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Urban-rural geographies of political violence in North and West Africa
No full textThis paper assesses the relationship between population density and political violence within North and West Africa. We find that while most violence currently occurs in rural areas, it also exhibits a classic distance-decay effect, commonly occurring near urbanized places. Regional differences are evident as Jihadist-led violence is increasingly rural in West Africa while urban violence was more common in North Africa. Important difference in states with major conflict are also present, exemplified by urbanized violence in Nigeria and rural violence in Mali. Our findings therefore provide mixed evidence for the typical “urbanization of conflict” discourse in the literature
The geography of Indiana's creative class : student place preferences and alumni migration patterns
No full textWith numerous local economies previously driven by manufacturing, Indiana was strongly affected by the economic downturn from 2007 until 2009. One suggestion to facilitate economic growth has been Richard Florida’s “creative class” theory, which asserts that talented and educated people choose to live in creative places. College graduates represent one part of Florida’s “creative class.” Current students at Ball State University were surveyed to understand the importance of place-related factors for where students wanted to live after they graduated. The survey responses indicated that students are most concerned with income potential, cost of living, and distance to family. Alumni residence data from Ball State and three other Indiana universities were also mapped and compared to county-level measures of income, housing, distance from home, and creativity index. This analysis supports the survey findings that economic factors and family connections are likely motivating factors in where graduates have chosen to live and stands in contrast to the overall logic of the creative place theory of development.Thesis (M.S.)Department of Geograph
"Homeland insecurity" : a hand-chopped expression of nontraditional creativity
No full textCreative expression of protest, dissent, and criticism through the arts has been an important experience for individuals and communities around the world for as long as humans have been thinking independently and envisioning alternatives for collective sustainability. As conflicting ideas, interests and beliefs find much of the world immersed in extremes, it is as important now as ever before that the frustrations and concerns which weigh upon individuals and communities find relief through expression. When done creatively, this can enable the collective development of new ideas as well as open doors to alternatives which have never been explored or even considered. In the spirit of such nontraditional expressions of concern and protest through creative means, this creative project pulls together images and seeks to reform the power of their symbolism for the purpose of artistically presenting my personal perspective on US policies relating to domestic and international security which have emerged since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Building on an academic background rooted in disaster management, political geography, and GIS, my Honors thesis is a statement of creative protest against the trajectory of the fear-fueled US War on Terror which I have conveyed through the visual medium of a hand-chopped collage titled "Homeland Insecurity".Thesis (B.?)Honors Colleg
Crisis in a small American city : a spatial analysis of race, subprime lending and foreclosure in Muncie, IN
No full textDuring the so-called ‘Great Recession’ of 2007-2010, over four million homes in the U.S.
were lost to foreclosure, many of these being the result of subprime lending. Research on
subprime lending has emphasized the role of race and income in shaping the geography of
foreclosure in large cities but no research has focused on smaller cities in the urban hierarchy.
This study focuses on the context of a smaller city and employs several interrelated methods of
spatial analysis, including global and local Moran’s I, geographically weighted regression, and
the location quotient, to investigate the relationships between foreclosure, race, and income in
Muncie during a period of global economic crisis. The findings suggest that race and income
were less important in Muncie than in other larger cities. This difference may have been the
result of other factors unique to Muncie such as the loss of industry in a factory town or to the
extent that large national lenders implicated in subprime lending were engaged in lending in a
small city.Thesis (M.S.)Department of Geograph
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
Bedrock Geology of Gorham Quadrangle, Jackson County, Illinois
No full textUSGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program under StateMap award number 08HQAG0084, 200
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
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