546 research outputs found
Economic Contribution of the Trenton-Mercer Airport
No full textIn 2016, the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service group (R/ECON™) of Rutgers University prepared the second Economic Impact Report of the Trenton Mercer Airport (commissioned by Mercer County’s Office of Economic Development and Sustainability). It follows and expands upon a preceding study conducted for Mercer County’s Division of Economic Development in November 2006.
This study analyzes the contribution of the Trenton-Mercer Airport (TTN) to the Mercer County economy using the following direct sources of economic activity:
•Airport operating expenditures: These mainly account for the people employed to administer and operate the Airport. Operating expenditures also create jobs supported by the purchasing of supplies and materials, as well as spending on contractual services and utilities.
•Capital investments: These are made to improve the Airport’s facilities and support local jobs. Note that capital investments are not perpetual, thus their economic impacts only occur when improvement projects take place.
•Tenant expenditures: The sum of all the spending incurred by airport tenants to operate their respective businesses. This formula only includes tenants that provide aviation services or provide goods and services to airport users.
•Visitor expenditures: These account for the in-county spending by visitors arriving at the Trenton-Mercer Airport. Visitor spending not only supports airport jobs, but also retail and tourism-related employment.
By applying the R/ECON™ Input-Output model to the direct sources of airport-related spending listed above, we estimate the total economic impacts (direct, indirect, and induced) for Mercer County. The model expresses the resulting jobs, income, and wealth impacts in various levels of industry detail.
The current study is designed to inform operation strategies and establish a common base of knowledge from which long-range plans and initiatives can be developed. Additionally, this report includes a thorough property value analysis, which examines the extent to which proximity to the Trenton-Mercer Airport is correlated with the value of area properties
Mercer 5: A probable new globular cluster in the Galactic bulge
No full textWe present a detailed study of a dust-obscured Galactic star cluster Mercer 5 ([MCM2005b] 5) in an extremely crowded field in the Milky Way. Near-infrared (near-IR) photometry from United Kingdom Infrared Digital Sky Surveys (UKIDSS) and the Son of ISAAC on the New Technology Telescope (SofI/NTT), combined with near-IR spectroscopy also from SofI, indicates that it is almost certainly a Galactic globular cluster, located at the edge of the Galactic bulge. The cluster suffers ~9 mag of visual extinction, with strong evidence for an extinction gradient across the cluster. A simulation of the differential reddening in the cluster using empirical data from NGC 6539 (chosen because it had high signal-to-noise ratio data and low field star contamination) as a template mimics the observations extremely well. This simulation and other arguments are used to indicate that the most prominent clump of stars in the colour-magnitude diagrams is a horizontal branch clump. On this basis we conclude that the cluster is at a distance of ~5.5kpc and suffers from visual extinction ranging from ~8.5 to ~12.5 mag. Alternative explanations for its nature, such as a young cluster or an old open cluster, are much less likely, on the grounds of no visible main sequence or stars with IR excesses for the former and location versus lifetime arguments for the latter. © 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS
Sport and Exercise Physiology Testing Guidelines: Volume II - Exercise and Clinical Testing. The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Guide
No full textSport and exercise physiologists are called upon to carry out physiological assessments that have proven validity and reliability, both in sport-specific and health-related contexts. A wide variety of test protocols have been developed and refined. This book is a comprehensive guide to these protocols and to the key issues relating to physiological testing. \ud
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Foreword "Sue Campbell "Foreword "Clyde Williams "Introduction "Edward Winter, Paul Bromley, Richard Davison, Andrew Jones and Tom Mercer "General Principles Rationale "Edward Winter, Paul Bromley, Richard Davison, Andrew Jones and Tom Mercer "1. Health and Safety "Graham Jarman "2. Psychological Issues in Testing "Craig Mahoney "3. Blood Sampling "Ron Maughan, Susan Shirreffs and John Leiper "4. Ethics and Physiological Testing "Steve Olivier "Methodological Issues 5. Method Agreement and Measurement Error in the Physiology of Exercise "Greg Atkinson and Alan Nevill "6. Scaling: Adjusting Physiological and Performance Measures for Differences in Body Size "Edward Winter "7. Circadian Rhythms "Tom Reilly "General Procedures 8. Lung and Respiratory Muscle Function "Alison McConnell "9. Surface Anthropometry "Arthur Stewart and Roger Eston "10. Measuring Flexibility "Nicola Phillips "11. Pulmonary Gas Exchange "David VB James, Leigh E Sandals, Dan M Wood and Andrew M Jones "12. Lactate Testing "Neil C Spurway and Andrew M Jones "13. Ratings of Perceived Exertion "John P Buckley and Roger G Eston "14. Strength Testing "Anthony J Blazevich and Dale Cannavan "15. Upper-Body Exercise "Paul M Smith and Michael J Price "Clinical Exercise Physiology 16. Exercise Testing for People with Diabetes "Pelagia Koufaki "17. Cardiac Disorders "Keith George, Paul Bromley and Greg Whyte "18. Peripheral Circulatory Disorders "John Saxton and Tim Cable "19. