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Cwbr Author Interview: Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined The Army After 1861
No full textInterview with Dr. Kenneth W. Noe, Professor of History at Auburn University Interviewed by Nathan Buman Civil War Book Review (CWBR): I\u27m here today with Kenneth Noe, author of Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861. Professor Noe, thank you for joining me. Kenneth Noe (KN): I\u27m happy to be here Nathan
Stochastic Index Numbers: A Review
No full textThe stochastic approach is a new way of viewing index numbers in which uncertainty and statistical ideas play a central role. Rather than just providing a single number for the rate of inflation, the stochastic approach provides the whole probability distribution of inflation. This paper reviews the key elements of the approach and then discusses some previously overlooked links with Fisher’s early work contained in his book The Making of Index Numbers. We then consider some more recent developments, including Diewert’s well-known critique of the stochastic approach, and provide responses to his criticisms. We also provide a review of Theil’s work on the stochastic approach, and present and extend Diewert’s work on this topic within the context of the Country Product Dummy method which measures price levels internationally.
Kenneth W. Ashley
No full textImage submitted by author for Poetry Spotlight 2023.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/vapoets-images/1083/thumbnail.jp
Modification of nektonic fish distribution by piers and pile fields in an urban estuary
No full textLarge urban piers degrade habitat value for several estuarine benthic fish species by shading, but their effects on mobile nektonic species is less well understood due to sampling challenges. Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) allowed equal access to sampling in the water column of structured shaded and unshaded vs. open environments in both dark and light conditions by methods similar to video but without light. Sampling (n = 228, 5-minute transects) occurred under and around four large municipal piers of varying dimensions in the Hudson River estuary during day and night from summer and fall in 2007 - 2009. The distribution of small (5 - 25 cm in length) and large (25 – 850 cm) fishes were analyzed separately in recognition of functional guild differences. Small fishes occupied open water, shaded under-pier, and un-decked relict piling habitats, but were significantly more abundant during the day in open unshaded water than under adjacent piers or in piling habitats.. Small fish occurred under 3 of 4 piers of varying size and configuration at 10 - 20% of the median abundances of adjacent open water. However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers. The differences among habitats was not significant at night, and the difference among piers was also not significant at night. School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design. Large (>25 cm) predatory fish were uncommon but responded similarly to habitat effects as did small fish. Habitats did not segregate fish by guild as small forage fish co-occurred in 65.8% of samples with large piscivores. Studies that provide species-specific and mechanistic interpretation of dynamic habitat use as well as further quantification of scaling effects could improve our understanding of how fishes respond to piers and other structures on urban shorelines.Peer reviewed
Two Short Papers on Marijuana, Legalisation and Drinking: (1) Exogeneous Shocks and Related Goods: Drinking and the Legalisation of Marijuana; and (2) Notes on Projections of Alcohol Consumption Following Marijuana Legalisation
No full text(1) The paper uses the substitutability between goods to model the transmission to other products of a consumption shock to one product. The framework is used to analyse the impact on drinking of legalisation of marijuana. For all types of consumers for example, the results indicate that legalisation would led to approximately a 4-percent increase in marijuana consumption, while beer, wine and spirits consumption would fall by 1 percent, 2 percent and almost 4 percent, respectively. And; (2) Clements and Daryal (2005) develop a utility-maximising theory of how exogenous shocks to one market have implications for the consumption of related goods, and applied that theory to analyse the impacts on drinking of possible legalisation of marijuana. These notes set out the derivations of the standard errors of their projections.Legalisation, marijuana, alcohol
Exchange Rates, Money and Relative Prices: The Dollar-Pound in the 1920's
No full textThis paper applies the analytical framework of the monetary approach to exchange rate determination to the analysis of the Dollar/Pound exchange rate during the first part of the 1920's. The analysis uses monthly data up to the return of Britain to gold in 1925. The equilibrium exchange rate is shown to be influenced by both real and monetary factors which operate through their influence on the relative demands and supplies of monies. Special attention is given to examination of the relationship between exchange rates and the relative price of traded to non-traded goods. In the empirical work the prices of traded goods are proxied by the wholesale price indices and the prices of non-traded are proxied by wages. One of the key findings of the paper is the estimate of the elasticity of the exchange rate with respect to the relative price of traded to non-traded goods. This elasticity is estimated with high precision and is shown to be .415 which provides an independent measure of the relative share of spending on non-traded goods. This estimate is consistent with other estimates obtained in studies of expenditure shares. The paper concluded with a dynamic simulation which indicates the satisfactory quality of the predictive ability of the model.
The International Volatility of Growth
No full textGrowth in the world economy is not shared equally among all countries, with some growing faster, some slower and some not at all. The cross-country distribution of growth is a useful tool for analysing the inequality of growth. The appropriately-weighted first moment of this distribution is world growth, while the second measures cross-country volatility. This paper introduces a methodology to examine the cross-country distribution of growth, and the components of its volatility. Using data from the Penn World Table, we find countries within geographic regions are seeing a harmonisation of growth, but between regions there is increasing dispersion.Growth, Cross-Country Distribution, Volatility
Upcoming Post: Similarities in the Prison-Themed Messages of Kenneth W. Hagin and F.F. Bosworth
No full textCopyright © 2018 by Roscoe Barnes III
#FFBosworthThis blog post is as an
announcement of a forthcoming post/article on the writings of Kenneth W. Hagin and
F.F. Bosworth. The author suggests that Hagin’s minibook, The Prison Door is Open: What Are You Still Doing Inside?, seems to
borrow from Bosworth’s article, "The Opening of the Prison," without
proper attribution.For more information on F.F. Bosworth, follow the Bosworth
Matters blog at: http://ffbosworth.strikingly.com#ChristTheHealer #BosworthMatters #BosworthMention</p
Fig. 1 in The Life History Of Ostrocerca Dimicki (Frison) In A Short-Flow, Summer-Dry Oregon Stream
No full textFig. 1. Outgate Beck stream channel obscured by grass, looking upstream from the emergence trap; author Anderson straddling the stream.Published as part of Stewart, Kenneth W. & Anderson, Norman H., 2010, The Life History Of Ostrocerca Dimicki (Frison) In A Short-Flow, Summer-Dry Oregon Stream, pp. 52-57 in Illiesia 6 (6) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.475962
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