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Caribbean Report 10-08-2001
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:25)2. Guyana's Opposition challenges the clean slate given to general elections last March. Barry Ramsaran of the People's Progressive Party and Desmond Hoyte of the Peoples National Congress are interviewed. Colin Smith reports (00:26-03:21)3. United Nations preparatory conference on racism ends without an agreement on the inclusion of slavery. United Nations Human Rights Chief Mary Robinson, Afro-American Historian Manning Marlboro and Barbados Delegate to the Geneva meeting David Commissiong are interviewed. Orin Gordon and Emma-Jane Kirby reports (03:22-11:374. West Indies cricket administration says Wes Hall must restore democracy to the game in the region. Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board Bishwa Panday is interviewed (11:38-15:18
Caribbean Report 15-08-2001
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:24)2. Controversial list and Caribbean mission to Libya will go ahead without Antigua and Barbuda. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves and Dominica's Opposition Leader Edison James are interviewed (00:25-04:42)3. Jamaica's political leaders agree to meet as violence erupts again in West Kingston. Conrad Hamilton reports from Kingston, Jamaica (04:43-06:18)4. Trinidadian Prime Minister Basdeo Panday tones down the rhetoric. Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and Senior Cabinet Minister Trevor Sudama are interviewed. Tony Fraser reports (06:19-08:06)5. Caribbean countries have made clear that as part of the group of developing nations they are not keen on a new rounds of global trade talks. Economic Consultant and Former Head of Economics at the Commonwealth Secretariat Bishnodat Persad is interviewed (08:07-11:26)6. Dozens of police officers on the US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico could be on their way to jail following an investigation by Federal and Local Authorities. FBI spokesman in San Juan, Puerto Rico Eric Rivera is interviewed and Emma Joseph reports (11:27-13:16)7. Non-governmental organisation in the United States are divided on whether the US should be a willing partner on this month's United Nations conference on racism. Barbados Representative David Commissiong and William Spriggs of the National Urban League are interviewed. Bertrand Niles reports (13:17-15:20
Caribbean Report 14-07-2003
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:27)2. Montserrat’s Governor Tony Longrigg says that the health threat from the heavy volcanic ash is being monitored. Islanders have taken to wearing ash masks to avoid breathing in the polluted air. The Governor provides details of the clean-up and aid operations via a telephone interview (00:28-03:11)3. In Guyana, a change to the law that would ban discrimination against homosexuals appears unlikely. Although Guyana’s Parliament voted for such a change two years ago, President Barrath Jagdeo refuses to sign the law because of intense lobbying from religious leaders not in support (03:12-05:36)4. MPs in Trinidad and Tobago react to a sharp rise in kidnapping by approving tough new laws but the government believes these measures do not go far enough. With a slim four-seat majority in Parliament some Opposition support is necessary to make existing laws even tougher (05:37-08:57)5. There is a staggering eighty percent reduction in the Caribbean’s coral reefs over the past thirty years according to a UK report. Causes of the decline are both natural and man-made. Dr. Isabel Cortes, a specialist in tropical marine biology at the UK University of East Anglia (UEA) says there is reason to be concerned (08:58-09:56)6. The three-day conference of Rastafarians at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica is drawing to a close. Hundreds of ‘dreads’ from all over the world have been discussing their big issues during this ‘Rastafari Global Conference’. One of the organisers Sister Mitzi Williams provides highlights of these discussions (09:57-12:41)7. Tributes pour in for Nelson Mandela who is celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday. Barbadian black activist David Commissiong hails ‘Madiba’ as a hero to the Caribbean and correspondent Ken Richards adds his congratulations (12:42-15:31
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
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