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Medium and Mystery: Byzantine Iconography in Light of the Media Theory of Marshall McLuhan
No full textThis thesis endeavours to answer, “What does it mean for something to be an icon?” Though this is not a new question, it attempts a unique approach by using media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s four laws of media, as well as his associated tetrad method of organizing the dynamic effects of a medium, as a framework in the analysis. The first part of the thesis reviews contributions from various fields that will inform the inquiry: Orthodox theology (past and present), especially with respect to iconoclasm and iconicity; phenomenology and its study of the experience of art and icons; art theory, including the effect of perspective in art; and media theory, which is the domain of McLuhan as mentioned above. The second part of this thesis proposes an original tetrad for iconography, derived from McLuhan’s existing tetrad for Cubist art and from the theology of iconography. The new tetrad elucidates iconography’s effects on observers, its role in veneration and worship, and its sensitivity to factors such as its environment and the attitudes of its observers. This leads into the conclusion of the thesis, which summarizes the results to date and identifies potential steps for further study of the icon as a medium
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
A God Who is Present: A Christological and Anthropological Study of the Presence of God in Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth
No full textThe thesis deals with the question of God’s presence on one side, and the path to determine the effectiveness of this presence on the other side. It explores the problem of God’s historicity, his continual presence among us, and the effects of his presence
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
A Catholic-Indigenous Spiritual Dialogue, on Religious Experience and Creation; Toward Understanding a Text of Theology from another Culture, Through Cultural Exploration and Conversion(s)
No full textThe first paper discusses interreligious dialogue, and presents a dialogue between the Catholic and Indigenous traditions. The dialogue is on the topic of religious experience and creation. The second paper inquires into what Indigenous theology might look like, and presents an example of such a work of theology. There is an exploration of the question of how someone from one culture might understand such a text, written by someone of another culture
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
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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