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Caribbean Report 15-10-1998
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:24)2. Swift reaction to the execution of two Bahamian death row prisoners Trevor Fisher and Richard Woods. Fisher's Lawyer Irwin Davis, Permanent Secretary in the Bahamian Ministry of National Security Harcourt Turnquest and Victor Cuffy of the Caribbean Human Rights Network are interviewed. Candia Dames reports (00:25-08:15)3. US drugs are says consumption in America dropping but it is going up in the Caribbean. General Barry McCaffrey, Director of the US Government Drug Policy is interviewed (08:16-10:52)4. Caribbean delegates who met in Washington Wednesday with United States trade officials on the banana issue say they expect fresh proposals from the Americans next week. The regional team was led by Dominica's Prime Minister Edison James. Washington Correspondent Roy Osana reports (10:53-13:06)5. Caribbean warn that the international financial crisis could hit home. Tony Fraser reports (13:07-14:41)6. Caribbean cricket fans would have grown use to the BBC television coverage of the West Indies matches in England (14:42-15:17
Caribbean Report 26-08-1999
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Keith Stone Greaves (00:00 - 00:28)2. Official reports are confirming that the US will withdraw its full time military troops from Haiti. A proposal from the US Southern Command stipulates the removal of the remaining 450 troops and replacing these with rotating units of visiting soldiers. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense and Public Affairs and Pentagon Spokesperson Rear Admiral Craig Quigley discusses the withdrawal process including deployment of reserves, military engineering and medical units to rural areas. Keith Stone Greaves reports (00:29 – 03: 28)3. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is calling for international funds to assist in the financing of Haiti electoral process. The US has pledged 3.5 dollars for new voter ID cards. Local radio analysts estimate that a total of 18 million dollars is needed to fully fund the election and improve engagement in electoral districts (03:29 – 04:02)4. The US Chief Drugs Enforcer Barry McCaffrey is advocating for the US to support the Colombian government in its fight against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and stop the country’s illegal drug trade. General McCaffrey analyses the importance of Colombia to the region and the need to halt the production of heroin, cocaine and opium. Eduardo Gamarra, expert on US Drug policy in Latin America dismisses the suggestion of US military involvement in a ground war with FARC (4:03 - 09:30)5. The Dominican Republic has brought in additional security help utilizing personnel from the US and Israel to assist with tackling crime and provide advice to local police force. Jean Michel Caroit reports (09:31 – 11:08)6. The incoming head of the London metropolitan police is admitting that the force is facing a difficult task in winning the confidence of the black community. John Stevens is expected to face increasing pressure to improve race relations with the black community following the damaging report on how the force fail to serve black constituents. Orin Gordon profiles the landmark Macpherson report on race relations in Britain focusing on the killing of teenager Stephen Lawrence and which describes the Metropolitan police force as institutionally racist. John Stevens comments on his appointment. Suresh Grover spokesman for Lawrence campaign discusses police increased aggression in the black community following multicultural events such as Notting Hill carnival (11:09 – 13:35)7. West Indies is currently in the role of cricketing mediator as the team accept an invitation to play India and Pakistan. Teams Pakistan and India cannot play in a joint tournament due to international conflict and the ongoing struggle for Kashmir territory. Cricket commentator Joseph "Reds" Perreira reports (13:36 – 15: 28
Caribbean Report 18-08-1999
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Orin Gordon (00:00 - 00:38)2. Sprinter Merlene Ottey tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandalone and had to withdraw from the World Athletic Championships in Seville Spain. The International Amateur Athletics Federation indicated that the athlete tested positive at an earlier meeting in Switzerland. Ottey’s agent Daniel Zimmerman discusses questionable testing and the path for future investigation and vindication of the athlete’s innocence. Jamaica’s Sports Minister Portia Simpson assures Jamaicans of the full backing of the government in the case. Comments are solicited from Jamaicans on the streets. Keith Stone Greaves profiles Marlene Ottley as one of the world most respected athletes, with an outstanding track career including winning 34 medals in major international championships (7 in the Olympics , 14 in world championships). Designated a roving ambassador by the Jamaican government after an outstanding 1993 season, she was awarded sportswomen of the year in native Jamaican fifteen time between 1979- 1997, and ranked in the World top ten since 1980. Dr. Adrian Lorde Vice President of Barbados Sports Medicine Association and doping control officer of the IAAF in Switzerland categorizes the steroid nandalone as a performance enhancing drug for athletes (00:39 – 07:33)3. In retaliation to the US government policy of deporting criminals with Caribbean connections once they have served their sentences Haiti announced a retaliatory policy. Michael Norton reports from Port –au-Prince on the issue of mass deportation and correlation with increase crime in cities (07:34 – 10:06)4. Allegations of rampant corruption in the Trinidad and Tobago police force has unified the opposing political parties in the country. Prime Minister Basdeo Panday will meet with opposition leader Patrick Manning to propose solutions for ending crime and corruption in the police service. BBC reporter Tony Fraser provides a brief historical overview of corruption within the police ranks (10:07 – 12:09)5. Judges in the highest courts in Bahamas have denied the appeals of two death-row inmates which could paved the way for the prisoners to be hanged later this month. Stay of executions were denied for John Higgs and David Mitchell both accused of murder (12:10 – 13:03)6. Retired army general Barry McCaffrey expresses concern to Congress on the growing drug trade and increased guerilla warfare in Colombia and calls for Congress to approve one million dollars in the fight against these illegal activities. Former US Ambassador to Colombia Thomas McNamara discusses the link between the organized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and narcotic trafficking (13:04 - 14:47)7. Jamaicans reggae boys continue to strengthened their position as the number one team in the sport of football in the Caribbean as the team is currently ranked as no. 42 in FIFA world rankings ( 14:48 – 15:27
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
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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