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“Called to Act What We Receive”: The Interplay Between Scholarship and Discipleship in the Thought of Gerald O’Collins
No full textWilliam Odeke Owire is a doctoral researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium. Based on the thought of Gerald O’Collins, he illustrates in this article how theology of the said author shows the inseparable link between scholarship and discipleship, or better still, between scholarly reflection on the person and work of Jesus Christ and liturgical celebration of the same.status: Publishe
Future prospects for the development of national maritime fleets
No full textShipping has been the exclusive preserve of a few developed nations and run on liberal principles. The end of the war saw the emergence of the developing and socialist countries, with conflicting political and economic philosophy, advocating individual national fleets. This, coupled with technological revolution, marked a change away from laissez faire. The developing countries were further dissatisfied with the effects of flags of convenience, liner conferences, the Jacidence of the rising freight rates and the emergence of synthetics, which undermined their international trade positions as suppliers of raw materials. Improvements of a country's balance of payments position is a major rationale for shipping. However; the developing world lacks the prerequisites for the establishment and development of economically viable national fleets, hence their resort to the use of restrictive traditional methods. Ironically, in this they are joined by the US. Conflicts arise when the use of these methods are aided by state protectionism and extension of the rationale to include political and security reasons. Contravention of international law and possible economic disruptions threaten to wreck the very fabric of national fleets. This study sets out to outline these traditional methods, the ensuing consequences of the said approach and to seek remedies which might assist in transforming the confrontation to co-operation in the form of joint ventures in the future prospects for the development of national and international fleets.</p
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
Influence of large mammalian herbivores on nutrients and carbon loading, and benthic algal development in the Mara River, Kenya
No full textThis study focused on how large mammalian herbivores (cattle and hippos) influence the water quality and their contribution to nutrients and organic matter input in the Mara River through their in-stream behaviour and its impact on benthic algal development. A total of 12 sites were selected based on the changing distribution and abundance of livestock and hippo populations along the Talek, Molibany and Olare Orok tributaries of the Mara River. The results showed a spatial significant variation (p0.70, p<0.05). The input of C, N and P by one cattle from direct defeacation into the river was estimated to be 5.41 g C, 0.17 g N and 0.04 g P per day. Based on the population estimates of cattle and hippos that egest directly in the Talek sub-catchment, the total input to the river by cattle was 856 Kg C, 26.7 Kg N and 6.7 Kg P per day and by the hippos was 547 Kg C, 56.9 Kg N and 7.5 Kg P per day. The spatial variation in the development of benthic algae noted in the study was majorly affected by the nutrient input from livestock and hippos and the significant variation of turbidity levels at the livestock and hippo sites. Diatoms (Craticula, Navicula, Nitzschia) which are indicators of nutrient enrichment were the most dominant and abundant class of algae among the sites. Therefore, further research is recommended to also establish the spatial and temporal variation of nutrient and organic matter inputs and compare the different pathways, such as large mammalian herbivores vs overland flow which will help in the development of appropriate and effective management strategies in the Mara River basin.Jacob Odeke ItebaMasterarbeit Universität für Bodenkultur Wien 201
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
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