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Simon Goodman Memorial Carillon
No full textSimon Goodman Memorial Carillon at Wilmington College is a traditional carillon of 35 bells. The bells were cast by Petit & Fritsen Bell Foundry (Aarle-Rixtel, NL) for Pope Pius XII’s exhibit at the 1957 Brussels World’s Fair and later purchased by Mrs. Bessie Goodman in memory of her husband
Positive perspectives on migration discourse in early twentieth-century Italy
No full textAs discussed in Arcimaviciene and Baglama (2018: 1–2) and Taylor (2020), a large body of literature has shown that there is a tendency to negatively conceptualize migration in newspaper discourse by using specific metaphorical expression (Santa Ana 1999; El Refaie 2001; Gabrielatos and Baker 2008; Islentyeva 2018). However, the majority of these works are focused on newspaper representation of migration from the perspectives of their countries of destination. As previously discussed (Hart 2010), journalists, by discursively portraying incoming immigrants (them) as a threat to national security and social stability of the country they belong to (’our’), legitimize practices of inequality and exclusion. In contrast, this chapter focuses on the Italian context in early 1900s, where the writer/speaker and the people who actually migrated belonged to the same community. The investigation of the metaphorical representation of migration pursued in this chapter aims at clarifying the extent to which the writer/speaker’s perspective is a determinant of the metaphorical representation of migrant identities. To address this, I adopt a corpus-approach to Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris-Black 2004) to examine and define the linguistic and conceptual metaphors surrounding migration discourse in Italy. The dataset consists of an Italian corpus (approximately twenty million words) containing extracts from La Stampa newspaper published between 1900 and 1915. All metaphors retrieved using the corpus tool WordSmith 8.0 (Scott 2020) are discussed in a subsequent qualitative analysis. Results show that, unexpectedly, the metaphorical discursive images representing migration are largely positive. The quantity of migrants is represented as liquid and interpreted as a natural resource, and even invasion metaphors function to show the need to be militarily organized to overcome the difficulties of integration into a new country. In this case, the writer/speaker gives support to the emigrant’s journey, perhaps because migration has not been experienced as a threat to the community as these migrants constitute the group that decided to migrate for the good of the whole community. This might support the hypothesis that the writer/speaker’s perspective and the economic and political context in general play fundamental role in determining the discursive representation of migration
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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