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Benjamin R. Barber. Djihad Versus Mac World
No full textDaoud Zakya. Benjamin R. Barber. Djihad Versus Mac World. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1997 - 62ᵉannée. pp. 450-451
EL REGRESO DE LA EDUCACIÓN CÍVICA. BENJAMIN R. BARBER Y LA DEMOCRACIA FUERTE
Get PDFCivic education is the very basis of democracy. Any democratic system that ignores its necessity will suffer, as a result, the fading of the democratic rationality of its institutions. Liberal democracy constitutes a good example of this progressive weakening of the democratic structures. Benjamín R. Barber refers to it as "weak democracy". Education and democracy are closely related, which is why, for this author, the regeneration of democracy, with its real contents of political participation, depends on education. Teaching democracy means serving the community.La educación cívica se encuentra en la misma base de la democracia. Todo sistema democrático que prescinda de esta necesidad acabará haciendo desvanecerse la racionalidad democrática de sus instituciones. La democracia liberal es un buen ejemplo de este debilitamiento progresivo de las estructuras democráticas. Benjamin R. Barber no tarda en referirse a ella como "democracia débil". La democracia carece de plenitud sin ciudadanos formados cívicamente. Educación y democracia están indisolublemente unidas. Por eso, para este autor la regeneración de la democracia, con sus contenidos reales de participación política, pasa necesariamente por la educación. Enseñar democracia es servir a la comunidad
Approximate methods for contact problems involving beams
No full textA refined beam model is developed by solving the exact elasticity problem of a free layer with a sinusoidal load on the top surface and then expanding the amplitude of the resulting displacement in powers of the dimensionless wavenumber. The truncated series then implies that the beam deflection approximately satisfies an ordinary differential equation of the type developed by Kerr in the context of more general elastic foundation models, but the expansion process provides a convenient criterion for determining the range of length scales in which the ODE can be expected to be accurate. The method is illustrated for the problem of a beam loaded only by contact with an indenting body and/or with end supports - in particular, for the case of two contacting cantilever beams, for which the analytical results show good agreement with a finite element solution, except for the asymptotic region near edge of contact
Benjamin R. Barber, The Death of Communal Liberty. A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton.
No full textKarnoouh Claude. Benjamin R. Barber, The Death of Communal Liberty. A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton.. In: Études rurales, n°70, 1978. pp. 134-137
Reseña del libro de Benjamin R. Barber, Pasión por la democracia
No full textURL del artículo en la web de la Revista: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/ripp/article/view/1861Es reseña de:
Lib 725558- Pasión por la democracia
Benjamin R. Barber; José María Seco Martínez (pr.) Árbol académico, Rafael Rodríguez-Prieto (pr.) Árbol académico
Almuzara, 2006. ISBN 84-96416-95-XUniversidad Pablo de Olavid
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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