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The Journal of Peter Gordon, 1732–1735
No full textThe Journal of Peter Gordon, 1732-1735, provides a rare first-hand account of one of the original Georgia colonists. In his journal, Gordon, who served as chief bailiff of Savannah, Georgia, documents the challenges faced by the original settlers, criticism of the Trustees' policies for the colony, and interactions with indigenous peoples. His journal provides unique insight into the establishment of one of America's oldest colonies. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities
51452: Interview with Margaret Abel (wav file): Peter Gordon, Royal Scots
No full textShort interview with Margaret Abel at the Edinburgh Submission Day, June 4th 2008. She tells of her father - Peter Gordon - who served in the Royal Scots. Having been injured and sent home he was presented with a white feather so immediately re-enlisted only to be injured again.</p
Analysis of Homeland Security Regulations, Small Steps Forward, Giant Leaps to Go
Get PDFThis paper reviews the use of cost-benefit analysis in evaluating homeland security regulations. Until the recent use of "break-even analysis" by the Department of Homeland Security, analysis of regulations to reduce the risk of a terrorist attacks have been severely lacking. The costs were likely to be understated particularly because the costs of restrictions on immigration and of the curbing of civil liberties are omitted. Benefits were often left uncalculated leaving it impossible to meaningfully evaluate the policies being promulgated. The use of break-even analysis has improved the ability to evaluate homeland security policy. However, DHS needs to provide this information in a more consistent format in order to allow comparison of regulatory initiatives. DHS also needs to provide its own assessment of what the break-even analysis tells us about the likelihood that the benefits of their regulations outweigh their costs.
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
Peter Gordon & Richard Szreter (Dirs.), History of Education. The Making of a discipline, Londres (G-B) ; Savage (USA), The Woburn Press, 1989
No full textCompère Marie-Madeleine. Peter Gordon & Richard Szreter (Dirs.), History of Education. The Making of a discipline, Londres (G-B) ; Savage (USA), The Woburn Press, 1989. In: Histoire de l'éducation. n° 50, 1991. Éducations médiévales. L'Enfance, l'École, l'Église en Occident. Ve-XVe siècles, sous la direction de Jacques Verger. p. 159
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