25,117 research outputs found
George Fox Lapel Pin
No full textOval, blue and gold pin with GFU clock tower and cross symbol on it. Made by R & D specialty company.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/museum_gfu/1094/thumbnail.jp
Private Investment in R&D to Signal Ability to Perform Government Contracts
No full textOfficial government statistics on the "mission-distribution" of U.S. R&D investment are based on the assumption that only the government sponsors military R&D. In this paper we advance and test the alternative hypothesis, that a significant share of privately-financed industrial R&D is military in orientation. We argue that in addition to (prior to) contracting with firms to perform military R&D, the government deliberately encourages firms to sponsor defense research at their own expense, to enable the government to identify the firms most capable of performing certain government contracts, particularly those for major weapons systems. To test the hypothesis of, and estimate the quantity of, private investment in 'signaling' R&D, we estimate variants of a model of company R&D expenditure on longitudinal, firm-level data, including detailed data on federal contracts. Our estimates imply that about 30 percent of U.S. private industrial R&D expenditure in 1984 was procurement- (largely defense-) related, and that almost half of the increase in private R&D between 1979 and 1984 was stimulated by the increase in Federal demand.
Capitalizing R&D Expenditures
No full textThe next international version of the System of National Accounts will recommend that R&D (Research and Development) expenditures be capitalized instead of being immediately expensed as in the present System of National Accounts 1993. An R&D project creates a new technology, which in principle does not depreciate like a reproducible asset. A new technology is however subject to obsolescence, which acts in a manner that is somewhat similar to depreciation. The paper looks at the net benefits of an R&D project in the context of a very simple intertemporal general equilibrium model and suggests that R&D expenditures be amortized using the matching principle that has been developed in the accounting literature to match the fixed costs of a project to a stream of future benefits. Of particular interest is the evaluation of the net benefits of a publicly funded project where the results are made freely available to the public.Cost benefit analysis, R&D project, intertemporal general equilibrium theory, money metric utility scaling, matching principle, amortization, deprecia
Preparation of Fox Valley Technical College faculty for multicultural education
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The purpose of this study was to determine the level of preparedness of Fox Valley Technical College faculty for multicultural education. The demographics of the district population were changing rapidly, and faculty must be prepared to meet the needs of multicultural students. A survey was administered to full- and part-time faculty of Fox Valley Technical College. The survey was intended to collect data about levels of education and experience, perceived training needs, level of comfort with multicultural education and level of interest in further training. The data gathered was analyzed to determine the need for future training, training subjects, and the training formats preferred by faculty. The results of this research provide a basis on which to build future professional growth training at Fox Valley Technical College. The training for faculty will ensure higher success for both faculty and students
Comparison of staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine and human skin, milking equipment, and bovine milk by phage typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and binary typing
No full textStaphylococcus aureus isolates (n = 225) from bovine teat skin, human skin, milking equipment, and bovine milk were fingerprinted by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Strains were compared to assess the role of skin and milking equipment as sources of S. aureus mastitis. PFGE of SmaI-digested genomic DNA identified 24 main types and 17 subtypes among isolates from 43 herds and discriminated between isolates from bovine teat skin and milk. Earlier, phage typing (L. K. Fox, M. Gershmann, D. D. Hancock, and C. T. Hutton, Cornell Vet. 81:183-193, 1991) had failed to discriminate between isolates from skin and milk. Skin isolates from humans belonged to the same pulsotypes as skin isolates from cows. Milking equipment harbored strains from skin as well as strains from milk. We conclude that S. aureus strains from skin and from milk can both be transmitted via the milking machine, but that skin strains are not an important source of intramammary S. aureus infections in dairy cows. A subset of 142 isolates was characterized by binary typing with DNA probes developed for typing of human S. aureus. Typeability and overall concordance with epidemiological data were lower for binary typing than for PFGE while discriminatory powers were similar. Within several PFGE types, binary typing discriminated between main types and subtypes and between isolates from different herds or sources. Thus, binary typing is not suitable as replacement for PFGE but may be useful in combination with PFGE to refine strain differentiation
Tributes to Professor Cyril A. Fox, Jr.
No full textCy Fox often forgets that he was supposed to be “only” an academic. For three decades, as he helped thousands of law students through the intricacies of the Rule in Shelley’s Case, or watched them calculate a “life in being plus twenty one years” for the Rule Against Perpetuities, he failed to appreciate that law school was supposed to be an amalgam of theory and confusion, not the place for his teaching law students about helping real people solve real life problems
An Economic Evaluation of a Pest Management Control Program: "Outfox the Fox"
No full textFoxes are regarded as a serious pest of environmental and grazing systems in Australia. The fox is a recognised predator of native wildlife and has been a significant contributor to the population decline of many native mammal, bird and reptile species. There are also claims that foxes may account for up to 30% of lamb mortalities in some areas, while mortality due to predation of 2 to 5% is more likely in most regions. The ‘Outfox the Fox’ program was established by NSW Agriculture in conjunction with a number of Rural Land Protection Boards to achieve a more strategic and coordinated fox baiting program. This program relies on a community driven and integrated management approach to the problem. The main features are to synchronise baiting across landholders at least twice a year, undertake baiting during periods when the fox is most susceptible, regularly check and replace baits, and continue until the bait take declines. A stochastic economic surplus and benefit-cost analysis model was developed to evaluate this program. The change in annual economic surplus due to the ‘Outfox the Fox’ program was 9.8m and a mean benefit-cost ratio of 13.0:1. The stochastic analysis indicated that there was a very low probability of this program providing a negative economic return.benefit cost analysis, research evaluation, economic surplus, fox, Farm Management, Land Economics/Use, Livestock Production/Industries, Production Economics, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Q160,
M.-L. Nabholz-Kartaschoff, R. Barnes & D. J. Stuart-Fox, eds., Weaving Patterns of Life
No full textLévi-Strauss Monique. M.-L. Nabholz-Kartaschoff, R. Barnes & D. J. Stuart-Fox, eds., Weaving Patterns of Life. In: L'Homme, 1995, tome 35 n°135. La formule canonique des mythes. pp. 152-153
Allotment gardens as a challenge for an urban designer
No full textIrrespective of their specific form or of the way they are managed, urban allotment gardens and other urban gardens are important types of urban green spaces, able to influence, to contribute overall quality of cities. Particularly if part of broader green infrastructures, UAG may integrate positively within the complex inner metabolism of metropolitan areas. In particular the 10th chapter of the book, in which the author contributed actively, focus on the challenges and characteristics of urban agriculture practices in the city and the role of urban design and planning disciplines in order to ensure a better socio-spatial development
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