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Spirit profile: Josh Morton, \u2796
No full textSpirit profile: Josh Morton, \u2796
Josh Morton, \u2796, knows what it means to live and breathe the North Dakota Spirit. When he\u27s not at work as Executive Director of the North Dakota Champions Club, he is giving his time to the Studio One Advisory Council and hosting the UND Sports cable television show. Josh took some time to explain what motivates him to give back to his alma mater.
What are your most memorable moments as a student at UND?
My first day of football practice as a walk-on quarterback in 1992 – maybe the scariest day of my life! I also remember the first time doing a live TV show with Studio One – maybe the second scariest!
What are your most memorable moments as an engaged alum of UND?
Because of my professional role, I get to travel with our athletic teams. The two most memorable games are the men\u27s hockey road win against Wisconsin to get to the 2008 Frozen Four and seeing the football team\u27s first guarantee game at Texas Tech. As a former walk-on football player, it was pretty special to see us compete against a Big 12 school and to earn the respect of 50,000 people in the stands.
Also, every year I walk away from the Sioux Awards ceremony proud to be an alum. That is the most inspiring night of the year for both my wife and me.
In your current role as Executive Director of the North Dakota Champions Club, you\u27re exposed to generous contributions to our university\u27s athletic programs daily. How does that inspire you?
It makes me want to show those generous investors the impact their gifts are making, and how it all comes back to the student-athletes. Every September we have our student-athlete/investor social where those who have contributed named scholarships get to meet the student-athlete recipients. It\u27s great to be able to make that connection for both sides, and that inspires us to keep working to grow the number of investors.
Giving to the university doesn\u27t have to mean through financial contributions. Your education and early professional experiences were in broadcast journalism. How are you using those talents and donating your time to give back to UND?
I\u27m proud to serve on the Studio One Advisory Council, and I also host the weekly UND Sports cable television show. We talk to alumni and friends about investing time, talent and treasure, so if there\u27s something I can offer, I\u27m happy to do it.
Why is it so important to you to ensure alumni and fans are connected to UND athletics?
Private support is absolutely critical to success for UND Athletics. We can point to statistics like how Champions Club donations cover about half of the total UND Athletics scholarships, and how athletics facilities get built because of private contributions, but the key is to get people engaged and keep them engaged. Because of its popularity, athletics is a great way to do that.
What is your motivation to give back?
There\u27s no question that everything I\u27ve done in the past 16 years is because of my four years at UND. I talk to people about giving to their passion, and I left UND with a passion for UND football and Studio One. My wife feels the same about the swimming & diving program, so we give what we can. It\u27s not always about the size of the investment – it\u27s really about giving, period. For us, it\u27s about participation, and we plan on increasing the size of our investments in UND as time goes on. We\u27re motivated to give back because we understand the need.
Are you having fun?
There are many days I walk across campus and feel so lucky to be working on behalf of my alma mater and to see my kids growing up around UND Athletics.
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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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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