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This is Her Place Episode 4: Bridging the Gap: Alison Comish Thorne & Karen Kwan
Get PDFHow do we work with people we disagree with? How do we stand up for causes while also building relationships?In this episode, we talk about two women who were gifted with an almost uncanny ability to create bridges with people who thought and felt differently than they did: Alison Comish Thorne, Professor Emerita at Utah State University and a civic leader and community activist Karen Kwan, a current member of the Utah House of Representatives from District 34, which covers Taylorsville, Murrary, Millcreek, and a bit of West Valley, also a community advocate and an associate professor of psychology at Salt Lake Community College.
Both women focused on women\u27s issues, including the ERA. Both could have felt like outsiders in their own communities, and at times they did. But they also dedicated themselves to building bridges with determined persistence, and often in the face of steep odds
Leave The Dishes In The Sink
No full textAlison Thorne provides a small-town Utah perspective on the progressive social movements that in the mid to late twentieth century dramatically affected American society. A born activist, Thorne has fought for women's rights, educational reform in public schools and universities, the environment, peace, and the war on poverty.Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-273) and index.Print version record.Alison Thorne provides a small-town Utah perspective on the progressive social movements that in the mid to late twentieth century dramatically affected American society. A born activist, Thorne has fought for women's rights, educational reform in public schools and universities, the environment, peace, and the war on poverty.Electronic reproduction.Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.digitizedJSTO
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
Letter dated 7 October 1973 from Wynne and Alison Thorne to Lorenzo and Zilla Richards
No full textLetter dated 7 October 1973 from Wynne and Alison Thorne to Lorenzo and Zilla Richards, responding to Lorenzo\u27s note of 25 September 1973 regarding not making contact when they were in Logan; Alison typed the response and Wynne added handwritten note; both were faculty at Utah State University%5 E. 3rd North Logan, Utah 8^321 Oct. ?, 1973 Dear Ren and Zilla, Ae were sorry to have missed you when you came. Dave and Allie said you had been here, and there was also a note in the newspaper that you had made a donation of books to the USU library. I was at park City for three days attending a conference on Family Values; a tremendous conference. All the necessary top people of the state were there; it was a Governor\u27s conference, and timed well apparently. Wynne in the attached note will tell where he went. 7e both hope you will be coming up again in that fancy traveling home, so we can visit with you. Jean Sandberg, Wynne\u27s secretary, went with us to Farmington the other day to see the chrysanthemum display and attend the opening of the new visitor center (financed by exp. station funds) and I had rot known till she told me that you are relatives. She is a marvelous person. Our fall colors this year have been out of this world; such vivid reds and oranges and golds, all at once somehow, in Logan Csnyon and over Uellsville Canyon. Were you too early to see them? Come again! -AA&UAALJ •LTTY* \u27Ab-rty yy*y*bc^ >*-t_J 7 [XyAL iyTLf-AKA A^yT^yyyz. J(^AA^yiyy) ^J CYAZAAO- /•TAyX ^Oty j/ ) „ &_ 7uy -^ c^AyyA-y^**^ 77 \u27s Qyfyfyy* jLA^^y^^yT^y^^^y^. ° yyf, 3 &A*^-f ^t \ZyTbAU C*Ayy^Ay^AAb ^"WS cfAAy /W P^A /ttU*rlAiy\ jtgyis^At& y^tyy (AAS^-yY* ^(17777777^ C<~J^ cryYf 7- Yiyis, *y-**A\u27cOAz*^-*^?-%y & ^^27777^,-^^ O^Y/TTyo-A ^^ACyly OUs\ <~*y. ASi^&*Ay yis?^-*-y
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