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Casino Gambling as an Economic Development Strategy
No full textStair is an assistant professor of economics at Frostburg State University. Andrew Isserman is the director of the Regional Research Institute and a professor of economics and geography at West Virginia University. *Author for correspondence
Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
Going 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
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
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
Andrew Field papers
No full textAndrew Field (1938- ) is a scholar, translator, and author, who has published translations of Russian literature, critical studies, biographies, fiction, essays, and travel articles. He holds degrees from Columbia University as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. From 1977 to 1979, he was a professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Field's papers consist of materials relating to the writing of his 1983 study of the life and work of Djuna Barnes, Djuna: the Formidable Miss Barnes (alternately entitled Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes). Included in the collection are correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, clippings related to the book's publication and reception, and photographs. Also included is a handwritten manuscript of a poem by Barnes
Ep. #185 - Andrew Blum
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Co-host Cymene reminisces this week about being the first intern hired by Wired magazine waaaay back in the day. Then (14:42) we are joined by journalist Andrew Blum (https://www.andrewblum.net)—the celebrated author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet—to talk about his new book, The Weather Machine (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019). We dive deep into it, beginning with our “golden age” of meteorology, and its improved computer simulations. We talk about human presence within massive information infrastructures, his interest in place philosophy, balancing attentions to weather and climate, comparing weather banality vs. weather catastrophe; and, Andrew explains to us the different ways of interpreting the history of weather forecasting. From there we turn to the intersection of war and weather, how Cold War rivalry and internationalism helped shape the weather machine as a global cooperative project, and whether private corporations like Google and IBM will control the future of forecasting. Chemtrails and other weather conspiracies make an appearance, as does the secret Nazi invasion of Canada to build a weather station. We close talking about weather and sympathy and sharing storm stories
The Rural Role in National Value Chains
No full textFeser E. and Isserman A. The rural role in national value chains, Regional Studies. Industry clustering is a useful concept for understanding the interdependence among industries and its implications for regional economic development and growth. The paper claims that the fullest understanding of the implications of industrial interdependence for rural economies requires viewing linked industries - or value chains - on a spatial continuum, from those that are national in geographic scope to those that are highly localized in specific places as regional clusters. From that perspective, rural economies may depend on - as well as contribute to - the competitive success of value chains anchored elsewhere. The perspective is operationalized using a new classification of 45 US industry value chains together with a new rural-urban county typology. The results demonstrate that rural America plays an integral part in a great variety of US value chains. Federal, state, or local development agencies must be careful not to view rural cluster strategy strictly as the development of groups of linked and related industries concentrated in specific rural places, as there are real opportunities to identify and leverage the advantages of rural locations for businesses and industries in globally competitive and geographically extensive value chains. [image omitted] Feser E. et Isserman A. Le role du developpement rural dans les chaines de valeur nationales, Regional Studies. La notion de regroupement industriel sert a expliquer l'interdependance des industries et ses retombees pour le developpement economique regional et la croissance. On affirme que la comprehension la plus complete des retombees de l'interdependance industrielle pour les economies rurales necessite que l'on considere les industries regroupees - ou bien les chaines de valeur - comme un continuum espace, a partir de celles dont la portee geographique s'avere nationale, jusqu'a celles qui sont tres localisees en grappes regionales quant a leur emplacement. De ce point de vue, il se peut que les economies regionales dependent de - ainsi que contribuent a - la reussite competitive des chaines de valeur ancrees ailleurs. A partir d'un nouveau classement de 45 chaines de valeur industrielles aux E-U, conjointement avec une nouvelle typologie ruralo-urbaine des comtes, on met en vigueur ce point de vue. Les resultats laissent voir que l'Amerique rurale joue un role integrant dans diverses chaines de valeur aux E-U. Les agences de developpement federales, etatiques ou locales, doivent faire en sorte qu'elles