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In researching the history of rum and rum cocktails, author Wayne Curtis bought
No full textIn researching the history of rum and rum cocktails, author Wayne Curtis bought an out-of-print copy of Trader Vic\u27s Book of Food & Drink that once belonged to Maine author Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957). On a blank page, Curtis discovered Roberts\u27 well-crafted description of inventing a recipe, with scratched out and recast words
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No full textThe Dreamland Bus (1991) | Image 001
No full textPictured: Damon Daffron, Colin Crews, Jay Ennis, Traci Miller; Performed: 17-21 October 1991; Kenneth Graham\u27s The Dreamland Bus is an autobiographic play based on the author\u27s own family. The comedy drama is about a family that gets together for an Easter weekend and Sunday dinner for their last family gathering in the house. The play was directed by Wayne Claeren, scene and lighting design by Carlton Ward, costume design by Freddy Clements and Joyce Tate, assistant costumer was Paul Odom, technical direction by David Keefer, stage management by Amber Norman and Barry Newell (assistant). This item is contained within the Theatre & Film Production Archive.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/productions_images/4098/thumbnail.jp
The Dreamland Bus (1991) | Program
No full textPerformed: 17-21 October 1991; Kenneth Graham\u27s The Dreamland Bus is an autobiographic play based on the author\u27s own family. The comedy drama is about a family that gets together for an Easter weekend and Sunday dinner for their last family gathering in the house. The play was directed by Wayne Claeren, scene and lighting design by Carlton Ward, costume design by Freddy Clements and Joyce Tate, assistant costumer was Paul Odom, technical direction by David Keefer, stage management by Amber Norman and Barry Newell (assistant). This item is contained within the Clements drama production materials.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/productions_all/1138/thumbnail.jp
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No full textAbstract. A shadow is an exact solution to an iterated map that remains close to an approximate solution for a long time. An elegant geometric method for proving the existence of shadows is called containment, and it has been proven previously in two and three dimensions, and in some special cases in higher dimensions. This paper presents the general proof using tools from differential and algebraic topology and singular homology. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Background. An orbit of a continuous map ϕ: R n → R n is a finite or infinite sequence of points generated using xi+1 = ϕ(xi). (1) Often one point, x0, is given, called the initial condition. Consider an approximatio
A psycho-geography of crime areas: variations in the affective domain
No full textTen dimensions from the affective domain are proposed as characterizing the major attitu-des and feelings found in areas of high crime in cities. These dimensions are related to a previously proposed model of community differentiation by the author, that tried to sum-marize the range of features that cause community or residential areas to differ from one another. It is suggested that these crime area dimensions are variations of the previously proposed dimensions rather than unique sources of differentiation
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No full textAbstract. A shadow is an exact solution to an iterated map that remains close to an approximate solution for a long time. An elegant geometric method for proving the existence of shadows is called containment, and it has been proven previously in two and three dimensions, and in some special cases in higher dimensions. This paper presents the general proof using tools from differential and algebraic topology and singular homology. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Background. An orbit of a continuous map ϕ is a finite or infinite sequence of points generated using xi+1 = ϕ(xi). (1) Often one point, x0, is given, called the initial condition. Consider an approximatio
Incentive policies and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa
No full textExports in general, and agricultural exports in particular, are more responsive to price incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa than in developing countries.. These are the results of an econometric investigation on the effects of real exchange rates on exports. It further appears that in Sub-Saharan Africa the impact of real exchange rates is greater on agricultural exports than on the exports of goods and services. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, market-oriented countries generally gained export market shares while interventionist countries lost shares. This occurred when market-oriented, not interventionist countries, maintained realistic exchange rates and did not bias incentives against exports. For example, Kenya and the Ivory Coast exemplify market-oriented, and Tanzania and Ghana interventionist, countries. Pairwise comparisons between the Ivory Coast and Ghana have indicated the superiority of the market-oriented approach in promoting exports and agricultural production.Economic Theory&Research,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Export Competitiveness,Environmental Economics&Policies,Access to Markets
Air pollution and property values in urban areas
No full textThe problem of air pollution is a worldwide phenomenon. One manifestation of the problem is the existence of air pollution regulations. The general objective of this study was to provide information useful in establishing air quality standards as well as adding to the body of knowledge about the economics of air pollution. To accomplish this objective, the hypothesis that the level of air pollution and property values were negatively related was tested.
