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Jack David James
No full textSeries 328 | Board of Pardons | Prisoners' pardon application case files | Jack David JamesCase files consist of letters to the Governor, a formal application for a pardon, petitions and letters of support from the public and officials connected to the case. Cases illustrate the process of review by the board of cases of prisoners incarcerated in the Utah prison system to determine if they should be released before their regular sentence ended
The evolution of highly eccentric orbits
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-506).by Jack David Fischer.M.S
The Signed Ego Network: Modelling and Analysis Through the Lenses of Online Social Networks
Full text linkHumans have the ability to communicate at a scale and complexity that is unmatched by any other species on our planet. This capacity has been a key factor in allowing us to develop large-scale societies that are predominant across many diverse areas of the globe. What’s more, since the advent of the internet, individuals and groups can be connected regardless of physical location. This increased connectivity has brought with it many new, emergent phenomena, not all of which are beneficial. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the ways in which humans communicate and the social structures that underpin these interactive behaviours. One particularly pertinent model that facilitates this understanding is the Ego Network Model (ENM), which views a social network from the point-of-view of a single individual, organising their connections into circles around them based on the strength of their relationship. However, this model has the notable limitation of only measuring relationships based on the contact frequency of the individuals involved.
This thesis aims to establish an extension to the ENM that incorporates signed connections: the Signed Ego Network Model (SENM). To this end, a novel methodology for computing polarity sign (i.e. positive or negative) for the connections within a social network, based on sentiments of individual interactions, is first proposed. This method is shown to achieve similar results regardless of the model used to compute the individual sentiments and is also validated using known expectations of signed networks. Next, the signing methodology is used to compute the SENM, which is then investigated. The results of this reveal that, surprisingly, negativity is often most prevalent in the relationships we engage the most with. The potential effects of negativity on cognitive load are also investigated, although little statistically significant evidence was found. The ENM and SENM are then leveraged for the task of Stance Detection (SD), where they are able to be used to obtain results similar (although slightly worse) to the cutting edge, while using far less, and more easily obtainable, data. Finally, differences in the SENM are observed between cultures and online communities. Both cultures and engagement in a subcommunity were found to have an effect on the rate of negative relationships, although the former appears to be more influential. This is followed up by analyses of the most popular terms and talking points, which find that individuals who engage in more generic exchanges (e.g. about the weather) are more likely to have fewer negative relationships than those who commonly engage in more polarising topics (such as politics)
ANTROPOLOGI KEKERASAN AGAMA : Studi Pemikiran Jack David Eller
Full text linkThis article aims to study the anthropology of religious violence in Jack David Eller's
perspective. The conclusions are: (1) violence, anthropologically, is not an objective
quality of a concept and a judgment, depending on the person who sees it. Some
violence is considered good and ordered as rights and obligations; (2) the factors
supporting violence are: constituents of cultural violence, integration into groups,
identities, institutions, interests, and ideologies; (3) religious violence is practiced in
all religions because there are some aspects of violence in religious doctrine; (4)
religious violence has various forms: sacrifice, martyrdom, persecution, holy war,
ethno-religious conflict, abuse, crime and murder
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
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