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The political roots of city managers in Kansas
No full textForeword by H. Edward Flentje and Chase M. BillinghamCities across Kansas adopted the manager form of government in the twentieth century. This structure, wherein most administrative responsibilities are delegated to a professional manager appointed by a local elected governing body, was designed as a model of “good government”; it would depoliticize local government, professionalize civil service, and root out corruption, graft, and scandal. Despite its nonpolitical orientation, implementing the manager plan involved highly politicized and partisan campaigns in the 1910s, especially in the city of Wichita, where the proposal faced substantial resistance. This article by H. Edward Flentje, originally published in Kansas History in 1984, traces the origins of the manager from of government, its major proponents (especially Wichita Beacon publisher and future governor and U.S. senator Henry J. Allen), and the political struggles that ensued, leading ultimately to its spread across Kansas. In the new foreword to the reprinted article, Flentje and urban sociologist Chase M. Billingham provide historical and political context, update some of the original findings, and situate the legacy of this research within the tradition of urban historical scholarship in Kansas
Book review: Adapting to the land: A history of agriculture in Colorado, by John F. Freeman with Mark E. Uchanski
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Book review: Under fire and under water: Wildfire, flooding, and the fight for climate resilience in the American West, by Bruce E. Cain
No full textThe strategy of video games contents translation in ?grand chase-m‟ game
No full textIn this research, the researcher concerns with the video games translation study. That is the translation strategy of English into Indonesia translation in ?Grand Chase-M? video game published by Davincigames Co., Ltd. The aim of this thesis is to find out how the strategy of ?Grand Chase-M? video game term is translated from English language into Indonesia language in video game. This research uses qualitative method to explore the objectives of the research. The researcher also uses himself in collecting data through several steps: to find the translation strategy contained in the video game, to classify and analyze the types of translation strategy from video game ?Grand Chase-M? based on Alberto translation strategy in video games theory, then determine the most dominant type of translation strategy and describe the translation strategy of ?Grand Chase-M? video game and finally concluding the result. In analyzing the data, the researcher used comparison method to compare between the SL and TL term that were analyzed through the objective of preserving the expectation of video game player. The result of this research shows that 1) there are three type of translation strategy used by the video game translator based on Alberto and other expert video game translation theories, they are: First, 1) Literal translation strategy 8 data, Domestication Strategy 3 data, and 2 Transcreation Strategy. Second, the most dominant type of translation strategy is Literal translation strategy. It has highest frequency data, there are 7 data of 13 total data
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
Further taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae)
No full textChase, M. W., Whitten, W. M. (2011): Further taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa 20 (1): 26-32, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.20.1.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.20.1.
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
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