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Ryan, Sheila. Interview about mumering
No full textSheila Ryan talks about mummering and her mummers."Interview with Sheila Ryan, Witless Bay, Saeedeh Niktab Ettati
0:00 - Introduction and moving in Witless Bay in July 2009; 0:54 - Mummers coming to her house and how comical it was for her to guess them; 1:46 - Her husband going mummering in Christmas; 2:12 - Where people mostly used to go mummering, around the bay and not in the town; 2:40 - Her decision to put full grown mummers in her garden in Christmas four years ago, after moving to Witless Bay; 3:05 - The reaction of her neighbours when she put her mummers in the garden for the first time; 3:25 - Making mummers with the aide of her husband; 3:54 - Her source of ideas for making mummers and what they are made out of; 4:31 - Ideas to make wooden mummers to sell; 4:38 - The shops where she buy her materials for making mummers; 5:01 - Her motivation to choose mummers to make and multiple use of mummers for Halloween; 5:20 - Variety and creativity in making new and different mummers: elf mummers, Santa and Mrs. Claus; 5:58 - Mrs. Claus and how she figured out to make her face last year; 6:54 - The lady in Bay Bulls with mummers; 7:01 - Her story of going to mummers’ parade with her friend Jacquelyn last year; 8:27 - Her plan to make a hobby horse; 8:39 - Her experience of teaching others to make mummers; 8:58 - Visitors from different places visiting her garden decorated with mummers around Christmas; 9:11 - Last year all in Witless Bay gathered in her garden in Christmas; 9:47 - Her permanent passion for decorating her house and Christmas tree house but not with mummers even when she was living in downtown; 10:33 - How she learnt to sew and all her family background in sewing; 11:25 - Her husband’s costume for mummering; 12:35 - Her interaction with people coming to visit her mummers; 13:11 - The reason why she was not in mummering until she moved to Witless Bay and started making them; 13:53 - Her neighbours’ response to her mummers; 14:23 - Children and why they are not interested in mummering; 14:33 - Her memories when she was young and used to go door to door; 15:14 - House visiting and her interest in seeing Christmas trees in her childhood; 16:23 - Suggesting some people in the community who knows about mummering; 16:34 - Her conversation with community about her gardening; 16:54 - Her last Christmas tree and the presents she put beneath them; 17:28 - The ugly stick upstairs does not belong to her; 18:56 - How she started working and how it led her to make more and more; 20:11 - Making yule logs and try finding something new and learn new ways from web site; 21:19 - Her creative ideas about making yule logs and nutcrackers; 22:07 - Showing us yule logs with mummers which she did for someone in Nova Scotia.
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
Ryan, Sheila. Travel souvenirs.
No full textChicago snow globe, and other travel souvenirs and ornaments in Sheila and Mike Ryan's porc
Ryan, Mike; Ryan, Sheila
No full textMike and Sheila Ryan - Old House, Dartboard in Kitchen, Witless Ba
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
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