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Economic Impact Of The Pork Industry In South Dakota; Economic Impact Of The Dairy Industry In South Dakota, Gary Taylor Dec 2010

Economic Impact Of The Pork Industry In South Dakota; Economic Impact Of The Dairy Industry In South Dakota, Gary Taylor

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Radiative Forcing Over The Conterminous United States Due To Contemporary Land Cover Use Change And Sensitivity To Snow And Interannual Albedo Variability, Christoper A. Barnes, David P. Roy Dec 2010

Radiative Forcing Over The Conterminous United States Due To Contemporary Land Cover Use Change And Sensitivity To Snow And Interannual Albedo Variability, Christoper A. Barnes, David P. Roy

GSCE Faculty Publications

Satellite‐derived land cover land use (LCLU), snow and albedo data, and incoming surface solar radiation reanalysis data were used to study the impact of LCLU change from 1973 to 2000 on surface albedo and radiative forcing for 58 ecoregions covering 69% of the conterminous United States. A net positive surface radiative forcing (i.e., warming) of 0.029 Wm−2 due to LCLU albedo change from 1973 to 2000 was estimated. The forcings for individual ecoregions were similar in magnitude to current global forcing estimates, with the most negative forcing (as low as −0.367 Wm−2) due to the transition to forest and the …

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Real Economic Development Comes From Entrepreneurship, Larry B. Swain Nov 2010

Real Economic Development Comes From Entrepreneurship, Larry B. Swain

Economics Commentator

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Economic Impact Of Agriculture On South Dakota, Gary Taylor Oct 2010

Economic Impact Of Agriculture On South Dakota, Gary Taylor

Economics Commentator

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Statistical Comparison; Economic Impact Of The Beef Industy On South Dakota, Jing Li, Gary Taylor Sep 2010

Statistical Comparison; Economic Impact Of The Beef Industy On South Dakota, Jing Li, Gary Taylor

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Fall Crop Insurance Considerations, Matthew Diersen Aug 2010

Fall Crop Insurance Considerations, Matthew Diersen

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Grid Pricing: An Empirical Investigation Of Market Signal Clarity, Scott Fausti, Bashir Qasmi, Jing Li Aug 2010

Grid Pricing: An Empirical Investigation Of Market Signal Clarity, Scott Fausti, Bashir Qasmi, Jing Li

Economics Staff Paper Series

The ability of the grid marketing system for fed cattle to provide an efficient price transmission mechanism is investigated. Nerlove' s (1958) adaptive expectations approach is adopted to model the relationship between grid premiums (discounts) and the weekly relative supply of carcass quality attributes. Linear regression techniques are used to estimate Nerlove's supply response function. Granger Causality tests are conducted to investigate the relationship between grid premiums (discounts) and the relative supply of carcass quality attributes. Regression estimates and the Granger Causality tests provide empirical support for the 2005 National Beef Quality Audit call for clearer market signals.

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South Dakota Agricultural Land Market Factors: 2010, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen, Emmanuel Opoku Jul 2010

South Dakota Agricultural Land Market Factors: 2010, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen, Emmanuel Opoku

Economics Commentator

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South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Cash Rental Rates: 2010, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen Jul 2010

South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Cash Rental Rates: 2010, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator

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Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: South Dakota’S Medically Uninsured, Jake Cummings Jul 2010

Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: South Dakota’S Medically Uninsured, Jake Cummings

Census Data Center Newsletter: 2007-2010

The status of our nation’s healthcare system has received a considerable amount of attention, particularly over the past two years. One of the most commonly cited areas of concern among stakeholders, such as the Kaiser Foundation, is the number of uninsured individuals nationwide.
In 2008, the Kaiser Family Foundation stated that the percentage of employers providing health insurance decreased from 69% to 60% (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 2008). Kaiser cited increasing premiums as a primary cause of health coverage being dropped. The Kaiser Foundation added that the uninsured “are four times more likely to delay or forgo needed …

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Insecticide Use And Crop Selection: A South Dakota Case Study, Tia Mcdonald, Ariel Keating, Scott Fausti, Jing Li, Mike Catangui Jun 2010

Insecticide Use And Crop Selection: A South Dakota Case Study, Tia Mcdonald, Ariel Keating, Scott Fausti, Jing Li, Mike Catangui

Economics Staff Paper Series

South Dakota has recently experienced a significant increase in the proportion of acres treated with insecticide. Unfortunately, data on insecticide usage by crop at the county level is not available. The following case study seeks to uncover the reasons for this increase by analyzing county-level data in South Dakota with a fixed effects panel regression. The study links the proportion of acres planted for a specific crop to the proportion of total acres treated with insecticide. This approach provides insight on how changing cropping patterns in South Dakota have influenced insecticide use.

