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THE ECONOMICS OF INSTRUCTIONAL REVENUE SHARING
No full textThe process of planning and budgeting for public institutions has been a topic of recent interest as budgetary constraints have mandated reduced funding for state agencies and publicly funded educational institutions. The most recent budget outlook in Minnesota suggests that funding for the University of Minnesota will be reduced significantly in the next biennium. This outlook is renewing the call for increased efficiency and cost control for publicly funded educational institutions such as the University of Minnesota. The authors have been involved with a project in which cost functions and economic relationships were examined within the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota. This paper is an extension of these efforts and attempts to address the questions relating to instructional revenue sharing.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
INTEGRATING EXTENSION MATERIALS IN AN EXISTING COURSE: EXAMPLE OF APEC 3821 (RETAIL CENTER MANAGEMENT)
No full textTeaching entrepreneurship in college courses is becoming more commonplace. The author reports on the integration of extension entrepreneurship materials(Project Mainstreet) into an existing retail management course at the University of Minnesota. This integration results in an actual web-based business
AN APPLICATION OF RISK ANALYSIS: LOCALIZED CORN AND SOYBEAN PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS
No full textThis paper examines the spatial elements of marketing grain. The decision of " where" to market has been ignored due to data limitations and lack of necessity. The author will incorporate localized probability distributions of price/basis in an Excel spreadsheet using @RISK which will evaluate marketing decisions for producers.Crop Production/Industries, Risk and Uncertainty,
Building Knowledge of Agricultural Entrepreneurship through Business Plan Competitions: Case of the Minnesota Cup and ApEc 3551 Exercise
No full textThe curriculum for ApEc 3551 at the University of Minnesota has evolved as the class has been taught for the past five years. The class involves focus on group projects and the creation of a business plan for a new ag or food product. What has been missing is the students ability to judge the quality of written business plans in a real world context.
The author was selected to judge the Minnesota Cup business plan competition during 2014. This responsibility consisted of reviewing initial proposals(over 80 ) submitted for the business plan competition and voting on the merits of each through three successive rounds of the competition. The later round required a full business plan and investor proposals. Live presentations for the final round were used to select a winner for the category. The category judged by the author was the Food , Ag and Beverage division. A total of seven divisions were judged for the Minnesota Cup. Cash prizes are awarded for each division and one overall winner over all divisions is selected. Cash prizes are awarded in the amount of 50000 for the overall winner. This paper reports of the involvement of students in ApEc 3551 in judging a business plan competition using actual entries for the Minnesota Cup
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
INTEGRATING EXTENSION MATERIALS IN AN EXISTING COURSE: EXAMPLE OF APEC 3821 (RETAIL CENTER MANAGEMENT)
No full textTeaching entrepreneurship in college courses is becoming more commonplace. The author reports on the integration of extension entrepreneurship materials(Project Mainstreet) into an existing retail management course at the University of Minnesota. This integration results in an actual web-based business.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
A tribute to Bunky at 125: A comprehensive bibliography of E. M. Jellinek’s publications
No full textObjective: E. M. Jellinek is considered one of the founders of alcohol science. On the 125th anniversary of his birth, the authors wish to contribute to existing, incomplete bibliographies of his work by offering a more comprehensive bibliography that includes his non–alcohol-studies publications as well as newly discovered alcohol-related items.
Method: After we reviewed the two existing Jellinek bibliographies, records were checked against the full-text items to correct errors and discrepancies. This led to the consolidation of the two bibliographies as well as the discovery of various reprints and republished titles. Based on the authors’ parallel biographical investigations into Jellinek’s lesser researched past, it was established that he had started his scientific career much earlier than previously documented. Additional publications attributed to E. M. Jellinek under various names were sought, located, and collected from geographically diverse sources in several languages, with the help of an international network of academic librarians. References were organized and separated by publication type, with reprinted and republished texts arranged underneath the original entries.
Results: Jellinek’s comprehensive bibliography covers 70 years, from 1912 to 1982, with 165 original publications, as compared with the 90 and 96 publications, respectively, of the previous bibliographies. When reprints and republished items were included, the number of publications totals 308, as compared with the previous respective totals of 117 and 116.
Conclusions: The new Jellinek bibliography highlights his multidisciplinary approach to several scientific disciplines and provides the potential to reevaluate his contributions and total scholarly impact.See supplemental material for bibliography.Peer reviewe
AN APPLICATION OF RISK ANALYSIS: LOCALIZED CORN AND SOYBEAN PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS
No full textThis paper examines the spatial elements of marketing grain. The decision of " where" to market has been ignored due to data limitations and lack of necessity. The author will incorporate localized probability distributions of price/basis in an Excel spreadsheet using @RISK which will evaluate marketing decisions for producers
Piszkos Fred a retinakijelzőn: elektronikus könyvek az amerikai könyvtárakban
No full textThe article reviews the use of e-books and e-readers for the Hungarian audience from the perspective of American public libraries.Peer reviewedIn Hungarian
DEVELOPING A RETAIL MANAGEMENT COURSE: A CASE STUDY OF APEC 3821
No full textThe author reports on the process of developing a retail management course to fit the agricultural economics curriculum. Retail examples are obtained from farm supply, garden centers and retail food businesses. Unique differences for these applications are discussed and incorporated in the instruction of the designated course. A course evaluation is provided
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