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Author Gordon Henry reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Gordon Henry, MSU professor of English, reads selections of his poetry and fiction then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
A Schedule-Then-Break Approach to Sports Timetabling
No full textSports timetabling algorithms need to be able to handle a
wide varietyof requirements. We present a two-phase method in which
the first phase is to schedule the teams ignoring anyhome and awayr equirements
and the second phase is to assign the home and away teams.
This approach is appropriate when there are requirements on the schedule
that do not involve the home and away patterns. Examples of this
include fixed game assignments and restrictions on the effect carry-overs
can have. These requirements can be met earlyin the process and the
best home and away patterns can then be found for the resulting schedules
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
Who owns native nature? Discourses of rights to land, culture, and knowledge in New Zealand
No full textMichael Brown famously asked ‘Who owns native culture?’ This paper revisits that question by analyzing what happens to culture when the culturally defined boundary between it and nature becomes salient in the context of disputes between indigenous and settler populations. My case study is the dispute between the New Zealand government and Maori tribal groupings concerning ownership of the foreshore and seabed. Having been granted the right to test their claims in court in 2003, Maori groups were enraged when the government legislated the right out of existence in 2004. Though the reasons for doing so were clearly political, contrasting cultural assumptions appeared to set Maori and Pakeha (New Zealanders of European origin) at odds. While couching ownership of part of nature as an IPR issue may seem counter-intuitive, I argue that as soon as a property claim destabilizes the nature/culture boundary, IPR discourse becomes pertinent
Michael Douglas, circa October, 1979
No full textActor and producer Michael Douglas stands in a pose for the photographer circa October 1979. This photograph originally appeared in the article “The New School: Michael Douglas” by Pat Dowell. Douglas was in Washington, D.C. promoting the 1979 film "Running," which he executive produced and starred in. The photograph was taken by Don Hamerman, who was then a staff photographer for the Unicorn Times, a Washington, D.C. performing arts periodical
Jassargus bispinatus Then 1896
No full textJassargus bispinatus (Then, 1896) Deltocephalus bispinatus Then 1896: 180. Jassargus bispinatus (Then, 1896): Dlabola (1981). Recorded distribution in Iran: North.Published as part of Mozaffarian, Fariba & Wilson, Michael R., 2016, A checklist of the leafhoppers of Iran (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4062 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4062.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25679
Forecast of July 2015—New Jersey: prospects for the long term
No full textThe July 2015 R/ECON forecast shows more rapid growth for the state in 2015 than in 2014. Nonagricultural employment rose by 0.7 percent—or 27,700 jobs in 2014—after growth of 1.2 percent or 45,100 jobs in 2013. Growth will improve to 1.1 percent in 2015 and 2016 and then average 0.8 percent over the rest of the forecast period, which goes through 2045. At these rates the job base will return to the peak level reached in the first quarter of 2008 in mid-2017. By the end of the forecast period in 2045 the employment base will be nearly a million jobs, and 23 percent, greater than its level at the peak.1 These projections assume no specific recession/recovery cycle disrupts the state’s or nation’s growth. Although this seems rather far-fetched given that the average business cycle (peak to peak) in the U.S. since World War II has lasted about 24 quarters and the current cycle is now in its seventh year, a caveat to keep in mind is that this is a long term TREND forecast; it does not purport to indicate at what point(s) CYCLES may occur.Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON) quarterly repor
Gaming market saturation and location growth potential: the case of Atlantic City
No full textCompeting casinos in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York State continue to erode revenues at Atlantic City’s casinos. Yet, recent evidence from nascent aspects of New Jersey gaming industry (sports betting and Internet gaming) suggest that the Atlantic City market might not be saturated. To assess whether the market is saturated or not, we first draw on the greater region’s casino gaming revenue history as well as county aggregate personal income and empirically derive the spatial extent of Atlantic City’s market. We then find a measure—regional gross gaming revenues (GGR) as a share of regional aggregate personal income—that suggests the market has been fairly saturated since at least 1990. We then apply two models—Huff’s and a time-series regression—to estimate impact of the addition of new casinos upon those in Atlantic City. Both suggest diminishing returns to scale of additional city slot machines upon the GGR within New Jersey. They also both show that new casinos in competing states would further erode Atlantic City’s share of regional GGR. This, of course, assumes that the greater economy continues apace
Gaming market saturation and location growth potential: the case of Atlantic City
No full textCompeting casinos in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York State continue to erode revenues at Atlantic City’s casinos. Yet, recent evidence from nascent aspects of New Jersey gaming industry (sports betting and Internet gaming) suggest that the Atlantic City market might not be saturated. To assess whether the market is saturated or not, we first draw on the greater region’s casino gaming revenue history as well as county aggregate personal income and empirically derive the spatial extent of Atlantic City’s market. We then find a measure—regional gross gaming revenues (GGR) as a share of regional aggregate personal income—that suggests the market has been fairly saturated since at least 1990. We then apply two models—Huff’s and a time-series regression—to estimate impact of the addition of new casinos upon those in Atlantic City. Both suggest diminishing returns to scale of additional city slot machines upon the GGR within New Jersey. They also both show that new casinos in competing states would further erode Atlantic City’s share of regional GGR. This, of course, assumes that the greater economy continues apace
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
No full textThe authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
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