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London Staff Trip (2024)
No full textThis video documents the 2024 staff trip to London. This is a program that takes employees to London, England for one week in January. The program previously operated for many years and was eventually discontinued until it returned for the first time this year. The study abroad trip offered a remarkable opportunity for participants to explore new countries while being supported by the university. It provided a unique chance to experience different cultures, expand professional and personal networks, and gain fresh perspectives. The trip fostered connections among colleagues from various departments, promoting a sense of camaraderie and shared discovery. Interactions with students and exposure to international viewpoints enriched the overall experience, highlighting the profound impact of global engagement. Overall, the trip was a transformative journey, blending professional development with cultural exploration and personal growth. The video features reflective anecdotes from Sal Catapano, Carol Pulliam, Joel Boyce, and Reina Moseley. It also highlights photos and videos taken by participants on the trip which include the featured speakers as well as, Frances Walker, Janet Williams, Vicki Blocker, Michelle Zaiser, Nikida Jeffries, Lea Phelps, and Anita Bryant
Land Acknowledgement and Welcome by Vickie Jeffries on Behalf of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation (2023)
No full textIn this video, Vickie Jeffries, the tribal administrator for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, explains the distinction between a welcome and a land acknowledgment at events. She emphasizes that while it's customary to start events with a land acknowledgment to recognize the indigenous connection to the land, a welcome is provided if a member of the tribe is present to speak. This welcome is significant because it directly represents the tribe's relationship to the land and makes a separate acknowledgment redundant. Jeffries then delivers an official welcome on behalf of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. She introduces herself and states that Elon University is located on the ancestral lands of the Eno, Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, and Shakori peoples. She notes that the descendants of these indigenous groups still live and thrive on the land today. Jeffries extends a welcome to all as guests on the land and encourages respect for the rich history of the territory, as well as for Mother Earth and all that she provides, ending with the word "Alewa," a term of respect or blessing
Land Acknowledgement by Randy Williams (2023)
No full textThis video features a speech by Randy Williams, Vice President for Inclusive Excellence at Elon University, opening an event with a land acknowledgment. He begins by highlighting the historical significance of the land on which Elon University is located, noting that it has a rich history involving American Indian tribes who were the original caretakers of the land. Williams invites the audience to reflect on the official land acknowledgment of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation and proceeds to recite it. The acknowledgment recognizes the presence of several Native tribes, including the Eno, Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, and Shakori peoples, and identifies the land as traditionally part of the Saponi territory in the Piedmont region of present-day North Carolina. He further mentions the area's proximity to the Great Trading Path, historically used by both Native and non-native peoples. Williams emphasizes that the Saponi people, whose descendants include the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, continue to live in this region and are officially recognized by the state government of North Carolina. The speech concludes by paying respect to the elders of the Occaneechi people, both past and present, and calls upon the audience to honor their ancestral lands with the same respect, love, and care that the Occaneechi Saponi people continue to show today
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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