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Radicale democratie: Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) en de Nederlandse Revolutie
No full textThis dissertation examines the life and political thought of Pieter Vreede (1750–1837), a radical democrat from Leiden who was central to the Dutch Revolution. Rather than focusing solely on abstract political theory, the study takes a biographical approach to show how democracy was reimagined in late 18th-century Netherlands.Vreede, from a wealthy Mennonite family in Leiden, was influenced by Enlightenment ideas and the American Revolution. He became a prominent critic of the Orangist regime during the Patriot Revolt, promoting direct democracy and organizing Patriot militias. Though the movement was crushed in 1787, Vreede returned in 1795 with French support, helping to found the Batavian Republic.Vreede played a key role in implementing revolutionary reforms, particularly in Brabant, and emerged as a leading figure in the new Dutch parliament. He advocated universal male suffrage, abolition of slavery, and a centralized state. In 1798, he led a coup that resulted in the Netherlands’ first constitution, introducing broad political rights. However, his radical rule was short-lived; a counter-coup ousted him months later. Vreede's later life was spent in obscurity, yet his efforts helped lay the foundation for Dutch democracy. The study repositions Vreede as a pivotal, though controversial, figure in European revolutionary history.Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-presen
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
EUCP Atlas of constrained climate projections
No full textWhat's Changed Change author order in citation.cff by @Peter9192 in https://github.com/eucp-project/atlas/pull/61 Full Changelog: https://github.com/eucp-project/atlas/compare/0.1.0...0.1.1Kalverla, P., Alidoost, F., Liu, Y., Verhoeven, S., Vreede, B., Booth, B., Coppola, E., Nogherotto, R., Brunner, L., Harris, G., Qasmi, S., Ballinger, A., Hegerl, G., McSweeney, C., O'Reilly, C., Palmer, T., Ribes, A., & de Vries, H. (2021). EUCP Atlas of constrained climate projections (0.1.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.565474
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Thinklets for E-Collaboration
No full textA ThinkLet is a named, scripted collaborative activity that gives rise to a known pattern of collaboration among people working together toward a goal. ThinkLets are design patterns for collaborative work practices (Briggs, Kolfschoten, Vreede, & Dean, in press; Briggs & Vreede, 2001). A thinkLet is the smallest unit of intellectual capital necessary to recreate a known pattern of collaboration. ThinkLets are used by facilitators and collaboration engineers as (1) predictable building blocks for collaboration process design, (2) as transferable knowledge elements to shorten the learning curve of facilitation techniques, and (3) by researchers as parsimonious, consistent templates to compare the effects of various technology-supported collaboration practices. ThinkLets have a rigorous documentation scheme that specifies the information elements needed to adapt the solution it embodies to the problem at hand. This scheme is derived from the design pattern concept of Alexander (1979; Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein, Jacobson, Fiksdahl-King, & Angel, 1977). The collection of thinkLets forms a pattern language for creating, documenting, communicating, and learning group process designs. The term thinkLet was coined by David H. Tobey in 2001 when he said “They are like applets…except they are thinkLets.”</jats:p
World Pilot Tanzania. Introducing computers and Internet in Tanzanian Secondary Education.
No full textTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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