tbe Department of Library and Information Science
For the Award of
Master of Library and Information Science
University of Zululand, 2009.Different categories of people who may be scholars, lectures, students, retirees, housewives, politicians, administrators etc. use the library to access the information they require to pass exams, make decisions or read for leisure. Academic libraries are most important to all scholars and students who pass through a university. For these libraries to continue striving and provide effective services, research is required to improve on areas that are not viable to users. The professional academic librarian is mandated to provide guidance on how these services can be improved in order to make the library useful to all. This cannot be possible if the academic librarians only concentrate on shelving, acquisition, classification, cataloguing, charging and discharging and processing of information materials. The role of academic librarians has continued and will continue to change as time goes on. Many academic librarians provide research assistance to their users and other vital services to facilitate the completion of their client's research. However, it is significant to note that academic librarians must engage in research and publish, in order to improve services and attract more users to the library. Payne and Payne (2004: 9) highlights that there are two main reasons why people carry out research. One among others is because there is an intellectual challenge and the urge to fill a gap in our knowledge, or believe that current accepted theories should be tested. A second reason is that we want to change the world. Academic librarians need to be provided with incentives such as funding, promotions, and time out in order to entice them to carry out research. This study was carried out with an idea that academic librarians should carry out research and publish, for development and for the improvement of library services. Academic librarians holding a bachelors degree and above,, who were working in public universities in Eastern and Southern Africa were targeted for the study. The purpose of this research was to compare the research and publication patterns of academic librarians working in Eastern and Southern Africa from 1990 to 2006. Six objectives were formulated in order to achieve this purpose. The research was purely carried out online, 866 academic librarians names were retrieved from a total of 47 Public university libraries WebPages, via the universities websites. These names were used as access points to retrieve data from the two online databases (i.e. LISTA and WORLDCAT). Bibliometrics was used as research method, Microsoft Excel software was also employed for the purpose of data analysis and presentation of the collected data. Findings indicated that Southern Africa was the most prolific region with 194 (74.00%) of the publications emanating from there. South Africa was the most productive country in Southern Africa with 111(42.21%) publications. Tanzania was the most productive country in Eastern Africa with 31 (11.41%). Muswazi and Pienaar were the most prolific academic librarians with 11(3.97%) publications each. Most productive academic library was from Southern Africa, which was Botswana with 31 (11.41%) publications. Majority of the academic librarians from both regions contributed to one publication. The study was concluded with the following observation being made: Overall South Africa emerged the most prolific country in both regions; majority of the countries from both regions were not consistent in their publication production; there was a continuous rises and drops in research publication from 1990 to 2006; and academic librarians preferred publishing articles than any other publications, many academic librarians did not engage in research and academic librarians, from the two regions prefer publishing individually. The study further recommended several studies that needed to be carried out in Africa and other parts of the world in order to fill and clarify gaps that emanated from the study.
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Kao, Chao-yuan, and 高肇遠. "A General Growth Curve Comparison between Patents and Academic Publications." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92ppsk.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
科技管理所
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As the technologies and industries develop rapidly, many companies and institutions try to forecast technology in order to be more competitive. Through analyzing patents and academic publications data, it is possible to get some very useful information. It is said that extracting from the patent specification, there will be 90% to 95% knowledge of the research comes out, which means all the research results are almost visible. So, if use the data of patent efficiently, then it is definitely could cut down the time and reduce the expense of the researches. Besides, every country invests a lot into universities and the research institutions for strengthening the power of science and technology. Due to this reason, there are more and more papers formed as academic publications. All the detail records in the academic publications could be also very practical for the further development. As above mentioned, patents and academic publications are both important to represent the trend of technology flow. Both of them have their own advantages and disadvantages for being sample for technology forecasting. This paper aims to compare and analyze the difference between patents and academic publications from different fields of technologies by S-curve. Via the result, researchers could easily catch the characteristic of each sample of technology forecasting. Then, the more successfully and much precise forecast could be performed. This paper used several fields of technology as the research data; those are Medicine, Pharmacy, Chemistry, Construction, Energy, Computer science, Electronics and the Bioengineering. Each of them has two kinds of data: patents and academic publications. Patents extracted from United State Patent and Trademark Office, and the academic publications extracted from Web of Science database. Through calculated the growth curves of each technologies, compared the parameters between patent and academic publication and the statistic test, we can get the generalize rules and the characteristics of each fields to help researchers when they are using them to do technology forecast. The result indicates that the techniques grow as two sections frequently. It is because of the techniques breakthrough step by step which is so called “discontinuous innovation”. The midpoint between patents and academic publications, statistically, is lead by patent one year on average. Separate the S-curve into three parts, we discovered that in start section, the techniques always start from academic publications; in the earlier-growth section, the growth rate of the patents is much speedy.; in the late- growth-and-saturation section, the patent is always stagnated. On the contrary, the academic publication is comparatively going up with steady speed.
