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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
Wisdom and apocalyptic in the Gospel of Matthew : a comparative study with 1 Enoch and 4QInstruction
No full textRecent scholarship has demonstrated that Matthew's gospel has significantly developed
both sapiential and apocalyptic elements within its narrative. Little attention has been paid,
however, to the question of how these two features of Matthew's gospel might relate to one
another. It is this gap in scholarly literature that the present study is intended to fill, by means of a
comparative study with two other texts of mixed genre: 1 Enoch and 4Qlnstruction.
An examination of these texts demonstrates that each is marked by an inaugurated
eschatology, within which the revealing of wisdom to an elect group, defined in distinction to the
Jewish parent group, serves as the pivotal moment of inauguration. In addition, within
4Qlnstruction the idea is developed that possession of this revealed wisdom allows the remnant
to live in fidelity to the will of the Creator and to the patterns built-in to the original creation.
Thus, possession of revealed wisdom facilitates a recovery of creation.
These findings provide lines of enquiry that may be brought to Matthew. Three sections
of the gospel are examined (chapters 5-7; 11-12; 24-25). It is argued that Jesus is presented as an
eschatological figure who reveals wisdom to an elect group. This wisdom cannot be reduced to
great moral insight or interpretation of Torah, but is presented as prophetic revelation, happening
in eschatological time. It remains the case, however, that Matthew presents it as wisdom and
presents Jesus as a sage.
More tentatively, it is suggested that creation provides the patterns for the ethical
requirements of Jesus' wisdom, thus indicating that the idea of restored creation is also at work in
Matthew. The fall of the temple may also be connected in Matthew's narrative to such a
restoration, but again, the evidence for this is not clear
Michael Pearson, 26th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Pearson is the director of the creative writing program at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Washington Post, The Journal of American Culture, and Creative Nonfiction, among others. He is author of four books of nonfiction. His first book, Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America, was listed as one of the notable books of the year by the 1992 New York Times Book Review. His most recent book, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, was published in 1999. Willie Morris, former editor of Harper\u27s, said, Michael Pearson is one of our nation\u27s finest memoirists. Dreaming of Columbus should give him the reputation among American writers he so richly deserves. Pearson\u27s first novel, Shohola Falls, will be published by Syracuse University Press in fall 2003
Michael Pearson, 23rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Pearson is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Southern Literary Journal, and Creative Nonfiction, among others.
He is the author of four books. His first book, Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America (1991) was listed by The New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of the year. His new book, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, was published in 1999. Willie Morris, the former editor of Harper’s, said, Michael Pearson is one of our nation’s finest memoirists. Dreaming of Columbus. . . should give him the reputation among American writers he so richly deserves
Michael Pearson, 22nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Pearson is the director of the creative writing program at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Journal of American Culture, The Southern Literary Journal and Creative Nonfiction, among others. He is the author of four books. His first book, Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America was published in 1991 and listed by The New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of the year. His new book, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, was published in 1999. Willie Morris, the former editor of Harper\u27s, said, Michael Pearson is one of our nation\u27s finest memoirists. Dreaming of Columbus...should give him the reputation among American writers he so richly deserves
1993-1994 T. R. Pearson
No full textT. R. Pearson, a.k.a. Rick Gavin, was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was a student at North Carolina State University, where he gained a B.A. and M.A. in English. He was the first recipient of the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence Fellowship. He is the acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including A Short History of a Small Place and Warwolf, and a dozen screenplays. Top of the Rock is his fifth nonfiction book. He lives in Virginia and Brooklyn, New York. (Photo credit: Marian Young)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1026/thumbnail.jp
Seize the day Lester B. Pearson and crisis diplomacy
No full textIn this uniquely insightful and informed account of Lester B. Pearson's foreign policy in the year 1948-1957, his son Geoffrey Pearson places the "Golden Age" of Canadian diplomacy in perspective. Holding the necessary balance between nationalism and realism in a particularly unstable time emerges as Pearson's overriding achievement as Secretary of State for External Affairs. It was a time when Canadian influence was felt around the world, and it culminated with a Nobel Peace Prize for Pearson. The author examines his father's politics in the context of Cold War stand-off, relations with the United States, the pressures for collective security, and the threat of nuclear war. Research into cabinet documents, combined with more personal sources, provides an especially strong picture of the Pearson legacy and its future implications for Canadian foreign policy
Principles of economics : Pearson Horizon Edition
No full textThis is a specially adapted edition of an established title widely used by colleges and universities throughout the world and may not lawfully be sold in the USA or Canada. Pearson published this exclusive edition solely for the benefit of students outside the United States and Canada, and if you purchased this book within the United States or Canada you should be aware that it has been illegally imported without the permission of the Publisher or the Author
Reliable audiovisual archiving using unreliable storage technology and services
No full textThe drive for online access to archive content within ‘tapeless’ workflows means that mass-storage technology is an inevitable part of modern archive solutions, either in-house or provided as services by third-parties. But are these solutions safe? Can they assure the data integrity needed for long-term preservation of Petabyte volumes of data? The answer is no. Field studies reveal data corruption can take place silently without detection or correction, including in 'enterprise class' systems explicitly designed to prevent data loss. The reality is that data loss is inevitable to some degree or another from hardware failures, software bugs, and human errors. This paper presents ongoing work in the UK AVATAR-m project and in the recently started EC PrestoPrime project on a framework for storing large audiovisual files on heterogeneous and distributed storage infrastructures that allows various strategies for content replication, integrity monitoring and repair to be developed and tested
Chebyshev descriptors for SHM with acoustic emission and acousto ultrasonics
No full textPurpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study the feasibility on the use of alternative parameters for representing acoustic emission (AE) and acousto-ultrasonic (AU) signals, using a wavelet-based approach and the computation of Chebyshev moments.
Design/methodology/approach
– Two tests were performed, one on AE artificial signals generated on a CFRP plate and one on an AU setup used for actively detecting impact damage. The waveforms were represented using a data reduction technique based on the Daubechies wavelet and an image processing technique using Chebyshev moments approximation, to get 32 descriptors for each waveform.
Findings
– The use of such descriptors allowed in the AE case to verify that the moments are similar when the waveforms are similar; in the AU setup the correlation coefficient of the descriptors with respect to a reference data set was found to be linked to the delimitation size.
Practical implications
– Such a data reduction while retaining all the useful information will be positive for wireless sensor networks, where power consumption during data transmission is key. With having to send only a reliable set of descriptors and not an entire waveform, the power consumption is believed to be reduced.
Originality/value
– This paper is a preliminary study that fulfils a need for a more reliable data reduction for ultrasonic transient signals, such as those used in AE and AU
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