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Dr. K. B. Roberts - History of Medicine Collection at H.S.C. Library - an Interview with Doug Brophy
No full textDoug Brophy interviews Dr. K. B. Roberts, the John Clinch Professor of the History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, about the History of Medicine Collection at the Health Sciences Library. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Episode of Brophy’s Corner, 1980.A selection of materials drawn from different collections in the Faculty of Medicine Founders' Archive, with some additional items from other archives within the Memorial University library system
No.276, John P. Brophy, interview by Tim Larson
No full textTranscript (41 pages) of interview by Tim Larson with John P. Brophy, , on February 4, 1990. This interview is no. 276 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape no. 1203Brophy (b. 1929) recalls his Kearns family background, the family interest in broadcasting and newspaper publishing, as well as personal insight into his personal background. Interviewer: Tim Larso
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
A Resource Unit on the History of Drama for Teachers of the Upper Elementary Grades
No full textA Plan B Paper Presented to the Faculty of the School of Education, University of Minnesota, Duluth, In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree Master of Arts (Plan B), by Marilyn L. Brophy, June 1970.Brophy, Marilyn L. (1970). A Resource Unit on the History of Drama for Teachers of the Upper Elementary Grades. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/229622
Law, state and the family : the politics of child custody.
No full textLaw State and the Family: the Politics of Child
Custody is an examination of the development of law
and legal practices in relation to mothers and the
legal custody of children. It maps the history of
statute law and re-reads legal practice focusing
upon the way in which these practices reproduce and
sustain the conditions of motherhood.
The first section documents the construction of
the infant as a legal subject and the emergence of
mothers legal rights in relation to children under the
nineteenth century Guardianship Acts. The second
section examines debates regarding the role of the
state in the area of children and divorce following
the Second World War. This section also examines
the influence of ideologies of welfare upon the legal
treatment of different categories of children during
this period. In addition, this section also analyses
the limited role which the law plays in the majority
of decisions concerning custody of children following
divorce. The third section documents and analyses
women's experiences of contesting custody of their
children through an empirical study of a sample of
lesbian mothers. The focus is upon both the courts
and legal processes involving lawyers and divorce
court welfare officers. This section reveals the
influences of notions of good mothering and perceptions
of female sexuality upon those legal processes.
The final section is concerned with contemporary
debates in the 1980s regarding the role of the state
generally in the area of children and divorce and
particularly, discussions of the role of law in constructing children's relationships with fathers.
This section addresses the issues of 'joint custody'
of children and conciliation schemes through a
discussion of the implications of these practices in
America. This section concludes with a discussion
of the general trend away from 'law' and legal rules
in this area, towards 'private ordering' in conciliations. Finally, it sets out the implications of
that trend for feminist discussions of future policy
in the area of children and divorce in Britain
De l’instant présent à l’éloge de la présence : rôle de la description et illusion référentielle dans l’œuvre de Guillevic
No full textLa tentative d’évoquer une véritable illusion référentielle qui puisse faire percevoir l’objet comme présent dans la représentation parait, dans les poèmes de Guillevic – pourtant poète «des choses» et de la réalité matérielle –, assez rare, en raison d’une extrême précaution dans le recours aux formules descriptives, aux déictiques, à la références à des instants présentés comme réellement vécus dans un « maintenant » autobiographique. Pour Guillevic il est moins question de cette pomme, que de la pomme ; moins d’un matin, que du matin. Le sens des mots « présent » et « présence » change par conséquence, car il ne s’agit plus – dans ces cas-là – d’un présent défini dans l’espace et dans le temps, mais plutôt d’un désir de présence au monde et à soi qui renvoie à un présent intemporel, à un «maintenant» de l’esprit. L'article étudie cette dialectique entre une vraie reproduction de l’instant présent (qui relèverait de la description, au sens large du terme) et, par contre, un désir plus abstrait de «présence», dans le quel l’adverbe maintenant perd tout renvoi déictique pour se réduire à son pur signifié de présence, comme souhait, aspiration, et recherche d’un état d’esprit
Ataxic arm movements after thalamotomy for Parkinsonian tremor
No full textCopyright © 2003 BMJ Publishing GroupVoluntary finger–nose movements of the arm were analysed in six patients undergoing stereotaxic nucleus ventralis intermedius thalamotomy for relief of severe Parkinsonian tremor. In all cases thalamotomy acutely abolished tremor in the contralateral arm. In the early postoperative phase, ataxia of the arm contralateral to the operated side was also seen. Ataxia was transient, lasting between 7 and 21 days postoperatively. This observation suggests that a lesion of the Vim nucleus interrupts cerebellar input to the thalamus, and supports the concept that abnormal cerebellar activity is an important contributor to the generation of tremor in Parkinson’s disease.T E Kimber, B P Brophy, P D Thompso
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
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