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The Incorporation Of America - Culture And Society In The Gilded Age
Get PDFAny era in American history can be viewed as pivotal, but the time period that The Incorporation of America covers was truly a time of change that reached the country's core. The one thing that has changed about this book, which covers Gilded Age culture and society, is that it is more relevant today and has evolved into a classic. In the new "Preface" to this 25th Anniversary Edition, Alan Trachtenberg writes that "My focus was not only on change but also on conflict and contradiction." But the author also explains that the book "describes the origins of our own times.
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
Review of \u3ci\u3ePassion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National Convention\u3c/i\u3e By Richard Franklin Bensel
Get PDFRichard Franklin Bensel offers a masterful inspection of William Jennings Bryan\u27s Cross of Gold speech and the 1896 Democratic National Convention. As Bensel demonstrates, this convention, held in the newly finished Coliseum in Chicago, was a watershed in American political history. Southern and western Democratic leaders, including those from the Great Plains, wrested the power of the party from the patricians of the East ; the soft money men, or silver supporters, defeated the gold or hard money Democrats. Bryan did not alter this course, but his Cross of Gold speech, one of the most famous orations in American political history, did propel the young Nebraskan to the nomination. The convention also helped cause the decay of the People\u27s Party. Unlike modern conventions, which are somewhat contrived, the fervor and commotion was spontaneous inside the Coliseum. The convention also introduced the U.S. to Bryan, who became one of the country\u27s most important political leaders
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
Retaining their culture and ethnic identity: Assimilation among Czechs and Swedes in Saunders County, Nebraska, 1880–1910
No full textDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of immigrants arrived in America from Europe. Along with some personal belongings, the immigrants carried with them across the Atlantic their customs, which helped perpetuate cultural conservation and slow assimilation. Many of these immigrants settled in the Great Plains, including the state of Nebraska. In Saunders County, Nebraska, located in the eastern section of the state, most European immigrants were Czechs, Swedes, and Germans. Saunders County had the largest percentage of Czechs and Swedes in aggregate than any other county in Nebraska. Unlike the Germans, the Czechs and Swedes in the county maintained strong ethnic identities through 1910 and assimilated slowly. By 1910, almost 50 percent of Saunders County\u27s population were Czechs and Swedes. Despite their universal strength, both groups carved out separate clustered areas. Only in the town of Wahoo were there many Czechs and Swedes in the same community. In each of their clustered areas, there were a few small villages, but otherwise they were rural. Clustering was the principal reason the Czechs and Swedes sustained their ethnic identities. Both groups clustered to help in the difficult transition into American society. In one precinct of Saunders County, 762 of the 763 people were Czechs. Both ethnic groups were also endogamous, which was fostered through clustering. Endogamy was a key factor for cultural conservation and maintaining ethnic identity. The Czechs and Swedes in Saunders County utilized several tools to maintain strong ethnic identities, including religion, education and social and cultural organizations. Swedish Lutherans in Nebraska founded Luther Academy, in the county, in 1883. This school, which added a two-year college shortly after 1900, was established to train Swedish Lutheran students to teach and minister to fellow Swedish Lutherans. By 1910, both the Czechs and Swedes in Saunders County, Nebraska, had not only preserved their ethnic identities, but also managed to assimilate at a slow rate
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