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Ralph Steele Boggs (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 Collection at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. In this interview, Ralph Steele Boggs, born on November 17, 1901, discusses his interest in folklore. His interest in linguistics in college introduced him to folklore by way of Professor Archer Taylor who convinced him to do his dissertation in this area. Through Taylor and the dissertation, he became acquainted with Stith Thompson. This friendship brought Boggs in contact with Indiana University, where he helped to develop the first folklore institute, using the same methods he had developed in the past developing folklore institutes at other institutions. He discusses what made the folklore program so strong at Indiana University, including its international appeal, and the zest of both Stith Thompson and Richard Dorson that helped make the program strong. Boggs talks about his dislike of the artificiality that is often connected with folklore. He also discusses some terms in folklore, particularly the definition of folklore itself. This collection is part of the Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1987 collection which is available at the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory. It consists of: 64 page transcript, 3 tapes (1 7/8 ips, 2 hours 45 minutes), index and the correspondences of the interviewee. This collection is closed until 2015 except to authorized project personnel. The IU Folklore Institute, 1987 collection deals with the beginning, the building, and the growth of the Indiana University (IU) Folklore Institute into an internationally recognized program. The interviewees are mostly students and/or faculty of the folklore program from the 1940s to the 1980s. They discuss those who most influenced and impacted the institute, namely Stith Thompson and Richard M. Dorson. They share their memories and experiences of the time they spent, or continue to spend, in the IU Folklore Institute
Caribbean Report 30-01-1995
No full textIn this report, Chile becomes the third Latin American country to sign a trade agreement with CARICOM. Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ralph Maraj stated that a trade agreement between Chile and CARICOM would be strategically important. Maraj responded to whether CARICOM has been taking advantage, in any significant way, of the agreements that they have entered into and if discussions were held on a bilateral level between Trinidad and Tobago and Chile. Britain and Cuba signed an investment promotion and protection agreement. Britain's Under Secretary of State for Trade and Technology, Ian Taylor explained exactly what the agreement is designed to achieve and why Britain is anxious to invest in Cuba. The UN Special Investigator has said that there have been no significant improvements in human rights in Cuba for the past three years. Mr. Taylor is questioned on whether the British government is putting any pressure on the Cuban government to implement democratic reforms. Sir Leon Brittan, European Commissioner for relations with North America, and US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor remained tight-lipped after discussions on a number of issues including bananas. They are expected to have talked about America's opposition to the EU banana regime and its threat of retaliatory action. The United Nations Security Council wrangled over a draft resolution that would send UN peacekeepers and civil police to Haiti to replace the US-led forces. England cricket team celebrated after winning their first test in Australia for eight years. The three key players in the triumph were all West Indians, Dominica's Phillip DeFreitas, Jamaican Devon Malcolm and Guyanese Chris Lewis.1. Headlines with Carol Orr (00:00-00:38)2. Report on the CARICOM and Chile to sign a trade agreement (00:39-00:58)3. Interview with Ralph Maraj on the possibility of such a trade agreement and whether these agreements were really being utilised (00:59-03:32)4. Interview with Ian Taylor to explain what the investment promotion and protection agreement between Britain and Cuba is designed to achieve (03:33-07:23)5. Report on discussions between Sir Leon Brittan and Mickey Kantor on a number of issues including EU's banana regime (07:24-07:52)6. Report on the UN Security Council wrangle over a draft resolution to deploy UN peacekeepers to Haiti (07:53-10:22)7. Report on England's cricket team winning their first test in Australia in 8 years (10:23-12:32)8. Interview with Phillip DeFreitas after earning the Man of the March award (12:33-13:15)9. Hugh Crosskill reports on why England was able to achieve its success (13:16-14:58
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
Caribbean Report 12-09-2001
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:25)2. New York grapples with the shocking aftermath of the World Trade Centre attacks. We hear from one Caribbean national who escaped. Grenadian born lawyer David Hood is interviewed and Leslie Goffe reports (00:26-04:29)3. Caribbean begins to count the economic cost of the horrific events. Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Basdeo Panday fears that his economy is vulnerable to yesterday's United States bombing attack. Tony Fraser reports on the general reaction in Trinidad and Tobago to yesterday's attack. Across the Caribbean, American flags have been lowered at half mass, condolence books opened and in some quarters flowers have been placed at the doors of US Embassies. Public Relations Officer for the Barbados Embassy Kathleen Dorell pointed out that with the recent recruitment drive by the New York Authorites for Caribbean Teachers fares are justifiably high. Prime Minister Basdeo Panday, President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association Ralph Taylor and United States Embassy Official Kathleen Dorell are interviewed. Tony Fraser and Carol Orr report (04:30-11:53)4. Guyana tells why it is taking its time in accepting criminal deportees from the United States. Guyana Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally is interviewed (11:54-15:13
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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