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Peter Anderson Lofgreen
No full textPeter Anderson Lofgreen (1847-1922) taught school in Huntsville, Utah, from 1877-78
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
Economic Impact of the 32nd Annual Peter Anderson Arts and Crafts Festival, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Get PDFEvaluating the Economic Impact of Festivals and Special Events: Lessons From the 32st Annual Peter Anderson Arts and Crafts Festival in Ocean Springs, Mississippi Background : Festivals are an integral part of the economies of most communities in Mississippi. The economic benefits of festivals can be assigned a dollar value, but no amount of money will accurately reflect the personal and social benefits of these events. Festivals can increase tourism in the area. These events not only bring outside revenue to the community, but they allow even the smallest towns to celebrate and capitalize on the unique aspects of their area. As budgets tighten in small communities economic and community development entities are constantly working to improve their efficiency and evaluate their contributions. The Peter Anderson Arts and Crafts Festival is an established juried art festival held annually in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. MSU-ES was asked to measure the impact and evaluate the festival to help in maintaining community support for this event. MSU-ES met with MS Main Street and festival managers to determine how best to gather the needed data for the project. It was determined that attendance as well as spending profiles, and customer satisfaction and customer profiles would be needed to evaluate to determine and accurate snapshot of the event Objective The study had two purposes:1) to evaluate the general economic impact of the Peter Anderson Arts Festival in the local region; and 2) provide basic market information about the event by examining attendees’ travel distances, attendance frequency, satisfaction with the event, and purchases in the area and at the festival. Specific objectives of the study included: 1) What is the demographic profile of the Festival-goers?, 2) What is the economic impact of the festival, which includes only the spending of non-local state visitors, out-of-state visitors, and vendors?, and 3) What is the “overall” economic impact of the festival; including all local and non-local visitors and vendors on the Ocean Springs’ economy? Methods A survey was developed to determine characteristics of the event attendees such as geographic origin, spending projections, hotel stays, number of days attending the event, as well as consumer preferences, satisfaction, and facility evaluation. The study used intercept surveys to collect information from festival goers, needing only required a few minutes for respondents to complete. Two students were hired to administer the survey to attendees with the help of volunteers. Data used in the paper were based on a sample of 207 visitors to the 2-day Peter Anderson Festival held in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. From this sample, the analysts estimated total attendance at the festival Results This analysis of the Peter Anderson Festival demonstrates the potential for a range of estimates when examining attendees’ spending. For example, aggregating direct spending by all festival goers (in-state and out-of-state visitors) can overstate the impact of the special event. Thus, local attendees were included in the overall count of event attendance, but was not used in determine the economic impact of the festival. The results suggest that for each dollar of direct sales another 18 cents in secondary effects (mainly induced effects) occurred, yielding a total sales effect of $13.6 million. Although positive, these impacts did not create any full-time employments, only 102 part-time jobs
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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