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Ventilatory Disorders "Lee Romer "20. Exercise Assessment for People with End-Stage Renal Failure "Pelagia Koufaki and Tom Mercer "21. Physiological Testing: Neuromuscular Disorders "David A Jones and Joan M Round "Special Populations 22. Children and Fitness Testing "Gareth Stratton and Craig Williams "23. Testing Older People "John Saxton "24. Testing the Female Athlete "Melonie Burrows "25. Testing the Aesthetic Athlete: Contemporary Dance and Classical Ballet Dancers "Matt Wyon
Sport and Exercise Physiology Testing Guidelines: Volume II - Exercise and Clinical Testing. The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Guide
No full textLondonSport and exercise physiologists are called upon to carry out physiological assessments that have proven validity and reliability, both in sport-specific and health-related contexts. A wide variety of test protocols have been developed and refined. This book is a comprehensive guide to these protocols and to the key issues relating to physiological testing.
Volume I will cover sport-specific testing, and Volume II clinical and exercise testing.
With contributions from many leading specialist physiologists, and covering a wide range of mainstream sports, special populations, and ethical, practical and methodological issues, these volumes represent an essential resource for sport-specific and clinical exercise testing in both research and applied settings
Foreword Sue Campbell Foreword Clyde Williams Introduction Edward Winter, Paul Bromley, Richard Davison, Andrew Jones and Tom Mercer General Principles Rationale Edward Winter, Paul Bromley, Richard Davison, Andrew Jones and Tom Mercer 1. Health and Safety Graham Jarman 2. Psychological Issues in Testing Craig Mahoney 3. Blood Sampling Ron Maughan, Susan Shirreffs and John Leiper 4. Ethics and Physiological Testing Steve Olivier Methodological Issues 5. Method Agreement and Measurement Error in the Physiology of Exercise Greg Atkinson and Alan Nevill 6. Scaling: Adjusting Physiological and Performance Measures for Differences in Body Size Edward Winter 7. Circadian Rhythms Tom Reilly General Procedures 8. Lung and Respiratory Muscle Function Alison McConnell 9. Surface Anthropometry Arthur Stewart and Roger Eston 10. Measuring Flexibility Nicola Phillips 11. Pulmonary Gas Exchange David VB James, Leigh E Sandals, Dan M Wood and Andrew M Jones 12. Lactate Testing Neil C Spurway and Andrew M Jones 13. Ratings of Perceived Exertion John P Buckley and Roger G Eston 14. Strength Testing Anthony J Blazevich and Dale Cannavan 15. Upper-Body Exercise Paul M Smith and Michael J Price Clinical Exercise Physiology 16. Exercise Testing for People with Diabetes Pelagia Koufaki 17. Cardiac Disorders Keith George, Paul Bromley and Greg Whyte 18. Peripheral Circulatory Disorders John Saxton and Tim Cable 19. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Patients with Ventilatory Disorders Lee Romer 20. Exercise Assessment for People with End-Stage Renal Failure Pelagia Koufaki and Tom Mercer 21. Physiological Testing: Neuromuscular Disorders David A Jones and Joan M Round Special Populations 22. Children and Fitness Testing Gareth Stratton and Craig Williams 23. Testing Older People John Saxton 24. Testing the Female Athlete Melonie Burrows 25. Testing the Aesthetic Athlete: Contemporary Dance and Classical Ballet Dancers Matt Wyonsch_phypub630pu
Writing talk: developing metalinguistic understanding through dialogic teaching
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this recordResearch in the teaching of writing has long highlighted the importance of metacognition in writing because writing as a process needs to be self-monitored (Kellogg 1984), it requires high-level metacognitive rhetorical planning (Hayes and Flower 1980) and because it can make covert process visible (Bereiter and Scardamalia 1982). But metalinguistic understanding, a subset of metacognition, referring specifically to thinking about language and language use, has been given scarce attention in terms of how teachers develop students’ metalinguistic understanding for writing. At the same time, recent research is demonstrating the learning power of dialogic talk and dialogic teaching across the curriculum. This chapter will offer a theoretical discussion of how dialogic teaching can open up a ‘dialogic space’ (Wegerif 2013; Myhill and Newman 2016) for the exploration of language choices in writing which develops writers’ capacity to think metalinguistically about writing.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC
Livability and Subjective Wellbeing Across European Cities
No full textThis study documents for the first time the correlation between livability and subjective well
being (SWB) across European cities. Livability is measured with the popular Mercer Quality of
Living Survey and correlates considerably with SWB, measured as place and life satisfactions.
