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Co-generation of Power and Hydrogen from Biogas
No full textHYSYDays: 3rd world congress of young scientists on hydrogen energy system
Fatal Racial Encounters in the US in the Media Representation
No full textDiscussions of such interrelated notions as identity, citizenship, ethnicity, and race are
usually formulated in reference to the present trends of immigration and/or globalisation.
However, when dealing with cultural dis–encounters in the US, such issues dramatically
emerge at the intra–national level and do not refer to migration flows, but to
the historically problematic relationship between Black and White populations. In the
contemporary US scenario, we witness violent nationwide racial confrontations, as well
as thought–provoking debates on such issues.
Notable examples of violent racially–biased interactions can be found in the frequent
killings of unarmed African–American men by white police officers in the US. Among recent
front–page cases are the deaths of Eric Garner in New York City (July 17, 2014) and
Mike Brown (August 9, 2014) in Ferguson (MO), which can be seen as two instances
of the same tragedy, on both the personal and social levels. Those killings were followed
by months of nationwide protests and rioting, calls for justice and voluminous
news–media coverage, all of which constitute the focus of this study. A key issue at
stake in these stories is racial profiling: these deaths are a stern reminder that race still
plays a critical role in how the law is enforced in the US. Apparently, a persistent identity
and empathy gap is still generating conflictual mixed socio–cultural interactions. The
fact that no police officers in these cases have been brought to trial has had a disruptive
impact on societal values and belief systems, which in our web–wired arena is still
resonating beyond socio–geographical boundaries.
The role of the media in this chain of events cannot easily be overvalued, owing
to their ever–growing potential to intersect the plurality of the existing communication
channels, and to rapidly engage with (news media) audiences. In particular, through
the fluid and virtually global semiosphere of the Worldwide Web, many (old and new)
newspapers increasingly disseminate and amplify their news by utilising both real–time,
cross–media communication and hyper–textual links to additional sources (which, in
turn, lead to other sources, and so on). Moreover, on many newspaper websites different
genres share contiguous spaces, such as more traditional articles alongside freer ‘voices’, blogs, forums, tweets, social media, as in the case of The Huffington Post (the liberal–
oriented American online news aggregator), featuring Black Voices, Gay Voices, etc.
The aim of this study is to analyse both qualitative and quantitative data from
the news coverage of the protests following these killings. Samples extracted from the
HuffPost website, both from the articles and from the Black Voices bloggers’ posts will
be comparatively analysed along the evaluative dimension, by utilising some of the
Appraisal Framework categories, with a special focus on «Attribution» (White 2012),
with its evaluative implications. The main difference between the journalists’ and bloggers’
voices can be found in their degree of personalisation/impersonalisation, as will
be shown and discussed in this study
Translators, Interpreters and Cultural Negotiators: Mediating and Communicating Power from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era,
No full textInfluence of refractive-index mismatch in high-resolution three-dimensional confocal microscopy
No full text"Liquid chromatographic resolution of enantiomers on chiral amine derivative-bonded silica gel"
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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
MCFC-based marine APU: comparison between conventional ATR and Cracking coupled with SR integrated inside the stack pressurized vessel
No full text“Gomorrah The Series Flies to the UK: How is Gomorrah’s World Rendered in English Subtitles?”
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