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Change In The Concentration Of Employment In Computer Services: Spatial Estimation At The U.S. Metro County Level, Donald Grimes, Mary Beth Walker, Penelope B. Prime Dec 2006

Change In The Concentration Of Employment In Computer Services: Spatial Estimation At The U.S. Metro County Level, Donald Grimes, Mary Beth Walker, Penelope B. Prime

International Business Faculty Publications

This paper models the concentration of computer services activity across theU.S.with factors that incorporate spatial relationships. Specifically, we enhance the standard home-area study with an analysis that allows conditions in neighboring counties to affect the concentration of employment in the home county. We use county-level data for metropolitan areas between 1990 and 1997. To measure change in employment concentration, we use the change in location quotients for SIC 737, which captures employment concentration changes due to both the number of firms and the scale of their activity relative to the national average. After controlling for local demand for computer services, …


"The American Cookbook: A History" Book Review, Skye Hardesty Dec 2006

"The American Cookbook: A History" Book Review, Skye Hardesty

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a review of the book Kitchen Secrets: The Meaning of Cooking in Everyday Life by Frances Short.


What Are We Afraid Of? A Survey Of Librarian Opinions And Misconceptions Regarding Instant Messenger., Sarah Steiner, Casey Long Dec 2006

What Are We Afraid Of? A Survey Of Librarian Opinions And Misconceptions Regarding Instant Messenger., Sarah Steiner, Casey Long

University Library Faculty Publications

Buzz about instant messaging (IM) customer service is becoming louder, both inside and outside the library field. In general, librarian opinions of IM are mixed and at times even combative. A survey was distributed to gather librarians' opinions of the usefulness of IM as compared to its feature-rich yet difficulty-prone sibling, commercial chat. Through detailed statistical analysis, this article provides an overview of trends in and opinions of IM reference, and offers analysis of its present and future in libraries.


Analysis Of Access To Dental Care Provided Through Medicaid And Peachcare (Schip) Service Trends And Patterns Cy2000/Sfy2001 Through Cy2005/Sfy2006, Karen J. Minyard, Glenn M. Landers, Mei Zhou, Dawud Ujamaa Dec 2006

Analysis Of Access To Dental Care Provided Through Medicaid And Peachcare (Schip) Service Trends And Patterns Cy2000/Sfy2001 Through Cy2005/Sfy2006, Karen J. Minyard, Glenn M. Landers, Mei Zhou, Dawud Ujamaa

GHPC Articles

No abstract provided.


Social Barriers To Cooperation: Experiments On The Extent And Nature Of Discrimination In Peru, Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie, Maximo Torero Dec 2006

Social Barriers To Cooperation: Experiments On The Extent And Nature Of Discrimination In Peru, Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie, Maximo Torero

ExCEN Working Papers

We present a series of experiments to understand the nature and extent of discrimination in urban Lima, Peru. The experiments exploit varying degrees of information on performance and personal characteristics as people sort into groups to test for statistical versus taste-based discrimination. This allows us to examine the nature of discrimination. Our sample is similar to the racial and socio-economic diversity of young adults in urban Lima. This allows us to look at the extent of discrimination. We use a unique method to measure race, along four racial dimensions common in Peru, and find that race is clearly observable. This …


Discrimination In The Lab: Experiments Exploring The Impact Of Performance And Appearance On Sorting And Cooperation, Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie Dec 2006

Discrimination In The Lab: Experiments Exploring The Impact Of Performance And Appearance On Sorting And Cooperation, Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie

ExCEN Working Papers

We present experimental evidence consistent with statistical discrimination in a public good and group formation game. We find that behavior is correlated with race and, to a lesser extent, gender, and people use race to predict behavior when no other information is available. When information on behavior is provided, people disregard personal characteristics completely. These characteristics are also disregarded when individual behavior is induced to break the correlation between characteristics and behavior. That is, people disregard race and gender even when observed behavior is unusual but relevant to payoffs. Finally, our experiments show that sorting into groups has dramatic implications …


Report Of Data Analyses To The Georgia Commission On The Efficacy Of The Con Program, William S. Custer, Patricia Ketsche, Bernette Sherman, Glenn M. Landers Nov 2006

Report Of Data Analyses To The Georgia Commission On The Efficacy Of The Con Program, William S. Custer, Patricia Ketsche, Bernette Sherman, Glenn M. Landers

GHPC Reports

No abstract provided.