ne considerent la strategie en faveur des regroupements ruraux qu'en termes du developpement de grappes d'industries reliees et connexes qui se concentrent dans des emplacements ruraux specifiques, parce qu'il y a de belles occasions d'identifier et d'exercer une influence sur les atouts des emplacements ruraux pour les commerces et les industries situes dans des chaines de valeur a la fois competitives sur le plan global et de grande envergure geographiquement. Chaines de valeur Regroupements industriels Politique d'amenagement rural Feser E. und Isserman A. Die Rolle landlicher Gebiete fur nationale Wertschopfungsketten, Regional Studies. Branchencluster sind ein nutzliches Konzept zum Verstandnis der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Branchen und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und das Wirtschaftswachstum einer Region. Wir behaupten, dass fur ein umfassendes Verstandnis der Auswirkungen von Wechselwirkungen zwischen Branchen in landlichen Okonomien eine Betrachtung von miteinander verknupften Branchen - bzw. Wertschopfungsketten - in einem raumlichen Kontinuum erforderlich ist: von den Branchen, die von ihrem geografischen Umfang her national ausfallen, bis hin zu den Branchen, die an bestimmten Orten als regionale Cluster hochgradig lokalisiert sind. Ausgehend von dieser Perspektive konnen landliche Wirtschaften vom Wettbewerbserfolg anderswo angesiedelter Wertschopfungsketten abhangen und auch zu diesem Erfolg beitragen. Wir ubertragen diese Perspektive auf die betriebliche Praxis, wofur wir eine neue Klassifizierung von 45 Branchenwertschopfungsketten in den USA sowie eine neue landlich-urbane Bezirkstypologie zur Anwendung bringen. Unsere Ergebnisse beweisen, dass landliche Gebiete in den USA eine zentrale Rolle fur ein breites Spektrum von Wertschopfungsketten spielen. Die Behorden auf Bundes-, Landes- oder Gemeindeebene sollten es vermeiden, landliche Cluster-Strategien ausschliesslich als die Entwicklung von an bestimmten landlichen Orten konzentrierten Gruppen miteinander verknupfter und zusammenhangender Branchen aufzufassen, da sich eine echte Chance zur Identifizierung und Nutzung der Vorteile von landlichen Standorten fur Betriebe und Branchen in global wettbewerbsfahigen und geografisch umfangreichen Wertschopfungsketten bietet. Wertschopfungsketten Branchencluster Landliche Entwicklungspolitik Feser E. y Isserman A. El papel rural en las cadenas de valores nacionales, Regional Studies. La aglomeracion industrial es un concepto util para entender la interdependencia entre las industrias y sus implicaciones para el desarrollo y el crecimiento economico regional. Aducimos que para poder entender totalmente las implicaciones de la interdependencia industrial para las economias rurales es necesario ver las industrias vinculadas - o cadenas de valores - en una secuencia espacial, de aquellas que son nacionales en un alcance geografico a las que son altamente localizadas en lugares concretos como aglomeraciones regionales. Desde esta perspectiva, las economias rurales podrian depender del - y tambien contribuir al - exito competitivo de las cadenas de valores ancladas en otra parte. Tenemos en cuenta esta perspectiva usando una nueva clasificacion para 45 cadenas de valores de la industria estadounidense junto con una nueva tipologia rural-urbana de condados. Nuestros resultados demuestran que las zonas rurales de Estados Unidos desempenan una parte integral en toda una serie de cadenas de valores en el pais. Las agencias de desarrollo federales, estatales o locales deben tener cuidado de no considerar la estrategia de aglomeracion rural estrictamente como el desarrollo de grupos de industrias vinculadas y relacionadas que se concentran en lugares rurales especificos porque existen oportunidades reales de identificar y aprovechar las ventajas de zonas rurales para negocios e industrias en cadenas de valores globalmente competitivas y geograficamente amplias. Cadenas de valores Agrupaciones de la industria Politica de desarrollo ruralValue chains, Industry clusters, Rural development policy,
Ethanol: Implications for Rural Communities
No full textThis paper presents an overview of the U.S. ethanol industry, its location, and the public policy umbrella that supports its growth. Then the paper analyzes what happens when a county adds an ethanol plant, demonstrates what must be done to modify input-output models to capture those effects realistically, and applies the approach to proposed plants in three counties.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Servants, Aestheticism, and "The Dominance of Form"
No full textThe fictional representation of domestic servants reveals the relationship between aesthetic form and social domination in the work of aesthetes from Wilde to Henry James and beyond. Tracing the sources of Wilde's An Ideal Husband and Dorian Gray and James' The Ambassadors in French decadence and situating them within the history of service, I show that aestheticist depictions of servants recall, through literary form, the aesthete's dependence on servants' labor. I suggest that modernism shared this socially self-conscious concept of aesthetic form with aestheticism, precisely because it too pursued aesthetic autonomy.Published in ELH, copyright The Johns Hopkins University Press.Peer reviewe
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