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Tennessee Senate Bill no. 1549 - 88th General Assembly
Get PDFFollowing the passage of the Teague-Cranston Act, on February 14, 1974 Senator Nave of the Tennessee General Assembly called for consideration of state legislation to establish a medical school at East Tennessee State University. Eventually passing both the Tennessee House and Senate, the bill was vetoed by Governor Winfield Dunn of Memphis. Motions to override the veto were made in both chambers and were successful. Senate Bill no.1549 became law on March 6, 1974
Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016
No full textVolume VII of the Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly begins with the ending year of Volume VI, which covered 1971-1991. The Biographical Directory series is based on the two-year legislative session; this volume covers the 97th General Assembly through the 109th General Assembly, covering 1991-2016
Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016
No full textVolume VII of the Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly begins with the ending year of Volume VI, which covered 1971-1991. The Biographical Directory series is based on the two-year legislative session; this volume covers the 97th General Assembly through the 109th General Assembly, covering 1991-2016
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
Lobbying and influence in the funding of state universities by the Tennessee General Assembly
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to compare the perceptions of Tennessee legislators and educational lobbyists of Tennessee state universities regarding the degree of influence lobbyists have on decision making pertaining to the funding of state universities. Data were collected by administering questionnaires to the members of the 1987-88 Tennessee General Assembly and the educational lobbyists from Tennessee\u27s state universities.
Frequencies and percents of each item were computed for each group. Additionally, frequencies and percents of each item were tabulated for legislators\u27 level of education, legislative district, number of years in the legislature, and chamber membership. Frequencies and percents were also calculated for each item for the existence of a four-year public university in a legislative district, membership on an education committee, and party affiliation.
Analysis of the data indicated that the majority of respondents of both groups believed that lobbying activity by educational lobbyists from state universities in Tennessee results in more generous treatment by the General Assembly. The data further demonstrated that the provision of data was considered by a majority of both groups as the single most important function of an educational lobbyist.
There was disagreement between the groups regarding certain lobbying techniques. Lobbyists, for example, considered district level lobbying to be more influential; however, most legislators preferred to be contacted at the Capitol in Nashville. Furthermore, the majority of lobbyists considered entertainment to have a positive impact upon legislators while most legislators adamantly opposed this idea.
There was also disagreement among the legislative profile areas regarding certain items. Educational committee members were one of the few legislative sub groups to reject the idea that lobbying results in more generous treatment. Most Senators preferred one-to-one communication with the lobbyist while the majority of House members considered testimony at hearings by the lobbyist to be more influential. Finally, most Democrats felt that the Governor should be more influential that the Tennessee Higher Education Commission while the majority of Republicans were of the opposite view
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
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