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Foresight Benchmark Data 2014-2015, Paul J. Speaker

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Project FORESIGHT is a business-guided self-evaluation of forensic science laboratories across the globe. The participating laboratories represent local, regional, state, and national agencies. Economics, accounting, finance, and forensic faculty provide assistance, guidance, and analysis. Laboratories participating in Project FORESIGHT have developed standardized definitions for metrics to evaluate work processes, linking financial information to work tasks, and functions. Laboratory managers can then assess resource allocations, efficiencies, and value of services—the mission of Project FORESIGHT is to measure, preserve what works, and change what does not.

The benchmark data for the 2014-2015 performance period includes laboratory submissions for a variety of fiscal …

Managing For Pasture Value, Edward Barrow Rayburn

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

WVU-Extension fact sheet

Easing The Transition: Proposing A Supranational Body To Facilitate Formalizing Economies, J. Berkeley Bentley

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes And The Obsessions Of Manliness, John M. Kang

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

"Should" Or "Must"?: Distinguishing Mandates From Guidlines In Tort Claims Contexts, A. G. Harmon

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Despite What You've Been Sold - Unwrapping The Falsities Surounding Food Labels, Camille Currey

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Homer Plessy's Forgotten Plea For Inclusion: Seeing Color, Erasing Color-Lines, Sheldon Novick

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Aftermath Of Alt V. Epa: Unresolved Tensions In Poultry Farm Pollution Control, Alison Peck

West Virginia Law Review

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Pasture And Grazing Management, Edward Barrow Rayburn

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

WVU-Extension fact sheet

Endogenous Competence And A Limit To The Condorcet Jury Theorem, Bryan C. Mccannon, Paul Walker

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

The seminal contribution, known as the Condorcet Jury Theorem, observes that under a specific set of conditions an increase in the size of a group tasked with making a decision leads to an improvement in the group's ability to make a good decision. An assumption under-appreciated is that the competency of the members of the group is assumed to be exogenous. In numerous applications, members of the group make investments to improve the accuracy of their decision making (e.g. pre-meeting efforts). We consider the collective action problem that arises. We show that if competence is endogenous, then increases in the …

Honest Abe Or Doc Holliday? Bluffing In Bargaining, Gregory Deangelo, Bryan C. Mccannon

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

We consider a bargaining environment where there is asymmetric information regarding whether the two players have common preferences or conflicting preferences. If the cost of strategic communication is independent of the state, then signaling is not expected to be effective. If the uninformed agent believes, though, a (cheap‐talk) signal has been sent, then the informed agents are incentivized to engage in deceptive bluffing. Alternatively, if bluffing is not too prevalent, honest communication can be worthwhile. We explore this theoretically and experimentally. We present a bargaining model where state‐dependent mixed strategies arise as equilibria. Thus, bluffing occurs in equilibrium. In the …

Briefing On Local Health Department Consolidation Potential In West Virginia, Brian Lego, John Deskins

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

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Evidence For Anti-Intellectualism About Know-How From A Sentence Recognition Task, Ian Harmon, Zachary Horne

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

An emerging trend in cognitive science is to explore central epistemological questions using psychological methods. Early work in this growing area of research has revealed that epistemologists' theories of knowledge diverge in various ways from the ways in which ordinary people think of knowledge. Reflecting the practices of epistemology as a whole, the vast majority of these studies have focused on the concept of propositional knowledge, or knowledge-that. Many philosophers, however, have argued that knowing how to do something is importantly different from knowing that something is the case. Hence, in this paper we turn our attention to people's concept …

The Hi/Oh/Recombination Line Survey Of The Inner Milky Way (Thor) - Survey Overview And Data Release 1, H. Beuther, S. Bihr, M. Rugel, L. D. Anderson

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The past decade has witnessed a large number of Galactic plane surveys at angular resolutions below 20 `'. However, no comparable high-resolution survey exists at long radio wavelengths around 21 cm in line and continuum emission. Aims. We remedy this situation by studying the northern Galactic plane at similar to 20 `' resolution in emission of atomic, molecular, and ionized gas. Methods. Employing the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in the C-array configuration and a large program, we observe the HI 21 cm line, four OH lines, nineteen Hn alpha radio recombination lines as well as the continuum …

