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Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women’s Short Fiction
No full textThis new collection places the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies. In so doing, it also questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing upon short fiction from 1975 to the present day – the period during which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a more sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the short story form. Short fiction is discussed from India, New Zealand, Singapore, North America, the UK, Egypt, the Caribbean and Africa. Themes include trauma, diaspora, language, national identity, democracy, the city, women's writing, the body, sexuality, and new media. Canonical figures such as Alice Munro are featured alongside emerging talents such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Wena Poon, genre writers such as Nalo Hopkinson, and writers new to an Anglophone or Western audience. The contributors, too, include established figures in postcolonial and short story criticism alongside new or emerging scholars
Motoneurone and monosynoptic reflex excitability studied in man
No full textNatural stimulation of the skin and muscle was found to modulate the monosynaptic reflex and motoneurone excitability as judged by the H - reflex. Skin cold and mechanoreceptors inhibit the reflex as does muscle vibration while cooling of the muscle resulted in facilitation. The effective skin areas were of the same spinal segments as the muscle investigated..The motoneurone pool was inhibited for 50 cosec. after a conditioning electrical stimulus. The postulated mechanism for this is transmitter depletion and the evidence obtained supports this. Moreover the evidence excluded the involvement of Golgi tendon organs.The motoneurone excitability measured by the recovery curves was tested in young and old subjects and significant differences were found. Degeneration in the large diameter afferent fibres and motoneurones could account for the findings.Electro stimulation of the spinal cord in MS improves the abnormal recovery curves towards normal.. Other electrophysiological studies using the implanted electrodes were made and demonstrated changes in monosynaptic reflex excitability. Monosynaptic and motoneurone excitability were 'studied at the unitary level using single fibre EMG techniques and early physiological conclusions were confirmed. Motoneurones recovered from inhibition in a definite pattern. Different properties were noticed for units of the soleus which suggested a division into two groups according to their order of recruitment during incremental stimuli; blockage and inhibition. One group was recruited and blocked early followed by the other group with increasing stimuli. An opposite order was demonstrated during mechanoreceptor stimulation. A new hypothesis was explored, controversial to Henneman's size principle and implies that the external requirements of the movements determine the order of recruitment of the different motoneurones. Clinically in myotonic dystrophy significant changes were_ found in monosynaptic and motoneurone excitability. Neurological defects were shown which confirm the involvement of the nervous system in this disease.</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Resource management for multimedia traffic over ATM broadband satellite networks
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Author Rights and Scholarly Publishing
No full textOriginally posted at
http://blog.library.gsu.edu/2014/10/24/author-rights-and-scholarly-publishing/</p
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