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Routledge Handbook of Maritime Security (Ed. B Ryan)
No full textThis handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.Written by leading international experts, this comprehensive volume presents a wide variety of theoretical positions on maritime security, detailing its achievements and outlining outstanding issues faced by those in the field. The book includes studies which cover the entire spectrum of activity along which maritime security is developing, including, piracy, cyber security, energy security, terrorism, narco-subs and illegal fishing. Demonstrating the transformative character and potential of the topic, the book is divided into two parts. The first part exhibits a range of perspectives and new approaches to maritime security, and the second explores emerging developments in the practice of security at sea, as well as regional studies written by local maritime security experts. Taken together, these contributions provide a compelling account of the evolving maritime security environment, casting fresh light on theoretical and empirical aspects.The book will be of much interest to practitioners and students of maritime security, naval studies, security studies, maritime history, and International Relations in general
The Curve of an Emotion: A Study of Change in the Portrayal of Children and Childhood in the Literature of James Joyce
Get PDFThe child has existed on the margins of Western philosophical inquiry since classical antiquity,
yet childhood has been central to Western philosophical concerns. The aim of critical
childhood scholarship is to historicize this dissonance by examining the child that is believed
to exist, the childhoods that children are expected to live, and the experiences of children performing
childhood. As is the case with other marginalised voices, fictional texts are considered
important sources for analysis.
In recent decades the institutional abuse of children in Ireland has been a frequent feature of
public discourse. However, the study of children and childhood in Ireland is often challenging
due to the scarcity of primary sources. Accordingly, fictional texts are considered important for
understanding adult beliefs about children and childhood in Ireland, and for understanding
how it felt for children to live in the historical moment. James Joyce is considered important for
understanding children and childhood in an Irish context, and Joyce’s portrayal of childhood
is often considered unchanging within the major themes. Yet, this thesis is the first extended
exploration of the portrayal of children and childhood in Joyce’s fiction.
This thesis explores the portrayal of children and childhood in all of Joyce’s major works of
fiction up until the distinction between adults and children breaks down in Finnegans Wake.
Each work of fiction is treated independently, and the results are presented as a portfolio of
articles organised chronologically. In contrast to common understandings of childhood in
Joyce, this thesis demonstrates that Joyce’s portrayal of children and childhood is consistently
revised throughout his oeuvre. Thus, it is useful to consider these changes as following a curve
of revision that reaches a vertex in Ulysses.Literary theorists and social historians consider fictional texts to be important for the
study of children and childhood. James Joyce’s fiction is considered important for
understanding Irish childhoods, and Joyce’s portrayal of childhood is often deemed
unchanging within the major themes until the distinction between adults and children
breaks down in Finnegans Wake. However, no extended studies of children or
childhood in Joyce’s fiction exist, and while Joyce scholars generally consider the
literary child in Joyce’s fiction to be an historical artefact within Joycean aesthetics,
there exists only a limited scholarly engagement with the topic after A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man. This thesis seeks to bridge this gap by exploring the depiction
of children and childhood in all of Joyce’s major works of fiction up until Finnegans
Wake.
This thesis is structured chronologically, beginning with Dubliners and finishing
with Ulysses. The methodology used is a dialectical discussion between Joyce’s texts
and the social historical account. By applying this approach, each of Joyce’s texts has
presented unique theoretical problems for the study of children and childhood.
Accordingly, an eclectic approach is employed drawing from theoretical models of
the child that span from classical antiquity to contemporary Marxist perspectives.
Thus, the close readings, each presented as stand–alone articles, serve to demonstrate
that the topic of children and childhood is treated uniquely by Joyce in each work of
fiction before Finnegans Wake.
These readings work towards a new way of viewing childhood in Joyce’s fiction
by providing evidence of an uninterrupted trajectory of change that informs the
major themes. However, this does not gesture towards radical change. Rather, it is
suggested that it is more useful to consider change as following a curve of revised
sensibility that reaches a vertex in Ulysses. Accordingly, it is argued that even with the
wide arch of interpretational possibilities discussed in this thesis, the literary child in
Ulysses undermines, but does not radically break free from, adult perspectives
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
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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