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Barrett, Jack and Enid Barrett. Jack and Enid Barrett, Bishop's Cove
No full textThis interview is part of a series of oral histories collected by The Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. This interview is with Jack and Enid Barrett of Bishop's Cove NL. The interviewer is Linda Cooper. The camera was operated by Kelly Snow. The video was edited by Mike Ryan and Darrell Barrett.[00:50] Jack and Enid Barrett begin by talking about their respective families and where they were born and raised. [1:15] Mrs. Barrett describes the kind of work her family did to make a living, when she was growing up. Her father was a shovel operator. In his younger days, Mrs. Barrett’s father fished on the Labrador. [1:40] Mr. Barrett talks about the work his parents did; his mother was a school teacher and his father was a fisherman. [2:53] Mr. Barrett talks about working as a teacher. He discusses the steps it took to become a teacher when he was younger. Young people interesting in teaching attended a six week probationary summer school to train to be a teacher. [4:34] Mr. Barrett discusses some of the changes in the school system that he has seen in the span of his career. [5:20] Mrs. Barrett mentions that after they were married, her and Mr. Barrett moved to Burnt Islands where she taught for one year. [5:57] Mr. Barrett describes the first school he attended as a young child. He was in a one room school with 40 other children. His first teacher was named Fred Kirby. The children’s mothers would take turns scrubbing the school floors. [7:30] Mrs. Barrett recalls fondly having Cocomalt at recess, which was made in a big boiler. [7:59] Mr. and Mrs. Barrett discuss holidays and special celebrations such as Christmas and the 24th of May and Easter. Mrs. Barrett recalls asking for a blessing from her godparents on New Year’s Eve in exchange for gifts. [9:50] Mr. Barrett talks about how most of his clothing was made, instead of bought. [11:27] Mr. Barrett talks about how everyone once had sheep in the area and the importance of the sheep to the community. Young girls in the area were taught how to prepare the wool by carding and spinning it. [13:01] Mr. Barrett talks about how most people in the area had gardens and grew their own food. People would only need to buy molasses and flour. He recalls that people didn’t buy yeast, but had a yeast plant that grew in the house. And people would make their own vinegar and soap. [13:51] Mr. Barrett talks about how many people in the community kept animals and how it was the responsibility of the boys to tend to them. [15:13] Both Mr. and Mrs. Barrett talks about going to dances, times and soup suppers. [15:56] Mrs. Barrett plays the organ. [17:44] Mrs. Barrett is a cancer survivor and shows a cookbook she sells for the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Centre. Mrs. Barrett has sold $33,000 worth of cookbooks for the centre. Mrs. Barrett goes on to talk about her work with cancer patients and fundraising for various charities. [25:40] The Barretts talk about raising their own family. [28:17] Mr. and Mrs. Barrett talk about the games they played as children, such as hopscotch, pitching buttons and marbles. [29:56] Mr. Barrett talks about the chores he had to do as a child, such as lugging water, cutting hay and bringing in wood. [31:48] Mr. and Mrs. Barrett talk about the modes of transportation available when they were younger. [32:51] Talk about tradition meals they had a certain days of the week. [33:30] Mr. and Mrs. Barrett discuss Sunday activities, which consisted mostly of going to church. [35:00] Mr. Barrett shares a ghost story about the ghost of Captain Summers who was said to haunt a particular rock in Bishop’s Cove. [32:22] Mrs. Barrett show her Queen’s Jubilee Medal. [39:30] Mrs. Barrett plays the organ
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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