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Caribbean Report 18-11-1991
No full textReport commences during the headlines.1. Headlines (00:00-00:15)2. Confusion surrounds the rate of the increasing number of Haitian refugees captured by the US Coast Guard in the wake of the Haitian coup in September. Hugh Crosskill reports that the US is planning to send most of the Haitians back home, a move which is not supported by US Democratic Congressman, Charles Rangel who calls the US action vicious and racist. Similarly, Bill O’Neill, Director of the Refugee Project at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, states that the move by the US is a violation of human rights laws (00:16-05:21)3. The Elections Commission in Guyana announced its approval of the list of candidates for the December 16th elections. Sharief Khan reports that there is still some doubt over the polls taking place as scheduled. Comments from Rudy Collins, Chairman of the Elections Commission (05:22-07:52)4. According to the latest opinion poll, Trinidad and Tobago’s ruling National Alliance for Reconstruction surged ahead of the opposition parties. Dr. Selwyn Ryan conducted the poll and found the NAR is favoured to win the elections by 33% of the respondents. Tony Fraser reports with comments from Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson and Patrick Manning of the People’s National Movement. There are also speculations that the Prime Minister may announce the date of elections tonight (07:53-11:12)5. A dramatic downturn in the Barbados' economy prompted local investors to seek outlets elsewhere in the region through cross border trading, whilst Trinidad and Jamaica are looking towards the Barbados market. Comments from Tony Johnson, General Manager of Barbados Stock Exchange (11:13-13:39)6. The British Jamaican-born boxer, Chris Eubank announces his resumption to boxing after his last fight with Michael Watson who sustained serious injuries (13:40-13:56)7. Recap (13:57-14:41
Caribbean Report 24-09-2001
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:25)2. Will new United States news on money laundering hurt Caribbean offshore centres? Business Reporter on policy matters for the New York Times David Cay Johnson is interviewed (00:26-04:16)3. New controversy over party financing has broken out in the ruling party in Trinidad and Tobago. Attorney General says that he will stay in office to fight corruption. United National Congress Party Treasurer Unanand Persad and Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and Prime Minister Basdeo Panday are interviewed. Tony Fraser reports (04:17-09:05)4. Further cutbacks planned in the region's aviation industry. The Chief Executive Officer of Air Jamaica Chris Zacca says that like LIAT they also have no immediate plans to cutback on staffing levels. But would they do like BWIA and turn to their government for help? In Antigua and Barbuda, the tourism industry is fighting back against the negative impacts of the attacks on the United States. Tourism Minister Molwyn Joseph is interviewed and Julius Gittens reports (09:06-14:03)5. Meanwhile in St. Lucia, the government says that it would not join other Caribbean Islands after offering free accomodation for rescued workers at the World Trade Centre site in New York (14:04-14:24)6. The United States Navy began inert bombing pratices in Vieques, Puerto Rico for the first time since the attacks on the United States (14:25-15:07
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
Caribbean Report 19-07-1996
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:31)2. The discovery of another sex call operation rooted for the Caribbean raises questions. Marketing Manager of Cables and Wireless, BVI, Hugh Johnson and Anthony Smith, Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards for Telephone Information Services, BVI Chief Minister Ralph T. O'Neal are interviewed and Carol Orr reports (00:32-07:11)3. The CBU prepares to sue Channel 7 in Belize to prevent them televising the Olympic Games. Tony Fraser reports (07:12-08:59)4. It is only a matter of hours before the 100th Olympic Games get underway in Atlanta. Although the US is expected to do well Caribbean athletes might outdo their athletes in track and field events because of scholarships given to foreign athletes ironically by the United States itself. Athletes Ato Boldon and George Williams are interviewed and Leslie Goffe reports (09:00-11:52)5. George Odlum joins the St. Lucia Labour Party as the Opposition unites ahead of general elections. Pete Ninvalle reports (11:53-13:42)6. Guyana says it is no longer a member of the Caribbean Disaster Relief Agency (CDERA) and has not been since the start of the year. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon is interviewed and Colin Smith reports (13:43-15:18
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
Caribbean Report 26-02-1998
No full text1. Headlines with Orin Gordon (00:00-00:25)2. Parliament in Guyana sits for the first time since general elections but the Opposition has planned a boycott of the sitting. Colin Smith reports on the ceremonial opening of Parliament (00:26-04:18)3. Money laundering in the Caribbean was the subject of discussion at a meeting of Caribbean Financial Action Task Force. Ken Richards reports (04:19-07:05)4. A total eclipse of the sun brought up to three minutes of darkness to the Eastern Caribbean. Brian Byron reports from Barbados, where there was a partial eclipse (07:06-08:54)5. Medical experts and journalists in Trinidad have clashed over how the media reports on suicides. Tony Fraser reports on the glamorizing of suicides (08:55-11:16)6. The West Indies and England is set to start the fourth test match in Georgetown, Guyana, which could determine the outcome of the series. Tony Cozier comments that the proud reputation of the Windies was being undermined by the deep seated problems of West Indies cricket (11:17-14:34)7. Recap of top stories (14:35-15:15
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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