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Russell, Alan Patrick, 2/400853
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/428311Surname: Russell. Given Name(s) or Initials: Alan Patrick. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 2/400853. Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: K 400. Division Enquiry: NSW. Rank: PTE. Unit: 12th Pltn. D Coy 3rd Battalion RAR Korea327067
Item: [2016.0049.60573] "Russell, Alan Patrick, 2/400853
Petitions, Parliament and the public : an analysis of the changing nature of corruption, 1868-1883
No full textThe generally pure British Parliamentary Elections of the twentieth century stand out in stark contrast to the excessive and thoroughly corrupt election campaigns that followed the first Reform Act of 1832. The fifty years in which this change took place is often characterized as a period of continuous attack upon, and the final elimination of, a hard core of venal electors. A glance at the statistics of electoral corruption reveals, however, that this is not the case. Not only did the concentrated programme of electoral legislation between 1867 and 1880 fail to extinguish electoral malpractices, but the 1880 General Election was regarded by many as more corrupt and expensive than any in the preceding thirty years. Such an outcome, after legislation which included the second Reform Act and the Ballot Act is, to say the least, surprising. This thesis attempts to examine the reasons for this state of affairs. It seeks to find out whether corruption merely remained static and unaffected by legislation, or whether the changing circumstances that faced corrupt election managers, whilst not ending venality, forced an adaption of techniques to the changed situation. It approaches the overall problem by examining in detail the effectiveness of the institutional machinery designed to combat corruption, the reaction of the electorate to the new legislation that was said to fight venality, and finally by taking each electoral province and discussing the effects of changing public attitudes upon its operation.The investigation concludes by suggesting that the reduction of corruption in elections was more a result of a change in public attitudes than of any other single factor. The growth of party organizations and the demise of the power of the individual party manager and candidate is attributed to the increasing independence of the urban voter from the sort of dependence upon the local magnates that characterized rural elections both before and during the period examined. it is concluded that public opinion and legislation probably had a reciprocal effect on each other, and that the legislation of 1883 and 1885 which at least tackled corruption in a realistic manner was only successful because of the climate of opinion that for the first time enabled the legislation to be implemented effectively at a local level.</p
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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