November/December 2006, Stall Times Nov 2006

November/December 2006, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


Putting All The Pieces Together: Developing A Cyberinfrastructure At The Georgia State University Library, Doug Goans, Tim Daniels Oct 2006

Putting All The Pieces Together: Developing A Cyberinfrastructure At The Georgia State University Library, Doug Goans, Tim Daniels

University Library Faculty Presentations

Like many libraries over the last several years we have been developing or purchasing technologies such as a Content Management System, an Open URL Link Resolver, an Ask a Librarian System, and a Blogging System that not only support internal functions and communications but also deliver current information and access to resources to our user's desktops. As we begin to explore developments for our next generation of services we realized that the most effective way to deploy these web based services was to integrate our technology and staff into a cross-departmental cyberinfrastructure and collection of working groups that allows us …


On Modeling Voluntary Contributions To Public Goods, James Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj Oct 2006

On Modeling Voluntary Contributions To Public Goods, James Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj

ExCEN Working Papers

This paper addresses four ìstylized factsî that summarize data from experimental studies of voluntary contributions to provision of public goods. Theoretical propositions and testable hypotheses for voluntary contributions are derived from two models of social preferences, the inequity aversion model and the egocentric other-regarding preferences model. We Önd that the egocentric other-regarding preferences model with classical regularity properties can better account for the stylized facts than the inequity aversion model with non-classical properties.


"Smithsonian Institution Entomology Library" Review, Skye Hardesty Oct 2006

"Smithsonian Institution Entomology Library" Review, Skye Hardesty

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a review of the Smithsonian Institution Entomology Library, available at http://entomology.si.edu/.


Casualties, Polls, And The Iraq War, Jason Reifler, Christopher Gelpi Oct 2006

Casualties, Polls, And The Iraq War, Jason Reifler, Christopher Gelpi

Political Science Faculty Publications

In their article “Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq,” Christopher Gelpi, Peter Feaver, and Jason Reifler attempt to flush out the relationship between public opinion and the use of force as it pertains to the Iraq war.1 The authors promote the following proposition: “Our thesis is that expectations of future success are the key determinants of public casualty tolerance. That is, the U.S. public can accept that the war is not yet won and will involve continued and even mounting costs, provided that events thus far are not convincing it that eventual success is impossible” (p. 24). …


The Gig Is Up: Combating The Meanings Of Education Proffered By Science, Technology, And Global Capitalism, Deron R. Boyles Oct 2006

The Gig Is Up: Combating The Meanings Of Education Proffered By Science, Technology, And Global Capitalism, Deron R. Boyles

Educational Policy Studies Faculty Publications

Colleagues in the academy seem to have a fascination with conceptual analysis and the term “education.” Debates are held, papers are written, and symposia take place within which definitions are articulated and modulated. Whether the point is to provide narrative, stipulative, or programmatic definitions matters little to the larger point: the quest for the meaning of “education” continues. In their turns, schooling and training are contrasted with education in order to help clarify the differences in scope, purpose, and meaning of the various terms. The concepts are often qualified in discussions of literacy, socialization, and democracy, but why? Why are …


We R Online, R U? Instant Messaging Reference Service At Your Library., Sarah Steiner, David Free, Elizabeth White Sep 2006

We R Online, R U? Instant Messaging Reference Service At Your Library., Sarah Steiner, David Free, Elizabeth White

University Library Faculty Presentations

What Is IM? -Allows users to participate in real-time Internet conversations -AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! most popular -Same premise as the more feature-rich QuestionPoint, 24/7, etc. Who’s Using IM? --Everyone! Students, libraries, businesses, all age groups Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 42% of online individuals use IM, and that Generations X and Y represent the largest segment of the IM user group. AOL conducted a similar study that shows that 90% of online teens use IM.


