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Magnetooptical investigations of large transport currents in YBCO-thin films
No full textMagnetooptical investigations of large transport currents in YBCO-thin films / B. Schey ... – In: IEEE Transactions on applied superconductivity. 11. 2001. S. 3178-318
William Francis Schey
No full textWilliam Francis Schey was born on January 5, 1857 at Hoxton, Newtown London. He was the Son of Gerard Marius James Schey, Accountants Clerk and Ellen née Puddick. He was educated at London Middle Class School, and completed a ships apprenticeship on the White Star Lines. In 1875 he visited Sydney and gained a Second Mates Certificate. He later sailed with Shaw, Saville and Albion Co Ltd and the New Zealand Shipping Company. He also briefly taught at a naval school near Auckland. (1) In 1877 stranded in Sydney through illness, he worked as a labourer to support himself. He subsequently joined the railways branch of the Department of Public Works, where he worked as a porter, shunter and parcels clerk. (2) In 1879 Schey was active in the formation of the Railways and Tramways Employees Association, and became its unpaid secretary. Upon the formation of the NSW Amalgamated Railways and Tramways Service Association in 1886, Schey resigned from the Department of public works, and became the associations paid Secretary. Whilst employed as secretary, Schey succeeding in expanding the Friendly Society activities of the Union. (3) Schey was supported by his fellow railwaymen in 1887 to make a bid for parliament in order to represent the Unions concerns, such as provision of an eight-hour day. He was 'An extremely able speaker with a remarkable ability to communicate with working men'. (4) Schey was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a member for Redfern in 1887 and held the seat until 1894. He won the Seat of Darlington in 1894, and held the seat until 1898. (5) During his time in Parliament Schey tried from 1887 until 1897 to introduce the Eight Hours Bill, but his attempts were unsuccessful. He also supported the passing of the Government Railways Act 1888 (Victoria 51 Act No 35). (6) This Act established the Railway Commissioners as independent administrators of the Railway function. (7) In 1892 a Royal Commission investigated allegations Schey made against E.M.G. Eddy the Railway Commissioner. The Commission found that none of the allegations of nepotism, or mismanagement of Railway affairs could be substantiated. (8) Schey was appointed a Chief Labour Commissioner, from May 1900 until 1905. In 1905 he was appointed Director of the State Labour Bureau, and continued on in that post until 1912. (9) His chief achievement in these posts was the administration of the Casual Labour Farm, Pitt Town which provided training in farm work for the unemployed. Schey also administered and established the Government Agricultural Training Farm, Scheyville, which provided training in farm work for young men from the city. The young men were often recruited from the United Kingdom through assisted migrations schemes such as the Dreadnought and Big Brother Schemes. Schey was a member of several Associations. He was a prominent Freemason, and held office as past master of Lodge United Service. He was a member of Mark Master lodge and Robert Burns Royal Arch Chapter. He published two brief histories of the Freemasonry. He was also an Orangemen. (10) He married Charlotte Dorothea Weyang, a dressmaker from Hanover, Germany on 22 May 1880. The couple had a daughter and two sons. He died on 18 July 1913, and was buried in Gore Hill Cemetery. (11) Footnotes (1) Australian Dictionary of Biography Nes - Smi 1891 - 1939 University of Melbourne Press, Carlton 1966 - 2000 p.535 (2) Ibid p.535 (3) Ibid p.535 (4) Ibid p.535 (5 NSW Parliamentary Record, 1824 - 1999, Sydney, The Clerk of the Parliaments, vol 6., 1st edn, 1999 p.180 (6) Op Cit. Australian Dictionary of Biography p. 535 (7) An Act to make better provision for the management of the Government Railways and Tramways of NSW 1888. Preamble, s.2, s.6 (8) Report of The Royal Commission appointed to inquiry Charges against Mr E.M.G Eddy Preferred by Mr W.F.Schey M.L.A p.24 in NSW Parliamentary Papers 1892 - 1893 Vol. 5 p.566 (9) Report of the Department of Labour and Industry for the year 1918 p.64 - 66 in NSW Parliamentary Papers 1919 Vol 1. P.521 - 523 (10) Op Cit. Australian Dictionary of Biography p.536 (11) Ibid p. 535 - 536PER-174Director State Labour Bureau 1905 - 1912<br/>Chief Labour Commissioner 1900 - 1905<br/>A member of the Legislative Assembly 1887 - 1895<br/>
To the Statistics of the Jewry of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
No full textU petom godištu "Jevrejskog almanaha" (1929) prilog statistici jevrejstva Kraljevine SHS koji je napisao Leon Kamhi, odnosi se na Jevreje Bitolja. Poslednih godina otomanske vladavine, tačnije 1910. godine njihov broj je iznosio 7.000, a u vreme objavljivanja petog godišta Almanaha taj broj je prepolovljen. 1910. godine počinje emigracija za Severnu Ameriku (najviše Njujork, zatim Ročester, Indianopolis). Emigracija je bila aktuelna dugi niz godina i dostigla broj od oko 4.000 Jevreja iz Bitolja, ali više nije bila moguća zbog postojeće zabrane useljenja od strane vlasti SAD. Osim u Ameriku Jevreji Bitolja iseljavali su se i u Čile i Palestinu. U tekstu su opisane mnoge važne karakteristike bitoljske jevrejske zajednice. Drugi deo ovog priloga koji je napisao profesor Rudolf Schey, odnosi se na Jevreje iz Bjelovara i Đakova.In the fifth volume of the "Jewish Almanac" (1929), a contribution to the statistics of Judaism of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, written by Leon Kamhi, refers to the Jews of Bitola. In the last years of Ottoman rule, more precisely in 1910, their number was 7,000, and at the time of the fifth year of the Almanac, that number was halved. In 1910, emigration to North America began (mostly New York, then Rochester, Indianapolis). Emigration was current for many years and reached the number of about 4,000 Jews from Bitola, but it is no longer possible due to the existing ban on immigration by the US authorities. Except for America, the Jews of Bitola also emigrated to Chile and Palestine. The text describes many important characteristics of the Bitola Jewish community. The second part of this article, written by Professor Rudolf Schey, refers to Jews from Bjelovar and Đakovo
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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No full textCan archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar's ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format) and about another scholar's ideas through reading a formal text description (i.e., invisible author format). For the invisible author, native language speakers scored significantly higher than the non-native language speakers on a corresponding exam question (i.e., a cognitive measure), generated more words on the exam question (i.e., a motivational measure), and mentioned the author's name more often in answering the exam question (i.e., an affective measure). For the visible author, the groups did not differ on any of these measures. These findings provide evidence for the idea that making the author visible through audiovisual TV interviews can eliminate the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers. 3 Universities around the world serve students who are non-native speakers of th
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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