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The Janet Walker Costume Collection
No full textThe Janet Walker Collection consists of twelve women's garments from the early 1890s to the late 1920s. The collection includes ball gowns, wedding dresses and daywear.Mrs Janet Walker (1850-1940) began her custom made clothing business in the Central Chambers, Queen Street in 1882. From there she moved to larger premises in Adelaide Street in 1886 and 1892, then back to Queen Street in 1919, where she remained until her retirement in 1938. By the end of 1898 Janet Walker employed 120 staff in the 'Ladies Emporium' which had been established in Adelaide Street in September 1896. From 1887 to 1901 the local press acknowledged Janet Walker's designs at eighty-four weddings, fourteen balls, six receptions at the opening of Federal Parliament in Melbourne, as well as describing thirty sets of trousseau garments made at her atelier
Osgoode Professor Janet Walker receives title of Distinguished Research Professor
No full textProfessor Janet Walker of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School has been selected to receive the title of Distinguished Research Professor
Janet Walker & Barry Glaspell on Jurisdiction & Conflicts of Law
No full textJanet Walker and Barry Glaspell discuss recent decisions on jurisdiction and conflicts of law, including Uber v Heller and Araya v Nevsun Resources, as well as the multi-jurisdictional aspects of recent changes to the Ontario Class Proceedings Act
Janet Walker & Barry Glaspell on Jurisdiction & Conflicts of Law
No full textJanet Walker and Barry Glaspell discuss recent decisions on jurisdiction and conflicts of law, including Uber v Heller and Araya v Nevsun Resources, as well as the multi-jurisdictional aspects of recent changes to the Ontario Class Proceedings Act
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
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
Professor Janet Walker presented with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Canada) Distinguished Service Award
No full textJanet Walker, an arbitrator and professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, was recognized with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Distinguished Service Award on Sept. 20.
The award was presented by global CIArb president James Bridgeman and CIArb Canada patron Beverley McLachlin during an event hosted by the CIArb Canadian branch.
Walker spoke about the development of arbitration in Canada and its potential as “a world-class arbitral seat,” and provided insights into a forthcoming safe seat index compiled by GAR and CIArb.
“It is an honour to be recognized for contributions that I have made to collective initiatives to develop and promote international commercial arbitration in Canada,” she said.
During her talk, she gave a history of the Canadian international commercial arbitration community beginning in 2000, when she was admitted to the roster of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Canadian National Committee. At that time, it was the only permanent national professional organization dedicated to international arbitration, and she was one of just 32 members – of which only two were women.
Walker has a degree from Osgoode and doctorate in law from Oxford University; admission to the Bar of Ontario; and teaching posts all over the world. She’s also been the editor of a guide to Canadian conflicts of law for 15 years
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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