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Electron Microscopic Studies On The Ultrastructure Of Curdlan And Other Polysaccharides In Gels Used In Foods, Tokuya Harada, Yoshimi Kanzawa, Kazuko Kanenaga, Atuo Koreeda, Akira Harada

Food Structure

Curdlan gels form either by neutralization of alkaline solutions or by heating aqueous suspensions. The former gels consist of long rnicrofibrils, 20 to 25 nm wide, made up of subunits, 2-3 nm wide. The microfibrils disintegrate on sonication into fibril units which on heating loosen and release thinner elementary fibrils, 1-3 mm wide.

Heated gels are composed of electron-dense structures in pseudocrystalline form. Preparations having their average degree of polymerization (DPn) 200, are unable to form gels.

Agar, K- and t-carrageenans, and konjac glucomannan gels formed by cooling of heated sols have structures similar to gels produced by neutralization of …

America's Premier Merchandiser: Check It Out - Wal-Mart - People Make The Difference, Fifth Edition, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

No abstract provided.

Workers' Supply Of Labor At A Road Construction Company: A Case Study, Richard Leo Bauerly

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

No abstract provided.

The Unification Of Germany: A General Disequalibrium With Labor Migration, Geraint Powell

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Among the many effects of German unification, there will be a disequilibrium in the labor market. The disequilibrium is a result of forty years of different economic systems. In East Germany, a relatively large percentage of the labor force is expected to become unemployed in the next year as compared to West Germany. The high rates of unemployment in the east compared to the west mean an excess supply of labor. There are reasons to expect both changes in the equilibrium wage, as well as migration from east to west. The purpose of the paper is to describe the process …

Peterson Book, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This is a copy of the book:

Peterson, W. C. (1991). Transfer spending, taxes, and the American welfare state. Kluwer Academic Publishers. From the library of the Levy Economics Institute.

Variables Affecting The Cost Of Technology Transfer From Developed To Less Developed Countries, Hala Helmi El Hadidi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Skilled Labor, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Semmler, W. (1984, Fall). Homogeneous and heterogeneous labor [Unpublished course paper]. Eco 204.

• Semmler, W. (1984, Fall). Circulation of commodities and circulation of money (simple reproduction) [Diagram]. Eco 204.

• Semmler, W. (1984, Fall). Numerical examples of extended reproduction worked out by Marx (Vol. II, p. 510, scheme B) [Course materials]. Economics 204: Advanced political economy.

• Shaikh, A. (1973). Theories of value and theories of distribution (pp. 150–155) [Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University]. New York, NY: Columbia University.

• Semmler, W. (1982, Fall). Homogeneous and heterogeneous labor [Unpublished course paper]. Eco 204.

• Howell, D. …

Economic Prescriptions For Black Americans, Jeremiah P. Cotton

Trotter Review

The following is a policy statement issued October 12, 1989, by the "Study Group on Employment, Income, and Occupations" of the Assessment of the Status of African-Americans project conducted by the William Monroe Trotter Institute. The full report of the study group is published in an article entitled "Race and Inequality in the Managerial Age," which appears in Social, Political, and Economic Issues in Black America.

One of the major conclusions of this report on the relative economic status of blacks in the United States is that a substantial and persisting gap exists between the general circumstances of blacks …

African Americans And The Future Of The U.S. Economy, Lou Ferleger, Jay R. Mandle

Trotter Review

For the first time in the country's history, the level of skills and education of the African-American labor force is a critical determinant of the potential for growth of the economy itself. The integration of black labor into the economy now means that the development of one is dependent upon the development of the other. To investigate this relationship we first examine the recent performance of the economy and the consequences of that performance for the black standard of living, and then the role the African-American labor force can play in overcoming the economic deficiencies that have plagued the economy.

Empirical Cost Curves Documentation, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Jepsen, M. (2014, August 29). Letter enclosing documentation copies and flash drive per Professor Snyder’s request [Letter to A. Shaikh].

• Shaikh, A. (2015, January 13). Letter regarding a document provided by Dick Goodwin and its evaluation by Luigi Pasinetti, Alister Watson, Piero Sraffa, and Geoff Harcourt [Unpublished handwritten letter; author listed as Vela, uncertain].

• Schefold, B. (1971). Theorie der Kuppelproduktion [Cover page]. Basel, Switzerland: Author.