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Brown, Tarryn. "A review report of a decade's trends in bullying in selected academic and media publications." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18352.
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Educational Psychology
May 2014Bullying is a worldwide phenomenon that is receiving increasing attention worldwide. Most of the research on bullying has grown from the seminal work by Dan Olweus in the 1970s yet as society and technology has advanced so has bullying. The emergence of cyberbullying in recent literature is one of the trends that has developed in bullying discourse. This research aimed to explore this and other trends in bullying research over a ten year period (2003-2012), comparing South African, British, and international journals as well as South African and British media. Focus was given to the major themes that emerged in the various data sources, and the quantitative trends that developed from these themes. Of particular interest was how bullying is socially constructed through various media. Using a sequential exploratory design of mixed methods where the qualitative phase of analysis preceded the quantitative phase, 1047 articles were gathered and analysed. Of these, 231 articles were collected from the research journals; 431 from the South African media and 385 from the British media. Ten major themes were identified across all data sources, the results tabulated and quantified. The results indicated that research on bullying has followed specific trends over the past ten years which differ between South Africa and Britain. The trends appeared to be independent of media reports, yet research does draw on media for direction occasionally. Bullying has been socially constructed differently in South Africa and Britain, and the research suggested that public understanding may be more strongly linked to media than to journal articles. The findings therefore pointed to the fact that researchers in the field need to work on making their results known in order to shape the public’s understanding of a phenomenon affecting many children globally.
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Lian, Zi-Chun, and 連子淳. "Metrics for Judging an Author''s Academic Contribution from his Publications and Co-Authors." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15542974127884372610.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
電機工程學研究所
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There are several well-known methodologies for determining the ranking of authors. These methodologies could be classified into two major groups; one is single-authored index, in this group, it does not take into consideration the number of co-authors in one single publication; the other is multi-authored index. Since papers with multi-authors tend to get more citations, indexes in this group propose some solutions to evaluate a single author’s index alone, without other co-authors. This is the so called multi-authored problem. In this paper, we proposed a novel methodology for author ranking; we called it hex-index. We made improvements both in single-authored index and multi-authored index. In single-authored index, we have more resolution than the h-index, the most popular index for author ranking around the academic world. And in multi-authored index, we provide more reasonable measurements for the contribution of each author in one publication. In addition, our method not only could calculate an author’s index excluding all co-authors, but also could measure his or her index when excluding a portion of the co-authors. We collected data from DBLP and Google Scholar, including each author’s publications, co-authors and citation records. From this dataset, we sampled two hundred authors, and we discovered the fact that for authors with higher h-index, their hex-index would slightly bigger than hm-index, the famous multi-authored index.
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Kroupová, Kateřina. "Vliv zaměstnání studenta na akademické výsledky: meta-analýza." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-437993.
