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G. Falco — G. Pistarino. Il Cartulario di Giovanni di Giona di Portovenere (sec. XIII)
No full textDespy G. G. Falco — G. Pistarino. Il Cartulario di Giovanni di Giona di Portovenere (sec. XIII). In: Scriptorium, Tome 10 n°2, 1956. p. 340
“We none of us spoke of money”: Economy in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Novels
No full textEconomy figures in its many aspects throughout Gaskell’s fiction, both within and beyond the mere “cash nexus” that connotes the relations between employers and laboring classes [Mulvihill]. The characters’ lives unfold against the background of industrialism, showing how private experience and historical forces may intersect. In her Manchester novels, Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), the author focuses on the fluctuations in the economy of the 1830s and 1840s, which resulted in poverty and starvation among the workers [Matus]. The absence of money to buy basic essentials and the preoccupation with the cost of living lie at the root of social divisions, which Gaskell proposes to heal by discovering grounds for understanding and sympathy between the classes.
Making her characters act in dramatic circumstances, as protests, riots and strikes, the author records the effects of social transformations on the individual. Cranford (1853) is seemingly far from the public theme: the genteel women who inhabit the village try to preserve traditions against the pressures of progress. Nevertheless, they witness the developments that affect landscape and economy – the construction of the railway is an emblematic example – and they experience the incursion of commerce into their enclosed world. Although they ignore and despise money, their life is paradoxically tied to pecuniary considerations, as the bankruptcy episode shows.
Gaskell is aware of living in an age of transition, and the ending of North and South confirms the possibility of reaching a compromise between financial interests and ethical values: the protagonist, Margaret Hale, inherits property and invests her capital in a business providing new jobs.
Hence, the analysis of the novels reveals the author’s intention to reconcile the poles of domestic and commercial culture
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Radical Reversals: Commerce and Natural Rights in John Thelwall's Farce _Inkle and Yarico, or Ingratitude Rewarded_ (1787)
No full textIn the early months of 1787, young John Thelwall (1761-1834) submitted the manuscript of a two-act farce to George Colman, the well-known playwright and manager of the Haymarket Theatre. A sharp satire of British commercial spirit, institutions and urban culture, the play was silently dismissed, and only returned to its author in 1814. Its tremendously popular subject, however, was reshaped into one of the most successful comic operas of its time, _Inkle and Yarico_, which was penned by the manager’s son, George Colman the Younger, and premiered on August 4 of that same year at Haymarket. In this essay, I will consider how Thelwall’s brief and incisive play encapsulates John Thelwall’s radical politics, exposing the inconsistencies underlying British mercantile ethos, and questioning its very foundations
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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