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The Remarkable Career of Martin Howard, Esq.
No full textSnydacker describes the life of Newport Tory, Martin Howard, Jr., who was a full-fledged ideologue and saw the increasing tensions between colony and mother-country in the theoretical terms of law and politics. Howard was an equally successful lawyer and politician who held a number of highly respected offices in town. However, his downfall came in 1765, as a result of the Stamp Act crisis of that yea
Reexamining the Remarkable Career of Martin Howard, Esq.
No full textIn “Reexamining the Career of Martin Howard, Esq.,” Abby Chandler chronicles Howard’s surprising rebound, at least for a time, after his hasty departure from Newport. Chandler’s nuanced narrative of Howard’s time in Newport and North Carolina also provides a window into the lives of Loyalist families during the Revolutionary era
Martin Howard letter to Increase Matthews, November 2, 1802
No full textThis letter written by Martin Howard of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to his brother-in-law, Dr. Increase Matthews, mentions that he has not received a letter from Matthews in over a year. Howard discusses the loss of Matthews' wife, Abigail (Willis) Matthews, and how the children are fortunate to still have one parent with them. He also discusses resolution of his bankruptcy issues, and writes of his town's meeting regarding federal representatives to Congress and names Nahum Mitchell as "undoubtedly chosen." He closes the letter with his hopes to see his brother soon and a promise to write again.
Increase Matthews, who later changed the spelling of his last name to Mathews, was the first physician in Muskingum County and a nephew of General Rufus Putnam. He and Martin Howard were related by marriage, as Matthews' first wife, Abigail, was the sister of Howard's wife, Vashti. This letter, written in 1802 before Ohio became a state, was addressed to Matthews in the Northwest Territory town of Springfield (later renamed Putnam), which is now part of Zanesville
A study of the hospital utilization of clinical laboratory tests
Get PDFThesis. 1979. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY.Includes bibliographical references.by Martin Howard Flax and Michael John Dinnis Brand.M.S
Analyzing Qualitative Data Regarding Correctional Staff
Get PDFThis assignment, created by Simone Martin-Howard, Director of the MPA Public Policy and Administration Program and Associate Professor at John Jay College, asks students to analyze transcripts of qualitative interviews with correctional staff (officers and captains) at Rikers Island Jail. Students are guided through the process of first coding the texts of the transcripts, then analyzing the coded transcripts for emergent themes. Students ultimately present their findings in an oral presentation
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
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