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Jesuit art in the Paraguay reductions - Rev. Clement J. McNaspy, S.J.
Full text linkRev. Clement J. McNaspy, S.J., professor, author and curator at Loyola University New Orleans, discusses the Jesuit mission in the reductions - or settlements - in Paraguay.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/archives-posters/1075/thumbnail.jp
Polonia\u27s Child: The Public Life of Clement J. Zablocki
No full textTo date, no one has documented the lasting legacies of Clement J. Zablocki\u27s forty-one years of public life. I prepared this biography by consulting Zablocki\u27s political papers on deposit at Marquette University. In addition, I consulted relevant collections at the National Archives, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee County Historical Society, and presidential libraries throughout the nation. Several of Zablocki\u27s acquaintances were interviewed. Clement J. Zablocki represented the blue collar, heavily Polish-American South Side of Milwaukee County in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1943 to 1948 and in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1983. Due to his personal popularity and family connections, the church organist won election to the State Senate in 1942. His desire to purge leftists from the local Democratic Party led to his election to Congress in 1948. In that body, Zablocki defended both mainstream liberal and Catholic interests. His overwhelming popularity made him a power broker in Wisconsin, as he helped elect William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson to state offices and John F. Kennedy to the presidency. Zablocki helped change the House Foreign Affairs Committee from an insignificant panel to an important power base. An ardent internationalist, Zablocki advocated using foreign aid to foster economic development. He strongly supported the Vietnam War--even to the point of chairing Lyndon B. Johnson\u27s doomed 1968 Wisconsin primary campaign. Realizing that the unpopular Vietnam War threatened his position, Zablocki transformed his image from a militant hawk to an arms control advocate. He later secured the passage of legislation designed to restrain the Imperial Presidency. Most importantly, he was the primary author of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. In subsequent years, Zablocki sought to maintain presidential flexibility with strict accountability after controversial decisions. In 1977, he became the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman despite strong opposition from the supporters of Israel. He attempted to cooperate with President Jimmy Carter, despite Carter\u27s bungling leadership. From 1981 until Zablocki\u27s death in 1983, President Ronald Reagan used the office of the presidency to circumvent many congressional restrictions authored by Zablocki
Alien Registration- Sawyer, Clement J. (Roxbury, Oxford County)
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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
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
Graphite Block
No full textThis block of high purity graphite was donated to the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1963 by Clement J. Rodden, director of the AEC New Brunswick Laboratory. The graphite block is similar to the graphite tested in quantity by the National Bureau of Standards in the early 1940s. In 1940, NBS Director Lyman J. Briggs (then a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Uranium) secured funding from the U.S. Army and Navy for research into the use of pure graphite in a nuclear chain reaction. High purity graphite blocks like this one were constructed into a large cube in which containers of uranium oxide were placed at intervals. The graphite functioned as a moderator, slowing neutron speed and allowing the uranium to achieve a nuclear chain reaction. High purity graphite was expensive, but the graphite produced commercially in the United States and available at lower cost contained many impurities, including boron, which had strong neutron-absorbing characteristics. Rodden led a group of NBS researchers to develop methods to analyze graphite purity. They discovered that the source of the boron found in commercial graphite was the coke used in its production. Commercial manufacturers substituted petroleum in place of the coke and altered their manufacturing techniques, and by mid-1942, a much more highly purified form of graphite was being commercially produced in the United States.[H] 10.5 cm [W] 5.5 cm [L] 10 c
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
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