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Blood and soil: right-wing terrorism poses an existential threat to the United States
No full textTerrorism poses grave threats to the stability of democratic societies. Right-wing terrorists (RWT) are disillusioned by equity in American society and yearn for a pre-civil rights era replete with segregation at the least and forcible removal or genocide of minority racial groups, Muslims, and Jews at most. Their demand for this accelerationist, revolutionary sociogenic shift is influenced by racialist propensities of American history: slavery, eugenics, nativism, racial violence, and discrimination are deep national scars. For RWT, societal privileges afforded to whites are not enough. RWT organizations are planning for and accelerating a breakdown of civil order within the United States. This is so that they can establish white separatist ethnostates, exterminate non-whites, and eliminate equal protection under the law. RWT of the 21st century have replaced their forebears’ Klan robes and brownshirts with coiffed hair, suit jackets, and polished leather shoes. They have swapped epithets for dog whistles. They espouse radical political beliefs in calm tones, peppering their lurid diatribes with hints of pseudoscientific intellectualism and feigned thoughtfulness. This illusory exterior, nonetheless, is bursting with anti-Semitic bile, encouragement of terroristic acts, and a refusal to abide by the rule of law. RWT poses the greatest threat to the United States compared to other types of terrorism because the ubiquity, organic appeal, and historicity of RWT buttresses the ability of these organizations to radicalize white Americans into belief systems beholden to America’s racist, violent past. This ultimately inspires manifold approaches by RWT to weaken and possibly destroy the United States.Winner: Honorable Mention, 2021 Paul Robeson Library Undergraduate Research Award
Blood and Soil: Right-Wing Terrorism Poses an Existential Threat to the United States
No full textBenjamin Simonds Nixon delivers a powerful and meticulously researched analysis of right-wing terrorism (RWT) in the United States, arguing that it constitutes the most severe threat to American democracy today. Tracing its lineage from historical white supremacy to contemporary movements like the alt-right and ecofascism, Nixon examines how ideologies of racial purity and anti-government sentiment have evolved into decentralized, digitally-savvy networks. These groups use coded language, internet memes, and conspiracy theories to radicalize disaffected white Americans while infiltrating government agencies and law enforcement as “ghost skins.” Through historical context and case studies, including references to The Turner Diaries, Nixon shows how RWT seeks not only disruption but the complete dismantling of democratic institutions in favor of white ethnostates. The article calls for urgent attention by security services and the public to confront and dismantle the deep structural racism that enables these movements
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
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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