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The Impacts Of Tourism On Space And Place In Jonesborough, Tennessee, Elizabeth E. Van Horn

Masters Theses

Small towns have increasingly begun to look to tourism as a means of promoting economic growth and development. While the positive economic impacts of tourism development have been widely recognized, the sociocultural impacts (which are often negative) have traditionally been overlooked. The transformation of sense of place for residents of small towns represents one of the many sociocultural impacts essential to the understanding of tourism's overall impact. Transformation of sense of place has been largely disregarded as a consideration in tourism development (and other development strategies), but the alteration of sense of place should be included in the evaluation of …

Hot Topic: The 1997/98 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The MTAS annual salary and fringe benefit survey for 1997/98 is complete and shows salary increases for city employees rose at a rate faster than 1996/97. This report contains a summary of the findings as well as a means to request specific information.

Linking To Full Texts, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

IT HAS BECOME routine for librarians to help a patron compile a comprehensive customized bibliography from online or CD-ROM indexes. In fact, patrons no longer consider it sufficient to compile a list of resources. Although searching indexes and abstracts was never the end of the information seeking process, in the print world an index search was so tedious that users focused energy on the search process. Interlibrary loan could suffice for articles the library didn't hold. Now, as library users become familiar with the convenience of online searching and their expectations rise, they expect instantaneous access to full articles.

To …

Economic Cost Models Of Scientific Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper summarizes costs of publishing scientific scholarly journals. Activities are described for five publishing components: article processing (e.g., manuscript processing, editing , composition, etc.), non-article processing (i.e. similar activities related to covers, tables-of-content, letters, book reviews, etc.), reproduction (e.g., printing, collating, binding, etc.), distribution (e.g., wrapping, labeling, sorting, mailing, subscription maintenance, etc.), and support (e.g., marketing, administration, finance, etc.). A model is derived for each of these components consisting of cost parameters (e.g., number of issues, pages, subscriptions, etc.) and cost elements (e.g., cost per page of editing, set-up cost per issue, postage cost per issue copy mailed, etc.). …

Technical Bulletins: Pricing Your Place On The World Wide Web, Lissa Gay

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Based on price estimates from several Internet Service Providers and Web site designers across Tennessee at the time of publication (April 1998), this Technical Bulletin is a summary of probable expenditures for hardware, software, and services needed to create and maintain a website for a local government.

Technical Bulletins: Sand For Wastewater Drying Beds, Brett Ward

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Drying beds for wastewater sludge require a specific type of sand in order to dewater the sludge quickly.

Designing The Future Of Electronic Journals With Lessons Learned From The Past: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Studies of thousands of both university and non-university scientists demonstrate the importance of scholarly journals to their work. Amount of reading has remained high and scientists who read more, are more successful. Readings have shifted from personal subscriptions to more readings from library provided journals. Personal subscriptions have gone down from 5.8 subscriptions per scientist in 1977 to about 2.9 subscriptions. The drop is due to the rising prices of subscriptions, prices that have increased beyond inflation rates. Processing costs decrease some with electronic journals, but the high fixed costs associated with creating scholarly journals are the same for print …

Hot Topic: Federal And State Reimbursement Rates For Travel, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

For those cities that elected to reimburse for travel using the federal reimbursement rates, the federal government increased the vehicle-cents-per-mile reimbursement rate to 32.5 cents per mile, up from 31.5 cents per mile in 1997.

Plagued By Our Own Successes, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Reference librarians are required to provide more patron support in the last few years because of increased electronic reference sources and services. The overwhelming array of options may lead to 'technostress', which some librarians view as counterproductive, while others see it as exciting.

Electronic Journal Publishing: Economics Of Production, Distribution, And Use, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Will Online Vendors Survive?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Online systems such as IAC, DIALOG, LEXIS/NEXIS and others are refocusing their market strategies following major corporation changes in the last year. Critical mass in the number of services, assets, customer size are necessary to compete in the changing, global information world.

Hot Topic: New Regulations Will Apply To Small Stormwater Discharges, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Discusses a major new rule, proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that would require permits for small stormwater dischargers in urbanized areas of 50,000 or more, various commercial operations, and construction sites of less than five acres.

Tennessee Public Acts 1998: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations. Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Growth Policy, Annexation, And Incorporation Under Public Act 1101 Of 1998: A Guide For Community Leaders, Ctas, Mtas, Center For Government Training

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The Ad Hoc Study Committee on Annexation, established by Lt. Governor Wilder and Speaker Naifeh, worked through the fall of 1997 and into the 1998 legislative session to develop a new vision for growth policy in Tennessee. Under the leadership of its co-chairs, Senator Robert Rochelle and Representative Matt Kisber, the Ad Hoc Committee vigorously pursued a solution that seeks to meet the public service demands of commercial and residential growth, while maintaining the character of Tennessee's rural areas. The general concepts embraced by the Ad Hoc Committee found substantial support in the House and Senate. Ultimately, differences between the …

Taking Online Interaction For Granted, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The ubiquity of library user familiarity with online searching allows librarians to focus on the social and human considerations of online interaction. Librarians can be leaders in humanizing the net, in improving search engine technology, and in educating the 79% who are still not online.