There are outliers, for instance: the “unlivable” but “happy” Belfast (fool’s paradise) and the
“livable,” but “unhappy” Paris (fool’s hell). In addition, we find geographic patterns: while
the Mercer index ranks higher Western cities, subjective well being is higher in Northern cities.
Smaller cities score higher on both livability and SWB, confirming thus the urban sociological
theory of urban malaise while contradicting urban economic theory of city triumph.Peer reviewe
Global analysis of the mammalian RNA degradome reveals widespread miRNA-dependent and miRNA-independent endonucleolytic cleavage
No full textData source: Supplementary data, https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/nar/gkr110#supplementary-dataThe Ago2 component of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) is an endonuclease that cleaves mRNAs that base pair with high complementarity to RISC-bound microRNAs. Many examples of such direct cleavage have been identified in plants, but not in vertebrates, despite the conservation of catalytic capacity in vertebrate Ago2. We performed parallel analysis of RNA ends (PAREs), a deep sequencing approach that identifies 5′-phosphorylated, polyadenylated RNAs, to detect potential microRNA-directed mRNA cleavages in mouse embryo and adult tissues. We found that numerous mRNAs are potentially targeted for cleavage by endogenous microRNAs, but at very low levels relative to the mRNA abundance, apart from miR-151-5p-guided cleavage of the N4BP1 mRNA. We also find numerous examples of non-miRNA-directed cleavage, including cleavage of a group of mRNAs within a CA-repeat consensus sequence. The PARE analysis also identified many examples of adenylated small non-coding RNAs, including microRNAs, tRNA processing intermediates and various other small RNAs, consistent with adenylation being part of a widespread proof-reading and/or degradation pathway for small RNAs.Cameron P. Bracken, Jan M. Szubert, Tim R. Mercer, Marcel E. Dinger, Daniel W. Thomson, John S. Mattick, Michael Z. Michael and Gregory J. Goodal
Early Postglacial Environment of a Small Kettle in Mercer County, Ohio
No full textAuthor Institution: Soil Conservation Service, Defiance, Ohio and Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OhioExcavation of a series of pits in a filled kettle at St. Charles Seminary, in southeastern Mercer County, revealed nine to twelve feet of lacustrine silty-clay sediments above clayrich till. Near the bottom, in the middle of the kettle, the sediments were mostly clays, and contained organic material. Fragments of Picea (spruce) and a few specimens of the mollusks, Helisoma anceps striatum, Gyraulus altissimus, and Amnicola limosa, from the bottom imply an open kettle (lake) in a boreal climate at this time of initial sedimentation. Sediments immediately above this level contained Thuja (northern white cedar), which could indicate either boreal or somewhat less cold conditions. Strata higher in the section were more silty and contained some seepage, but lacked any organic material. Soils of the Montgomery series have developed in the fill of the kettle; soils in the surrounding ground moraine are in the Blount and Morley series
Isolation and companionship: Disability in Australian (Post) colonial cinema
No full textDespite reflecting a postcolonial rethinking of identity throughout the 1990s, disability was positioned as ‘Other’ in Australian national cinema. The intersection between culture, gender, nationality, and disability is evident in films located in traditional colonial spaces (The Well, The Piano). This article concentrates on the fascination 1990s Australian filmmakers had with disabled women; otherwise strong characters who redundantly fulfill cultural expectations of femininity. A disability perspective illustrates the link between disability and sexism in Australian Cinema
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