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Jane Addams y Eleanor Clarke Slagle: política, equidad social y ocupación desde los inicios de la Terapia Ocupacional
No full textEl objetivo del artículo es describir y reflexionar sobre algunas ¡deas y perspectivas de dos mujeres relevantes en el origen de la Terapia Ocupacional: Eleanor Clarke Slagle, y su mentora, Jane Addams. Ambas, a principios del siglo XX, desarrollaron acciones y constructos teóricos relacionados con la igualdad de género, la política y la justicia social; además, trabajaron juntas en un asentamiento social denominado Hull House, centro de gran influencia en Estados Unidos, principalmente por expandir el poder de las mujeres y por participar como generador de políticas a favor de la erradicación de las diferencias de clase y género. Este trabajo explora la vida de Clarke Slagle, sus relaciones con Addams y su fuerte lucha respecto a "lo social", presente en los ¡nidos de la disciplina. Se evidencia como Addams y su enfoque en la equidad social, incluyendo la igualdad de género y el derecho a desempeñar diversas ocupaciones, fueron una piedra edificante para la Terapia Ocupacional que forjó Clarke Slagle, junto con otros pioneros de la disciplina
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
De transfer van post-koloniale Franstalige literatuur uit de Caraïben: een onderzoek over de Amerikaanse vertalingen van Maryse Condé's romans
No full textChanneling Post-Colonial Caribbean Literature toward a
North American Readership:A Study in Translation of the Works of Maryse Condé
Krista J. SLAGLE
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Summary of Project
In this discussion of translation and postcolonial literature, I unite investigations of empire, postcolonialism, plurilingualism, and theories which address selected topoi from two works by Guadeloupean author, Maryse Condé, Traversée de la Mangrove and Moi, Tituba sorcière … Noire de Salem. I used Gideon Toury's "adequate" and "acceptable" distinctions of translational norms to investigate the translator's choices between approaches which emphasize source text (ST) norms in the translated target text (TT), or target text norms in the TT. A target focused translation is one which predominantly makes use of norms "which originate and act in the target culture itself," which Toury calls an "acceptable" translation (Toury 2012, 79). This is a way the translator might aim, or channel the translation toward the target readership with a result likely to be favorable to, or assimilated without as many foreignizing, or culturally ostracizing textual elements. A source focused translation is one which makes wide use of norms originating in the source culture in the translated text. It more strictly adheres to the original text, as in Toury's "adequacy," which in this case means to equate, or to make equal. Source text focused translational choices could be used to benefit the target reader by teaching the reader something of the source text's culture, language, and setting, with secondary regard to how stilted, or foreign-sounding the text might appear.
The project hoped to discover translational practices of translator, Richard Philcox which could reveal either target (reader) focused, "acceptable" translation strategies, those which might be more openly received in their target culture, or source text focused, "adequate" translation strategies, which might feature more "foreignizing" or exotic textual elements, potentially ostracizing to target readers.
To discover any channeling strategies in the transfer from the francophone ST to the English language TT, I widened my analysis to include the translation agents involved in the publication of Condé's novels in English, Crossing the Mangrove and I, Tituba. Black Witch of Salem, namely the various publishers (both trade and mass market publishers), U.S. reviews of the novels via media sources, journals, book review magazines, etc.
I used theoretical approaches of Douglas Robinson's discussion of Empire as an anthropological entry point to the discussion specifically of Postcolonial Translation Studies and then to the specific analysis of Philcox's translations of Condé's two novels. Jean-Marc Moura and Pascale Casanova inform a theoretical foundation for general and specific translational constraints of postcolonial literature export, and I use these theories to investigate reception difficulties and successes in the U.S. of this Caribbean, francophone literature.
Some observations which could speak to a target leaning focus for the U.S. readership include what might be perceived by many as a white washing, or at least a de-emphasizing of provocative translational difficulties concerning racial divisions in the narrative and its setting. Additional target readership focused observations include story details involving voodoo, witchcraft, and healer narratives (found in Moi, Tituba … noire de Salem). While these do not deny a French-speaking readership, these plot details are very readily received by the U.S. readership which has a long fascination with the historical details of setting surround this latter novel. Translational strategies which reveal a focus on the source text readership include linguistic details of Creole (specifically in Traversée de la mangrove), and the landscape of the Caribbean in both novels. These linguistic factors of language are highlighted in both the French ST and the English TT, and they emphasize the plurilingual nature of the protagonists, their setting, and the culture of the story in general. Paratextual analyses reveal target aiming strategies for I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. With respect to Crossing the Mangrove, very little paratextual influence is observable in either the source or target readerships.status: Publishe
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
Linear stability of a liquid flow through a poroelastic channel
No full textA liquid flow through a channel is studied based on the Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem, where the lower wall of the channel is occupied by the saturated poroelastic medium. The linear stability analysis is investigated in detail for arbitrary value of the wavenumber. The eigenvalues are computed numerically by using the Chebyshev spectral collocation method. The effect of physical parameters, for instance, permeability, elasticity as well as their combined effect on the unstable modes are examined
The Potential Economic Impacts of the Proposed Development Corridor in Egypt: An Interregional CGE Approach
No full textEgypt has proposed a new development corridor. A main component is a desert-based expansion of the current highway network. This network is founded on a 1200-kilometer north-south route that starts at a proposed new port near El-Alemein and runs parallel to the Nile Valley to the border of Sudan. It also includes 21 east-west branches that connect the main axis to densely populated cities on the Nile. The paper is a first attempt at an economic assessment of the impact of this proposed corridor. It uses an interregional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model developed and reported in a prior paper. Here, that model is integrated with a more detailed geo-coded transportation network model to help quantify the spatial effects of transportation cost change due specifically to changes in accessibility induced by the corridor. The paper focuses on the likely structural economic impacts that such a large investment in transportation could enable through a series of simulations related to the operational phase of the project."TD NEREUS 06-2015" published by Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da USP (NEREUS)
Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp
Entrainment of a turbulent patch in a stratified fluid
No full textTurbulent patches are localized events of turbulence, typically characterized by sharp differences between the flow characteristics across their interfaces. These localized events might add to the global mixing, heat exchange and mass transfer, playing a non-negligible role in the total energy balance in lakes or the ocean. This study takes a detailed look at the inner structure of a localized, mechanically forced patch in a linearly stratified ambient using laboratory experiments utilizing synchronized PIV and PLIF. The results point out that the role of the turbulent/non-turbulent interface at the edge of the patch could be significant in determining the growth rate and the maximum size of the patch
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