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Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-82-373-1363: Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company; Atlanta, Georgia
Get PDFWorker complaints and reports of unpleasant odors were investigated in October 1982 at Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company (SIC-6311), Atlanta, Georgia. Evaluation was requested on behalf of 30 workers concerned about symptoms of headache, sore throat, dizziness, and nausea. Questionnaires were completed by 27 workers, air samples were collected, building systems were inspected, ventilation rates were measured, insulation samples were analyzed, and residues from air handling units were tested. Employees reported symptom complexes of headache, dizziness, and nausea, diarrhea, stuffy nose, burning eyes, and sore throat. All but two affected workers reported that symptoms were associated with musty, moldy odors coming from air ducts. The environmental/engineering survey failed to identify the source of the odor. Fresh air intake was 8 cubic feet per minute (cfm), less than the 20cfm standard recommended by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers. Fresh air intakes were close to the cooling tower and restroom exhaust. A cooling tower overflow pipe was broken. Asbestos was found in the insulation material. The authors note that the reported symptoms are acute and completely reversible, but the specific source cannot be identified. They recommend improved engineering and repair actions
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. To Isaac Herbert Kempner, Jr., regarding his letter of the 12th enclosing the receipt of the Occidental Life Insurance Company, for which the receipt along with the policy has been placed in Box 40
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
James A. Hilfiger v. Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company
No full textSupreme Court of Virginiahttps://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/va-supreme-court-records-vol256/1035/thumbnail.jp
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
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No full textPhotograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dwight L. Clarke of Los Angeles, member of the board of directors of Occidental Life Insurance Company of California and Chairman of its advisory council, today was selected to membership on the board of directors of Bishop Oil Company.
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