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Richard Gough, Peter Peckard, and the Problem of Little Gidding
No full textThis article explores the ways in which Little Gidding and its inhabitants-including the leader of that pious seventeenth-century household, Nicholas Ferrar-were remembered in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The memory of Little Gidding was shaped, in part, by a passage in Richard Gough\u27s British Topography, in which Gough dismissed Nicholas Ferrar as a \u27useless enthusiast\u27. Gough\u27s attack was answered by the liberal churchman Peter Peckard, who defended the reputation of his wife\u27s ancestor in his Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar. And yet Peckard\u27s response to the Ferrars of Little Gidding was not entirely approving: While Peckard celebrated their piety and benevolence, he also worried over their \u27ceremonials\u27 and their \u27austerities\u27. This article presents a reading of the Memoirs, as well as a study of the relationship between Peckard\u27s text and other contemporary sources, in order to shed light on the complex nature of Peckard\u27s liberal Anglicanism
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
Literary heroism and the economies of excess, 1650-1750.
No full textStudents of Milton, Dryden, Pope, and their culture sometimes find an exaggerated faith in military heroism, while other critics discover an equally virulent anti-heroism. This dissertation, which interprets epics, epic translations, panegyrics, rhymed plays, and non-fiction prose, unites these opposite evaluations of heroism by seeing the heroic idea from 1650 to 1750 as inherently a contradiction: a force that exceeds containment must nonetheless be contained; a hero who surpasses social norms should nonetheless serve and submit to society; and finally, an excessive violence is asked to limit and cancel itself out, thus terminating in peace. The ambivalence toward the hero arises from and speaks to a history of power, violence, and personal greatness, a history in which each strong military leader after Cromwell raises the specter of military dictatorship. The stabilization of a constitutional monarchy under William III helps to guard the social order from heroic self-assertion, whether as tyranny or as usurpation. But a more profound solution emerges from the economic order developing after 1688. As such writers as Charles Davenant and Bernard Mandeville see the wars of William and Anne enmeshed in an economy of speculation and credit, they imagine the hero as produced within and by a complex social structure. This study thus traces the shift from a "primitivist" model of heroism, wherein the hero stands outside society in the customary position of the savage, to an "economic" model, in which the hero or heroic poet becomes an effect of a social condition larger than himself.PhDEnglish Language and LiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/103564/1/9332040.pdfDescription of 9332040.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
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
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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