Dental Microwear Analysis Of Averbuch: A Dietary Reconstruction Of A Mississippian Culture, Melissa G. Muendel

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation reconstructs subsistence patterns of the inhabitants of Averbuch, a prehistoric late Mississippian culture, using SEM (scanning electron microscopy) to quantitatively assess the dental microwear of the permanent adult second mandibular molar of a selected skeletal sample from the Averbuch archaeological site. A comparison among the patterns of the Averbuch and those reported from other prehistoric sites in the United States is presented. The study uses the mesiolingual cusp (metaconid) tip facet (Kay and Hiiemae, 1974) of the mandibular permanent second molar to measure dental microwear features. Every cusp in the human mouth has an occlusal relationship to the …

Maximum Likelihood And Bayesian Estimation Of Skeletal Age-At-Death From The Human Pubic Symphysis, B. S. L. Hurst

Doctoral Dissertations

A number of methodological problems have recently plagued studies of adult skeletal age-at-death estimation. Over the last two decades, researchers have extended considerable effort to place age estimation studies on a firmer statistical ground. However, many of the current methods can still be criticized because they make unjustifiable assumptions or use inappropriate statistical models. Much of the controversy surrounding age-at-death estimation has focused specifically on the question of applying age standards from a reference collection of known-age individuals to a target group of unknown age.

The current study, involving a large sample (n=739) of adult male pubic symphysis data, demonstrates …

Cultural Patterning In The Use Of Herbal Medicines (Jamu) And Health Seeking Behavior In A Javanese City, Brook Williams Weisman-Ross

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the social patterning in the use of traditional Javanese plant medicines, collectively called jamu, within the primarily ethnic Javanese city of Yogyakarta, in central Java, Indonesia. Using both qualitative and quantitative ethnographic research methods, forty-eight common and uncommon types of jamu are discussed, and five predictions are evaluated: 1. Jamu sold daily by door to door vendors (jamu gendong) will most often be preventatives, rather than curatives; 2. Jamu sold by sedentary vendors will more often be used for specific illnesses (curatives) than those sold by door to door vendors (jamu gendong); …

As The Online World Turns, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The relationship between online vendors and content providers was a major issue at the 1997 Online World conference. Other important topics included pricing of online services and Web sites of online providers.

Hot Topic: Personnel Issues In The News, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

This Hot Topic summarizes various news articles related to personnel issues, including the use of credit reports in hiring, new identification cards for work-eligible aliens, a discrimination lawsuit, related Supreme Court rulings, and public safety laws.

Medline On The Web: Databases For Free, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The National Library of Medicine is offering free access to its MEDLINE bibliographic database through two search systems on the Internet, Grateful Med and PubMed. Information on the various versions of MEDLINE is available on 'Dr. Felix's Free MEDLINE Page.'

Doing An Annexation Study: A How-To Guide, Harold Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Hot Topic: Second Phase Of Minimum Wage Increase, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Included in the Small Business Protection Act of 1996 (P. L. 104-188) was a two-phase increase in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum wage. The second phase of the minimum wage increase went into effect of September 1, 1997. Under the act, employees, unless specifically exempt, must receive a minimum wage no less than $5 .15 per hour for all hours worked.

Beyond The Cd-Rom Model, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Companies such as SilverPlatter Information Inc (SP) and Ovid Technologies Inc should think of themselves as being in the information industry rather than the CD-ROM industry. New products include SP's Electronic Reference Library client/server software and the Ovid Java Client web software.

Privacy, Security, And Data Integrity, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The 1997 Mid-year Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) was held in Scottsdale, Arizona, the first week of June. As the heat reached triple digits outside, 300 ASIS members and interested others inside held heated discussions on issues surrounding "Information Privacy, Security, and Data Integrity."

The timing was good -- just a week before the Federal Trade Commission hearings about online privacy. A poll released at the hearings showed that over half of the computer users in the U.S. support laws on computer privacy, and major companies such as Microsoft and Netscape are supporting technological safeguards …

Biological Relationships Among Siberians: Craniometric, Serological, And Dermatoglyphic Approaches, Miyo Yokota

Doctoral Dissertations

Siberian people, residing in the wide range bounded by the Urals to the West, Beringia to the East, Mongolia to the South, and Arctic to the North, form an important link between Asia, Europe and people in the New World. However, biological contribution of Siberians to Asians, Europeans and people in the New World were not sufficiently studied until recently.

Previous extensive Siberian studies were mainly conducted by Russians and Japanese researchers, most of whom agreed that Siberians were clearly classified by typology. However, their typology is problematic when explaining tribes i.e., Evenks and Evens, who are exchanging genes and …

Aspects Of Ecology And Adaptation With An Emphasis On Hominoid Evolution, Clare Katharine Stott

Masters Theses

This thesis will explore hominoid evolution from the joint perspectives of ecology and palaeoanthropology. Unique to this study is the idea of Ecosystematics. While ecologists tend to focus their attentions on the immediate context of organismal existence and survival (i.e., the ecosystem), palaeoanthropologists more often focus on the long term, evolutionary trends of organismal adaptation, with usually much less attention given to the context of such adaptations. The Ecosystematic cycle bridges together these ideas of proximate (immediate context) and ultimate (long term) adaptation towards the end of better understanding of evolutionary patterns and processes inherent to hominid development. In this …

Online Use Policies And Restrictions, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Many public libraries have been forced to adopt policies regarding Internet access, both because of potentially controversial sites and the costs of providing access. Rules on restricting the access of minors and other policies are discussed.

Hot Topic: Public Acts Affecting Cities, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The recently concluded session of the Tennessee General Assembly resulted in several measures that affect municipalities in the state. This Hot Topic summarizes some of these acts. However, do not rely solely on these summaries before giving advice or taking action. Refer to the act itself.

Hot Topic: The 1996/97 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The MT AS annual salary and fringe benefit survey for 96/97 is complete and shows salary increases for city employees rose at a rate faster than 95/96. This report contains a summary of the findings in addition to a means to request specific information.