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No full textThesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Marine Transportation, 1947.Bibliography: leaf 101.by Sumner Adam Long.B.S
Sounds Local, 1994 July 08
No full textInterview with author and UNCW professor Agnes McDonald about her new collection, Journey Proud, featuring journal entries from Southern women; Interview with naturalist Andy Wood about his backyard restoration for animal habitats and plant preservation; Interview with director James Wilson of the Snow Camp Historical Site in Alamance County about North Carolina's first outdoor drama of African-American history, Pathway to Freedom, written by Mark Sumner and performed at the historical site; Interview with director Mark Butterfuss about the play, The Miss Firecracker Contact, produced by the Thalian Association and on stage at Thalian Hall; Overview of Tapestry Theatre Company's production of Marjorie Megivern's play, History Run Amuck, about Cape Fear history at Poplar Grove Plantation; Overview of upcoming events on the cultural calendar
International Trade Education: Do We Need a New Model for the Global Market?
Get PDFProfessionals in the field of international trade policy tend to receive their knowledge on-the-job, often with a considerable component of mentoring. While this was a reasonable knowledge transfer mechanism in a period when interest in trade policy was confined to narrow constituencies and a limited range of trade policies, it may no long be appropriate in the era of globalization. In recent years both those with an interest in trade policy and the range of issues that come under the purview of trade policy have increased substantially, yet there is little formal education provided on trade policy. As a result, there is a shortage of trained professionals in the field of trade policy. While the shortage is widespread in developed countries, it is endemic in developing countries - leading to a major training effort by the World Trade Organization, regional trade organizations and through bilateral aid. These efforts are stopgap measures and solving the problem will require the incorporation of trade policy in academic curricula. The reasons for trade policy training retaining its traditional form are explored and suggestions regarding alternatives provided.developing countries, education, trade policy, International Relations/Trade,
Zita Kudlacik
No full textZita Kudlacik, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died on Dec. 23, 2014, in Palo Alto. She was 94. She was born on Jan. 16, 1920, in Blandburg, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Anastasia Niezgoda, both Polish immigrants. She moved with her family - which included her two brothers Thaddeus ( Ted ) and Eugene ( Jimmy ) - to Bayonne, New Jersey, where she graduated from Bayonne High School in 1937. Afterward, she worked at Macy's department store in New York City and won a Miss Macy beauty contest in 1940. Not long after, she met Adam Kudlacik, who was on a short leave from the U.S. Army, and they married in 1942. They moved together to California in 1950 so Adam could take a job with a San Francisco publishing company. The couple lived briefly in San Mateo before settling in Palo Alto in 1951. She was a longtime member of the St. Thomas Aquinas Church and worked as a librarian at the church's school. Always willing to lend a hand, she also hosted a variety of people in her home, including Polish survivors of medical experimentation during World War II, college students from Mexico City, and family and friends. In her free time, she enjoyed reading British mysteries, studying up on health and nutrition, meeting new people, visiting old friends, shopping for clothes, long walks, staying at Pajaro Dunes, traveling (specifically to London and Poland) and spending time with family. She was predeceased by her husband, Adam Kudlacik, and sons, Andrew and John Kudlacik. She is survived by her daughters, Zita Macy of Palo Alto, Mary Putterman of Davis, California, and Martha Kudlacik of Palo Alto her three grandchildren, Kimberly Macy, John-Paul Macy and Jennifer Sumner and five great-grandchildren
Montana Peregrine Falcon Survey: 2012
Get PDFThe release of 617 captive-bred young during the 1980’s and 1990’s sparked the recovery of the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) in Montana. By 1994, a mix of state, federal, and private biologists (Montana Peregrine Falcon Working Group) documented 13 known active Peregrine Falcon territories. For the following four years, the number of known territories averaged about 16, but then intensive survey efforts in 1999 documented a total of 28 territories. The number of active Peregrine Falcon territories discovered in Montana has increased yearly. Montana had a record number of 108 active Peregrine Falcon nests recorded during the 2012 field season. Montana Peregrine Falcon surveys are conducted in conjunction with the USDI Fish and Wildlife Service national surveys scheduled every 3 years, beginning in 2002 and ending in 2015. Annual survey objectives include the establishment of a citizens group (Project Peregrine Watch) to monitor individual Peregrine territories throughout the state, determine status and trends of Montana’s Peregrine Falcon population, study all known historic Peregrine Falcon eyries, record occupancy and productivity at all active territories, locate new Peregrine Falcon territories, seek confirm and consolidate information from all public and private sources, record activity and locations of neighboring cliff-nesting raptors (Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus), Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), and develop , a long-term and cost-effective monitoring program for determining annual status and population trends of the State’s Peregrine Falcon population
Industrial policy for the medium to long-term
Get PDFThis report reviews the market failure and systems failure rationales for industrial
policy and assesses the evidence on part experience of industrial policy in the UK.
