Data Planet

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Caroline Geck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Commercial Sources ◽  
International Equities ◽  
Quarterly Workforce Indicators ◽  
Access Data

This comprehensive and growing subscription database from SAGE Publishing is a repository of over 157 billion data points and 12.6 billion updated datasets from over 500 United States and international source providers and 80 vendors. This repository has aggregated and organized data from disparate, but authoritative, public, private, and commercial sources. The data is then transformed into a homogeneous library and informational product created with features, such as 37 metadata fields, to enhance organization and searchability. Subscribers, especially in the United States and in fields such as academia, business, and government and policy-making, can quickly access archived data using either one of two different powerful interfaces or alternatively, access data using the 287 hyperlinked Libguides or library guides and create Web pages of data called datasheets that serve as focal points for analyzing statistics of interest. Individuals are offered a variety of functions that assist with analyses and research, such as customizations, integrations, visualizations, and citing. For niche business research needs and for additional fees, the core resource can be bundled with any of the seven premium database products from high quality vendors. These databases include China Yearly Statistics, EASI Market Planner, InfoGroup Business USA, International Equities and Metals, Claritas Consumer Profiles, Claritas Financial and Insurance CLOUT™, and Quarterly Workforce Indicators.

Trajectories of Karelian Music After the Cold War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka Suutari
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter tells the story of the revival of interest in Karelian music in the Finnish-Russian border region of Karelia after the Cold War. During this tense time, Karelians had been subjected to territorial divisions and harsh assimilation policies. With Perestroika came new stores of Karelian culture under the influence of developments taking place across the Nordic and Baltic regions. This was a scenario for Karelians in both countries to express their sense of belonging in new ways, and music once again became a medium for this. The author draws on fieldwork in the Karelian town of Petrozavodsk since 1992 and uses two bands from there as focal points for exploring consciousness in the region and beyond in wider international trajectories in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the United States.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Sarah Esther Lageson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Due Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prison Sentence ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Valuable Data ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Data Points ◽  
The Impact

Data-driven criminal justice creates millions of records each year in the United States. Documenting everything from a police stop to a prison sentence, these records take on a digital life of their own as they are collected and posted by police, courts, and prisons, and then re-posted on social media and websites, and bought and sold by data brokers as an increasingly valuable data commodity. The result is “digital punishment,” where mere suspicion or a brush with the law can have lasting consequences. This analysis describes the transformation of criminal records into millions of data points, the commodification of this data into a valuable digital resource, and the impact of this shift on people, society, and public policy. The consequences of digital punishment, as described in hundreds of interviews detailed in this book, lead people to purposefully opt out of society as they cope with privacy and due process violations.

scholarly journals On Estimating the Number of Deaths Related to Covid-19

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Pham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cumulative Number ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Total Death ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Population Mortality ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Death Data ◽  
The U.S

In this paper, we discuss an explicit model function that can estimate the total number of deaths in the population, and particularly, estimate the cumulative number of deaths in the United States due to the current Covid-19 virus. We compare the modeling results to two related existing models based on a new criteria and several existing criteria for model selection. The results show the proposed model fits significantly better than the other two related models based on the U.S. Covid-19 death data. We observe that the errors of the fitted data and the predicted data points on the total number of deaths in the U.S. on the last available data point and the next coming day are less than 0.5% and 2.0%, respectively. The results show very encouraging predictability for the model. The new model predicts that the maximum total number of deaths will be approximately 62,100 across the United States due to the Covid-19 virus, and with a 95% confidence that the expected total death toll will be between 60,951 and 63,249 deaths based on the data until 22 April, 2020. If there is a significant change in the coming days due to various testing strategies, social-distancing policies, the reopening of community strategies, or a stay-home policy, the predicted death tolls will definitely change. Future work can be explored further to apply the proposed model to global Covid-19 death data and to other applications, including human population mortality, the spread of disease, and different topics such as movie reviews in recommender systems.

Peopling the Portholes: National Identity and Maritime Museums in the U.S. and U.K.

