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Caribbean Report 11-02-1991
No full textA new Prime Minister is expected to be sworn in by Haiti’s President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. However, Michael Norton reports that Prime Minister may end up being more powerful than President Aristide. Debbie Ransome reports on a meeting held between CARICOM’s two largest markets i.e. Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. Debbie Ransome speaks to Mr. Hugh Small of Jamaica and Mr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie of Trinidad and Tobago who were the two key participants at this meeting. Trinidad and Tobago is frustrated with the hold up of payments of its exports to Jamaica. Mr. Hugh Small of Jamaica says that the nature of the crisis with Trinidad and Tobago will be taken to his cabinet. He believes that these two countries need to move towards the absolute abolition of exchange controls. He adds that the future of the Caribbean community depends on a strong Jamaican economy and Jamaica is taking steps to implement the CET by 15 February, 1991. Mr. Tewarie explains that the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and the private sector have discussed to solve the problem within a CARICOM context. Also with regard to the issue of payment in Jamaican currency, he proposes that preferential arrangements should be made in settling CARICOM arrangements. Caribbean banana producers are awaiting a draft proposal from the European Community on the regulation of the Banana market after 1992. The Caribbean is faced with unbeatable competition from Latin American banana producers and they are pressing for continued market access and protection. The possible merger between BWEE and LIAT is imminent and an official from BWEE claims that plans for this merger has gained increased momentum as international carriers have cut back services to the countries. Mr. Ian Bertrand shares the proposals being considered with this impending merger.1. Headlines (00:00-00:35)2. René Préval is expected to be sworn in as the Prime Minister of Haiti (00:36-03:39)3. Debbie Ransome reports on a meeting held between CARICOM’s two largest markets i.e. Trinidad an Tobago and Jamaica, regarding delays in export payments. Ms. Ransome speaks to Mr. Hugh Small regarding Jamaica’s position on this matter (03:40-05:39)4. Debbie Ransome speaks to Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie regarding Trinidad and Tobago’s position on this matter with export payments (05:41-07:29)5. The banana producers of the Caribbean are awaiting a draft proposal from the European Community on the regulation of the Banana market after 1992 (07:30-11:51)6. A possible merger between BWEE and LIAT is imminent (11:52-14:00
Caribbean Report 29-10-1991
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:34)2. A regional elections expert urges Guyana not to proceed with elections until the controversial voters list is cleaned up. Professor Gladstone Mills, Chairman of the Electoral Advisory Committee of Jamaica and a member of the Carter Mission is interviewed by Hugh Crosskill. The Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Kennedy Simmons, is also interviewed (00:35-07:49)3. The government of Barbados and the coalition of trade unions seem headed for a showdown. The trade unions are threatening to shutdown the country if the government does not comply with their demand to reverse recent austerity measures. Interview with Rickey Singh, journalist and social commentator (07:50-10:57)4. Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Hugh Small criticises Caricom’s decision to exclude the region’s private sector and labour unions (CAIC and CCL) from a special trade meeting in Guyana last week (10:58-13:22)5. The WBA Middle Weight Champion, Chris Eubank, is undecided about his career as a boxer after his last opponent, Michael Watson is hospitalised five weeks after the fight. John Rawling reports (13:23-14:51
Caribbean Report 30-03-1992
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:33)2. P. J. (Percival James) Patterson succeeds Mr. Michael Manley as Prime Minister of Jamaica, after receiving 2322 of the 3500 votes from delegates of the People’s National Party. Correspondent Tim Fawcett reports (00:34-03:31)3. The inauguration ceremony for Jamaican Prime Minister Designate P. J. Patterson is carded for this evening. The Standing Cabinet, Junior Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries are expected to step down. Finance Minister Hugh Small expresses his readiness to work with Mr. Patterson in an interview with the anchor (03:32-06:14)4. In as much as Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has committed to following the economic policy of his predecessor Mr. Manley, Finance Minister Hugh Small sees the government as needing to deal with issues of inflation, sustaining democracy and stabilizing the dollar, urgently (06:15-07:45)5. University of the West Indies Lecturer, Dr. Brian Meeks shares his thoughts on the Patterson’s administration’s ability to achieve its goals without creating social instability in an interview with the anchor (07:46-10:31)6. The three opposition parties in Antigua and Barbuda have merged, forming a new party known as the United Progressive Party that will be headed by Baldwin Spencer. Mr. Spencer, leader of the former United National Democratic Party, talks about the reason behind the merger (10:32-12:31)7. Dr. Paul Sutton, Foreign Relations Advisor to the West Indian Commission, is urging the Caribbean to put in place a common policy regarding relations with North America, Europe, Latin America and Africa. Correspondent Tony Fraser reports (12:32-14:40
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
Caribbean Report 22-10-1992
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:31)2. Jamaica’s Prime Minister P. J. Patterson, Finance Minister Hugh Small and Opposition Leader Edward Seaga make contributions in parliament on the debate for support of the West Indian Commission’s report as a platform for the re-negotiation of the Treaty of Chaguaramas (00:32-03:58)3. The British Overseas Development Administration rejects a call by Member of Parliament Chris Mullin for review of aid to Jamaica in light of its poor human rights record. Hugh Crosskill reports (03:59-05:51)4. Dominican economist Atherton Martin gives his opinions on the implications of the apparent breakdown of the GATT talks for the Caribbean (05:52-08:32)5. Guyana’s new finance minister Asgar Ali talks with the BBC’s Roger Harrabin about the government’s desire for transparency in its divestment program and in all areas of economic planning (08:33-10:45)6. Guyana’s People’s Progressive Party Administration grants a moratorium for the return of certain missing state assets. Sandra Baptiste reports (10:46-12:33)7. Tony Fraser gives details of Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s address in which he claims that Scotland Yard detectives investigating the alleged existence of a drug cartel in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service are facing obstacles and even threats from some local police (12:34-14:42
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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