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Samuel Beckett : the Poetics of Perversion
No full textThere is a case for taking Beckett not as a pessimist, or apolitical stoic writer, but as one actively seeking to change our way of living in and looking at the world. In short, Beckett is a political, if obliquely political, writer. More precisely, he seeks to attack and dismantle what he sees as fundamentally pernicious networks of Christian and Christian-derived discourse which continue to colonize our very thought, even in a predominantly secular age. For these reasons his work may be described as a "poetics of perversion" where "perversion" means precisely the opposite of "conversion".II y a des raisons de considérer Beckett ni comme un pessimiste ni comme un écrivain stoïque et apolitique mais comme quelqu'un qui cherche activement à changer notre façon de vivre et notre vision du monde. En bref, ne serait-ce qu'indirectement, Beckett est un écrivain politique. Plus précisément, il cherche à attaquer et à démanteler ce qu'il considère comme les réseaux fondamentalement pernicieux du discours chrétien et néo-chrétien qui continuent de coloniser notre système de pensée alors même que nous vivons dans une époque à prédominance laïque. Pour ces raisons, on peut décrire son oeuvre comme une "poétique de la perversion" où "perversion" s'oppose précisément à "conversion".Terry Philip. Samuel Beckett : the Poetics of Perversion. In: Études irlandaises, n°15-1, 1990. pp. 111-130
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
Comparative study of cyberbullying in Qatar and the UK: risk factors, impact on health and solutions
No full textTraditional and cyber-bullying are currently high-profile concerns for healthpractitioners, policymakers, schools and communities. The potential forcyberbullying has grown with the increasing penetration of networked computers and mobile phones among young people. There have been some studies on cyberbullying in the UK. However, research on traditional and cyber bullying is lacking in Qatari schools. These issues need to be investigated and addressed, since cyberbullying causes huge distress to the victim (Ybarra et al., 2006; Smith et al., 2008) and the potential breadth of the audience for cyberbullying acts serves to intensify their impact. The proposed study is a longitudinal study that investigates cyberbullying in Qatari and UK school children over 3-years (2012-2015). The objectives are to evaluate the diagnostic tools used by health practitioners when diagnosing problems related to cyberbullying; evaluate the adequacy of the current socio-legal and policy context and perform a systematic review and meta-analysis on cyberbullying studies. The study aims to describe the incidence and nature of bullying in the converged online-offline-environment experienced in both countries (age 11-16), to investigate the risk factors and consequences of cyberbullying amongst children and adolescents in a smaller sub-sample in Qatar and the UK. A qualitative study to investigate the perceptions of pupils on cyberbullying and exploring the visual representation of the personal accounts of bullying of young people from both countries will also be performed. The study will inform health practitioners, policy makers and schools of suitable intervention programmes and legalization for cyberbullying to reduce its negative impact and prevalence
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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