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Immigration; Working Against the Corrosive Side Effects
No full textVideo of Presentation of research conducted for 2021 Undergraduate Research SymposiumImmigration is one of the most controversial topics around the world, especially in the United States. The subject of immigration in the United States goes back as far as the 1600s and every time the subject is discussed, people tend to forget the humans involved. A lot of times memoirs of immigrants are usually ignored and various research on immigration is only heard,
but not taken literally. As a result, when immigration laws are made they do not seem to be clear, which gives room for contrasting interpretation amongst immigration and patrol officers and even the migrant. The purpose of this presentation is to enlighten the audience about the immigrant experience and why it should be considered as a primary source by those who make immigration laws and policies in the United States.Undergraduate Research Symposiu
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
The Purpose of Monsters: Divining the Monstrous Beasts of Middle-Earth
Full text linkIn his estimation of the monsters of the Beowulf poem, J. R. R. Tolkien calls them “essential, fundamentally allied to the underlying ideas” of the work (“Monsters” 19). It is this statement which is indicative of all monster-rich literature which followed, including his own. This thesis examines the purposes of monsters in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings using Tolkien’s own estimation of the monsters of Beowulf as its base, as the heroes of Middle-Earth are able to defeat these monstrous Others and reveal how the monsters of reality might be overcome.
This thesis examines three major categories of monsters in Middle-earth: The human-like Gollum and the Orcs, the monstrous female Shelob, and the dragon Smaug. I argue that it is through the limitations of redemption for the Other, the rejection of sexual purity and classification by the female monster(s), and the reimagination of the traditional dragons of Anglo-Saxon legend that the reader is able to fully realize the hero. It is the monster which gives the fairy-story its verisimilitude, and the realization of the hero which indicates that the monsters of reality can be defeated
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
Place, Space, and Time in Mrs. Dalloway
Full text linkMrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s post-WWI Modernist novel, uses the philosopher Henri Bergson’s theory of time as a lens to explore the human condition innovatively and excitingly by employing Bergson’s psychological time and stream of consciousness. Providing the inner thoughts of individuals during a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, Woolf plays with linearity and chronological time as a way to explore how characters’ memories of the past shape their present identities as they all wrestle with the finite mortality they share. Employing both Bergson’s psychological time and the literary device, stream of consciousness, Woolf unveils the characters’ past and present thoughts and emotions in real time (often how the human brain works naturally), providing a unique and innovative perspective on the impact of time on her characters’ lives during a period of global mourning and psychological exploration
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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