In the light of this, it reviews options for reshaping the design and delivery of
industrial policy towards UK manufacturing. These options are intended to
encourage a medium- to long-term perspective across government departments
and to integrate science, innovation and industrial policy
Rent-Sharing, Hold-up, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data
Get PDFIt is widely believed that rent-sharing reduces the incentives for investment when long term contracts are infeasible because some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. We propose a simple test for the degree of hold-up based on the fraction of capital costs that are deducted from the quasi-rent that determines negotiated wages. We implement the test using a data set that combines Social Security earnings records for workers in the Veneto region of Italy with detailed financial information for employers. We find strong evidence of rent-sharing, with an elasticity of wages with respect to current profitability of the firm of 3-7%, arising mainly from firms in concentrated industries. On the other hand we find little evidence that bargaining lowers the return on investment. Instead, firm-level bargaining appears to split the rents after deducting the full cost of capital.rent-sharing, hold-up, employer-employee data
Mapping species distributions in two weeks using citizen science
Get PDF1. Ecological citizen science initiatives are growing in popularity with the increasing realisation of the potential for occurrence records to contribute information on biodiversity. However, citizen science data are justifiably criticised for misidentification, uneven sampling, incomplete detection or selective reporting.
2. Here, we test the accuracy of citizen science data for UK social wasp (Vespinae) species’ distributions. We compared data collected over two weeks by members of the public setting out baited traps across the UK and sending captured specimens for expert identification (1294 locations; 6680 wasps; 3 dominant species Vespula vulgaris (44%), V. germanica (44%), and Vespa crabro (6%)), with a four-decade long-term dataset established by the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS).
3. The citizen science data were significantly less spatially biased than the long-term data, but they were more urban-biased. Species distribution modelling showed that, for Vespa crabro, just two weeks of citizen science generated coverage comparable to more than four decades of expert recording.
4. Overall, we show that citizen science can be an extremely powerful and robust method for mapping insect diversity and distributions. We suggest that cautious combination of citizen science data with long-term expert surveying could be a highly reliable method for monitoring biodiversity
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No full textEl presente texto contiene dos partes. La primera es una breve introducción a la vida y la obra de Edward Burnett Tylor, el fundador de la antropología moderna. La segunda es la traducción al español del capítulo VI de su libro Anahuac or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern que fue publicado en Londres en 1861, en el que describe sus observaciones durante una estancia de reconvalecencia, con duración de cuatro meses, en México en 1856.The following text contains two parts. The first is a brief introduction to the life and workof Edward Burnett Tylor, the founder of modern Anthropology. The second is a translation to Spanish from the Chapter VI of his travelogue Anahuac or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern which was published in London in 1861 and contains his observations made during a four months stay in Mexico as reconvalescent in 1856.Bartra, Roger
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Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data
Get PDFWhen wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings records for employees with detailed financial information for employers to measure the degree of rent sharing and test for holdup. We estimate wage models with job match effects, allowing us to control for any permanent differences in productivity across workers, firms, and job matches. We also compare OLS and instrumental variables specifications that use sales of firms in other regions of the country to instrument value-added per worker. We find strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a “Lester range” of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of around 10%. On the other hand we find little evidence that bargaining lowers the return to investment. Instead, firm-level bargaining in Veneto appears to split the rents after deducting the full cost of capital. Our findings are consistent with a dynamic bargaining model (Crawford, 1988) in which workers pay up front for the returns to sunk capital they will capture in later periods.
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