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An Evaluation of Changes to the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program as a Result of USDA’s 2016 Quantitative Performance Measurement Requirements
Get PDFThis research examined the impact of the United States Department of Agriculture’s 2016 implementation of performance measures on the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) to determine the effects of pre-set quantitative outcome measures on an existing block grant program in the understudied realm of federal agricultural food programs. Beginning with the New Public Management reforms of the 1990s, the topic was explored within the history of the federal government’s incrementally bound emphasis on numerical output measures to quantify interim and final results for its state block grant programs. The study also built on prior evaluations of the SCBGP which identified widespread stakeholder dissatisfaction with the 2016 measures. This quantitative study, framed within the context of systems theory, collected 13 years of SCBGP projects from all 50 states, then classified each project as either research or non-research. From there, three sets of project data were parsed and analyzed: that for Georgia, the other 49 U.S. states, and the 10 other states that receive funding similar to Georgia’s. It was determined that the introduction of performance measures effectively changed the SCBGP from a program that once mostly funded non-research projects to one that funded a significantly higher proportion of research projects. The implications of this change were explored and discussed in terms of what this shift might mean for states as they administer their SCBGP programs, as well as its bearing on the larger realm of federal-to-state agricultural grants administration.
Keywords: SCBGP, Farm Bill, systems theory, incrementalism, federal-to-state grants, New Public Management, performance measures, agricultural research fundingChapter I: INTRODUCTION 1 -- Statement of the Problem 3 -- Purpose 5 -- Research Questions and Hypotheses 7 -- Significance of Study 9 -- Conceptual Framework 11 -- Summary of Methodology 13 -- Limitations 13 -- Overview of Chapters 14 -- Chapter II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 17 -- History of the SCBGP 18 -- SCBGP Funding Allocation and Project Selection 20 -- Prior Studies of the SCBGP 24 -- Incrementalism, NPM and Federally Mandated Metrics 28 -- Quantitative Measures to Improve Performance 33 -- Performance Metrics for the SCBGP: Current and New 36 -- Systems Theory as a framework to Study the SCBGP 41 -- Conclusion 43 -- Chapter III: METHODS AND PROCEDURES 48 -- Overview of Problem and Purpose 48 -- Paradigm and Methodology 49 -- Research Questions and Study Design 52 -- Data Collection 54 -- Data Analysis 62 -- Reliability and Validity 64 -- Limits of the Research 66 -- Population Size 66 -- Causation. 66 -- Conclusion 67 -- Chapter IV: RESULTS 70 -- Data Analysis and Results by Question 71 -- RQ1 71 -- RQ2 75 -- RQ3 78 -- Summary of Findings 81 -- Conclusion 84 -- Chapter V: DISCUSSION 87 -- Summary of Findings 88 -- Interpretation of Findings 89 -- Implications and Recommendations 96 -- National Level. 96 -- State Level. 99 -- Study Limitations and Further Recommendations 102 -- Conclusions 104 -- REFERENCES 106Peterson, BonniePeterson, JamesCaverly, MatthewD.P.A.Public Administratio
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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