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Caught By Private Law: A Review Of Visitors’ Jurisdiction In Canada
No full textVisitors, an office in charitable corporations that occupies the position of the Superior Court in all matters pertaining to the charity, are a forgotten area of law in Canada. This article resurrects the jurisdiction by explaining its utility for university corporations. Visitors are private courts of appeal from university decisions. They are empowered to adjudicate academic as well as legal disputes relating to relationships between the university, its officers, its professors, and its students. The article lays out the private law origins of the office and contrasts this approach with the administrative law model more recently in vogue. The administrative law approach to visitation has, over the course of the twentieth century, eroded the jurisdiction, yet it appears from Canadian practice that the jurisdiction remains eminently useful across the country. The article details just how the visitor’s office has been used in Canadian universities beginning in 1803 going up to 1992. In so doing, the office’s strong points as well as its weaknesses are discussed.Le bureau d’inspection (« Visitors »), qui est un organe des sociétés à fin charitable exerçant les fonctions de la Cour supérieure dans tous les aspects liés à l’activité caritative, représente un aspect du droit qui est oublié au Canada. Dans cet article, l’auteur se penche sur cet organe en expliquant son utilité pour les sociétés universitaires. Les « bureaux d’inspection » sont des tribunaux d’appel privés chargés de réviser en appel les décisions universitaires. Ils ont le pouvoir de trancher les différends de nature tant scolaire que juridique qui concernent les relations entre l’université, ses dirigeants, ses professeurs et ses étudiants. L’auteur retrace dans son article les origines de l’organe en droit privé et le compare avec le modèle plus moderne du droit administratif. En raison de l’approche du droit administratif à l’égard de la fonction d’inspection, la compétence du bureau d’inspection a peu à peu été rongée au cours du XXe siècle. Pourtant, il appert de la pratique canadienne que cet organe demeure remarquablement utile dans l’ensemble du pays. Dans cet article, l’auteur décrit comment le bureau d’inspection a été utilisé dans les universités canadiennes depuis 1803, et jusqu’en 1992, en commentant au passage les points forts et les points faibles de l’organe
The Rhetoric of Nature: Marvell and the Longinian Sublime
No full textThis thesis examines Andrew Marvell’s politics through the lens of his competitive ethos, which I propose draws on values expressed in Peri hypsous, a third-century Greek treatise on rhetoric. The investigation reads Marvell’s early lyrics in order to demonstrate this ethos at work long before he openly enters politics. Marvell’s later political writings may instead be viewed as a logical conclusion to a long quest for the kind of High style that Peri hypsous recommends. This progression begins just after Marvell returns from his tour of the continent in 1648, with two poems that associate him with the Stanley Circle and, especially, John Hall, who produces a translation of Peri hypsous in 1652. Marvell’s association with Hall is reflected in the poems that both produce. The similarities between Marvell’s poetry and Longinian thought are further adduced. I contend that Marvell’s quest works through Plato’s “Ladder of Love” as this is expressed first in his Mower poems, then in his consideration of love, and finally in his view of statesmen’s households. The poetry displays a critical mind ready to deploy its knowledge of great writers that have come before. I argue that Marvell’s later confidence in his political prose stems from this earlier poetry, which reveals an intense curiosity about the languages of social interaction (of which politics is but a part). His poems thus viewed are more fundamentally political than has been understood and form an essential prologue to the political prose that so coloured his later fame
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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