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Sustainable Production in a World with Exhaustible Resources

This lecture (planned for two sessions) gives an introduction to the problem of sustainable production in a world with exhaustible resources. First we will spend some thoughts on the ethics of intergenerational allocation and discuss discounting. Then we will be concerned with implications of exhaustibility of input factors to production. Next, we will discuss under which circumstances investing all rents from exhaustible resource exploitation in productive capital leads to constant consumption paths. And finally we take a look at how the change of the relative price of the scarce resource affects discounting. This note gives some rudimentary context and spells out all the mathematical models that will be lectured. It does not serve as a substitute for your readings in the text book (Perman et al., 2003, ch. 3, 4 and 19). Useful (but voluntary) general readings are the article from Solow (1986) and chapters 4, 7, 9, and 10 in the textbook from Dasgupta and Heal (1979). In particular, Groom et al. (2005) gives further background for section 2, Hartwick (1977) and Hoel (1978) for section 4, and Hoel and Sterner (2007) for section 5. After the lecture, you should be able to discuss the following key concepts: Cakeeating problem; utility and consumption discount rate; hyperbolic discounting; essential and inessential factors of production; Dasgupta-Heal-Solow model; Utilitarian and Rawlsian preferences; relative prices.
Scaffolding Complex Learning: Integrating 21st Century Thinking, Emerging Technologies, and Dynamic Design and Assessment to Expand Learning and Communication Opportunities

Enhanced ways of thinking about learners, learning, and communication in the 21st century across content areas coupled with technologies that can extend the outreach beyond text, time, and geography can accelerate learning and retention in higher education, professional organizations, and learning environments. However, many assumptions about time, situation, learning goals, and learner capabilities have been embedded in face-to-face and online approaches. Thus, when moving to the more dynamic designs available today, instructors, educators, and communicators must also carefully scaffold the environment to integrate effectively these emerging tools and understandings. Otherwise, what could be enriched learning can become confusion and frustration. This article outlines both ways to design and integrate content, learners, technology and communication tools, and assessment, thus enabling dynamic, 21st century learning and ways to scaffold and balance instructional supports, pacing, and interaction-planning thereby providing guidance for the rich learning that is possible in integrated, technology-supported environments.
A PROFILE OF TELEPHONE ANSWERING MACHINE OWNERS AND SCREENERS

Within just over a decade the telephone answering machine has become practically a f'Lxture of modem day life. In 1985, the incidence of answering machine ownership among U.S. households was just 13 percent (Roper Organization 1985). Three years later the penetration level of machines was estimated at approximately 23 percent (Roper Organization 1988). In the study presented here, the figure now stands at 52 percent of all households.
Research on Intelligent Design Management System of Building Structures Based on Fuzzy Rule Neural Network

Architectural technology is becoming more and more mature than before, but there are still many problems in the design of architectural structure. Therefore, the author regards intelligent design of building structure as the focus of research, and lists some common problems concisely. Because there is some fuzziness in the understanding of structural reliability, the fuzzy rule neural network is used for reliability evaluation. At the same time, several targeted solutions have been proposed to help. The results confirm that the intelligent structure monitoring system based on fuzzy rule neural network design system can greatly improve the application performance of the system, and at the same time, it can ensure that the system meets the intelligent monitoring requirements of actual engineering structure.
How Successful I am Depends on What Number I Get : The Effects of Numerical Scale Labels and Need for Cognition on Survey Responses

To further the understanding on the mechanism of numerical scale values, this study varied the numerical labels for scale points and examined its effect in relation to individual respondent’s need for cognition. Embedded in a web survey, this experiment succeeded in producing a variety of evidence that respondents worked out an inference from the numerical values and based their responses on that inference. The shift in responses induced by the numerical scale values was unexpectedly robust; when a scale started with a negative number, it pushed the responses to the right or the positive end of the scale across items and across fonts. Process measures (such as recall) and answers to the retrospective probe confirmed that respondents paid attention to the numerical labels on the scales and used them to interpret the verbal labels on the end points of the scale. However, not everyone was affected by the numbers on the scales. The hypothesized effect of the negative scale values was observed only among respondents with a high need for cognition, but not among those with a low need for cognition. This finding seemed to suggest two things. First, Gricean effects of this sort involve controlled processes; people need to process deeply for the numbers to affect the answers. Second, unlike the response errors committed by satisficing respondents (who skip or slack off on certain cognitive steps), Gricean effects are an optimizing error or high effort error, committed by respondents who try to be good, cooperative, and thorough respondents.
Types of hijacking in the academic world – our experiment in the scholarly publishing

