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Die Kleine Bibliothek Elizabeth Shaw Band 6
No full textThe landmouse lives peacefully on the farm, with proportionally sized chickens, ducks, and goats. Grandmother cooks in a wood oven and gets water from the spring; they live the way their parents and grandparents lived. Grandfather smokes his pipe and reflects on life and watches to see if someone comes to visit. One day there is a noise. The citymouse shows up on a motorcycle -- and finds life here so quiet that it is eerie. The citymouse offers to take the landmouse to the city, and she agrees. Grandfather says that she will be back soon; his grandfather once took off for the city and came back fast. The landmouse is suitably impressed with the apartment on the fifteenth floor. (Everything in this town seems to be mouse-sized, and the landmouse wonders at the streets, the cars, and the many mice. Apparently there are no people here.) Here one does not have to haul wood or water. One does not need to plant, harvest, or even cook. There are ready-made meals in the freezer! Why, the landmouse opines, here one could sit all day and reflect, like grandpa. The citymouse responds that he has to work all day in the factory, and tomorrow the landmouse can come along and help. They work hard, come home tired, and eat frozen meals in front of the TV. On the weekend they party. Life in the city is expensive. After a couple of years (!), the landmouse decides that city life is not for her. It is a Hetzjagd. The citymouse does not disagree. He is getting ready to marry, and the apartment would not have room for three. However, to her surprise, the landmouse finds that grandmother has set up a hot dog stand for all the tourists looking for quiet in the country. The poor landmouse likes neither city life nor modern life and wants the good old days. She gets drivers to slow down and enjoy the flowers and convinces grandma to serve not hot dogs but good old country food. The book closes with a first meal in the Gasthaus auf dem Lande with the citymouse and his new bride. Some good old socialist thinking is still alive in Berlin!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: GermanElizabeth Sha
Future craft: entrepreneurship or enterprise?
Full text linkBook to accompany conference of the same name:
Title: Future Craft
Conference Theme: Entrepreneurship or Enterprise?
Date: 14 March 2018
Venue: University for the Creative Arts Farnham
The University for the Creative Arts is liaising with leading institutions to instigate and explore 'Future Craft'. The first in a series of biennial conferences will offer an opportunity to discuss, engage, debate, publish and disseminate new research starting with craft issues within the jewellery and silversmithing industries.
The opening conference seeks to provide a framework for a discussion on and around ‘Entrepreneurship or Enterprise?’ By celebrating present achievements and ideas we can look forward to exploring what the future might hold.
The next ‘Future Craft’ conference to be hosted by Queensland College of Art Griffith University in Australia and other International Higher Education Institutions.
Speakers:
Vicki Ambery-Smith, Karen-Ann Dicken, Gordon Hamme, Daphne Krinos, Eliana Negroni, Emily Öhlund, David Poston, Rebecca Skeels, Adi Toch, Sandra Wilson.
Followed by 'In Conversation' with Alison Branagan, Vicki Ambery-Smith, Daphne Krinos, David Poston and Adi Toch.
An exhibition will run alongside the exhibition, hosted by the Crafts Study Centre:
All that Glisters: New Jewellery from Britain
A pop up display from the 1992 touring exhibition curated by Muriel Wilson of jewellery using mainly non precious materials and toured by the British Council (and subsequently donated to the Crafts Study Centre). The display includes work by Jane Adam, Kim Ellwood, Anne Finlay, Geoff Roberts and Louise Slater amongst others
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Introduction
No full textStarting around 1974 the nothing works movement became dominant in the United States, and it joined forces with retributivism, populist punitivism, and "selective incapacitation" to promote mass incarceration. Sociologists brought more rigorous methods of cultural investigation to the study of crime and corrections; psychologists studied the social and environmental factors contributing to crime and crime prevention; biologists and neuroscientists examined the complex biopsychosocial factors related to crime. The main focus of biopsychosocial studies on criminal behavior is to achieve new ways to prevent crime through increased knowledge of the risk and protective factors that impact desistance. The chapter explores major contemporary theories of punishment, including retributivism, utilitarianism, hybrid theories, and restorative justice. It examines a wide range of important philosophical issues raised by the question of punishment, together with the implications of contemporary psychological research for the people theories and practices of criminal punishment
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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