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Michael Pearson, 16th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Pearson is a nonfiction writer whose first book, Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America, was listed as one of the Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. He has written for magazines and newspapers—scholarly essays, creative work, and journalism. In the last few years, in particular, he has written for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Boston Globe, and The New York Times. His second book A Place That’s Known: Essays, will be published in February by the University Press of Mississippi. Pearson, who is an associate professor of English at O DU, is presently working on a book of reminiscence and reporting about the Bronx, titled Rest in Peac
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
The importance of accounting for the area of the medullary cavity in cross-sectional geometry: A test based on the femoral midshaft
No full textIn cross-sectional geometric (CSG) studies, both the subperiosteal and endosteal contours are considered important factors in determining bone bending rigidity. Recently, regression equations predicting CSG properties from a section's external dimensions were developed in a world-wide sample of human long bones. The results showed high correlations between some subperiosteally derived and actual CSG parameters. We present a theoretical model that further explores the influence of endosteal dimensions on CSG properties. We compare two hypothetical femoral midshaft samples with the same total subperiosteal area but with percentages of cortical bone at the opposite ends of published human variation for population sample means. Even in this relatively uncommon scenario, the difference between the samples in the resultant means for predicted femoral polar second moment of area (J) appears to be modest: power analysis indicates that a minimum sample size of 61 is needed to detect the difference 90% of the time via a t-test. Moreover, endosteal area can be predicted-although with substantial error-from periosteal area. Despite this error, including this relationship in subperiosteally derived estimates of J produces sample mean estimates close to true mean values. Power analyses reveal that when similar samples are used to develop prediction equations, a minimum sample of hundreds or more may be needed to distinguish a predicted mean J from the true mean J. These results further justify the use of regression equations estimating J from periosteal contours when analyzing behaviorally induced changes in bone rigidity in ancient populations, when it is not possible to measure endosteal dimensions. However, in other situations involving comparisons of individual values, growth trends, and senescence, where relative cortical thickness may vary greatly, inclusion of endosteal dimensions is still important
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Letter Written by Mrs. A. W. Pearson to the Bryant College Service Club Dated November 23, 1943
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163 Indiana AvenueProvidence, R. I.November 23, 1943
Bryant College1 Young Orchard AvenueProvidence, R. I.
Gentlemen:
I understand you wish the address, for Christmas, of men who have graduated from your college and who are now overseas in active service.
Arnold W. Pearson graduated in 1939 and his present address is as follows:
Arnold W. Pearson, S. K. 1/cBarracks Upper 9Navy 103c/o Fleet Post OfficeNew York, N. Y.
Very truly yours,Mrs. A. W. Pearson
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Larry O. Spencer, Conference Author Presentation
No full textGen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), author of Dark Horse: A Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentago
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Changes in skeletal robusticity in an iron age agropastoral group: The samnites from the Alfedena necropolis (Abruzzo, Central Italy)
No full textCross-sectional geometrical (CSG) properties of an Iron Age Samnite group from the Alfedena necropolis (Abruzzo, Italy, 2600-2400 B. P.) are compared with a Ligurian Neolithic sample (6000-5500 B. P.). In the period under examination, Samnites were organized in a tribal confederation led by patrilinear aristocracies, indicating incipient social stratification. In comparison, Neolithic society lacked clear signs of social hierarchy. The subsistence of both groups was mainly based on pastoralism and agriculture, but changes in habitual behavior are expected due to the socio-economic transformations that characterized the Iron Age. The Samnites' warlike ideology suggests that unimanual weapon-use and training would have become frequent for males. The intensification of agriculture and the adoption of transhumant pastoralism, performed by a smaller subset of the population, likely led to a lower average level of logistic mobility. The strongly genderized ideology of the period suggests a strict sexual division of labor, with women primarily performing sedentary tasks. CSG properties based on periosteal contours were calculated for humeri, femora, and tibiae (N = 61). Results corroborated the expectations: Alfedena males show substantial humeral bilateral asymmetry, indicating prevalent use of one arm, likely due to weapon training. In both sexes lower limb results indicate reduced mobility with respect to the Neolithic group. Sexual dimorphism is significant in both humeral asymmetry and lower limb indicators of mobility. Although both groups could be broadly defined as agropastoral based on archeological and historical evidence, CSG analysis confirmed important differences in habitual behavior. Am J Phys Anthropol 144:119-130, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc
Behavioral Differences Between Near Eastern Neanderthals and the Early Modern Humans from Skhul and Qafzeh: An Assessment Based on Comparative Samples of Holocene Humans
No full textThe differences and similarities between Near Eastern Neanderthals and the early modern humans from Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel have long been a point of study and debate. Conclusions about the magnitude and especially the implications of the differences have served as evidence to support or refute competing hypotheses about their cultural and biological differences. Here we revisit the controversy by assessing the midshaft shapes and robusticity of the femur, tibial, humerus, and radius of these Middle Paleolithic samples in comparison to European Neanderthals, Gravettian modern humans, several modern individuals from other late Pleistocene cultures in Europe and Israel, and a diverse set of Holocene humans from around the globe. The results show that the Near Eastern Neanderthals resemble European Neanderthals as well as a diverse array of modern agriculturalists and intensive foragers. In contrast, the people from Skhul and Qafzeh are much more distinct from recent samples but bear a degree of resemblance to Khoesan and Zulu males and females, Amud 1, and Ohalo 2. Additional insights emerge when the upper and lower limb are considered separately, but the result remains that the early moderns rather than Neanderthals seem to have faced an unusual, or at least uncommon, set of mechanical demands in comparison to most of the more recent groups
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