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Contracting and Working with Interpreters. The wartime linguists.
No full textModern-day peace support operations are increasingly multilingual and multinational and have seen an extended use of local civilians for language-related tasks. If their role as interpreters, language assistants and/or “fixers” has been explored by interpreting and translation studies in the last two decades, then their recruitment and management have largely been overlooked in military settings. This chapter aims to identify the key challenges posed by language and cultural support in modern-day peace-support operations using the macro categories of recruitment, employment, training, and demobilisation, with a short review of the legal status of civilian language and cultural advisers accompanying armed forces. This chapter adopts an interdisciplinary approach by bringing together interpreting and military studies and using both qualitative data from structured interviews and empirical observations from conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. The chapter focuses on armed forces operating under the United Nations with peacekeeping and peace enforcement mandates, but its findings and recommendations can be extended to national contingents and coalitions. Ultimately, the chapter aims to shed light on the language challenges posed by modern-day international and multilingual peace-support operations, contribute to establishing clear standard operating procedures (SOPs) and provide knowledge that can be helpful in designing future rules of engagement (ROE)
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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
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
Taxas de decaimento para a energia associada a um sistema semilinear de ondas elásticas em Rn com potencial do tipo dissipativo
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Florianópolis, 2013Neste trabalho estuda-se a existência e a unicidade de soluções globais do problema de valor inicial, associado ao sistema semilinear de ondas elásticas em um meio isotrópico, com uma não linearidade do tipo não absorvente. O coeficiente do termo dissipativo é um potencial não constante em Rn e estudam-se os casos quando esse potencial dissipativo é do tipo considerado crítico e não crítico. Taxas de decaimento da energia total também são estudadas para os casos linear e semilinear. A existência e o decaimento para o problema semilinear são obtidos mediante a hipótese de dados iniciais pequenos. Neste trabalho seguimos ideias de Charão-Ikehata [6] e de Ikehata-Todorova-Yordanov [10].Abstract : We study the existence and uniqueness of global solutions of the initial value problem associated to the semi-linear system of elastic waves in an isotropic medium with a nonlinearity of type nonabsorption. The coefficient of the dissipative term is non constant potential in Rn and we study the case where the potential type of damping is considered critical and noncritical. Decay rates of the total energy are also studied for linear and semi-linear system. The global existence and the asymptotic behavior of the semi-linear problem are obtained on the hypothesis of small initial data. In this work we fallow ideas of Charão-Ikehata [6] and Ikehata- Todorova-Yordanov [10]
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
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
Ethics and Training of Interpreters in the Asylum Context
No full textAsylum interpreters are required to faithfully interpret what is being said during the interview – a central tenet of their codes of ethics. They must not o er advice or express their views on matters being interpreted. However, they have often been found to act as ‘principals’, prompting applicants to respond, summarising a testimony, or editing out information. Researchers have partly attributed such deviations from ethical principles – such as neutrality and impartiality – to a lack of properly trained interpreters and interpreting service users. In many countries, short-term programmes have been developed without su cient consultation with interpreter trainers and failed to deliver e ective training, and few means are available for service quality management. This chapter explores the distinctive attitudes and narratives of asylum interpreters, whose role is no longer seen as a fi xed notion as they adjust their positioning along a spectrum from invisibility to advocacy. In this context, it argues the need to engage more systematically with ethical issues in the context of interpreter (and interpreting service user) training, and that the responsibility of asylum interpreters extends beyond clients to include the wider community to which they belong
Global cities re-imagining the region: the emerging "foodshed" paradigm. Exploring key challenges and opportunities for resilient communities building through food systems analysis and planning.
No full textThe present paper will examine the relationship between regional planning and the recently (re)emerged food systems territorial perspective. By means of comparative analyses, there will be discussed some of the core food planning challenges and resilient communities opportunities, currently being acknowledged within leading global cities’ contexts. In particular, it will be investigated whether and how the still fluid ‘foodshed’ concept may contribute to a more integrated and cross-sectorial regional planning stance.
One of the key findings of the paper is that, today, the statement: “cities that are strategic sites in the global economy tend, in part, to disconnect from their region” (Sassen 1994: 52), is being progressively overturned. The world’s greatest innovation generators are now demonstrating a remarkable interest in weaving more regionalized and locally-sensitive food systems. What is more, the latter appear to have gathered a significant momentum and to have successfully ‘travelled’ (Healey 2007) through governance levels, at the point of influencing the governance culture. Food planning is recognized as “one of the most important social movements of the early twenty-first century in the global north” (Morgan 2009: 343). In addition, being intrinsically multi-scale and multidisciplinary in nature, regional food networks are seen as particularly strategic for multiple objectives achieving and effectively ‘more for less’ providing. Last but not least, the paper argues that the ‘foodshed’ framework is progressively being conceived as a ‘new form of spatial visioning’ and a tool for ‘relational geographies’ capturing
Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp
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