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Jan Kanty Federowicz, Mayor of Krakow
No full textThe aim of this article is the biographical study of Jan Kanty Federowicz (1858–1924), who was the first mayor of Krakow in reborn Poland and the only one in the interwar period to be born in Krakow. For many years, he belonged to a small group of people who managed Krakow, first as a close associate of Mayor Juliusz Leo, then as Deputy Mayor of the city (1916–1918), and then as Mayor (1918–1924). He was well acquainted with the functioning of city self-government. The period in which he held the highest office in Krakow’s local government was very difficult. At the time, the local government was faced with a wide and unprecedented range of tasks resulting from the war and from the changes in the political system. The great challenge was to overcome enormous economic difficulties, including supply difficulties. In this study, he was presented as the only one of Krakow’s administrators in the interwar period to hold a parliamentary seat. Federowicz strove for and defended the city’s interests, but he failed to push through the concept of Krakow as the great centre of south-western Poland, as well as to link Upper Silesia administratively and economically with Krako
Scarlet Knights, Red Crusade: An Analysis of the Great Red Scare at Rutgers-New Brunswick
No full textThe Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate Paper in New Jersey History Award was established in 2004 to honor Paul A. Stellhorn (1947-2001), a distinguished historian and public servant who worked for the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey Committee (now Council) for the Humanities, and the Newark Pubic Library. An especially active and effective member of the New Jersey history community, he did much to expand the audience for New Jersey history and was an effective advocate for public history and a vigorous supporter of scholarship and publication about the state’s history. As a program officer and a grants administrator he helped many of our present historians and humanities scholars to achieve their goals, whether as scholars, history agency personnel, or educators. He earned a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University with a dissertation about Newark during the era of the Great Depression. He was the author or editor of many works about New Jersey’s past, especially about its urban history. The Stellhorn Awards consist of a framed certificate and a modest cash award, presented at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s Annual Conference. The Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; the New Jersey Caucus, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference; and the New Jersey Council for History Education. The Stellhorn Award Committee members are Richard Waldron (chair), Mark Lender, Brooke Hunter, and Peter Mickulas. Click here for more information. The following paper by Mr. Federowicz, nominated by Professor Richard L. McCormick, was one of two 2017 winners.</jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
The use of elements of management system according to the SCC:2011 standard for creating a safety culture and employees’ commitment to the OHS in polish enterprises
No full textSystem SCC (ang. Safety Checklistfor Contractors) to system zarządzania bezpieczeństwem, zdrowiem i środowiskiem, zyskujący w ostatnich latach popularność w Polsce, a jednocześnie jeden z najszerzej stosowanych systemów zarządzania bezpieczeństwem w Europie. Jednym z czynników mających wpływ na rosnące zainteresowanie systemem SCC, poza jego przejrzystością i dobrym skorelowaniem z krajowymi przepisami bhp, może być jego bezpośrednia przydatność w kreowaniu pozytywnych postaw i zaangażowania pracowników w sprawy bhp przedsiębiorstwa. W artykule przedstawiono wybrane wymagania normy SCC:2011, stanowiące jednocześnie narzędzia z obszaru edukacji, a służące do właściwego przygotowania pracowników do wykonywania prac szczególnie niebezpiecznych. Omówiono wymagania dla certyfikacji personalnej, zarówno pracowników operacyjnych, jak i kadry zarządzającej oraz bezpośredniego nadzoru. Przedstawiono przykłady sposobu realizacji szkoleń, instruktarzy i spotkań narzędziowych bhp (safety-toolbox-meeting), zgodnie z normą SCC:2011. W opracowaniu przedstawiona została również idea modyfikacji tradycyjnego modelu realizacji szkoleń okresowych bhp, pozwalająca na zmniejszenie zjawiska oporu i zniechęcenia ze strony uczestników, jak również na uniknięcie powszechnych zjawisk patologicznych w obszarze szkoleń okresowych. Tezy stawiane w opracowaniu przez autora, audytora wiodącego systemów zarządzania wg normy SCC, poparte zostały analizami i obserwacjami funkcjonujących systemów zarządzania wdrożonych i certyfikowanych w kilkunastu polskich przedsiębiorstwach.The SCC (Safety Checklist for Contractors) is a system for managing safety, health and the environment, gaining the popularity in recent years in Poland, and one of the most widely used safety management systems in Europe. One of the factors affecting the growing interest in the SCC system, beyond its transparency and good correlation with national health and safety regulations, may be its direct usefulness in creating the positive attitudes and the involvement of employees in the OHS issues of the company. The author presents the selected requirements of the SCC: 2011 standard, which are also the tools in the education, and used to prepare employees to perform particularly hazardous works. The paper discusses the requirements for the certification of personnel, both operational staff, management and the direct supervisors. The author shows some examples of the implementation of trainings, instructions and safety meetings according to the SCC: 2011 standard. The paper presents the idea of the traditional model of periodic safety training modification, which allows to reduce the level of resistance and discouragement of participants, as well as gives a chance to avoid widespread pathological phenomena in the area of periodic safety trainings. The thesis presented by the author – the leading auditor of management systems according to the SCC standard, have been supported by the analysis and observations of the management systems implemented and certified in several Polish companies
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
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