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Review of: Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Russell E. Murray, Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus
Full text linkA review of the book Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by Russell E. Murray, Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus, as part of the Publications of the Early Music Institute series, is presented
Exploring the 'Middle': School GCSE Attainment and Ordinary Young People
No full textIn Britain educational qualifications gained at school continue to play an important and central role in young people’s educational and employment trajectories. Recently there has been a growing interest in documenting the lives of ordinary young people. In this paper we analyse the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales in order to better document the experiences of those with ‘middle’, or moderate, levels of school GCSE attainment. We find that the overall pattern of school GCSE attainment is one of increasing levels of performance over time. In general girls performed better than boys, and there were some marked differences in attainment for pupils from the main minority ethnic groups. A striking result is the impact of parental socio-economic positions and other variables associated with the young person’s home background. We conclude that sociologists of youth should study ‘ordinary’ young people and moderate, or unspectacular, levels of educational attainment. The analyses suggest that school GCSE attainment is best understood as a continuum. There was no persuasive evidence that there is a distinctive ‘middle’ group of young people with moderate levels of school GCSE attainment. This concurs with our earlier analysis of data from the British Household Panel Survey
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
APPENDIX. Continued in A new species in the Hipposideros bicolor group (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Peninsular Malaysia
No full textAPPENDIX. ContinuedPublished as part of Murray, Susan W., Khan, Faisal A. A., Kingston, Tigga, Zubaid, Akbar & Campbell, Polly, 2018, A new species in the Hipposideros bicolor group (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Peninsular Malaysia, pp. 1-29 in Acta Chiropterologica 20 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/394484
ESL + Specific Reading Disability: Diagnosis and Intervention
No full textSpecific reading disability is difficult to diagnose when it is an isolated problem, but becomes even more difficult if it is masked or complicated by other factors such as ADHD or, in this case, ESL. Specific reading disability is just as prevalent in non-English speaking populations as it is in English only populations (Wade-Woolley & Siegel, 1997). It is therefore just as likely for a child who is an ESL speaker to have a specific reading disability and it is imperative that this is considered when ESL children show signs of reading difficulty. This paper provides an example of just such a child. The process of diagnosis and successful intervention is reported
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
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