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“The RBI archives provide a valuable resource for research scholars and others interested in India’s financial history” – Dr R L Sahoo
No full textThe LSE India Summit 2016 featured an exhibition of rare documents from the archives of the Reserve Bank of India. During the conference, Sonali Campion spoke to Chief Archivist Dr R L Sahoo about the RBI’s collection and the process of curating the LSE exhibition
Critical Analysis about the Radiation Direction in the Formation of the Shroud of Turin Image
No full textThe recent studies on the image of the Turin Shroud (TS) lead to think it could have been formed through a not well identified mechanism of energy radiation. In order to remove some lacunas about this imaging process, a reverse engineering method has been applied.
In particular the present work has simulated the image formation of a human face on a cloth by using an ad-hoc developed software. The results of three different directions of the radiation have been simulated, each connected with a particular hypothesis of image formation: diffusive Lambertian direction, perpendicular to the emitting surface and the vertical one.
On the basis of the analysis of the different images produced, some useful comments both about the kind of radiation and the cloth wrapping conditions have been obtained.
The effect of image distortion of a cloth wrapped around a face has been discussed also proposing the most probable law of radiation attenuation with distance.
None of the three hypothesis is able to produce an image comparable with that impressed on the TS thus suggesting that this image is due to a directional but more complex radiation whose laws are considered with corresponding boundary conditions
How undemocratic is the House of Lords?
No full textSonali Campion, Sean Kippin and the Democratic Audit team examine how the UK’s deeply controversial current second chamber, the House of Lords, matches up to the criteria for liberal democracies with bicameral legislatures. Now an almost-all appointed Chamber, the Lords has achieved recent prominence on Brexit and tax credits by exerting some bipartisan influence moderating Commons proposals. However, its members remain creatures of patronage, and wholly unaccountable to the UK’s citizens. All parties except the Tories now support its replacement by an elected Senate. Increasingly only the Tories and Liberal Democrats are still appointing any peers – although there are also a fifth of peers who are ‘crossbenchers’, not taking a party whip
Clovelly Court, Devonshire
No full textAn engraving depicting Clovelly Court in Devonshire, England. This was where Sir James Hamlyn Williams Bart worked. Drawn by G.B. Campion, engraved by Henry Wallis and published by R. Jennings and W. Chaplin in London.https://digital.kenyon.edu/arthistorystudycollection/1273/thumbnail.jp
Bono Sidi : chanson arabe créée par Campion [illustration Henri Bradlay]
No full textBono Sidi : chanson arabe créée par Campion au Petit Casino ; chantée par Sibert ; illustration Bradlay [Henri Bradlay] (série Campion 1916) ; paroles de Gerrard & R. Barré [René Barré] ; musique de Jules Apté ; édition O. Dufrenne, 19 Faubourg Saint-Martin, Paris ; (tampon magasin) “Automatiques / Lyon” ; signature de René Nancy ; [intérieur : aucune mention artiste ; cotage OD283 ; imprimerie Dupré] ; verso catalogue “le concert chez soi (3e série)” et “bon-prime” (medihal-01623794) ; incipit “Je suis un Sidi très chouette / Qui vendait des cacahouettes” ; la notice BNF n’est pas datée (25/10/2017) ; datation (titre et exemplaire) 1917-1918 par cotage (catalogue Daphy) et analyse des titres au catalogue. [Notice mise à jour 25/10/2017
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. 200th Birthday Edition.
No full textReview of Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. 200th Birthday Edition
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