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Afterword:resources of hope
No full textThe aim of this book, as explained in the Introduction, is to demonstrate not only the urgent challenges from neoliberalism facing educationalists, but also a range of positive responses to these challenges. We have taken Raymond Williams (1989) notion of ‘resources of hope’ to draw together the rich variety of responses offered by contributors to the book and to identify what Milana and Rapanà call ‘interstices for resistance’ – points where it is possible to intervene to disrupt the dominant neoliberal regime and to help emergent, more emancipatory, cultures to take root. The notion of hope is explicitly referred to by several contributors as central to affirming identity and emboldening action.Some of these resources are directly relevant to educational practitioners, suggesting strategies that can be used in teaching or other aspects of institutional practice. Some are resources that can guide educational researchers in designing and carrying out ‘resistant’ research that foregrounds alternatives to neoliberal values. Some are principles and rules of thumb that can be used in both practice and research
Are electroacoustic output measures of cochlear implant (CI) speech processors and dynamic modulation (DM) receivers necessary?
No full textBackground: the UK Assistive Listening Technology Working Group and the National Deaf Children’s Society have published standards for amplification systems for ensuring similar output from the CI speech processor and the CI with the DM system for the same inputs. (ALTWG 2024; NDCS 2017).Do these standards remain necessary with the new technology? If so, which frequencies should be included when seeking transparency?Methods: electroacoustic responses of CI speech processors and DM radio aid receivers taken according to UKALTWG and NDCS standards were analysed for transparency using two methods with the default receiver setting of EasyGain 0:· Method 1: Averages of 750, 1000, and 2000 Hz frequencies, as per Schafer et al. (2013), reported transparency at ±3dB.· Method 2: Averages of six frequencies (750, 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz), as proposed by ALTWG (2024), also achieved transparency at ±3dB.A total of 41 CI processors and 41 DM receivers were analysed, including 13 N7, 16 N8 with Roger 20 receivers, 9 Sky CI M with Roger Direct, and 3 SONNET 2 with Roger 21 receivers.Results:· 73% of processors achieved transparency at EasyGain 0, with method 1 (Schafer et al.).· 78% of processors achieved transparency at EasyGain 0, with method 2 (ALTWG).Conclusion: there is no significant difference between methods. Electroacoustic measures remain essential for identifying processor and receiver combinations that do not achieve transparency at default settings
The challenge of linking research and practice : ways of learning in adult basic education.
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Alien Registration- Hamilton, Mary G. (Portland, Cumberland County)
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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