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The Catholic Values in Poetry
No full textThis paper is written to show that poetry is not the somewhat sentimental, useless, effeminate, out-of- date thing it is often considered to be, bat a form of literature which gives great help to the Church in broadening, guiding, ennobling the life of man as he struggles through this land of darkness and exile to his true home in heaven.|I am not discussing the poetic values of the Catholic Faith, although that would make a splendid subject for a paper. The vision of the Church, the liturgy of the Church, the far-reaching truths which are the teachings of the Church, are all profoundly poetic. Our Faith, indeed, is without doubt poetry’s strongest bulwark. The old mythologies, which inspired much of the pre-Christian poetry, have died. It is true that Christianity helped to kill them; but even if Christianity had not buried them, they would have sunk into the grave of their own weight long since. They cannot be permanently resurrected again in our present civilization.|Without faith in an after-life of reward and punishment, without belief in the free-will of man and his importance and dignity because of his immortal soul, man and his life ere not worthy subjects for poetry. Strip him of the glories which distinguish him from the animal, and man is no better than the brute. One cannot write great poetry about animals. Picture the tragedies of Sophocles or of Shakespeare written of beings without souls. It is because the will is free, it is because the effects of the choice between moral good and evil last eternally, that the struggle of the drama is so vital.|One could, therefore, write much on the subject of the poetic values of the Catholic Faith. But the following paper is taking the complementary view. That is, it treats of the Catholic values of poetic writings. Catholicism has been an inspiration to poets; poets have been a help to Catholicism. Both of these truths have remained rather obscure in the minds of many. I shall make an effort to remove some of the veil shrouding the second. I shall show especially how poetry helps the Church by siding the intellect to see the great Catholic truths more vividly and by training the emotions to seek their satisfaction in those things and ways which these truths reveal as worthy and noble.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
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
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
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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