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Wang Shou-Xim and Muhammad Ali (1986)
No full textA photograph of Wang Shou-Xim and Mohammed Ali, boxing at the Beijing Institute of Physical Education in China. The photograph was sent in May, 1985 by Wang Shou-Xim to Prof. A caption on the back states: "1986.5.26 To Dear Mr Smith. Boxing Coach Wang Shou-xim Beijing Institute of Physical Education".Charles J. Smith, director of the International Academy at Springfield College.
Charles J. Smith served as the director of the International Academy at Springfield College, later renamed to the International English Language Institute at the College, from 1986-1999. Smith was instrumental in strengthening international relationships between the College and countries in Asia, including China, Japan, and Taiwan. Following his retirement in 1999, Smith continued to build international partnerships between the College and students in the Far East. Not only did Smith have an impact on international relations with the College, but he also served as a Springfield College swimming coach for 23 years from 1966 through 1989. During his long-standing tenure with the swimming program, he instructed both the men’s and women’s teams on different occasions, as well as serving as diving coach for a period of time starting in 1967. From 1986-1989, Smith performed double duty leading the swimming programs and also directing the International Academy.
Mohammed Ali is an American boxer considered among the greatest heavyweight champions in the history of the sport. He exemplified values such as religious freedom, racial justice, and the triumph of principle over expedience, in and out of the boxing ring. Ali began boxing at age 12, and he won the world heavyweight championship in 1964. He converted to Islam, and citing his religious beliefs he refused to be conscripted into the US Army, opposing American involvement in the Vietnam War. He was eventually arrested anc found guilty of draft evasion charges, and str stripped of his boxing title. He did not fight again for nearly four years—losing a time of peak performance in an athlete's career. Ali's appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where in 1971 his conviction was overturned. Ali's actions as a conscientious objector to the war made him an icon for the larger counterculture generation. Ali remains the only three-time lineal world heavyweight champion; he won the title in 1964, 1974, and 1978. He transformed the role and image of the African American athlete in America by his embrace of racial pride and his willingness to antagonize the white establishment in doing so.A caption on the back states: "1986.5.26 To Dear Mr Smith. Boxing Coach Wang Shou-xim Beijing Institute of Physical Education"
The types of skippers described by Shu-Iti Murayama (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)
No full textChiba, Hideyuki, Tsukiyama, Hiroshi, Liang, Jia-Yuan, Wang, Shou-Ming, Shen, Zong-Yu, Hsu, Yu-Feng (2020): The types of skippers described by Shu-Iti Murayama (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Zootaxa 4801 (2): 280-290, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4801.2.
Exact confidence interval for magnitude-squared coherence estimates
No full textThe magnitude-squared coherence function is widely used in many applications. The approximate confidence interval is only reliable for large data segments. In this letter, an iterative algorithm is provided to compute the exact confidence interval from the cumulative distribution function. In order to use the confidence interval conveniently in practice, some libraries are provided, using the iterative algorithm and cubic spline interpolation
Duality in vector optimization in Banach spaces with generalized convexity
No full textWe consider a vector optimization problem with functions defined on Banach spaces.
A few sufficient optimality conditions are given and some results on duality are proved
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
Introduction to grounded theory
No full textGrounded theory, first developed by Glaser and Strauss in the 1960s, was introduced into nursing education as a distinct research methodology in the 1970s. The theory is grounded in a critique of the dominant contemporary approach to social inquiry, which imposed "enduring" theoretical propositions onto study data. Rather than starting from a set theoretical framework, grounded theory relies on researchers distinguishing meaningful constructs from generated data and then identifying an appropriate theory. Grounded theory is thus particularly useful in investigating complex issues and behaviours not previously addressed and concepts and relationships in particular populations or places that are still undeveloped or weakly connected. Grounded theory data analysis processes include open, axial and selective coding levels. The purpose of this article was to explore the grounded theory research process and provide an initial understanding of this methodology.\ud
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