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The Struggle for Recognition
Full text linkBre Anne Briskey is a graduate of Swanton High School in Swanton, Ohio. She is a second year Chapman Scholar, majoring in psychology. Bre Anne is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, the National Society of Leadership and Success, and Psi Chi. She is participating in the Honor Program at IPFW and is a member of its student group, the HonorDons. Bre Anne presented her statistics research project at the 2015 Student Research Symposium
The Struggle for Recognition During 19th Century Mexico
No full textDespite the fact that 30,000 French troops invaded Mexico in the 1860s and installed Maximilian in power and created the Second Mexican Empire, Mexican liberals put up a sustained guerilla military resistance. But this paper examines a different significant battle, the one that took place on the political front. Both Maximilian and the liberal resistance that opposed him led by Juárez sought diplomatic support and recognition. At the time, not only was Mexico divided, but also the U.S. since the country was in the middle of the Civil War. This paper examines the attempts Maximilian and Juárez made to gain recognition and support during this complicated period during which the Union had to weigh the impact that its action in Mexico might have on France’s attitudes about the American Civil War.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1003/thumbnail.jp
Pb and I(Q): The Consequences of Lead Exposure on the IQ Levels of Children
Full text linkAbsorption\u22, data was collected regarding one hundred twenty-one children (seventy-four boys and forty-seven girls) who were previously exposed to various amounts of lead from area around a lead smelter. Researchers collected six values from the lead exposed children; blood lead levels in micrograms, age, sex, verbal IQ score, performance IQ, and the full IQ score. Various statistical analysis methods were calculated from these variables. In order to later compare results, descriptive statistics (such as the mean, median, standard deviation, and variance) for the entire sample was computed for comparison against the various levels of the sample (lead exposure level and sex of the child). The comparisons of the (sub-categories’) descriptive statistics for the sub-categories against the entire sample\u27s descriptive statistics would indicate if the sub-categories\u27 values were significantly different from the entire sample\u27s values. The next statistical analysis method utilized was correlation which is the relationship strength between two variables. While calculating the correlation between the various variables, startling information revealed itself. Despite what one would expect, generally there was a negligible relationship between the various levels of IQ scores and the amount of lead exposure experienced. We may conclude from the study that the exposure to lead does not significantly affect children\u27s verbal IQ or their performance IQ. In spite of the findings, we should provide a healthy environment for all, especially children.
Reference Landrigan, P.J., R.H. Whitworth, R.W. Baloh, N. W. Staehling, W.F. Barthel, and B.F. Rosenblum. \u22Neuropsychological Dysfunction in Children with Chronic Low-Level Lead Absorption.\u22 Lancet 1.7909. Print.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2015/1006/thumbnail.jp
\u22The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions:\u22 Eugenic Advocates in Indiana
No full textBre Anne Briskey is a third-year Chapman Scholar, majoring in history and psychology. She is a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi, Psi Chi, The National Society of Leadership and Success, and the current president of Phi Eta Sigma. Bre Anne is participating in the Honor Program at IPFW where she has earned the Honors Pin and is a member of its student group, the HonorDons. Bre Anne presented her statistics research project at the 2015 Student Research Symposium along with presenting at the 8th Annual Undergraduate History Conference. Her historical interests consist of a wide array of topics, including Tudor England, Mexico, and the history of science and medicine. After graduating from IPFW, Bre Anne plans on attending graduate school
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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