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    Caribbean Report 04-08-2003

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    1. Headlines (00:00 00:25)2. Grenada’s Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell says the recently approved amendment to the country’s labour laws is intended to preserve peace. Trade Unionist and Senator, Chester Humphrey is interviewed (00:26-05:34)3. At the opening of a national workshop, St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Kenny Anthony strongly criticised the WTO. He warned that his country’s fight to preserve preferences will be lost. From Castries, Pete Ninvalle reports (05:35-07:31)4. A traveller from the Caribbean can no longer make a brief stop-over in the United States while in transit without a US visa. George Griffith, the Barbados Consul in New York talks of the advantages. Leslie Goffe reports (07:32-09:15)5. The press freedom campaigners “Reporters without Borders” (RSF) blame the Cuban government for having the RSF barred from the UN Commission on Human Rights. Vincent Brossel, an association representative is interviewed (09:16-12:16)6. Dominica’s Prime Minister Pierre Charles has just returned from a medical check up in Trinidad and is in good health. Meanwhile Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas of Saint Kitts and Nevis has just had spinal surgery in New York (12:17-12:59)7. In Antigua, Carnival history is made with the first female winning the Calypso Monarch title since 1957, but in Barbados, a list of tragedies mar the Crop Over festivities. The show continues however (13:00-15:27

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

    Caribbean Report 01-08-2003

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    1. Headlines (00:00-00:39)2. The Government of Santo Domingo bans protests during the Pan American Games. Tear gas is used to disperse hundreds of demonstrators gathering for a march. Michael Bascombe reports (00:40-02:22)3. In Trinidad, over eight thousand sugar workers laid off from “Caroni (1975) Limited” are due for redundancy payments. They’ve given the Government a payment deadline. Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday talks to the BBC Caribbean Report (02:23-05:45)4. Police in the Bahamas say eleven year old Junior Reme is missing. This is the fourth boy since May. Reginald Ferguson, Assistant Commissioner of Police for Crime provides an update in this Rosie Hayes report (5:46-07:13)5. Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell is in London to campaign and raise funds for upcoming elections. He gives a response about the call to release the seventeen prisoners who had plotted against the then Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (07:14-11:30)6. “Jeb” Bush is criticizing the Bush government’s decision to return a group of twelve alleged hijackers to Cuba. For many Cubans, Florida by sea may seem the easy way out but one defector Juan Antonio Martínez chose differently (11:31-12:58)7. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning states that Emancipation Day is for all races. Raymond Edwards reports from the celebrations in Port of Spain. Artist LeRoy Clarke and Culture Minister Edward Hart offer their interpretations (12:59-15:45

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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