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Watkins, W R (William Richard), VX57685
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/424254Surname: WATKINS. Given Name(s) or Initials: W R (WILLIAM RICHARD). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX57685. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 42652.252117
Item: [2016.0049.56515] "Watkins, W R (William Richard), VX57685
History of Mendon : A Pioneer Chronicle of a Mormon Settlement by Isaac Sorensen
No full textHistory of Mendon : A Pioneer Chronicle of a Mormon Settlement by Isaac Sorensen. Also called Isaac Sorensen's History of Mendon. Edited by Doran J. Baker, Charles S. Peterson, Gene A. Ware ; introduction by Charles S. Peterson ; photographic galleries by Richard B. Watkins, Paul R. Willie.
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
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
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Hegel after Deleuze and Guattari : freedom in philosophy and the state
No full textIn the thesis I explain why an immanent approach in philosophy means taking contingency to be "irreducible". I show why Deleuze and Guattari believe this to be the case and why they think Hegel fails to do this. I then go on to show in what way Hegel incorporates contingency into his system and how he also creates his own sense of "necessity" that emerges from the systematic treatment of contingent concepts. In this way I show how Hegel can respond to the demand for immanence made by Deleuze and Guattari. I suggest that freedom, for Hegel, consists in the systematic treatment of contingency in our lives and in our thinking
Correspondence, R. P. Sawyers to Richard Parker, January 23, 1891
No full textA letter to Richard Parker from R. P. Sawyers regarding the collection of materials relating to the trail of John Brown. 1 page
An Interview with Cass R. Sunstein: Author of The World According to Star Wars
No full textThe guest editors of special issue 12, Jason W. Ellis and Sean Scanlan, interview Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, where he is founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. He is the author of many books, including the bestseller Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler). His 2016 book The World According to Star Wars attempts to understand the Star Wars universe in ten chapters through the lenses of Sunstein’s academic interests, namely: culture, sociology, psychology, behavioral science, and political science. The book is both personal and theoretical, practical and academic. It takes accurate measure of the genesis of the movies, the movies themselves, and briefly, but trenchantly, it examines concepts such as reputational cascades and speculates on what Star Wars can teach viewers about constitutional disputes
Walter R. Crane notebooks, MSS.0366
No full textAbstract: Two bound notebooks of handwritten lecture notes made by Walter R. CraneScope and Content Note: The collection contains two bound notebooks of handwritten notes made by Walter R. Crane. The first page of each notebook says "Columbia University Dept. of Mining, N.Y.C." Both notebooks have a course description pasted in the front as well. It is not known if Crane was a student or teaching at Columbia when these notes were written. The notes are on mining and its various systems, and contain many sketches of equipment, mines, etc.Biographical/Historical Note: Walter Richard Crane was probably born in Massachusetts, in 1870 or 1871. He was a mining engineer and professor of mining engineering and was the author of several books on mining, two of which, Indexes to Mining Engineering Literature, are considered to be classics in the field and are still in print. Crane was possibly associated with the University of Alabama through the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Tuscaloosa Research Center
Postcard From Sir Richard Burton to Messrs Chatto and Windus Publishers etc.
No full textabstract: Concerning a postcard from Burton explaining his summer plans to his publishers.Postage Details: Postmarked 16 March [18]80 from Cairo, Egypt to London. Postmarked 6 March [18]80 from Cairo.
Address: A Messrs Chatto and Windus Publishers etc. Picadilly London. Typed French text reads: "U[io]n Postale Universelle Egypte Carte Postale."Sender's Signature: Signed R.[F].B.Arabic signature underneath R.F.B.Transcription Details: In difficult handwriting.Postcard verso reads: {Shipheach} {word} No 74
March 5. '80
Yours of Feb. 19 just recd. All right in {?Athuncium}: I shall {wish} through the summer at the {sand} R.F.B.Notes on Original Folder: Handwriting on folder identifies the correspondent as Richard Burton
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