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II. Le cadre institutionnel et réglementaire de la distribution d'eau en Suède
No full textPersson Kenneth M., Finnson Anders. II. Le cadre institutionnel et réglementaire de la distribution d'eau en Suède. In: Droit et gestion des collectivités territoriales. Tome 30, 2010. Les enjeux de la gestion locale de l'eau. pp. 275-286
Impersonal Style and the Form of Experience in W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
No full textThis article argues that W. G. Sebald’s prose fiction reverses the traditional positioning of the witness as a point of singularity, and that it instead theorizes a relationship to the act of witnessing that, while anchored in personal experience, is imbued at its core with impersonal form. Using The Rings of Saturn as my central example, I demonstrate that it is the tension between the immediacy of first-person experience and the characteristic distance of Sebald’s style that makes possible the narrator’s attunement to the “traces of destruction” that he encounters during his walk, and to which he bears witness both in and through his narrative. Sebald’s witnessing, then, is less a relation between past and present or witness and event than it is a critical orientation that produces the imperative to bear witness as a function of the very permeability of these categories.Peer reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
The Ekström–Persson conjecture regarding random covering sets
No full textAbstract
We consider the Hausdorff dimension of random covering sets formed by balls with centres chosen independently at random according to an arbitrary Borel probability measure on ℝ𝑑 and radii given by a deterministic sequence tending to zero. We prove, for a certain parameter range, the conjecture by Ekström and Persson concerning the exact value of the dimension in the special case of radii (𝑛−𝛼)∞𝑛=1. For balls with an arbitrary sequence of radii, we find sharp bounds for the dimension and show that the natural extension of the Ekström–Persson conjecture is not true in this case. Finally, we construct examples demonstrating that there does not exist a dimension formula involving only the lower and upper local dimensions of the measure and a critical parameter determined by the sequence of radii.Abstract
We consider the Hausdorff dimension of random covering sets formed by balls with centres chosen independently at random according to an arbitrary Borel probability measure on ℝ𝑑 and radii given by a deterministic sequence tending to zero. We prove, for a certain parameter range, the conjecture by Ekström and Persson concerning the exact value of the dimension in the special case of radii (𝑛−𝛼)∞𝑛=1. For balls with an arbitrary sequence of radii, we find sharp bounds for the dimension and show that the natural extension of the Ekström–Persson conjecture is not true in this case. Finally, we construct examples demonstrating that there does not exist a dimension formula involving only the lower and upper local dimensions of the measure and a critical parameter determined by the sequence of radii
Swedish integration policy documents: a close dialogic reading
No full textSweden as the great welfare state where everybody is equally welcomed and cared for has for long been the prevailing view. Although Swedish integration policy seems to confirm this view, this is far removed from many people’s experienced reality. I argue that part of this disharmony lies in how West European languages contain and relate to an ‘identity’ construction, which perpetuates and is perpetuated through dichotomies that strengthen the social and political cogency of concepts such as ‘race’, ethnicity and culture. Based on this, I carry out a discourse analysis of Sweden’s major integration policy documents from the mid 1970s up to today.
After an eclectic reading of discourses on migration and integration terminology, ‘identity’ and language, I assert the centrality of ‘identity’ construction to everything we do. With this in mind, taking the dialogism promoted by the Bakhtinian Circle as the dichotomy to monologism, I carry out a close dialogic reading in the tradition of Lynn Pearce (1994) and Peter Stallybrass and Allon White (1986).
Contextualising the policy documents, I present the history of migration and integration from a Swedish perspective. Focusing on the last five decades, I divide the different historic tendencies into themes ranging from: emigration to labour migration, refugee migration and the European Union, and from immigrant policy to integration policy.
