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The Radial Scroll Tool: Scrolling Support for Stylus- or Touch-Based Document Interaction
No full textWe present Radial Scroll, an interface widget to support scrolling particularly on either small or large scale touch displays. Instead of dragging a thumb in a scroll bar, or using repetitive key presses to page up or down, users gesture anywhere on the document surface such that clockwise gestures advance the document; counter clockwise gestures reverse the document. We describe out prototype implementation and discuss the results of an initial user study
Friendship in Politics.
No full textToday, friendship and politics are most commonly viewed as distinct and mutually opposed concerns. Politics tends to be seen as general and impersonal, to do with Power and Hierarchy. Friendship, by contrast, is standardly conceived as particular and intimate, relating to Equality and Fraternity. On this view, friendship may corrupt politics, and politics override friendship. Ancient thought, however, as in Greece and Rome, tended to bring the two together, locating friendship as the moral foundation of the political. This view of the two as linked, moreover, has tended to obtain across the world, especially in early social systems. But is that view sound? Ought not Friendship to be dismissed by moderns as primitive, inefficient, nepotistic (Freud)? Or ought it to be promoted as a vital moral constraint on Power and the consuming egotism of rulers (Plutarch and others)? This volume seeks to answer, directly and indirectly, by supplying (i) analyses of the concept, (ii) critical reconstructions of some crucial modern accounts (Kierkegaard, Arendt and Schmitt) and (iii) concrete accounts of the actual play of friendship both within and between states. It throws light on the place of friendship in politics, by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers
Communist Perpetrated Terror at the Village Level in South Vietnam
No full textThe Vietnamese conflict differed from most wars in that key battles were not necessarily large nor fought by the military. Simultaneously with the military engagements raged an insidious political war which claimed as its victims a number equal to or exceeding the military casualties. To the communist there was neither a military nor a separate political war but a revolutionary struggle dedicated to the takeover of South Vietnam. The communist formula for victory, propagated in the spring of 1959, centered on violence and remains unchanged to the present.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
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
Carbon conversations and the third sector
No full textInterviews investigating an existing Third Sector Organisation (TSO) pro-environmental behaviour change intervention, Carbon Conversations. The study aimed to : (1) Understand the character and delivery of Carbon Conversations, through interviews with those involved with developing, organising and facilitating the Carbon Conversations programme. (2) Understand the influence of participation in a standard Carbon Conversations course on participants’ everyday practices (wave CC1). (3) Investigate the influence of a shorter version of Carbon Conversations on food-related everyday practices and carbon footprints of participants recruited from a range of third sector groups with an interest in the environment, including wildlife and conservation groups, gardening and food-growing groups and those associated with outdoor activities (wave CC2). </span
Making tea: a human centred approach to designing a pervasive smart lab notebook
No full textThe methodology used to design a useful and workable laboratory electronic notebook is described along with some of the technology needed to implement the smart lab systems
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