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Caribbean Report 25-07-1989
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:42)2. In light of the latest political crisis to engulf Grenada, the Opposition National Democratic Congress sends off a letter to PM Herbert Blaize. Pat Whitehorne interviews Nicholas Braithwaite, Leader of the NDC and PM Herbert Blaize (00:49-04:38)3. In Suriname, a peace agreement signed by the civilian government and the leaders of the three-year old rebel insurgency is rejected (04:39-07:47)4. Financial News (07:48-9:25)5. Guyana's President Desmond Hoyte is trying to persuade the IMF that public sector employees should be allowed more generous wage increases. Interview by Jerry Timmins (9:26-11:17)6. "Beyond the sixteenth parallel," an anti-apartheid rap record is launched in London (11:18-14:12)7. Former Commonwealth middleweight champion Nigel Benn is quitting Britain to rebuild his career in the United States. His first fight is expected to be in September (14:13-15:00
Caribbean Report 15-08-1990
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:41)2. Grenada’s Prime Minister, Nicholas Braithwaite, commutes the death sentences of the Maurice Bishop murder convicts to life imprisonment. The segment commences with a BBC briefing by Brian Martin from October 1983 on the killing of Maurice Bishop. Comments and reactions from Clarence Hughes the lawyer of the defendants; Sola Coard the daughter of Bernard Coard; Victor Cuffy of the Caribbean Rights organization; Lou Smith, a journalist in St. Georges; Kenrick Radix, a former member of Maurice Bishop’s People Revolutionary Government; Richard Hart, a former Attorney General in the administration of Maurice Bishop; and the public opinions of Grenadians (00:42-12:42)3. The hanging of Philip Saunders, a young man convicted of murder in 1985 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning in the capital city. Interview with Victor Cuffy of Caribbean Rights (12:43-13:55)4. The report concludes with an extract from a speech by the late Maurice Bishop in June 1983 (13:56-14:54
Caribbean Report 18-06-1991
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:44)2. Grenada’s Prime Minister, Nicholas Braithwaite, still supports the OECS integration despite adverse feedback from Antigua and St. Kitts. In an interview, Mr. Braithwaite states that unification of the four island states will pave the way for greater unity in the region (00:45-04:19)3. Uncertainties over the possibility of Caricom leaders discussing the proposal to send an observer team to Guyana’s elections when they meet in St. Kitts next month. Sharief Khan reports that the item has not yet been included in the draft agenda for the summit (04:20-06:30)4. The Observer Newspaper in Britain reports on a banking scandal involving a convicted fraudster operating a bank in Anguilla. Mike Jarvis reports that the Chairman of the Charter Bank and Trust has been convicted of fraud in the US (06:31-08:56)5. At a conference of the International Police Organization in Brazil, it was revealed that Trinidad and Tobago is increasingly used as a transshipment point for Colombian cocaine. It was also noted that the Caribbean is assuming a growing role in the movement of cocaine to Europe. Reeval Alderson reports from Brazil (08:57-10:56)6. Over 60 archaeologists meet in Belize and offer valuable insights into the ancient Mayan civilization. Howard Benson interviews Anabel Ford, joint conference organizer from the University of California, on the significance of the Mayan culture to Belize and the Caribbean (10:57-12:37)7. The West Indies cricket team anxiously awaits news on the fitness of Patrick Patterson for the second test match against England. Hugh Crosskill’s report also includes coverage of a rift between Derbyshire Cricket Club and Micky Stewart, England’s manger, over Mr. Stewart’s private coaching sessions of Devon Malcolm (12:38-14:51
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 07-12-1990
No full textSpecial edition from the 14th Miami Conference.1. Headlines (00:00-00:45)2. Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian dictator exiled in France four years ago, issued a statement calling for calm, non-violence and national unity after a bombing in Port-au-Prince in the run-up to the December 16 presidential elections. Alvin Adams, US Ambassador to Haiti condemns the act as political terrorism in an interview with Hugh Crosskill at the Miami Conference (00:46-02:41)3. Hugh Crosskill reports on the final day of the 14th Miami Conference. In a conference presentation, Surujrattan Rambachan, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago, supports the US president’s Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. John Compton, Prime Minister of St. Lucia, also indicates that a Caricom consensus should revolve around an arrangement similar to the Lome Convention and comments on the reduction of the Caribbean’s external debt. The next presenter, Maria Liberia-Peters, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, expresses reservations about the expansion of the Americas into a single free trade area. Jaime Zablodosky, general coordinator of the Mexico-USA Free Trade Agreement, assures the Caribbean that its position will not be undermined by the new agreement. Prime Minister of Grenada Nicholas Braithwaite and George Foulkes British Labour MP also share concerns on the future of the Caribbean’s economic and social stability. Surujrattan Rambachan further comments on the resistance of the Trinidad and Tobago government against the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen which attempted to use economic hardship as an excuse to overthrow the democratic process. In conclusion, Pat Thompson of the Caricom Assembly of Industry and Commerce and David Jessop of the West India Committee are interviewed by Hugh Crosskill on the need for the Caribbean to draft an action plan emphasizing greater regional dialogue for the region (02:42-15:00
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
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