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Approche diasystémique et ethnolinguistique du svane (Géorgie)
No full textThe Svan language (ლუშნუ ნინ lušnu nin; Georgian: სვანური ენა svanuri ena), as a singleton of the Kartvelian language family, is mainly spoken by the Svans in Svaneti, a region in northwest Georgia. The aim of this thesis is to explore unification and diversification within the Svan diasystem. Based on complex systems theory, the thesis suggests a two-fold approach to the Svan language, i.e., the diasystemic approach and the ethnolinguistic approach:The first part of the thesis is thus devoted to the description and modelling of the Svan diasystem. First, we propose qualitative analyses of the phonology and inflectional morphology of the different varieties within the Svan dialect network. Then, a dialectometric analysis, based on quantitative data, is also applied to the diasystem. Through these various analyses, we attempt to reveal linguistic unification and diversification within the dynamic diasystem.The second part focuses on Svan ethnolinguistics. After examining the sociolinguistic situation of Svaneti, we seek to explore the influence of extralinguistic factors on the Svan diasystem. Based on the premises of the Dinguirardian approach (Dinguirard 1976), we carry out semiotic analyses of Svan ethnotexts and the collective memory of different components of the Svan domain, with the aim of identifying convergences and divergences within the Svan highlands and lowlands. These ethnolinguistic analyses constitute a vicarious formalization that completes our understanding of the dynamics of the Svan diasystem.La langue svane (ლუშნუ ნინ lušnu nin ; en géorgien : სვანური ენა svanuri ena), en tant que singleton de la famille des langues kartvéliennes, est principalement parlée par les Svanes en Svanétie, région située au nord-ouest de la Géorgie. Cette thèse a pour objectif d’explorer l’unification et la diversification au sein du diasystème svane. En nous basant sur la théorie des systèmes complexes, nous suggérons dans la thèse une double approche au svane, à savoir, l’approche diasystémique et l’approche ethnolinguistique :La première partie de la thèse est ainsi consacrée à la description et à la modélisation du diasystème svane. Nous proposons de prime abord les analyses qualitatives de la phonologie et de la morphologie flexionnelle des variétés différentes au sein du réseau dialectale svane. Ensuite, une analyse dialectométrique, basée sur les données quantitatives, est également appliquée au diasystème. A travers ces analyses variées, nous essayons de mettre en lumière l’unification et la diversification linguistique au sein du diasystème dynamique.La seconde partie, quant à elle, est centrée sur l’ethnolinguistique svane. Après avoir examiné la situation sociolinguistique de la Svanétie, nous cherchons à explorer l’influence des facteurs extralinguistiques sur le diasystème svane. En nous appuyant sur les prémisses de l’approche dinguirardienne (Dinguirard 1976), nous procédons aux analyses sémiotiques des ethnotextes svanes et de la mémoire collective de différentes composantes du domaine svane, dans le but d’identifier les convergences et les divergences au sein des hautes et des basses terres svanes. Ces analyses d’ordre ethnolinguistique constituent une formalisation vicariante qui complète la compréhension des dynamiques du diasystème svane
Startupland: how three guys risked everything to turn an idea into a global business
No full textThe real story of what it takes to risk it all and go for broke. Conventional wisdom says most startups need to be in Silicon Valley, started by young engineers around a sexy new idea, and backed by VC funding. But as Mikkel Svane reveals in Startupland, the story of founding Zendesk was anything but conventional. Founded in a Copenhagen loft by three thirty-something friends looking to break free from corporate doldrums, Zendesk Inc. is now one of the hottest enterprise software companies, still rapidly growing with customers in 150 countries. But its success was anything but predestined. Wi
Ultraviolet inverse photoemission from iron monoxide and self-interaction-corrected local-spin-density calculations
No full textGoing 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
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Interview_Guide – Supplemental material for Staff experiences with strategic implementation of clinical health promotion: A nested qualitative study in the WHO-HPH Recognition Process RCT
No full textSupplemental material, Interview_Guide for Staff experiences with strategic implementation of clinical health promotion: A nested qualitative study in the WHO-HPH Recognition Process RCT by Jeff Kirk Svane, Ingrid Egerod and Hanne Tønnesen in SAGE Open Medicine</p
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
Ab initio theory of valency in ytterbium compounds
No full textThe electronic structure of 26 Yb compounds is calculated with the ab initio self-interaction-corrected local-spin-density approximation. In this approach f electrons can be described as either localized or delocalized. Hence a divalent Yb ion is represented with a completely localized f14 shell, while a trivalent Yb ion is represented with a localized f13 shell with the remaining 14th f electron giving rise to a very narrow f resonance, which straddles the Fermi energy. The systems studied comprise the Yb monopnictides and monochalcogenides as well as a series of intermetallic compounds. Experimental equilibrium volumes are well reproduced. The results provide quantitative support to the experimental classification of Yb compounds in terms of effective valencies
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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
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