The State of the Region: Hampton Roads 2001

This is Old Dominion University\u27s second annual State of the Region Report. While it represents the work of many individuals connected in various ways to the university, the Report does not constitute an official viewpoint of the University, or it\u27s president, Dr. Roseann Runte. This year\u27s Report was produced with the goal of making Hampton Roads an even better place to live. Those who know and love the region of Hampton Roads frequently boast of its numerous strengths and successes, but we do so with the understanding that it would be possible for us to improve the region\u27s performance in certain areas. However, in order to improve our situation, we must have accurate knowledge about where we are, and what the policy implications are of the various choices in front of us. This year\u27s Report should be quite helpful in supplying such information. At the end of the day, we hope to have stimulated thought and discussion about things that matter.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/economics_books/1017/thumbnail.jp

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

The Role Faculty Scholarship Plays in Producing Economics PhD’s from Libersl Arts Colleges” mimeo, Lake Forest College, January 2006. (A previous version was published under the title, “Economics BA's and Ph.D.'s from Liberal Arts Colleges: Do Degree Requ

Abstract: We investigate how faculty scholarship at 108 elite liberal arts colleges in the United States is related to the percent of a college's graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in economics. At colleges that do not offer a business degree, faculty scholarship is positively related to the eventual creation of economics Ph.D.s, but only up to a point. After attaining this level, additional departmental research does not lead to more graduates receiving a Ph.D. in economics. Below this threshold, however, an increase in faculty publications by one standard deviation is associated with 28 percent more graduates eventually receiving a Ph.D. in economics. We also find evidence that a strong math program and greater student ability are positively related to Ph.D. creation. At colleges that offer a business degree, however, neither faculty scholarship nor other college/student characteristics are strongly related to Ph.D. creation. Keywords: Liberal Arts Colleges, Faculty Scholarship, Higher Education. JEL Classification Codes: A22, A23, I21 † We thank John Siegfried for preliminary discussions on the topic, his comments on this and previous drafts, and for his suggestions concerning some data sources. We also than

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical science. © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press