9,159 research outputs found
by R. Wes Harrison and Everald McLennon
No full textby R. Wes Harrison and Everald Mclennon Conjoint analysis is used to measure the preferences of United States consumers for labeling of biotech foods. The study found that consumers overwhelmingly support mandatory labeling of biotech foods. Results also showed the preferred labeling format is a text disclosure that describes the benefits of biotechnology in combination with a biotech logo. These results imply that U.S. consumers would support a revision of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's voluntary labeling policies. This may result in GMO labeling policies similar to those of the European Union, Australia, and New Zealand. Agricultural biotechnology (AB) is broadly defined as a collection of scientific techniques that involves taking the genes from one plant or animal species and inserting them in another species to transfer a desired trait or characteristic . For farmers, AB ha s led to reduced production costs, enhanced yields, and the potential for increased profits. Public benefits of AB include reductions in pesticide and herbicide use, as well as enhanced nutritional value, flavor, and shelf life of some foods. Despite these benefits, consumer acceptance has been controversial, as some consumer and special interest groups have expressed concerns over the safety and environmental effects of biotech foods (USDA/ERS, 1991). This is largely due to fears that AB may have some unforeseen health risks, as well as, unforeseen negative effects on wildlife and the environment. Consumer concerns regarding the safety of AB have made labeling of these foods an important policy issue throughout the world. For instance, health and environmental concerns are particularly strong among European, Australian, and New Zealand consume..
Belle R. Harrison letters, MSS.0645
No full textAbstract: Letters to Harrison, a member of the Tuscaloosa women's literary society, the Kettledrum, relating to her book of poetry. Correspondents include Martha Young and Augusta Evans Wilson.Scope and Content Note: The collection contains six letters to Harrison, a member of the Tuscaloosa women's literary society, the Kettledrum. Some of the letters relate to Harrison's book of poetry. Correspondents include Martha Young and Augusta Evans Wilson.Biographical/Historical Note: Belle Richardson Harrison, born 20 October 1856 in Camden, Alabama, was an author and member of the Kettledrum, a literary society for married women in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Developing export markets for Australian forest products
No full textThis chapter examines issues surrounding the export of forest products from Australia, with an emphasis on forest products from Sub-Tropical Queensland. There is a need for greater export awareness due to a projected surplus in Australian timber in the next decade. Value-added products appear to have the best potential for export, and co-operative marketing may be a key factor to facilitate export growth. The Asia-Pacific region appears to offer the best prospects for an export programme
R. M. Harrison and S. J. De Mora: Introductory Chemistry for the Environmental Sciences [book review]
No full textHarrison and De Mora have revised the first edition of their book, Introductory
Chemistry for the Environmental Sciences, which has an intended reading audience
of college or university undergraduates who are studying or majoring in the environmental
sciences, environmental chemistry, or ecology. Their intent is to present
the basic concepts of chemistry within the context of the thermodynamic universe
known at ‘the environment'
Stumpage price determination and investment in Australian forests: Implications for plantations and small-scale producers
No full textThis chapter addresses the issue of log pricing methodologies before and after major reforms in the Queensland timber industry in the early 1990s. It assesses the impact of industry structure on price determination at a State leve, focussing on supply and demand characteristics in the log market. It is concluded that the current bilateral monopoly arrangements deliver inefficient market outcomeswith profit shares dependent on market power,but support capital investment and size economies.Location, volume and transport factors disadvantage farm foresters leaving them as price-takers with less security of gaining guaranteed sales
sj-docx-1-inc-10.1177_17511437231192385 – Supplemental material for The effect of conservative oxygen therapy on mortality in adult critically ill patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-inc-10.1177_17511437231192385 for The effect of conservative oxygen therapy on mortality in adult critically ill patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by Daniel S Martin, Helen T Mckenna, Kathryn M Rowan, Doug W Gould, Paul R Mouncey, Michael PW Grocott and David A Harrison in Journal of the Intensive Care Society</p
Clinical safety of England's national programme for IT: a retrospective analysis of all reported safety events 2005 to 2011
No full textData source: Supplementary data, http://www.sciencedirect.com.access.library.unisa.edu.au/science/article/pii/S1386505614002482#appd002Abstract not availableFarah Magrabi, Maureen Baker, Ipsita Sinha, Mei-Sing Ong, Stuart Harrison, Michael R. Kidd, William B. Runciman, Enrico Coier
Edges of the mind : psychic margins and the modernist aesthetic in Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion Fortune and Jane Harrison.
No full textPhDThe question 'Where does she begin and I end, asked in Virginia Woolf's The Years, voices a modernist
concern with the limits of self-identity and related questions of egoism and altruism. In this thesis I argue
that this concern is informed by a pre-history of thinking about selfhood, psychic boundaries and the
spiritual mainly ignored by readings of modernism which map the psyche via psychoanalysis, or Freud's
'discovery of the unconscious'. Our thinking about the self has become colonised by the literary doctrines of
better known canonical figures of the modernist period, generating a way of thinking about the limits of the
psyche which is both literally and metaphorically circumscribed. A reading of more eccentric discourses
explicitly engaged in negotiating the boundaries of individuality can provide a history of the psychic
underpinnings to the modernist conception of the self. The representation of marginal states of
consciousness, or epiphanic moments, is crucial to the literature of modernism: interpretation of these altered
states, or edges, can be refigured through readings of Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion
Fortune and Jane Harrison: five women writing between 1880-1930 for whom pre-Freudian forms of
dissolution and challenge to self-unity are palpably present in the form of telepathy, subliminal selves,
oceanic consciousness and internal multiplicity. In addition to writing non-fictional texts which variously
explore the psychological, philosophical, ethical, spiritual and occult implications of the modernist position,
each of these women, excepting the classical scholar Jane Harrison, also wrote fiction. The aesthetic
questions of modernism dovetail into the theoretical arguments of the writers in this thesis, inviting a
different reading of its psychological sub-text and to suggest that where 'stream-of-consciousness' is
stylistically indispensable, the 'oceanic', as counterpart, thematically haunts the modernist aestheti
INFORMATION AND COMMAND
No full textInformation adds value to transactions in three ways: it supports reputations, permits customisation, and provides yardsticks. In the Soviet economy such information was frequently not produced; if produced, it was often concealed; whether concealed or not, it was often of poor quality. In short, the Soviet command system forced economic growth on the basis of a relatively low–value information stock. This may help explain aspects of Soviet postwar economic growth and slowdown, the collapse of the command system, and the persistence of low output after the collapse.
Testing for Parameter Instability using the R/S Statistic
No full textThis paper explores the use of the R/S statistic as a means of checking for parameter instability. The nature and properties of the statistic are described, and its behaviour and power in the context of three situations of structural change are examined. The results suggest that the R/S statistic has an ability to detect shifts in means and changes in the intercept of a regression relationship. Moreover, it is more powerful than the OLS variant of the well known cumulative sum of squares residual test for detecting unknown structural breaks in the cases involving the linear regression models that were examined. It would therefore seem to us that the application of the R/S statistic to the problem of testing for structural instability is worthy of further investigation.
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