Quaking In The Classroom: A Study Of Teaching Anxiety In Academic Librarians, Kaetrena D. Davis Sep 2006

Quaking In The Classroom: A Study Of Teaching Anxiety In Academic Librarians, Kaetrena D. Davis

University Library Faculty Presentations

What We’ll Cover: -What is Teaching Anxiety? -Why study Teaching Anxiety (TA)? -Methodology and details of the study -Preliminary results of the study -Emerging solutions to TA in librarians -Discussion: your experiences, comments, and suggestions


Analysis Of Access To Dental Care Cy2004/Sfy2005, Karen J. Minyard, Glenn M. Landers, Mei Zhou Sep 2006

Analysis Of Access To Dental Care Cy2004/Sfy2005, Karen J. Minyard, Glenn M. Landers, Mei Zhou

GHPC Articles

No abstract provided.


Explanation And Misrepresentation In The Laboratory, Lucy Ackert, Bryan Church Sep 2006

Explanation And Misrepresentation In The Laboratory, Lucy Ackert, Bryan Church

ExCEN Working Papers

We report the results of an experiment designed to examine the effect of opportunity to provide an explanation for inaccurate results and predictability of behavior on managers’ reporting bias and investors’ ability to decipher the bias. We conduct 20 experimental sessions, each comprised of one manager and three or four investors. The manager has an incentive, in general, to inflate investors’ expectations and investors have an incentive to accurately predict value. We find that the manager reports with an upward bias a majority of the time. The magnitude of the bias, however, is lessened considerably when the manager’s reporting behavior …


Review Of The Successful Academic Librarian By Gwen Meyer Gregory, Sarah Steiner Sep 2006

Review Of The Successful Academic Librarian By Gwen Meyer Gregory, Sarah Steiner

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a book review of The Successful Academic Librarian by Gwen Meyer Gregory.


Parties And Patronage: A Comparative Analysis Of The Indian Case, Charles Robert Hankla Aug 2006

Parties And Patronage: A Comparative Analysis Of The Indian Case, Charles Robert Hankla

Political Science Faculty Publications

What political factors influence the allocation of economic patronage in democracies? Answering this question is vital to improving our knowledge of how states and markets interact. In this paper, I argue that changing levels of party centralization can drive important changes in the allocation of state largess. When governing parties are centralized, national party leaders will control sources of patronage, targeting benefits to particularly influential regions and industries. By contrast, when governing parties are decentralized, influential sub-national party leaders will advocate for their constituents, allocating patronage evenly through a national logroll. I find evidence for these relationships by comparing India's …


Intellectualism, Infiltration, And The Imaginary: The Challenge Of Conservative Think Tanks In Developing Coherent Democratic Community, Deron R. Boyles, Philip Kovacs Jul 2006

Intellectualism, Infiltration, And The Imaginary: The Challenge Of Conservative Think Tanks In Developing Coherent Democratic Community, Deron R. Boyles, Philip Kovacs

Educational Policy Studies Faculty Publications

This paper extends the question “What should we be doing and what kinds of activities would we be engaged in during the time we take off to craft and assert ourselves as public intellectuals?” Kathleen Kesson and Jim Henderson provided us with historical background (and a delightful song parody) while Kent den Heyer challenges us to take two years off from the academy and engage in research that would better enable us to communicate with and influence those in positions of power. For the purpose of this paper, we wish to join with Kesson, Henderson, and den Heyer, if only …


Discrimination In The Lab: Experiments Exploring The Impact Of Performance And Appearance On Sorting And Cooperation, Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie Jul 2006

Discrimination In The Lab: Experiments Exploring The Impact Of Performance And Appearance On Sorting And Cooperation, Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie

ExCEN Working Papers

We present experimental evidence consistent with statistical discrimination in a public good and group formation game. We find that behavior is correlated with race and gender, and people use race and gender to predict behavior when no other information is available. When information on behavior is provided, people disregard personal characteristics completely. These characteristics are also disregarded when individual behavior is induced to break the correlation between characteristics and behavior. That is, people disregard race and gender even when observed behavior is unusual but relevant to payoffs. Finally, our experiments show that sorting into groups has dramatic implications on cooperation. …


Extending The Conversation: New Technologies, New Literacies, And English Education, Janet A. Swenson, Carl A. Young, Ewa Mcgrail, Robert A. Rozema, Phyllis Whitin Jul 2006

