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(086) Capt. Smith monument at The Narrows
No full textExcerpt from page 32 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: Just beyond the Forestry Station stands the Smith Monument placed here by Capt. Frank Smith in memory of his father who was drowned here
Mary and Joseph Smith interviewed by F.W. Smith
No full textFrank W. Smith interviews his mother who recounts family history on the occasion of donating two pieces of china to the Kettle River Museum. Smith also interviews his father Joseph Smith who was donating his Quarter Century Club certificate from B.C. Electric Railway Co. to the museum
Lucy Woodruff Smith correspondence, January - September 1912
No full textLucy Woodruff Smith correspondence from 1912. Includes letters from: "Claire" [probably George\u27s sister, Nancy Clarabelle] at Salt Lake City; Lucy\u27s father, Wilford Woodruff Junior at Salt Lake City; Ann D. Watson at Salt Lake City; "Whit" [unidentified]; "Aunt Lucy" at Princeton; Maude Baxter at Pasadena, California; and a postcard from "Lon and Sarah" at Vancouver, B.C
Earth Observation: Data, Processing and Applications. Volume 1X: Data — Appendices
No full textEds, Harrison, B.A., Jupp, D.L.B., Lewis, M.M., Forster, B.C., Mueller, N., Smith, C., Phinn, S., Hudson, D., Grant, I., Coppa, I
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
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
Law, reconciliation and philosophy : Athenian democracy at the end of the fifth century B.C.
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to defend Athenian democracy against a long-established suspicion that the Athenian government, with its radical form of popular participation, was not only incompetent but also dangerous. There are two serious misunderstandings in this traditional view; one is the myth of the decline of Athens after the death of Pericles, the other being the outright denial of Athenian democracy by its philosophers, Xenophon and Plato. These two common presumptions about Athenian history and philosophy are therefore examined.
The historical examination focuses on three important events: the law reform, the reconciliation and the trial of Socrates. All of them were conducted by Athenian democracy at the end of the fifth century B.C., a period of time that is often cited for the failure of democracy. However, it is found that the democracy demonstrated its excellent ability to manage political conflicts through the laws and the reconciliation. As to the infamous trial of Socrates, there were reasons for the popular suspicion of the Philosopher’s way of life.
Following what we have learnt in the historical survey, we search for responses to the three events in the works of Xenophon and Plato. There are passages, though often dismissed by scholars, which indicate remarkable recognition of the democratic achievements in domestic politics. As regards the trial of Socrates, there are also signs of second thoughts in their works that reveal understandings of the democracy’s condemnation of philosophy. The works of Socrates’ pupils show mixed evaluation rather than outright denial of Athenian democracy.
The traditional suspicion of Athenian democracy is therefore problematic due to its misconception of Athenian history and philosophy
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