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    Caribbean Report 30-09-1997

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    1. Headlines (00:00-00:33)2. Growing friction between Europe and the Americans over extra territorial laws. Spokesman Nigel Gardner, Professor of International Relations, Philip Brenner and Managing Directory of Cuba Business, Gareth Jenkins are interviewed. David Eaves reports (00:34-06:43)3. While in Europe Prime Minister of St. Lucia Kenny Anthony made a strong plea for European Union and British help for the Caribbean banana industry. Also, failing Caribbean bananas under the fair trade label could pose more WTO problems for the European Union. Black Member of Parliament, Bernie Grant, Courtenay Rattray of the Jamaican Marketing Company and George Foulkes, International Development Minister are interviewed (06:44-09:55)4. St. Kitts and Nevis want to deepen ties with Japan. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas is interviewed and Leslie Goffe reports (09:56-12:15)5. Trinidad and Tobago will continue to help volcano troubled Montserrat (12:16-12:47)6. Tax breaks are promised to Barbados businessmen who give financial backing to the Caribbean negotiating process. President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Tony King is interviewed and David Ellis reports (12:48-14:40)7. The House of Representatives in the United States has approved a three week extension of a provision allowing foreigners to remain in the country while they seek permanent residency (14:41-15:22

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Caribbean Report 02-07-2002

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    1. Headlines (00:00-00:26)2. Haiti is now a full-fledged member of the Caribbean Community. Haitian, Foreign Minister, Phillipe Antonio hands over the instruments of ratification during brief ceremony at the Georgetown Summit. The pre-Summit events include the coming together of civil society to alert the Heads of their concerns and willingness to collaborate in the efforts towards Caribbean development. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of CARICOM speaks on this new chapter in Caribbean development. Colin Smith, BBC correspondent, reports and interviews Ruth St. Clair, Executive Co-ordinator, Caribbean Policy Development Centre (00:27-05:08)3. CEMEX, the Mexican cement company is making a bid for Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL). BBC correspondent, David Ellis reports and interviews Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur (05:09-06:51)4. Dominica Producers Banana Company (DPBC) expects to take over the operations of the Dominica Banana Marketing Corporation (DBMC) after the resignation of Board of Directors. Richard Charles, Chairman, Dominica Banana Marketing Corporation (DBMC) is interviewed (06:52 -09:34)5. Britain and Suriname sign an agreement allowing each other prisoners to return to their respective homelands to serve out their sentences. The agreement facilitates the exchange of two Suriname prisoners in Britain and six British prisoners in the former Dutch colony. Natalie Williams reports and interviews Edward Glover, British Ambassador to Suriname and Stephen Fredericlaus, BBC correspondent (09:35-11:41)6. Trinidad and Tobago, Head of State, Mr. A.N.R Robinson is taking legal action against Mr. Basdeo Panday, Opposition Leader, United Nations Congress (UNC) for slander. Theresa Mills, Newsday, Editor in Chief, is interviewed (11:42-14:46)7. In Latin America and the Caribbean, there are over two (2) million adults and children infected with HIV. HIV is the leading cause of death in Haiti and the Bahamas (14:47-15:33
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