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Runways to God: The Psalms as Prayer
No full textThe author\u27s purpose here is to serve the reader with something pertinent to prayer, as it rises from each Psalm. The pattern of this commentary is simple. First, each Psalm is presented in its Old Testament framework of origin, literal meaning, and purpose, with a minimum of space given to its classification and the interesting points that fill other commentaries. Second, the commentary interprets this literal reality (including the difficult parts of the Psalms) in the light of Christ and the New Testament. The entire Old Testament prepares for Him and His Kingdom. Therefore to seek the fulfillment sense is not a minimum law (applicable to a few verses), but a maximum one (Cardinal Newman). The Psalms are forward-looking; they speak about Christ. The search for this final sense of the Psalms has occupied the Church in every generation; it must engage our best efforts in comparing one spiritual world with another, with the help of God, who is Author of both. [From the Preface]https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_johns_abbey_books/1005/thumbnail.jp
Thanksgiving after Holy Communion
No full textThe important thing in our thanksgiving is to remain in personal contact with our Lord and to speak with Him. But how? It is with great reluctance that one lays down norms for others to use in so intimate and holy a moment. Yet experience shows how aimless, how neglectful, how fruitless our efforts can be after holy Communion. This experience prompts me to formulate an actual thanksgiving based on certain truths of faith that need emphasis. [from the book\u27s Introduction]https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_johns_abbey_books/1085/thumbnail.jp
Blessed Old Age
No full textOld age has written glorious chapters in the history of mankind, in every field of religion and virtue, learning and culture, government and the professions. A young generation would be ungrateful, as well as unwise, were it not to plant itself squarely on the spiritual wisdom, the serene detachment, and warm kindliness of its elders. [page 5]https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_johns_abbey_books/1086/thumbnail.jp
The Benedictine Brother
No full textIn the Church, which is the City of God on earth, there are many religious Orders and Institutes and rules of perfection. Jesus said, \u27In My Father\u27s house there are many mansions\u27 (John 14:2).[...]We want to present here only one such rule and way, the Brother\u27s monastic vocation. [from the introduction, Vocation ]/= / \u3e/= / \u3eIncludes the following sections: Saint Benedict and His Way; The Benedictine Family; Brothers to Christ; Brothers to Priests; Brothers to Others; The Religious Vows; First Things First; Ora et Labora; Brothers to Sinners; Finding Your Vocation; Signs of a Vocation; Procedure; Steps in Becoming a Brother; The Reason Why?https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_johns_abbey_books/1057/thumbnail.jp
Blessing, Church, Altar, School
No full textA group of four liturgical pamphlets: The Blessing and Laying of the Cornerstone for a Church According to the Roman Rite (translated and arranged by John Schneider and Richard Heinzkill); The Blessing of a Church According to the Roman Rite (translated and arranged by John Schneider and Richard Heinzkill); Meaning of the Altar (by Rev. Paschal Botz, O.S.B.); The Blessing of a School According to the Roman Rite (translated and arranged by John Schneider and Richard Heinzkill).https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/saint_johns_abbey_books/1087/thumbnail.jp
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
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
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