• Shaikh, A. (1983, January 5). Empirical cost curves, shift work, etc.: General background resources and other sources [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (1991, December 17). Notes on …

Institute For Advanced Studies, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Handwritten notes on the folder cover

• Application for membership, 1992-1993, Institute for Advanced Study (November 27, 1991)

• Application for membership, 1992-1993, Institute for Advanced Study (duplicate) (November 27, 1991)

• Blank Confidential report on applicant for membership form from the Institute for Advanced Study

• Blank Confidential report on applicant for membership form from the Institute for Advanced Study (duplicate)

• Institute for Advanced Study document titled Selection process

• Handwritten notes regarding Marxian economics and related authors

• Institute for Advanced Study document titled Introductory information (January 1991)

• Institute for Advanced Study …

Levy Macro, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1990, December 9). Revised basic SR system [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1991, November 4). TUTSIM file: RevSR(1, 2) (TS 6.02) [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1991, November 5). c:\tutsim6\tsmodels\revsr1 [Printout of model file containing revised SR equations]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1991, December 9). Crowding out in my models [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1991, April 15). Dynamical system [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1991, November 17). Aggregate changes in money reserves [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

The Empire Strikes Out? A Look At The Nationalities Crisis In The Soviet Union, Catherine E. Breen

Honors Theses

My thesis rests on the notion that, because of the increase of freedoms in the Soviet Union today, many republics are demanding that their autonomy be restored and that this nationality crisis, an unforeseen and unwanted byproduct of recent reforms, has grown into such a disaster that it is now actually impairing the whole reform movement in the Soviet Union as civil unrest and strife are beginning to threaten the stability of this huge empire.

Ethnic identity is not something that can be hidden, changed, forced, or converted, nor will national and cultural roots simply disappear over time. Thus, the …

False Hopes: The United States Senate And Campaign Finance Reform 1980-1990, James Heimbach

Honors Theses

The cost of winning a seat in the United States Senate has risen dramatically over the last ten years. It has become the norm rather than the exception to spend over $1 million on a campaign. For example, in the 34 Senate races in the 1988 election, 32 campaigns spent over $1 million. Due to the necessity to raise more and more money, candidates have had to turn to alternative sources of campaign funds. Thus, the rise in campaign costs has been accompanied by a rise in the role of the political action committee (PAC). PACs are special interest groups …

The Invisible Hand In Modern Macroeconomics, James Tobin

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The Invisible Hand, one of the Great Ideas of history and one of the most influential, is Adam Smith’s most important legacy to macroeconomics, as to all economics. It is particularly important today as the ultimate inspiration for the New Classical Macroeconomics and for Real Business Cycle Theory. These are intellectual movements that engage many of the best brains in the profession, especially among younger cohorts and especially in the United States. They dominate the agenda even of theorists and econometricians who are skeptical or hostile to their methods and conclusions.

The Method Of Simulated Scores For The Estimation Of Ldv Models With An Application To External Debt Crisis, Vassilis A. Hajivassiliou, Daniel Mcfadden

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The method of simulated scores (MSS) is presented for estimating LDV models with flexible correlation structure in the unobservables. We propose simulators that are continuous in the unknown parameter vectors, and hence standard optimization methods can be used to compute the MSS estimators that employ these simulators. We establish consistency and asymptotic normality of the MSS estimators and derive suitable rates at which the number of simulations must use if biased simulators are used. The estimation method is applied to analyze a model in which the incidence and the extent of debt repayments problems of LDC’s are viewed as optimized …

Pop Sraffa, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1981, February 12). Marxist critique of Keynes–Sraffa tradition, including effective demand [Handwritten notes]. Manuscript in possession of the author.

• Anonymous. (1991). [Introduction to a book on long waves, with handwritten note “Ben (?) 1991”] [Annotated page]. Manuscript in possession of the author.

• Kurz, H. D., & Salvadori, N. (1992). Morishima on Ricardo. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 16(4), 421–437. Oxford University Press. [Copy with handwritten dedication to Shaikh and Diana].

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Ricardo’s and Marx’s theories of money, prices, and competition [Handwritten notes]. Manuscript in possession of the author.

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Shortest Integer Vectors, Herbert E. Scarf, David F. Shallcross

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Let A be a fixed integer matrix of size m by n and consider all b for which the body is full dimensional. We examine the set of shortest non-zero integral vectors with respect to the family of norms. We show that the number of such shortest vectors is polynomial in the bit size of A , for fixed n . We also show the existence, for any n , of a family of matrices M for which the number of shortest vectors has as a lower bound a polynomial in the bit size of M of the same degree …

Tests Of Specification For Parametric And Semiparametric Models, Yoon-Jae Whang, Donald W.K. Andrews

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper provides a general framework for constructing specification tests for parametric and semiparametric models. The paper develops new specification tests using the general framework. In particular, specification tests for semiparametric partially linear regression, sample selection, and censored regression models are introduced. The results apply in time series and cross-sectional contexts. The method of proof exploits results concerning the stochastic equicontinuity or weak convergence of normalized sums of stochastic processes.

Who Benefits From State And Local Economic Development Policies?, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Press

Bartik reviews evidence on whether state and local policies affect job growth. He then presents empirical data supporting the intentions of such programs, showing that job growth may lead to a number of positive long-term effects including: lower unemployment, higher labor force participation, higher real estate values, and better occupational opportunities. He also shows that the earnings gains to disadvantaged groups outweigh the resulting increased real estate values for property owners, and concludes by saying that regional competition for jobs may actually be a benefit for the nation as a whole.

