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Politics + Other Mistakes piece on Sen. Ethan Strimling, D-Portland, and his r
No full textPolitics + Other Mistakes piece on Sen. Ethan Strimling, D-Portland, and his reluctance to officially announce his candidacy for Maine\u27s 1st Congressional District seat
Politics + Other Mistakes piece on Sen. Ethan Strimling, a three-term Democrat
No full textPolitics + Other Mistakes piece on Sen. Ethan Strimling, a three-term Democratic state senator who represents Portland. With speculation on Strimling\u27s possible bid in 2008 as Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in Maine\u27s 1st District
This Just In piece on LD 1418, sponsored by Sen. Ethan Strimling (D-Portland).
No full textThis Just In piece on LD 1418, sponsored by Sen. Ethan Strimling (D-Portland). The bill would relax Maine\u27s medical-marijuana laws by allowing any medical professional who can write a prescription to permit someone to grow or buy small amounts of marijuana for personal medical use. Jonathan Leavitt, director of the Maine Marijuana Policy Initiative, has hired lobbyists to push the bill. Peter Christ, vice-president of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, is pushing for broader legalization. Christ wants all drugs legalized so that they can be regulated and controlled
Capitol Update piece on a proposal by Sen. Ethan Strimling (D-Portland) that w
No full textCapitol Update piece on a proposal by Sen. Ethan Strimling (D-Portland) that would raise the minimum wage to 8.40 an hour in 2009. after that, minimum wage would be increased every year based on the federal consumer price index. Strimling acknowledged that some employers may have to raise the cost of their products or services if the bill passes, but said the increase will be a net benefit for the state. The Maine State Chamber of Commerce and representatives of tourism businesses, particularly restaurants, opposed the changes
this just in piece on an emergency bill, LR 2425, introduced by Sen. Ethan Str
No full textthis just in piece on an emergency bill, LR 2425, introduced by Sen. Ethan Strimling, D-Portland, to institute a state ban on assault weapons. On Sept. 13, 2004, the federal assault-weapons ban is due to expire, and if a state bill is not passed this session, there will be at least nine months of legal assault-weapon sales in Maine before the legislature could institute a state ban. However, the Legislative Council deadlocked in deciding whether or not the bill qualifies as emergency legislation, and Strimling now must get at least one council member to change their mind. Windham-based weapons manufacturer Bushmaster is poised to take advantage of the expiration of the federal ban, and this year wrote a $10,000 check to Maine House Republicans, the largest single contribution House Republicans received this year
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
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