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Folder 8: Heaven I Need a Hug - The Stage Play - Kendrick D. Young, undated
No full textA flyer for the play Heaven I Need A Hug, written by Kendrick D. Young, and performed January 19-24 in an unknown year at the Granville Arts Center. The play was performed by Sheree Whitfield, Dave Hollister, and Tony Grant. A photo of two of the actors are on the front of the flyer
Solving the Beck and Wieland Model with Optimal Experimentation in DualPC
No full textCurrently, there is a renewed interest in the use of optimal experimentation (adaptive control) in economics. Example are found in [Amman,
H. M. & Kendrick, D. A. (1999). Should macroeconomic policy makers consider parameter covariances. Computational Economics 14, 263–
267; Amman, H. M. & Kendrick, D. A. (2003). Mitigation of the Lucas critique with stochastic control methods. Journal of Economic Dynamics
and Control 27, 2035–2057; Cosimano, T. F. Optimal experimentation and the perturbation method in the neighborhood of the augmented linear
regulator problem. Journal of Economics, Dynamics and Control (in press); Cosimano, T. F., & Gapen, M. T. (2005b). Recursive methods of
dynamic linear economics and optimal experimentation using the perturbation method, Working paper. Notre Dame, Indiana, USA: Department
of Finance, University of Notre Dame; Cosimano, T. F., & Gapen, M. T. (2005a). Program notes for optimal experimentation and the perturbation
method in the neighborhood of the augmented linear regulator problem, Working paper. Notre Dame, Indiana, USA: Department of Finance,
University of Notre Dame; Cosimano, T. F., & Gapen, M. T. (2006). An algorithm for approximating optimal experimentation problems using
the perturbation method, Working paper. Notre Dame, Indiana, USA: Department of Finance, University of Notre Dame; Tesfaselassie, M.
F., Schaling, E., & Eijffinger, S. (2007). Learning about the term structure and optimal rules for inflation targeting, Working paper. Tilburg,
The Netherlands: Tilburg University; Tucci, M. P. (1997). Adaptive control in the presence of time-varying parameters. Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, 22, 39–47; Wieland, V. (2000a). Learning by doing and the value of optimal experimentation. Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, 24, 501–543; Wieland, V., (2000b). Monetary policy, parameter uncertainty and optimal learning. Journal of Monetary
Economics, 46, 199–228]. In this paper we present the Beck & Wieland model [Beck, G., & Wieland, V. (2002). Learning and control in a
changing economic environment. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 26, 1359–1378] and the methodology to solve this model with
time-varying parameters using the various control methods described in [Kendrick, D. A. (1981). Stochastic control for economic models (1st
ed.), New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company; Kendrick, D. A. (2002). Stochastic control for economic models (2nd ed.) Available at
url: http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Kendrick]. Furthermore, we also provide numerical results using the DualPC software [Amman, H. M., &
Kendrick, D. A. (1999). The DualI/DualPC software for optimal control models: User’s guide. Working paper, Austin, TX 78712, USA: Center
for Applied Research in Economics, University of Texas] and show first evidence that optimal experimentation or Dual Control may produce
better results than Expected Optimal Feedback
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
The Parameter Set in an Adaptive Control Monte Carlo Experiment: Some Considerations
No full textComparisons of various methods for solving stochastic control economic models can be done with Monte Carlo methods. These methods have been applied to simple one-state, one-control quadratic-linear tracking models; however, large outliers may occur in a substantial number of the Monte Carlo runs when certain parameter sets are used in these models. Building on the work of Mizrach (1991) and Amman and Kendrick (1994, 1995), this paper tracks the source of these outliers to two sources: (1) the use of a zero for the penalty weights on the control variables and (2) the generation of near-zero initial estimate of the control parameter in the systems equations by the Monte Carlo routine. This result leads to an understanding of why both the unsophisticated optimal feedback (certainty equivalence) and the sophisticated dual methods do poorly in some Monte Carlo comparisons relative to the moderately sophisticated expected optimal feedback method. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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