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The Debt (Poems)
No full textThe Debt is a collection of poems exploring tensions between tradition and innovation, between past and present. Set largely against the backdrop of post-moratorium St. John’s, Newfoundland, the collection is based on my own experiences as the product of a province unmoored by loss and grief. The opening long poem, “Crown,” sets the tone for the project, juxtaposing formal verse and prose poetry in a vernacular commentary on culture and social class. The Debt is about development and change, idleness and activism, ecological stewardship, feminism, motherhood, the personal and the political. It is also about resistance—against the encroaching forces of greed and capitalism, even against the accumulated notions of the self. The poems are an argument for community and connection in an age increasingly associated with isolation of the individual. The Debt explores the dues we all owe: to nature, to those who came before us, and to one another.Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-56)
Orotating parafundities: reading Hopkins, Dickinson, Murray, and Carson autistically
No full textAutistic people use and understand language differently than do non-autistic people; this principle is chief among diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and yet little attention has been paid to this phenomenon as it pertains to autistic engagement with literature. This thesis examines the generative potential of what I have termed “autistic close reading” to unlock new interpretations of work by four poets whose writing has been considered unusual, impenetrable, perplexing, and weird: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Les Murray (1938-2019), and Anne Carson (1950-). Accepting the premise that autistic reading experiences are, like many autistic experiences, “particular and peculiar,” I look at how autistic cognitive style, sensory responsiveness, communication differences, and social alterity work to create unique relationships between autistic readers and the literary material we enjoy. Engaging a taxonomy of autistic language usage developed by theorist Julia Miele Rodas, I examine the distinct overlap between autistic expression and formal poetic technique, and I explore potential implications of this overlap in terms of language use and language reception by autistic people. Drawing on work by Jack Halberstam, M. Remi Yergeau, Ralph John Savarese, and Nick Walker, this thesis takes a neuroqueer and neurocosmopolitan approach to Hopkins, Dickinson, Murray, and Carson as cultural figures, and proposes new contexts to elucidate their poems and projects. The dissertation is bracketed by first-person commentary on my own relationship to language as an autistic poet, and on my experiences as an autistic researcher. As my title indicates, this thesis is as much about the act of reading while autistic as it is about the critical assertions engendered by such an act.Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-201
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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