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Despite the extensive body of empirical research, the discussion on whether student employment impedes or improves educational outcomes has not been resolved. Using meta-analytic methods, we conduct a quantitative review of 861 effect estimates collected from 69 studies describing the relationship between student work experience and academic performance. After outlining the theo- retical mechanisms and methodological challenges of estimating the effect, we test whether publication bias permeates the literature concerning educational implications of student employment. We find that researchers report negative estimates more often than they should. However, this negative publication bias is not present in a subset of studies controlling for the endogeneity of student decision to take up employment. Furthermore, after correcting for the negative publication bias, we find that the student employment-education relationship is close to zero. Additionally, we examine heterogeneity of the estimates using Bayesian Model Averaging. Our analysis suggests that employment intensity and controlling for student permanent characteristics are the most important factors in explaining the heterogeneity. In particular, working long hours re- sults in systematically more negative effect estimates than not working at...
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Willis, Owen. "Like ships passing in the day : the interface between religion and international development in the programmes, publications and curricula of Canadian academic institutions." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1947.
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Although matters of faith, religion and spirituality are central to the lives of millions of people in the global South. and many faith based organizations are actively involved in development. few northern academics in the field of international development make explicit reference to religion's role in development. and, if they do, the subject is often subsumed under another category, such as culture. This study seeks to shed light on the interface between religion and international development in Canadian academic institutions: to what extent is the influence -- for good or ill-- of religion or development acknowledged in their programmes, publications, and curricula? This is accomplished by means of an analysis of references to religion in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (CJDS) and Canadian Development Reports as well as in the course offerings of International Development Studies (IDS) departments at Canadian universities. Findings show that only about 1% of article titles and 2% per cent of abstracts mention the subject of religion in its broadest definition over the twenfy five year history of the CJDS. Of 2,684 IDS courses offered (including courses cross-listed with Religious Studies departments), some 3% mention religion in their titles, and 8% in course descriptions. However, upon closer examination, only a handful of courses directly analyze the relationship between religion and development. Findings from this research are further interrogated in surveys and interviews with key informants, in order to uncover some of the reasons for what is perceived to be a lacuna in IDS teaching and research. Various recommendations are advanced: positivistic biases in academia need to be acknowledged, more research should be devoted towards an area currently understudied, and northern academics must be challenged to consider the religious reality of southern life, for, in Robert Chambers' words, "Whose reality counts?" Clearly the religious dimension of global life needs to be afforded a sharper focus in the programmes, publications and curricula of IDS departments at Canadian academic institutions.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.
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Satyanesan, Jessie. "The Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisitions program for India and the management of Indian language materials in the academic and research libraries in the United States." 1992. http://books.google.com/books?id=EwThAAAAMAAJ.
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Strydom, Machteld Christina. "Algoritmiese rangordebepaling van akademiese tydskrifte." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1319.
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Opsomming
Daar bestaan 'n behoefte aan 'n objektiewe maatstaf om die gehalte van
akademiese publikasies te bepaal en te vergelyk.
Hierdie navorsing het die invloed of reaksie wat deur 'n publikasie gegenereer
is uit verwysingsdata bepaal. Daar is van 'n iteratiewe algoritme gebruik
gemaak wat gewigte aan verwysings toeken.
In die Internetomgewing word hierdie benadering reeds met groot sukses
toegepas deur onder andere die PageRank-algoritme van die Google soekenjin.
Hierdie en ander algoritmes in die Internetomgewing is bestudeer om 'n
algoritme vir akademiese artikels te ontwerp. Daar is op 'n variasie van die
PageRank-algoritme besluit wat 'n Invloedwaarde bepaal. Die algoritme is
op gevallestudies getoets. Die empiriese studie dui daarop dat hierdie variasie
spesialisnavorsers se intu¨ıtiewe gevoel beter weergee as net die blote tel van
verwysings.
Abstract
Ranking of journals are often used as an indicator of quality, and is extensively
used as a mechanism for determining promotion and funding.
This research studied ways of extracting the impact, or influence, of a journal
from citation data, using an iterative process that allocates a weight to the
source of a citation.
