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Philip Larkin and secularisation
No full textPhilip Larkin’s work covers a span of life that marks one of the most turbulent and transitional stages in British history: having WW2 at one end and the ‘swinging sixties’ at the other, it serves as a really useful document about not only Larkin’s personal life but also the contemporary cultural, social and political circumstances. With war working as a catalyst, the slow and steady process of secularisation in English society covers a journey of, perhaps, centuries within decades. The old established ways in every sphere of life, challenged by the new generation, emerge in the form of a ‘youth culture’ characterised by a spirit of freedom. Consequently, the pre-war communal values are replaced by the individual and materialistic concerns of an ambitious generation. The process leaves its marks on Larkin’s work from the very beginning to the very end. His novels and first published collection of poems show his deep concern for the miserable situation of a war-stricken people. The Less Deceived (1955), urged mostly by the unfulfilled war-time promises in the immediate post-war era, is characterised by a rejection of myths. The third collection, The Whitsun Weddings (1964), features the poet’s frustration over the growing materialistic pursuits in the contemporary age. Finally, The High Windows (1974) takes the form of a bitter satire over the excessively libertarian attitude as well as the myth of life as a whole. This pattern has been followed also in the chapter-wise division of the thesis where the argument, taking its initiative from a humanistic approach, deflates the mythical as well as materialistic aspect of life, and concludes in the need for a harmonious whole where individual freedom and communal values, keeping within the rational limits, go hand in hand
Philip Larkin and secularisation
No full textPhilip Larkin’s work covers a span of life that marks one of the most turbulent and transitional stages in British history: having WW2 at one end and the ‘swinging sixties’ at the other, it serves as a really useful document about not only Larkin’s personal life but also the contemporary cultural, social and political circumstances. With war working as a catalyst, the slow and steady process of secularisation in English society covers a journey of, perhaps, centuries within decades. The old established ways in every sphere of life, challenged by the new generation, emerge in the form of a ‘youth culture’ characterised by a spirit of freedom. Consequently, the pre-war communal values are replaced by the individual and materialistic concerns of an ambitious generation. The process leaves its marks on Larkin’s work from the very beginning to the very end. His novels and first published collection of poems show his deep concern for the miserable situation of a war-stricken people. The Less Deceived (1955), urged mostly by the unfulfilled war-time promises in the immediate post-war era, is characterised by a rejection of myths. The third collection, The Whitsun Weddings (1964), features the poet’s frustration over the growing materialistic pursuits in the contemporary age. Finally, The High Windows (1974) takes the form of a bitter satire over the excessively libertarian attitude as well as the myth of life as a whole. This pattern has been followed also in the chapter-wise division of the thesis where the argument, taking its initiative from a humanistic approach, deflates the mythical as well as materialistic aspect of life, and concludes in the need for a harmonious whole where individual freedom and communal values, keeping within the rational limits, go hand in hand
Variation in practice for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treated with percutaneous coronary intervention in England and Wales
Get PDFObjectives: We assessed the association between total center volume, operator volume, and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) volume. Background: Variations between OHCA PCI volume, hospital total PCI, and primary PCI volume are not well studied and are unlikely to be clinically justifiable. Methods: Patients undergoing PCI for the acute coronary syndrome (ACS) between January 1, 2014, and March 31, 2019, in England and Wales were grouped as OHCA PCI and non-OHCA PCI. Spearman's correlation was used to determine the degree of correlation between each hospital PCI volume and OHCA PCI volume. Results: Out of 250,088 PCI procedures undertaken for ACS, 12,016 (4.8%) were performed for OHCA, and 238,072 (95.2%) were non-OHCA PCI procedures. The OHCA PCI group were younger [mean age (SD) 63.2 (12.3) and 65.6 (12.5, p < 0.001)], less likely to be female (20.2% vs. 26.9%, p < 0.001) or Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnicity (11.5% vs. 14.8%, p < 0.001) compared to the non-OHCA PCI group. Although there was a degree of correlation between total PCI and OHCA PCI, there was wide variation for both ACS cohort (Spearman correlation R
2 = 0.50) and total PCI volume (Spearman correlation R
2 = 0.60). Furthermore, the correlation between primary PCI volume and OHCA PCI within centers was weak (R
2 = 0.10). Similarly, wide variations between operator PCI volume and OHCA PCI volume were observed. Conclusion: These national data demonstrate wide variation in the practice of OHCA PCI both between centers and individuals. These variations are not expected according to clinical factors and require further investigation.
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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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