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North Dakota Banking Efficiency: A Dea Application To Agricultural And Non-Agricultural Banks Pre- And Post-Financial Crisis 2002-2012, Samantha Ann Froelich

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

The Great Recession of the late 2000s had negative impacts across the United States economies with unemployment rates rising, bank failures, and other numerous economic problems. However, North Dakota was able to fend off the effects of the Great Recession by relying on their agricultural and energy industries during this time. North Dakota banks were able to avoid failure like many other banks in the nation during the recession. Empirical results of data envelopment analysis efficiency measurement shows that banks in North Dakota were able to increase efficiency from Q4:2002 to Q4:2012 without the recession have negative impacts on efficiency. …

Developing A Model To Value Germplasm Using Real Options, Marit Simonson-Paschke

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

With many varieties of germplasm being developed, it is imperative to the industry that firms decide on a valuation method. This need to include looking at traits of the germplasm, the risk and uncertainty of expected returns associated with a varieties' development and release. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the option value of developing germplasm using the real options approach. The value gained of the variety will be measured and used as a decision factor in the determining the value of the germplasm at different development phases. This approach helps managers decide the best possible option in …

Intermarket Trading Strategies And Risk, Kristopher Douglas Skadberg

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

The purpose of this thesis is to research methods that will be used to discover the profitability and risk of spatially arbitraging soybeans. A portfolio is used to analyze trading strategies, and the dependence measures is critical when simulating all of the variables. The dependence measures will aid in selecting the appropriate assets for the portfolio. The profits and risks for each asset will be analyzed and an optimization procedure will weigh the assets appropriately in bushels. Strategizing has become very important for merchandisers, because of the added risk associated with trading commodities. The results indicate that spatial arbitrage profits …

Food Away From Home Consumption In Urban China: Household Composition And Dining Location Effects, Haiyan Liu

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

China has experienced dramatic changes in food industry in the last three decades, with demographics changed substantially as well. Households are becoming smaller and are expected to age soon. Overweight and obesity have become serious problems at all ages and are worsening rapidly. All these demographic changes are closely related to food consumption and are going to play a vital role on the future of food industry, especially Food-away-from-home (FAFH) consumption. This study intends to analyze food away from home consumption in urban China with respect to household composition and income first, and then examine the influences of dining location …

Adolescent Food Consumption In Urban China: Factors Influencing Bmi And School Meals, Carl Allen Anfinson

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

China’s food consumption patterns are changing as the population becomes wealthier and more urban. As the country ages, today’s adolescents will be tomorrow’s consumers. Few studies have focused on this important demographic. This study intended to investigate what might be influencing adolescent BMI by examining what adolescents are eating at home and away from home along with socioeconomic factors. An increase in a mother’s education was found to have a positive influence on BMI. Another section focuses on what adolescents consume at school compared to at home and also examines their parent’s perception of these school meals by developing an …

Top-Down Nationalism In Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, Annie M. Scriven

Geography Masters Research Papers

Kazakhstan was the most multi-ethnic country to emerge from the former Soviet Union and the only one to have its titular ethnicity as a minority. This paper examines the top-down nationalism that has occurred since independence in 1991. The government of Kazakhstan has used elements of the theories of nationalism and territoriality in their effort to build a strong and unified post-Soviet national identity. The role of language, treatment of minorities, changing demographics, and the multi-ethnic nature of Kazakhstan make this a difficult task.

The Effectiveness Of Public Development Banks: Designing Good Impact Evaluations, Alessandro Maffioli, Cesar M. Rodriguez

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

PDB programs have become a fundamental ingredient of productive development policy strategies in most emerging economies. Although the overall need for these interventions is rarely questioned, academics and policymakers often debate their effectiveness, as well as the optimal approaches and instruments necessary to implement them. Therefore, the need to produce rigorous evaluations of PDBs has become increasingly relevant for both government and civil society (see Chapter 2).

