On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge

Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000-2007 period this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students contribute to about a third of the publication output of the province, with doctoral students in the natural and medical sciences being present in a higher proportion of papers published than their colleagues of the social sciences and humanities. Collaboration is an important component of this socialization: disciplines in which student collaboration is higher are also those in which doctoral students are the most involved in peer-reviewed publications. In terms of scientific impact, papers co-signed by doctorate students obtain significantly lower citation rates than other Quebec papers, except in natural sciences and engineering. Finally, this paper shows that involving doctoral students in publications is positively linked with degree completion and ulterior career in research.Comment: 41 pages, 7 figures, forthcoming in Scientometric

\u3ci\u3eHoplistoscelis Sordidus\u3c/i\u3e (Heteroptera: Nabidae) in Canada

Hoplistoscelis sordidus is recorded for the first time from Canada. The distribution of the species, its establishment in Canada, and its bionomics are discussed. Characters are given that distinguish Hoplistoscelis from all other eastern Canadian genera of Nabinae. The potential role of the genus as a biological control agent is also briefly outlined

On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact

This paper analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual papers. Using all the papers published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree of interdisciplinarity of a given paper as the percentage of its cited references made to journals of other disciplines. We show that, although for all disciplines combined there is no clear correlation between the level of interdisciplinarity of papers and their citation rates, there are nonetheless some disciplines in which a higher level of interdisciplinarity is related to a higher citation rates. For other disciplines, citations decline as interdisciplinarity grows. One characteristic is visible in all disciplines: highly disciplinary and highly interdisciplinary papers have a low scientific impact. This suggests that there might be an optimum of interdisciplinarity beyond which the research is too dispersed to find its niche and under which it is too mainstream to have high impact. Finally, the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact is highly determined by the citation characteristics of the disciplines involved: papers citing citation intensive disciplines are more likely to be cited by those disciplines and, hence, obtain higher citation scores than papers citing non citation intensive disciplines.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Forthcoming in JASIS

Controlling for the effects of information in a public goods discrete choice model

This paper develops a reduced form method of controlling for differences in information sets of subjects in public good discrete choice models, using stated preference data. The main contribution of our method comes from accounting for the effect of information provided during a survey on the mean and the variance of individual-specific scale parameters. In this way we incorporate both scale heterogeneity as well as observed and unobserved preference heterogeneity to investigate differences across and within information treatments. Our approach will also be useful to researchers who want to combine stated preference data sets while controlling for scale differences. We illustrate our approach using the data from a discrete choice experiment study of a biodiversity conservation program and find that the mean of individual-specific scale parameters and its variance in the sample is sensitive to the information set provided to the respondents

The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor and papers' citations in the digital age

Historically, papers have been physically bound to the journal in which they were published but in the electronic age papers are available individually, no longer tied to their respective journals. Hence, papers now can be read and cited based on their own merits, independently of the journal's physical availability, reputation, or Impact Factor. We compare the strength of the relationship between journals' Impact Factors and the actual citations received by their respective papers from 1902 to 2009. Throughout most of the 20th century, papers' citation rates were increasingly linked to their respective journals' Impact Factors. However, since 1990, the advent of the digital age, the strength of the relation between Impact Factors and paper citations has been decreasing. This decrease began sooner in physics, a field that was quicker to make the transition into the electronic domain. Furthermore, since 1990, the proportion of highly cited papers coming from highly cited journals has been decreasing, and accordingly, the proportion of highly cited papers not coming from highly cited journals has also been increasing. Should this pattern continue, it might bring an end to the use of the Impact Factor as a way to evaluate the quality of journals, papers and researchers.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure

Surveying the Stigma: How the PLHIV Stigma Index acts as a validated framework to measure healthcare discrimination and how it can be adapted to quantify mental health stigma

The PLHIV Stigma Index is an ongoing, international study conducted by and for people living with HIV to measure the stigmatization that people living with HIV experience. As a model that has been proven successful in translating to targeted advocacy campaigns, this paper theorizes on how this Stigma Index could be broadened to capture other aspects of healthcare discrimination. With a growing demand for mental health support and a critically underdeveloped mental healthcare framework, understanding the stigma and discrimination that exist for people living with depression is a good place to start. Using mixed methods analysis from existing literature and expert interviews, this study dives into the feasibility of and demand for the development of a depression stigma analysis tool. Despite the large number of experimental design based metrics for this, there is a gap in the existing literature that lies in peer-to-peer qualitative analysis. This paper explores the existing model of the PLHIV Stigma Index, depression stigma, the comparison between depression and HIV, the need for a stigma analytical tool in mental health, the ways that the PLHIV Stigma Index could inform such a tool, and the key considerations of this kind of plan. Finally, tentative recommendations for future policy, advocacy and research are made

Tensor product of torsion free C(n)-modules of finite degree and finite dimensional modules.

It is known that every torsion free Cn-module of finite degree is completely reducible. In this thesis, we provide a formula for the decomposition of the tensor product of any simple torsion free Cn-module of finite degree with any simple finite dimensional Cn-module.Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2006 .L37. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0334. Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006

The Simultaneous Book: Women\u27s Writing in Contemporary Art

Novels written by women authors who don’t adhere to the classification “visual artist” are nonetheless gaining momentum in today\u27s contemporary art world. Yet works by authors such as Chris Kraus or Catherine Millet are often not recognized as artist’s novels because their authors are not or/and do not consider themselves to be visual artists. I contend that we can usefully situate their work within the genre of the artist’s novel by addressing how they invent artistic postures and artistic alter-egos within the autofictional worlds of their texts. My dissertation The Simultaneous Book proposes to open up the definition of the artist’s novel to include novels written by woman writers whose practice can be situated at the intersection of conceptual writing, performance art, and autofiction. The Simultaneous Book investigates how certain novels written by women authors who have been, historically, refused classification within the tradition of “serious literature,” can now be embraced under the rubric of the “artist’s novel.” I contend that these “artist’s novels” grow out of an understanding of the practice of art writing as écriture féminine. Thus, in The Simultaneous Book, the category of the “artist’s novel” and the practice of art writing as women’s writing both function as a sort of refuge for formerly marginalized literary practices, while pointing subtly towards the changing role of patriarchy in the literary and artistic fields

Alien Registration- Lariviere, Jules (Rumford, Oxford County)

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