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Caribbean Report 06-02-1992
No full textThe decision to relax the trade embargo against Haiti by the Bush administration is defended by Elliot Abrams, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs. Legal council to ousted President Jean Betrand Aristide believes that the longer President Aristide remains out of office, chances for his re-instatement are diminished. There are reports on the repatriation of Haitian refugees and views expressed by lawyers of the United Nations High Commission for refugees. Finally the 40th anniversary of the reign of the Queen in Britain is reported on.1. Headlines (00:00-00:35)2. Interview with U.S. assistant secretary of state for Latin American Affairs, Elliot Abrams who defends the Bush administration decision to relax the trade embargo against Haiti, as it had failed to achieve its stated objective (00:36-05:13)3. Report on the view of the diminishing chances of a return to power of ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide, as expressed by Michael Barnes, former chairman of the U.S.House sub-committee on the western hemisphere and legal council to President Aristide (05:1-08:42)4. Report on the views held by lawyers of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees that the United States did not contravene the 1951 Convention by repatriating Haitian refugees, but the Geneva based agency is urging the United States to stop the return of Haitians on Human Rights grounds. Interview with Shawn Chetty, Deputy Director of the division of International protection of the U.N. Refugee Commission is aired and further reports are made on the continued repatriation of Haitian refugees (13:03-14:58)5. Report on the observation of the 40th anniversary of the reign of the Queen in Britian and views aired of United Kingdom and Commonwealth citizens on the meaning of the monarchy, including that of Sir Shridath Ramphal, former Commonwealth secretary General as well as the views of the editor of the London based Caribbean Times newspaper (13:03-14:58
Caribbean Report 07-02-1992
No full textJean Bertrand Aristide, ousted Haitian President, express indignation at the inability of the OAS to remove Haiti's military commander and contrasting views of U.S. officials are aired on the Haitian political situation. The Dominican Republic foreign Minister express the view that the meeting of the EC-ACP General Assembly carded to take place in Dominican Republic was not the forum for Jean Bertrand Aristide to air his views, while the newspaper in Cuba charge that the United States was using strong-arm tactics in dealing with Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay. There is a brief report on the flooding caused by surging tides in Cuba. Trinidad and Tobago is the second CARICOM country to remove the passport requirement for CARICOM national entering the country. British parliamentarians express sympathy to Caribean rum producers who are experiencing difficulty getting in to the French market and Chris Eubank, World Boxing Organization super middle weight champion is involved in an accident which leaves a road workman dead.1. Headlines (00:00-00:51)2. Airing of views of exiled leader Jean Bertrand Aristide on the inability of the OAS to remove Haiti's military commander, Raoul Cedros (00:52-02:26)3. Interviews are aired with Elliot Abrams, former assistant secretary of state for Latin American Affairs during the Reagan Presidency, who says Aristide has to shoulder some of the blame. Contrasting views of Democratic congressman Charles Rangel who sees the failure to return Aristide to office as an unwillingness to support Haiti's fledgling attempt to establish democracy. They express their views on the relaxation of the U.S. embargo against Haiti, while Charles Rangal express dissappointment on the silence of the Caribbean region and what he says is the vacuum of moral indignation (02:27-08:30)4. Report on another blow to Aristide by the Dominican Republic who is against him speaking at an EC-ACP General Assembly to be held in the Domiican Republic, where he was previoulsy invited to make an address (08:31-09:23)5. Report on the charge by the editorial in Cuba's newspapers that the U.S. was using strong-arm tactics with Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay, while Lionel Martin reports from Havana. Also reported on Cuba is the flooding and destruction caused by surging tides (09:24-11:10)6. Report on the removal of passport requirements for CARICOM nationals in Trinidad and Tobago, second after the CARICOM country of Grenada to do so (11:11-11:52)7. Report on the sympathy expressed by some British parliamentarians to Caribbean rum producers who has had difficulty getting into the French market. The French government is accused of protectionism and failure to adhere to the Lome Convention, an issue addressed by British labour M.P. Derrick Enright, whose opinions finds favour with Mark Lennox Boyd, parliamentary undersecretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs (11:53-13:23)8. Report on the accident in which World Boxing Organisation super middleweight champion Chris Eubank is involved in which leaves a road workman dead (13:24-14:03)9. Hugh Croskill summarises and ends report (14:04-14:56
Caribbean Report 11-07-1990
No full textUnrelated music and distorted audio at the beginning of the report.Reactions are still coming in to the recently announced initiative by the US president, George Bush, for partial relief of Latin American and Caribbean debt and their inclusion in a North American free trade area. The consequences of a free trade agreement between the US and Mexico for the Caribbean countries is also explored. Following the Financial News, in its fight for free and fair elections in Guyana, the Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD) is supporting moves by the opposition parties to form a common slate for the upcoming elections and urging the Commonwealth Secretary General to send an urgent mission to Guyana. Cheddi Jagan, opposition leader, is also meeting with Washington's senators and congressmen to ensure that an observer team led by Jimmy Carter is present during the upcoming Guyanese elections. The report concludes with a general strike being called in Haiti by the Unity Assembly to protest against the public reappearance of two former military leaders, Roger Lafontant and Williams Regala.1. Headlines (00:00-00:46)2. Elliot Abrams, former Assistant US Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs expresses concerns for the Caribbean should Mexico join the US free trade area (00:47-04:08)3. Financial News. Excerpt of speech from US president, George Bush on the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations (04:09-05:41)4. Cheddi Jagan, Guyana's opposition leader, visits Washington on the campaign trail in his quest for free and fair elections. Sharief Khan reports from Georgetown and Cheddi Jagan is interviewed (05:42-11:08)5. General strike shuts down Haiti as people protest the return of former military leaders. Michael Norton reports (11:09-14:55
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
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