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Le pouvoir à l’âge des sultanats dans le Bilād al-Shām. Séminaire IFPO-ACOR, Amman 15-16 mai 2005
No full textACOR is pleased to support the publication of these papers developed from the seminar hosted at ACOR in Amman in May 2005 by IFPO and ACOR. At that time Pierre Bikai was director of ACOR and worked with the organizers to ensure a successful program. The five authors provide many insights into different aspects of this approximately six hundred year period. It should be noted that their varied styles of bibliographic referencing have been maintained. This monograph represents several stages of cooperation between the two research institutes in Amman. Barbara A. Porter Director ACOR April 2007 En accord avec les organisateurs et les participants de ce séminaire, c’est à l’IFPO d’Amman qu’incomba la responsabilité de sa publication. Au-delà des délais toujours un peu longs de réception des contributions et d’organisation du travail, le responsable de l’antenne d’Amman doit bien reconnaître que, occupé par de nombreuses tâches, il a un peu négligé le dossier quelque temps, ce qui explique le retard relatif de cette parution. C’est grâce à la nouvelle impulsion de nos amis de l’ACOR, et surtout au travail remarquable de Jean-Claude Elias, informaticien, que la maquette de ce volume a rapidement pris forme, a été maintes fois corrigée, et enfin imprimée à Damas, grâce au soutien de la Direction des Études médiévales de l’IFPO. Que toutes celles et ceux qui ont participé à cette aventure trouvent ici l’expression de mes sincères remerciements. Jean-François Salles IFPO-Amman Avril 200
Walker Bethany J., Jordan in the Late Middle Ages : Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier. Chicago, Middle East Documentation Center (Chicago Studies on the Middle East 8), 2011
No full textSchultz Warren C. Walker Bethany J., Jordan in the Late Middle Ages : Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier. Chicago, Middle East Documentation Center (Chicago Studies on the Middle East 8), 2011. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°28, 2013. pp. 104-105
Medieval Turkey
No full textIn this chapter, Islamic archaeology of the medieval (11th–14th centuries) period in Turkey is related to international as well as national developments in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey in areas like cultural policy, economic development, and tourism. These and other factors directly impacted the choice of sites to be excavated, thereby affecting the archaeological record. The author also examines Islamic archaeology in Turkey in relation to that of other historical periods there and raises cases in which the archaeology of this period can address the cultural and economic shift that accompanied the establishment of Turco-Islamic states in former Byzantine lands
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
Can Providing Positive Interactions with Snakes Change a Person’s Perception of Dangerous Wildlife Interactions?
Full text linkDue to a long co-evolutionary history between placental mammals and reptiles, primates demonstrate aversive responses to snakes. In humans, this can result in ophidiophobia, or the fear of snakes which can arise due to cultural backgrounds, traumatic experiences, or fear instilled by others. However, these reptiles fill essential roles in ecosystems. Conservation and outreach efforts are important to help our population understand snakes’ role in our lives and the state’s broader biodiversity. Negative experiences or preconceptions about snakes can make this message hard to share with the public. Educators can help prevent intentional harm to some of these organisms through targeted education and outreach programs. The goal of the experiment outlined in this thesis was twofold: first, the author wanted to quantify the perception of snakes to individuals based on demographic variables (e.g., sex, age, education level). Second, the author wanted to measure the efficacy of an educational program to change these perceptions. The author surveyed individuals in groups ranging in size from five to 64 individuals in an educational setting. Participants viewed one of two presentations: one with pictures of snakes or one with live snakes. Results revealed educational programs can enhance understanding and appreciation of an organism commonly viewed as threatening to humans. However, these results also reveal that the benefit of this type of education is context dependent as perceptions were influenced by demographic information and presentation location
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