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Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and mentalities in early modern England
Get PDFMalcolm Gaskill is one of a number of young British historians who have studied crime and related matters in the early modern period, and is the author of a number of incisive articles in the field. The publication of this book, in effect a revised and expanded version of his Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, marks an important addition to the literature on the subject. Gaskill concentrates on three aspects of serious crime: witchcraft, coining, and homicide. In all three areas, he is anxious to distan..
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
Steven P. Marrone, A History of Science, Magic & Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe
No full textA History of Science, Magic & Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe Marrone Steven P. , A History of Science, Magic & Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2015; 336 pp.; 9781137029775, £60.00 (hbk); 9781137029768, £22.99 (pbk). Reviewed by : Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia, UK
Camp 65: Archaeology of the Contemporary Past
No full textHidden in the Murge and now almost invisible, traces remain of a landscape that has become difficult to interpret—ruined and progressively reclaimed by slow but relentless processes of transformation. In stark contrast to these calm and peaceful places, these traces bring us back, with the compelling force of their material presence, to the great conflicts of the 20th century. Though the Murge region never experienced open hostilities, it played a massive role in terms of logistical support throughout the century.
In this context lies the story of the expansive Camp 65, a site spanning approximately 30 hectares (to give an idea, it is larger than Apulian archaeological sites such as Herdonia or Egnazia and about half the size of Pompeii!). Located roughly halfway between Altamura and Gravina along the route of State Road 96, this site still reveals remnants of large barracks, guard towers, guard quarters, command offices, and even a small garden. The garden is marked by the poignant remains of a fountain decorated with dolphins, a solitary witness to its past.Seminascoste nelle Murge, e ormai quasi invisibili, rimangono tracce di un paesaggio ormai difficilmente leggibile perché in rovina e progressivamente riassorbito da lenti ma inesorabili processi di trasformazione. In contrasto stridente con questi luoghi così calmi e pacifici, queste tracce ci riportano, con la forza della loro dimensione materiale, ai grandi conflitti del Novecento, in cui il comparto murgiano è stato coinvolto, seppure mai in aperte ostilità, massicciamente in termini di supporto logistico, lungo tutto l’arco del secolo. In questo contesto si inserisce la storia del grande campo 65, un sito di circa 30 ettari (per intenderci è più esteso di siti archeologici pugliesi come Herdonia o Egnazia, ovvero circa la metà di Pompei!), situato a circa metà strada fra Altamura e Gravina, lungo il percorso della statale 96. Qui, su un vasto pianoro prossimo alla strada, si vedono ancora oggi i resti di grandi baracche, torrette di guardia, alloggi delle guardie e uffici del comando e addirittura di un piccolo giardino di cui rimane, stranito testimone, il rudere di una fontana decorata da delfini
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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