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UND Economics Professor, Dr. David Flynn, names as one of the Top 100 Economics Blogs
No full textUND College of Business and Public Administration Professor of Economics, Dr. David Flynn made the list again as one of the Top 100 Economics Blogs of 2018 ranked by The Intelligent Economist. Dr. Flynn’s blog, Barter is Evil focuses on commentary regarding Economics and Demographics especially for the North Dakota Economy.
Blogs are included in categories ranging from general economics, finance, healthcare economics, and environmental economics. Candidates were chosen based on the quality of their blog.
In addition, Dr. Flynn’s blog was recognized in the Top Economics and Finance Blogs of 2017 recognized by FocusEconomics who is a leading provider of economic analysis and forecasts
Faculty Profile: Dr. David Flynn
No full textDr. David Flynn completed his undergraduate degree from Boston College and his Ph.D. at Indiana University – Bloomington. Dr. Flynn has been working for the Economics Department at the University of North Dakota ever since and is Economics Department Chair. The topics Dr. Flynn is currently researching include the success of North Dakota\u27s economy as well as small business survival in rural South Dakota.
As the rest of the United States is coming out of an economic slump unevenly, North Dakota has consistently grown over the past decade. Dr. Flynn states that North Dakota is an incredible outlier in the current economic situation within the country. Part of North Dakota\u27s success is due in part to commodity prices doing well and good times in related industries. In addition, the state\u27s banks and consumers were far more conservative in the time frame when the housing market tumbled. Consumers in North Dakota did not have drastically impaired balance sheets, says Dr. Flynn. North Dakota is unlike states like California and Nevada, where people are struggling to pay any of their bills, let alone their mortgages. Because North Dakota did not have many of these problems, the state could capitalize on many existing and new opportunities. Another area in which Dr. Flynn is researching is how the boom in western North Dakota translates to opportunities and threats for the rest of the state.
Dr. Flynn is also completing research with a friend from the University of Nebraska – Omaha. The two decided to meet in the middle of North Dakota and Nebraska and research the survival of rural businesses in South Dakota. An interesting finding of theirs is that many of South Dakota\u27s rural businesses seem to survive more than urban businesses in particular sectors. One would think an urban business would be more likely to survive, and Dr. Flynn and his colleague are still investigating the reasons behind small businesses\u27 survivals.
Dr. Flynn has enjoyed his time both researching and teaching at UND. In the classroom, Dr. Flynn has enjoyed seeing students come to realize their skill sets and adding to their skill sets. The gain students can make at UND is pretty amazing, says Dr. Flynn. It is nice to see students come into their own
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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