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My Last Season
No full textAleena Alexander is a high school senior who for the last 4 years has had the same dream of winning a State Championship and this film describes her journey of trying to accomplish her goal during her last year. Her and her team have to fight tirelessly against team after team, until they finally make it to the championship and after a rough battle between her school and the other, she finally wins the state championship and she is able to graduate and move on into college having accomplished their goal
The Case for Resource Reallocation: A Decade of TXST Library Circulation Trends
No full textCleaned TXST Library circulation dataset (FY2015–FY2024) prepared for the 2026 TXST Open Datathon. Includes circulation summaries by year, type, patron group, and location, plus IPEDS enrollment data (2019–2024) used to compute circulation per student
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
He is not one of U.S.: partisanship, perceptions of anti-Americanism & their consequences for democracy
No full textAmerican identity has always been contested, but it has become deeply intertwined with contemporary partisan politics in the United States (U.S.). Debates over who truly counts as “American” and what values define the nation are not new, but in an era of intensifying affective polarization, social sorting, and rising threats and harassment targeting public officials, these debates can shape the lens through which citizens view their fellow Americans, evaluate political elites, and form their political attitudes. Yet we know relatively little about who and what ordinary citizens view as threatening to national identity within the United States and how those judgments matter for democracy. This dissertation addresses that gap by investigating (1) how citizens define anti-Americanism, (2) which Americans are most likely to perceive it, and (3) how those perceptions shape inter- and intra-party support for hostility, anti-democratic behavior, and political violence. Using a mixed-methods design that includes exploratory studies, national surveys, and pre-registered survey experiments, I show that partisans hold different understandings of anti-Americanism. Democrats tend to emphasize violations of democratic norms and civil liberties, whereas Republicans focus more on loyalty, patriotism, and respect for the nation. Beyond partisanship, psychological and political orientations—system justification, populism, affective polarization, and social-dominance orientation—consistently increase perceived threat to national identity, revealing patterns in who is likely to perceive anti-Americanism. I further demonstrate that out-party elites who violate national identity norms drive perceptions of anti-Americanism, yet, on average, do not increase support for violence or anti-democratic attitudes toward the out-party. In contrast, I find that partisans socially sanction co-partisan supporters of deviant elites—whose rhetoric violates their party’s vision of America—by socially distancing themselves. These patterns show how national identity threats can harm intra-party cohesion without necessarily escalating to violence. The dissertation concludes by considering the implications of these dynamics for inter- and intra-party relations and for democracy in the United States.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-12-01The student, Aleena Khan, accepted the attached license on 2025-12-01 at 13:17.The student, Aleena Khan, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2025-12-01 at 13:22.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2025-12-03 at 10:37.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #22999 on 2026-02-19 at 18:46:0
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: Down the Rabbit Hole
No full textA young girl, age seven, wakes up one more morning to find her limbs have grown dramatically overnight. Her arm, once a mere ten inches, now extends fifteen feet from her body, while her hands have shrunk to a size similar to that of a blueberry. Her leg, once a comfortable few feet from her body, has narrowed to just centimeters in width. Amid her confusion, she recalls a situation similar to her own in a story she once read about a girl who follows a rabbit down a hole: Lewis Caroll’s popular children’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. British psychiatrist Dr. John Todd noticed this same resemblance during the 1950s when six of his adolescent patients came to him complaining of migraines and epileptic episodes, simultaneously reporting symptoms parallel to Alice’s experiences.Temple University. College of Liberal ArtsPsychology and Neuroscienc
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