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Caribbean Report 21-10-1998
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:35)2. In Antigua, Taffy Bufton seeks compensation after trial and eviction. Taffy Bufton, Attorney Dane Hamilton and Director of Public Prosection Cosberth Cumberbatch are interviewed and Warren Gordon reports (00:36-05:43)3. Canadian Court has granted an absolute discharge to Guyana's former Finance Minister Asgar Alli after he pleaded guilty to having a gun in his possession (05:44-06:13)4. Angry reaction from Cuba's exiles to President Castro's justification of spying. Eight Republican members of the US Congress have written to President Clinton seeking legal action against Fidel Castro. They say the Cuban leader should be punished for his role in the deaths of the four Brothers to the Rescue Members on the plane shot down in 1986 (06:14-09:48)5. After the arrest of former Augusto Pinochet in London, a New York-based human rights group is stepping up its efforts to have former Haitian paramilitary leader, Emmanuel Constant, deported from the US. Attorney Michael Ratner reports (09:49-13:44)6. The European Union reacted strongly to threats of sanctions by the United States in the long running trade dispute over banana imports. Claire Adoo reports (13:45-15:21
Caribbean Report 19-06-1996
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:26)2. Cuban South African relations are being strengthened despite the Helms-Burton law. Still on Helms-Burton Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell says talk of free trade is meaningless if one contradicts the other. He says the American position is a weak one. Prime Minister Keith Mitchell and Carolyn Dempster of BBC African Service are interviewed (00:27-04:13)3. Haitian American journalist Jean-Jean Pierre says the United States is not keen on extraditing Emmanuel Constant, the former leader of the paramilitary group FRAPH. Michael Ratner of the Centre for Constitutional Rights is interviewed and Jean-Jean Pierre reports (04:14-05:26)4. BWIA is criticised for changing its mind again about its St. Lucia service. St. Lucia Director of Tourism Agnes Francis and Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Romanus Lansiquot are interviewed (05:27-07:35)5. Jamaican political commentator Ronald Thwaites has described the Louis Farrakhan's visit as a positive development. Political Commentator Ronald Thwaites is interviewed (07:36-10:54)6. Dominica's leading conservation group has warned that the island could end up becoming as dependent on mining as it has become on bananas if an Australian mining project goes ahead. Manager for Caribbean Exploration Philip Pyle and President of the Dominica Conservation Association Atherton Martin are interviewed (10:55-13:15)7. A racial war within the Dutch football camp at Euro '96. Warren Gordon reports (13:16-15:31
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Caribbean Report 21-02-2003
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Mike Jarvis (00:00-00:26)2. In Dominica, another meeting means another standoff as the Public Service Union and government fail to agree. Thomas Letang, General Secretary of the DPSU says that his members have made concessions and can offer alternatives to cutting public servants’ pay. BBC correspondent Mike Jarvis reports (00:27-02:49)3. In Guyana, controversy overshadows Mashramani, Guyana's annual Carnival which marks the country’s anniversary of becoming a Republic. However, members of the Guyana Indian Heritage Association and others believe that this thirty-third anniversary should be a day of remembrance. Gail Teixeira, Minister of Culture is interviewed. BBC correspondent Colin Smith reports (02:50-05:13)4. As Carnival approaches, there is controversy in Trinidad over the perceived anti-gay lyrics of a calypso (05:14-05:21)5. The merger being proposed for Caribbean Airlines, LIAT, Air Jamaica and BWIA will not of itself improve their competitiveness nor will it save LIAT. According to the UK based Caribbean Aviation website, the airline needs an immediate injection of nine million US dollars as well as the support of its shareholder governments to keep it viable (05:22-08:03)6. The Pentagon says three more inmates attempt suicide at the Guantánamo Bay US detention facility in Cuba bringing the number to ten for the year. Michael Ratner, President of the New York Centre for Constitutional Rights expresses concern about the unsatisfactory human conditions of the inmates. BBC correspondent Karen Weir reports (08:04-09:26)7. Michele Montas, award winning journalist, Director of Radio Haiti and widow of journalist Jean Dominique decides to shut down the station due to threats to journalists. She says the station has already lost three lives, she refuses to lose any more and she does not know when broadcasting will resume. BBC correspondent Mike Jarvis reports (09:27-09:51)8. In cricket, the West Indies has a fully fit squad ahead of its upcoming 2003 ICC World Cup match against Canada. The team desperately needs a victory to boost its points tally having failed to win since the opening game against South Africa. Ricky Skerritt, Team Manager talks about the team’s run rate. BBC correspondent Mike Jarvis reports (09:52-12:37)9. An Antiguan artist whose sobriquet is Wanski comes under criticism in Trinidad and Tobago for allegedly inciting violence by anti-gay lyrics in his song, More Gyal. Peter Minshall, Trinidadian Carnival bandleader and costume designer says this is the same as racial discrimination. BBC correspondents Mike Jarvis and Tony Fraser report (12:38-15:29
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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