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Caribbean Report 01-02-1989
The debate continued on whether Haiti and the Dominican Republic should join the Lome Convention. Edmund Dupree, Vice President of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce who was at the ACP/EEC meeting in Barbados spoke with confidence of his country's chances and was highly optimistic on the outcome for the Dominican Republic. In response to Barbados’ Prime Minister Sandiford inquiry on the human rights situation, Dupree was quick to point out the continued improvements in that area. Andrew Pierce, Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Development Committee also felt that Haiti stood a good chance at acceptance whereas the Dominican Republic was likely to generate greater discussions given its history and economic ties. Fernando Gonzalez, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo recognized the need for greater integration within the region through trade and cultural linkages. On the promotion of trade in the Caribbean, Tim Barrington, Director of Greenfield Exports spoke on the sale of eighty Friesian cows at a cost of eleven hundred pounds each, to the St. Lucia Livestock Development Company. Other livestock ventures mentioned by Greenfield in the region included the sale of wool-less and hairless sheep to British Virgin Islands and pending projects in Trinidad and Barbados.1. Headlines: The debate continued on the joint application of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to join the Lome Convention (00:00-01:10)2. Interview with Edmund Dupree, Vice President of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce on the joint application of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to join the Lome Convention. Dupree was at the ACP/EEC meeting in Barbados (01:11-05:10)3. Interview with Andrew Pearce, Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Development Committee, on the joint application of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to join the Lome Convention (05:11-06:42)4. Interview with Fernando Gonzalez, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo on oppositions to the Dominican Republic joining the Lome Convention (06:43-09:37)5. Financial News (09:38-11:15)6. Interview with Tim Barrington, Director of Greenfields Exports on the sale of livestocks to St. Lucia and other Caribbean countries (11:16-15:16
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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 03-05-1990
After a meeting between the Jamaican Prime Minister, Michael Manley, and the United States President George Bush in Washington, the United States promises to assist with Jamaica’s economic development and praises Jamaica’s contribution to regional affairs. High on the agenda for Jamaica was the priority to secure US financing to fight drug trafficking and enlist the assistance of the Americans in persuading the World Bank to extend the repayment of Jamaica’s existing debt. David Core, Jamaica’s Foreign Minister, also commented on the reaction of the United States to Jamaica’s relationship with Cuba. Following the Financial News, the general elections of the Dominican Republic is less than two weeks away and growing tension amongst campaigners is prevalent. Since the beginning of the election campaign, four people have been killed and more than thirty have been injured in clashes between the main candidates. The report concludes with an animal breeding improvement scheme in Antigua. A shipment of four pigs and four sheep left London for Antigua with the intention to form the core of a cross-breeding project on the island.1. Headlines (00:00-00:25)2. Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley, meets with the United States President for talks on debts and drugs. Jan Schiff reports from Washington and David Core, Jamaica's Foreign Affairs Minister, comments on the trip (00:26-08:24)3. Financial News. Robin Stainer, Commodity Analyst, comments on the international reaction to Brazil's request to postpone the International Coffee Organization Meeting (08:25-09:57)4. Tension mounts in the Dominican Republic as general elections draws near. Jean Michel Cariot reports from Santo Domingo (09:58-12:00)5. A shipment of pigs and sheep leaves London destined for Antigua to improve the livestock on the island. Pat Whithorne interviews the British farmer responsible for the shipment of the animals, Tim Barrington (12:01-14:44
Variations on the Author
“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
We 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
We 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
We 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.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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