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In the Wake of Hunger : Confronting the Legacies of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine during the 1930s
No full textThis dissertation examines some of the social and cultural legacies left behind by the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, now commonly known as the Holodomor. The famine, which killed millions of people in a period of just two years, came to a slow conclusion beginning in the summer of 1933. Despite mass starvation largely coming to an end by that time, the effects of the famine continued to resonate in Ukraine and beyond. The days, months, and years that came to define the famine\u2019s aftermath became instrumental because it was when survivors first dealt with the consequences of the famine and struggled to come to terms with what happened. For many survivors, the end of mass hunger did not mark the end of their suffering, and the remaining years of the 1930s were an important time period when they first started to face the unresolved issues that the famine left behind. In the famine\u2019s wake, survivors confronted the massive death toll through corporeal confrontations, navigated the accompanying grief and trauma that followed loss, contended with fears of future famine, and worked to make sense of the famine experience and its imprint on their lives. In other words, the famine did not simply go away, and it continued to occupy the minds of survivors and international actors well beyond its supposed end in 1933. Beginning during the height of the famine in the spring of 1933 and ending in the late 1930s, this dissertation examines the more immediate aftermath of the Holodomor to better understand the problems that remained and how survivors worked to address them and navigate the persistent interjections of the past while attempting to move forward with their lives. By paying attention to the early aftermath of the Holodomor, it becomes clear that while 1933 may have marked the end of mass starvation, it did not mark the end of the famine\u2019s presence. Studying this time period reveals the earlier origins of how Ukrainians began to grapple with the famine and its effects, despite Soviet attempts to stop them from doing so. As such, this dissertation makes new interjections into the historiography of the Holodomor and the Soviet 1930s by showing how the legacies of the famine in Ukraine continued to endure and how Ukrainians, among others, worked to respond to these legacies and come to terms with a difficult past.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. History - Doctor of Philosophy, 2023Includes bibliographical reference
Andrij Makuch and Frank E. Sysyn, editors. Contextualizing the Holodomor: The Impact of Thirty Years of Ukrainian Famine Studies
Full text linkBook review of Andrij Makuch and Frank E. Sysyn, editors. Contextualizing the Holodomor: The Impact of Thirty Years of Ukrainian Famine Studies. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies P, 2015. viii, 128 pp. $24.95, paper. Conference papers first published in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, editor-in-chief, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, guest editors, Frank Sysyn and Andrij Makuch, vol. 2, no. 1, 2015, pp. 3-132
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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