Extending The Conversation: New Technologies, New Literacies, And English Education, Janet A. Swenson, Carl A. Young, Ewa Mcgrail, Robert A. Rozema, Phyllis Whitin

Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications

The authors contend that new technologies have developed new literacies and new ways of thinking that are reshaping our lives. In the rapidly changing world, they argue, these new literacies and their practices must become central to effective English education programs. To frame their argument, they introduce the notion of "technological" pedagogical content knowledge to bridge the perceived binary of technology and English education. Throughout, they analyze how reflection on new technologies and integration of them into coursework for specific purposes is an educational, political, and even a moral imperative.


"Food In The Ancient World" Review, Skye Hardesty Jul 2006

"Food In The Ancient World" Review, Skye Hardesty

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a review of the book Food in the Ancient World, by Joan P. Alcock.


Presentation - Cultivating Future Scholars: A Cross-Campus Collaboration On An Original Research Project, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D. Jun 2006

Presentation - Cultivating Future Scholars: A Cross-Campus Collaboration On An Original Research Project, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

University Library Faculty Publications

Presentation on a collaboration with a sociology faculty member, a Writing Consultant, and the Quantitative Reasoning Consultant to provide research and writing support for sociology undergraduates engaging in original research projects.


When The Shoe Is On The Other Foot: Experimental Evidence On Valuation Disparities, Lucy Ackert, Bryan Church, Gerald Dwyer Jun 2006

When The Shoe Is On The Other Foot: Experimental Evidence On Valuation Disparities, Lucy Ackert, Bryan Church, Gerald Dwyer

ExCEN Working Papers

The method of elicitation has an important effect on valuations. We investigate the effect of perspective on decision makers’ elicited values. We conduct experimental sessions in which participants act as sellers or buyers and replicate the disparity between willingness to accept and willingness to pay: sellers want to collect more and buyers want to pay less. We conduct additional sessions in which endowed decision makers provide values that are used to determine a price at which anonymous others transact. In these sessions, decision makers’ experimental earnings are not affected by valuations, but rather determined by their endowment. Decision makers appear …


Im At Gsu, Sarah Steiner, David Free, Elizabeth White May 2006

Im At Gsu, Sarah Steiner, David Free, Elizabeth White

University Library Faculty Presentations

Getting Started -The impending expiration of GSU’s QuestionPoint contract led to the exploration of other options -IM met with mixed librarian opinions, but all felt it was worth investigating -Service launched February 1, 2006 AIM, MSN and Yahoo! via Gaim


Nip & Tuck: Operational Concerns Of Menu Makeovers, Dave Pavesic May 2006

Nip & Tuck: Operational Concerns Of Menu Makeovers, Dave Pavesic

Hospitality Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Why Library And Information Science? Results Of A Career Survey Of Mlis Students Along With Implications For Reference Librarians And Recruitment, Allyson Ard, Susan Clemmons (Smith), Nathan Morgan, Patrick Sessions, Brett Spencer, Tracy Tidwell, Patricia J. West Apr 2006

Why Library And Information Science? Results Of A Career Survey Of Mlis Students Along With Implications For Reference Librarians And Recruitment, Allyson Ard, Susan Clemmons (Smith), Nathan Morgan, Patrick Sessions, Brett Spencer, Tracy Tidwell, Patricia J. West

University Library Faculty Publications

Hearing why the librarians of tomorrow chose the library profession is vital, because understanding their motivations provides librarians with a glimpse of the future as well as ways to improve that future for the profession. This article therefore seeks to communicate the career motivations of MLIS students by reporting the results of a survey conducted at the University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies. Library administrators and others responsible for hiring information professionals will want to hear the library students’ reasons for entering the field, their salary expectations, geographic preferences, perceptions of the job market, and interest in …


"Springerlink" Review, Skye Hardesty Apr 2006

"Springerlink" Review, Skye Hardesty

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a review of the database SpringerLink.


Understanding And Reducing The Number Of Uninsured Georgians, Georgia Health Policy Center Mar 2006

Understanding And Reducing The Number Of Uninsured Georgians, Georgia Health Policy Center

GHPC Briefs

No abstract provided.