223 research outputs found
Sam Rolfe With Son Marvin
No full textSamuel (Sam) M. Rolfe is pictured with his son Marvin. Marvin was born March 20, 1924 and died February 17, 1931 at age six. Samuel is the husband of Flora May Hall Rolfe. He was born April 5, 1901 and died February 6, 1993
Sam Diamond, Jr., John Rolfe Powell, and Frank B. Hill, Jr., holding University of Alabama Federal Tax Clinic Committee awards
No full textSam Diamond, Jr., John Rolfe Powell, and Frank B. Hill, Jr., are holding University of Alabama Federal Tax Clinic Committee awards in 1972
Making a House a Home in the Private Rented Sector
No full textThis dataset comprises the complete list of items reviewed for the 'Making a House a Home in the Private Rented Sector' project, which was funded by SafeDeposits Scotland Charitable Trust. The project aimed to review the existing research evidence regarding home-making in the private rented sector, with a particular focus on the role of landlords and letting agents in enabling tenants to feel at home. Items were identified for the review through a systematic search of academic databases (Scopus and Web of Science) for English-language items, related to OECD countries, published since 2000. This was augmented by a grey literature search using the same boundaries. In total, 66 items were reviewed – this dataset lists the items, providing author(s), date, title, methods used and participants in each study.Complete list of items reviewed for the study. This document lists the items reviewed, providing author(s), date, title, methods used and participants in each study
Separating the roles of electrons and holes in the organic magnetoresistance of aluminum tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) organic light emitting diodes
No full textCopyright 2008 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This article appeared in Journal of Applied Physics 104, 083703 (2008) and may be found at
Social impact assessment of the RTCA Blair Athol mine closure : Recommendations for best practice SIA, prepared for Rio Tinto Coal Australia
No full textRolfe, JC ORCiD: 0000-0001-7659-7040This report is based on field research in order to develop a guideline for undertaking social impacts of Blair Athol Mine Closure.
Confidential. Please contact the author for further information
New technology, skill and deskilling in non-manual work
No full textThis thesis examines the consequences for skill when new technology is introduced to non-manual work. In the first main section the literature on technological change and skill is critically reviewed. Building on this examination, which identifies a lack of clarity in the definition of skill and in the relation between skill and control, a framework is developed for understanding skill at the level of the job. Skill is seen as having two main dimensions, technical complexity and discretion, and a number of possible measures, task complexity, knowledge, task range and variety, decision-making, control over the organisation of work, and supervision. This framework is then used, in the second main section, to examine the effects of technological change on various types of non-manual work. In all, ten case studies were carried out by the author, and these are grouped under four main occupational heading: clerical, professional/technical, `white-collar production' and maintenance. A range of types of non-manual work was chosen because most studies of skill changes have concentrated either on manual workers or on one particular type of non-manual work. The aim was therefore to draw some more general conclusions based on a wider range of empirical evidence. The case studies show how new technology may change particular aspects of a job, for example, by simplifying or eliminating manual or arithmetical tasks and reducing the range of tasks carried out. In some cases, though, new tasks may compensate for those lost. The discretionary content of a job, however, was found to depend more on the role and objectives of management and the hierarchy of decision-making and control in the workplace than on the technology used. Moreover, it was found that skill is influenced by an array of factors, including the position of the workgroup in the hierarchy, worker organisation and organisational changes which often accompany the introduction of new technology. Despite these mainly social influences on skill changes, however, new technology was found at times to change the relationship between the worker, the equipment and the product in ways which may be hard to avoid except through the redesign of the technology. In the final chapter the implications of technological change for class structure are examined in relation to the case study material. Some support is given to the theory of an increasing divide between a `service class' and deskilled white collar workers. Current patterns of gender segregation in employment may also be reinforced. Some support is also given to the theory of deskilling as a progressive tendency of the capitalist mode of production as a consequence of standardisation and the socialisation of production. (D74276/87)</p
Becky Beckstead and Kirk Critton With the Rolfes
No full textSam and Flora May Hall Rolfe relate the history of Mt. Dell (Dry Fork) to members of the Tamarack staff, Becky Beckstead and Kirk Critton. Mrs. Rolfe grew up in the Mt. Dell/Dry Fork area
Testing for value stability with a meta-analysis of choice experiments: River health in Australia
No full textWhile meta-analysis is typically used to identify value estimates for benefit transfer, applications also provide insights into the potential influence of design, study and methodological factors on results of non-market valuation experiments. In this paper, a metaanalysis of sixteen separate choice modelling studies in Australia with 130 individual value estimates relating to river health are reported. The studies involved different measures and scales of river health, so consistency was generated by transforming implicit prices from each study into a common standard of WTP per kilometer of river in good health. Tobit models have been used to identify the relationships between the dependent variable (WTP/km) and a number of variables. The results demonstrate that values are sensitive to marginal effects, with lower WTP/km for larger catchments, and higher WTP/km when river health is in decline. Values are also lower when river health has been defined by a subset of benefit types, such as recreation uses, vegetation health, fish health or bird populations. While there is evidence that the framing of the choice sets and descriptions of attributes have systematic impacts on values, there is very little evidence that choice dimensions, collection methods, sample sizes, response rates, statistical methods or publication status have influenced value estimates. Tests of apparent author effects show that these become insignificant when other explanatory variables are included in the models.non-market valuation, choice modelling, meta analysis, river health, Environmental Economics and Policy,
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