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Using the Census to Investigate Voting Behaviour in Britain
No full textThis unit aims to: * provide an appreciation of the opportunities and drawbacks associated with the ecological analysis of voting behaviour in Britain. * develop powers of critical and analytical thinking and logical argument about contemporary issues and controversies surrounding turnout and electoral engagement. On completing this resource you will have an understanding of: * the gap between electors and elected. * the class, sex, age, ethnicity and educational profiles of the elected representatives in Britain. * Whether there is a need for the parliamentary and candidate elite to more closely reflect society. * Who is represented? * Social capital, participation and turnout. * Marginality and ideological proximity. * Turnout in general elections and elections for the European Parliament and local government.
Prof. Richard Wiseman, Denise Blew w/graduates on stage
No full textCommencement 2002. Professor Richard Wiseman and Denise Blew sit with graduates on stage
Book review: the luck factor by Richard Wiseman
Get PDFI wonder if you are curious about luck like me. If so, I bet you’ve asked to yourself many times if luck was a genetic trait, or just a random good chance. Everybody knows what It “luck” means. Luck signifies to either have success or failure, which apparently is brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.
But is it true that luck is such a random phenomenon ? And if not, could we train ourselves to become more lucky ? And if so, how could we do it ?
The book “The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind”, that was written by Richard Wiseman, tries to answer these and other questions about luck from a scientific point of view as the book is the result of various years of scholarly research on luck.
Richard Wiseman is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, who has done considerable research for various years on why some people are more lucky then others. Wiseman was a magician before graduating in Psychology from University College London (UCL). He has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh
Dari Berpikir Positif ke Bertindak Positif
No full textKebanyakan buku pengembangan diri (self-help) menawarkan mantra sederhana yang sama, yakni jika Anda ingin meningkatkan kualitas hidup, Anda harus mengubah cara berpikir: paksalah diri Anda untuk memiliki pikiran positif, dan Anda akan menjadi lebih bahagia; atau visualisasikan impian Anda, dan Anda akan menikmati keberhasilannya; atau berpikirlah seperti jutawan, dan Anda akan menjadi kaya; dan seterusnya. Ide ini terdengar sangat masuk akal dan memikat. Namun, dalam prakteknya, gagasan ini sering terbukti tidak efektif.
Didukung bukti ilmiah yang memesona, Profesor Richard Wiseman menyajikan wawasan baru yang secara radikal membalik pandangan konvensional tentang pengembangan diri yang selama ini diagung-agungkan: berpikir positif. Wawasan baru ini mendorong Anda melakukan tindakan fisik sederhana yang mencerminkan cara cepat, mudah, dan sangat kuat untuk langsung mengubah bagaimana Anda berpikir dan merasa.
Dalam buku ini, sang profesor menunjukkan bagaimana gagasan sederhana ini dapat diterapkan untuk meningkatkan motivasi, mengatasi depresi, menurunkan berat badan, berhenti merokok, memperlambat penuaan, dan berbagai upaya mencapai kesuksesan dan kebahagiaan lainnya
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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