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Alien Registration- Flura, Paul (Rumford, Oxford County)
No full texthttps://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/12644/thumbnail.jp
Community outrage : risk communication by Flura and EPA in Newport, Tennessee
No full textThis is a case study of risk communication, specifically the risk perceptions of residents living within one mile of the Flura Corporation Superfund Site, a shut-down chemical manufacturing and storage facility in Newport, Tennessee. It explores citizens\u27 perceptions of the efforts by Flura and later the Environmental Protection Agency in their efforts to educate the community about the risk situation. This study examines whether Peter Sandman\u27s model of community outrage that involves the process of communication of risk is valid in the case of the Newport community\u27s reaction to this hazardous waste site. Methods involve interviewing residents living near the Superfund site, local officials, local newspaper editors and reporters, and EPA representatives; examining the local newspapers\u27 accounts of the risk situation; reviewing correspondence of the Tennessee departments of environment with Flura and with the previous owners of Rock Hill Laboratory; and attending meetings convened by the EPA to inform the Newport public about the risks of the Flura Superfund Site and their efforts to clean it up.
Results showed that most residents trusted the information from EPA and did not argue on scientific points. They were just glad that EPA had taken over the site and promised to clean it up no matter how long was required. More support for the agency responsiveness factor of community outrage was shown than support for the knowability factor
The Organizational and determinant model of the educational cluster of a Higher Education Institution
No full textStrategies for sustainable economic growth of national states make the problem of training highly qualified personnel important in the cluster infrastructure of a higher education institution. The organizational and determinant model of the educational cluster “high school-higher education institution-science” devised in the course of the study is capable of influencing the level of academic continuity as the main mechanism for the reproduction of scientific personnel to solve modernization problems. In the course of the study the following methods were used: comparative analysis, content analysis, generalization, classification, synthesis, extrapolation, design and modeling. The authors of the paper have developed the concept of academic mobility of students under the conditions of the educational cluster “high school-higher education institution-science”. The methodology of the individual cluster follow-up and support for students has been substantiated scientifically. The results were tested in the research and educational activities of the affiliate of Russian State Social University in the city of Minsk, the Republic of Belarus, in the State Educational Institution “High school No. 1 of Minsk named after Francis Skorina”, the State Educational Institution “Grodno City High School”. The prospects for further research consist in developing the institutional foundations of cluster mechanisms for the union integration of science, higher and secondary education institutions of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. Innovative ideas of the clustering policy of higher education institutions in the framework of the Union State require informational support, the use of the resources of the Public Chamber of the Union State, the Russian Center for Science and Culture, and business communities of Belarus and Russia
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
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
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