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The regional distribution of public expendictures in the UK : an exposition and critique of the Barnett formula
No full textThe Barnett formula is the official basis upon which increments to public funds are allocated to the devolved regions of the UK for those parts of the budget that are administered locally. There is considerable controversy surrounding the implications of its strict application for the relevant regions. The existing literature focuses primarily on the equity of the spatial changes to government per capita expenditure that would accompany such a change. In contrast, in this paper we attempt to quantify the system-wide economic consequences-the real, relative resource squeeze that accompanies the financial relative squeeze-on one devolved region, Scotland. The analysis uses a multisectoral regional computable general equilibrium modelling approach. We highlight the importance of population endogeneity, particularly since the population proportions used in the formula are now regularly updated
Barnett\u27s Ben Franklin Ribbon Cutting
No full textRibbon cutting for grand opening of Barnett\u27s Ben Franklin. From left are: Henry Chang, J. R. Alexander, R. W. Nelson, Susan Hodgkinson, John Allison, E. A. Murray, Mayor Alvn Kay, Evelyn Barnett, George Hodgkinson, O. J. Barnett, manager, and Vaughn Barnett
[Portrait of P. Neville Barnett] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription on reverse.; Condition: good.; Inscriptions: "Home, my dug-out. P. Neville B." --in pencil on reverse. Stamped with photographers stamp P. Neville Barnett's name and address.; This portrait was reproduced in an article on Barnett published in The Etruscan, September 1953
J. O. Hollis to Ross R. Barnett
No full textHollis expresses support for Barnett and congratulates him for his attempt to preserve the sovereignty of the great Anglo-Saxon state of Mississippi. Mentions the Tenth Amendment.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/west_union_gov/1026/thumbnail.jp
Canon Barnett and the first thirty years of Toynbee Hall
No full textPhDThis thesis is a study of the changing role which Toynbee
Hall, the first university settlement, played in East London between
1884 and 1914. The first chapter presents a brief biography of
Sainiel Augustus Barnett, the founder and first warden of the
settlement, and analyzes his social thought in relation to the
beliefs which were current in Britain during the period. The
second chapter discusses the founding of the settlement, its organization, structure and the aims which underlay its early work. The
third chapter, concentrating on three residents, C.R. Ashbee, .H.
Beveridge and T. Edmund Harvey, shows the way in which subsequent
settlement workers reformulated these aims In accordance with their
own social and economic views. The subsequent chapters discuss the
accomplishments of the settlement in various fields. The fourth
shows that Toynbee Hall's educational program, which was largely an
attempt to work out Matthew Arnold's theory of culture, left little
impact on the life of East London. The fifth chapter discusses the
settlement residents' ineffectual attempts to establish contact with
working men's organizations. The final chapter seeks to demonstrate
that In the field of philanthropy the residents were far more successful than in any other sphere in adapting the settlement to changing
social thought
Mayriella ebbei Shattuck & Barnett, 2007, sp. nov.
No full textMayriella ebbei Shattuck & Barnett, sp. nov. Figures 6 - 9 TYPE MATERIAL Holotype worker from Australia, Booroomba Rocks, 35 ° 33 ' S148 ° 59 ' E, Australian Capital Territory, 16 March 1992, S. O. Shattuck, eucalypt woodland (ANIC); ca. 60 worker and 1 dealate queen paratypes, same data as holotype (ANIC, BMNH, MCZC) (as well as numerous additional larvae and worker pupae and 2 male pupae). ADDITIONAL MATERIAL (In ANIC unless otherwise noted). Australia, ACT: 5 km SW Orroral Tracking Station(Lowery, B. B.); Black Mt., S slope (lake road) (Taplin, I. C.); Blundells Creek Rd, 3.5 km E Piccadilly Circus (Lawerence, J.);Booroomba Rocks, 35 ° 33 ' S148 ° 59 ' E (Shattuck, S. O.); Brindabella Range(Lowery, B. B.);Wombat Creek, 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus, 35 ° 19 ' S148 ° 51 ' E (Weir, Lawerence & Johnson); foot of Mt. Majura(Lowery, B. B.); nr. Lees Spring,Brindabella Range (Taylor, R. W.);New South Wales: 4.5 km WNW Pigeon House Mt., 35 ° 21 ' S150 ° 13 ' E (Hill, L.); Burns Bay, Lane Cove, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Castle Flat, Clyde River floodplain, 32 ° 21 ' S150 ° 13 ' E (Hill, L.); Gerroa, 10 mi S Kiama(Lowery, B. B.); Kanangra Brook and Rocky Spur,Kanangra-Boyd Natl Pk (Hill, L.);Kanangra-Boyd Natl Pk (Hill, L.); Lane Cove, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Riverview College, Lane Cove, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Tallaganda State Forest, Captain's Flat (Lowery, B. B.); Tamborine Bay, Lane Cove,Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Tamborine Bay, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.);South Australia: Belair (Greenslade, P. J. M.); Bridgewater (Hutson); Bridgewater, Englebrook (Greenslade, P. J. M.); Christenson Park, Sevenhill(Lowery, B. B.); Maclaren Flat (Kirkby, C. A.); Mt. Lofty, S Para (Hutson); Sevenhill(Lowery, B. B.); West Bay, Kangaroo Island(Greenslade, P. J. M.);Tasmania: Eddystone Point (Trueman, J. & Cranston, P.);Victoria: 12 km E Warburton(Newton, A. & Thayer, M.); Arthur's Seat (McCrae) (Brown, W. L.) (MCZC);Mt. Buffalo Natl Pk(Newton, A. & Thayer, M.); Narbethong (McAreavy, J.); Oberon