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Take your partners and face the music : the State, community groups and area-based partnerships in rural Ireland
No full textCurtin Chris, Varley Tony. Take your partners and face the music : the State, community groups and area-based partnerships in rural Ireland. In: Études irlandaises, Hors-Série 1997. L'Irlande : identités et modernité. pp. 141-155
Regional development in minority language territories: state policies, structures and interventions in the Irish Gaeltacht
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis was to critically assess the capacity of the state to conceptualise and implement policies in support of the sustainable development of the Gaeltacht, and to do so through an integrated spatial model of development which is capable of stabilising and reinforcing processes of minority language reproduction.
The central empirical focus examined the extent to which Irish state policy relating to Gaeltacht development has been successful when critiqued against stated policy objectives. Semi-structured interviews were used to elicit the views of a cross-section of elite participants drawn from the Public/Political, the Administrative/Executive, and the Policy Analysis/Academic domains.
Findings from the data argue that the statutory Gaeltacht demarcation has a very limited and poorly articulated functionality in administrative and planning terms. The conceptualisation of the Gaeltacht as a development district has not been ‘embedded’, legitimised, let alone mainstreamed, within the public governance, development or institutional structures across the state system.
The data identify the state’s failure (in the sense of a coherent, systems-wide response) to engage with the structural conditions underpinning the process of language shift and community dislocation within the Gaeltacht. There is a need for an overhaul of the Gaeltacht development model. A new and differentiated integrated spatial model must incorporate, along with economic measures, broader development priorities incorporating structural/sectoral, demographic and sociolinguistic dimensions. The twin concepts of Prior Ideological Clarification and Linguistic Return on Investment need to become foundational constructs underpinning a new approach to Gaeltacht Development Policy (GDP).
Future GDP must establish, both spatially and structurally, an integrated state-wide strategy which will ensure mutually reinforcing measures for development across the planning and governance continuum. It must be subordinated to a compelling and implacable sociolinguistic imperative which will set out the specific and differentiated terms of the policy challenge for the Gaeltacht.2019-06-2
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
Decentring the Irish Land War: Women, politics and the private sphere
Get PDFIn historical accounts of Ireland in which the political is defined purely in terms of that which directly affects the state, and historical change is believed to be powered by these narrowly defined political forces, women, who were for the most part excluded from formal male political culture, tend to be assigned a marginal role. State-centred histories, in other words, are invariably patriarchal histories. One of the means employed to counteract this marginalization is to seek out examples of ‘exceptional’ women who did operate in the arena of the state, or close to it, and focus attention on them. While scholarship of this kind reminds us of the impressive contribution that women like Constance Markievicz made to Irish society, it fails to challenge the values and structures of the historiography it is supplementing. In this chapter, I demonstrate, with reference to women and agrarian unrest in the 1880s land agitation, that an historical framework which decentres familiar notions of power and the political is the most effective way to bring women in from the margins of Irish history. Relocating the ‘front’ of the Land War from the public sphere of organized politics to the civil domain of everyday life reveals the centrality of women to this episode in Irish history
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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