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Maine Interview piece with environmental anthropologist Richard Nelson of Sitk
No full textMaine Interview piece with environmental anthropologist Richard Nelson of Sitka, Alaska, who spent several days at Bates College in Lewiston earlier this month, meeting with students and faculty to talk about deer, humans and hunting. Nelson is the author of Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America
Maine Interview piece with Ray Anderson, the chief executive officer of Interf
No full textMaine Interview piece with Ray Anderson, the chief executive officer of Interface, Inc., the corporate parent of Guilford of Maine, and author of Mid-Course Correction, whose call for a revolutionary change in business theory and practice has caught the imagination and interest of industrialists and environmentalists alike
Cover Story piece on how boys might gain from girls\u27 progress. Statistics rel
No full textCover Story piece on how boys might gain from girls\u27 progress. Statistics released by the National Center for Student Aspirations at the University of Maine show adolescent boys score lower than girls on eight conditions affecting academic performance. In other areas--literacy rates, suicide, high-risk behaviors, and learning disorders--boys also fare worse. Feminist awareness of the marginalization of girls has given rise to programs that could serve as models for boys, such as the Camden-based Mainely Girls, the Old Town-based mentoring program GirlTalk, and Camp Aspirations, run by Husson College in Bangor. Boys, constrained by the cultural straitjacket of the Boy Code, frequently act out and fall behind in school, but few programs in Maine address their needs, largely because of a dearth of men willing to develop them. In conjunction with this article, author Meg Haskell talks to seven seventh- and eighth-grade boys about their issues
Feature Story piece on the Holocaust, and how the discussion is being framed o
No full textFeature Story piece on the Holocaust, and how the discussion is being framed on two Maine campuses: the University of Maine in Orono, and Bates College in Lewiston. Ads that appeared in the student newspapers at both campuses last year question the writings of author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, and by association, the entire history of the Holocaust. The ads provoked a small but intense storm of protest and argument, including issues of First Amendment rights and obligations, racism, anti-Semitism and historic revisionism, student responsibility for university newspaper policy and content, and the role of faculty advisers. Today the debate will re-open under the auspices of the Socialist and Marxist Luncheon Series at the University of Maine in Orono
Cover Story piece on the Maine School of Science and Mathematics (MSSM) in Lim
No full textCover Story piece on the Maine School of Science and Mathematics (MSSM) in Limestone, which is the state\u27s first and only magnet school. MSSM opened its doors in 1995, with 136 students from half the high schools in Maine, and its success is hard to deny. According to a recent Maine Times survey, more than half of Maine residents support specialized educational programming and would like to see more magnet schools. But Gov. Angus King and the Department of Education aren\u27t enthusiastic about the idea. King opposed the idea in 1994 and though he feels the school has been successful, he doesn\u27t want to see it used as a model for other specialized programs. His major concerns revolve around two issues: the state\u27s education budget, and a concern that 16-year-olds might not be ready to make life decisions. But he is also concerned about the schools that these kids leave, because he feels those schools are diminished when a pool of bright kids leaves to attend a specialized school. With an account of the author\u27s recent tour of MSSM and interviews with faculty members and students
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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