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Creighton University Magazine Fall 2014
No full textPERSUASION: WHY WE DO IT. WHAT IT TAKES TO DO IT WELL. AND WHY WE SHOULD CARE
From the pulpit to legislative chambers to corporate offices, the ability to convince others to follow a cause, support a certain idea or purchase a specific product is a valuable skill. How do we best use rhetoric to capture an audience, sway the undecided and convert the opposition? Creighton faculty examine the art of persuasion. Page 14.
THE PROMISE & PITFALLS OF BIG DATA / THE PROMISE AND PITFALLS OF BIG DATA
Big data has profound implications for consumers and a range of industries. While the use of large amounts of data may provide big promise, there are also pitfalls, such as the epic cyber attack at Target last year that resulted in millions of stolen credit card numbers. Creighton faculty take a look at the good and bad of big data. Page 18.
A QUESTION OF HOW WE LEARN
Education has advanced peoples and civilizations since the dawn of humankind. So how do we, as humans, best learn? And what teaching methods help us achieve that goal? Creighton faculty and staff explore how the ancient philosophers viewed education and give insight into the learning process of today’s students. Page 22.
SO YOU WANT TO BE AN AUTHOR?
There’s no secret formula to becoming a best-selling author. Creighton’s award-winning English faculty offer some common perspectives on the hurdles writers face. These faculty also teach in Creighton’s new Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program. Page 26.
STOPPING THE CYCLE OF URBAN CRIME
Dawn Irlbeck, Ph.D., and Rebecca Murray, Ph.D., of Creighton’s Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, along with other faculty members, look at programs across the U.S. that have worked in reducing urban crime, and the need for empowerment and victim assistance. Page 30.
Giving Hope a Hand
Through the Mechanical Hand Project Group, Jorge Zuniga, Ph.D., assistant professor of exercise science, is using 3-D printing technology to research and design low-cost mechanical hands for those who need them, particularly children. For Zuniga, who grew up on the poor streets of Santiago, Chile, this scientific pursuit is personal. Page 34.23
Creighton University Magazine Spring 2013
No full textA BIG MOVE
Creighton University will join the Big East Conference on July 1. The move to the Big East presents an unprecedented opportunity for the entire University to broaden its footprint and elevate its stature. It also fulfills a vision to be in a conference of schools with similar faith-based missions, academic excellence and commitment to athletics. Page 8.
‘DOC’ WISE DEDICATED TO STUDY OF POLITICS, WAR AND PEACE
Ken Wise, Ph.D., spent more than 40 years teaching political science and international relations at Creighton University. Today, Wise lives in Dubai, sharing his philosophy of “positive politics” halfway around the world. Page 14.
A MARIAN PILGRIMAGE IN THE CITY OF ANGELS
Wendy Wright, Ph.D., John C. Kenefick Chair in the Humanities, explores the multitude of Marys in her native Southern California where the Catholic community is a microcosm of the global church. Instead of traveling the world to meet Mary, you just have to visit the city originally named for Our Lady. Page 16.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE
Building on its reputation in the Omaha legal community, the Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic at the School of Law has expanded to include the Domestic Violence Project, offering hope to low-income victims of domestic abuse. Page 22.22
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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