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Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A Partially Annotated Bibliography
Get PDFThis bibliography on “Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ St. Vincent and the Grenadines Conference. It covers all aspects of education and training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines including: Academic achievement,economics of education, educational infrastructure, literacy and mathematics education
Beyond Peter Rabbit : the private life of Beatrix Potter
No full textMichigan State University Humanities Librarian Agnes Haigh Widder delivers a talk entitled, "Beyond Peter Rabbit: The Private Life of Beatrix Potter." Showing examples of Potter's work, Widder discusses the personality and life of Potter and says that she was much more than the storied, brilliant and eccentric author. Widder explains that Potter was a naturalist, farmer, scientific illustrator, stockbreeder, and influential conservationist in England's Lake District, then comments on Potter's coded diary, her life, work, and legacy. She answers questions from the audience. Widder is introduced by John D. Shaw from the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
American author and scholar LeAnne Howe talks about her novel "Shell shaker" and reads from her another novel "Miko Kings"
No full textAmerican author and scholar LeAnne Howe talks about her novel, "Shell Shaker" which spans centuries of Choctaw culture and history. She reads several passages from the novel and also a short passage from her new, unpublished novel, "Miko Kings," about Indian baseball in 1907 and 1969. She answers questions from the audience. Part of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers Series for visiting speakers. Sponsored by the Michigan State University American Indian Studies Program. Held in the MSU Main Library
Imperfect competition in the fresh tomato industry
Get PDFIn this paper, we analyse the market power of the retail industry in the French tomato market. Following the methods developed in the New Empirical Industrial Organization, we develop a structural model of this industry. The analysis is based on detailed data on final consumption and prices at both shipper and consumer levels for two types of tomatoes in France. The structural model is composed of a system of demand equations, supply equations and pricing equations which include terms which capture the oligopoly and oligopsony power of the retail sector. We show that i) elasticity of demand varies during the year ii) the retail sector exercise only a ‘moderate’ market power iii) the exercise of market power decreases over time iv) If markets were competitive, in the case of tomato ‘ronde’ retail price would decrease by about 1.2% to 4.5% depending on the year; v) In absence of market power, shipping price might be 6% to 24% higher than observed. We find higher distortions in the case of tomato ‘grappe’. We also find that the distortions tend to decrease over time. We conclude to a moderate exercise of market power of the retail sector in the French tomato market.Oligopoly, Oligopsony, Fresh products, Industrial Organization,
Interview of author Tenea D. Johnson at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida
No full textTenea D. Johnson, award winning author and founder of Progress By Design, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Tenea speaks about her work, afrofuturism, and how her stories and songs create worlds to examine big questions. She defines speculative fiction anything that doesn't abide by the rules, that is not based in reality. Tenea says she hopes that afrofuturism and Black speculative fiction will become a greater force than just entertainment and that Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies influenced her the most as she demonstrated confidence not out of ego but of skill, exemplifying bravery and openness
Briefing: Professor Vincent Nadin’s decade of spatial planning and strategy at TU Delft
No full textDelft University of Technology (TU Delft) is the leading institution in the Netherlands for research and education in urbanism. Planning, design and technology traditionally form the key pillars of ‘Dutch urbanism’. The year 2008 marked the beginning of a new section with a new professor at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment: the section of Spatial Planning & Strategy (SPS). With the farewell to SPS professor Vincent Nadin in 2019, a huge source of expertise and inspiration for urbanism has left Delft’s academic community. Under Vincent’s leadership, SPS has strengthened its position and become a centre of excellence on (a) international and European territorial governance and policy-making, including their potential for democracy building, (b) regional design and planning, (c) contemporary methods of spatial planning, spatial planning instruments and spatial planning systems and cultures and (d) territorial evidence and impact assessment.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Spatial Planning and Strateg
6q12 and 11p14 variants are associated with postnatal exhaled nitric oxide levels and respiratory symptoms
No full textBackground: Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) is a biomarker of airway inflammation and seems to precede respiratory symptoms, such as asthma, in childhood. Identifying genetic determinants of postnatal eNO levels might aid in unraveling the role of eNO in epithelial function or airway inflammation and disease. Objective: We sought to identify genetic determinants of early postnatal eNO levels and subsequent respiratory symptoms during the first year of life. Methods: Within a population-based birth cohort, eNO levels were measured in healthy term infants aged 5 weeks during quiet tidal breathing in unsedated sleep. We assessed associations of single nucleotide polymorphisms with eNO levels in a genome-wide association study and subsequent symptoms of lower respiratory tract infections during the first year of life and asked whether this was modified by prenatal and early-life environmental factors. Results: We identified thus far unknown determinants of infant eNO levels: rs208515 (P = 3.3 x 10(-8)), which is located at 6q12, probably acting in "trans'' and explaining 10.3% of eNO level variance, and rs1441519 (P = 1.6 x 10(-6)), which is located at 11p14, potentially affecting nitric oxide synthase 3 (NOS3) expression, as shown by means of in vitro functional analyses. Moreover, the 6q12 locus was inversely associated with subsequent respiratory symptoms (P < .05) and time to recovery after first respiratory symptoms during the first year of life (P < .05). Conclusion: The identification of novel genetic determinants of infant eNO levels might implicate that postnatal eNO metabolism in healthy infants before first viral infections and sensitization is related to mechanisms other than those associated with asthma, atopy, or increased risk thereof later in life
Œuvres d'architecture de Vincent Scamozzi, architecte de la République de Venise.
No full textErrata, p. xxx-xxxi.Signatures: a-d⁴ A-2G⁴.Frontispiece signed by the engraver Grégoire Huret (1606-1670), present title and imprint added.The [62] leaves of plates represent 82 numbered plates, 37 of them printed on one side, 21 on both sides, two of them double page (tipped onto stubs at centerfold).Series statement from Approbation, p. xxxj.Previously published at Leiden (Pierre van der Aa), 1713.Mode of access: Internet.Binding: cat's paw calfskin, spine gilt tooled including author & title, edges red, red ribbon place marker
Saving a Staple Crop: Impact of Biological Control of the Banana Skipper on Poverty Reduction in Papua New Guinea
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Governance and power in the metropolitan regions of the Randstad
No full textThis chapter focuses on the nature and powers of governance arrangements in two Dutch metropolitan areas, both situated in the Randstad: the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (Metropoolregio Amsterdam) and the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague (Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag ). It considers the power of process by analysing the actor network and relations. The chapter deals with an overview of recent international trends in metropolitan governance. It then presents a summary of trends in sub-national governance in the Netherlands. Territorial governance is being redefined in the light of important societal challenges, new powers and responsibilities and new attempts to increase the societal relevance of planning. Metropolitan governance bodies – bodies aiming at organising responsibilities among public authorities in metropolitan areas – are extremely common in most OECD countries. Amidst the economic recession of the 1980s cooperation between the three Randstad provinces picked up again in various domains from 1985 onwards, including spatial planning.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Land DevelopmentSpatial Planning and Strateg
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