In order to do this, it was necessary to accomplish two specific objectives. The first was to determine the association between levels of air pollution and property values. This objective was accomplished for an individual city as well as a group of 60 cities across the United States. Secondary data on variables thought to be important in explaining property values were utilized in a regression model to accomplish the first objective.
The second objective of this study was to explore alternative methods of estimating economic loss attributable to air pollution. This objective is connected with the first in that the analysis involving 60 cities represents a different approach to estimating economic loss. In addition, some work was done with consumer expenditure data, but these results were inconclusive and are not reported in this study.
Results of the single-city analysis did not support the hypothesis that property values were negatively influenced by air pollution. Instead, they suggest that property owners acted as if air pollution did not influence them in their estimation of property values. Alternatively, the real estate market may not have functioned properly so that if air pollution did exert a negative influence, it was not communicated to the owners. However, caution is urged in interpreting the results because of data inadequacies which may seriously hamper the validity of the results obtained.
The results of the analysis involving 60 cities did indicate a negative relationship between the level of air pollution and property values. To the author\u27s knowledge, this approach to measuring the economic loss attributable to air pollution has not been used previously. As was the case in the single-city analysis, income proved to be very important in explaining variations in property values. The negative effect of air pollution, while statistically significant, was small compared to the influence of other variables in the model. When evaluated at the mean, the loss estimates obtained in this study ranged from 4.00 decrease for each 1% increase in pollution level.
This study led to the following conclusions:
1. Air pollution does exert a negative influence on property values.
2. Attempts at measuring the extent of this influence can benefit from utilizing more accurate measures of pollution.
3. Owner-occupied housing units were more responsive to the level of air pollution than renter-occupied units.
4. The actual size of the economic loss attributable to air pollution is not known.
5. Alternative approaches to estimating the size of this loss should be pursued
A study of meaning in three white gospel music traditions of central Pennsylvania.
No full textThis dissertation explores some of the meanings concerning gospel music that resonate among the members of the white gospel music traditions of central Pennsylvania. The author traces the history of gospel music in central Pennsylvania from the end of the nineteenth century into the 1980s. An extensive discography of gospel music in central Pennsylvania and a calendar of local gospel music events demonstrate the extent of the tradition in the region. A description of the histories, repertories, and performance practices of three gospel music groups provides the basis for an examination of the meanings of gospel music for late twentieth-century conservative Protestants. Each of the three groups represents a different stylistic stream of gospel music in central Pennsylvania: nineteenth-century gospel music is represented by a conservative mixed chorus, southern gospel music is represented by a male quartet, and contemporary gospel music is represented by a mixed trio. Special attention is given to the definitions of these three music styles, to the boundaries that separate them, and to the continuities that connect them. The interpretive framework of the dissertation is grounded in an ethnomusicological approach to music with special emphasis on the cultural dimensions of gospel music. Drawing on the ideas of anthropologists, literary critics, and ethnomusicologists such as Clifford Geertz, Kenneth Burke, Paul Ricouer, and Judith Becker, the author describes and analyzes specific music performances by each gospel music group and draws conclusions on the significance of those performances for conservative Protestants. Especially important for this study is the idea that action can serve as a text through which the observer can make interpretive conclusions. The author concludes that gospel music has meaning for conservative Protestants both because of its musical qualities and its various cultural qualities. Moreover, he suggests that the musical and cultural continuities and discontinuities that exist between gospel music traditions give added meaning to the music for conservative Protestants. He argues that although stylistic differences may tend to separate gospel music groups from each other, shared prior texts, shared performance contexts, and shared religio-aesthetic sensibilities serve to connect conservative Protestants to each other.PhDAmerican historyCommunication and the ArtsCultural anthropologyMusicSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/129735/2/9610249.pd
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