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A Tour of Bethune-Cookman College with President Bronson, circa 1990
No full textThis video features a tour of Bethune Cookman College with President Bronson. President Bronson, Dr. Ann D. Taylor, Dr. Louise Rosemond, and other faculty highlight the different disciplines, academic programs, and career opportunities offered at Bethune-Cookman College
Volunteers - a way of encouraging active community participation?
No full textIn 1999 The Library Association commissioned David Haynes Associates and Information Management Associates to investigate the extent of the use of volunteers in UK public libraries. The research also examined the roles and potential roles for volunteers, current management practice and policy. The research concluded with draft good practice guidelines on the use and management of volunteers for local authorities. This article reports on one aspect of the research findings, notably looking at how public library authorities can work with, and engage volunteers, which in turn can contribute to their overall policy of social inclusion and increased community engagement in the local delivery of services
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
B C Book, 1937-1938
No full textThis handbook contains information about the university, as well as rules and regulations regarding student life and activities. It also provides information about clubs, their officers and members. In addition to club photographs, the following individuals are pictured here: Albritton, Claryce; Baskin, Scipio; Belle, Theodore; Bethune, Mary McLeod; Bond, Esmond C.; Cameron, Ralph Phylyp Jr.; Cherry, Hazel D.; Lawson, Florence; Lucas, E. Romeo; Sheffield, John Wesley; and Simpson, Abram L. A roster of students can be found at the back of the catalog
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
A cultural history of professional teacher preparation at Bethune-Cookman College
No full textThesis (Ed.D.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.In a thematic pattern of historical considerations, this study has made a critical and interpretive analysis of the development of teacher preparation at Bethune-Cookman College for the purpose of helping people in positions of responsibility to pattern the future growth of the College.
There is a sense in which Bethune-Cookman College is a model for a utopian design in which the program of the College is recreated toward an educational potential for developing a teacher who may effectively deal with the problems of a crisis culture, on the one hand, and at the same time assist the Negro in lifting his self-image through education.
The study taps the reservoirs of historical experience in order to reveal the problems of today in enlightening perspective. The study presses the point that the utopian design may emerge from such a perspective. Therefore, Bethune-Cookman College is demonstrated to be in a state of readiness for social reconstruction.
Through the pragmatic method of writing history, the study proceeds thematically as follows:
1. It defines the influences of the plantation society of the ante-bellum
period and the educational efforts of the postbellum period as they are
residual in the present-day social-cultural milieu.
2. It observes the conditions surrounding the Negro teacher, particularly with
regard to certain subtle practices of eidetic image, color visibility, and
stigmas of oppression which depreciate self-esteem and breed inferiority.
3. It hypothesizes that education may be designed to give value to freedom of
choice and decision-making; that freedom is the result of intelligent choice
and is created by those who seek it; that the teacher must be liberated from
an inferior selfimage and find security in self-esteem; that in the rich
symbolisms of the background of the College, the personality and faith of
the founder, and the cultural heredity derived from the history of the
College, there is the potential for institutional fulfillment; that as the
institution finds fulfillment, it may hopefully liberate those who study
there; and that a liberated teacher is prepared to offer a liberalizing
instructional program.
4. It elaborates on the possible outcomes of the hypothesized alternatives
through responding to eight significant questions based upon eight human
wishes:
a. For the College's more effective partnership with social change
b. For ways in which the College may promote cultural innovations for
freedom
c. For preserving values inherent in the present College plan through
adding innovations that keep pace with cultural change
d. For broadening the instructional curriculum to cope with crisis conflict
e. For utilizing the symbolic philosophy and practices of the College to
enrich its offerings toward the alleviation of sources of conflict
f. For giving leadership to the search for futures and for developing
advance preparation toward realizing the futures anticipated
g. For developing a curriculum designed to remove the stigma of social
deprivation from the presence of the Negro in society
h. For utilizing the heart-head-hand philosophy as a symbolic guide toward
lifting the self-image of the Negro.
5. It proposes ways of establishing the new design for teacher preparation, and
for testing it out in positive social situations that relate to uses of the
past and to the fulfillment of the predictable future.
The study concludes that there are immeasureable possibilities for recreating Bethune-Cookman College to fulfill the new design that may transform the educational function of teacher education, not just for Bethune-Cookman College alone or just for the Negro group alone, but for all mankind.2999-01-0
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