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The practice of local partnership in rural development: the cases of Newent (UK) and Sault (France)
No full textThis research is concerned with the practice of local partnerships in the promotion of
rural development with particular reference to two case study areas, Newent in the UK
and Sault in France.
In recent years, local partnership working has become increasingly common in the
promotion of rural development. It is presented by academics, politicians, policy makers
and practitioners as `inherent' and `imperative' to the preparation and implementation of
rural development programmes today. However, there still exists limited understanding
and knowledge about local partnership working in practice and the validity and
importance of such statements. To advance this understanding the present research had
four main objectives organised around the identification and the exploration of four main
issues: the reasons, the processes, the outcomes and the implications of the local
partnership practice in rural development.
The author has sought to elucidate the subject by means of a detailed exploratory study
involving the longitudinal observation of two particular examples of local partnerships.
Two case study areas were selected, both with an active history of rural development
initiatives and partnership working at parish or commune level. Newent is a small town
in the Forest of Dean, which has sought to address growing socio-economic decline in
recent years by preparing and implementing a regeneration strategy through local
partnership working. Sault is a village in Provence, which has had to respond to
depopulation and various economic difficulties as well as the closure in 1996-98 of the
military base of Albion. Qualitative data on local partnership evolution and operation,
collected in both areas between 1998 and 2001, was assembled from documentary
research, semi structured interviews and direct observation at meetings.
This investigation has allowed the identification of various explanations for the recent
increase in the practice of local partnership in rural development, explanations which are
mainly associated with the underlying context of the rural development process today
and with the meaning of the partnership concept itself. From this investigation local
partnership working in rural development has emerged as a long-term, progressive,
comprehensive and pragmatic process that is organised over time. Its existence and
longevity depend primarily on the local context, the existence of opportunities, the issues
to be addressed, a broad mobilisation of local/rural actors, a flexible local space, some
local re-organisation as well as regular and concrete achievements. In this respect, the
most commonly reported outcomes of local partnership working pertain to the process of
partnership working more than to the tangible outputs that may have resulted from it.
These meet the initial expected benefits from such a practice as for example broader
participation, greater reciprocity between rural development actors and territories, and an
increase in local capacity for development action
Government Park, Sault St. Marie, Michigan), Chippewa County, 1908
No full textFrom the Charles Mensing photograph album, a 1908 view of the torii gate at the entrance to Government Park at the Soo Locks in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. Terms associated with the photograph are: torii | Government Park (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.) | Soo Locks (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.) | St. Mary's River (Mich. and Ont.) | Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.
Soo Locks, Sault St. Marie, Michigan), Chippewa County, 1908
No full textFrom the Charles Mensing photograph album, a 1908 view of the Soo Locks in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. Terms associated with the photograph are: Soo Locks (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.) | St. Mary's River (Mich. and Ont.) | Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.
Théâtre du Chateau d'eau... Bug Jargal, drame en 5 actes et 7 tableaux tiré du roman de Victor Hugo par P.Elzear & R. Lesclide... : [affiche] / Léon Sault
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Théâtre du Chateau d'eau... Bug Jargal, drame en 5 actes et 7 tableaux tiré du roman de Victor Hugo par P.Elzear & R. Lesclide... : [affiche] / Léon Sault
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St. Mary's River, Sault St. Marie, Michigan), Chippewa County, 1908
No full textFrom the Charles Mensing photograph album, a 1908 view of the St. Mary's River in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. Terms associated with the photograph are: St. Mary's River (Mich. and Ont.) | Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.
Geistlicher wahrer Trostbrunn herfür springend auß dem lebhafften Vertrawen auff Gott
No full textErstlich durch den Erwürd: Pater Nicolas Sault ... in Französischer Sprach beschrieben/ an ietzo aber durch R. P. Melchiorem Breidenbach ... verteutschtVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: In verlag vnd druckerey Wilhelm Friessem/ Buchhandelers im Ertz-Engel Gabriel in der Tranckgassen 1659Titelbl. in Rot- und Schwarzdruc
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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
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