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Caribbean Report 22-05-1990
No full textIn the aftermath of the general elections in the Dominican Republic, there are widespread rumours that Joaquin Balaguer has won the elections and secured a sixth term in office. While his reformist party is declaring him president, the two main opposition parties are claiming serious electoral malpractice and fraud. Secondly, a draft proposal by Britain on restricting of the banana market after 1992 is causing alarm amongst Caribbean banana producers. In the proposal, Britain is requesting a quota on the import of bananas to the EEC which is deemed by some analyst as impractical and could lead to a drastic fall in the price of bananas for Caribbean countries. Following the Financial News, the murder of a wealthy Englishman in St. Maarten is the latest in a series of violent crimes on the island. The report concludes with the appointment of David Taylor as the new governor of Montserrat, a former Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands.1. Headlines (00:00-00:47)2. Growing assumption in the Dominican Republic that Joaquin Balaguer secures a sixth term in office. Comments from Mark Feierstein, Observer of the elections and aide of Jimmy Carter (00:48-04:35)3. David Sugden, Chief Executive of Geest, states that the banana industry in the Caribbean will survive despite the consequences of 1992 (04:36-09:05)4. Financial News. Comments from Ben Woolston, Project Manager of an electrical company in Britain (09:06-10:56)5. Murder of a wealthy Englishman in St. Maarten. Eddie Williams reports from Philipburg (10:57-12:56)6. Interview with David Taylor, the new Governor of Montserrat who assumes office at the end of the week (12:57-15:05
Caribbean Report 27-03-1992
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:34)2. Around 3500 delegates of the ruling People’s National Party in Jamaica will cast their vote tomorrow for one of the two candidates, P. J. Patterson or Portia Simpson, to become Mr. Manley’s successor. Correspondent Gary Allen reports (00:35-04:29)3. Correspondent Tim Fawcett gets an assessment from popular Radio Talk Show Host Wilmot Perkins on the style and substance of the leadership campaign in Jamaica’s People’s National Party. Mr. Perkins fails to be impressed by either P. J. Patterson or Portia Simpson and cannot see either one as a good choice for Prime Minister (04:30-06:20)4. In a British Channel 4 television program, Food File, Chief Executive of Geest, David Sugden and British Consumer Representative Ann Davison share opposing views on the continuation of preferential treatment given to Caribbean bananas on the European market (06:21-09:40)5. President of the Antiguan Bar Association, Gerald Watt calls for the appointment of an ombudsman to deal with issues on behalf of citizens such as the tear gassing of demonstrators outside the Antiguan parliament (09:41-11:00)6. President of the Grenada Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Aaron Moses, advises against long drawn out labour disputes because of the impact on the country’s sagging economy (11:01-12:29)7. Former CARICOM Secretariat Foreign Affairs Officer, Lloyd Searwar, laments the absence of a cohesive CARICOM foreign policy in light of rapidly changing global priorities and warns that it can lead to neglect of the Caribbean by the international community (12:30-13:59)8. Chairman of the Commission on Racial Equality, Michael Day, urge senior police officers to improve relations with non-whites by taking measures to prevent racist behaviour in the police force (14;00-14:20
Caribbean Report 02-07-1991
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:38)2. Hugh Crosskill reports on the second day of the Caricom Heads of Government summit in St. Kitts at which the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce proposes a series of measures to place the region on a firmer footing to face the many challenges ahead. The measures include the establishment of a Caribbean Council for Europe; the implementation of mechanisms to enforce the decisions taken by the Heads of Government; and the need for the governments to sign the agreement with the US to usher in the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. ANR Robinson, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and John Stanley Goddard of the CIAC address the incompatibility between the Common External Tariff and the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. Leroy Trotman, Caribbean Congress of Labour, reiterates the need for the labour movement to be included in the regional debates and remarks on the Dominican Republic’s use of child labour on state-owned sugar plantations. ANR Robinson also comments on the revoking of the proposal for an independent Caricom team to monitor the elections in Guyana. Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, addresses the issue of South Africa’s possible return to international cricket and the question of Venezuela becoming a full member of Caricom. Ramon Sanchez-Parodi, Cuba’s Deputy Foreogn Minister, expands on the purpose of Cuba’s presence at the summit (00:39-08:42)3. Britain’s major banana importer, GEEST, embarks on a million dollar investment in Costa Rica. David Sugden, Chief Executive of GEEST, states that this new initiative into Costa Rica will not pose a threat to the Caribbean banana producers (08:43-12:44)4. As the general elections in Guyana nears, the newly formed Elections Commission is faced with the task of restoring public confidence in the electoral process. Sharief Khan reports from Georgetown (12:45-14:58
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
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