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The sounds of cetacean revolution through History
Get PDFThis article examines rogue whale encounters in seventeenth-century English poet Edmund Waller’s “The Battle of the Summer Isles” (1645), a poem that seeks to establish human dominion through an epic struggle between settlers attempting landfall on the Bermudian shore and a pod of sperm whales who prevent such actions. Through the poem’s use of sound, in particular the whales’ cries for justice, I find resonance with the concept of nonhuman revolutions we see actualized through the whales and orcas of today. This article traces a cultural history of whale resistance by and through sound. Part 1 recalls historical whale resistance narratives to establish prevalence for what we now term “orcanization.” I briefly show how three particular whales have disrupted narratives of cetacean kindness or friendship, choosing anti-human violence despite their capacity for kindness: White Gladis of yacht-sinking fame, the notorious Tilikum of “Blackfish” (2013), and Mocha Dick, the sperm whale that inspired Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” (1851). Part 2 explores how Waller’s whales represent a narrative of roguish animal revolution: of whales that, in their courage, disruption, and refusal to die, muddle the Empire’s myth of New World domination. In conclusion, I assert that in the sound of orcas breaking rudders today we can hear a history of whale narratives: examples of resistance, calls for reparation, and a reminder that this world is a shared one.Este artículo examina los encuentros con ballenas rebeldes en “La batalla de las islas de verano" (1645), del poeta inglés Edmund Waller, del siglo XVII, un poema que busca establecer el dominio humano a través de una lucha épica entre colonos que intentan tocar tierra en la costa de las Bermudas y una manada de cachalotes. quienes impiden tales acciones. A través del uso del sonido en el poema, en particular los gritos de justicia de las ballenas, encuentro resonancia con el concepto de revoluciones no humanas que vemos actualizado a través de las ballenas y orcas de hoy. Este artículo traza una historia cultural de la resistencia de las ballenas a través del sonido. La Parte 1 recuerda las narrativas históricas de resistencia de las ballenas para establecer la prevalencia de lo que ahora llamamos "orcanización". Muestro brevemente cómo tres ballenas en particular han alterado las narrativas de la bondad o amistad de los cetáceos, eligiendo la violencia antihumana a pesar de su capacidad de bondad: White Gladis, famosa por hundir yates, la notoria Tilikum de "Blackfish" (2013), y Mocha Dick, el esperma. ballena que inspiró "Moby Dick" (1851) de Herman Melville. La segunda parte explora cómo las ballenas de Waller representan una narrativa de la revolución animal pícara: de ballenas que, en su coraje, perturbación y negativa a morir, confunden el mito imperial de la dominación del Nuevo Mundo. En conclusión, afirmo que en el sonido de las orcas rompiendo timones hoy podemos escuchar una historia de las narrativas de las ballenas: ejemplos de resistencia, llamados a reparación y un recordatorio de que este mundo es compartido
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
Los sonidos de la revolución de los cetáceos a través de la historia
No full textThis article examines rogue whale encounters in seventeenth-century English poet Edmund Waller’s “The Battle of the Summer Isles” (1645), a poem that seeks to establish human dominion through an epic struggle between settlers attempting landfall on the Bermudian shore and a pod of sperm whales who prevent such actions. Through the poem’s use of sound, in particular the whales’ cries for justice, I find resonance with the concept of nonhuman revolutions we see actualized through the whales and orcas of today. This article traces a cultural history of whale resistance by and through sound. Part 1 recalls historical whale resistance narratives to establish prevalence for what we now term “orcanization.” I briefly show how three particular whales have disrupted narratives of cetacean kindness or friendship, choosing anti-human violence despite their capacity for kindness: White Gladis of yacht-sinking fame, the notorious Tilikum of Blackfish (2013), and Mocha Dick, the sperm whale that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851). Part 2 explores how Waller’s whales represent a narrative of roguish animal revolution: of whales that, in their courage, disruption, and refusal to die, muddle the Empire’s myth of New World domination. In conclusion, I assert that in the sound of orcas breaking rudders today we can hear a history of whale narratives: examples of resistance, calls for reparation, and a reminder that this world is a shared oneEste artículo examina los encuentros con ballenas rebeldes en "La batalla de las islas de verano" (1645), del poeta inglés Edmund Waller, del siglo XVII, un poema que busca establecer el dominio humano a través de una lucha épica entre colonos que intentan tocar tierra en la costa de las Bermudas y una manada de cachalotes. quienes impiden tales acciones. A través del uso del sonido en el poema,en particular los gritos de justicia de las ballenas, encuentro resonancia con el concepto de revoluciones no humanas que vemos actualizado a través de las ballenas y orcas de hoy. Este artículo traza una historia cultural de la resistencia de las ballenas a través del sonido. La Parte 1 recuerda las narrativas históricas de resistencia de las ballenas para establecer la prevalencia de lo que ahora llamamos "orcanización". Muestro brevemente cómo tres ballenas en particular han alterado las narrativas de la bondad o amistad de los cetáceos, eligiendo la violencia antihumana a pesar de su capacidad de bondad: White Gladis, famosa por hundir yates, la notoria Tilikum de Blackfish (2013), y Mocha Dick, el esperma. ballena que inspiró Moby Dick (1851) de Herman Melville. La segunda parte explora cómo las ballenas de Waller representan una narrativa de la revolución animal pícara: de ballenas que, en su coraje, perturbación y negativa a morir, confunden el mito imperial de la dominación del Nuevo Mundo. En conclusión, afirmo que en el sonido de las orcas rompiendo timones hoy podemos escuchar una historia de las narrativas de las ballenas: ejemplos de resistencia, llamados a reparación y un recordatorio de que este mundo es compartido
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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