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Including Unincorporated Communities Into The Zoning Database
No full textFlores-Castillo, Sandra. (2022). Including Unincorporated Communities Into The Zoning Database. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256913
“Look, a black man!” Elements to think about racism and resistance
No full textLas instituciones educativas colombianas están marcadas por las diferencias: de género, étnicas, raciales, de clase social, de estilos de aprendizaje, de condición física, etc. Las recientes políticas de la diversidad celebran estas diferencias y resaltan que aprendemos de y en la diversidad. De hecho, hoy las escuelas nos acercan a ese otro “desconocido” del sistema educativo que se nos presenta extraño, peligroso y hasta amenazador: ocupa nuestro espacio, se sienta a nuestro lado, nos mira y nos habla de manera diferente. Pero la cuestión no es un asunto de celebraciones, como pretenden las políticas públicas; las diferencias por sí solas no crean solidaridades; las exclusiones históricas, menos aún. El “blanco” es y ha sido educado para ver e interpretar el mundo desde los ojos del privilegio. La institución educativa, desde su instauración por Santander y la entrega a la Iglesia, lo mismo que desde la instauración del Lancasterismo, ha fallado reiteradamente en proporcionar una educación equitativa, en la que quepan todos; no solo los ciudadanos hopublicaciones/mbres, blancos, cristianos, heterosexuales y de cierta clase social. La escuela arrastra una deuda histórica con las mujeres, los afrodescendientes y los indígenas, y con las personas con condiciones físicas y mentales diferentes: las personas sordas, las personas ciegas y una larga lista de excluidos. Las nuevas políticas educativas centradas en la celebración de la diversidad, como un bien abstracto, fallan al promover cambios “ingenuos” y superficiales. Tras la máscara de la diversidad se ocultan enfoques aditivos, que suman y no integran, y que no examinan críticamente la escuela como una institución mediada políticamente en la que hay una implicación de factores sociales, históricos, culturales y económicos, que históricamente han generado un sistema profundamente desigual y opresor.Colombian educational institutions are marked by differences: gender, ethnic, racial, social class, learning styles, physical condition, etc. Recent diversity policies celebrate these differences and highlight that we learn from and in diversity. In fact, today schools bring us closer to that other “stranger” in the educational system who appears strange, dangerous and even threatening: he occupies our space, sits next to us, looks at us and speaks to us in a different way. But the issue is not a matter of celebrations, as public policies intend; Differences alone do not create solidarities; historical exclusions, even less so. The “white” is and has been educated to see and interpret the world through the eyes of privilege. The educational institution, since its establishment by Santander and its delivery to the Church, as well as since the establishment of Lancasterism, has repeatedly failed to provide an equitable education, in which everyone fits; not just male, white, Christian, heterosexual citizens of a certain social class. The school carries a historical debt with women, people of African descent and indigenous people, and with people with different physical and mental conditions: deaf people, blind people and a long list of those excluded. New educational policies focused on celebrating diversity, as an abstract good, fail to promote “naive” and superficial changes. Behind the mask of diversity are hidden additive approaches, which add and do not integrate, and which do not critically examine the school as a politically mediated institution in which there is an implication of social, historical, cultural and economic factors, which have historically generated a deeply unequal and oppressive system.Bogot
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
Les fruist du désert : l'écriture de la nourriture chez Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros et Pat Mora
No full textFood studies represents a thriving area of research, perhaps because the necessity of reforming a vulnerable and faulty food system is becoming increasingly evident. Studies of food in literature abound, suggesting that literary texts can play an important role in addressing food issues. This is true of the works of contemporary writers Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros and Pat Mora, as this study shows through analysing representations of food in their writing. While most studies of food in literature, especially ethnic literature, focus on food as a marker of identity, this dissertation argues that relationality, rather than identity, is the main focus of the writing of food in the works of Castillo, Cisneros and Mora, where what is at stake is not so much the delineation of boundaries but rather the practice of solidarity. Combining close readings, socio-historical contextualization and references to feminist criticism, critical race theory and ecocriticism, this work explores the myriad of relationships that food leads to in these texts, which foreground the role of food in reinforcing oppression but also suggest that an alternative vision of food can repair relationships and re-weave broken links, especially those between humans and non-humans. Tracking the conflicting stories of food that can be seen in the works of Castillo, Cisneros and Mora, this study shows the critical, subversive, but also ultimately optimistic nature of their writing of food, which paves the way for alternative ways of producing, consuming and thinking about food.Les études sur la nourriture ou « food studies » sont en plein essor, reflétant l’urgence d’une transformation du système alimentaire global dont les fragilités et les dérives apparaissent de manière de plus en plus criante. L’étude de la nourriture jouit aussi d’une certaine popularité dans le domaine des analyses littéraires, suggérant que les textes littéraires ont toute leur place dans la réflexion sur les enjeux alimentaires. L’analyse des représentations de la nourriture dans les textes des écrivaines contemporaines Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros et Pat Mora effectuée dans cette thèse confirme cette idée, en montrant comment ces œuvres éclairent le rôle de l’alimentation dans les rapports de pouvoir et la possibilité de transformer la nourriture en antidote contre cette violence. Si les études sur la nourriture dans la littérature en général et en particulier dans la littérature des minorités se sont beaucoup concentrées sur la question de l’identité, cette thèse défend l’idée que l’écriture de la nourriture proposée par Mora, Cisneros et Castillo n’est pas tant une écriture de l’identité que de la relation, où l’enjeu n’est pas de délimiter des frontières mais de concevoir une éthique de l’interdépendance. À travers des microlectures, des mises en contexte socio-historiques et des emprunts aux études féministes, à la « critical race theory » et à l’écocritique, ce travail explore les multiples relations à l’autre invoquées par la nourriture dans ces textes, qui montrent comment la nourriture participe de relations oppressives tout en suggérant qu’un autre rapport à la nourriture peut au contraire venir réparer les relations et retisser des liens brisés, notamment ceux entre l’humain et la nature. S’attachant à décrire les multiples récits de la nourriture qui se confrontent dans l’espace des textes, l’analyse met en avant la dimension critique, subversive, mais aussi optimiste de leur écriture de la nourriture, qui dessine une voie vers des manières différentes de produire, consommer et penser la nourriture
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
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