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James Robb socializes with students, 1964-1965
No full textMarquette philosophy professor James Robb socializes with students, 1964-1965
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Internal improvements ::a series of letters by James Robb, esq.
No full textSix letters from James Robb of New Orleans regarding the internal improvement policy of the state, which were sent to the governor, and forwarded to the Committee on Internal Improvements. Topics covered: railroads, financing railroad companies and construction of railroads, the need for a cheaper mode of transportation other than railroads, and the great northern road (supported by the Governor of Mississippi). Robb proposes to improve transportation in the United States. Companies mentioned include: New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad Company; Great Northern Railroad Company; Opelousas, Vicksburg and Shreveport Company; Memphis and Charleston Company; Tennessee and Alabama Company; and Mobile and Ohio Company
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
A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Speeches by James Robb, 1851-1852
No full textThe speeches by James Robb affected the railroad movement, the political structure and the economy of antebellum Louisiana. The purpose of this thesis was to make a rhetorical study of six of Robb\u27s speeches delivered during his most prolific period of public speaking, April 18, 1851 to July 5, 1852. The procedure of this study was to investigate the economic and political issues which influenced him as a speaker, to examine the characteristics of each audience and setting and to analyze various aspects of his speeches. Robb developed five major themes in his speeches: (1) economic diversification, (2) restoration of public credit, (3) expansion of railroads, (4) leadership in government, and (5) objections to political partisanship. Inadequate evidence diminished the logical support of his ideas, but ethical and emotional proof lent cogency to his arguments. He used ethical appeals to enhance his image as a public-spirited citizen. This study concluded that his speaking was effective. His speeches gained generally favorable responses, not only in the immediate speaking situation, but ever a long period of time as well. By March 16, 1852, Robb was a well-known Southern orator whose speeches helped elect him to public office and aided the railroad men in their efforts to unite the South and the West
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
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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