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A Guidebook To Phd Programs In Sociology 2010-2011, Department Of Sociology And Rural Studies Jun 2010

A Guidebook To Phd Programs In Sociology 2010-2011, Department Of Sociology And Rural Studies

Sociology Guidebooks

This pamphlet is designed to serve as a guide for graduate students in the Department of Rural Sociology. As a guide, it does not replace the Graduate School Bulletin requirements. It spells out in detail the responsibilities of a graduate student in the Department of Rural Sociology.

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A Guidebook To Thesis And Non-Thesis Options Of The Masters Program In Sociology 2010-2011, Department Of Sociology And Rural Studies Jun 2010

A Guidebook To Thesis And Non-Thesis Options Of The Masters Program In Sociology 2010-2011, Department Of Sociology And Rural Studies

Sociology Guidebooks

This pamphlet is designed to serve as a guide for graduate students in the Department of Rural Sociology. As a guide, it does not replace the Graduate School Bulletin requirements. It spells out in detail the responsibilities of a graduate student in the Department of Rural Sociology.

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Eating Local And Supporting The Farm Community, Kuo-Liang Chang, George Langelett May 2010

Eating Local And Supporting The Farm Community, Kuo-Liang Chang, George Langelett

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Variance Risk Premiums And Predictive Power Of Alternative Forward Variances In The Corn Market, Zhiguang Wang, Scott Fausti, Bashir Qasmi May 2010

Variance Risk Premiums And Predictive Power Of Alternative Forward Variances In The Corn Market, Zhiguang Wang, Scott Fausti, Bashir Qasmi

Economics Staff Paper Series

We propose a fear index for corn using the variance swap rate synthesized from out-of-the-money call and put options as a measure of implied variance. Previous studies estimate implied variance based on Black (1976) model or forecast variance using the GARCH models. Our implied variance approach, based on variance swap rate, is model independent. We compute the daily 60-day variance risk premiums based on the difference between the realized variance and implied variance for the period from 1987 to 2009. We find negative and time-varying variance risk premiums in the corn market. Our results contrast with Egelkraut, Garcia, and Sherrick …

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Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: Birth And Infant Mortality In South Dakota, Saileza Khatiwada, Jake Cummings, Diane Kayongo-Male May 2010

Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: Birth And Infant Mortality In South Dakota, Saileza Khatiwada, Jake Cummings, Diane Kayongo-Male

Census Data Center Newsletter: 2007-2010

The joy of birth and the sorrow of losing a newborn are profoundly personal experiences. Still, to some extent, both infant births and deaths are associated with numerous social and environmental factors. These factors include maternal health and level of access to, and quality of, health care (MacDorman and Mathews 2008). Moreover, infant mortality has been recognized as a relatively reliable marker of societal well-being (Gortmaker and Wise 1997). Therefore, it is important that we examine infant mortality rates throughout the state of South Dakota.

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Tri-State Meat Goat Survey Summary, Martin Beutler Apr 2010

Tri-State Meat Goat Survey Summary, Martin Beutler

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Twin Themes Of Theodore W. Schultz, Larry Janssen Apr 2010

Twin Themes Of Theodore W. Schultz, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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2010 Prospective Plantings Report Analysis, Alan R. May Apr 2010

2010 Prospective Plantings Report Analysis, Alan R. May

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: Prenatal Care, Smoking During Pregnancy, And Birth Outcomes In South Dakota, Saileza Khatiwada, Jake Cummings, Diane Kayongo-Male Apr 2010

Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: Prenatal Care, Smoking During Pregnancy, And Birth Outcomes In South Dakota, Saileza Khatiwada, Jake Cummings, Diane Kayongo-Male

Census Data Center Newsletter: 2007-2010

The birth of a baby can be a momentous occasion, but when an infant is born prematurely and/or with low birth weight, it can place a considerable amount of financial and emotional strain on families. In addition, poor birth outcomes such as low birth weight and preterm births put financial pressure on state and federal budgets. More specifically, Cassandra O’Neill (2004) reports that Medicaid covers “40 percent of the four million annual births” nationwide. O’Neill adds that Medicaid “pays for 50 percent of hospital stays for premature and low birth weight infants.”
There are a number of maternal characteristics that …

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Decoupling And Recoupling: Global Links To The Business Cycle; Cattle Market Fundamentals, John A. Sodney, Matthew Diersen Jan 2010

Decoupling And Recoupling: Global Links To The Business Cycle; Cattle Market Fundamentals, John A. Sodney, Matthew Diersen

Economics Commentator

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Affect Comprehension In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Visual Field Isolation Intervention, Erica L. Schmidt Jan 2010

Affect Comprehension In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Visual Field Isolation Intervention, Erica L. Schmidt

