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NEMT Coordinators in Minnesota: A Survey of How Minnesota Counties Use Coordinators to Deliver Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
No full textUnder Minnesota’s fee-for-service Medical Assistance (MA) program, Minnesota counties are responsible for providing transportation assistance to MA recipients so they can obtain healthcare services. This assistance is commonly referred to as non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT). This report surveys and examines how select Minnesota counties utilize transportation coordinators in providing and administering NEMT under the state's fee-for-service MA program. The report focuses on the role of coordinators in delivering the most common type of NEMT service in Minnesota, known as access transportation service.Douma, Frank; Garry, Thomas. (2013). NEMT Coordinators in Minnesota: A Survey of How Minnesota Counties Use Coordinators to Deliver Non-Emergency Medical Transportation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/253750
Vehicle Sharing Among Human Service Providers in Minnesota: Steps to Address Barriers
Get PDFThe statutory duties of the Minnesota Council on Transportation Access (MCOTA) include identifying "policies and necessary legislation to facilitate vehicle sharing." This study commissioned by MCOTA provides an initial review of the regulatory, policy and operational barriers to vehicle sharing among private human services providers (HSPs) in Minnesota, and discusses potential ways to address these barriers. The purpose is to provide general information to the member organizations and agencies of MCOTA, as well organizations within the HSP community, about possible steps that may be taken to increase vehicle sharing among HSPs. This report identifies five barriers to increased vehicle sharing among HSPs in Minnesota. The first two barriers represent large, umbrella barriers. The latter three represent more specific, technical barriers. The report also discusses solutions to each of these barriers.Douma, Frank; Garry, Thomas. (2013). Vehicle Sharing Among Human Service Providers in Minnesota: Steps to Address Barriers. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/253751
Diagnosing Healthcare in America: The Impacts of Immigrants and Occupational Licensing
Get PDFProfessional paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Public Policy and Master of Public AffairsBenson, Johann; Dworin, Jonathan; Garry, Thomas; Hicks, Jason; Schicker, Teresa; Victor, Anders. (2013). Diagnosing Healthcare in America: The Impacts of Immigrants and Occupational Licensing. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/162527
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
Identifying Issues Related to Deployment of Automated Speed Enforcement
No full textAutomated speed enforcement (ASE) has been shown to be one of the most effective strategies for reducing speeding by vehicles and improving road safety. However, the perception that ASE is unpopular and controversial has limited its use by policymakers in the United States. This report investigates whether this perception is justified in Minnesota by conducting a public opinion survey of Minnesota residents about their views of ASE. In light of the survey results, the report then examines the legal and related political obstacles for deploying ASE in Minnesota, and outlines a strategy for moving forward with ASE in Minnesota in select areas.Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; Loveland CommunicationsDouma, Frank; Munnich, Lee; Loveland, Joe; Garry, Thomas. (2012). Identifying Issues Related to Deployment of Automated Speed Enforcement. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/130918
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
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