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The non-independent territories of the Caribbean and Pacific: Continuity or change?
No full textBy the end of the 20th century the once great modern European empires had gone - well, almost! Today, scattered around the world, there are small territories, remnants of empire that for one reason and another have eschewed independence and retain links of various kinds with the former imperial power. This edited collection focuses primarily on those territories in the Caribbean and Pacific which retain these 'colonial' ties. The issues affecting them such as constitutional reform, the maintenance of good governance, economic development, and the risks of economic vulnerability are important concerns for all territories both independent and non-independent. However, the ways in which these issues are addressed are somewhat different in small sub-national jurisdictions because of the particular regimes in place and the tensions inherent between the territories and their respective metropoles. The book brings together academics, policy-makers, constitutional lawyers, and civil servants to provide an insight into the complexities, contradictions, challenges and opportunities that help to define the non-independent territories of the Caribbean and Pacific, and their long-standing but sometimes awkward ties with their metropolitan powers
Grenada: Revolution and Invasion
No full textGrenada: Revolution and Invasion is a wide-ranging collection of essays by academics in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, each with a unique perspective on the revolution and its effects. The Grenada events of 1979–1983, especially the revolution’s tragic demise, brought the country to the world stage. Since then, Grenada has retreated to its place as a small state, with little significance in shaping the global political and economic landscape within which small states operate. Nevertheless, powerful resonances remain, in the island, regionally and internationally. This volume seeks both to remind us of the tumultuous past, drawing lessons for the present generation, and to begin to suggest possible political approaches for the near, if inevitably uncertain, future
A political history of the United Kingdom banana trade A matter of interests
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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
1965 University of Utah ski team. Top row, Left to Right: Rich Groth, Ladd Christensen, John Miller, Howard Collins, Matz Jensen, and Marvin Melville (coach). Bottom row, Left to Right: Steve Clegg, Peter Karns, Karen Korfanta, Jean Saubert, Maria Witherall, Bjorn Loken, and David Engen.
No full textBlack and white photograph of 1965 University of Utah ski. Top row, Left to Right: Rich Groth, Ladd Christensen, John Miller, Howard Collins, Matz Jensen, and Marvin Melville (coach). Bottom row, Left to Right: Steve Clegg, Peter Karns, Karen Korfanta, Jean Saubert, Maria Witherall, Bjorn Loken, and David Engen. At the football stadium, University of Utah
1965 University of Utah ski team coached by Marvin Melville. Top row, L to R: Rich Groth, Ladd Christensen, John Miller, Howard Collins, Matz Jenssen, and Marvin Melville (coach). Bottom row, L to R: Steve Clegg, Peter Karns, Karen Korfanta, Jean Suabert, Maria Witherall, Bjorn Loken, and David Engen.
No full textPhoto of the 1965 University of Utah ski team coached by Marvin Melville. Top row, L to R: Rich Groth, Ladd Christensen, John Miller, Howard Collins, Matz Jenssen, and Marvin Melville (coach). Bottom row, L to R: Steve Clegg, Peter Karns, Karen Korfanta, Jean Suabert, Maria Witherall, Bjorn Loken, and David Enge
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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