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Reframing Jewish Feminism in America: An Analysis of American Jewish Women and the Negotiation of Their Jewish and Feminist Identities Pre-World War 2 to Post-World War 2
No full textFor centuries, American Jewish women have ignited an impact on American society. However, it was not until the early 19th century that the Jewish community became more notable. After immigrating to America, they began to assimilate to some degree, blending elements of their background with American culture. However, making a place for themselves was only a starting point. Many American Jewish women, in particular, utilized making their space to start their personalized initiatives. Some of these women were ardent activists voicing their opinions freely and without fearing judgment. Others were quite the opposite, exploring their identities much more privately. Even as the Jewish population of the United States significantly grew during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewish women struggled to define their identity - American, Jewish, and female. Often, it left American Jewish women to become ostracized - not receiving the same opportunities as Jewish men or even other women who were not Jewish. Despite this, some American Jewish women found ways to negotiate their womanhood with their feminist ideologies. Contrary to scholarly consensus, moreover, this negotiation had been occurring well before the beginning of the second feminist movement. Regardless of the method, American Jewish women managed to negotiate two identities that were often placed at odds with one another. This project highlights how, not only did the "Jewish Feminist" movement begin during the mid-19th century, but American Jewish women utilized this to their advantage. They negotiated their Jewishness and Feminism through three primary platforms: writing, leadership, and public service.Honors Colleg
Local 872: Houston's Black Longshoremen's Union and Its Relevance in Researching Lynn Eusan's Life and Death
No full textThis research project investigates Local 872, Houston's Black longshoremen's union, and its intersection with the life of Lynn Eusan, the University of Houston's first African American homecoming queen and civil rights activist. Since the early twentieth century, Local 872 has significantly impacted Houston. Not only was Local 872 the first powerful Black union in the city, but it would give Black longshoremen a strong space to amplify their voices. As Blacks battled segregation in the 1960s, Black longshoremen participated in several movements for equality. Through their initiatives, they molded Local 872 into an epicenter of the local Civil Rights Movement. While the Black longshoremen brought power to Local 872, Lynn Eusan's advocacy efforts helped to mold the University of Houston into another hub of Black activism. While Local 872 seemed powerful from the outside, the inner dynamic exposes a different story. A member of this union, a man named Leo Jackson, Jr., was the primary suspect in Lynn Eusan's murder. Not only was he acquitted of her murder and of several subsequent crimes, but his work records indicate that he was acquitted of obvious work infractions. An examination of these records provides a more accurate picture of Leo Jackson, Jr. and showcases the relevance of Local 872 to Lynn Eusan's story.Honors CollegePsychology, Department o
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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