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Caribbean Report 07-03-1990
No full textInterview with President Prosper Avril in French with English translation.An exclusive interview with embattled Haitian President, General Prosper Avril in which he refuses to step down from power. He confirms that such a move will be unconstitutional and will threaten the stability of the country; requests a team of international observers to monitor the Haitian elections next year; comments on the control of mass demonstrations and the electoral timetable. An exiled Haitian opposition leader in Miami responds to the statements of President Avril. Following the Financial News, the Cuban government reacts harshly to the approval of the United Nations’ resolution on the abuse of human rights in Cuba. The report concludes with comments from former cricketer and Minister of Tourism and Sports,Wesley Hall on reasons why the West Indies lost the first test match against England at Sabina Park, Jamaica.1. Headlines (00:00 - 00:32)2. Exclusive interview with embattled Haitian President, General Prosper Avril. Jerry Timmins reports from Port-au-Prince (00:33-04:39)3. Reactions from exiled Haitian opposition leader, Robert Le Gendre to President Avril's statement (04:40-07:58)4. Financial News. Julia Jackson, commodity analyst, comments on the price of coffee (07:59-09:40)5. Cuban government reacts to United Nation's resolution on human rights. Lionel Martin reports from Havana (09:41-11:45)Interview with Wesley Hall by Brian Redhead, BBC Today (11:46-14:36
Caribbean Report 11-07-1989
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:23)2. President Prosper Avril of Haiti discusses his new process of recruiting 1,500 new soldiers to replace those that resigned or were dismissed after the attempted coup last April. He explains how he is more secure in his position as leader. Jean Michel Caroit interviews President Avril (00:24-04:11)3. There has been a determined effort from the US to block President's Bush's nominee for the post of US ambassador to the Bahamas, Mr. "Chic" Hecht. Critics of the nomination have described Mr. Hecht, a former Senator of Nevada as lacking in the qualities needed for the job. Adrian Porter reports (04:12-06:45)4. Financial news (06:46-08:40)5. The Chairman to the Grenadian Cooperative Nutmeg Association, Mr. Norris James says he will be seeking assurance of price stabilities from Indonesia, the world's other nutmeg supplier. The Nutmeg Agreement between the two countries has been under pressure ever since ASPIN, the Indonesia Nutmeg Association undercut agreed nutmeg minimum export prices. One of the problems Indonesia faces is smuggling and Mr. James said he will be asking for strong effective measures to deal with the situation (08:41-12:57)6. Given their showing in their current battles with Australia, what hopes can the England team have when they tour the Caribbean next year. Hugh Crosskill interviews commentator Christopher Martin Jenkins (12:58-14:56
Caribbean Report 03-01-1989
No full textIn Haiti, President Prosper Avril allowed Franck Romain, a leading member of the notorious Tonton Macoute safe conduct to the Dominican Republic. With the release of Cabinet documents under the 30 year rule, attempts were made to restrict West Indians to Britain despite the Nationality Act of 1948. The Rum industry in Puerto Rico is feeling the impact of changes in the pattern of liquor consumption, mainly in the US. Britain's Princess of Wales flew out of Heathrow's Airport for a sunshine Caribbean holiday.1. Headlines (00:00-01:10)2. Interviews with Jean Jacques Honorat, Director of the Haitian Centre for Human Rights and Jean Michel Caroit, correspondent on possible reasons why General Prosper Avril allowed Franck Romain, a member of the notorious Tonton Macaoute safe conduct to the Dominican Republic (01:11-06:11)3. Interview with Lord Hailsham on his views with the release of Cabinet documents under the 30 year rule. His views were on restrictions to West Indians to the UK and the British Nationality Act (1948) (06:12-10:00)4. Financial Report (10:01-11:40)5. Interview with correspondent, Canute James on the impact of the fall in alcohol consumption in the US to the Puerto Rican rum industry. Factors further impacted on the industry included competition and duties. (11:41-14:02)6. The Princess of Wales is on a Caribbean holiday (14:03-15:02
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
Caribbean Report 14-02-1989
No full textThe controversy of book “The Satanic Verses” by Indian born, British author Salman Rushdie continues with the death sentence passed by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeni. There are strong reactions from Muslims in the Caribbean region. Brinsley Samaroo, Minister in the Trinidad and Tobago government does not support this response as he wishes to see people commenting on the book after having themselves read it. Grenada Deputy Prime Minister, Ben Jones who was in London and participated in the Independence Day celebrations speaks on developments for the island's next election. Jones rejects accusations that the Grenadian government is weakening the trade union movement. On other trade issues, an emergency meeting was called by the International Cocoa Organization to settle the mounting debts encumbered by producers. In Haiti, President Prosper Avril invites twenty-three organizations to discuss the setting up of an institution that will organize and supervise a free elections.1. Headlines: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni sentences author, Salman Rushdie to death for blasphemy and insults to Muslims; Grenada Deputy Prime Minister, Ben Jones reacts to accusations that his goverment is weakening trade unions; and, the International Cocoa Organization calls an emergency meeting to avert a cocoa crisis (00:00-00:35)2. Interview with Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses" on the death sentence passed by Ayatollah Khomeni (00:36-01:50)3. Interview with Brinsley Samaroo, Minister in the Trinidad and Tobago government on reactions to the book "The Satanic Verses" in the region (01:51-03:56)4. Interview with Ben Jones, Grenada's Deputy Prime Minister who was in London and participates in the Independence Day celebrations. Jones rejects accusations that the Grenadian government is weakening the trade unions. Jones also speaks on developments for the next election (03:57-08:40)5. Financial News (08:41-10:10)6. Robin Stainer reports that the International Cocoa Organization emergency meeting is to settle the mounting debts encumbered by producers (10:11-12:27)7. President Prosper Avril of Haiti invites twenty-three organisations to discuss the setting up of an institution that will organise and supervise a free election (12:28-14:56
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
Caribbean Report 05-03-1990
No full textIncludes a musical interlude at the beginning of the report.Amidst mounting pressures at home and abroad, the Haitian people anticipates the stepping down of President Prosper Avril. The president is warned by the Caribbean and Central American Action group to ensure a smooth transition to democracy. Secondly, the United States government is interested in free and fair general elections in Guyana and will be working to achieve this goal in the coming months. The report concludes with the defeat of Jamaican-born, Lloyd Honeyghan by American, Mark Breland at the WBA Welterweight Championship.1. Headlines (00:00-01:29)2. Mounting pressure for Haitian President Prosper Avril to step down amid opposition threats of mass demonstrations. Michael Norton reports from Port-au-Prince and comments from David Miller, Caribbean and Central American Action. Special report from Jerry Timmins in the Haitian village of Balam Bay (01:30-08:57)3. Financial News. Rona O'Connell, Shearson Lehman Hutton comments on the price of gold (08:58-10:10)4. US government interested in free and fair general elections in Guyana. Comments from Sally Cowal, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and Sharief Khan reports from Georgetown (10:11-12:26)5. Boxer Lloyd Honeyghan defeated by Mark Breland in WBA Welterweight Championship. Interview with Lloyd Honeyghan (12:27-15:52
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
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