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) tend to show under-activation of the right fusiform face area of the ventral temporal cortex when viewing emotional faces, which may explain their affect comprehension deficits. This left hemisphere dominance, indicative of a piecemeal processing strategy, has been shown a less effective method of understanding true emotion. The present study aimed to condition the left-visual-field-to right-FFA pathway by allowing children with ASD to work through an emotion-matching computer program. One group completed the experiment with both eyes uncovered, while the other worked with only their left visual field open. Though no significant differences …

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Serial And Concurrent Presentations Of Stimuli And Their Effects On Items Recalled, Dustin J. Rhoades, Jordan Sippel Jan 2010

Serial And Concurrent Presentations Of Stimuli And Their Effects On Items Recalled, Dustin J. Rhoades, Jordan Sippel

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

The present study examined differences in accuracy of responses to serial and concurrent stimuli in an immediate free recall task for individuals from chemistry and psychology courses. Average accuracy of responses for presentation order, stimulus type, and gender differences were measured. The procedure used Superlab 4.0 and consisted of one practice trial followed by eight recorded trials of serial and concurrent word lists. Counterbalancing was used to try to control learning of one order of presentation over the opposite order. Serial word lists consisted of ten words presented two seconds apart and one at a time. Concurrent lists consisted of …

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Department Of Economics Publication List 2010, Penny Stover Jan 2010

Department Of Economics Publication List 2010, Penny Stover

Economics Pamphlet Series

This compilation lists published works authored by Department of Economics faculty members and other staff working on projects funded through the Department of Economics. Publications resulting from their research and academic activities are indexed by author at the end of this pamphlet for easy access by the public. The articles were published between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.

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United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo And Radiative Forcing: Past And Potential Climate Implications, Christopher A. Barnes Jan 2010

United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo And Radiative Forcing: Past And Potential Climate Implications, Christopher A. Barnes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Land Cover Land Use (LCLU) change affects Earth surface properties including albedo that impose a radiative forcing on the climate. Recent spatially explicit satellite derived contemporary LCLU, albedo, and projected LCLU data are used to study the impact of LCLU change from 1973 to 2000, and from 2000 to 2050, on albedo and surface radiative forcing for the conterminous United States. Four research hypotheses concerned with past and potential future climate implications of LCLU change are addressed. The research described in this dissertation makes an important contribution to advancing understanding of the role of LCLU change on the climate system, …

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The Journal Of Undergraduate Research: Volume 08 Jan 2010

The Journal Of Undergraduate Research: Volume 08

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

This is the complete issue of the South Dakota State University Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 8.

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Tracking Bare Sand Mobilization Arising From Landscape Manipulations In The Grasslands Destabilization Experiment (Gdex) In The Nebraska Sandhills Using Imaging Spectroscopy, Benjamin Helder Jan 2010

Tracking Bare Sand Mobilization Arising From Landscape Manipulations In The Grasslands Destabilization Experiment (Gdex) In The Nebraska Sandhills Using Imaging Spectroscopy, Benjamin Helder

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Grassland Destabilization Experiment (GDEX) is a landscape scale manipulative experiment initiated in 2004 in the Nebraska Sandhills to evaluate changes in surface properties following the abrupt loss of stabilizing vegetation. The GDEX features five treatments allocated among ten plots of 120 m in diameter (1.13 ha). The Aggressive Bare Sand protocol included chemical defoliation and subsequent shallow disking and raking in 2004 to devegetate the plot with periodic physical disturbance to maintain bare sand. The Long Term Disturbance (Press) protocol includes an initial chemical defoliation in May 2005 and seasonal spring reapplications, but no physical disturbance. Short Term Disturbance …

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Working Mothers: Cognitive And Behavioral Effects On Children, Amanda Dejong Jan 2010

Working Mothers: Cognitive And Behavioral Effects On Children, Amanda Dejong

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

Children face several cognitive and behavioral effects that are the result of maternal employment during their early developmental years. In this study, a questionnaire was distributed to thirty-two participants (twenty-eight female, four male) ranging in age from twenty-six to fifty-nine years. All participants had at least one child. Participants provided information about themselves, their spouse (when applicable), and their children, as well as their and their spouse’s work. Several cognitive and behavioral differences were noted between children of working and nonworking mothers. Differences were found in school performance, participation in extracurricular activities, and abnormal behavioral issues.

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The Effects Of Feedback On Student Performance While Performing Multiple Tasks Simultaneously, Amber Reis, Danyel Janssen Jan 2010

The Effects Of Feedback On Student Performance While Performing Multiple Tasks Simultaneously, Amber Reis, Danyel Janssen

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

Research shows that feedback or knowledge of results can increase performance on multiple activities. In order for feedback to be successful, it should follow closely in time to the behavior. The current study is a between-group design where the experimental group received visual feedback in the form of a point total about their accuracy in performing a computer task and the control group was not presented with the point totals. While the experimental group did have higher average point totals, the results were not statistically significant. Gender served as the second independent variable and there was not a significant difference …

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