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Assessing the Relationships between Economic Output and Energy Consumption, Energy Efficiency, and Renewable Energy Consumption for Twelve Southeast Asia and Oceania Nations
Get PDFEnergy is an essential input for creating economic output. Increasing energy access, diversifying energy portfolios, and becoming more energy efficient are all believed to be requirements for fostering economic growth worldwide. This research analyzes at the macroeconomic level the correlations and the direction of implied causalities which exist between economic output and energy consumption, energy efficiency, and renewable energy consumption. These relationships are analyzed with considerations for energy access rates and attention devoted to political conditions, a key differentiator in the literature on energy economics. Analysis is conducted using a multivariate panel data set comprised of statistics for twelve ASEAN Plus Six nations located in Southeast Asia and Oceania and dynamic panel models. Findings indicate implied short-term bidirectional causalities exist between total final energy consumption and economic output, supporting the feedback hypothesis, while short-term neutrality relationships were discovered to be implied between economic output and energy efficiency and the renewable energy share of total final primary energy consumption. In addition, considerations for political conditions and energy access were found insignificant in all dynamic models run
Location of Education: Impacts on Returns to Degrees for Asians
Get PDFHow might an Asian immigrant who earned a college degree abroad experience different returns to their degree than an Asian American with an American degree? Human capital theory suggests that additional schooling is rewarded in the labor market because employers value the skills, training, and knowledge that come from additional education. However, I propose that foreign education lessens the returns to degrees (job relatedness, income, and job satisfaction) for Asians in the U.S. labor market. I analyze a subset of 12,372 Asian-identifying respondents from the 2017 National Survey of College Graduates, a biennial survey of college graduates in the United States. At the bivariate and multivariate level, foreign educated Asians report their jobs being more related to their highest degree than U.S. educated Asians. Additionally, there is no statistically significant relationship between income, job satisfaction, and foreign education. Thus, my hypotheses are disconfirmed and human capital theory is supported. Of my independent and control variables, the proportion of a respondent’s life spent in the U.S. is the largest predictor of job relatedness and income. The more time a respondent has spent in the U.S., the less related their principal job is to their highest degree and the more income the respondent earns. This study invites further research on returns to degrees for Asians by disaggregating the generalized racial identity into ethnic groups to uncover differences within the Asian racial group
Hudson River Map
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The Carved Mountain
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The Interaction Activation Model
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Gender, Dress, and Franciscan Tradition in the Mary Magdalen Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi
Get PDFThrough the inclusion of newly invented scenes, innovative handling of established narratives, and symbolic use of clothing and hair, the Magdalen Chapel at San Francesco in Assisi (ca. 1305–19) presents a Magdalen who successfully models Franciscan values of renunciation, penitence, and caritas, her images thus resonating throughout the Upper and Lower Churches. Yet her position at San Francesco remains equivocal. As a New Testament saint, she logically functions as a model for St. Francis. His vita, however, anachronistically transforms her life, inspiring new narrative episodes—for example, her receipt of a garment—or reshaping established scenes, as at her conversion when demons fly from her submissive body toward the very altar where Francis exorcised sinners. Despite being honored in her chapel, she consistently appears needy, a passive recipient of charity and miraculous works, rather than a miracle worker. As a female, she carries the taint of sexual sin through her exposed and eroticized body; she thus needs to be clothed by a hermit, as elsewhere at San Francesco destitute individuals are clothed by Saints Francis and Martin. A terrible sinner, she is exorcised by Christ, just as Francis posthumously exorcises pilgrims visiting his nearby tomb. And as Christ is honored by the Magdalen’s submissive washing of his feet, so Francis is honored by the humble simpleton. Not obviously a miracle-working saint, Mary Magdalen remains like the Assisi pilgrims petitioning for assistance. Yet her power as intercessor remains unchallenged as her very weaknesses offer audiences hope: if she can be saved, so can they
What Impact does Education and Undergraduate Degree Field Have on Earnings?
Get PDFMy paper analyzes the impact that different levels of education and undergraduate degree fields have on earnings. I use Census data from the 2017 American Community Survey and employ OLS regression specifications that include control variables such as gender, age and industry of job. Overall, I find that a professional degree and an undergraduate degree in a STEM field have the highest returns on earnings. My research can be used to better understand the returns from the different levels of education and degree fields from a comparative perspective. This is especially important at a time when the costs of higher education are increasing
Aquaculture as a Method to Insulate Fishery Markets from Oil Spill Shocks
Get PDFResource extraction from wild fisheries is and continues to be a behemoth of an industry both in the US and worldwide. Indeed, wars have been fought over such resources, and many communities have become dependent upon the oceans to provide their primary industry. Oil spills are an ecological disaster that serve to uproot these quintessential pillars of these communities, and lead to externalities that are difficult to quantify. As oil spills occur, fishery harvests cease as toxic chemicals infect the water surrounding these communities, effectively leaving them in deep recessions. In this paper, aquaculture is examined as a potential alternative to wild fishing within these communities in order to mitigate the volatility caused by frequent oil spills and other pollution within the ocean. The effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are compared to the effects of the recent Sanchi oil spill within China to analyze the effectiveness of aquaculture as an insulating factor that could protect the fisheries industry from volatility due to oil spills
Insights on Classical Ballet Training and Postural Stability in Older Adults
Get PDFOlder adults show an increased risk of falling as they age, but dance interventions of various genres have been shown to improve postural stability in this population. This study investigated the effects of a ten-week beginning ballet intervention on postural stability for older adults. Eleven participants enrolled in the Dance Group (DG; 73.3 ±10.6 years) while six enrolled in the Control Group (CG; 69.5 ± 11.9 years) via convenience sample. Following the intervention, no significant differences were seen within the DG from pre- to post-testing or when comparing delta values (post minus pre) between groups in the center of pressure area, displacement, or speed (p \u3e 0.05). While no differences were seen with this intervention, the ballet barre was used for approximately half of each dance class; future ballet interventions for older adults may benefit from training without a barre to enhance potential effects on postural stability
