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Caribbean Report 27-02-1989
No full textThree human rights organisations have alleged that despite General Prosper Avril public commitment to democratic change, the military government continued to sanction political violence and human rights abuses. Kenneth Roth, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch, the parent organisation of Americas Watch called on the U.S. to continue the suspension of aid to Haiti until the Haitian government shows respect for human rights and agrees to hold free and fair elections. The U.S. Immigration Service successful court battle to control the flood of migrants by holding them in camps while their applications were processed. Adrian Porter reported that most Caribbean immigrants came from Haiti and Jamaica and may not suffer the same kind of hardships as their Central American counterparts. In Barbados, the Caribbean Project Development Facility opened its first regional office in Barbados to develop small businesses. Bernie Grant, British MP was keynote speaker at a conference in Dominica and discussed implications of the single market in Europe in 1992. In sports, British boxer, Frank Bruno credible performance against Mike Tyson was full of praise by the British press.1. Headlines: A report in the U.S. stated that the Haitian government sanctioned political violence and human rights abuses; British Labour MP Bernie Grant returned to the House of Commons after his trip to Dominica; and, what next for Britain and Jamaica's Frank Bruno, would he fight Tyson again? (00:00-00:42)2.Three human rights organisations have alleged that despite General Prosper Avril public commitment to democratic change, the military government was continuing to sanction political violence and human rights abuses. Interview with Kenneth Roth, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch, the parent organisation of Americas Watch. Roth called on the U.S. to continue the suspension of aid to Haiti until the Haitian government shows respect for human rights and agrees to hold free and fair elections (00:43-03:32)3. The U.S. Immigration Service successful court battle to control the flood of migrants by holding them in camps while their applications were processed. Reporter, Adrian Porter reported that most Caribbean immigrants came from Haiti and Jamaica and may not suffer the same kind of hardships as their Central American counterparts (03:33-05:40)4. Financial News. In Barbados, the Caribbean Project Development Facility opened its first regional office in Barbados in an effort to develop small businesses (05:41-07:15)5. Interview with Bernie Grant, British MP who was keynote speaker at a conference in Dominica and discussed the implications of the creation of a single market in Europe in 1992 (07:16-10:50)6. British boxer, Frank Bruno turned in a very credible performance against Mike Tyson. The British press was full of praise and was treating Bruno with some respect (10:51-14:55
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
Caribbean Report 26-04-1991
No full text1. Headlines by Patricia Soriah (00:00-00:33)2. Jean Mitchel Caroit reports that the United States government has announced that it would not cut off trade relations with the Dominican Republic despite reports of an alleged forced labour of Asian cane cutters in the country. Patricia Soriah spoke to Mr. Sheldon Avinias, of the United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic to get his views on the matter (00:34-04:20)3. Kenneth Roth, Director of America’s Watch, United States Human Rights Group, tells Patricia Soriah that they will continue to monitor the situation in the Dominican Republic regarding the abuse of cane cutters. He noted that action will have to come from another source since the US has not cut off trade with the Dominican Republic (04:21-06:25)4. Caribbean Rights, the regional Human Rights Group held their Annual General Meeting in Haiti. Representatives from the Caribbean Human Rights groups and foreign delegates concentrated on organizational questions. However, on top of the agenda was Haiti’s own Human Rights concerns. Michelle Montague reports from Haiti (06:26-08:05)5. Jean Claude Bajer, Director of the Haitian Human Rights Ecumenical Center addressed the conference. He was asked by Patricia Soriah whether he felt that the Human Rights condition in the Caribbean is improving and he agreed that it was (08:06-09:17)6. Other areas being discussed at the Human Rights conference in Haiti included Penal reform and mistreatment of refugees. Haiti’s Human Rights problems are not yet over according to Mike Mc Cormack, Secretary of Guyana’s Human Rights Association (09:18-11:59)7. Suriname’s general elections is just one month away and the government of President Clarke has signed an agreement with rebel groups to ensure that the polls go off without incident and to allow those involved in the process to freely enter the interior region (11:60-12:40)8. Aluminium producers in the Caribbean are in for a bad time according to a recent influential Aluminium Annual Review just published in London. Author of the report, Metals Analyst, Anthony Bird explains why this is so (12:41-13:39)9. Patricia Soriah ends the report by reminding listeners of the three new BBC frequencies (13:40-14:46
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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