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce types of hijackings in the academic world. Some of these hijacking are already known as hijacked journals, but some other type of hijacking are potential and unknown to most researchers. The author detected these hijacks by experimental study on journals, conferences and invitation emails and classifying them into groups which will be introduced in this paper. Design/methodology/approach The author can see other types of hijacks in the academic world that will introduce in this short paper with possible examples and general detection guideline for them. These were detected by experimental study on journals, conferences and invitation emails followed by classifying them into groups which will be introduced in the next section. Findings There are types of hijackings in the academic world that are introduced in this paper. Originality/value The author’s observation shows that hijacked journals and predatory publishers are only part of the problem.
Classifying Relationship and Marital Status among Same-Sex Couples

For purposes of official statistics, relationship to the householder is often used to build and define household units. These units, in turn, are used to establish measures of well-being such as household income and poverty. In order to accurately portray a population’s demographic and social profile, however, the measures used to produce such profiles must keep up with changes in society and laws. While same-sex couples in the United States historically have been denied legal recognition, in 2004, Massachusetts enacted legislation making same-sex marriage legal. Since then, several other states (and the District of Columbia) have passed similar laws. As a result, the number of same-sex couples who select the relationship category “husband or wife” is expected to increase as well. Recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) suggest that the number of same-sex couples reporting “husband or wife” is much larger than the actual number of same-sex couples legally married in the U.S. (Gates and Steinberger, 2009; O’Connell and Lofquist, 2009). One obvious explanation is that some same-sex couples equate their living situation to a marriage regardless of legal status. Alternatively, questionnaire design may play a part – the spouse category is first in the relationship category list on both the Census and ACS forms while unmarried partner is next to last in a long list of fourteen. This paper reports the results from focus group research to investigate how gay and lesbian couples think about and report their relationships and marital status. We also explored what certain terms, definitions, and categories mean to this subpopulation. The paper concludes with recommendations for question revisions that can be further tested in cognitive interviews and small-scale field tests.
Parent Training Programs : An Overview

Parent training and education is one approach utilized to prevent child maltreatment. The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices lists 66 different parenting programs which have been reviewed. However, this list does not encompass all of the parenting programs available or utilized. An overview of some of these parent training programs provides a glimpse into the potential objectives that can be achieved, populations the program is most effective with, and the age groups which are focused upon. This constitutes a starting point for agencies and entities, whom are considering implementing a parenting program in their community.
Protocols in Mobile Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks : A Survey

Introducing mobility and cognitive radio into design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) puts new challenges particularly in designing of routing and MAC protocols. Mobility can be applied to the sensor nodes and/or the sink node in the network. Many routing and MAC protocols have been developed to support the mobility and cognitive radio in WSNs. Selecting an appropriate protocols for specific applications is an important and difficult task. Therefore, this paper focuses on reviewing some of the recent Mobility based routing and MAC protocols that are developed in the last few years for cognitive sensor networks. Also, we present a detailed classification of the reviewed protocols according to the cognitive approach, routing, MAC, mobility pattern, network architecture, protocol operation, protocol objectives, and applications. Moreover, a comparative analysis between the reviewed protocols is investigated in this survey and drawbacks of each protocol are mentioned.
Slicing of Web Applications Using Source Code Analysis

Program slicing revealed a useful way to limit the search of software defects during debugging and to better understand the decomposition of the application into computations. The web application is very widely used for spreading business throughout the world. To meet the desire of the customers, web applications should have more quality and robustness. Slicing, in the ? eld of web application, helps disclosing relevant information and understanding the internal system structure. This in turn helps in debugging, testing and in improving the program comprehensibility. The system dependence graph is an appropriate data structure for slice computation, in that it explicitly represents all dependencies that have to be taken into account in slice determination. We have extended the system dependence graph to Web-Application Dependence Graph (WADG). We have developed a partial tool for automatic generation of the WADG and computation of slices. In our literature survey, we found that most of the automatic graph generation tools are byte-code based. But, our tool uses the dependency analysis from the source code of the given program. We have presented three case studies by taking open source web programs and applying our techniques and slicing algorithm. We have found that the slices computed is correct and precise, which will be help full for program debugging and testing. Construction of the system dependence graph for Web applications is complicated by the presence of dynamic code. In fact, a Web application builds the HTML code to be transmitted to the browser at run time. Knowledge of such code is essential for slicing.
Ivabradine for Treatment of Stable Angina and Heart Failure

