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The Liberals and the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1909-14
No full textPrime minister H.H. Asquith’s flawed handling of the third Home Rule Bill, the apparent exhaustion of the Irish Parliamentary Party leaders’ initiative, and the electoral decimation of the Liberal and Irish parties in the general election of 1918 are historical problems that have persisted since the publication of George Dangerfield’s The Strange Death of Liberal England. A pervasive scholarly focus on the question of Ulster and the negotiations of British politicians to find a solution has left comparatively unexplored the Liberal/Irish nationalist political dynamic. This thesis examines the political manoeuvrings of the third Home Rule crisis from this unconventional perspective, and considers less extensively researched primary source material. It considers efforts to reanimate the issue of Irish self-government in Britain, and argues that the identification of Home Rule with British democracy caused Liberal enthusiasm to flare in 1914. The thesis presents evidence that the Irish Party leaders were much more strategic in their thinking than has been appreciated hitherto, and that John Redmond thwarted efforts at collusion between Asquith’s government and the Unionist opposition. It also suggests that seeds of the electoral disintegration of the Liberal and Irish Parliamentary parties may be found in the third Home Rule crisis, when the actions of the parties’ leaderships radically diverged from the aspirations and expectations of their respective political constituencies
Alien Registration- Doherty, James H. (Van Buren, Aroostook County)
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An optimisation strategy for evaluating modified Cam clay parameters using self-boring pressuremeter test data
No full textThis paper presents an efficient, practical and automated strategy for deriving Modified Cam Clay parameters from undrained self-boring pressuremeter (SBPM) data. A mixed approach involving a parametric sweep and numerical optimisation is used, with a focus on parameter groups that dominate the Modified Cam Clay response in undrained cavity expansion. The proposed technique is illustrated using data from SBPM tests carried out in soft estuarine clay. The resulting parameters are used to back analyse large scale foundation load tests and are shown to provide an excellent match to the measured foundation response
Key features impacting soil-conductor lateral behaviour as illustrated by centrifuge tests
No full textConductors are a type of pile used during subsea drilling operations to prevent hole collapse and to provide axial support to the well. The response of the conductor to lateral movement, as induced by environmental conditions, contributes to the assessment of fatigue damage of the entire wellhead system. Such assessment requires soil-structure interaction analysis, typically performed by modelling the soil-conductor lateral behaviour as non-linear springs called p-y curves. While bespoke approaches do exist, current industry practice often involves the use of p-y curves given in API RP2GEO, which were originally developed for foundation piles. Recent studies have shown that these curves do not adequately capture the soil-conductor response, especially at small lateral displacements. In addition, no account is given to load-history effects. This paper presents results from centrifuge testing of a rigid length of conductor installed in reconstituted samples of carbonate silt and subject to cycles of lateral displacement, with focus on identifying key features that influence soil-conductor behaviour. The results show that the degraded secant stiffness is impacted by load history – for example, after applying cycles of large amplitude displacement, the secant stiffness at smaller amplitude cycling will be significantly lower than if it had not previously experienced the more onerous loading. Furthermore, pore pressure dissipation between or during cyclic events can result in secant stiffness increasing. The results presented in this paper are part of an ongoing research project, aimed at improving fatigue design of subsea wells
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
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