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Caribbean Report 24-07-2003
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:24)2. Guyana’s Parliamentary Debate on a controversial constitutional amendment to outlaw sexual discrimination may not be proceeding as planned. The society is divided into supporters and detractors, emotions are rising, and some civic organisations have called for a postponement (00:25:02:52)3. The University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU), representing more than half of the workers of Cable & Wireless Jamaica is dissatisfied with the consultation on the impending lay-off. Lambert Brown, the UAWU’s First Vice President explains why. Errol Miller, the Company’s spokesman describes the process being followed (02:53-05:24)4. The governing Progressive Labour Party is seeking a second term in office but opinion surveys suggest that the PLP is up against a strong contender. Bill Zuill of The Royal Gazette discusses the Bermuda General Elections voter turnout (05:25-08:24)5. The Inter-American Development Bank announces almost 200 million dollars in loans for Haiti ending a two-year freeze on lending. Susie Blann reports (08:25-09:39)6. Australia’s Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, David Spencer is defending his country’s complaint to the WTO against the European Union sugar market regime. Australia joins Brazil and Thailand in the claim that the EU’s export subsidies distort world sugar trade (09:40-14:32)7. The United States Coast Guard and US officials return a group of would-be migrants to Cuba. For the journey, floats and a propeller were attached to a Chevrolet truck making it the most creative raft ever used to cross the Florida Strait (14:33-15:30
Caribbean Report 22-07-2003
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:29)2. The main political parties in Bermuda are wrapping up their campaigns for the general elections. The incumbent Progressive Labour Party will present its thirty-six candidates against the selections of the United Bermuda Party. Important campaign issues have been health care for the elderly, escalating crime, housing and education (00:30-03:32)3. As the Bermuda election approaches a leaked Auditor General’s report has cited instances of alleged mismanagement and corruption that seem damaging to the government. Bill Zuill, Editor of the newspaper where it was published defends the timing (03:33-05:19)4. In Suriname, questions are being asked about the provision of security at the home of President Ronald Venetiaan after it was destroyed by fire. The police have determined that the perpetrator was a sister-in-law with a history of mental illness (05:20-06:38)5. A new cabinet for the Netherland Antilles is being sworn in minus the gentleman expected to be Prime Minister. The reason is that he is under investigation for alleged corruption. From Saint Martin, Joe Dominique reports on the event and the surprising omission (06:39-08:18)6. Antigua and Barbuda says it is confident about a win in an internet gaming case against the United States. Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua’s Chief Diplomat presented Antigua’s case before The World Trade Organization (WTO). The latter has set-up a panel to investigate Antiguan claims that the US is breaking global trading rules (08:19-11:33)7. At least fifteen people, mostly young males are killed in Haiti when a high tension wire falls on onlookers at a basketball game. Electricity networks in Haitian towns like Petit Goâve are unreliable with many systems being more than sixty years old (11:34-12:03)8. In Guyana, parliamentarians are about to vote for a measure that will outlaw discrimination because of sexual orientation but the contentious debate on choice of vote continues among the religious leaders, human rights campaigners and politicians. Pastor Roger Williams says Christians, Hindus and Muslims are united in their stance against it (12:04-13:54)9. According to a new report published by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), some UK-based overseas nurses are having difficulty coping in the British putting-out system. The RCN says foreign nurses working in British hospitals and care homes face racism, exploitation and isolation. Ken Richards reports (13:55-15:33
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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