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Book Review: Late Quaternary Environmental Change: Physical and Human Perspectives, Martin Bell, Michael J. C. Walker
No full textBook Review: Late Quaternary Environmental Change: Physical and Human Perspectives, Martin Bell, Michael J. C. Walker. Harlow, Pearson-Prentice Hall (2005).The Radiocarbon archives are made available by Radiocarbon and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact [email protected] for further information.Migrated from OJS platform February 202
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Book Review: The Poppy Lady: Moina Bell Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans, Barbara Elizabeth Walsh
No full textBook Review: The Poppy Lady: Moina Bell Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans / Written by Barbara Elizabeth Walsh / Illustrated by Layne Johnson / Calkins Creek, 2012, 40 pp / ISBN: 978-1590787540This material published in WOW Review is made available by the Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures, College of Education at the University of Arizona, and the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact [email protected], (520) 621-9340
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
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
Subnational Data Requirements for Fiscal Decentralization : Case Studies from Central Eastern Europe
Get PDFPoverty is an outcome of interaction
between economic, social, and political forces. The World
Bank has emphasized poverty reduction in its programs and
operational activities. With the launching of initiatives
such as the poverty reduction strategy papers and the
Comprehensive Development Framework, it has made
considerable progress in integrating antipoverty programs
into other lending operations. As mentioned in the World
Development Report 2000/2001, Attacking Poverty (World Bank
2001b), poverty has many dimensions. It is not defined only
by income, but also has political and sectoral (access to
services) dimensions. Today, in most countries subnational
governments are responsible for the delivery of services
that affect these dimensions of poverty. Because subnational
governments control increasingly higher shares of total
public resources, their competence in designing public
policies and delivering public services becomes crucial in
influencing the level of poverty. Indeed, the literature on
fiscal decentralization presents evidence that local
services, especially health and education, are highly
correlated with the incidence of poverty (Bird and Rodriguez
1999). In this context, the need for subnational
demographic, social, economic, and fiscal data is becoming
more evident at a time when subnational governments are
involved in national and global objectives of poverty
reduction. Statistical capacity building at the subnational
level aims to help statistical offices and subnational
governments produce the basic microdata necessary not only
for monitoring progress in poverty reduction, but also for
ex ante policy formulation by subnational governments
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
Mobilities and ruralities: An introduction
No full textThe rural is on the move, now as always. In rural studies, however, there has long been a bias toward imagining the rural as stable. The old gemeinschaft-gesellschaft continuum saw the rural as the realm of long-standing ascriptive ties of family, community, place, and ethnicity, in contrast to the achieved statuses of urban life. Where there was mobility in rural life, it was to leave it behind for the competitive uncertainties of life among strangers in cities. Social mobility meant spatial mobility, and little social mobility was recognized in the rural, with all its traditionalism. Adoption-diffusion theory—perhaps rural sociology’s most widely diffused and adopted contribution, even if rural sociology is rarely recognized as its source—similarly rested on the image of a stable rural, resistant to innovation, except among those few, sought-after ‘early adopters’. Far more of the rural population were ‘late adopters’ of change, or even ‘laggards’. Where change has been recognized in the rural, it has generally been as part of a narrative of protection, defending the rural from the ravages of capital, gentrifiers, pollution, and other emanations of the urban: the rural as victim. The rural has rarely been envisioned as a source of activeness on its own. The victim has also become a villain through its stabilities, confounding culture with idyllic myths of order and old virtues in much social constructionist work
Seeing a hard country : Lawrence’s Australian landscape
No full textIn 1944 Australian author Eleanor Dark wrote that Australia is a hard country for an outsider to see, citing, in evidence, the writing of the “strange, foreign-looking little man with the beard” -- the self-described by D. H. Lawrence. According to Dark, Lawrence was bewildered by Australia because what his eyes saw was not what they were accustomed to seeing. Kangaroo, she wrote, suggests one long, tormented effort to see. Lawrence appears, for Dark, to be half-blind, struggling, and irritated almost beyond belief with his visit to New South Wales. Eleanor Dark wrote this critique in 1944, long after Lawrence’s 1922 visit, but for her, as for other Australian writers, Kangaroo continued to register as an important book, even if the content rankled. Katharine Susannah Prichard and Christina Stead, both advocates in general of Lawrence, likewise rejected the tenor of Kangaroo, although Lawrence would not have been worried about the response. In 1929 he referred to his irritation with Australia in letters to P.R. “Inky” Stephensen, the Australian nationalist and publisher, and he does not seem to have changed his opinions since writing Kangaroo. Yet the novel continued to be significant for Australian writers, even if as a provocation. My discussion traces the responses of the women authors to Kangaroo, and refers to Lawrence’s letters to Stephensen, as a way of emphasizing this significance, seen especially in relation to ideas about ‘seeing’ and the Australian landscape
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