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The Akkadian Occupation in the Northwest Area of the Tell Leilan Acropolis
No full textthe article presents the results of the archaeological excavation in the acropolis of Tell Leilan, ancient Shekhna/Shubat-Enlil, carried out in years 1999 and 2002 by the Yale University. Three main architectural phases are described. The retrieval of Old Akkadian cuneiform tablets, among which school texts, represent an important key in reconstructing the ancient administration
PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURE IN MEDITERRANEAN PASTURELANDS CHARACTERIZED BY CYNARA CARDUNCULUS L. SUBSP. CARDUNCULUS
No full textEl enfoque de literacidades académicas: sostener un espacio crítico para explorar la participación en la academia
No full textIn this paper, I briefly track the emergence and foci of academic literacies as a field of inquiry, summarising its contributions to understandings about writing and meaning making in academia. Writing from my specific geohistorical location in the UK, I foreground the importance of early key works that encapsulated concerns about deficit orientations to students’ language and literacy practices (e.g. Ivanič, 1998; Lea and Street,1998). I also underline the transnational dimension to the development of academic literacies which has helped drive forward intellectual debates about the relationship between academic language and literacy practices, and participation in academia. I argue that academic literacies provides an important space for critically exploring what are often taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature and value of academic writing conventions, and the ways these (both assumptions and conventions) impact on opportunities for participation in knowledge making. This critical thinking space continues to serve as an intellectual resource for researchers, teachers and students in contemporary neo-liberal higher education, where regimes of evaluation are super-normative, even in (or because of) a context of super-diversity, that is increased mobility of peoples and semiotic practices. Academic literacies as praxis necessarily involves straddling both normative and transformative orientations (Lillis and Scott, 2007) or what Hall (1992) refers to as the ‘academic’ and ‘intellectual’ dimensions to academia.En este artículo, desde su implicación temprana en el campo de investigación y práctica conocido como literacidades académicas, la investigadora británica Theresa Lillis reconstruye el contexto en el que surge dicho campo, define sus principales intereses de indagación y enseñanza, y resume sus contribuciones, durante veinte años, a la comprensión de la escritura académica en el Reino Unido y otros países. Lillis encuadra históricamente, en un contexto de ampliación de la matrícula universitaria en su país, una serie de trabajos fundacionales del enfoque de literacidades académicas que, mediante investigaciones etnográficas y situadas –que continuaron desarrollándose–, desafiaron las visiones deficitarias de las prácticas de escritura académica de los estudiantes y plantearon la necesidad de explorar críticamente los supuestos sobre la naturaleza y el valor de las convenciones dominantes en este ámbito, que operan como normas de evaluación transparentes e incuestionables. Entre esos trabajos fundacionales, y otros surgidos posteriormente, ubica el interés en la vinculación entre la escritura académica y la identidad, vinculación mediada por relaciones que regulan quién puede decir qué y cómo en la academia y, por tanto, cierran o abren las oportunidades para participar en la producción de conocimiento. Lillis revisa también las proyecciones transnacionales de este enfoque y argumenta a favor de sus potencialidades transformadoras para investigadores, docentes y estudiantes universitarios que se mueven en una academia con regímenes evaluativos cada vez más supernormativos que apuntan a controlar la cada vez mayor superdiversidad de prácticas de creación de sentido
Architectural layout for two of four floors in Lillis Hall.
No full text<p>Restrooms (brown), offices (blue) and classrooms (yellow) are shown to illustrate space type distribution throughout Lillis. The first two floors of the building are primarily devoted to classrooms and share a similar floor-plan. The 3rd and 4th floors contain most offices in the building and also share a similar floor-plan. The building has a basement and penthouse spaces; these are largely building support spaces, including mechanical rooms and storage.</p
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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
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
Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp
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