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An analysis of voting patterns for the Liberal Party with initial reference to the General Election of 1966
No full textThe Liberal Party is conventionally regarded as drawing its support relatively evenly, in comparison with the Labour and Conservative Parties, from most social groups. The first section of this study examines the empirical basis for this assumption using data largely derived from public opinion surveys. Although this evidence tends to confirm the impression that Liberal support is drawn more evenly from the various socio-structural groups than is the case with the other parties, alternative bases of cleavage, which might be more relevant to Liberal support than to major party support, are proposed, though these theories cannot generally be tested because data in suitable categories is unavailable.The second section of the study examines the relationships between the most apparently relevant socio-structural, and other, variables and the Liberal vote at an aggregate level using multivariate techniques of analysis. The Liberal vote is less susceptible to accurate prediction using these methods than is the support for the major parties owing to the greater spread of support for Liberal candidates amongst the various social groups. However, up to two thirds of the variation in Liberal support in 1966 at constituency level can be predicted using a relatively economical set of predictor variables. Having derived equations for 1966 which combine relative statistical precision with meaningful variables these models are, then weighted in order to determine the extent to which Liberal performance at elections other than 1966 differ with respect to their predictability. Examination of regression and correlation coefficients between 1959 and 1970 reveals little systematic change,in relationships between predictor variables and Liberal support. Finally, the topological form of the cusp catastrophe is proposed as providing an appropriate means of looking at Liberal performance over time at constituency level given both the regularities and irregularities of behaviour which had previously been delineated.</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
Anti-leukotrienes in asthma and allergic rhinitis.
No full textLeukotrienes are lipid mediators synthesized from arachidonic acid liberated from the membranes of activated inflammatory cells [1]. The subfamily of cysteinyl-leukotrienes (cys-LTs) represented by LTC4, LTD4 and LTE4 are the first inflammatory mediators to have a proven role in the pathophysiology of asthma [2] and which mimic many of the features of allergic rhinitis [3]. Antileukotriene drugs that block the synthesis of leukotrienes or antagonize cys-LT receptors have been licensed for asthma therapy in most countries in the last dozen years [4], with some of these drugs also being registered for use in allergic rhinitis [2]. This chapter will outline the sources and actions of cys-LTs in allergic airway inflammation and the clinical evidence underlying the use of antileukotriene drugs in asthma and allergic rhinitis
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
Lattice gauge-Higgs theories
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