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Illustration, General Charles Ferguson Smith
No full textThis black and white illustration is of Charles Ferguson Smith, a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and as a Union General in the American Civil War. Smith is depicted as wearing a dark suit, vest, and tie with a white shirt with a high collar. Smith\u27s name is captioned beneath the illustration. This illustration is from volume five of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-images/1231/thumbnail.jp
Smith, Charles Ferguson, 1807-1862 (SC 1011)
Full text linkFinding aid and full-text scan (Click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1011. General Order Number 32, 11 November 1861, issued at Paducah, Kentucky, by Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith. Order contains reports of the troops under the command of Brigadier General Eleazer Arthur Paine that had recently marched to Milburn, Kentucky. They are described as a “mere armed mob” and reprimanded for looting. Includes data about Smith
Charles Ferguson and the "Broadband Problem"
Full text linkCharles Ferguson has published a book that advocates a major increase in government intervention in the U.S. market for high-speed, "broadband" Internet services. His proposals are based on a faulty understanding of the effects of current telecommunications regulation and unsubstantiated claims that current participants in the broadband marketplace are exercising monopoly power. His policy recommendations would not only fail to accelerate the pace of broadband diffusion in the United States, but they would surely provide a disincentive for carriers to invest in the network upgrades required to extend broadband and to provide even higher-speed Internet access for U.S. consumers.Technology and Industry, Regulatory Reform
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
General Charles Ferguson Smith and the Henry-Donelson Campaign
No full textOne of the most puzzling dramas that history has, directed is the unique role played by Charles Ferguson Smith, veteran of two wars, instructor of major Civil War officers, both Confederate and Unionist, and unsung hero of the first major battle in the Western Theater during the Civil War. His subordinate position at that time was considered one of the strangest anomalies of the war. William Tecumseh Sherman has stated that neither he nor Ulysses S. Grant, both of whom Smith had instructed, would have become renowned officers had it not been for Smith\u27s untimely death early in 1862. A study of Smith\u27s career confirms Sherman\u27s statement. It is impressively regrettable that this stalwart man, possessor of convictions of unquestionable value, never realized his full potential as a major officer during the Civil War. But more impressive, perhaps, is the manner in which he conducted himself as a subordinate to those who had, at one time, been his subordinates. This, then, was Charles F. Smith--a person of vast experience, great successes, and admirable qualities-who knew how to follow as well as to lead
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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