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Letter from W. B. Wicker to Whom It May Concern
No full textLetter from W. B. Wicker to Whom It May Concern, praising vocational agriculture teacher J. C. Browning
Demotic possession
No full textAs Allan Brown reports, Robin Hardy regarded The Wicker Man (1973) as an anti-fascist film. As such it fits into the classical liberal political schema, based on Enlightenment thinking that freedom and the democratic distribution of power is a product of reason. The obverse is that irrationality and superstition lead to authoritarian forms of government. In this sense Hardy’s film coheres with then contemporary orthodox fears that the counter-culture, with its rejection of traditional sexual moral codes and religious practices, were either opening up the way for dictatorial governance or were implicitly totalitarian. As such the film adopts an analysis that, on the surface, corresponds with Max Weber’s approach to understanding the relationship between political power and authority to rule. Despite Hardy’s intentions, more recent Mayday celebrants, namely anti-capitalist activists, have adopted the text to promote revolutionary, anti-hierarchical politics (an appropriiation of the text by, and for, the demos or 'demotic possession'). This paper explores these subversive interpretations and uses of the film, and examines the celebration of the libidinal lifestyles, and the lampooning of established totems of power. The paper also considers how anarchists approach, what are for them, problematic features of the text such as the hierarchical status of Lord Summerisle. The playing with the filmic text by anarchists draws attention to the ways in which the film ultimately undermines liberal approaches to legitimate authority, and the just exercise of power
Letter from S. B. Simmons to W. B. Wicker, Principal of Lee County Training School
No full textLetter from S. B. Simmons to W. B. Wicker, Principal of Lee County Training School, concerning teacher J. C. Browning
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
[African American Baby on Wicker Chair]
No full textPortrait of a Black baby, wearing a white outfit and sitting on a wicker chair.Recto: [imprinted] Willyerd, 2215 Market St., Galveston. 501 1/2 Main St., Houston
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Studies were conducted on status and
distribution of wicker willow, locally known as Veer kani in Kashmir. Wicker
willow plantations were found in all districts of Kashmir
except Kupwara. Pulwama district had maximum average land holding of 0.80 ha
and minimum in Srinagar (0.40 ha/family),
concentration of plantation varied from district to district; maximum in Eastern Srinagar and Northern district Baramulla. Maximum
families (23) were involved in Srinagar
and minimum in Budgam (7). Maximum land holding/family under wicker willow was
highest in Srinagar
(0.12 ha) and lowest in Pulwama (0.07 ha/family). Maximum yield/ha of wicker
willow was in Srinagar
(12.69 t/ha) and minimum in Anantnag 11.20 t/ha. Subsequently, wicker willow
contributed about 35.34% to the farmers average income in Srinagar as against lowest of 1.27% in
Pulwama. Salix triandra L. was found grown in all districts except
Kupwara. In addition to Salix triandra L., two more species Salix
dickymat L. and Salix rubra L. were also cultivated in
district Srinagar.
Number of processing units varied from district to district and was maximum in Srinagar and Baramulla as
against the minimum in Budgam, Anantnag and Pulwama.
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Temporal reliability and survey timing in contingent valuation research
No full textWicker P, Frick B. Temporal reliability and survey timing in contingent valuation research. International Journal of Social Science & Economic Research. 2016;1(10):1503-1520
The anthropomorphic brain: the mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions.
No full textPragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
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