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Edward Garbacz papers
No full textThis small collection of papers documents Garbacz's years as a student at Little Rock College
Garbacz, David R.
No full text1964"Sugar Maple, acer saccharum." In memory of David R. Garbacz Class of 1964 Given by his FamilyGift in MemoryTree; Plaqu
How Effective Is Automobile Safety Regulation?
No full textLoeb (1989) questions the results of recent work on automobile safety inspection (Garbacz and Kelly, 1987) in which the results of a paper by Loeb and Gilad (1984) were questioned. Specifically, their time series model, using New Jersey data, is missing a key economic variable (accident price) as well as some well-known variables associated with traffic accidents (youthful drivers and a proxy for drunk driving). An estimate of their model, with US data, results in no statistical effect for automobile inspection variables (Garbacz and Kelly, 1987). © 1990, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved
Seasonal and Regional Residential Electricity Demand
No full textFollowing the seminal work of McFadden. Puig, and Kirschner (1977) and the general availability of national microdata sets, residential energy demand studies have been conducted for electricity, natural gas, fuel oil. LP gas, and wood (see Garbacz, 1984, 1985). Using the National Interim Energy Consumption Survey (NIECS) data, Garbacz (1984) developed a three-equation model (demand, price, and appliance stock) to estimate national electricity demand using two-stage least squares (2SLS) for house-holds by month. This study builds on the previous work to estimate elasticities by month and by region. It is hypothesized that elasticities vary substantially between the heating and cooling seasons. Previous work by Acton, Mitchell, and Sohiberg (1980); Parti and Parti (1980); Archibald, Finifter, and Moody (1982); Murray et al. (1978); and Garbacz (1984) supports this. Houthakker (1980), Halvorsen (1978), and Murray et al. (1978) also have found differences in elasticities by region.
Archaeologist Edward Dąbrowski’s deliberations about Professor Józef Kostrzewski
No full textThe archaeologist Edward Dąbrowski (1921-2007) was a very important person for the scientific circles of the Środkowe Nadodrze. His professional and private life was connected with this land in the 1950s. First, he came to Międzyrzecze, and then to Zielona Góra. He actively participated in shaping modern museum studies and scientific thought in the so-called Recovered Territories.
In the first part of the article, the author briefly presented a scientific biography of Edward Dąbrowski, then a biography of his master – an outstanding Polish archaeologist Professor Józef Kostrzewski (1885-1969). The second part constitutes the recording of the conversation about Professor Kostrzewski which was held by Krzysztof Garbacz with the archaeologist of Zielona Góra in March 2001. E. Dąbrowski presented the professor primarily as a teacher and a tutor of students and young researchers
A formal ontological perspective on the behaviors and functions of technical artifacts
No full textIn this paper we present a formal characterization of the engineering concepts of behavior and function of technical artifacts. We capture the meanings that engineers attach to these concepts by formalizing, within the formal ontology DOLCE, the five meanings of artifact behavior and the two meanings of function that Chandrasekaran and Josephson identified in 2000 within the functional representation approach.We begin our formalization by reserving the term “behavior” of a technical artifact as “the specific way in which the artifact occurs in an event.” This general notion is characterized formally, and used to provide definitions of actual behaviors of artifacts, and the physically possible and physically impossible behaviors that rational agents believe that artifacts have. We also define several other notions, for example, input and output behaviors of artifacts, and then show that these ontologically characterized concepts give a general framework in which Chandrasekaran and Josephson’s meanings of behavior can be explicitly formalized. Finally we show how Chandrasekaran and Josephson’s two meanings of artifact functions, namely, device-centric and environment-centric functions, can be captured in DOLCE via the concepts of behavioral constraint and mode of deployment of an artifact. A more general goal of this work is to show that foundational ontologies are suited to the engineering domain: they can facilitate information sharing and exchange in the various engineering domains by providing concept structures and clarifications that make explicit and precise important engineering notions. The meanings of the terms “behavior” and “function” in domains like designing, redesigning, reverse engineering, product architecture, and engineering knowledge bases are often ambiguous or overloaded. Our results show that foundational ontologies can accommodate the variety of denotations these terms have and can explain their relationships.Values and TechnologyTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Strategic Discussions for Nebraska: Growing Opportunities Through Public-Private Partnerships
