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Book review of Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy
No full textA comparison of satellite winds and surface buoy winds
No full textThis thesis investigates the relationship between open hexagonal cell cloud motion and surface winds in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Cloud targets are tracked using an automatic
scheme fashioned after Barnea and Silverman's (1972) Sequential Similarity Detection
Algorithm. The cloud motion vectors obtained are comparable to results obtained by tracking the same cloud targets manually. The well-organized character of open hexagonal
cells permits a comparison of various methods of estimating the height of the cloud motion vectors. One method, which uses the minimum infrared pixel value, and a second method, which establishes an arbitrary minimum cloud top temperature, are both found to be unsuitable because of cirrus contamination and partially cloud filled pixels. The cloud motion winds for open hexagonal cells and disorganized cumulus clouds are compared
with winds measured at collocated surface buoys. The lack of directional shears between open hexagonal cell movements and surface winds, and directional shears of 14° to 27° for the disorganized cumulus clouds, agree with other observations for the two types of clouds. The differences between the two cloud types suggests that any estimate of surface winds from cloud motion should include cloud type information.Science, Faculty ofEarth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department ofGraduat
Pedagogy of the Oppressor: Experiential Education on the US/Mexico Border, (2021) by Jerry H. Gill
No full textGoing 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
International students strategies to obtain career-related work in Canada after graduation
No full textThis study examines strategies which international students use for transitioning from a British Columbia (BC) post-secondary institution to full time work in the Canadian labour market. It discusses how international students use different types of human, social, cultural and symbolic capital in this transition. Further, it discusses students’ use of their post-secondary institution’s career programs and services. Other factors impacting students’ strategies, such as discrimination, family pressures, financial constraints, and Canadian immigration policy, are also discussed.
The investigation uses an on-line survey, targeting all international students at a specific BC post-secondary institution, as well as follow up focus groups with a subset of these same students.
The research led to 11 key findings on strategies which international students use for transitioning from a BC post-secondary institution to the Canadian labour market: (1) international students want to obtain career-related work in Canada after graduation; (2) international students want to stay in or leave Canada for both career and non-career-related reasons; (3) international students employ a variety of ways to gain human, social, cultural and symbolic capital; (4) international students consider Canadian human capital more valuable than non-Canadian capital; (5) international students value Canadian education and academic credentials for a number of reasons; (6) international students consider English language skills and culturally based Canadian communication skills as being a key skill to obtaining career-related work; (7) international students consider a range of types of experiential learning as key ways of acquiring capital; (8) international students view different types of paid work or volunteer experiences as providing opportunities to gain various types of capital; (9) international students use a wide range of relationships as part of their strategies for obtaining career-related work in Canada; (10) international students are aware of which post-secondary services and programs are available to them and choose strategies accordingly; (11) international students use multi-faceted approaches towards achieving their goal to obtain career-related work. Recommendations are made to post-secondary institutions and government on policies and practices related to international students’ transition to the Canadian labour market. Limitations of the current study and suggestions for complementary research are put forward.Education, Faculty ofEducational Studies (EDST), Department ofGraduat
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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