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Strong Economic Growth Will Continue For The Next Two Years, John Austin, Nebraska Business Forecast Council

Business in Nebraska

The year-end analysis shows the state's economy growing rapidly with prospects for continued growth over the next two years. Total nonfarm employment will grow 2.2 percent in 1997 and just under that rate in 1998 and 1999 (Figure 1 and Table 1). Total nonfarm personal income will grow 6.3 percent in both 1997 and 1998, and 6.2 percent in 1999. Despite snow in the middle of the harvest season in parts of eastern Nebraska, net farm income will reach $2.3 billion in 1997, just under $2.5 billion in 1998, and $2.5 billion in 1999. Total net taxable retail sales will …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, November/December 1997

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletter (1993–2000)

Contents:

CSAS Publishes Book That Reviews Sustainable Ag Literature

NCR SARE Solicits PDP Proposals

Integrated Farm Update: Impact of Spring-grazing Crop Residues

Education in Scandinavia: from Farming to Food Systems

NSAS 1998 Annual Meetings

Ecosystems Provide Valuable "Services" Worth $33 Trillion

USDA Creates New Office of Pest Management

Sanet-mg Archives: A Valuable Resource

On The Admissibility Of Expert Testimony In Kansas, Mark D. Hinderks, Steve Leben

Faculty Works

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Technical Brief 15: State Archeology Weeks: Interpreting Archeology For The Public, Mara Greengrass

United States National Park Service: Publications

Why Have An Archeology Week?

Archeology is full of discovery and attracts a curious public, who wants to participate. State archeology week provides a venue for archeologists to involve the public, promote the preservation of archeological resources and illustrate the scientific proves of the discipline. It offers educational events for the public and increasingly for schools to generate understanding and support for archeology. In 1996, over 2,000,000 people visited state archeology week events, and this number is a conservative estimate. The first state archeology week was organized by Arizona in 1983. Originally, the program consisted of a small exhibit and …

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 13, Number 9, November 1997, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A twelve page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.

Unofficial Grapevine, November 1997, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Unofficial Grapevine

The November 1997 issue of the Unofficial Grapevine. Improperly labeled as Vol. 4, No. 12. This issue should be Vol. 5, No. 1.

People V. Sexton: Insuring An Absurd Result Through Inflexible Interpretation—The Court Of Appeal Denies Criminal Restitution To A Victim's Insurance Company, Neil D. Okazaki

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Problem With Money Now, Terms Later: Procd, Inc. V. Zeidenberg And The Enforceability Of Shrinkwrap Software Licenses, Christopher L. Pitet

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Otter Realm, November 1997, Vol. 2 No. 18, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Panetta Lecture Series Gets Underway -- First Annual Hunger Awareness Week -- Student Voice-news and issues -- Self-defense class to be offered -- IMIE learners rub shoulders with multi-millionaires -- Horoscopes -- CSUMB Student Brings the Cheetah to Children -- Hands-On Experiments Highlight First Annual Girls' Science and Math Conference -- CSUMB Cross-country team to host Turkey Trot and College Invitational -- Otter golf champions continue winning ways -- Regatta draws competitive field to Monterey Bay

Front Matter (Pdf), The Condor

Condor

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News And Notes, The Condor

Condor

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Award Announcements, The Condor

Condor

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1997 November, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

MSU Clip Sheet Archives

MSU Clip Sheet newsletters published in November of 1997.

Annual Assessment Of Customer Needs And Satisfaction, Patsy Anderson, Kris Hockensmith

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, both through its own quality initiative and a statewide "Empower Kentucky" campaign, has a commitment to achieve new levels of quality in the development, construction and maintenance of highways. In order to gage progress, there is a need to establish a baseline of customer satisfaction with the current highway system, and determine needs as perceived by the users of the highway system. As a result, the University of Kentucky Transportation Center, Technology Exchange Unit, was contracted to conduct a customer needs and satisfaction survey. The objectives of this study are to:

A. Ascertain Kentucky highway users' …

News And Views Of The South Carolina Library Association V.18 N.6 11/1997

South Carolina Libraries

News and Views of the South Carolina Library Association v.18 n.6 11/1997

Triazine Herbicide Exposure And Breast Cancer Incidence: An Ecologic Study Of Kentucky Counties, Michele A. Kettles, Steven R. Browning, Timothy Scott Prince, Sanford W. Horstman

Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

The incidence of breast cancer in the United States has steadily increased for the past three decades. Exposure to excess estrogen, in both natural and synthetic forms, has been implicated as a risk factor for the development of this disease. Considerable interest has been focused on organochlorines, such as the triazine herbicides, and their possible role in the initiation or promotion of human breast cancer. To explore this relationship, an ecologic study of Kentucky counties was designed. Exposure to triazines was estimated by use of water contamination data, corn crop production, and pesticide use data. A summary index of triazine …

Book Reviews, The Condor

Condor

No abstract provided.

Briefly Noted, The Condor

Condor

No abstract provided.

