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Decline in ancient Egypt? A reassessment of the late new kingdom and third intermediate period
Get PDFThe late New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period (1215-650 BC) have been, and continue to be, interpreted as periods of decline and dramatic change within ancient Egyptian history. This thesis challenges such views through an analysis of those interpretations and the evidence used to support them. In so doing I have evaluated if these periods do reflect a decline from previous periods and if the changes were as all-encompassing as previously suggested.
In order to carry out this evaluation three key processes have been examined through detailed analysis of related datasets. These will establish the complexity of the periods, and the potential for nuance within specific datasets which is masked by the current descriptions. Reference has also been made to cross-cultural comparisons and ethno-archaeological theories as many of these processes have been identified in other societies and discussed outside Egyptology.
This has led to some clarity regarding the complexity of the periods, recognising the extensive level of continuity and possible explanations for the changes visible, and thus an alternative to the 'simplistic' interpretation of decline and decay
Un análisis cuantitativo de los Registros del Nivel del Nilo del Tercer Período Intermedio del \u27Muelle\u27 de Karnak y sus implicaciones
Get PDFThe Nile Level Records were found by Georges Legrain in 1896 on the side of what has been called the ‘Karnak quay’ in front of the first pylon of the temple of Amun at Karnak. Ever since they were discovered, much of the research on them has been focused on the assistance they can provide for clarifying the difficult chronology of the Third Intermediate Period, rather than the information they can give us about the nature of the environmental conditions during this period. This is an oversight given that paleo-environmental evidence from Nile sources in the Ethiopian Highlands appear to suggest that this was a period of low Nile floods, and that these are the most closely dated records to the end of the New Kingdom - something which is attributed by some scholars to a decline in flood levels. This article carries out a quantitative analysis of the surviving records and reviews what the results can tell us about the nature of the annual floods and Egyptian reactions to periods of low annual floods.Los registros del nivel del Nilo fueron encontrados por Georges Legrain en 1896 en el lado de lo que se ha llamado el "muelle de Karnak" frente al primer pilón del templo de Amón en Karnak. Desde que fueron descubiertos, gran parte de la investigación sobre ellos se ha centrado en la ayuda que pueden brindar para aclarar la difícil cronología del Tercer Período Intermedio, más que en la información que pueden brindarnos sobre la naturaleza de las condiciones ambientales durante este período. Esto es un descuido dado que la evidencia paleoambiental de las fuentes del Nilo en las tierras altas de Etiopía parece sugerir que este fue un período de bajas inundaciones del Nilo, y que estos son los registros más cercanos al final del Nuevo Reino, algo que es atribuido por algunos estudiosos a una disminución en los niveles de inundación. Este artículo lleva a cabo un análisis cuantitativo de los registros sobrevivientes y revisa lo que los resultados pueden decirnos sobre la naturaleza de las inundaciones anuales y las reacciones egipcias a los períodos de bajas inundaciones anuales
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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