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The Eventful Month of August in the Annals of History of Mochudi
Get PDFThe month of August 2021, marks 152 years since a section of Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela under KgosiKgamanyane fled the Transvaal arriving two years later in the present day Mochudi which at the timewas a territory of Bakwena of Kgosi Sechele I. It was on 1 August 1869 when the trip from Morulengacross the Madikwe or Marico River started with another section of the morafe (ethnic group) remainingin Moruleng. When they left, they knew their destination but camped at a place called Tshwene-Tshwenefor two years. They had the ‘promised land’ in the Kgalagadi at a place belonging to the Bakwena led byKgosi Sechele. The promised land was offered to them a few years prior when they had assisted Sechele’sBakwena against Bangwaketse to recover their cattle from the latter. The cattle had been hidden at a placecalled Segeng near Kanye
The 1975 Killing of Police Mobile Unit’s Sergeant Felix Kgari: A Forgotten National Hero in Botswana
Get PDFAbout eight weeks ago, this paper carried an impressive article about the killing of Reni Les in thePandamatenga area in 1975. Reni Les, a citizen of Belgium was killed for the murder of a Botswana PoliceMobile Unit (PMU) sergeant and for wounding a police constable. The story was written by RichardMoleofe, a Botswana Defence Force (BDF) veteran. I had it in my list of stories I planned to write. So,Richard Moleofe pipped me to the post. However, I have decided to write on the Reni Les’s saga becausemy approach will completely differ from Moleofe’s, and I will present additional or detailed information. Tobegin with, the sergeant who was killed by Les was called Felix Kgari not Phillip as reported in Moleofe’saccount. I have no doubt about that because he was a distant relative of mine. The western corner of mygrandparents’ homestead in Mochudi is just 100 metres away from that of his parents’ eastern corner. Hewas older than me, but we played together. He used to send us out to the top of the nearby hills to harvestmarekhu (wild acacia tree gum) from the trees. We had Tswanalised his first name by calling him ‘Fila’.We were both members of the local Mochudi Rovers Football Club
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
Reporting Africa : between the Basarwa and the Botswana state
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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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