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THE EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION and THE SPECIALISED LANGUAGE
No full textThe evolution of the European construction from a dream to an economic and then political solid reality generated numerous official meetings, official documents and legislation which together gave birth to a specific terminology. Within the Romanian vocabulary the communitary terminology covers a new conceptual field which appeared after 1989. The communitary specialized terminology cannot be conceived or annalysed without having in mind the political, legal and institutional framework of the European Union on the one hand; on the other hand, due to its novelty and in spite of the dissemination policy, this terminology is still a rather closed code, not very accessible for the wide public, because of the communication conditions it requires and not necessarily because of its nature. The definitions of communitary terms are usually explicit definitions but most often the definition is based on the context. Most people will agree that the terminology and acronyms of the European Union are difficult to follow, even for those working within the sound of the European Community bells. Eurojargon can be very confusing to the general public. Eurospeak, eurojargon, eurobabble can be very tiresome to comprehend and quick definitions are often impossible to find. Eurojargon could be an attempt to give us Europeans a head start in understanding what is being talked about by people in and out of suits in Europe.European Union; specialised terminology; eurojargon
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Creativity as an urban term in the contemporary smart cities’ education
Get PDFToday, when the quantity of information that we have at our disposal in every domain of knowledge is huge, and the quality that we can achieve is particularly high, creativity is a major cross-curricular goal in education. The optimal management of the gigantic pool of information that we have available and the creation of new associations between ideas, new concepts can not be accomplished in the absence of creativity. In this context, within the foreign language class, creativity can play a double role, of the premise and the objective to be attained. Relying on the creative potential of children, the teacher can imagine contexts and activities to facilitate the learning of language structures and vocabulary related to the children’s familiar universe and daily activities. At the same time, it is precisely such contexts that can positively influence the development of the creative potential of small learners who are making their first steps towards discovering a new languages and civilisations
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE IN ENTERPRISES
No full textDiscussing about the “culture” of a firm has become a trend among managers, advisors and with meanings somehow special among scientists. This trend might become out-ofdate someday, but not without leaving traces. The organizational culture has become an updated term as well as the concepts of organizational structure, strategy and control. The attribute of “culture” given to an enterprise is a relatively recent phenomenon, at least in Romania where it has been used after the 90`s. The term of organizational culture occurred first in the specialized literature in English of the 1960’s as a synonym for “climate”. The culture of an enterprise reflects the enterprise founders’ vision or mission. The founders set the early culture by presenting an image of what the enterprise must be. They are not compelled by customs or ideologies.culture; organisation; corporate; management; organisational culture
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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