Tampa-Hillsborough-Lakeland-Polk Alternatives For Mobility Enhancement Major Investment Study: Peer Review Panel Summary Memorandum, Cutr

CUTR Research Reports

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Productivity And Market Integration In American Communal Dairying, 1830-1875, John E. Murray, Metin M. Cosgel

Economics Working Papers

In our late twentieth century experience, survival of an economy seems critically dependent on well established rights to private property and a return to labor that rewards greater effort. But that need not be so. History provides examples of micro-socialist economies that internally, at least, allow for little private property for participants and a constant return to labor that is independent of effort. Some such economies may even be termed 'successful,' if success is taken to mean survival over several generations. If these communities survived without conditions that are generally thought to be necessary for success, a question worth asking …

Responding To Price Signals In Communal Agriculture: Shaker Hog Production, 1788-1850, John E. Murray, Metin M. Cosgel

Economics Working Papers

Isolated Shaker communal farms stressed self-sufficiency as an ideal but carefully chose which goods to buy and sell in external markets and which to produce and consume themselves. We use records of hog slaughter weights to investigate the extent to which the Shakers incorporated market-based price information in determining production levels of a consumption good which they did not sell in external markets: pork. Granger causality tests indicate that Shaker pork production decisions were influenced as hypothesized, strongly by corn prices and weakly by pork prices. We infer that attention to opportunity costs of goods that they produced and consumed …

Regional Specialization In Communal Agriculture: The Shakers, 1850- 1880, John E. Murray, Metin M. Cosgel

Economics Working Papers

When the Shakers established communal farms in the Ohio Valley, they encountered a new agricultural environment that was substantially different from the familiar soils, climates, and markets of New England and the Hudson Valley. The ways in which their response to these new conditions differed by region has not been well documented. We examine patterns of specialization among the Shakers using the manuscript schedules of the federal Agricultural Censuses from 1850 through 1880. For each Shaker unit, we also recorded a random sample of five farms in the same township (or all available farms if there were fewer than five). …

Productivity Of A Commune: The Shakers, 1850-80, Metin M. Cosgel, John E. Murray

Economics Working Papers

How does the productivity of a commune compare with that of a conventional firm? This paper addresses this question quantitatively by focusing on the history of a religious commune called the United Society of Believers, better known as the Shakers. We utilize the information recorded in the enumeration schedules of the US Manufacturing and Agriculture Censuses, available for the period between 1850 to 1880, to estimate the productivities of Shaker shops and farms. From the same data source, we also construct random samples of other shops and farms and estimate their productivities for comparison with the Shakers. Our results provide …

Wear, Design And Enjoy Clothing, Seung Baik

Theses

Many artists choose to combine metal and textile to execute their works. Metal elements are sewn, woven, and crocheted into garments, sculpture, ornament, or decoration because it fastens directly to fabric to make a richly creative and decorative effect. Also, the qualities of metal provide structural stiffness, weight, and light (reflection) to the fabric. I explored different ways of integrating metal and fiber into the fabric of woven yarn structures. "Using textile techniques in metal does not constitute a movement or a style."1 However, treating metal like fiber is an intriguing concept with flexible possibilities for the two different materials.

Motions 1997 Volume 33 Number 4, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

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Why Not Cut Pay?, Truman F. Bewley

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Over 300 business people, labor leaders, business consultants, and counselors of unemployed people were interviewed during the recession of the early 1990’s in order to learn why wages and salaries were declining in only a few firms. Employers believed that cutting pay would hurt employee morale, leading to lower productivity and current or future difficulties with hiring and retention. There were few indications that unemployed people had excessive wage expectations. On the contrary, many unemployed were too flexible and found themselves rejected by firms as overqualified.

Jury Nullification: Law Versus Anarchy, Lawrence W. Crispo, Jill M. Slansky, Geanene M. Yriarte

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Principled Resignation Of Thomas More, Edward Mcglynn Gaffney Jr.

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Simulation Study Of Learning Automata Games In Automated Highway Systems, Cem Unsal, Pushkin Kachroo, John S. Bay

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

One of the most important issues in Automated Highway System (AHS) deployment is intelligent vehicle control. While the technology to safely maneuver vehicles exists, the problem of making intelligent decisions to improve a single vehicle’s travel time and safety while optimizing the overall traffic flow is still a stumbling block. We propose an artificial intelligence technique called stochastic learning automata to design an intelligent vehicle path controller. Using the information obtained by on-board sensors and local communication modules, two automata are capable of learning the best possible (lateral and longitudinal) actions to avoid collisions. This learning method is capable of …

Sliding Mode For User Equilibrium Dynamic Traffic Routing Control, Pushkin Kachroo, Kaan Ozbay

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

Presents a solution to the user equilibrium dynamic traffic routing (DTR) problem for a point diversion case using feedback control methodology. The sliding mode control technique which is a robust control methodology applicable to nonlinear systems in canonical form is employed to solve the user equilibrium DTR problem. The canonical form for this problem is obtained by using a feedback linearization technique, and the uncertainties of the system are countered by using the sliding mode principle. Simulation results show promising results.