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Leffler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
National Values ◽  
The U.S

This research essay explores both the substance and style of exhibits at maritime museums in Britain and the United States. The museums selected reflect how social history concerns affect representations of national identities and national values on both sides of the Atlantic. Issues of social inclusion and diversity prevail, but are treated in substantially different ways in Britain and the U.S. Representations of life at sea, relocation and travel, and commerce provide focal points for exploring these differences. Issues of class, race, loss and guilt, social mobility, and national identity are woven into the analysis.

The American Nightmare: Reading and Teaching Pietro di Donato's Ethnographic Novel Christ in Concrete

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Rose De Angelis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Italian Americans ◽  
Italian American ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interdisciplinary Course

In the interdisciplinary course entitled The Italian-American Experience, Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete is examined, explored, and analyzed within historical, socio-political, and literary contexts. The novel becomes a point of focus for the discussion of immigrant life and working-class people in a broader and contextualized understanding of Italian Americans. Students read Christ in Concrete in conjunction with essays documenting the history of workers' struggles in the United States. Read as cultural artifact, Christ in Concrete documents with historical clarity and brutal honesty the way in which the American Dream turned nightmare. Using language, religion, and social politics as focal points, the paper looks at Italian-Americans, their virtues and flaws, their struggles and triumphs, as it underscores the culture's unique contributions to the American mosaic not only in the lived lives of the novel's characters but also in the poetics of its discourse.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Scotch Bonnet and Habanero Peppers (Capsicum chinense) For Resistance to Southern Root-knot Nematodes

HortScience ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 621f-622
Author(s):  
R.L. Fery ◽  
J.A. Thies
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Capsicum Chinense ◽  
Root Knot Nematode ◽  
Seed Sources ◽  
Resistant Lines ◽  
Major Pest ◽  
Commercial Sources ◽  
Southern Root Knot Nematode

Scotch Bonnet and Habanero peppers, extremely pungent cultivar classes of Capsicum chinense, are becoming popular in the United States. Since the southern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) is a major pest of many C. annuum cultivars commonly grown in the United States, a series of greenhouse and field studies was conducted to determine whether Scotch Bonnet and Habanero peppers also are vulnerable to the pest. An effort was made to collect Scotch Bonnet and Habanero seeds from all available commercial and private sources. In an initial greenhouse test, a collection of 59 C. chinense accessions was evaluated for reaction to M. incognita (race 3). All accessions obtained from commercial sources were moderately susceptible or susceptible. However, four accessions obtained via Seed Savers Exchange listings exhibited high levels of resistance. Three of these accessions (identified by the seed sources as Yellow Scotch Bonnet, Jamaica Scotch Bonnet, and Red Habanero) were studied in subsequent greenhouse and field plantings, and each was confirmed to have a level of resistance similar to the level of resistance exhibited by the C. annuum cv. Mississippi Nemaheart. Each of the resistant lines has good fruit and yield characteristics. The two Scotch Bonnet accessions produce yellow, bonnet-shaped fruit. The Red Habanero accession does not produce the lantern-shaped fruit typical of Habanero cultivars; the fruit have a bonnet shape.

Women Weathercasters: Their Positions, Education, and Presence in Local TV

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Cranford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Television News ◽  
The United States ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Local Television ◽  
The Past ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Local Broadcast

Abstract Data on weathercasters at local television stations in all 210 markets in the United States were gathered through individual weathercaster biography web pages provided on television news station websites. The weathercasters’ genders, positions, and educational backgrounds were compiled and analyzed to determine women’s presence in local broadcast meteorology. While the overall percentage of females in the field increased and females were more represented in larger markets, females held fewer influential and desired positions in 2016 compared with previous studies. Women made up 29% of all weathercaster positions, which was higher than in earlier studies that showed the percentage at 25% or less over the past two decades. Females made up 8% of chief meteorologist positions and less than 11% of evening shifts, which were lower than numbers in previous studies. The proportion of female weathercasters who held meteorology degrees was lower than their male counterparts (52% of females compared with 59% of males). This difference was statistically significant (p < 0.01). Chi-squared tests revealed strong and statistically significant associations between males and chief meteorologist positions and between males and evening shifts. There was a higher percentage of weathercasters with meteorology degrees in smaller markets as opposed to larger markets.

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