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If print dies so does freedom
Get PDFWhilst we embrace the multimedia excitement of online digital media that replaces print editions with 24-hour publication by the second and in all dimensions, we may also have sleep-walked into Orwell’s dystopian Nineteen Eighty Four world of memory holes and totalitarian surveillance says Tim Croo
Nostalgia: content, triggers, functions
Get PDFSeven methodologically diverse studies addressed 3 fundamental questions about nostalgia. Studies 1 and 2 examined the content of nostalgic experiences. Descriptions of nostalgic experiences typically featured the self as a protagonist in interactions with close others (e.g., friends) or in momentous events (e.g., weddings). Also, the descriptions contained more expressions of positive than negative affect and often depicted the redemption of negative life scenes by subsequent triumphs. Studies 3 and 4 examined triggers of nostalgia and revealed that nostalgia occurs in response to negative mood and the discrete affective state of loneliness. Studies 5, 6, and 7 investigated the functional utility of nostalgia and established that nostalgia bolsters social bonds, increases positive self-regard, and generates positive affect. These findings demarcate key landmarks in the hitherto uncharted research domain of nostalgi
European Fascist Movements: An Introduction
Get PDFThe word fascism took on more pejorative tones through the early 1920s, as observers came to realise that Mussolini had actually provoked much of the violence he claimed to have quashed and that he was ruthlessly eliminating his rivals. Despite the chaotic and unstructured way in which fascism emerged across Europe, historians have been good at imposing their own unifying theories onto these movements, whether as palingenetic ultranationalism or with lists of attributes that comprised a ‘fascist minimum’. The transnational reach of fascism is visible even in the intellectual roots of these movements in the nineteenth century. Organised antisemitic movements emerged in France and across East-Central Europe in the late 1870s. The Italian diplomat Eugenio Coselschi did manage to bring fascists together for an international conference at Montreux in December 1934, but individual movements resisted his attempt to herd them into a single collective organisation
Hot orogens and supercontinent amalgamation: A Gondwanan example from southern India
Get PDFAvailable online 28 November 2014Abstract not availableChris Clark, David Healy, Tim Johnson, Alan S. Collins, Richard J. Taylor, M. Santosh, Nicholas E. Timm
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
The case for making public policy evaluations public
Get PDFThis brief sets out the case for making public policy evaluations public. It first reviews the various challenges associated with impact evaluations, paying particular attention to the unique hurdles involved in evaluating Indigenous policy. Lessons learned from clinical trials registries in medical research are then used to argue that Australian economic and social policy evaluations could be improved by making them public
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
Lessons from myExperiment: Research Objects for Data Intensive Research
No full textThe myExperiment Virtual Research Environment has successfully adopted a Web 2.0 approach in delivering a social web site where scientists can discover, publish and curate scientific workflows and other artefacts. While it shares many characteristics with other Web 2.0 sites, myExperiment’s distinctive features to meet the needs of its research user base include support for credit, attributions and licensing, fine control over privacy, a federation model and the ability to execute workflows. myExperiment now has over 2000 registered users, with thousands more downloading public content, and the largest public collection of workflows, for systems which include Microsoft’s Trident. Created in close collaboration with its research users, myExperiment gives important insights into emerging research practice. As it moves into its second phase we see new forms of sharable Research Object which challenge traditional scholarly publishing and provide an important basis for data-intensive science. To support this, semantic technologies are increasingly coming into play to maximise the potential for reuse and repurposing of experiments
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