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Connecticut General Assembly Legislative Internship
No full textDuring the 2024 Legislative Session, I was fortunate to be a part of the Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) Legislative Internship Program. As part of the program, I was assigned to intern for Senator Christine Cohen, the Co-Chair of the Transportation Committee. The internship program was structured around consistent academic assignments throughout the session, with objectives to familiarize interns with state research and database resources, guide us through tracking a bill\u27s journey to becoming law, expose us to different careers in state government, teach us how to write impactful testimony, refine our summarization skills, and ultimately, enable us to convey messages in a concise and professional manner. When I applied for and subsequently accepted the internship program offer, I went in with the goal of understanding from the ground level how state legislatures function, how legislators work to address the various needs of their constituents, and to see transportation legislation passed to improve the lives of Connecticut residents. The program’s immaculate administration of academic assignments, educational sessions/training, and day-to-day practical tasks and opportunities within the Connecticut General Assembly Legislative Internship Program made it a truly valuable experience and helped me meet and surpass my goals for the internship
Reflection Of CBIA Public Policy Internship
No full textDuring the 2025 Connecticut General Assembly Legislative Session, I was fortunate to intern with the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA), the state’s largest business organization and the third largest in the country. When I applied for and accepted my offer, my goal was to experience the legislative process from the perspective of an advocacy group. As a public policy intern, I supported CBIA’s lobbying team throughout the session, helping advance the interests of Connecticut’s business community. The internship’s balance of assigning me to both committees I was passionate about and committees where I could learn, along with excellent mentorship, practical writing tasks, and a final capstone project and presentation that allowed us to apply our knowledge by pitching a policy council to the team, made this a truly worthwhile experience
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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