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Michael and Elizabeth Smart headstone in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery
No full textMichael and Elizabeth Smart headstone in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery in Outer Cove
Elizabeth Smart addresses thousands at UND
No full textElizabeth Smart addresses thousands at UND
Elizabeth Smart, whose abduction as a teenager was one of the country’s most followed cases, shared her story before thousands of audience members Monday night at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on the University of North Dakota campus. Her address was part of the Delta Gamma Foundation/Everson Family Lectureship in Values and Ethics.
About Smart
Smart was abducted on June 5, 2002, and her captors controlled her by threatening to kill her and her family if she tried to escape. The police safely returned Smart to her family on March 12, 2003, after being held prisoner for nine grueling months.
Through this traumatic experience Smart has become an advocate for change related to child abduction, recovery programs and national legislation. Smart triumphantly testified before her captors and the world about the very private nightmare she suffered during her abduction, which lead to convictions.
As the founder of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, Smart has also helped promote the AMBER Alert program, the Adam Walsh Child Protection & Safety Act and other safety legislation to help prevent abductions.
Smart’s abduction and recovery continues to motivate parents, law enforcement and leaders worldwide to focus on children’s safety. She emphasizes vigilance by ‘everyday’ people and the belief that hope always exists to find every missing child.
Her example is a daily demonstration that there is life after a tragic event. She attended Brigham Young University, studying music as a harp performance major, and married her husband, Matthew, in 2012.
She wrote her memoir, a New York Times best seller, My Story, with U.S. Congressman, Chris Stewart from Utah. A book signing will follow the lecture.
About the Lectureship
The UND Alpha Theta chapter of Delta Gamma established the Delta Gamma Foundation/Everson Family Lectureship in Values and Ethics in 2011.
The UND chapter is one of only 20 Delta Gamma collegiate chapters in the country to sponsor this lectureship. The lead gift to establish this lecture series was given by Jacque Geving Everson of Houston, a 1966 graduate of UND. Numerous other alumnae have contributed to the lectureship endowment, which is managed through the UND Alumni Association & Foundation.
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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
Elizabeth Smart: The Shifting Boundary between Nature and Art
No full textElizabeth Smart 's writings--her theory and practice of art--
present patterns of change and constancy. Art, initially
constituted in an entwined and supportive inter-relation
of nature, love/passion, God, ir.spiration :and will, is in
its maturity generated from within a dissolution of the
supportive context. Art finds its power of expression in
opposition to nature and in the absence of God. By Grand
Centnl Station I Sat Down and Wept presents art in its
true creativity: creating unity from a central visionary
perspective. From this point onwards art falls away from
its metamorphic principle of transformation, in an enforced
exile, and in the later works becomes an expression of the
radical separation of nature (and love/passion) from the
visionary perception. Art without a supportive environment is
actualized in a self-referential creation, a "magic marriage
of words," that is still, however, a transformation (of tragedy
into comedy) and an expression of a potentially redemptive
God-like wrath and will
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