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Caribbean Report 05-07-1993
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:42)2. CARICOM Finance Ministers meet on the eve of the Heads of Government Summit in Bahamas. A major issue for discussion was re-insurance for disasters. Antigua and Barbuda’s Foreign Minister, Lester Bird said that the region needs to take a more active role in providing its own insurance cover. He added that the international community might be overestimating the risk of natural disasters in the Caribbean. Hugh Crosskill reports (00:43-04:25)3. As regional heads gather in the Bahamas for the Heads of Government Summit, Erskvine Sandiford, Prime Minister of Barbados proposed a way to develop plans for a sub-regional grouping between Guyana, Trinidad and Barbados. Interview with Erskvine Sandiford, Prime Minister of Barbados. Hugh Crosskill reports (04:26-07:12)4. Deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and General Raoul Cedras have signed an agreement for President Aristide’s return to power on October 30th. In Haiti, reactions of the populace to this agreement have been muted because of fear of violence. Interview with Gerard Jean-Juste, Director of Haitian Refugee Centre and Leader of Haiti’s RC community in Miami. Michael Norton reports (07:13-10:06)5. The European Court of Justice has thrown out an application by Chiquita, the multinational banana producer, to block the new EC’s banana regime. The multinational company wanted the Court to declare the new banana regime null and void. The Court also ruled that some banana operators could be eligible for compensation if the new banana regime causes them to suffer a commercial loss (10:07-10:44)6. While the new EC’s banana regime is in favour of traditional Caribbean banana producers, the Dominican Republic was left out of the agreement. Interviews with Richard Youdin, General Manager, Fyffes Bananas International and Osmar Benetez, Executive Director, Dominican Agro Business Board. Ian Farley reports (10:45-14:35)7. Recap of the Headlines (14:36-15:00
Caribbean Report 15-03-1994
No full text1. Headlines with Debbie Ransome (00:00-00:28)2. Latin American and the Caribbean group of nations have opposed the UN Security Council’s discussion on implementing a total trade embargo against Haiti. The draft resolution is currently being looked at during a series of informal consultation sessions taking place at the UN. The Latin America and Caribbean have expressed reservations against total sanctions against Haiti. Charles Flemming, the Permanent Representative of St. Lucia to the UN, talks about why CARICOM countries are against total sanctions as a solution to bringing an end to the impasse in Haiti (00:29-03:34)3. Gerard Jean-Juste, the Coordinator of the Haiti Secretariat discusses why the approach by the UN and Washington – to implement harsher economic sanctions against Haiti, would not be successful (03:35-04:17)4. The question of who will head the Organization of American States (OAS) is on the minds of diplomats in Washington as elections are to be held on March 27. CARICOM is supporting Costa Rican Foreign Minister, Bernd Niehaus. However, there are unconfirmed reports which suggests that some Caribbean countries are changing their support due to pressure from the United States which is supporting Cesar Gaviria. Yvette Collymore reports (04:18-06:12)5. What are the implications as Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica seek separate NAFTA access? Sally Cowell, the US Ambassador to Trinidad comments on Trinidad and Tobago’s readiness to join NAFTA (06 :14-07:29)6. International Relations analyst Anthony Bryan says there are three options as Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica seek separate NAFTA access. One of the strategies include stepping up bilateral arrangements with the US (07:30-08:22)7. Director of the London-based Caribbean Council for Europe, David Jessop believes the process of applying to NAFTA will take time. One of the more immediate possibilities will be achieving Free Trade area status with the US alone for Trinidad and Jamaica. David Jessop comments on this issue (8:23-10:30)8. Dominica’s trade minister Charles Maynard prefers to see the decision made by the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica, as a challenge for the Eastern Caribbean. Even without NAFTA, GATT would have dragged the OECS into a more competitive trade arrangements. The option for the Eastern Caribbean, Mr. Maynard believes, is to catch up with Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica while lengthy NAFTA negotiations take place. Maynard suggests there is a need to study the implications of NAFTA and the Eastern Caribbean can use that time to become more competitive whether they join or not (10:31-12:49)9. Guyanese-born cricketer Chris Lewis gets another chance to cement his place in England’s squad. Lewis is considered the spearhead of the attack in terms of pace while his colleague, Devon Malcolm, recovers from in Britain from knee injury. Orin Gordon reports and Chris Lewis is interviewed (12:50-14:47)10. Wrap up and Theme music (14:48-15:02
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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