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Caribbean Report 23-12-1993
No full textHeadlines with Carol Orr (00:28)1. British Prime Minister John Major is being urged to intervene in the row over Jamaicans detained after flying into London form Jamaica. Charles Warlde, British Immigration Minister defends Britain’s immigration decision to detain the travelers. Sue Shutter, immigration caseworker explains the other side of this story. And, Hector Wynter Spokesman on Foreign Affairs says it may be time for Britain and the Caribbean to consider an exchange visa requirement (00:29 -08:27)2. President Castro’s illegitimate daughter - Alina Fernández Revuelta has been granted political asylum in the US. Journalist David Adams in Miami responds to the question and give details about the reasons and circumstances surrounding her anticipated defection (08:28 -11:40)3. Christmas is not officially celebrated in Cuba, since it interfered with the sugar harvest. However, some Cubans are trying to make it special – Lionel Martin reports (11:40 -13:59)4. The United States has warned Haiti’s military leadership that it must comply with a peace plan by January 15th or risk tightening of international sanctions. Haiti’s government in exile has announced that it will hold an international conference in Miami on January 15, in an effort to end Haiti’s political crisis – Carol Orr reports (14:00 -15:06
Caribbean Report 28-12-2000
No full textPart 3 of Special Programme on Why Boys are underachieving.1. Headlines: (00:00-00:00)2. (00:00-00:15:15) There have been increasing concerns about male underachievement in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. The Chancellor Sir Shridath Ramphal said that the statistics showed that 1 in 4 males graduated at the University of the West Indies. One possibility for this was that the boys were attending tertiary education outside of the region, whilst the women were attending the local university. This concern needs to be investigated. According to Anthony Lane, men in the region are doing better in the sciences while the women are doing better in the traditional arts-based subjects. Some women felt that there appears to be a “glass ceiling” in the work place that women need to break through. Others felt that even though women are outperforming men, this is not translated into monetary terms and upward mobility in the work place. An interviewee from Barbados acknowledged that there was male domination in the work place, and this has eliminated a large portion of the population from participating in the decision making process. Anthony Lane felt that the women were caught in the middle with predominantly male at the top in the work place. However, Sir Shridath Ramphal argued that the gender revolution in the Caribbean has helped to give women an equal break. Examples given were Babsy Olivia Grange, a prominent minister of Government in Jamaica and Portia Simpson Miller, Minister of Tourism in Jamaica and Eugenia Charles former Prime Minister of Dominica
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
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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