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Portrait of Donald Cole
No full textPortrait of Donald Cole, Economics student at Murdoch University.
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Discussion autour de l’ouvrage 'Markets of Dispossession : NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo', de Julia Elyachar, Duke University Press, 2005,
No full textAutour d’un livre. Markets of Dispossession : NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo, de Julia Elyachar, discuté par AbdAllah Donald Cole, Pierre François, Knut Graw et Jane I. Guyer
AbDallah-Talib Donald Cole Oral History
No full textAbDallah-Talib Donald Cole was a faculty member teaching anthropology at the American University in Cairo from 1971 to 2007, and served in leadership positions on the Faculty Senate and University Senate. Cole describes growing up in Texas, his Spanish language abilities and travels in Latin American and Spain, and pursuit of a PhD in anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He recounts his field work in Saudi Arabia among a Bedouin community from 1968 to 1971, and his impressions of Riyadh in that period. Coming to AUC in 1971 through a connection with fellow Berkeley anthropology graduate Cynthia Nelson, Cole recollects AUC in the early 1970s: a small student body with many members of ethnic communities and a majority of women (he notes its reputation as a “girls’ finishing school”), modest academic admission requirements, and continued sequestration by the Egyptian government during a time of poor Egyptian-U.S. relations and few Americans resident in Egypt. Cole outlines the development of the Sociology-Anthropology-Psychology Department (later adding Egyptology and known as SAPE), including relations among faculty in its disciplinary units, and it governance (he notes it was the first department to elect chairs). The sociology-anthropology academic program is covered, from its place in the core curriculum to its graduates, a number of whom rejoined the department as faculty. Cole’s own research interests and interactions with international anthropologists are covered. He traces how AUC students changed over the years, in their socio-economic background, academic pursuits (he notes how professional programs produced graduate who helped Egypt’s development), religious emphasis (irrelevant in his early years, becoming more pronounced), and fashion and dress. Cole also speaks about student and faculty political activism, especially on the issue of Palestine and Israel. His role as Chairman of the Faculty and of the University Senate is addressed, along with the issue of inequality in compensation and retirement benefits between Egyptian and foreign faculty members. He observes how AUC’s growth, manifested by the Division into three schools, made for a less cohesive faculty. Cole discusses his conversion to Islam in the 2000s, the mosque and other prayer spaces on the downtown campus, and his efforts to push for their availability on the new campus. He speculates on what the new campus, outside the center of Cairo, will mean for AUC
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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