Small Cities Blues: Looking for Growth Factors in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

The purpose of this exploratory study is to attempt to identify particular public policies which have the potential to increase the economic viability of smaller metropolitan areas and cities. We identify characteristics associated with smaller metro areas that performed better-than-expected (winners) and worse-than-expected (losers) during the 1990s, given their resources, industrial mix, and location as of 1990. Once these characteristics have been identified, we look for evidence that public policy choices may have promoted and enhanced a metro area's ability to succeed and to regain control of its own economic destiny. Methodologically, we construct a regression model which identifies the small metro areas that achieved higher-than-expected economic prosperity (winners) and the areas that saw lower-than-expected economic prosperity (losers) according to the model. Next, we explore whether indications exist that winners and losers are qualitatively different from other areas in ways that may indicate consequences of policy choices. A cluster analysis is completed to group the metro areas based on changes in a host of social, economic, and demographic variables between 1990 and 2000. We then use contingency table analysis and ANOVA to see if "winning" or "losing," as measured by the error term from the regression, is related to the grouping of metro areas in a way that may indicate the presence of deliberate and replicable government policy.economic, development, growth, factors, erickcek, mckinney, incentives, local, regional, small, medium, cities

Law for the Illinois farmer / 1079

"This circular replaces Circular 886."Cover title

Subprime and predatory lending in rural America: mortgage lending practices that can trap low-income rural people

This brief examines predatory mortgage loans and the harmful impact they have on rural homeowners and their communities. The report finds that minorities and low-income people are more likely to fall victim to higher-cost loans. The brief includes recommendations for policy changes at the state and federal levels, as well as advice on identifying and avoiding predatory loans

An Appreciative Approach to Goal-Setting for Academic Employees

When asked what he looks for when hiring employees, Dr. Paul Orehovec, Vice President of Enrollment Management at University of Miami responds, “Somebody who wants my job” (personal communication, September 25, 2010). He further explains that the heavy demands of higher education administrative positions require people who are self-motivated and driven. These professionals need mentoring relationships to help them establish appropriate career and professional goals. Mentors often have valuable knowledge to share with their mentees on these topics, but do not always know how to effectively share their expertise. Mentoring relationships occur in a number of settings in academia, but there are few frameworks to guide the establishment of these mentoring relationships. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the six phases of the Appreciative Advising model (Bloom, Hutson, & He, 2008) can be adapted to help higher education administrators mentor and nurture the careers of future administrative leaders. The Appreciative Advising model is being utilized on a number of college campuses to help students identify their dreams for their future and devise a plan to make those dreams come true (Bloom et al., 2009). This article proposes adapting this model to be used with academic staff to help them achieve their career and personal goals

Castleman disease and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia: a complex diagnostic and management challenge

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Let\u27s Speak Bom! The First Bom Primer: A Graphic Introduction to the Bom Language of Sierra Leone

A graphic introduction to the Bom language of Sierra Leone, based on the stories of Bom community elders. Compiled and illustrated by Hannah Sarvasy, with editorial assistance from Tucker Childs

Generating Sets and Algebraic Properties of Pure Mapping Class Groups of Infinite Graphs

We completely classify the locally finite, infinite graphs with pure mapping class groups admitting a coarsely bounded generating set. We also study algebraic properties of the pure mapping class group: We establish a semidirect product decomposition, compute first integral cohomology, and classify when they satisfy residual finiteness and the Tits alternative. These results provide a framework and some initial steps towards quasi-isometric and algebraic rigidity of these groups.Comment: 36 pages, 10 figure

The Automorphism Group of the Infinite-Rank Free Group is Coarsely Bounded

We prove that the full automorphism group and the outer automorphism group of the free group of countably infinite rank are coarsely bounded. That is, these groups admit no continuous actions on a metric space with unbounded orbits, and have the quasi-isometry type of a point.Comment: 4 pages. v2: Incorporated referee's comment. To appear in New York Journal of Mathematic

Small Cities Blues: Looking for Growth Factors in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

The purpose of this exploratory study is to attempt to identify particular public policies which have the potential to increase the economic viability of smaller metropolitan areas and cities. We identify characteristics associated with smaller metro areas that performed better-than-expected (winners) and worse-than-expected (losers) during the 1990s, given their resources, industrial mix, and location as of 1990. Once these characteristics have been identified, we look for evidence that public policy choices may have promoted and enhanced a metro area\u27s ability to succeed and to regain control of its own economic destiny. Methodologically, we construct a regression model which identifies the small metro areas that achieved higher-than-expected economic prosperity (winners) and the areas that saw lower-than-expected economic prosperity (losers) according to the model. Next, we explore whether indications exist that winners and losers are qualitatively different from other areas in ways that may indicate consequences of policy choices. A cluster analysis is completed to group the metro areas based on changes in a host of social, economic, and demographic variables between 1990 and 2000. We then use contingency table analysis and ANOVA to see if winning or losing, as measured by the error term from the regression, is related to the grouping of metro areas in a way that may indicate the presence of deliberate and replicable government policy