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Undocumented Immigration by Congressional Districts
Get PDFIn this IPC Policy Brief, author Rob Paral uses new census data to update his earlier IPC report (Playing Politics on Immigration: Congress Favors Image over Substance in Passing H.R. 4437) on the number of undocumented immigrants in U.S. congressional districts
Uninsured Persons in Illinois Legislative Districts
Get PDFHealth and Disability Advocates and Rob Paral and Associates have developed estimates of uninsured persons in Illinois by state legislative districts. These estimates of the uninsured household population are categorized by poverty level and age. This report presents the basic distributions by age and poverty status. This report produced by Rob Paral and Associates in collaboration with United Power for Action and Justice and Heartland Alliance
La cinquième saison / Frédérique Sophie ; préface de Juan Paral
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Paral-lex
No full textAlla scoperta dei mondi in cui due rette parallele si... incontrano. Nella geometria di Euclide vale il quinto postulato, appunto chiamato delle parallele, che impone che due rette parallele non si intersechino mai. È la geometria che tutti studiamo a scuola e a cui siamo abitutati. Ma quella di Euclide non è l’unica geometria possibile. Attraverso sei exhibit interattivi, scopriamo la geometria proiettiva, le anamorfosi, i frattali, le proiezioni. Ogni exhibit evoca un'ambientazione suggestiva, sottolineata dalla proiezione centrale, ispirata all'opera di Escher, grande artista che usò nella sua ricerca molta della matematica che viene raccontata in mostra. Ogni postazione è un micro-ambiente, una tappa, un momento sorprendente. Ideale anche per un pubblico distante dall’argomento trattato e che non ha grande dimestichezza con la matematica, Paral-lex lega in un'unica esperienza scienza, matematica, arte e fascinazione.
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A Global Welcome: Metro Chicago\u27s Approach to Immigrant Inclusion
No full textGlobal cities significantly shape our world by driving solutions across a range of challenges, including migration. A new Chicago Council report, A Global Welcome: Metro Chicago’s Approach to Immigrant Inclusion, provides an overview of greater Chicago’s immigrant community and highlights unique approaches taken to create a more inclusive city, while also emphasizing ways for Chicago and other cities to improve. The report is authored by Paul N. McDaniel, Associate Professor of Geography at Kennesaw State University, and Rob Paral, Nonresident Fellow at the Chicago Council
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
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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