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“Exploring the Acoustic Environment of the Montreal Metro by Doing the ‘Dou-Dou-Dou’”
No full textThe ‘dou-dou-dou’ is the signal heard as train doors on the Montreal Metro close. It was developed by the STM (Société de transport de Montréal) in 2010 as a way to prevent service delays as well as promote safety within the subway environment (namely to prevent commuters getting stuck between doors and to stop fellow passengers pushing each other). Although only a relatively small sequence in the overall acoustic environment of the Metro, the three tones of the ‘dou-dou-dou’ are important in creating a particular type of social space. This article explores the development of this unique part of the acoustic ecology of the Montreal metro system, comparing the STM’s publicity material about the development of the signal with key musical and cultural studies frameworks relating to power and affect. The focus is on the ‘dou-dou-dou’ as a method of sonic management within the metro environment, exploring the flows of power between commuters and officials within the space. In addition to being a pragmatic ‘audio signal’ to direct commuter traffic, we propose that the ‘dou-dou-dou’, with its specific composition and instrumentation, can be understood as more than just a musical marker of place in the broader historical and cultural audio environment of the metro
Audrey M. Schaffer (interviewed by Dou Dou)
No full textInterview conducted with an MIT alumna as part of the Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA (Association of MIT Alumnae) Oral History Project. The purpose of the project is to document the life histories of women graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Megan Brewster (interviewed by Dou Dou)
No full textInterview conducted with an MIT alumna as part of the Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA (Association of MIT Alumnae) Oral History Project. The purpose of the project is to document the life histories of women graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211061576 – Supplemental material for The influence of Reader’s Theater on High School Students’ English Reading Comprehension-English Learning Anxiety and Learning Styles Perspective
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211061576 for The influence of Reader’s Theater on High School Students’ English Reading Comprehension-English Learning Anxiety and Learning Styles Perspective by Chih-Cheng Lo, Shih-Yun Lu and Dou-Dou Cheng in SAGE Open</p
The islands of pearl, my second home: A bilingual children\u27s book on the theme of migration
No full textThe Islands of Pearl, My Second Home is a children\u27s storybook that highlights the theme of migration. Through this book, the author presents her own experiences as a little girl, in the character of, dou Dou. The main character migrates with her family to Philippines and there she meets new friends with different cultural backgrounds and who look far different from her.
This book discusses the various problems, faced by Dou Dou such as adjusting to a new environment, having a hard time making friends, and understanding the culture and traditions of this new place but eventually doing well in the foreign country, she now consider as her second home.
Both the story and illustration will be well-loved by boys and girls aged 5-7 years old. This book is not only designed for English or Chinese language learners as it also caters to the Filipino-Chinese children since the book is bilingual in nature
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
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