A significant number of industrial professionals and pharmacists have revealed that ivabradine is extremely suitable drug, which can be used for inhibiting sinus-node. This medicine has enough capability to reduce the risk of various cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, ivabradine is helpful for the governmental authorities and hospital administration to reduce the mortality and morbidity rates of cardiac conditions. During the presence of angina, this drug can be easily used for improving exercise capacity. Sinus tachycardia can be easily controlled with the help of this pharmaceutical agent. Conversely, this medicine is not associated with decreased mortality rates of coronary artery deisease. Therefore, it is extremely necessary for current investigators to identify advanced knowledge in relation with ivabradine.
Incorporating a Multi-Mode Design Into a Random-Digit-Dialing Telephone Survey

Random-digit-dialing (RDD) surveys are typically conducted using only the telephone survey mode of data collection. However, because RDD survey response rates have been declining over the past ten years it is important to examine alternatives to the single-mode approach. This paper describes a test of one multi-mode alternative conducted as part of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a monthly state-based RDD survey that measures health conditions and risk factors. In six states, a list-assisted RDD sample was selected and matched with a database of residential telephone numbers and addresses. For the sampled telephone numbers with an address match, a mail survey with telephone survey follow-up of mail nonrespondents was employed. For sampled telephone numbers with no address match, the survey was conducted by telephone alone.
A Computational Analysis Of Balanced Jit Optimization Algorithms

Abstract The balanced schedule problem in mixed-model, JIT manufacturing is examined. Solving this problem is the cornerstone of production in any JIT facility. Although very efficient procedures have been demonstrated for the single-level problems, nobody has examined the nature of the solutions that these procedures actually produce. In this paper, the first large scale computational study is undertaken to examine these optimization algorithms. Furthermore, several open questions and conjectures have developed in the past few years. These open questions are formulated as propositions and answered by means of the extensive computational testing. The answers to these propositions are conclusive and, in some cases, quite unexpected. While it had appeared that most of the single-level problems had been efficiently solved, this study points to several interesting questions requiring additional study.
LAST TIME YOU HAD 78 , HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE NOW ? " THE EFFECT OF PROVIDING PREVIOUS REPORTS ON CURRENT REPORTS OF CATTLE

In surveys where respondents are contacted repeatedly, information from prior interviews may be used during following interviews. An experiment examined the effects of providing ranchers with their previous quarter's reported cattle inventories on current reports of those inventories. Knowledge of prior reports had no overall effect on the reported size of current inventories, but it did affect how individuals answered. Respondents explicitly provided with their previous quarter's data were more likely to re-report that number as their current inventory. However, they were also less likely to change their answers during the interview, less likely to have their answers edited by statisticians after the interview, and more likely to report inventories where the numbers balanced over quarters. A decision to include prior reports in survey interviews must consider the tradeoff between respondents using cognitively easy, but potentially inaccurate, reporting strategies versus decreased respondent burden and increased data consistency.
Optimization of Random Linear Network Coding protocols for multipath communications in heterogeneous networks

In the next upcoming mobile generation era (5G), the demands for high-data-rate transmissions is predicted to grow considerably. Among new studies focused on how to support such demands, Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) has taken an important place for improving the performance of the network. In this thesis, the problem, arising from combining an RLNC protocol with multi-path communications, is considered. This thesis seeks to improve an RLNC protocol aimed for transmissions in multipath communications by enhancing an implementation of an RLNC protocol called PACEMG (PACE multi-generation). PACEMG is a protocol created in the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks (TU-Dresden) which aims to support non-sequential arrival of packets from different generations by managing multiple generations simultaneously. This disordered arrival of information is highly probable to happen in multipath communications. Nodes that execute Random Linear Network Coding can perform three different activities: encode, recode and decode, hence, RLNC protocols are divided into three main parts that go by the name of encoder, decoder and recoder. The main objective of this thesis is to improve the PACEMG protocol by developing the recoder. Furthermore, some aspects of the encoder and decoder will be improved. Subsequently, its performance will be examined and some features will be compared to PACEMG previous version PACE. A program to perform an emulation of a network is required so as to test the behavior of the protocol. This thesis shows an improved RLNC approach to widen the use of Network Coding in communications, particularly multi-path communications. The advantages and constraints of using certain configurations of the recoder, precisely, four different configurations, will be presented. Finally, conclusions are drawn concerning the coefficients used in the coders with an approach that tries to overcome them.
A MODEL OF HOW MOTIVATING LANGUAGE MODERATES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB AUTONOMY AND WORKER OUTCOMES