This chapter presents the main concepts and operational arguments regarding the execution of indepth impact evaluations of PDB initiatives and instruments. For a more practical approach, these arguments are presented with examples of …

Report On The Xixth International Congress Of Aesthetics, Michael Ranta, Jale N. Erzen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Pornography And Disgust, Laurent Stern

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Disgust about material objects and moral behavior are both at issue in understanding pornography. Previous debates were fueled primarily by moral disgust. Erotic art may elicit moral disgust, but only hard-core pornography elicits material disgust. I discuss the role of attraction and aversion in labeling artworks pornographic. Since we always have a choice between acknowledging and ignoring a disgust elicitor, aversion may be a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for such a label. In submitting our choice to rational critique, we must ask: what do we accept as a consequence of the claim that that x is disgusting? Relying …

Conventional Wisdom About Yugoslavia And Rwanda: Methodological Perils And Moral Implications, Aleksandar Jokić

Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

While ostensibly a response to a critique, the main goal of this Article is to demonstrate how easily conventional wisdom, usually shaped by the media and politics, can corrupt scholarship when it is simply presupposed by those engaged in what should be an academic polemic, yet often also includes ‘activism in scholarship’. The examples of approved narratives in the West on Yugoslavia and Rwanda are used for the sake of this demonstration.

Developing And Assessing Curriculum On The Physics Of Medical Instruments, Warren Christensen, James K. Johnson, Grace R. Van Ness, Elliot E. Mylott, Justin C. Dunlap, Elizabeth A. Anderson, Ralf Widenhorn

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Undergraduate educational settings often struggle to provide students with authentic biologically or medically relevant situations and problems that simultaneously improve their understanding of physics. Through exercises and laboratory activities developed in an elective Physics in Biomedicine course for upper-level biology or pre–health majors at Portland State University, we aim to teach fundamental physical concepts, such as light absorption and emission and atomic energy levels, through analysis of biological systems and medical devices. The activities address the properties of electromagnetic waves as they relate to the interaction with biological tissue and make links between physics and biomedical applications such as microscopy …

The Daubert Revolution And The Birth Of Modernity Managing Scientific Evidence In The Age Of Science, David L. Faigman

Faculty Scholarship

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Copyright At The Bedside Should We Stop The Spread?, Robin Cooper Feldman, John Newman

Faculty Scholarship

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A Conversation On Judicial Decision Making, Robin Cooper Feldman

Faculty Scholarship

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Professor Edward Cooper The Quintessential Reporter, Mary Kay Kane

Faculty Scholarship

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Germany V. Italy And The Limits Of Horizontal Enforcement Some Reflections From A United States Perspective, Chimene Keitner

Faculty Scholarship

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Clarifying Costs Can Increased Price Transparency Reduce Healthcare Spending?, Jaime S. King, Morgan A. Muir, Stephanie A. Alessi

Faculty Scholarship

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Remedies A Course Fit For Civil Procedure Teachers, David I. Levine

Faculty Scholarship

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Bomb Throwing, Democratic Theory, And Basic Values - A New Path To Procedural Harmonization?, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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Cooperation And Litigation Thoughts On The American Experience, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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The Rulemakers' Laments, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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Shoes That Did Not Drop, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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Social Movements As Constituent Power The Italian Struggle For The Commons, Ugo Mattei, Saki Bailey

Faculty Scholarship

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Crimes Without Punishment An Update On Violence Against Women And Impunity In Guatemala, Karen Musalo, Blaine Bookey

Faculty Scholarship

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Regulating The Behavior Of Lawyers In Mass Individual Representations A Call For Reform, Richard Zitrin

Faculty Scholarship

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Where Are We Now And Where Should We Head For? A Reflection On The Place Of East Asia On The Map Of Socio-Legal Studies, Setsuo Miyazawa

Faculty Scholarship

Collaborative Research Networks ("CRNs") developed to encourage and facilitate and collaboration between scholars with shared academic interests. CRN33 (East Asia) is fairly new. This article, which is based on a speech given by the author, examines the status of East Asia in socioeconomic literature, explores the growing prevalence of East Asia as a topic in general theory-building in socio-legal studies, and suggests methods for placing East Asia in a more central position for future socio-legal scholarship. The author emphasizes that scholars in the field of East Asian legal studies should work harder to introduce those outside the field to the …

Successes, Failures, And Remaining Issues Of The Justice System Reform In Japan: An Introduction To The Symposium Issue, Setsuo Miyazawa

Faculty Scholarship

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Mapping, Modeling, And The Fragmentation Of Environmental Law, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

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Conflicting Obligations: American Political Culture And The Law Of The Workplace, Reuel E. Schiller

Faculty Scholarship

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Forest Carbon (Redd+), Repairing International Trust, And Reciprocal Contractual Sovereignty, David Takacs

Faculty Scholarship

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