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Caribbean Report 02-07-1993
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:36)2. Haiti’s military leader, General Raoul Cedras has offered to stepdown as part of the latest negotiations for restoring democracy in Haiti. John Leyne reports (00:37-02:18)3. Haiti’s analyst, Lloyd Best responds to the question on whether Haiti’s deep rooted problems will be solved by General Cedras stepping down. Best noted that there is the need for a security arrangement for the country, the civilianizing of the military and that the de facto military leader is really Haiti’s Police Chief, Joseph Michel Franҫois and not General Raoul Cedras. Interview with Lloyd Best, Haiti’s Analyst (02:19-05:22)4. In a Brussels’s statement, while the ACP countries welcome the European Court’s ruling against Germany over banana imports, it is concern over the effects the single market rules will have on the price of their bananas. Interview with Charles Savarin, Dominica’s Ambassador to Brussels. Clifford Smith reports (05:23-07:16)5. In London, the test case involving two Jamaican death row prisoners, Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan continues before the Law Lords at the Privy Council. The defendants are represented by British QC, Geoffrey Robertson. Carol Orr reports (07:17-12:40)6. With the CARICOM’s annual Heads of Government Summit due to start, one of the region’s political critics says regional integration is moving too slowly. Barbados’ opposition leader, Henry Ford argues that countries ready for a CARICOM Single Market should go ahead. Interview with Henry Ford, Barbados’ opposition leader. Sandra Baptiste reports (12:41-14:46
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
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
Caribbean Report 27-12-1995
No full textIn this report, Cuban President Fidel Castro strongly criticised sugar workers and the construction industry for poor results and not achieving their targets. Castro also attacked the Cuban dollar-earners and stated it was time for them to pay income taxes. Meanwhile, a truck being used as a bus skidded off a mountain road in Cuba which killed at least fifteen people including three children and injured sixty-five people. Universite des Antilles et Guyane official Maurice Burac argued that the issue of licenses affecting trade between the French and English-speaking Caribbean should be addressed. French President Jacques Chirac has sent a message to congratulate Haiti's President-elect Rene Preval. The Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the West Indies, Lloyd Best states that he would like to see not only constitutional reform but also political and economic change in the Caribbean. Best comments on the spate of government changes in the region with particular focus on Trinidad and Jamaica. Dominica's Opposition Leader Rosie Douglas believes that Ecuadorian banana company, NOBIA will now support American objections to Europe's banana regime since it has lost out in its attempt to buy Geest. In cricket, former fast bowler Joel Garner argues that management must shoulder some of the blame for the team's poor run of form in Australia and stresses that Brian Lara will have a hard time fitting back into the team. In Bermuda, George Rush reports on the headline in the Bermuda Sun newspaper which states that the island has more prisoners per capita than any other democracy. Britain's Princess Diana has slipped out of London for a Caribbean vacation after a miserable Christmas.1. Headlines with Ken Richards (00:00-00:30)2. Cuban President Fidel Castro attacks sugar industry and construction workers for poor results and not meeting set targets (00:31-02:56)3. A truck accident in Cuba leaves at least fifteen people dead including three children (02:57-03:21)4. A call for problems affecting trade between the French and English-speaking Caribbean to be addressed (03:22-05:21)5. French President Jacques Chirac sends congratulatory message to Haiti's President-elect Rene Preval (05:22-05:48)6. Lloyd Best believes that the need for reform at a constitutional level in the Caribbean can not be ignored (05:49-08:34)7. Dominica's Opposition Leader argues that Ecuadorian banana company, NOBIA will now support American objections to Europe's banana regime (08:35-09:40)8. Joel Garner states that Brian Lara will have a hard time fitting back into the West Indies cricket team (09:41-12:43)9. The Bermuda Sun newspaper reports that the island has more prisoners per capita than any other democracy (12:44-14:09)10. Britain's Princess Diana slips out of the country for a Caribbean vacation (14:10-15:00
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
Caribbean Report 11-06-1991
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:32)2. The main priority for Guyana’s newly appointed Commissioner of the Elections Commission is the restoration of confidence in Guyana’s electoral system. Sharief Khan interviews the Commissioner Rudy Collins (00:33-02:58)3. Trinidadian Lloyd Best recently returned from Haiti where he served as a special advisor to the UN Resident Representative. He states that Caricom still has a major role to play in helping to preserve and strengthen Haiti’s new found democracy and Haiti’s middle class continues to withhold support for President Aristide (02:59-07:05)4. St. Lucia is expressing renewed concerns over the future of its coconut industry. Pete Ninnvalle reports that Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago importers of coconut oil from St. Lucia have both defaulted on either receipt or payment of their allocations. Comments from Brinsley Samaroo, Minister of Food Production in Trinidad and Tobago; Anthony Savarin, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade in St. Lucia; and Johannes Leonce , Chairman of St. Lucia’s Coconut Growers Association (07:06-11:23)5. London based Commonwealth Development Corporation is seeking more investment possibilities in the Caribbean. David Stevens, CDC’s Director of Corporate Relations is interviewed by Pat Whitehorne (11:24-13:24)6. The Caricom Committee set up to look into the possible privatization of LIAT met in Barbados today and some shareholding governments are unwilling to privatize the airline (13:25-14:00)7. Caricom members will hold a meeting tomorrow in Barbados on the controversial Multiliteral Air Service Agreement (14:01-14:45
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
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