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Economic Contribution of the Trenton-Mercer Airport
No full textIn 2016, the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service group (R/ECON™) of Rutgers University prepared the second Economic Impact Report of the Trenton Mercer Airport (commissioned by Mercer County’s Office of Economic Development and Sustainability). It follows and expands upon a preceding study conducted for Mercer County’s Division of Economic Development in November 2006.
This study analyzes the contribution of the Trenton-Mercer Airport (TTN) to the Mercer County economy using the following direct sources of economic activity:
•Airport operating expenditures: These mainly account for the people employed to administer and operate the Airport. Operating expenditures also create jobs supported by the purchasing of supplies and materials, as well as spending on contractual services and utilities.
•Capital investments: These are made to improve the Airport’s facilities and support local jobs. Note that capital investments are not perpetual, thus their economic impacts only occur when improvement projects take place.
•Tenant expenditures: The sum of all the spending incurred by airport tenants to operate their respective businesses. This formula only includes tenants that provide aviation services or provide goods and services to airport users.
•Visitor expenditures: These account for the in-county spending by visitors arriving at the Trenton-Mercer Airport. Visitor spending not only supports airport jobs, but also retail and tourism-related employment.
By applying the R/ECON™ Input-Output model to the direct sources of airport-related spending listed above, we estimate the total economic impacts (direct, indirect, and induced) for Mercer County. The model expresses the resulting jobs, income, and wealth impacts in various levels of industry detail.
The current study is designed to inform operation strategies and establish a common base of knowledge from which long-range plans and initiatives can be developed. Additionally, this report includes a thorough property value analysis, which examines the extent to which proximity to the Trenton-Mercer Airport is correlated with the value of area properties
Edward Mercer Cunningham Store Ledger
No full textEdward Mercer Cunningham, born November 15, 1795, was one of the early merchants of Antigonish. He bought the store from R. H. Henry, father of William A. Henry Father of Confederation. [Information from handwritten notes in front of ledger.] The ledger was donated to the Angus L. Macdonald Library by Eileen Cameron Henry. The ledger records purchases in the time period 1827 to 1832
Mercer 5: A probable new globular cluster in the Galactic bulge
No full textWe present a detailed study of a dust-obscured Galactic star cluster Mercer 5 ([MCM2005b] 5) in an extremely crowded field in the Milky Way. Near-infrared (near-IR) photometry from United Kingdom Infrared Digital Sky Surveys (UKIDSS) and the Son of ISAAC on the New Technology Telescope (SofI/NTT), combined with near-IR spectroscopy also from SofI, indicates that it is almost certainly a Galactic globular cluster, located at the edge of the Galactic bulge. The cluster suffers ~9 mag of visual extinction, with strong evidence for an extinction gradient across the cluster. A simulation of the differential reddening in the cluster using empirical data from NGC 6539 (chosen because it had high signal-to-noise ratio data and low field star contamination) as a template mimics the observations extremely well. This simulation and other arguments are used to indicate that the most prominent clump of stars in the colour-magnitude diagrams is a horizontal branch clump. On this basis we conclude that the cluster is at a distance of ~5.5kpc and suffers from visual extinction ranging from ~8.5 to ~12.5 mag. Alternative explanations for its nature, such as a young cluster or an old open cluster, are much less likely, on the grounds of no visible main sequence or stars with IR excesses for the former and location versus lifetime arguments for the latter. © 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS
Schooling and education.
No full textSchooling and education by Giles R. Wright with Howard L. Green and Lee R. Parks. Number 4 in the New Jersey Ethnic Life Series. Published by New Jersey Historical Commission
Photo of Mercer and Butt children in front of the Christmas tree.
No full textPhotograph of the Mercer and Butt children in front of their christmas tree in Swift Current circa 1966. Front row L-R: Trudy Mercer, Judy Butt, Debbie Butt, Gary Butt, unknown, Ricky Butt; back row: unknown
Teacher professional development to support classroom dialogue
No full textWe first outline some key teacher professional development (TPD) programmes that have attempted to address the issue of teacher domination of classroom talk, observed particularly in the UK and USA (Cazden, 2001; Galton, Hargreaves, Comber, Wall, & Pell, 1999; Mercer & Littleton, 2007; Nystrand, Gamoran, Kachur, & Prendergast, 1997; Smith, Hardman, Wall, & Mroz, 2004) but also in other countries (Alexander, 2001). In most classrooms, teachers almost invariably guide and control the discourse, holding interpretive authority (Murphy, Wilkinson, & Soter, 2011) while students participate passively and with limited epistemic agency. We identify which features of dialogue appear to be more (and less) often adopted by teachers and students and then consider the key factors contributing to why dialogue is not commonly observed in primary/elementary or secondary schools. For the purposes of this chapter, we define dialogue as interaction where participants: position themselves in relation to others, recognising diverse voices, beliefs, and perspectives (Bakhtin, 1981); pose open questions, critique and build on others’ ideas, reason and think together (e.g., Mercer & Littleton, 2007). We raise some issues related to demands on teachers and the methodology of initiatives that might contribute to the patchy nature of the successes observed. The account is illustrated with examples of recent research in Chile, England, and New Zealand. It concludes with some recommendations for designing and supporting successful, sustainable school-based TPD across diverse contexts.https://catalogue.library.auckland.ac.nz/permalink/f/t37c0t/uoa_alma5130415091000209
Writing talk: developing metalinguistic understanding through dialogic teaching
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this recordResearch in the teaching of writing has long highlighted the importance of metacognition in writing because writing as a process needs to be self-monitored (Kellogg 1984), it requires high-level metacognitive rhetorical planning (Hayes and Flower 1980) and because it can make covert process visible (Bereiter and Scardamalia 1982). But metalinguistic understanding, a subset of metacognition, referring specifically to thinking about language and language use, has been given scarce attention in terms of how teachers develop students’ metalinguistic understanding for writing. At the same time, recent research is demonstrating the learning power of dialogic talk and dialogic teaching across the curriculum. This chapter will offer a theoretical discussion of how dialogic teaching can open up a ‘dialogic space’ (Wegerif 2013; Myhill and Newman 2016) for the exploration of language choices in writing which develops writers’ capacity to think metalinguistically about writing.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
De Maiestate / Praeside M. Jacobo Thomasio, Moralis Philosoph. P. P., publice disputabit Johannes Dunte, R. L. Author & Respon: ad diem 9. Septembr. H L. Q. C.
No full textDE MAIESTATE / PRAESIDE M. JACOBO THOMASIO, MORALIS PHILOSOPH. P. P., PUBLICE DISPUTABIT JOHANNES DUNTE, R. L. AUTHOR & RESPON: AD DIEM 9. SEPTEMBR. H L. Q. C.
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