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Zhongguo xin zi /
No full textSpecial collection from London Missionary Society.; Text in both Chinese and English.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at http://nla.gov.au/nla.gen-vn1969057.New Chinese writing
Christian Identity and Business Success: Lin Zifeng (1892-1971) and his Public Career in Hong Kong
No full textThis dissertation explores the significance of Lin Zifeng’s Christian identity for his public career by examining his engagement in educational and philanthropic endeavours as well as in his business ventures. Lin was a prominent figure in the Chaozhou Christian business community in twentieth century Hong Kong. Through studying Lin it enables us to understand the relationship between the Christian identity of Hong Kong businessmen and their successful public careers in twentieth century Hong Kong. This dissertation draws on substantial archival materials regarding Lin and his enterprises in various archival collections. I also conduct oral history to supplement the material which has not yet be discovered by the existing scholarly. I use textual analysis to examine how Lin’s Christian belief influenced his philosophy of philanthropy, business and Christian education. I employ Martin L. Maehr’s theory to analyze how significant his Christian beliefs were in motivating his educational and philanthropic endeavours. I also use Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of different forms of capital to explain how Lin accumulated and utilized his capital through different social activities. I apply location theory to illustrate how Lin drew on his symbolic capital to promote his banking business. Lin Zifeng is the major case study discussed in this dissertation. To explore and compare the universal practices between Christian businesspeople I use the methodology of comparative history. I select a number of Christian businesspeople who lived in Hong Kong, China and the West in order to make comparisons with Lin and his enterprises. I also select some non-Christian Chinese businesspeople to compare with Lin in order to assess the importance of native-place ties and to explore other common attributes shared by both Christian and non-Christian Chinese businesspeople. This dissertation is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction. Chapter 2 discusses the business setting of twentieth century Hong Kong and provides an overview of the Christian Chaozhou business communities. Chapter 3 focuses on the formation of Lin’s Christian identity and how it influenced his philosophy of philanthropy, business, and Christian education. Chapter 4 analyzes the importance of his Christian background in contributing to his social engagement and the building of social contacts. Chapter 5 assesses how significantly Lin’s Christian identity contributed to his business practices. Chapter 6 addresses two questions: how did his Christian identity help Lin become a renowned Christian educator? What did he obtain from those projects? I have given particular attention to the establishment of the Hong Kong Baptist College. Chapter 7 discusses how Lin’s Christian identity contributed to the achievement of his Christian philanthropic endeavours. In light of the fact that no scholar has yet provided an analysis of how symbolic capital can be used in the banking business, this chapter tries to fill this gap by analyzing how Lin utilized his reputation in Christian and educational circles to boost the business of the Ka Wah Bank Ltd
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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