Creek, Summit Mt., Wilsons Prom. (Ettershank, G.); One Tree Hill, Melbourne(Lowery, B. B.); Portland (Beauglehole, C.); Queenstown, nr. Hurstbridge(Lowery, B. B.). DIAGNOSIS This species can be separated from others in this genus by the presence of numerous erect hairs on the gaster. It shares the shape of the outer margins of the postpetiole with M. spinosior, but differs from this species in the shape of the petiolar node and in having more than four erect hairs on the postpetiole. WORKER DESCRIPTION Sculpturing in posterior section of antennal scrobe well developed and distinct; sculpturing on dorsal surface of mesosoma consisting of large, closely spaced pits; propodeal spines relatively long and thin; dorsal surface of petiole in lateral profile uniformly convex, without distinct dorsal and posterior faces and forming an obtuse angle with the anterior face; in dorsal view, anterior region of postpetiole expanded relative to posterior region; dorsum of postpetiole with more than four erect hairs; dorsum of gaster with numerous erect hairs. Measurements. Worker (n = 10) - CI 0.90 - 0.98; HL 0.47 - 0.58; HTL 0.26 - 0.34; HW 0.43 - 0.54; ML 0.49 - 0.64; PW 0.30 - 0.40; SI 0.62 - 0.66; SL 0.27 - 0.35. COMMENTS This is the southernmost species of Mayriella and occurs in generally drier sites compared to other species. Although widely distributed it shows minimal geographic variation in the characters examined during this study. Biologically, this species is found primarily in drier habitats such as sclerophyll woodlands, low scrub, ti-tree scrub and coastal heath and less commonly in wet sclerophyll and rainforests. Nests occur in soil in the open or under stones or other objects on the ground, and in rotten wood.Published as part of Shattuck, S. O. & Barnett, N. J., 2007, Revision of the ant genus Mayriella., pp. 437-458 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on pages 444-44
R. D. Barnett et D. J. Wiseman. — Fifty Masterpieces, of Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities British Museum.
No full textParrot André. R. D. Barnett et D. J. Wiseman. — Fifty Masterpieces, of Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities British Museum.. In: Syria. Tome 38 fascicule 3-4, 1961. p. 321
Existence of Bifurcation in Macroeconomic Dynamics: Grandmont was Right
No full textGrandmont (1985) found that the parameter space of the most classical dynamic general-equilibrium macroeconomic models are stratified into an infinite number of subsets supporting an infinite number of different kinds of dynamics, from monotonic stability at one extreme to chaos at the other extreme, and with all forms of multiperiodic dynamics between. But Grandmont provided his result with a model in which all policies are Ricardian equivalent, no frictions exist, employment is always full, competition is perfect, and all solutions are Pareto optimal. Hence he was not able to reach conclusions about the policy relevance of his dramatic discovery. As a result, Barnett and He (1999, 2001, 2002) investigated a Keynesian structural model, and found results supporting Grandmont¡¯s conclusions within the parameter space of the Bergstrom- Wymer continuous-time dynamic macroeconometric model of the UK economy. That prototypical Keynesian model was produced from a system of second order differential equations. The model contains frictions through adjustment lags, displays reasonable dynamics fitting the UK economy¡¯s data, and is clearly policy relevant. In addition, initial results by Barnett and Duzhak (2006) indicate the possible existence of Hopf bifurcation within the parameter space of recent New Keynesian models. Lucas-critique criticism of Keynesian structural models has motivated development of Euler equations models having policy-invariant deep parameters, which are invariant to policy rule changes. Hence, we continue the investigation of policy-relevant bifurcation by searching the parameter space of the best known of the Euler equations general-equilibrium macroeconometric models: the Leeper and Sims (1994) model. We find the existence of singularity bifurcation boundaries within the parameter space. Although never before found in an economic model, our explanation of the relevant theory reveals that singularity bifurcation may be a common property of Euler equations models. These results further confirm Grandmont¡¯s views. Beginning with Grandmont¡¯s findings with a classical model, we continue to follow the path from the Bergstrom-Wymer policy-relevant Keynesian model, to New Keynesian models, and now to Euler equations macroeconomic models having deep parameters. Grandmont was right.Bifurcation, inference, dynamic general equilibrium, Pareto optimality, Hopf bifurcation, Euler equations, Leeper and Sims model, singularity bifurcation, stability.
R. D. Barnett et D. J. Wiseman. — Fifty Masterpieces, of Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities British Museum.
No full textParrot André. R. D. Barnett et D. J. Wiseman. — Fifty Masterpieces, of Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities British Museum.. In: Syria. Tome 38 fascicule 3-4, 1961. p. 321
Zoology Information Day 1980: audio recording
No full textRecorded at the Instructional Resources Unit, 1980. -- Principal speaker: Professor S. A. Barnett. -- Short Introduction, Barnett -- Zoology A01, Tidemann -- Human Biology A02, Happold -- Vertebrate Zoology B03, R. E. Barwick -- Invertebrate Zoology B02, V. A. Harris -- Parasitology B09, Tidemann -- Entomology: J. R. Short -- Ethology C06, Barnett -- C01, Janssens -- Conclusion: the department, by Barnett
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