Believing that the conceptualisation and the handling of categorisation, segregation, culture, discrimination and racism are all central to a successful integration policy, I analyse the policy documents thematically accordingly. I show how the interdependence of the common ‘identity’ constructions and language sometimes obscures and frequently counteracts the intention of the author. As a result, I argue that the Bakhtinian Circle holds the key to a better understanding of the invincibility of stereotyping within racialised discourses, through applying absolute ‘identity’ constructions in monologic speech, and how this may be counteracted in order to strive for a dialogic approach to the world
Transformation of a plasmid-free, genital tract isolate of Chlamydia trachomatis with a plasmid vector carrying a deletion in CDS6 revealed that this gene regulates inclusion phenotype
No full textThe development of a plasmid-based genetic transformation protocol for Chlamydia trachomatis provides the basis for the detailed investigation of the function of the chlamydial plasmid and its individual genes or coding sequences (CDS). In this study we constructed a plasmid vector with CDS6 deleted (pCDS6KO) from the original Escherichia coli/C. trachomatis shuttle vector pGFP::SW2. pCDS6KO was transformed into a clinical isolate of C. trachomatis from Sweden that is plasmidfree(C. trachomatis SWFP–). Penicillin-resistant transformants expressing the green fluorescent protein were selected. These transformants did not stain with iodine, indicating that this property is regulated by CDS6 or its gene product. In addition, mature inclusions of C. trachomatis SWFP– transformed by pCDS6KO displayed an identical morphological phenotype to the untransformed plasmid-free recipient host. In this phenotype the morphology of inclusions was altered with the chlamydiae lining the periphery of the inclusion leaving a ‘hole’ in the centre. These green fluorescent inclusions appear ‘doughnut-shaped’ with an empty centre when examined under blue light, giving rise to a characteristic ‘black hole’ phenotype. Our study demonstrates the power of the new genetic system for investigating chlamydial gene function using gene deletion technology
Bibliometric author evaluation through linear regression on the coauthor network
No full textThe rising trend of coauthored academic works obscures the credit assignment that is the basis for decisions of funding and career advancements. In this paper, a simple model based on the assumption of an unvarying “author ability” is introduced. With this assumption, the weight of author contributions to a body of coauthored work can be statistically estimated. The method is tested on a set of some more than five-hundred authors in a coauthor network from the CiteSeerX database. The ranking obtained agrees fairly well with that given by total fractional citation counts for an author, but noticeable differences exist
Reluctant Authorities : the Author in the Classroom
No full textAs in the literary public sphere in general, there is a renewed desire to get close to the author behind the work also in the teaching of Swedish as a school subject. By this we do not mean teachers’ and pupils’ possible tendency to interpret the works through a biographical filter, but rather the author's actual physical presence in the classroom. Each year, more than 2,000 author visits are conducted in Swedish schools. Author visits constitute a large and important part of the recurrent policy efforts to get more culture into schools. Pupils’ literacy development is typically highlighted as a main goal for these efforts. But what actually happens during such author visits?
In an ongoing project, we have followed and documented the highly popular and critically acclaimed Swedish author of books for young people Per Nilsson's visits in three different secondary school classes. In our presentation, we will show how the author’s performance can be described as an interaction between four various roles: author, narrator, debater and actor. In particular, we will focus on how the author’s authority over the interpretation of his own text is subjected to extensive and contradictory negotiations
Reluctant Authorities : the Author in the Classroom
No full textAs in the literary public sphere in general, there is a renewed desire to get close to the author behind the work also in the teaching of Swedish as a school subject. By this we do not mean teachers’ and pupils’ possible tendency to interpret the works through a biographical filter, but rather the author's actual physical presence in the classroom. Each year, more than 2,000 author visits are conducted in Swedish schools. Author visits constitute a large and important part of the recurrent policy efforts to get more culture into schools. Pupils’ literacy development is typically highlighted as a main goal for these efforts. But what actually happens during such author visits? In an ongoing project, we have followed and documented the highly popular and critically acclaimed Swedish author of books for young people Per Nilsson's visits in three different secondary school classes. In our presentation, we will show how the author’s performance can be described as an interaction between four various roles: author, narrator, debater and actor. In particular, we will focus on how the author’s authority over the interpretation of his own text is subjected to extensive and contradictory negotiations.</p
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