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Harry Potter and the search for a church : spiritual community and sacrificial love in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
No full textExamining the Harry Potter series through the lens of late Baptist theologian Stanley Grenz and his theories on community as it reflects the triune God, the themes of love and sacrifice in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series are seen in new light. By placing Harry not as a member of an independently-acting community, but as one connected to a much higher calling—love, even over and above magic—I find that the author's emphasis on community and family are crucial for understanding fully the sacrifice that Harry makes, and the redemption extended to Lord Voldemort. Understanding Hogwarts and the wizarding world as a church body reflecting a higher power of love, the ostracizing of Voldemort and Harry's experience of sacrifice and protective love take on new meaning. The definition of community as found in the works of Stanley Grenz, Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas will be the theological lens
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
The Grafted Culture: An Autobiographical Insight into MK Life
No full textThis creative thesis is an autobiographical memoir of my life growing up as a Missionary Kid (MK) in Ukraine, Russia, Oregon, and Germany. The purpose of this project was trifold: first, to introduce the reader to the culture of MK's, uniquely shaped by our parents' culture and the cultures we grow up in; two, to showcase how the unique cultural experiences of all MK's affects our fundamental concept of identity, sense of belonging, and what it means to be human; and three, to demonstrate both the benefits and drawbacks that result from growing up in this unique context. Ultimately, this project serves as a creative proof of what is known about MK's in the academic field. My hope for the reader is that you find yourself invited into experiencing a new culture and perhaps even learn something new about yourself in the process
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
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
Legacy and Loyalty: An Application of Machiavellian Politics to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
No full textThis thesis analyzes George R.R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and
Fire through the lens of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, relating the treatise's amoral
political philosophy to the kings and queens of fictional Westeros. I particularly argue
that, while Martin's cynical series advocates many of The Prince's practical and
pragmatic tenets, the author disagrees with the famous assertion that a ruler is safer
feared rather than loved. Martin applies the politics espoused within The Prince to a
multigenerational view and reveals the instability of rulership built upon fear, showcasing
conversely the strength of a subordinate's loyalty when garnered by love. I provide a brief
historical background of both The Prince and A Song of Ice and Fire and showcase the
similar contexts in which the works were written, before analyzing in-depth the politics
and ideologies of several of Martin's fictional rulers and exploring his theme of political
legacy
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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