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P. Berol. 21243 : textual criticism, interpretation and cultural context
Get PDFPapyrus P. Berol. 21243 stands as a landmark in the written record of the mysterious Greek magical papyri. The Berlin text is one of the oldest extant magical papyri, dating to the Augustan period, and was found in mummy cartonnage at Abusir-el-Melek; it is also one of the earliest surviving fragments from a magical handbook. Undoubtedly the spells recorded reflect magical charms from an earlier date, and thus throughout this paper I shall refer to P. Berol. 21243 as a late Hellenistic magical text. Two columns containing three spells, two erotic love-charms and one headache spell, are visible on the papyrus. The language of the charms is often formal and classical with a few epic forms thrown in here and there for metrical purposes; traces of dactylic hexameter and iambic trimeter appear in both columns. The entire text is written in a poetic and often literary style, including the headache charm at the end of the papyrus. The absence of magical words which are so frequent in later Greek magical texts is also striking. Column 1 offers us a glimpse of language common in later magical texts as well as motifs familiar from Greek literature. The overall effect of such composition is unique and may reflect the early date of the papyrus, a period in the written record of magical texts when the Greek and Egyptian elements had been syncretized but still remained distinct within the spells. The Greek tone of lines 5-14 may also suggest that at the time the potential audience for the magical spells in Greek Egypt was not as assimilated as in later centuries. Moreover, the spells may reflect a period in ancient magical tradition when magical charms resembled earlier metrical incantations. The love-charm of Column 1 concludes with a dramaturgic recitation in a distinctly Egyptian narrative pattern. Column 2 is more Egyptian in tone throughout. This section highlights the syncretistic nature of P. Berol. 21243; the spells exhibit ethnic influences from both the Egyptian and Greek magical traditions. Specific Egyptian myths are called to mind by objects mentioned and the various gods involved in the recitation, yet Hellenic qualities, albeit of a more subdued and syncretized nature than those in Column 1, are still present. The first spell, a love-charm, employs Egyptian myths and also a hymn to Helios that includes threats against a divinity. The second spell against headache is Egyptian throughout. These distinct Egyptian qualities of Column 2 serve to place the papyrus as a whole in a late Hellenistic magical context, an early and transitional time in the production of the surviving Greek magical papyriClassic
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Βιβλιοκρισία:A. Madgearu, Byzantine Military Organisation on the Danube, 10th-12th Centuries (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 22), Brill, Leiden – Boston 2013, σελ. 212, ISBN: 978-90-04-21243-5
Get PDFΒιβλιοκρισία:A. Madgearu, Byzantine Military Organisation on the Danube, 10th-12th Centuries (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 22), Brill, Leiden – Boston 2013, σελ. 212, ISBN: 978-90-04-21243-
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