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Ancient North Arabian (Safaitic) Inscriptions: Short messages from the Jordan Badia
Get PDFThe primary aim of this article is to present newly found ancient North Arabian inscriptions discovered in two locations within the Jordan Badia. This paper presents the first evidence that the “Safaic people/ Safaitic tribes” looked to the god Lt (Allat) as the queen of the earth. his article also tries to explain the meaning of the verb ʾṣḫ, which has been found in only a few inscriptions in Ancient North Arabian. The article concludes that the majority of verbs in Safaitic relate to sadness, grief, death, and worry
and that we must translate inscriptions by understanding the meaning of the entire work and not just translate the component part
New epigraphica from Jordan II: three Safaitic-Greek partial bilingual inscriptions
Get PDFThis paper publishes three new Safaitic-Greek bilingual inscriptions. One of them is the first to contain a translation of the Old Arabic prose into Greek. In addition to their decipherment and translation, the paper offers a few grammatical observations on the Arabic and Greek and remark
Remarks on the etymon trḥ in the Safaitic inscriptions
Get PDFThis paper discusses four new Safaitic inscriptions from Jordan. Two of the funerary inscriptions shed light on the enigmatic grieving term trḥ, which could have both a passive meaning “perished” (lit. grieved for) and an active meaning “grieving intensely”
Ḥ R B Y H D in Ancient North Arabian Inscriptions (Safaitic)
Get PDFThe research aims to highlight a recently discovered Safaitic inscription from Jordan. This inscription was transliterated to classical Arabic and the personal names, verbs and term mentioned in the text was studied and compared with other Semitic languages. The importance of this study lies in the publication of this yet unpublished inscription. The inscription contains the term Ḥ R B Y H D. The inscription can be dated between the middle of the first century B.C. to the mid-first century A.D., because the location of the inscriptions with the term and the date of the nearest war involving Jews. This inscription is the second instance that the word ḏ-y-l which denotes tribe affiliation appears
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
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