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Portrait of Helen Ross Chalmers
No full textPortrait of Helen Ross Chalmers, a student at Pacific University around 1910.Helen Chalmer
Founders Day 2016: Don and Helen Ross
No full textPresident Emeritus Donald E. Ross and former First Lady of Lynn Helen Ross sit together at the Founders Day Great Beginnings Breakfast in the Elmore Dining Commons on Nov. 1, 2016.https://spiral.lynn.edu/foundersday/1018/thumbnail.jp
Focus group study: selection of appropriate parenting curricula for social service clients at the Helen Ross McNabb Children and Youth Center
Full text linkPlan BStudies have found positive results with parent education on adolescent risk taking behaviors, behavioral problems, and family relationships. There are a large number of parenting curricula available to educators and a very limited number of sources to assist educators in selecting an appropriate curriculum for their target audience. The purpose of this research was to complete qualitative evaluations of three parent education curricula for possible purchase by the Helen Ross McNabb Children and Youth Center in Knoxville, TN. The researcher and the center as appropriate for the study mutually agreed upon three parent education curricula. A focus group of program coordinators at the Center was conducted. These coordinators serve a parent population. The focus group was held for a forty-five minute period. During this meeting participants were asked structured questions designed to identify components that would be important to the group when making a purchase of parent educational curriculum. The meeting was audio taped and then used to compile a list of criteria important to the group. The list was returned to the participants and they were asked to rank the importance of each item on a five-point Likert scale. The weighted averages were then used as an instrument with which to evaluate the selected curricula. Because it was difficult to tell from web sites and catalogs exactly what the programs contained, the companies offering the curricula were contacted and asked which components their programs met. Two of the three programs contacted responded by answering each of the questions. These programs were evaluated using the designed instrument and recommendations where made. This instrument should be used with caution, as it may not generalize to needs of specific programs. The results of the research indicated a need for companies offering curricula to make more information available to educators and for educators to have better tools when making decisions between curricula programs
Founders Day 2006: Don and Helen Ross concrete handprints
No full textOn March 29, 2006, President Donald E. Ross and Mrs. Helen Ross leave their handprints in concrete along the university’s main walkway as a permanent symbol of their 35 years at Lynn University.https://spiral.lynn.edu/foundersday/1001/thumbnail.jp
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
Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas Slayter and Esther Wangari (eds) London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Reviewed by Helen Ross
No full textAppropriate 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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