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The politics of culture in the world of René of Anjou
No full textThis thesis explores the way in which René, French prince and exiled king of Naples (1409-80), sought, by means of his transnational network of agents and allies, to assert his Italian political agenda chiefly through a programme of cultural politics. It is a case study for a ‘diplomatic’ approach to culture, and provides a new take on mid-fifteenth-century Italian politics as well.René of Anjou was defeated in a war for Naples in 1442 by Alfonso V of Aragon, but he maintained his Italian connections in the hopes of a return to the throne. His Italian network was based on the once-powerful Guelph faction, and then also on his chivalric Ordre du Croissant, which counted amongst its members the mercenary captain and usurping duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza. A programme of cultural politics, sometimes involving the exchange of gifts, other times simply involving politically-affective language, was part of keeping this network together. It was at the heart of the relationship between King René and Jacopo Antonio Marcello, a Venetian patrician and Croissant knight who brokered René’s connection to a number of major Italian cultural figures: Giovanni Bellini, Guarino of Verona, Andrea Mantegna, and Janus Pannonius, among others. The works they produced were crucial to the development and aggrandizement of the network, which was the foundation of a power bloc intended to return René to power in Naples. René tried to exploit this network in the Lombard wars of the early 1450s, but the Italian League that emerged in 1454 actually worked against René and his Guelph allies, particularly those in Florence who posed a threat to the Medici regime. After René’s ultimate military failure in the 1458-64 Neapolitan war of succession, his network evolved into a faction opposed to the Italian League and the state system it sustained
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
A question of balance? : girls' nominal participation in higher-level school mathematics
No full textThe overall purpose of this investigation, situated in a\ud
macrocontext of nominal participation of girls in higher level school mathematics, was to examine, analyse, and\ud
describe the way in which a bounded case of Year 10 - 11\ud
girls viewed their participation in higher-level school\ud
mathematics. The focal point of the investigation was the\ud
positing of an heuristic model to illuminate why the\ud
participants within the bounded case did not wish to\ud
participate in higher-level school mathematics. \ud
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From this model and from the case, it was theorised (a) why some girls avoid higher-level school mathematics; and (b) that, through conceptual generalisations, the heuristic model may help to illuminate, in part, the probability of a girl participating in higher-level school mathematics.\ud
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This thesis is a construction of the investigation of\ud
the beliefs (perceptions, perspectives, intentions and\ud
understandings) of five female secondary students relating\ud
to their participation in higher-level school mathematics. \ud
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An idiosyncratic heuristic case study approach was used to investigate the participants' beliefs. From data analyses and interpretative constructions, it was posited that these girls' beliefs relating to participation in higher-level school mathematics were associated with lifestyle construction, including a balance between the constructed self and constructed life environments. The participants seemed to have constructed a participation ecosystem, consisting of a network of parts, which together formed a balance which influenced their participation choices. \ud
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Their preferred mathematics construction differed markedly from their higher-level school mathematics construction, and it was apparent that the balance in their lives excluded participation in higher-level school mathematics.\ud
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From the evidences presented, conceptual generalisations were posited for use in further and broader research purposes, and the heuristic model was viewed as a catalyst for the reconceptualising and reinterpreting of further exploratory models for investigating and explaining participation in school subjects and equivalent
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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