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Barber, B B, 400456
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/370052Surname: BARBER
Given Name(s) or Initials: B B
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 400456
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 9766180312
Item: [2016.0049.02379] "Barber, B B, 400456
Barber, B R, 408433
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/370053Surname: BARBER
Given Name(s) or Initials: B R
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 408433
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 54658180313
Item: [2016.0049.02380] "Barber, B R, 408433
Barber B. Conable Jr. - Clip 2
No full textFrom the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The interviewer-videographer is Thomas R. Bruce. This video covers Barber Conable\u27s further reflections the importance of his experience as a small town lawyer and his openness to new experiences to his subsequent career as a Member of the US House of Representatives and President of the World Bank.
From the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The interviewer-videographer is Thomas R. Bruce. This video covers Barber Conable\u27s reflections on the special qualities of the Cornell Law School, the importance of his experience as a small town lawyer to his subsequent career as a state senator, Member of the US House of Representatives, and President of the World Bank.
Barber Conable was born in Warsaw, New York in 1922. After graduating from Cornell in 1942 he enlisted in the Marines which sent him to the Pacific front where he learned Japanese and fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima. After the war he returned to Cornell to study law. He earned his law degree in 1948 and then later re-enlisted and fought in the Korean War.
Not long after establishing a legal practice in New York, Conable entered politics. Both his father and brother served as judges in New York state. Conable served in the New York Senate for two years, 1962 - 1964, and then was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving nine more terms until he retired in 1985. He was known on both sides of the aisle for his integrity and honesty; he refused to accept personal contributions larger than $50.
In 1986 President Reagan appointed him President of the World Bank. By the time he retired five years later he had convinced Congress to double its appropriations for the Bank.
As a Republican he was a long-time ally of Richard Nixon until the Watergate scandal. Conable broke off all communication in disgust and even refused to go to Nixon\u27s funeral. Conable contributed to the folklore of the scandal when he heard the tape of Nixon instructing his Chief of Staff to obstruct the FBI investigation, calling Nixon\u27s comment a smoking gun. The phrase entered the common parlance and made its way into all the headlines.
Barber Conable was an expert in budgetary issues. As a longtime ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee, one of his major achievements was a provision in the U.S. tax code that made so-called 401(k) and 403(b) defined-contribution retirement plans possible, and contributions to those plans tax-deferred under federal law. He also took on the World Bank at a time when most Americans saw it as deeply suspect. He reorganized its bureaucracy, extracted an increasing American contribution which encouraged other nations to follow, diverted its focus from prestige projects toward ones more clearly designed to relieve poverty, and also insisted the bank pay greater attention to the environmental impact of the large schemes it decided to support. This shift of focus did not make him popular with President Reagan\u27s successor, prompting Conable to comment that President Bush had wanted him to support an American agenda while he had thought he was there to help poor people.
Barber Conable died in 2003
Address to the Group of Twenty-Four Ministers
No full textBarber B. Conable, President of the World Bank Group spoke about the following : (1) endorsing an early and substantial IFC capital increase; (2) encouraging effective actions to reduce global debt; (3) advising on appropriate roles for the Bretton Woods institutions in the Gulf; (4) encouraging more development investment, both of a public nature and through promotion of the private sector; and (5) urging a successful resolution of the Uruguay round of trade negotiations
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
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