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Constructing masculinity: A study on three community colorguard troupes in Kuala Lumpur / Syed Khairuzman Syed Zain
No full textThis research focuses on the construction of masculinity within three community colorguard troupes in Kuala Lumpur. Colorguard has existed since the early days during the Civil War, where a military band would accompany soldiers on the battlefield. The color guard, or flag-bearer, would also march in battle with soldiers, carrying the “colors” that represents a particular nation. Flags and banners have been used by armies in battle to serve this purpose. As the years passed, colorguards became more correlated with marching bands. In a marching band, the colorguard is a non-musical section where the performers carry equipment such as flags and mock rifles made out of wood. The colorguard provides additional visual aspects to the overall performance, where the colors of the flags accompany and support the music in adding a layer of visual effect. In the United States, the modern colorguard activity is performed by males and females, incorporating dance such as ballet, jazz, modern, or interpretative dance while handling equipment such as flags, rifles, and sabers. In Malaysia, there are two types of colorguards, the female-dominated colorguards in high school marching bands, and community colorguard troupes consisting of majority males that performs without the accompaniment of a marching band. The practice of colorguards in high school marching bands, consisting of flag bearers with more elegant and feminized movements, is dominated by females. Community colorguard troupes, on the other hand, consist of predominantly male performers who use their advantage in physical strength to handle the equipment, such as rifles and sabers that were non-existent in high school marching bands. This ethnographic research examines three community colorguard troupes situated in Kuala Lumpur and how they construct masculinity within their performances. The first troupe is Guards Conspiracy, an all-male colorguard group. The second troupe is Vortex Winterguard, a mix-gendered group with majority males, and the third group is the Batteryheadz Colorguard Ensemble, an equally mix-gendered group. This research examines the construction of masculinity in colorguard that challenges the stigma of dancing being associated with femininity. This dissertation interrogates how masculinity is being constructed, performed, and asserted by men. This research offers a new perspective on masculinity within the field of dance in Malaysia
Ferro-fluid based portable fingertip haptic display and its preliminary experimental evaluation
No full textNumerous studies have been conducted to develop a tactile device for providing convincing tactile feedback. However, most of the devices are limited in portability, and restricted to delivering either texture information with vibration cues or contact orientation with force feedback. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no wearable tactile display, which can display texture information together with contact orientation. In this paper, we propose a ferro-fluid based tactile display, which is lightweight and wearable and can replicate convincing contact orientation together with texture information. New design principle of introducing ferro-fluid and minimizing moving actuator components and replacing them with permanent magnet, allows the device to be compact and increases its portability. This also enables it to provide both contact orientation and texture cues. Preliminary experimental evaluation for force profile on fingernail and fingertip has been carried out. In addition, experiments for curvature discrimination and cuing simultaneous orientation and vibrational information by using an experimental prototype have also been conducted
A case study: justification of humanitarian intervention / Mohamed Shahrul Fazli Kamarulzaman and Syed Zain Abdul Rahman Alhadad
No full textThe use of force for humanitarian purposes has led to a dilemma to the United Nations and consequently the organization is loosing its significance in settling international disputes. To some, this dilemma poses United Nations as a "harlot" at the disposal of everyone. The doctrine of humanitarian intervention made the United Nations conflicts with its own statutory principles that are Article 2(7) of Charter of United Nations stating on state sovereignty against its preamble of the Charter which deemed human rights (individual sovereignty) as the essential basis of the organization. Kofi Annan, the former Secretary -General of United Nations expresses his concerns; "It has cast in stark relief the dilemma of what has been called humanitarian intervention: on one side, the question of the legitimacy of an action taken by a regional organization without a United Nations mandate; on the other, the universally recognized imperative of effectively halting gross and systematic violations of human rights with grave humanitarian consequences."1 This research concentrates on the justifications of humanitarian intervention by discussing the various definitions to the role of United Nations and other international actors. This research also encompasses several initiatives namely the Just war theory, Blair's Doctrine of International Community and International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty report on Responsibility to Protect. On this note Kofi Annan states; "I sought to develop the idea of two notions of sovereignty: one for States, another for individuals. This idea was rooted firmly in the UN Charter, which affirms the sovereignty of States even as it challenges us to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war... How to protect individual lives while maintaining and even strengthening the sovereignty of States has become clearer with the publication of this report. You are taking away the last excuses of the international community for doing nothing when doing something can save lives."2 The motive of this research is to gather and critically discuss issues related to humanitarian intervention. Furthermore, this research aims to shed light on the future of intervention as a right to safeguard human rights and compliment the dilemma by analyzing a workable defined doctrine which fuses both conflicting principles. As forwarded by Kofi Annan; "Just as we have learned that the world cannot stand aside when gross and systematic violations of human rights are taking place, so we have also learned that intervention must be based on legitimate and universal principles if it is to enjoy the sustained support of the world's peoples. This developing international norm in favour of intervention to protect civilians from wholesale slaughter will no doubt continue to pose profound challenges to the international community."3 The significance of this research is to provide a thorough understanding of humanitarian intervention and respond to the unsettled confusions circulating this doctrine. Alas, it is our notion that humanitarian intervention shall be defined and universally accepted as a legal right and not a political tool to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign state
Going 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
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
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
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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