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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
The ideal conflict zone interpreter. Military perspectives and perceptions of interpreters' skills and attitudes
No full textAlthough the armed forces generally prefer to use military interpreters, most of the language support on the ground in recent conflicts has been provided by locally recruited civilians. They are described as lacking the necessary skills and professionalism for the job. Even though defining the expectations about civilian interpreters would be essential for their recruitment and training, what exactly these skills are and what actually constitutes the ideal interpreter is a topic that has been scarcely approached by interpreting scholars. The issue obtained almost no attention from military researchers. To fill this gap, this contribution aims to identify the skills and attitudes that military institutions and peacekeepers expect of their “ideal interpreter”, using interviews with fifteen officers who worked daily with interpreters in the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Despite the limitations, both in sample size and method, results show that the ideal interpreter often possesses skills not necessarily linked to the interpreting word, like courage or the ability to act as a cultural advisor, but also that the preference of the armed forces alternates between the objective, professional interpreter, and the embedded military one. Although representing a small sample, interviewees’ perspectives and perceptions could be extended to several types of peace-support missions and crises and can also be a useful reference framework for the recruitment and training of local civilian interpreters
Onderzoek Verplaatsingsgedrag Vlaanderen 4.3 (2010-2011): Verkeerskundige interpretatie van de belangrijkste tabellen (Analyserapport)
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Onderzoek Verplaatsingsgedrag Vlaanderen 4.3 (2010-2011): Verkeerskundige interpretatie van de belangrijkste tabellen (Analyserapport)
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Una discusión acerca de las nociones de "guerra" y "conquista" en Mesoamérica entre el Posclásico tardío y el periodo colonial
No full textDespués de las últimas conmemoraciones acerca de los 500 años de la caída de Mexico-Tenochtitlan, mucho se ha discutido acerca de la necesidad de repensar no solamente el concepto de guerra en Mesoamérica, sino también el de Conquista. De hecho, si no hay muchos estudios en la dimensión mesoamericana con respecto a la guerra en general, si los comparamos con otras zonas del mundo, todavía menos hay con respecto a la idea de conquista que esos pueblos tenían. Muy poco se ha discutido la complejidad del concepto de conquista, que desde la llegada de los españoles se ha usado de una manera totémica y ahistórica. El objetivo de este estudio es intentar individuar la relación que hay entre el concepto de guerra y conquista, según sobresale sobre todo en las fuentes coloniales en nahuatl: ¿Qué tanto difieren estos conceptos entre los pueblos mesoamericanos? ¿Qué tipo de choque cultural y sucesiva elaboración se dio después de la Conquista? Desde el punto de vista metodológico, propongo un estudio de tipo filológico que, intersecándose con la historia militar, se enfoca en el estudio de la ocurrencia de los conceptos de guerra y conquista en las fuentes primarias más conocidas (Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Bernardino de Sahagún, Juan de Pomar). Se considerará mayormente la historia mexica, con algunas incursiones sincrónicas y diacrónicas en la historia tepaneca y tarasca. La hipótesis es que el uso de estas palabras, en el discurso narrativo producido en la época colonial por los varios cronistas, identifique algunas diferencias de corte político e ideológico acerca de los conceptos de guerra y del derecho de conquista, a la hora de referirse a la historia de un pueblo y del otro y que ayude a restituir una concepción más mesoamericana del concepto de Conquista
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
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
Expanding “Communities and Collections” in the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx) to benefit the K-State Community and Beyond
No full textKansas State University has used its institutional repository, the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx), to store and share its first year experience program, K-State First, and notably its common reading program, K-State First Book. We have done so with the aim that the accessibility and preservation of these documents ensures program stability, promotes engagement with first year programming, and provides the ability to foster growth,educational opportunities, and community building outside of K-State. Moving away from research concentrated repositories and taking a more holistic approach to scholarship, especially when realizing the pedagogical significance of collaborative campus programming, institutions can showcase, discover, preserve, and grow programs that shape campus communities and engagement.
This session will provide an overview of K-REx and spotlight the digital archive of the university’s first year experience program and common reading program, K-State First Book. We will discuss the benefits and challenges to expanding the purview of your repositories. We talkthrough the types of materials we decide to host in our repository and why we share what we do. We will also provide recommendations on new ways to evaluate what belongs in institutional repositories and how this diversity can benefit your program, your institution, the community, and others
Ready Player One Program Event Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Ernest Cline at Kansas State University on October 10, 2013. Ernest Cline's book "Ready Player One" was selected as the 2013-2014 common book
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