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Ethnic Irony in Don DeLillo’s "Underworld": A Counter-Narrative of the Italian American Resilience and Vulnerabilities.
No full textThe parable of Nick Shay, the protagonist of Don DeLillo’s Underworld, “olive-skinned, dark” (DeLillo 2011, 64) as his missing Italian father, can be read as a felicitous example of a descendant of immigrants who succeeded in “making America.” He represents an instance of upward (and westward) mobility, a self-made man who travels west from Little Italy in New York to run an international waste company in Phoenix, Arizona (DeLillo 2011). By distancing the narrator from the Bronx, which nonetheless represents the unquestionable point of gravity of the novel and Nick’s very identity, DeLillo creates the space essential for irony, the space “between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now,” as another character DeLillo’s character, Jack Gladney, suggests (DeLillo 2009, 30). In DeLillo’s Underworld, the irony indeed represents a fundamental strategy that enables Nick to face the trauma of his brutal separation from his father and his milieu, to reappropriate the persistent commonplaces regarding the Italian Americans (such as the gangster, the unclean, and the Latin lover) in order to deconstruct and to rewrite them, to normalize the ethnic identity and to try to reconcile with it during the journey towards Nick’s intimate past
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Pedagogical Conditions of Professional English Communication of the Future Aviation Specialists
No full textУ статті акцентується увага на необхідності вдосконалення професійної підготовки майбутніх фахівців технічних спеціальностей, зокрема авіаційних фахівців. Автором виокремлено організаційно-педагогічні умови підготовки авіаційних фахівців. Запропоновано впровадження низки організаційно-педагогічних умов, спрямованих на ефективне виконання професійних дій. Обгрунтовано ефективність навчання на основі міжпредметних зв'язків професійно орієнтованих дисциплін; установлено, що підвищенню рівня мотивації курсантів до професійної діяльності значно сприяє використання інноваційних технологій (інформаційних, комп'ютерних і контекстного навчання). Подальший науковий пошук буде спрямований на орієнтацію навчального процесу на полікультурність, інтеграцію та адаптацію фахівців в авіаційному середовищі.In the article attention is paid to the necessity of improvement of the future aviation specialists' professional communication. The author points out the organizational and pedagogical conditions of the future aviation specialists' English professional preparation. Implementation of organizational and pedagogical conditions, which are aimed at effective fulfilment of professional actions, was offered. Efficiency of professional interdisciplinary studying was proved. The use of intersdisciplinary connections have become of paramount importance at flight educational establishments. It requires involvement of teachers of aviation professional subjects into curricula and syllabi development, based on intersdisciplinary approach. Integrity does not mean merging of one professional subject with the other, but, on the contrary, it certifies their unity, systems' co-operation, making contacts and connections. It was grounded that the use of innovative technologies (information, computer and context studying) leads to the increase of students' motivation level to professional activity. Internationalization of society touched upon aviation industry, as providing of transatlantic flights predetermines the necessity of cross-cultural (multicultural) communication. 1САО focuses on cross-cultural communication as an important factor of safety of flights. Cross-cultural communication is multidimensional by its nature. In the course of research, the author makes the following conclusions: 1) studying at flight educational establishments has narrow specialization, that guides particular principles and regulations of professional pedagogics in technical direction; 2) studying of the professional disciplines is closely connected with English learning as one of 1САО official languages, that predetermines its penetration in the majority of professional disciplines; 3)professional activity of aviation specialists is related to cross-cultural communication and mixing with the representatives of other cultures, that aims educational process at multiculturalness; 4) studying at flight educational establishments takes place with the active involvement of information technologies; it needs constant development and content upgrade of sillabi and curriculum. The organizational and pedagogical conditions, which were offered in the research, have theoretical and practical background, as they determine the choice of individual strategy concerning the forming of students' professional knowledge and skills. A further research will be aimed at providing of educational process in the direction of multicultural communication, integration and adaptation of the future specialists in aviation environment
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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