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Histoire du Nord-du-Québec
No full textCe livre fait état de l’histoire du Nord-du-Québec depuis les périodes les plus anciennes jusqu’à nos jours . Pour reprendre le propos de l’un des plus illustres spécialistes du Nord, Louis-Edmond Hamelin, ce livre a pour but de « faire le dit du Nord de le raconter, sous toutes ces formes, pour toute époque, en tous lieux, à tout niveau, à tous points de vue et à toutes langues ». L’ouvrage a également pour objectif de présenter une région encore méconnue par la majorité des citoyens et qui renvoie même à des clichés comme ceux d’un Nord inhabitable
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
Habitations, camps et territoires des Inuit de la région de Kangiqsujuaq-Salluit, Nunavik
No full textEthnoarchaeological investigations were undertaken in Nunavik (Arctic Quebec) with the Inuit of Kangiqsujuaq and Salluit between 1985 and 1995. Various ecological zone types were surveyed including the shoreline of highly productive zones such as estuaries, bays, coastal strips and islands, larger lakes and major rivers, as well the poorest zones of the hinterland such as interfluvial uplands, where the territories of the two communities partially overlap. The first section of this article provides a brief ethnohistoric overview followed by an interpretative summary, based on published sources and ethnographic interviews conducted by the author to depict links between habitations, camps, territory, place-names and Inuit culture. In the second section, archaeological data analysis serves to estimate population levels, intensity of human occupation, as well as resource use, by contrasting coastal and hinterland settings. It is concluded that archaeological studies, from research design, fieldwork, and throughout data analysis, must consider and integrate local knowledge in the interpretation of material culture considered at different spatial scales: features, sites, sectors and region.Des interventions ethnoarchéologiques ont été réalisées au Nunavik (Québec arctique) en collaboration avec les Inuit de Kangiqsujuaq et de Salluit entre 1985 et 1995. Des zones écologiques d'abondance variée ont été explorées: rives de riches estuaires ou de baies, côte et îles maritimes, proximité de grands lacs et rivières ainsi que les hautes terres les plus pauvres de l'arrière-pays où se chevauchent partiellement les territoires des deux communautés. La première partie de cet article présente un bref survol ethnohistorique, suivi d'une synthèse interprétative basée sur les résultats d'un examen de sources publiées et de données tirées d'entrevues ethnographiques réalisées par l'auteur pour dépeindre les liens entre habitation, campement, territoire, toponymie et culture des Inuit. Dans la seconde partie, le traitement cartésien des données archéologiques sert à estimer la densité de la population, l'intensité de l'occupation humaine et l'utilisation des ressources, en insistant sur les contrastes remarquables entre la côte et l'arrière-pays. Cet exercice tend à démontrer qu'il est indispensable d'intégrer les savoirs traditionnels à toutes les étapes de la recherche archéologique, de la planification des études en passant par la collecte, l'analyse et l'interprétation des vestiges matériels envisagées à différentes échelles spatiales: structures, sites, secteurs et région
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
Relecture critique des interprétations relatives aux interactions entre Thuléens et Dorsétiens au Nunavik et au Nunatsiavut
No full textPatrick Plumet et des archéologues de sa génération se sont intéressés au problème des relations interethniques entre les derniers Dorsétiens et les premiers Thuléens qui ont peuplé l’Arctique et le Labrador. Par la suite, quelques chercheurs ont mis en doute la contemporanéité des vestiges attribués à ces deux groupes, découverts dans les mêmes sites ou dans des localités voisines, croyant ainsi éliminer la possibilité qu’ils se soient côtoyés ou influencés. Plus récemment fut mise en doute l’existence même d’une présence thuléenne au Labrador avant l’arrivée des premiers Européens. En se basant principalement sur des sources écrites, l’auteur propose une relecture critique des interprétations relatives aux complexités interculturelles de la préhistoire récente du Nunavik et du Nunatsiavut.Patrick Plumet and archaeologists of his generation were interested in the problem of inter-ethnic relations between the late Dorset and the early Thule peoples of the Arctic and Labrador. Subsequently, some researchers questioned the contemporaneity of material remains that were attributed to the two groups and discovered at the same sites or in adjacent locations. They thus believed they had eliminated the possibility that the two groups had been in contact or had influenced each other. More recently, there have been doubts about the very existence of a Thule presence in Labrador before the first Europeans arrived. Using written sources primarily, the author critically reviews interpretations of the intercultural complexities of recent Nunavik and Nunatsiavut prehistory
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
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