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Brainerd Lakes YMCA Mobile Data Report
No full textLeMier, DeeDee. (2022). Brainerd Lakes YMCA Mobile Data Report. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/228025
Modified local option sales tax analysis for Nisswa, Minnesota: Estimated contributions of residents and non-residents to a local option sales tax
No full textNisswa is a small town in central Minnesota, surrounded by popular tourist destinations and resorts. Its charming downtown is home to many gift shops and restaurants, with the Paul Bunyan bike trail running through it. The location of Nisswa’s downtown has allowed the community to draw tourists to the region, either visiting for the day or staying overnight at one of the town’s seven lodging businesses—including one of the largest resorts in the state.
A small resident population combined with a strong tourism economy challenges local leaders when making decisions about balancing financial investments made by residents with providing infrastructure used by everyone. To address this dynamic, the City of Nisswa is exploring how a local option sales tax (LOST) would impact residents while also providing the necessary amenities desired by the community.
With advances in technology, University of Minnesota Extension’s community economics team partnered with the City of Nisswa to pilot using mobile data to supplement the traditional ways of estimating a LOST impact. Findings provided not only an estimate based on the available sales tax information but also confirmed visitor trends using mobile data. This innovative approach provides the community with an estimate that would have previously been unavailable.CIty of Nisswa, MinnesotaKing, Eric; LeMier, DeeDee, A.. (2024). Modified local option sales tax analysis for Nisswa, Minnesota: Estimated contributions of residents and non-residents to a local option sales tax. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/271010
The Age of Mobility: bringing Community Economic data into the modern era
No full textThis study explores the transformative impact of mobile data on community and economic development strategies, focusing on Wadena County, Minnesota. Recognizing traditional data boundaries as barriers to understanding regional economic dynamics, the research highlights the importance of integrating mobile data to capture the patterns of mobility among residents. Utilizing innovative methodologies, including the "Middle of Everywhere" approach, the study maps residents' travel habits for work, shopping, and recreation, revealing the interconnectedness of rural communities beyond conventional county lines.
Findings demonstrate that mobile data can help rural communities access accurate representations of economic activity and community engagement, paving the way for more effective regional development strategies. This case study underscores the necessity for modern tools to overcome data limitations and enhance our understanding of how rural populations interact within broader economic landscapes.LeMier, DeeDee; Winchester, Benjamin. (2025). The Age of Mobility: bringing Community Economic data into the modern era. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278710
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
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