Continuum Sources From The Thor Survey Between 1 And 2 Ghz, S. Bihr, K. G. Johnston, H. Beuther, L. D. Anderson

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We carried out a large program with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA): "THOR: The H1, OH, Recombination line survey of the Milky Way". We observed a significant portion (~100 deg2) of the Galactic plane in the first quadrant of the Milky Way in the 21 cm H I line, 4 OH transitions, 19 radio recombination lines, and continuum from 1 to 2 GHz. In this paper we present a catalog of the continuum sources in the first half of the survey (l = 14.0-37.9° and l = 47.1-51.2°, | b | = 1.1°) at a spatial resolution …

Magnetospheric Ion Influence On Magnetic Reconnection At The Duskside Magnetopause, S. A. Fuselier, J. L. Burch, P. A. Cassak, J. Goldstein

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Slope And Amplitude Asymmetry Effects On Low Frequency Capacitively Coupled Carbon Tetrafluoride Plasmas, I. Korolov, T. Lafleur, T. Gans, J. Schulze

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Long-Term Observations Of The Pulsars In 47 Tucanae – I. A Study Of Four Elusive Binary Systems, A. Ridolfi, P. C. C. Freire, P. Torne, D. Lorimer

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

For the past couple of decades, the Parkes radio telescope has been regularly observing the millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc). This long-term timing program was designed to address a wide range of scientific issues related to these pulsars and the globular cluster where they are located. In this paper, the first of a series, we address one of these objectives: the characterization of four previously known binary pulsars for which no precise orbital parameters were known, namely 47 Tuc P, V, W and X (pulsars 47 Tuc R and Y are discussed elsewhere). We determined the previously unknown …

Observing Gravitational-Wave Transient Gw150914 With Minimal Assumptions, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, E. Huerta, S. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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Comprehensive All-Sky Search For Periodic Gravitational Waves In The Sixth Science Run Ligo Data, B. P. Abbott, B. D. Cheeseboro, R. C. Devine, S. T. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

All-Sky Search For Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients With Initial Ligo, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, E. Huerta, S. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Search For Transient Gravitational Waves In Coincidence With Short-Duration Radio Transients During 2007–2013, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, E. Huerta, S. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Directly Comparing Gw150914 With Numerical Solutions Of Einstein’S Equations For Binary Black Hole Coalescence, B. P. Abbott, B. D. Cheeseboro, R. C. Devine, S. T. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Results Of The Deepest All-Sky Survey For Continuous Gravitational Waves On Ligo S6 Data Running On The Einstein@Home Volunteer Distributed Computing Project, B. P. Abbott, B. D. Cheeseboro, R. C. Devine, S. T. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Properties Of The Binary Black Hole Merger Gw150914, R. C. Devine, Z. B. Etienne, E. A. Huerta, S. T. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Proposed Search For The Detection Of Gravitational Waves From Eccentric Binary Black Holes, V. Tiwari, S. Klimenko, N. Christensen, S. T. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Most compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of the ground based interferometric detectors. However, several mechanisms have been proposed for the formation of binary systems, which retain eccentricity throughout their lifetimes. Since no matched-filtering algorithm has been developed to extract continuous GW signals from compact binaries on orbits with low to moderate values of eccentricity, and available algorithms to detect binaries on quasicircular orbits are suboptimal to recover these events, in this paper we propose a search method for detection of gravitational waves produced from the coalescences …

The International Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release, N. E. Garver-Daniels, P. Gentile, L. Levin, M. A. Mclaughlin, S. T. Mcwilliams, J. K. Swiggum

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro)physical investigations. In particular, arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of milliseconds can be used to detect correlated signals such as those caused by gravitational waves. Three such 'pulsar timing arrays' (PTAs) have been set up around the world over the past decades and collectively form the 'International' PTA (IPTA). In this paper, we describe the first joint analysis of the data from the three regional PTAs, i.e. of the first IPTA data set. We describe the available PTA data, the approach presently …

Search Of The Orion Spur For Continuous Gravitational Waves Using A Loosely Coherent Algorithm On Data From Ligo Interferometers, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, E. Huerta, S. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Gw150914: Implications For The Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background From Binary Black Holes, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, E. A. Huerta, S. T. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Tests Of General Relativity With Gw150914, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, E. A. Huerta, S. T. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.