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How many focus markers are there in Konkomba?
No full textThis article discusses the divergent status of the two particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba, a Gur language (Niger-Congo) of the Gurma subgroup. While previous studies claim that both particles are focus markers, this author argues that only the particle lá should be analyzed as a pure pragmatic device. Distributional studies suggest that the use of particle lé, on the other hand, is only required under specific focus conditions, and primarily represents a syntactic device
De la gestion conflictuelle du foncier à Mbanza-Ngungu: entre droit moderne et droit coutumier
No full texteditorial reviewedRenouant somme toute avec une des acceptions historiques du concept de patrimoine, dans le chapitre suivant, Gérard Matondo s'intéresse à la question foncière, et, en particulier aux tensions entre trois conceptions du foncier : celle liée aux cultures traditionnelles dont Pascal Kamafuenkete a dessiné les contours en insistant sur la dimension de solidarité qu'elle institue et protège, celle, politique, qui a fait, constitutionnellement, de l'Etat le propriétaire du foncier, et celle que promeut le libéralisme en faisant de la terre un objet de transactions marchandes et d'appropriation privative. Dans ses analyses, s'appuyant sur le constat de l'importance prise dans les procédures judiciaires par les conflits fonciers, Gérard Matondo s'intéresse aux formes que prennent ces conflits et à leurs origines, aux incertitudes quant aux manières de les régler, attirant notamment l'attention sur les insuffisances des formes de régulation basées sur le seul droit moderne
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
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
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
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
An assessment of Animal draught power in agricultural production: A case of Matondo Village-Kalomo District
No full textThe general objective of this study was to make an assessment of the role of animal draught power and the diffusion of donkey farm technology in agricultural production. The focus of the study were the oxen and the donkey owners. The target was to see how donkey farm mechanization is spreading and its effectiveness in agriculture production. The present agriculture production and pre-ECF epidemic period agriculture production were also investigated.Generally, animal draught power plays a key role in the development of the agricultural sector. This is due to its capability to increase the agriculture productivity. However, animal draught power particularly oxen has been affected by East Coast Fever (ECF) disease resulting in deaths of hundreds of cattle. This has seen a reduction in agricultural productivity and high levels of poverty. Therefore, one potential substitute to oxen has been identified as donkeys. Hence, the donkey farm power is believed to be an alternative farm power that will reduce the country's dependence on cattle that are more vulnerable to many diseases. Therefore, to carry out this research, the households were chosen randomly and out of the 60 households, 40 households were sampled. Hence, the method used to get this sample was the judgmental or purposive method. This was due to the nature of the village with unstable and mobile household members. As a result, those households which were viewed as typical representative of the sample or researcher's interest were chosen.The study therefore revealed that the current agriculture production is hot as it was before the pre-ECF epidemic period. There is low production due to fewer oxen used in agriculture production. On the other hand, some slight improvement in crop production in Matondo Village has been witnessed although not more than pre- ECF period. This increase in the crop productivity is attributed to a number of people who have adopted the donkey farm mechanization as an alternative farm power. As a result, the adoption of donkey farm mechanization has helped to increase crop productivity of Matondo Village as well as Kalomo District. Therefore, the study revealed that there is a
relationship between animal draught power and agriculture production. This means, households with animal draught power have the capacity to produce enough with some surplus for both home consumption and for sale. Further, it was found that the recent recovery in agriculture production is a result of the recent diffusion of donkey farm technology in Matondo Village. To test these hypothesis to find out whether there is any relationship between the used variables, the Spearmann's Rank Correlation was used.
In addition, the study revealed that although some households have adopted the donkeys, the rate of diffusion is very slow. This is due to its low status in the village. As a result, some measures were suggested by the villagers such as giving donkey loans or capital to buy donkeys, teaching fanners the effectiveness of the donkeys in agriculture production, giving small scale farmers free donkeys and launching of some sensitization campaigns to boost the status of donkeys.Finally, the study revealed some problems farmers face in the agriculture production. However, more importantly, the study suggested measures that can help to ensure even adoption of the donkeys as an alternative fann power such as linking them to cheaper sources of donkeys
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Soil erosion modelling in the Mbuluzi river catchment (Swaziland, South Africa). Part II: Sediment yield analyses
No full textAs stated by many authors in the recent past, soil erosion is one of the major environmental problems in Southern Africa and will in future become even more severe owing to population growth and potential climatic changes. This study regards the application of the Universal Soil Loss Equation in the Mbuluzi-river catchment in Swaziland. It has been carried out within the framework of an interdisciplinary EU-funded Project aimed at developing an Integrated Water Resources Management System (IWRMS) for water resources analyses and prognostic scenario planning in semi-arid catchments of southern Africa. In this more general framework two methods of spatial discrimination of erosion processes at catchment scale have been tested. On one hand the Erosion Response Units (ERUs) concept (see Märker and alii, 2001) has been used for sediment source area identification and as a distributed modelling structure for the subsequent soil erosion modelling based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) (Wischmeier and Smith, 1978) as well as on gully erosion models (Sidorchuk, 1999). On the other hand, the ACRU Agrohydrological Modelling System (Schulze, 1995; Smithers and Schulze, 1995) was used to simulate the erosion dynamics at a catchment scale using a semi-distributed method. This case study from southern Africa shows that the erosion processes active in the catchment can be described only partly with the traditional USLE applications whereas the more detailed distributed modelling structure of the ERU concept is able to deliver more information about the individual erosion processes and their location. Especially the gully erosion processes, which are widely distributed all over Swaziland, can be identified and subsequently modelled in order to estimate the quality and quantity of these erosion processes
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