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Correspondence between E. B. A (E.B. Atkinson) and Zebulon Weaver, April, 1932
No full textZebulon Weaver (1872-1948) was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from western North Carolina. He was a member of the North Carolina Park Commission and was involved in the land acquisition process that went towards establishment of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and development of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
This set of two letters deals primarily with the issue of Atkinson’s appeal for financial help from Weaver. Following are brief summaries of each of these letters:
E.B.A (E.B. Atkinson) to Zebulon Weaver, April 12, 1932
In this two- page letter, Atkinson queries Weaver regarding the favorable outcome of case of the of Floyd Brothers and the Park and also about the possibility of Weaver giving him some money to save his financial standing in the community.
Zebulon Weaver to E.B. Atkinson, April 15, 1932
In this letter Weaver acknowledges receiving Atkinson’s letter and asks him to meet with George Ward for defraying some of the costs related to the case and also states he was currently not in a position to help Atkinson monetarily
The Economics of Giving for Overseas Development
No full textGiving by individuals for development has been illustrated recently by some spectacular examples. A few people giving very large sums, and a very large number of people giving modest amounts, are both important phenomena in the field of development finance. This paper considers how in theory such behaviour might be explained using the tools of economic analysis. The paper is about the economics of giving, but focused on why people give to a particular cause – world development. There has been an extensive literature on the total volume of giving, but much less on the allocation by cause. Giving for development does not seem to be adequately explained by either the “warm-glow” or the “public good” models. The paper suggests a new “identification” approach to individual giving, which combines the results focus of the public goods formulation with the scale of the warm glow model. The analysis initially treats giving for development in isolation, but goes on to examine how development causes fit into the pattern of overall charitable giving by individuals and the pattern of giving over the individual lifetime
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
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
Taking forward the EU social inclusion process
No full textThis Report is an independent document written at the request of the Luxembourg Government, in the context of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first semester of 2005. It has been prepared with the cooperation of the European Commission. The Report aims to be complementary to the activities of official bodies in reviewing the Lisbon Agenda, the Social Inclusion Process, and the Open Method of Coordination in the social field, assessing some of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes, and considering how they may be advanced
The Extended Atkinson Family and Changes in the Expenditure Distribution: Spain 1973/74-2003
Get PDFThis paper emphasizes the properties of a family of inequality measures which extends the Atkinson indices and is axiomatically characterized by a multiplicative decomposition property where the withingroup component is a generalized weighted mean with weights summing exactly to 1. This family contains canonical forms of all aggregative inequality measures, each bounded above by 1, has a useful and intuitive geometric interpretation and provides an alternative dominance criterion for ordering distributions in terms of inequality. Taking the Spanish Household Budget Surveys (HBS) for 1973/74, 1980/81, and 1990/91 and the more recent Continuous HBS for 2003, we show the advantages and possibilities of this extended family in regard to completing and detailing information in studies of inequality focussing on the tails of the distribution and on the changes in the distribution when the population is partitioned into population subgroups.inequality measurement, Atkinson indices
Algebraic theory of atkinson operators
Get PDFNotations: In this paper E denotes a linear space, δ(E) the set of all endomorphisms of E , L(E) the set of all continuous endomorphisms of E if E is equipped with a vector space topology. If T ∈δ (E), then N(T) ={x: Tx= 0}B(T) = {Tx: x ∈ E }∝ (T) = dim N (T)β (T) = codim B(T)Based on the wo rk of Fredholm, F. Riesz and Noether, Atkinson defined the abstract concept of a Fredholm operador on a Banach space E : T
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from George M. Atkinson to T. E. Taylor regarding deposits to Cecile B. Kempner's reference trust and requesting that new certificates be issued. Enclosed with a ledger sheet with figures noting the shares, value and taxes for each stock certificate
Predicting missing field boundaries to increase per-field classification accuracy
Get PDFWith the emergence of very high spatial resolution satellite images, the spatial resolution gap which existed between satellite images and aerial photographs has decreased. A study of the potential of these images for tree species in" monoculture stands" identification was conducted. Two Ikonos images were acquired, one in June 2000 and the other in October 2000, for an 11- by 11-km area covering the Sonian Forest in the southeastern part of the Brussels-Capital region (Belgium). The two images were orthorectified using a digital elevation model and 1256 geodetic control points. The identification of the tree species was carried out utilizing a supervised maximum-likelihood classification on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Classifications were performed on the orthorectified data, NDVI transformed data, and principal components imagery. In order to decrease the intraclass variance, a mean filter was applied to all the spectral bands and neo-channels used in the classification process. Training and validation areas were selected and digitized using detailed geographical databases of the tree species. The selection of the relevant bands and neo-channels was carried out by successive addition of information in order to improve the classification results. Seven different tree species of one to two different age classes were identified with an overall accuracy of 86 percent. The seven identified tree species or species groups are Oaks (Quercus sp.), Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), Purple Beech (Fagus sylvatica purpurea), Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), Corsican Pine (Pinus nigra Arn. subsp. laricio (Poir.) Maire var. corsican), and Larch (Larix decidua Mill.)
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