178,271 research outputs found
Benjamin R. Barber. Djihad Versus Mac World
No full textDaoud Zakya. Benjamin R. Barber. Djihad Versus Mac World. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1997 - 62ᵉannée. pp. 450-451
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Mutations sociales et spatiales dans l'Ounein et le pays Id Daoud ou Ali (Haut Atlas marocain).
No full textCrépeau Christian. Mutations sociales et spatiales dans l'Ounein et le pays Id Daoud ou Ali (Haut Atlas marocain).. In: Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°41-42, 1986. Désert et montagne au Maghreb, sous la direction de P.-R. Baduel. pp. 249-263
Edge Even Graceful Labeling of Polar Grid Graphs
No full textEdge Even Graceful Labelingwas first defined byElsonbaty and Daoud in 2017. An edge even graceful labeling of a simple graph G with p vertices and q edges is a bijection f from the edges of the graph to the set { 2 , 4 , … , 2 q } such that, when each vertex is assigned the sum of all edges incident to it mod 2 r where r = max { p , q } , the resulting vertex labels are distinct. In this paper we proved necessary and sufficient conditions for the polar grid graph to be edge even graceful graph
"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.
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
EFL/ESP teacher development and classroom innovation through teacher-initiated action research
No full textThis study is an investigation of the potential of teacher-initiated action research for
EFL/ESP teacher development and classroom innovation. The Collaborative Academic
Writing Research Project (CAWRP), on which it is based, was carried out at the ESP
Centre, Damascus University, in 1996-1997. It was in two phases, Baseline and
Main. The researcher, a teacher in the context, assumed a participatory and facilitating
role. The pedagogic problem was the teaching of research paper writing to
postgraduate students. The CAWRP was proposed to ease this problem and introduce
classroom innovation through teacher-initiated action research, the long-term aim of
which was continuous professional development. The baseline research aimed at
articulating a picture of teacher and context needs and assessing project viability. The
proposal was refined in the light of the findings, and a programme of teacher
development activities was agreed with the participants. This was implemented in the
Main Phase, which had three stages: Orientation, Research and Reporting, and
Summative Evaluation and Follow-up. The role of the researcher was to facilitate the
teachers to self-direct their professional learning and introduce needed pedagogic
innovations.
The thesis is in eight chapters and 32 appendices. Chapter One sets the scene
and introduces the study. Chapter Two focuses on the baseline investigation: its
methodology, findings, and their implications for the Main Phase study. Chapter Three
is a review of the relevant literature in the fields of teacher development and classroom
innovation. Chapter Four focuses on project design and methodology and gives more
details on the principles, values, strategies, and procedures that guided project
implementation and how they worked out in action. Chapter Five reports the findings,
focusing on the contribution of the Orientation Stage activities to the development of
the teacher group as a whole (a total of 20 out of 23 Centre teachers). Its main sources
of data are recordings, feedback questionnaires, and participant observation. Chapter
Six focuses on the teachers who carried out action research and reported on it (8 out
of the 20 Orientation Stage participants). It presents two case studies of frill
participants, starting with their entry points and showing how they developed in the
Research and Reporting Stage. One case exemplifies the experienced teachers and
those who did research individually, and the other the novices and those who worked in
collaboration. Chapter Seven reports on the participants' sununative evaluation of the
project and the effect of this evaluation on project continuity. Chapter Eight
summarises the main findings and evaluates them with reference to the literature, on
the one hand, and design principles and methodology, on the other. In this chapter, I
have looked critically at the lessons learnt from the study, discussed its significance and
limitations, and put forward some recommendations. The appendices include some of
the materials and documentary evidence used in the research
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
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