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Grandma, What Big Fears You Have! Cultural Femininity in Little Red Riding Hood
No full textAmanda Clapcich’s essay explores the evolving representations of femininity in various retellings of Little Red Riding Hood, analyzing how each version reflects its cultural moment’s attitudes toward gender, sexuality, and power. Using a post-structural lens, the paper examines literary and oral traditions from Egbert of Liège’s Christianized 11th-century variant to contemporary feminist reimaginings by Angela Carter. Clapcich highlights key shifts in narrative agency, the portrayal of the wolf as a symbol of male desire or societal threat, and the protagonist’s journey from innocence to sexual autonomy. By unpacking versions by Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Tex Avery, and Carter, the essay argues that Little Red Riding Hood serves as a mirror of evolving social norms and a battleground for the representation of female identity and empowerment
I Dreamt Last Night of the Three Weird Sisters: Fate as Depicted Through Textiles
No full textFate has long occupied a central role in humanity’s imagination, belief, and sense of self. It is fascinating, mystifying, and often frustrating. Fate, fortune, destiny: all seem to be apportioned arbitrarily, sometimes unfairly. To many Indo-European cultures, this pointed to a divine agency predetermining their longevity and prosperity. Specifically, they pointed to supernatural women meting out fate at the birth of every child, often determined through spinning and weaving. This tripartite imagery—that of otherworldly women controlling the destiny of Man through the production of textiles—has worked its way into the imaginations of the general population as well as those in academia. It would be reasonable, then, to assume that there is a vast amount of textual references representing these three core images, however there is only a small body of evidence linking all three. Simply because there is an absence of historical evidence for it in no way means that it is absent from history. The persistence of this metaphor alone merits its consideration, and the imagery of textile arts is so well suited to the metaphysical idea of fate that it is no large logical leap to connect all three
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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