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Robert H. Fuson oral history interview by Nancy Hewitt, August 8, 1985
No full textRobert Fuson, professor of Geography at USF since 1960, discusses the shortcomings of interdisciplinary teaching in the university\u27s early years, relations between students, faculty, staff, and administration, the Johns Committee, the relation between teaching and research over the years, and changes in administration
Quest: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research
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A staple of medieval English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales remains relevant after so many years due to its discourse on fundamental social issues, its cutting satire, and its striking characters. Perhaps the most memorable of these characters is one whose discourse is particularly relevant today in an era of constantly redefined gender roles: the Wife of Bath. This outspoken dame takes center stage in the marriage cycle of the Tales and is one of the first female characters in English literature to question a woman's place in society and in marriage. Using her wit and her personal experience, the Wife of Bath is able to bring women's issues to the forefront of an otherwise male-dominated discussion, but her contribution to Chaucer's magnum opus does not end there. Through the unusual and often unorthodox debating techniques that the Wife of Bath employs, Chaucer questions the value of traditional, academic
philosophy divorced from experience, and demonstrates that philosophy is of greater value when it draws from and is able to influence one's personal experience-even mundane or base experience-than it is in the ethereal realm of academia where a degenerate scholasticism came to reside.122-33
A construção do número: os modelos de Klahr & Wallace; Von Glasersfeld e K. Fuson
No full textNo âmbito dos estudos sobre o pensamento aritmético, a compreensão do desenvolvimento do conceito de número tem sido alvo de controvérsia, desde a interpretação de que a aprendizagem da matemática se dá, principalmente, através da formação de conexões internas, até o estudo dos processos cognitivos subjacentes ao raciocínio aritmético. Assim, a influência da interpretação construtivista da gênese das estruturas lógicas estende-se não só a Von Glasersfeld (1988), que postula que os conceitos abstratos são construídos a partir de experiências do quotidiano, como também à influência que o social exerce na construção dos processos subjacentes ao raciocínio aritmético (Fuson, 1988; Fuson & Burghardt, 2003). Inversamente a essa interpretação, a perspectiva inatista do desenvolvimento (Gelman & Gallistel, 1978; Klahr & Wallace, 1973) propõe que as crianças nascem com princípios lógicos inerentes à construção do conhecimento aritmético elementar
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
Long-term quality of life after treatment for locally advanced oropharyngeal carcinoma: surgery and postoperative radiotherapy versus concurrent chemoradiation.
No full textThe aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term quality of life (QoL) in survivors with oropharyngeal carcinoma (OC) treated with surgery and postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) versus concurrent chemoradiation (CRT) using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QoL Questionnaires. The study group consisted of 57 patients. The scores for physical (P=0.043) and social (P=0.036) functioning were significantly more favorable in the chemoradiation group. Surgical patients showed statistically higher problems with fatigue (P=0.047), pain (P=0.027), swallowing (P=0.042), social eating (P=0.038) and social contact (P=0.002). CRT group reported significantly greater problems with teeth (P=0.049), open mouth (P=0.036), dry mouth (P=0.022) and sticky saliva (P=0.044). The global QoL score was higher in CRT group (P=0.027). These results support an organ preservation approach with CRT in patients with advanced OC. However, considering the absence of randomized trial comparing outcomes after surgical versus nonsurgical approaches, severe xerostomia following CRT, the higher postoperative morbidity in the setting of salvage surgery, future prospective clinical trials on greater samples of patients are needed to confirm our conclusions
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
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