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Resources for Houstonians Experiencing Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
No full textThis research explored the resources available for victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in Houston Texas. Through a combined methodology of fieldwork, historical and sociological research, and meetings with an LCSW, I learned about the barriers to accessing resources and witnessed first-hand the ways that social workers navigate these roadblocks. Key scholarly sources include Sameena Mulla's The Violence of Care and Cheryl Nelson Butler's The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking.Sociology, Department ofHonors CollegeEnglish, Department o
Fragments: Rethinking Violence and the Represented Body
No full textThis research project delves into the intricate relationship between genre, narratives, and their representation of bodies affected by sex and/or violence within the creative arts. It draws inspiration from a selection of influential mentor texts, including Myriam Gurba's "Mean," Saidiya Hartman's "Scenes of Subjection," Kate Folk's "Out There," Ana Mendieta's "Siluetas," and more. The objective is to identify instances within these texts where traditional academic language falls short in capturing the transformative power of touch on the physical body. Built upon the teachings of Dr. Harrell, Professor of Black Studies, who introduced me to Black and Black Feminist perspectives on literature and writing, this research investigates the ways in which touch can shape the body, giving rise to experiences of pain, pleasure, death, and birth. These four categories are rooted in the wisdom of thinkers such as Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten, who have explored the implications of (dis)embodied experiences. Through a creative short story that borrows and adapts craft techniques from the mentor texts, this project aims to transcend conventional academic discourse and offer a unique perspective on how genre and narrative can capture the complexities of the human experience when confronted with the intersections of sex, violence, and the ever-transforming body.English, Department ofHonors Colleg
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
“You can't see her, but you can”: Myriam Gurba, the institutional rape narrative, and the politics of surviving
No full textThis thesis explores how Myriam Gurba's Mean and Creep disrupt dominant rape narratives by rejecting institutional demands for coherence, resolution, and solemnity. Using feminist of color epistemologies and interdisciplinary frameworks, including Sameena Mulla's forensic rape narrative, Toni Morrison's rememory, and Ann Cvetkovich's queer trauma theory, this study examines how Gurba employs humor, fragmentation, and intertextuality to challenge legal, medical, and cultural scripts that flatten survivor experiences. Gurba's work resists the expectation that storytelling must heal, instead exposing how cycles of violence persist despite narration. Mean subverts traditional rape memoirs through irreverence and artistic intertextuality, while Creep extends this critique, rejecting the idea that survival follows a linear arc. By reframing sexual violence as systemic rather than individual, Gurba models a counter-narrative that asserts survivor autonomy, demands cultural reckoning, and refuses institutional erasure.Honors CollegeEnglish, Department o
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
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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