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BURKE\u27S CONCEPT OF PROPERTY (ENGLAND)
No full textEdmund Burke, an English philosopher and politician, wrote extensively on the subject of property. However, in the secondary literature on Burke, there is only limited discussion of Burke\u27s theory of property. The study presented in this dissertation is meant to fill that gap. In preparing this study, the author read through the entire works of Edmund Burke including his published writings, speeches, and correspondence. The author then categorized the different usages of the term property as it appears in Burke\u27s writings. The author made use of secondary sources both with reference to Burke\u27s political philosophy, in general, and his theory of property, in particular. In the course of the research, the author found that the most appropriate method of discovering how Burke conceived of property was to examine the context and circumstances in which Burke made his statements about property. To present his findings, the author divided the study into two parts. The first part was a chronological presentation of the development of Burke\u27s theory of property. The second part was an examination of how Burke\u27s concept of property can be integrated into the rest of his political philosophy. The author concluded that Burke\u27s theory of property could be divided into several levels with property having different connotations for each level. On the highest level, property is an abstract idea. It is the cause for people associating with each other and forming society. In addition, the principal institutions of society, the state and the church, were legitimized by the laws of property, and any changes in their structure had to be in accord with those principles. On a second and lower level, Burke saw property, primarily landed property, as offering its owners certain advantages in terms of breeding and outlook. Because of this, Burke believed that property owners were eminently qualified to serve in positions of leadership. On yet another level, Burke defined the close relationship between property and political stability. Stability was important if society was to achieve its goal of fostering human perfection. What enhanced stability was a firm base of power rooted in landed property
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
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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