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    Sleeping beauties and the citation dynamics in the network of scientific papers

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    Nella rete delle citazioni scientifiche ogni nodo rappresenta un articolo, e ogni linea una citazione. Analizzando come gli articoli siano in grado di attrarre citazioni nel tempo, spesso si incontrano lavori che vengono ignorati per anni prima di ricevere la dovuta attenzione. Nella tesi si analizzano sistematicamente questi casi di impatto ritardato nel contesto degli attuali modelli di dinamica delle citazioni

    A Qualitative Investigation of Women Academics' Citation Experiences Through a Marketing Lens

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    This qualitative research aims to provide a unique angle to examine and contribute to a controversial topic—gender gap in citation. Some research has concluded that women tend to cite themselves less than their male colleagues do, while other research has argued that the gender gap in self-citation does not exist at. This study fills the gap by taking an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach to explore how women academics experience and make decisions of whether to cite themselves or not. The nature of academia requires academic researchers to create and disseminate knowledge. From a marketing perspective, academics are like entrepreneurs because they must generate and market their own work. By investigating the motivations and tensions around self-citation using in-depth interviews, this study also explores female academics’ self-branding strategies and their current career environment in the academy. This study not only serves academics by investigating a mundane but influential aspect of academic life, but also helps non-academic stakeholders, such as policy makers and academic administrators, by providing the language and framework to understand women’s career strategies

    NLP Driven Models for Automatically Generating Survey Articles for Scientific Topics.

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    This thesis presents new methods that use natural language processing (NLP) driven models for summarizing research in scientific fields. Given a topic query in the form of a text string, we present methods for finding research articles relevant to the topic as well as summarization algorithms that use lexical and discourse information present in the text of these articles to generate coherent and readable extractive summaries of past research on the topic. In addition to summarizing prior research, good survey articles should also forecast future trends. With this motivation, we present work on forecasting future impact of scientific publications using NLP driven features.PhDComputer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/113407/1/rahuljha_1.pd

    Sleep, watch, and extended cognition in Spenserian epic and Shakespearean drama / Slaap, wake en gesitueerde cognitie in de epiek van Spenser en het toneelwerk van Shakespeare

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    Stephanie Schierhuber studied sleep in early modern literature and drama. She found that sleepers use cognitive extension to outsource their attentional capacity during sleep in order to mitigate vulnerability. Her research provides a means for literary scholars to interpret sleep and contributes to the development of extended mind theory. [Full abstracts within the thesis are in English and Dutch

    From the classic to the subversive : a feminist approach to Disney’s adaptations of snow white and the seven dwarfs, sleeping beauty and beauty and the beast, Angela Carter’s the bloody chamber and other stories and Emma Donoghue’s kissing the witch : old tales in new skins

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    Starting from the stories told from words of mouth by old female storytellers, until the blossoming of imprinted tales back in the 18th and 19th centuries, the genre of fairy tales has been highly influenced by different historical periods and social conventions. Canonical writers such as Charles Perrault or the Grimm Brothers sought to create original stories and reformulate previous tales to impose their own ideology about politics or gender. That rewriting strategy characterises the genre and it opens the path for its continuous reassessment. For that, along the 20th century, part of the Postmodern and feminist movements focus on revising the form and content of fairy tales. Following the postmodern key points about reviewing and revisiting all previous knowledge and the feminist approach to gender and female questions, Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) and Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (1997) aim at reshaping the image of the female self and challenging patriarchal values embedded in classic tales. Meanwhile, fairy tales witnessed another radical renewal: in 1937, Walt Disney released its first animated fairy tale film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which laid the first stone for the prestigious name it has today. Other adaptations such as Sleeping Beauty (1945) or Beauty and the Beast (1991) are some of Disney’s landmarks in the memory of many children and young adults. However, does Disney reconsider any ideology or traditional value in these adaptations as Carter and Donoghue do in their collections? Bearing this question in mind and following feminist postulates, the present dissertation delves into nine different works divided in three groups: Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast (1991); Angela Carter’s “The Snow Child”, “The Lady of the House of Love” and “The Tiger’s Bride”; and Emma Donoghue’s “The Tale of the Apple”, “The Tale of the Needle” and “The Tale of the Rose”. It intends to compare and analyse the representation of traditional values and social assumptions regarding women, female objectification, passivity and female rivalry. Such analysis will allow to underscore Carter and Donoghue’s feminist subversion in their collections and to expose Disney’s patriarchal and old-fashioned values within their productions and how this has affected their main audiences: children.Desde las voces de las antiguas cuentacuentos, hasta el auge de los cuentos escritos durante los siglos XVIII y XIX, los diferentes momentos históricos y las convenciones sociales han causado un gran impacto en el género de los cuentos de hadas. Escritores canónicos como Charles Perrault o los Hermanos Grimm trataron de reformular antiguos cuentos y crear nuevas historias en las que reflejar su propia ideología política o de género. Esta estrategia de reescritura es característica del género y, además, abre paso a continuas revisiones del mismo. Por ello, durante el siglo XX parte de los movimientos postmodernistas y feministas replantean la forma y el contenido de los cuentos de hadas. Partiendo de los elementos clave del postmodernismo –reformular y replantear todos los conocimientos previos–, y de las teorías feministas sobre cuestiones de género, las obras The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) de Angela Carter y Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins de Emma Donoghue tratan de remodelar la imagen de la mujer y cuestionar los valores patriarcales normalizados en los cuentos. Al mismo tiempo, los cuentos han sido testigos de otros cambios radicales: en 1937 Walt Disney estrena su primera adaptación de un cuento en dibujos animados, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, lo que supuso el principio del imperio Disney. Sleeping Beauty (1945) o Beauty and the Beast (1991) son otros ejemplos icónicos de Disney que han marcado la infancia de muchas generaciones. Sin embargo, ¿ha reconsiderado Disney algún aspecto ideológico o valor tradicional en estas adaptaciones como hacen Carter o Donoghue en sus reescrituras? Teniendo en cuenta las cuestiones anteriores y los postulados feministas, esta investigación analiza nueve obras diferentes divididas en tres grupos: las películas de Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Sleeping Beauty y Beauty and the Beast (1991), los cuentos “The Snow Child”, “The Lady of the House of Love” y “The Tiger’s Bride” de Angela Carter y los de Emma Donoghue, “The Tale of the Apple”, “The Tale of the Needle” y “The Tale of the Rose”. Con ello se pretende comparar y analizar la representación de los valores tradicionales y las consideraciones sociales sobre la mujer, la cosificación femenina, la pasividad y la rivalidad entre estas. Dicho análisis permitirá tanto destacar la subversión feminista de las escritoras Donoghue y Carter, como revelar los valores patriarcales y anticuados que muestran las producciones de Disney y, así, demostrar cómo ello ha afectado a su principal audiencia: los niños.Máster Universitario en Investigación en Literaturas Anglófonas e Hispánicas Contemporáneas (M181
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