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Caribbean Report 19-08-1999
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Keith Stone Greaves (00:00 - 00:32)2. Jamaica acting Prime Minister Seymour Mullings defends Merlene Ottey innocence in the midst of controversial accusations that she is guilty of using the banned steroid nandalone and forced to withdraw from the World Athletics championship in Seville. Orin Gordon reports on the reaction expressed in the British and Caribbean Press. Dr. Adrian Lorde Vice President of Barbados Sports Medicine Association and Doping Control officer of the IAAF in Switzerland discusses the steps as undertaken by the athlete in the airtight drug testing procedure. Jamie Astaphan discusses the shortfalls in the system describing it as unfair and not accurate, riddled with false positives. Veteran BBC athletic correspondent Mike Costello denies a conspiracy theory in the drug testing procedure and discusses sophisticated drug testing systems in place (00:33 - 08:54)3. In Trinidad and Tobago the governing political party and opposition party have joined forces in attempts to eradicate corruption in the country’s police service. Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and former Prime Minister Patrick Manning met with the goal of initiating strategies aimed at resolving the issue. Tony Fraser outlines the problems which have long stymied long term solutions to the problem of corruption including methods of investigating and methods aimed at effectively, recruiting, disciplining and managing the police service (08:55 -11:05)4. In Antigua, residents of Potter’s Village in the capital St. John have been vocal at what they claim are demonic and supernatural acts of a nine year old boy. Accusations follow the court case where persons were convicted of practicing the supernatural act of obeah. Wayne Oliver gives an eye witness account of the demonic acts. Lew Daniels reports on the unusual activity. (11:06 – 14:52)5. Weather forecasters announced the formation of the fourth tropical depression for the 1999 hurricane season. Experts at the Miami based National Hurricane Center are forecasting strengthening within the twenty four hours within the Caribbean region (14:52 - 15:25
Caribbean Report 26-02-2003
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Bertram Niles (00:00-00:29)2. The Caribbean share of cocaine trans-shipment to Europe increased nearly four-fold between the 1990’s and 2001 based on the latest report figures released by Flavio Mirella, Senior Officer of the United Nations Caribbean Office on Drugs. Tony Fraser reports (00:30-03:09)3. The Dominica Public Service Union and the government must meet again to address the deadlock over the pay dispute affecting hundreds of striking workers. At a news conference, Swinburne Lestrade, Director of Finance and Planning says the ongoing industrial unrest could have great consequences on Dominica’s ailing economy. The BBC’s Paul Charles reports (03:10-04:51)4. Jamaican students at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus staged a rare political protest due to controversial statements by Omar Davies, Finance Minister about government spending. Anissa Gill, President of the UWI Mona Students’ Guild voices the sentiments of students. BBC’s Bertram Niles reports (04:52-07:41)5. Robert Giuseppi, Head of the Organization of Labor Unions in Trinidad and Tobago is in Britain making a case against demands by international agencies for the privatization of essential services in developing countries. He was invited to speak by the Anti-Globalization World Development Movement. The BBC’s Bertram Niles reports (07:42-09:58)6. Journalist Michèle Montas describes her reasons for closing Radio Haiti almost three years after her husband Jean Dominique was killed. At the top of the list are death threats to her staff. The BBC’s Bertram Niles reports (09:59-13:07)7. In cricket, Australian cricketer ex spinner Shane Keith Warne will not be appealing against his twelve-month ban from the game, despite believing that the punishment for taking substances was harsh. Sympathy for his plight is being expressed by his fraternity globally and that includes cricketer Brian Lara. Dr. Adrian Lorde, Chairman, Barbados National Anti-Doping Commission is interviewed. The BBC’s Orin Gordon reports (13:08-15:33
Caribbean Report 18-08-1999
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Orin Gordon (00:00 - 00:38)2. Sprinter Merlene Ottey tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandalone and had to withdraw from the World Athletic Championships in Seville Spain. The International Amateur Athletics Federation indicated that the athlete tested positive at an earlier meeting in Switzerland. Ottey’s agent Daniel Zimmerman discusses questionable testing and the path for future investigation and vindication of the athlete’s innocence. Jamaica’s Sports Minister Portia Simpson assures Jamaicans of the full backing of the government in the case. Comments are solicited from Jamaicans on the streets. Keith Stone Greaves profiles Marlene Ottley as one of the world most respected athletes, with an outstanding track career including winning 34 medals in major international championships (7 in the Olympics , 14 in world championships). Designated a roving ambassador by the Jamaican government after an outstanding 1993 season, she was awarded sportswomen of the year in native Jamaican fifteen time between 1979- 1997, and ranked in the World top ten since 1980. Dr. Adrian Lorde Vice President of Barbados Sports Medicine Association and doping control officer of the IAAF in Switzerland categorizes the steroid nandalone as a performance enhancing drug for athletes (00:39 – 07:33)3. In retaliation to the US government policy of deporting criminals with Caribbean connections once they have served their sentences Haiti announced a retaliatory policy. Michael Norton reports from Port –au-Prince on the issue of mass deportation and correlation with increase crime in cities (07:34 – 10:06)4. Allegations of rampant corruption in the Trinidad and Tobago police force has unified the opposing political parties in the country. Prime Minister Basdeo Panday will meet with opposition leader Patrick Manning to propose solutions for ending crime and corruption in the police service. BBC reporter Tony Fraser provides a brief historical overview of corruption within the police ranks (10:07 – 12:09)5. Judges in the highest courts in Bahamas have denied the appeals of two death-row inmates which could paved the way for the prisoners to be hanged later this month. Stay of executions were denied for John Higgs and David Mitchell both accused of murder (12:10 – 13:03)6. Retired army general Barry McCaffrey expresses concern to Congress on the growing drug trade and increased guerilla warfare in Colombia and calls for Congress to approve one million dollars in the fight against these illegal activities. Former US Ambassador to Colombia Thomas McNamara discusses the link between the organized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and narcotic trafficking (13:04 - 14:47)7. Jamaicans reggae boys continue to strengthened their position as the number one team in the sport of football in the Caribbean as the team is currently ranked as no. 42 in FIFA world rankings ( 14:48 – 15:27
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
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