Social Wage Us Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A., PhD., & Tonak, E. A. (1987). The welfare state and the myth of the social wage. In The imperiled economy, Book I: Macroeconomics from a left perspective. Publisher details not identified.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 11). Revisions for OECD studies [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 13). Revisions to Shaikh/Tonak paper [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 11). Country studies [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Labor benefit, tax rates, unemployment rate, and real wages [Printed graphs]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, December 22). Social …

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Papers On Unemployment And Real Wages, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1991). Notes on Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman’s Unemployment, with annotated pages from the book [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Anyadike-Danes, M., & Godley, W. (1989, June). Real wages and employment: A skeptical view of some recent empirical work. Manchester School, 57(2), 133–154. Manchester University Press.

Long Waves, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Notes on Dlinnye volny v ekonomike [Handwritten notes on Menshikov and Klimenko’s work; unpublished manuscript].

• Singer, D. (2003, June 10). Note from David Singer enclosing an annotated bibliography on long waves [Email communication].

• Singer, D. (n.d.). Annotated bibliography on long waves [Unpublished manuscript].

• Knowles, C. A. (1991, Spring). Nikolai Kondratieff and the long economic cycles in capitalist economies: Their validation, predictive ability, and explanation. Conference: A Journal of Philosophy. Publisher details not identified.

• Knowles, C. A. (1990). Tables of wholesale commodity price index and WCPI standardized for …

Racial Differences In Adult Labor Force Transition Trends, Michael Seeborg, Mark Israel

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Comment On Itoh, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• A document titled Comment on 'The value controversy reconsidered' by Makoto Itoh (1991, June 19)

Xrs, Current (Data), Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• Handwritten cover notes titled "XR's: Current Data" (January 1992)

• Handwritten notes titled "Meaning of Sykes AR(1) XR equations" (April 4, 1991)

• Summary titled "Competition and Exchange Rates Summary of A. Shaikh's article"

• Email from Mike Inskeep regarding Shaikh's articles (November 13, 1991)

• Page 9 from an unidentified document concerning foreign funding in India

• Yonel Letellier's data output with handwritten notes (May 9, 1991)

• Two regression tables titled "TABLE #1 CLASSICAL HYPOTHESIS (1960-1988)" and "TABLE #2 PPI HYPOTHESIS (1960-1988)" (April 30, 1991)

• Crockett, A. (1981). Determinants of exchange rate movements: A review. Finance & Development, 18(1), 33–37

• Graphs comparing ln …

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Enrollment Forecasting At Sinclair Community College, Scott David O'Bryant

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

Sinclair Community College, like all institutions of higher education, has tremendous need for accurate enrollment forecasts. Until recently, using a combination of forecasting tools, the forecasts generated by the Office of Institutional Planning and Research (IPR) have been quite adequate. Recently, however, the accuracy of the enrollment predictions has waned considerably. In an effort to reverse this trend, it was decided to add another, previously untried, forecasting method to the IPR arsenal: Autoregressive Integrated Moving Averages, or ARIMA.

ARIMA models are a time series forecasting tool developed by Box and Jenkins in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After careful …

Similarities And Differences In The Adult Learner: A Comparison Of Student Perceptions Motivations And Needs By Age Cohort, Joan Elizabeth Patten

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The majority of literature dealing with the adult learner concept revolves around teaching methodologies or learning capabilities. While there is some literature on motivation in adult learners, the general assumption is that all those over the age of 25 are similarly motivated and share common perceptions.

To determine whether student perceptions, motivations and needs could be distinguished by age categories, survey results of 936 students at Sinclair Community College were categorized within 4 age cohorts. Results indicate that: 1) both traditionally-aged students as well as non-traditional students share some common perceptions; and 2) cohorts within the non-traditional student population may …

Promoting Export Activity In The Dayton Economy, Deena Lyn Will

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The development and implementation of a mail questionnaire proved to satisfy the goal of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce to promote export activity in the region. The results of the survey indicate that over one third of the respondents to the survey are actively engaged in exporting. The identification on these firms will allow the Chamber to more effectively promote their goods and services abroad.

The manipulation of the results obtained from the survey will be used to publish a listing of companies in the Dayton area engaged in exporting goods and services to foreign countries. The resultant export …

U.S. Technology Transfer To China: Problems And Perspectives, Yalan Jiang

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The subject of technology transfer has been an area of wide-range interest and significance for many years, especially in the recent past, as Japan and the Newly Industrialized Nations (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) have set themselves as successful examples in area of technology transfer. Recognizing the importance of technology transfer to its national economic development, China started the unprecedented movement of technology transfer along with its economic reform in the late 1970s.

Great achievements have been made in the area of agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense. However, many problems have emerged during the process of …