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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
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,
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
Rural Eutopia: Can We Learn from Persistently Prosperous Places?
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The Regional Economic Effects of Commercial Passenger Air Service at Small Airports
No full textI improve existing methods of regional analysis to achieve a rigorous understanding of the interaction between airport policies and regional economies. I use Self-Organizing Maps, an artificial neural network, to explore data and assess the feasibility of using matched control groups to balance variables across treatment and control groups. I modify Genetic Matching methods to create control groups balanced on a large number of variables and use quasi-experimental differences-in-differences models to examine how the economic effects of commercial passenger airports vary across counties. I find evidence that commercial passenger service has positive economic effects to the local economy, and smaller spillover effects to the larger region. Economic effects of higher quality service appear stronger, and these effects are dependent on the attributes of counties. The results support the hypothesis that a lack of regional coordination by policymakers creates suboptimal funding decisions.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:55:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship for Regional Research: A New Approach
No full textChapter 4 develops new indicators of entrepreneurship that capture all three components of the proposed definition. The identification of innovative industries, industries with high level of skill, technology, patents, churn, and employment growth, using detailed NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) industry data, represents an important contribution of this dissertation. By applying the innovative industries to single-unit employer establishment birth and self employment data, I create indicators that are available annually for all counties. Using the reduced-form model of entrepreneurship developed by Goetz and Rupasingha (2008), Chapter 5 assesses the determinants of the new entrepreneurship indicator. In Chapter 6, I use a growth model recently developed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (McGranahan, Wojan, and Lambert. 2009) to examine the relationship between my new indicator of entrepreneurship and economic growth. I find a positive and robust relationship between growth and my new indicator of entrepreneurship. Chapter 7 reviews the results and addresses policy-implications, problems, and future work.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:55:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship for Regional Research: A New Approach
No full text131 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.Chapter 4 develops new indicators of entrepreneurship that capture all three components of the proposed definition. The identification of innovative industries, industries with high level of skill, technology, patents, churn, and employment growth, using detailed NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) industry data, represents an important contribution of this dissertation. By applying the innovative industries to single-unit employer establishment birth and self employment data, I create indicators that are available annually for all counties. Using the reduced-form model of entrepreneurship developed by Goetz and Rupasingha (2008), Chapter 5 assesses the determinants of the new entrepreneurship indicator. In Chapter 6, I use a growth model recently developed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (McGranahan, Wojan, and Lambert. 2009) to examine the relationship between my new indicator of entrepreneurship and economic growth. I find a positive and robust relationship between growth and my new indicator of entrepreneurship. Chapter 7 reviews the results and addresses policy-implications, problems, and future work.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
The Regional Economic Effects of Commercial Passenger Air Service at Small Airports
No full text414 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.I improve existing methods of regional analysis to achieve a rigorous understanding of the interaction between airport policies and regional economies. I use Self-Organizing Maps, an artificial neural network, to explore data and assess the feasibility of using matched control groups to balance variables across treatment and control groups. I modify Genetic Matching methods to create control groups balanced on a large number of variables and use quasi-experimental differences-in-differences models to examine how the economic effects of commercial passenger airports vary across counties. I find evidence that commercial passenger service has positive economic effects to the local economy, and smaller spillover effects to the larger region. Economic effects of higher quality service appear stronger, and these effects are dependent on the attributes of counties. The results support the hypothesis that a lack of regional coordination by policymakers creates suboptimal funding decisions.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
Spatial Econometric Analysis of Property Values---the Impact of Sports Facilities on Local Residential Property Values
No full textMost literature on the economic impact of sports facilities examines the effect of these facilities on income, employment, and taxes at the metropolitan statistical area level. Very few studies examine the impacts of sports facilities on other parts of the local economy. This dissertation investigates comprehensively the economic impact from a spatial perspective of geographic proximity to a sports facility on residential property values (housing prices) in the surrounding areas. The main empirical part estimates a spatial hedonic price model using a cross-sectional data set of 136 sports facilities in 44 major Metropolitan Statistical Areas from 1990 to 2000 at the census block level. The distance from each block group to the block group where the sports facility is located measures spatial proximity. The results show that the presence of a sports facility has a significant positive impact on housing values for the 1990 sample and no significant effect for the 2000 sample. To further examine the impact of the presence of a sports facility, difference-in-difference (DD) approach is applied to facilities built in the 1990s. After controlling for the mean difference in housing values between treatment and control MSAs and the mean change between the post- and pre-construction period the DD estimates incorporating a spatial lag of the dependent variable, shows that there are still positive effects from the presence of a sports facility on housing values in MSAs with facilities. A second empirical part is a case study which focuses on the impact of a new sports facility, the Nationwide Arena, home of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets on nearby property values within a spatial econometric framework. Estimates from a spatial hedonic model show that the presence of the Nationwide Arena has a significant positive effect on the values of surrounding dwellings and this positive effect decreases as the distance from the arena increases. In particular, after correcting for spatial autocorrelation, housing values will increase by 1.75% given a 10% decrease in the distance from the house to the Nationwide Arena. The dissertation makes several contributions. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of sports facilities beyond income, employment, and taxes. Second, it explicitly incorporates geographic spillovers and spatial dependence into an empirical model and generates more precise parameter estimates. Third, it provides an expanded analytical framework for both policy decision-makers and researchers to better evaluate sports facility construction projects.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:55:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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The Grouped Author-Topic Model for Unsupervised Entity Resolution
No full textThis paper describes a generative approach for tackling the problem of identity resolution in a completely unsupervised context with no fixed assumption regarding the true number of identities. The problem of entity resolution involves associating different references to authors (in a paper's author list, for example) with real underlying identities. The references may be written in differing forms or may have errors, and identical references may refer to different real identities. The approach taken here uses a generative model of both the abstract of a document and its list of authors to resolve identities in a corpus of documents. In the model, authors and topics are associated with latent groups. For each document, an abstract and an author list are generated conditioned on a given group. Results are presented on real-world datasets, and outperform the best performing unsupervised methods.</p
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