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Postwar Literature: 1950-1990
No full textThis survey guide offers a detailed and invigorating introduction to literature from the post-war period. It include four thematic essays on 'Class and Education', 'Exiles and Immigrants', 'Sex and identity', and 'Nostalgia and nationhood', an in-depth discussion of 18 key novelists, dramatists, and poets, and an introduction to the cultural, social, and historical contexts of the period. The volume also includes an annotated bibliography and timeline, making it ideal for undergraduate students approaching the period for the first time
XPath-logic and XPathLog: A logic-programming style XML data manipulation language
No full textWe define XPathLog as a Datalog-style extension of XPath. XPathLog provides a clear, declarative language for querying and manipulating XML whose perspectives arc especially in XML data integration. In Our characterization, the formal semantics is defined wrt. an edge-labeled graph-based model, which covers the XML data model. We give a complete, logic-based characterization of XML data and the main language concept Cor XML, XPath. XPath-Logic extends the XPath language with variable bindings and embeds it into first-order logic. XPathLog is then the Horn fragment of XPath-Logic, providing a Datalog-style, rule-based language for querying and manipulating X M L data. The model-theoretic semantics of XPath-Logic serves as the base of XPathLog as a logic-programming language, whereas also an equivalent answer-set semantics for evaluating XPathLog queries is given. In contrast to other approaches, the XPath syntax and semantics is also used for a declarative specification how the database Should be updated : when used in rule heads, XPath filters are interpreted as specifications of elements and properties Which Should he added to the database
Stevie Smith and Authorship
No full textThis book is a full-length study of the British novelist, poet, and illustrator Stevie Smith (1902-1971). It draws on extensive archival material to offer new insights into her work, challenging conventional readings of her as a dotty eccentric. It reveals the careful control with which she managed her public persona, reassesses her allusive poetry in the light of her own conflicted response to written texts, and traces her simultaneous preoccupation with and fear of her reading public. The book follows her work through draft and proof stages, showing her reluctance to cede editorial control to her publishers, considers how her performances undermine her printed texts, and explores her use of fiction and book reviews as a way of generating contexts for her poetry. It also draws on reader-response theory to re-examine the construction of her literary biography in her novels and essays, recasting her as mastermind, rather than victim, of her own critical reputation. The book is also the first to consider the influence of artists such as George Grosz and Aubrey Beardsley on her apparently artless illustrations, offering readers a fascinating in-depth study that not only radically alters our understanding of Smith and her work, but offers new perspectives on British twentieth-century poetry and its reception
Evolution and reactivity for the Web
No full textThe Web and the Semantic Web, as we see it, can be understood as a "living organism" combining autonomously evolving data sources, each of them possibly reacting to events it perceives. Rather than a Web of data sources, we envisage a Web of Information Systems, where each such system, besides being capable of gathering information (querying persistent data, as well as "listening" to volatile data such as occurring events), is capable of updating persistent data, communicating the changes, requesting changes of persistent data in other systems, and being able to react to requests from other systems. The dynamic character of such a Web requires declarative languages and mechanisms for specifying the evolution of the data. In this course we will talk about foundations of evolution and reactive languages in general, and will then concentrate on some specific issues posed by evolution and reactivity in the Web and in the Semantic Web
Evolution and reactivity for the Web
No full textThe Web and the Semantic Web, as we see it, can be understood as a "living organism" combining autonomously evolving data sources, each of them possibly reacting to events it perceives. Rather than a Web of data sources, we envisage a Web of Information Systems, where each such system, besides being capable of gathering information (querying persistent data, as well as "listening" to volatile data such as occurring events), is capable of updating persistent data, communicating the changes, requesting changes of persistent data in other systems, and being able to react to requests from other systems. The dynamic character of such a Web requires declarative languages and mechanisms for specifying the evolution of the data. In this course we will talk about foundations of evolution and reactive languages in general, and will then concentrate on some specific issues posed by evolution and reactivity in the Web and in the Semantic Web
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Explaining industrial agglomeration: The case of the British high-fidelity industry
No full textThis paper examines the insights into debates about regional agglomeration provided by the British high-fidelity industry (BHFI). This geographical cluster of small specialist companies displays world leadership in the sphere of high-quality sound reproduction but only weak elements of institutional thickness, and limited inter-firm interactions. There is, however, some evidence in this industry of collective learning, untraded interdependencies and indirect institutional support in the form of government infrastructure in previous decades. Localised interdependencies, both of the traded and the untraded kind, play an important role in fostering clustering of these hi-fi companies but much of the propinquity can be attributed to inertia effects as founders establish new businesses near their old companies and, or, their place of residence. The clustering of hi-fi companies in the south-east is therefore largely a reflection of the concentration of elite technical personnel in this region. The analysis suggests that, in the case of the BHFI, the key elements of institutional thickness are constituted by the firm and the labour market. <br/
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