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Modelling Conditional Correlations In International Tourism Demand, Felix Chan, Michael Mcaleer, Christine Lim

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

International tourism demand, or tourist arrivals, to Australia has recently experienced dramatic fluctuations due to changes in the economic, financial and political environment. However, variations in tourism demand, specifically the conditional variance, or volatility, have not previously been investigated. An analysis of such volatility is essential for investigating the effects of shocks in tourism demand models. This paper models the conditional mean and conditional variance of the logarithm of the monthly tourist arrival rate from the four leading tourism source countries to Australia, namely Japan, New Zealand, UK and USA, using three multivariate static or constant conditional correlation (CCC) volatility …

Simulating Global Feedbacks Between Sea Level Rise, Water For Agriculture And The Complex Socio-Economic Development Of The Ipcc Scenarios, Saskia Werners, Roelof Boumans, Laurens Bouwer

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The Global Unified Meta-model of the BiOsphere (GUMBO) was used to simulate how the socioeconomicconditions specified in the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) of the IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) influence vulnerability to climate change. Input parametersare the consumer preferences, investment strategies, natural resources management and technologicaldevelopment associated with the SRES scenarios. From this input the characteristic SRES driving forcespopulation growth, economic development and fossil fuel use were reproduced in GUMBO with thecorresponding climate scenarios (temperature change, sea level rise and rainfall patterns). This articleshows alternative pathways of development exist that yield the same SRES driving forces but that …

Uah Alumni News, Summer 2004, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

UAH Alumni News

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Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

Today’s Boise State University is building on past success and setting the pace in a changing academic world. Leading that charge is a diverse array of faculty members from longtime professors to those fresh out of doctoral programs. They are researchers, writers, performers, lecturers and philosophers — more than 950 full- and part-time teachers dedicated to keeping Boise State on the leading edge of higher education. Pictured on the cover (clockwise from upper left) are Richard Klautsch, theatre arts; Susan Shadle, chemistry; Giselle Wyers, music; Tom Trusky, English; Marcellus Brown, music; and Yonnie Chyung, instructional and performance technology. Photos by …

A Patch Hath Smaller Patches: Delineating Ecological Neighborhoods For Parasites, Derek Zelmer, John R. Seed

Faculty Publications

Use of the host individual as a boundary for parasite populations and communities provides an unambiguous spatial unit that is useful for pattern description, but this framework precludes consideration of the host landscape and within-host population dynamics. Recognizing host individuals as spatially and temporally complex landscapes requires modified concepts of parasite populations and communities. An outline of the currently accepted hierarchies of parasite populations and communities is provided on the basis of ecological neighborhoods that are delineated by discrete habitat patches or functional dynamics (or both), as opposed to host individuals. This parasite-based framework accommodates consideration of both within- and …

Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2004, Seaall

Newsletters

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Table Of Contents

South Carolina Law Review

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Hidden From The Public By Order Of The Court: The Case Against Government-Enforced Secrecy, Joseph F. Anderson Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

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The New Role Of Secret Settlements In The South Carolina Justice System, Jean Hoefer Toal, Bratton Riles

South Carolina Law Review

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Role Of Judges In Secret Judgments, Abner J. Mikva

South Carolina Law Review

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Family Court Files: A Treasure Trove For Identity Thieves, Melissa F. Brown

South Carolina Law Review

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News From The South Carolina Library Association V.2 N.3 07/2004

South Carolina Libraries

News from the South Carolina Library Association v.2 n.3 07/2004

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3 Summer 2004, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

The Value Of Waiting: Foreign Direct Investment With Uncertainty And Imperfect Local Knowledge, Yongil Jeon, Taekwon Kim, Stephen M. Miller

Economics Working Papers

This paper examines the role of uncertainty and imperfect local knowledge in foreign direct investment. The main idea comes from the literature on investment under uncertainty, such as Pindyck (1991) and Dixit and Pindyck (1994). We empirically test .the value of waiting. with a dataset on foreign direct investment (FDI). Many factors (e.g., political and economic regulations) as well as uncertainty and the risks due to imperfect local knowledge, determine the attractiveness of FDI. The uncertainty and irreversibility of FDI links the time interval between permission and actual execution of such FDI with explanatory variables, including information on foreign (home) …

Orange & White - Summer 2004, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

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Wright State University Libraries Access Newsletter Summer 2004, Wright State University Libraries

Access Newsletter

An eight page newsletter created by Wright State University Libraries that addresses the current affairs of the Libraries.

Inside Unlv, Holly Ivy De Vore, Carol C. Harter, Stuart Mann

Inside UNLV

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Unlv Magazine, Carol C. Harter, Holly Ivy De Vore, Andy Grossman, David G. Schwartz, Mayumi Itoh, Tascha Boychuk-Spears, Hal K. Rothman, John F. Gallagher, Lori Bachand, Gian Galassi, Doug Mcinnis, Erin Auerbach, Gillian Silver, Laurie Fruth

UNLV Magazine

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

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Louisiana Agriculture Summer, 2004, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

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Summer 2004, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

Summer 2004 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 40 pages

Volume 87, Number 3

Liking To Be In America: Puerto Rico's Quest For Difference In The United States, Ángel Oquendo

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Lawrence Today, Volume 84, Number 4, Summer 2004, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

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Genetics: The Not-So-New Thing, Dena S. Davis

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Practical knowledge of heredity predates history. Indigenous peoples laid the foundations of modern agriculture by developing plants such as corn. However, the language and metaphors of the Human Genome Project treat modern genetics as if it had no historical antecedents and fail to acknowledge these early contributions to the science of heredity. The results of this blindness are twofold: it exacerbates reluctance of native peoples to take part in genetic research and to garner the benefits of genetic medicine, and it encourages "biopiracy," as modern scientists "discover" and patent native plants.

The Dangerous Allure Of The Issue Class Action, Laura J. Hines

Indiana Law Journal

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The Death Of Offers, Val D. Ricks

Indiana Law Journal

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Research In Home-Care Telemedicine: Challenges In Patient Recruitment, Usha Subramanian, Faith Hopp, Julie Lowery, Peter Woodbridge, David Smith

Social Work Faculty Publications

This study reports challenges in recruiting patients for a randomized controHed trial of home-care telemedicinae. Descriptive statistics on patient eligibility for home-care telemedidne services and patient refusals for participation are provided. Frequency counts of reasons for study exclusion and participant refusal and Chi-square tests to compare race and age-related differences are given. Of 302 home-care patients reviewed, 197 (65.2%) did not meet inclusion criteria. The most common reasons for study exclusion were patients either needing <2 visits per month (n = 59, 30%) or >3 skilled nurse visits per week (n = 46, 23.4%). Of the eligible patients (n = 105), 79 …

Granite State Poll For New Hampshire Estuaries Project, Andrew E. Smith, Dennis M. Junius

PREP Reports & Publications

The University of New Hampshire Survey Center included a question on its July 2004 Granite State Poll for the New Hampshire Estuaries Project. The major purposes of these questions were to assess the knowledge of New Hampshire residents concerning the meaning of an estuary. Five hundred and nine (509) New Hampshire adults were interviewed by telephone between July 6 and July 20, 2004.

Andrews University’S Passion, Katie Shaw

Lake Union Herald

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Teacher In The Spotlight, Bjorn Karlman,

Lake Union Herald

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