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Stain removal, shopping and social responsibility: Aunt Daisy, New Zealand’s first multi-media celebrity, 1933 -1960
Full text linkFor over thirty years Maud Basham was a New Zealand food writer and media personality who, under the name of ‘Aunt Daisy’, exerted an immense and unparalleled influence over domestic behaviour, household spending and pantry stocks. So prominent was she, that she was named a ‘Goodwill’ ambassador for New Zealand and made several visits to the USA during and after WWII where she was described as ‘The Dynamo from Down Under’. Best known in popular memory as a radio personality, Aunt Daisy wrote regular magazine columns, also fifteen cookery books and books of handy hints, which combined nonfiction and fictional components, and included tips for recycling products as well as readings, quotations and sayings which she found inspiring. By focusing on these innovative texts, this paper will look at how the voice, personality and attitudes of the ‘first lady of New Zealand radio’ are embodied in nonfiction prose to create texts that are still popular, in print, and on sale in the twenty-first century
[Flowers, branches, and leaves surrounding an open circle, decorating a note congratulating Myrilla Anderson Alexander on her January baby]
No full textAunt Daisy ANS to [Myrilla M. Anderson Alexander]. s.l., page 56. From a collection of papers documenting the family, life, and early career of pianist Margaret June Alexander (also known as Vonya Alexandre) throughout the early 1900s. The collection is made up of two journals kept by her mother, Myrilla M. Anderson, plus letters, writings, artwork, family photographs, printed programs, sheet music, and other materials related to this Decatur County and Indianapolis, Indiana, family
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
Notes About Daisy Smith's Writings On Sam Houston
No full textNotes from Dennice Falk to Paul Culp regarding her aunt, Daisy Smith's, writings on Sam Housto
Notes About Daisy Smith's Writings On Sam Houston
No full textNotes from Dennice Falk to Paul Culp regarding her aunt, Daisy Smith's, writings on Sam Housto
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
Notes About Daisy Smith's Writings On Sam Houston
No full textNotes from Dennice Falk to Paul Culp regarding her aunt, Daisy Smith's, writings on Sam Housto
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
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