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Best Practice in Communicating with Women From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds
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Workshop Report: “Access for the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Community to the ACT Magistrates Court for Protection from Family Violence”
No full textThe pilgrim church in Vienna : mobile memories at the 1912 International Eucharistic Congress
No full textLike pilgrimage itself, this chapter is part journey, part meditation on the experiences of Catholic pilgrims in Vienna, the former imperial capital of the Habsburg Empire. Drawing on scholarship in memory studies and recent work on pilgrimage I aim to situate Catholic pilgrimage in Central Europe within a global, interdisciplinary approach to pilgrimage as mobile memories. The metaphor of pilgrimage as mobile memories, I argue, offers a way to interpret the landscape, both external and internal, into which Catholic pilgrims in Central Europe ventured. Just as recent scholars of pilgrimage have tried to broaden out from the place-centred approach of earlier anthropological studies of religion, scholars of memory have also sought to show that the “lieux de mémoire,” Pierre Nora’s now ubiquitous term, were not only connected to place, they could also include textual, visual, corporeal and affective forms of commemoration. Similarly I argue that sites of pilgrimage were more than the physical environments of a shrine or international congress, but also encompassed the artefacts, songs, poems, performances and prayers that made up the interior landscapes of pilgrim communities in Central Europe
Becoming a global village : the impact of the John of God Pilgrimage in Abadiânia
No full textI first visited Abadiania, a little town in central Brazil home to a Brazilian faith healer, in 2004. In my first morning in town, I walked the short distance from my pousada (guesthouse) to Casa de Dom Imicio (House of St Ignatius), the healing centre headed by the faith healer Joao de Deus (John of God). While I was walking and enjoying the soft early morning sun, I glanced over my shoulder and was startled by the sight of a crowd of people dressed all in white (as recommended by the healing centre) pouring from other pousadas and walking the same dirt road toward the Casa. As they passed by, I could hear languages from all over the world: German, French, English, Russian, but I heard no Portuguese. On our way to the Casa, we passed by an Internet cafe advertising broadband connection, a juice bar (with the latest detox juices, organic dishes and a menu written in English and a shop for crystals, Spiritist books and candles. I was later to find out that many of these businesses were owned by foreigners who had arrived as patients or healers and ended up staying. We also walked past little Brazilian children too poor to wear anything but a pair of old shorts, stray dogs, carts and horses, and unpainted cement block houses. The contrast was shocking: on the one hand we were in a poor village in central Brazil; on the other hand there was a mix of New Age chatter, organic food, and high technology typical of cosmopolitan cities. It was as if two very different worlds had collided
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
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
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