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pre-civil war row houses, Lawrence, MA
No full textPhotograph taken from the street looking onto brick pre-civil war row houses in Lawrence, MA
Regional jobs strategy for Lawrence, MA
Get PDFThesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.Includes bibliographical references.This research is designed to help job training and economic development practitioners think constructively about the nature of disconnects between low-wage cities and high-wage surrounding regions. Lawrence, MA is used as a case study to examine the unique employment structures and practices of local economies. The primary goal of this thesis is to use first-hand research with regional high-technology employers to address the questions: Does high-tech regional development create living-wage job opportunities for workers who do not have four year college degrees? If so, what type of training and assistance would be necessary to help low income workers access these opportunities? This analysis is conducted in seven parts. It begins with analysis of the fundamental economic dynamics of the Northeastern Region of Massachusetts, which surrounds Lawrence, MA, with a particular focus on the high-tech development along the major regional thoroughfares of Routes 128 and 495. Employment and economic dynamics in Lawrence, MA are then compared and contrasted to those of the surrounding region, with a focus on local and regional job markets for low-income city residents. After describing the interview methodology used, and outlining the criteria for living-wage work, the major findings from interviews with regional employers are summarized. Next, a brief sketch of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing Lawrence job training system in serving the working poor is provided. The last chapter outlines the rationale for public intervention and draws together information about the employment needs and practices of regional living-wage employers and evidence about gaps in the local job training system to suggest ways that an innovative job training program might create value for the City and its residents. Finally, the conclusion recaps the importance of such efforts, their rationale, and briefly outlines some major issues in implementation.by Tamar Kotelchuck.M.C.P
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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