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The limits of Government. by Susan Ryan
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tag=10 data=The question of the limits of government is crucial; if by the year 2000 we have not addressed the extravagant waste of public and private resources that is the inevitable consequence of our current Federal system, then we will not have solved any of our fundamental economic problems.
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tag=13 data=CABThe question of the limits of government is crucial; if by the year 2000 we have not addressed the extravagant waste of public and private resources that is the inevitable consequence of our current Federal system, then we will not have solved any of our fundamental economic problems
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
Life-span developmental perspectives of the professional dance career
No full textA professional career in dance can be challenging, with training commitments often from a young age, years of physically exacting work, and, in the latter career stages for some dancers, the struggle to preserve physical abilities in an effort to maintain performance roles. Yet, there is scant empirical knowledge of the degree to which the pursuit of a dance career relates to dancers' psychological and career development across the life-span. The present research, comprising three studies, investigated dance performers' identification with the dancer role and their career development prior to, during, and following a professional dance career.\ud
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In Study 1, elite dance students (n = 134) from a number of Australian states completed measures of dancer identity, identity development, career maturity, and five-factor personality. In contrast to expectations derived from similar research on young athletes, a strong dancer identity was not maladaptive to dance students' ego identity formation or career development. In particular, identification with the dancer role was beneficial to young dancers' identity formation, with high investment in the dancer persona related to the formation of an achieved identity and related inversely to identity foreclosure. Students with heavy dance training commitments were not at risk of attenuated career exploration or planning, however, these dancers tended to have low identity achievement scores. Dance students did not differ from their peers (223 tertiary students) on career maturity measures and were equally likely to have formed an identity, suggesting that dancers may adapt to associated environmental constraints and reduced exploration opportunities.\ud
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In a second study, 98 professional dancers completed measures of dancer identity, career stage concerns, career change confidence, career goal achievement, career planning, and personality. A stronger dancer identity was associated with concerns typifying the career establishment stage, whereas concern for separation from a dance career (representing the disengagement stage) was related to less self-definition as a dancer. The latter finding may auger well for dancers' subsequent dance career transition adaptation, given that a weaker dancer identity was a significant predictor of dancers' confidence to adjust successfully to a hypothetical prospective career change :from dance. Career goal attainment and career planning did not predict career change confidence. Dancers embarking on a career transition were more concerned than individuals not leaving dance with issues related to not only the disengagement stage, but also the career exploration stage, thereby demonstrating their career adaptability. Dancers not intent on a career change displayed more concern for establishing and maintaining their career positions than other dancers. Thus, dancers in the middle of their careers may fail to anticipate future career events associated with the time-limited nature of a dance career.\ud
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An interview-based methodology was employed in Study 3 to elaborate key findings from the first two quantitative studies. Responses :from 15 former professional dancers indicated that dancers may attempt to mitigate the impact of a strong dancer identity on the quality of their career transition by a variety of processes including conscious detachment :from their dancer role. The timing of the career transition, precursors to career cessation, and intended post-transition career direction may further influence dancers' divestment of their dancer role prior to transition. An association between dancer identity salience and transition adjustment was evident for the majority of dancers; however, less identification with dance was neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition in determining the quality of transition adaptation.\ud
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Instead, a number of factors mediated this relationship such as additional life-roles, social support, and challenges associated with transition. Career planning throughout a dance career appears challenging due to the interplay of contextual, social, and individual factors. Consequently, a number of recommendations were made to enhance dancers' career development. Finally, beneficial outcomes from dance career transition were identified, with positive gains not confined to dancers who experienced a smooth transition
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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