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Caribbean Report 14-02-1989
No full textThe controversy of book “The Satanic Verses” by Indian born, British author Salman Rushdie continues with the death sentence passed by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeni. There are strong reactions from Muslims in the Caribbean region. Brinsley Samaroo, Minister in the Trinidad and Tobago government does not support this response as he wishes to see people commenting on the book after having themselves read it. Grenada Deputy Prime Minister, Ben Jones who was in London and participated in the Independence Day celebrations speaks on developments for the island's next election. Jones rejects accusations that the Grenadian government is weakening the trade union movement. On other trade issues, an emergency meeting was called by the International Cocoa Organization to settle the mounting debts encumbered by producers. In Haiti, President Prosper Avril invites twenty-three organizations to discuss the setting up of an institution that will organize and supervise a free elections.1. Headlines: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni sentences author, Salman Rushdie to death for blasphemy and insults to Muslims; Grenada Deputy Prime Minister, Ben Jones reacts to accusations that his goverment is weakening trade unions; and, the International Cocoa Organization calls an emergency meeting to avert a cocoa crisis (00:00-00:35)2. Interview with Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses" on the death sentence passed by Ayatollah Khomeni (00:36-01:50)3. Interview with Brinsley Samaroo, Minister in the Trinidad and Tobago government on reactions to the book "The Satanic Verses" in the region (01:51-03:56)4. Interview with Ben Jones, Grenada's Deputy Prime Minister who was in London and participates in the Independence Day celebrations. Jones rejects accusations that the Grenadian government is weakening the trade unions. Jones also speaks on developments for the next election (03:57-08:40)5. Financial News (08:41-10:10)6. Robin Stainer reports that the International Cocoa Organization emergency meeting is to settle the mounting debts encumbered by producers (10:11-12:27)7. President Prosper Avril of Haiti invites twenty-three organisations to discuss the setting up of an institution that will organise and supervise a free election (12:28-14:56
Caribbean Report 07-06-1991
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:30)2. Desi Bouterse, Suriname’s army commander, has been targeted for assassination by the US. Chandra van Bennendijk reports that the assassination claims were announced at a press conference of the army commander’s special envoy (00:31-03:11)3. The Caribbean and Latin America celebrates Freedom of Expression Day, traditionally a day when journalists, academics and politicians explore the limits of the region’s media. Michael Norton reports on the status of censorship and intimidation of the media in Haiti since the assumption of President Aristide in February (03:12-06:01)4. Hundreds of members of the Informal Commercial Importers marched through Kinston and Montego Bay protesting the government’s decision to maintain additional duties on imported goods. Gary Allen interviews Dunston Whittingham, General Secretary of Jamaica’s Vendor Association (06:02-07:56)5. William Morris, a Jamaican-born trade unionist in Britain, is elected as the leader of Britain’s largest union, Transport and General Workers Union. Pat Whithorne interviews William Morris, the first black person to lead a major trade union in Britain (07:57-09:59)6. Brinsley Samaroo, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Food Production, criticizes the Caricom planning meeting process which he describes as nothing more than a talk-shop. At the first International Conference on the Financing Caribbean Agricultural Development (AGROCARIB 2000), Dr. Samaroo states that Caricom decision-makers are long on rhetoric and short on action due to the legacy of colonialism, and recommends the restructuring of the Caribbean public service system (10:00-11:50)7. Professor Anthony Bryan, Director of the Institute of International Relations at UWI, gives his views on the Santiago Compromise, a recent initiative of the OAS to preserve democracy in the hemisphere (11:51-13:51)8. On the second day of the first test series between the West Indies and England, the West Indies limits England to 198 runs all out and England fights back by reducing the West Indies to 168 runs for 8 wickets. Part Murphy reports on the impressive bowling of Mark Ramprakash (13:52-14:51
Caribbean Report 11-06-1991
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:32)2. The main priority for Guyana’s newly appointed Commissioner of the Elections Commission is the restoration of confidence in Guyana’s electoral system. Sharief Khan interviews the Commissioner Rudy Collins (00:33-02:58)3. Trinidadian Lloyd Best recently returned from Haiti where he served as a special advisor to the UN Resident Representative. He states that Caricom still has a major role to play in helping to preserve and strengthen Haiti’s new found democracy and Haiti’s middle class continues to withhold support for President Aristide (02:59-07:05)4. St. Lucia is expressing renewed concerns over the future of its coconut industry. Pete Ninnvalle reports that Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago importers of coconut oil from St. Lucia have both defaulted on either receipt or payment of their allocations. Comments from Brinsley Samaroo, Minister of Food Production in Trinidad and Tobago; Anthony Savarin, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade in St. Lucia; and Johannes Leonce , Chairman of St. Lucia’s Coconut Growers Association (07:06-11:23)5. London based Commonwealth Development Corporation is seeking more investment possibilities in the Caribbean. David Stevens, CDC’s Director of Corporate Relations is interviewed by Pat Whitehorne (11:24-13:24)6. The Caricom Committee set up to look into the possible privatization of LIAT met in Barbados today and some shareholding governments are unwilling to privatize the airline (13:25-14:00)7. Caricom members will hold a meeting tomorrow in Barbados on the controversial Multiliteral Air Service Agreement (14:01-14:45
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
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