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The Hochstein School of Music & Dance : history, mission, and vision
No full textix, 227 leaves : music ; 28 cm.The Settlement Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries propelled the birth of community music programs in the United States. From the inception of the settlement school music programs, instruction was provided to students of all levels, all socio-economic backgrounds, and a wide range of ethnicities. The David Hochstein Memorial Music School (known today as the Hochstein School of Music & Dance) was founded in 1920 on these principles and has attempted to maintain a dedication to settlement school philosophy through the School’s subsequent 90 years of operation. This project is a historical case study of the Hochstein School; the study is specifically focused through the lens of this overriding mission and vision. The primary research questions are: (1) Has the Hochstein School remained true to its original settlement school mission at different points in its history? If so, how did it maintain continuity and open access over time? (2) What characteristics of Hochstein’s programs, as evidenced throughout its history, can provide a model for success in other community arts programs?
A review of the literature revealed that the open-access Settlement School mission was established through historical references, thus historical studies on other community music schools were described. Based on the review of the Hochstein School’s archival records, I chose to examine the original principles established during the Hochstein School’s first 8 years (1920-1928), and then compared these earlier years with two other decades, 1960-1970 and 1970-1980, periods of time for which the source materials were most plentiful. In addition to examining historical documents connected specifically to the Hochstein School, I conducted interviews with previous executive directors of the Hochstein School. The study identifies four overarching themes that provide the structure for Hochstein’s success, and offers a similar model for other community arts programs to emulate: (1) consistency of mission; (2) visionary leadership; (3) innovation in programming; and (4) community connections
Lithofacies patterns in a temporary outcrop of the Volpriehausen Formation (Middle Buntsandstein, Early Triassic) of Lower Saxony (Germany)
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Microsomal lipid peroxidation: mechanisms of initiation. The role of iron and iron chelators.
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp
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