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Kopp, Quentin: Craft Workers Strike 1976
No full textQuentin Kopp: George Moscone was sworn in January 8, 1976. In the normal course of charter procedure, a recommendation was made for the compensation and working benefits for the carpenters, plumbers, electricians, laborers, all of the so-called building trades of employees of the city and county of San Francisco. And it followed the provisions of the charter amendment approved by the voters. It affected – as I recall – pension benefits, retirement benefits, and some other fringe benefits as the term was used in that era. They refused to accept it, and so they went on strike. And that meant all the people who worked landscaping, it meant the plumbers at the airport, at Golden Gate Park, at the Academy of Sciences, it meant the electricians every place. It meant the Hetch Hetchy system with all of its employees who were part of one craft or another. And then the Muni Railway employees went on strike as a show of loyalty and devotion to their labor brethren and sisters, although there weren’t many sisters in 1976 yet. That strike went on for thirty-eight days before it resolved with a compromised kind of agreement, which I didn’t like, but which had been engineered by Dianne Feinstein and I think George Moscone had a part of it. That was a difficult period for George Moscone because he was indebted politically to labor. He stood up! I was president of the Board, and I would preside under the law you could have closed meetings, and we would meet almost every day. By that time, we being the Board of Supervisors, had a labor negotiator. I think he was on the job maybe a year, but this was unprecedented in terms of its length. There had been city strikes when Alioto was mayor. As we know, the police and firemen strike before that in 1974. There was a short one of some carpenters as I recall, and before that in 1970 there was a short one. But this went on and on and on, and it was grinding. There were threats, for example, of damage to the Hetch Hetchy system. There were threats of blowing a hole in O’Shaughnessy Dam. It was serious, and it was scary. George stood the ground which we on the Board of Supervisors occupied. And again, except for one or two, it was solid unanimity. It was a sturdy group, and George was with it every day. Then finally at the end, it slipped away – I’ll use that expression – from me as the leader with conversations that resulted in a compromise that probably wasn’t too obnoxious. I wasn’t happy with it. Barbagelata was very unhappy with it, and vocal about being unhappy
Kopp, Quentin: Moscone campaign for supervisor
No full textQuentin Kopp: George Moscone ran for Supervisor. In that period of time I lived in North Beach, I lived on Greenwich Street. I used to walk to work. I would see George out on the corner of Union and Columbus at 7:30 – 8 o’clock in the morning passing out flyers. George was working hard, and he had a terrific personality
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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