After evaluating and discussing the characteristics that influence quality and
importance of research with specialist researchers, a measure called the Influence
factor was introduced, emulating the PageRankalgorithm used by
Google to rank web pages. The Influence factor can be seen as a measure
of the reaction that was generated by a publication, based on the number of
scientists who read and cited itA good correlation between the rankings produced by the Influence factor
and that given by specialist researchers were found.Mathematical Sciences
M.Sc. (Operasionele Navorsing)
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Bednářová, Hana. "Hypertext jako lingvistický pojem." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353831.
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The goal of this MA thesis is to capture how the term "hypertext" is comprehended especially in Czech linguistics. Close attention is paid to concepts from the area of the electronic hypertext realisation and to the related concepts from the field of literary studies. The relationship of the author and the reader in the case of production and reception of hypertexts is also taken into account. The topic of hypertextuality in contemporary culture is touched upon as well. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Bednářová, Hana. "Hypertext jako lingvistický pojem." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-340333.
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The goal of the master's thesis is to capture how the term hypertext is comprehended in Czech linguistics with respect to the broader context of foreign treatises. The attention is paid to the concepts from the area of text linguistics which are related to the phenomenon of hypertext: intertextuality, architextuality, pretext, and the possibility of understanding of hypertext as the highest language level is discussed. Attention is paid to the relationship of the author and the reader in the case of production and reception of hypertexts. Selectively is described hypertextuality in contemporary culture, especially fiction. Furthermore, the work focuses on the history of the use of the concept of hypertext and hypertext integration into the network theory.
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Kim, Minkyoung. "Dynamics of Information Diffusion." Phd thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13652.
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Real diffusion networks are complex and dynamic, since underlying social structures
are not only far-reaching beyond a single homogeneous system but also frequently
changing with the context of diffusion. Thus, studying topic-related diffusion across
multiple social systems is important for a better understanding of such realistic situations.
Accordingly, this thesis focuses on uncovering topic-related diffusion dynamics
across heterogeneous social networks in both model-driven and model-free ways.
We first conduct empirical studies for analyzing diffusion phenomena in real
world systems, such as new diffusion in social media and knowledge transfer in
academic publications. We observe that large diffusion is more likely attributed to
interactions between heterogeneous social networks as if they were in the same networks.
Thus, external influences from out-of-the-network sources, as observed in
previous work, need to be explained with the context of interactions between heterogeneous
social networks. This observation motivates our new conceptual framework
for cross-population diffusion, which extends the traditional diffusion mechanism to
a more flexible and general one.
Second, we propose both model-driven and model-free approaches to estimate global
trends of information diffusion. Based on our conceptual framework, we propose a
model-driven approach which allows internal influence to reach heterogeneous populations
in a probabilistic way. This approach extends a simple and robust mass action
diffusion model by incorporating the structural connectivity and heterogeneity
of real-world networks. We then propose a model-free approach using informationtheoretic
measures with the consideration of both time-delay and memory effects
on diffusion. In contrast to the model-driven approach, this model-free approach
does not require any assumptions on dynamic social interactions in the real world,
providing the benefits of quantifying nonlinear dynamics of complex systems.
Finally, we compare our model-driven and model-free approaches in accordance
with different context of diffusion. This helps us to obtain a more comprehensive understanding
of topic-related diffusion patterns. Both approaches provide a coherent
macroscopic view of global diffusion in terms of the strength and directionality of
influences among heterogeneous social networks. We find that the two approaches
provide similar results but with different perspectives, which in conjunction can help
better explain diffusion than either approach alone. They also suggest alternative options
as either or both of the approaches can be used appropriate to the real situations
of different application domains.
We expect that our proposed approaches provide ways to quantify and understand
cross-population diffusion trends at a macro level. Also, they can be applied
to a wide range of research areas such as social science, marketing, and even neuroscience,
for estimating dynamic influences among target regions or systems.