No full textMUTUALLY BENEFICIAL PARTNERSHIPS ARE THE FUTURE — RONNIE GREEN, CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA–LINCOLN
PARTNERING FOR THE GREATER GOOD — RACHEL NOE
DIVERSIFYING FUNDS FOR WORLD-CHANGING RESEARCH — SARAH SCHELLPEPER
PARTNERSHIPS
A VERY PERSONAL PARTNERSHIP: — Henry J. Stumpf International Wheat Center a tribute to hard work, family. MARY GARBACZ
PARTNERSHIP PRODUCES HARVEST OF REWARDS: — Nebraska Wheat Growers Presidential Chair a partnership that buys time, results. MARY GARBACZ
UNL FOOD ALLERGY GROUP MAKES EATING SAFER FOR ALLERGIC CONSUMERS — PAIGE DIETRICH
NU RURAL FUTURES INSTITUTE: — a world-class center for building capacity and confidence, broadband, health care, education and jobs. SAMANTHA SCHNEIDER
RURAL NEBRASKA: THE TREASURE OF THE MIDWEST — RFI serves Nebraska, but impacts the world. DANIEL FRANCK
NEBRASKA INNOVATION CAMPUS
VISION 2015: REVITALIZING A CAPITAL CITY — A city. Motivated residents. A vision. RACHEL NOE
INNOVATION FOR THE WORLD —Nebraska Innovation Campus — from idea to reality. JENNY KEYES
NEBRASKA INNOVATION CAMPUS: —growing the university and all of Nebraska. SAMANTHA SCHNEIDER
ATTRACTING COMPANIES, KEEPING TALENT, GROWING NEBRASKA — DANIEL FRANCK
NUTECH VENTURES HELPS UNL INVENTORS PROTECT, COMMERCIALIZE DISCOVERIES —Technology commercialization arm of the university offers complete services for innovation. MARY GARBACZ
DEVELOPING, MANAGING NEBRASKA INNOVATION CAMPUS —39 | PAIGE DIETRICH
‘THE BEST FACILITIES IN THE WORLD’ TEACHING STUDENTS, ADDING VALUE, SERVING THE WORLD —Department of Food Science and Technology moved to Nebraska Innovation Campus in 2015. SARAH SCHELLPEPER
CAPITALIZING ON IDEAS
STARTUP ENTREPRENEURS BENEFIT FROM MENTORSHIP — PAIGE DIETRICH
CLEANER WATER, IMPROVED HEALTH = GLOBAL IMPACT — ELIZABETH UEHLING
GUARANTEED TENDER STEAK: —‘a wonderful marriage of technology and nature’. SAMANTHA SCHNEIDER
NEBRASKA INVENTOR ENCOURAGES OTHERS TO INNOVATE — Nebraska Innovation Studio provides space, equipment to help others soar. ELIZABETH UEHLING
NEW ALLIANCE BENEFITS FOOD SAFETY — Alliance for Advanced Food Sanitation developing processes and products to improve food processing safety. JENNY KEYES
QUANTIFIED AG COMPANY REMOVES GUESSWORK FROM ANIMAL HEALTH — JENNY KEYES
‘CHIEF INSPIRATIONAL OFFICER’ CHOOSES NEBRASKA INNOVATION CAMPUS FOR FOOD DREAMS MADE REAL — ELIZABETH UEHLING
SAFER FOOD FOR A HEALTHIER WORLD — SARAH SCHELLPEPER
ENHANCING HEALTH IN THE MIDWEST: — ENHANCE Health Network strengthens rural health care. DANIELLE FRANCK
NEBRASKA’S GREAT ASSET HELPING TO CHANGE WORLD HEALTH — DANIEL FRANCK
SENSING, INSIGHTS AND A STARTUP COMPANY — RACHEL NOE
VIRTUAL INCISION CORPORATION: — partnering engineering with medicine. ELIZABETH UEHLIN
The design stance and its artefacts
No full textIn this paper we disambiguate the design stance as proposed by Daniel C. Dennett, focusing on its application to technical artefacts. Analysing Dennett’s work and developing his approach towards interpreting entities, we show that there are two ways of spelling out the design stance, one that presuppose also adopting Dennett’s intentional stance for describing a designing agent, and a second that does not. We argue against taking one of these ways as giving the correct formulation of the design stance in Dennett’s approach, but propose to replace Dennett’s original design stance by two design stances: an intentional designer stance that incorporates the intentional stance, and a teleological design stance that does not. Our arguments focus on descriptions of technical artefacts: drawing on research in engineering, cognitive psychology and archaeology we show that both design stances are used for describing technical artefacts. A first consequence of this disambiguation is that a design stance, in terms of interpretative assumptions and in terms of the pragmatic considerations for adopting it, stops to be a stance that comes hierarchically between the physical stance and the intentional stance. A second consequence is that a new distinction can be made between types of entities in Dennett’s approach. We call entities to which the intentional designer stance is applied tools and entities to which the teleological design stance is applied instruments, leading to a differentiated understanding of, in particular, technical artefacts.Values and TechnologyTechnology, Policy and Managemen
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