Many studies have been devoted to job autonomy research, and these studies have shown that job autonomy has a strong influence on many vital workplace outcomes. But there has also been a call for further model development to aid researchers' understanding of what moderators influence the job autonomy-worker outcome link. Specifically, there is a need for a model to better understand how leader communication interacts with worker job autonomy, along with the resultant effects on worker outcomes. To build this model, we employ motivating language, a well developed theory of leader communication. As a result, this paper presents a model of how motivating language moderates the relationship between job autonomy and worker outcomes, thus giving guidance in the work place, particularly for effective management communication that facilitates critical organizational outcomes.
Chest pain with bloody sputum as the main manifestation of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia : a case report and review of the literature

Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is a rare disease with non-specific clinical and imaging manifestations, making it quite easy to misdiagnose. Here a case of COP is reported that was initially suspected to be malignancy because the main clinical findings were chest pain with a small amount of bloody sputum and multiple lung nodules on computed tomography. The patient was treated with oral methylprednisolone, after which respiratory symptoms disappeared and chest computed tomography showed complete absorption. Follow-up more than one year later showed no recurrence. This rare case highlights the need for careful assessment to avoid COP misdiagnosis.
ONE-DIMENSIONAL INTERPRETATION OF SCHLUMBERGER AND TEM RESISTIVITY DATA WITH EXAMPLES FROM TORFAJOKULL , S-ICELAND

In this report, a brief discussion covering the basic principles, field techniques, instrumentation and interpretation ofSchlumberger and TEM soundings is given. As an example. Torfajokull geothennal field in S·Iceland was chosen. 33 TEM soundings from the field were interpreted using a one-dimensional inversion programme. The quality of the Schlumberger data (13 soundings) was found to be low. From the results of the TEM soundings, seven resistivity profiles and four isoresistivity maps were made. The results show a well defined resistivity anomaly. Based on experience from other high-temperature geothennal fields in Iceland, the resistivity structure is interpreted in terms of geothermal activity. The inferred geothermal activity can be correlated with a caldera found in the survey area.
Evaluation of the interdependency of mechanical cutting and magnetic anisotropy on the magnetic properties of FeSi electrical steel

Due to present-day challenges for the improvement of the operating characteristics of rotating electrical machines, the core material is regarded as increasingly important. Non-oriented (NO) electrical steel sheets are conventionally used for the construction of magnetic cores of rotating electrical machines. The most appropriate choice of material and machine design is based on standardized material data obtained from Epstein frames or single sheet testers. Both, low losses as well as good magnetizability in any spatial direction of the sheet plane are requested. Despite their name, NO electrical steels do show a magnetic anisotropy. A significant increase of loss and decrease of permeability can additionally be induced by mechanical cutting processes to shape the magnetic circuit. Magnetic anisotropy and induced mechanical stress can affect the local iron-loss distribution, magnetizability, acoustic behavior and therefore, have to be considered in numerical simulations of electrical machines. In this paper, the interdependency of the magnetic anisotropy with the effect of cutting is studied in order to improve the necessary understanding of the material behavior. Streszczenie. I. W procesie mechanicznego cięcia blchy elektrotechnicznej mogą ulec degradacji podstawowe jej parametry – straty I przenikalność. Indukowane w procesie cięcia naprężenia wpływają na anizotropię I rozkład strumienia. W artykule W artykule analizowany jest wpływ procesu cięcia na właściwości niezorientowanych blach elektrotechnicznych. Wpływ mechanicznego cięcia i anizotropii na właściwości magnetyczne blach elektrotechnicznych SiFe
CROSS-SECTIONAL IMPUTATION AND LONGITUDINAL EDITING PROCEDURES IN THE SURVEY OF INCOME AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION

This paper describes the major cross-sectional imputation and longitudinal editing procedures applied to data collected in the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Cross-sectional imputation procedures in the SIPP are used to compensate for item nonresponse and for two types of person-level noninterviews in otherwise cooperating SIPP households. Longitudinal editing procedures in the SIPP are designed to remove inconsistencies in a sample person's longitudinal record introduced through independent wave imputations of item missing data and person-level noninterviews, to adjudicate occasional disagreements in reported information across waves and to reconcile reported information with Census demographic definitions.