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Caribbean Report 29-01-2003
No full text1. Headlines (00:29)2. Trade Unions representing BWIA workers reject the Company’s decision to retrench one quarter of the six hundred plus employees. Conrad Aleong, Chief Executive Officer says severance packages will be significant. However, Christopher Abraham, ACAWU President and Jagdeo Jagroop, President of CATTU promise to challenge the decision. BBC’s Ken Richards reports (00:30-04:30)3. Knowlson Gift, Foreign Affairs Minister of Trinidad and Tobago meets with his British counterpart Jack Straw concerning a travel advisory based upon perceived terrorist activity. Donald Anderson, MP of the governing British Labour Party believes that the issue may be tricky for the Foreign Office to deal with (04:31-05:51)4. President George Bush requests fifteen billion dollars from the US Congress to help combat HIV/AIDS in those neediest in Africa and the Caribbean. Dr. Denzil Douglas, the CARICOM leader spearheading the fight against HIV/AIDS welcomes the initiative as does the United Nations. Pete Ninvalle reports (05:52-07:02)5. The St. Lucia government intends to fight any domestic telephone rate increases within the OECS by Cable and Wireless as it battles on in an open market. Felix Finisterre, Communications, Works and Public Utilities Minister says that though it appears legal, the Company will have to justify such increases. Pete Ninvalle reports (07:03-09:05)6. There’s sharp reaction to barriers being erected in and around Buxton Village, Guyana, a major flash point for racial and criminal activity. However, Randolph Blair, Chairman of the Buxton National Democratic Council says village authorities were not consulted and this will deepen the racial divide. Dr. Roger Luncheon, Head of the Presidential Secretariat says restriction of movement is lamentable but unavoidable. Colin Smith reports (09:06-11:21)7. In sport, FIFA President Sepp Blatter launches an investigation into voting irregularities allegedly involving Caribbean delegates. In cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) will raise concerns about the scheduling of World Cup matches in politically volatile Zimbabwe and in Kenya with its alleged terrorist organizations. Sir Clyde Walcott, former President of the ICC and the West Indies Cricket Board is asked about a West Indies response to security issues in host countries (11:22-14:44)8. British nudists are invited to take part in a world record attempt in Jamaica for the greatest number of couples getting married naked. At least fifty couples are expected to tie the knot at Hedonism III Resort, Jamaica. Ken Richards reports (14:45-15:31
Caribbean Report 07-04-1997
No full textIn Trinidad and Tobago another member of the opposition People’s National Movement has defected to the government. Next, the United States may soon find it easier to get the Dominican Republic to return suspected criminals who commit crimes in the US and then flee home to the Caribbean. Next, plans have been approved by the Dutch Antilles parliament to save Curacao based Antillean Airlines. Next, in Haiti there was a low voter turnout on Sunday for the local elections. A US observer describes the situation as a lost opportunity to boost democracy. Next, talks are ahead in Tobago in preparation for the upcoming external negotiations for a Lome successor agreement. Next, a US cardinal hopes that next year’s papal visit to Cuba will enhance the role of the church there. Next, the crisis over Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence and the Commonwealth’s response at the time are among secret and restricted files that are now being made available to the public. Concluding, a row is continuing between the Antiguan Cricket Association and two newspaper journalist covering the fourth test in St Johns. They were again evicted today from the press box by Antiguan police after defying an Antiguan Cricket Association band on them.1. Headlines (00:00-00:28)2. Another PNM defector joins Trinidad and Tobago's governing UNC party. Errol Pilgrim reports (00:29-03:39)3. In the Dominican Republic laws are being introduced which are intended to soften laws which forbid the extradition of Dominican citizens to the United States. Leslie Goffe reports (03:40-05:37)4. Antillean Airlines to cut more than a hundred jobs in a bid to survive and fine-tuning a regional approach. Conrad Aleong, President of ALM is interviewed (05:39-08:26)5. Low voter turnout for elections in Haiti (08:27-09:18)6. A successor agreement to Lome IV. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General is interviewed (08:27-09:18)7. A papal visit to Cuba next year may enhance the role of the church there. Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston is interviewed (12:22-14:068. Previously closed files from the archives of the Commonwealth Secretariat for the 1964-1966 period could now be accessed by scholars (14:07-14:31)9. 8. A row is brewing between the Antigua Cricket Association and two newspaper journalist (14:32-15:30
Caribbean Report 21-09-2001
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:28)2. Countries of the Americas pass a tough new resolution against terrorism. The United States Coastguard is stepping up its presence in the Caribean particularly around Puerto Rico where it maintains a Naval Base on the tiny Satellite Island of Vieques. Shannon Novak reports (00:29-03:13)3. Antigua and Barbuda is to give its financial regulatory authorities the right to both monitor and investigate terrorism. Meanwhile, the Bahamas Attorney General Carl Bethel has been in London for talks with the British government on how to fight financial crime. In the Cayman Islands, the positions of the big two money earners are reversed. Their financial services is number one and tourism second. Attorney General of the Bahamas Carl Bethel, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham and Tourism Minister McKeeva Bush are interviewed. Bertrand Niles reports (03:14-08:39)4. BWee puts a figure on its loses and calls for government support. Meanwhile, the United States Congress is to vote today over a US$15 billion government aid package for their airlines. As insurance companies run for cover under the strain of massive payouts British Finance Minister Gordon Brown says that the government will absorb the financial cost for British carriers for thirty days against third party war terrorism. Long before the attacks Caribbean leaders had plan to have a tourism summit in the Bahamas but according to the Bahamian Prime Minister that summit will now not be taking place. Chief Executive Office of BWIA Conrad Aleong and Tourism Minister for St. Kitts and Nevis Dwyer Astaphan are interviewed. Tony Fraser reports (08:40-13:42)5. In New York, the number of people dead or missing, most probably dead is well over six thousand. About two thousand of them are from sixty countries around the world. Rosie Hayes reports (13:43-15:25
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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