Goodbye to Chapter 11: The end of business bankruptcy as we know it

Paper considering the business reorganisation introduced under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The author examines the intended purpose of Chapter 11 and asserts that this chapter was once used to preserve the interests of equity owners, while now it is used to preserve the value of assets. Article by John D. Ayer (Professor of Law, University of California at Davis; Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

ARE CURRENT COMMODITY PROGRAMS OUTDATED? COMMENTS ON THE KNUTSON AND TWEETEN ARGUMENTS

Agricultural and Food Policy,

AGRICULTURE AND GROUNDWATER QUALITY: THE ARIZONA EXPERIENCE

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Mathematical relation predicts achievable densities of compacted particles

Series of mathematical relationships predicts compact densities of spherical shapes in a cylinder as a function of particle dimension, and compact density of angular shapes as a function of particle shape and absolute size

LASER LEVELING AND FEDERAL INCENTIVES

Our empirical analysis shows that federal tax and cost-sharing incentives significantly affect the profitability of laser leveling – a new irrigation technology which sharply reduces gravity water applications. However, the structure of the incentives may make slow rather than rapid adoption of the technology most profitable. Methodology plus results for a wide range of physical and economic conditions are given.Environmental Economics and Policy,

THE RURAL TOWN AS A PRODUCING UNIT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Auto-Grading for 3D Modeling Assignments in MOOCs

Bottlenecks such as the latency in correcting assignments and providing a grade for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) could impact the levels of interest among learners. In this proposal for an auto-grading system, we present a method to simplify grading for an online course that focuses on 3D Modeling, thus addressing a critical component of the MOOC ecosystem that affects. Our approach involves a live auto-grader that is capable of attaching descriptive labels to assignments which will be deployed for evaluating submissions. This paper presents a brief overview of this auto-grading system and the reasoning behind its inception. Preliminary internal tests show that our system presents results comparable to human graders

Species richness, abundance and phenology of fungal fruit bodies over 21 years in a Swiss forest plot

Fungal fruit bodies were surveyed on a plot area of 1500 m2 from 1975¿99 (excluding 1980¿83) in the fungal reserve La Chaneaz in western Switzerland. Fruit bodies were identified and counted on a weekly basis. Species richness and abundances varied strongly between years. More than 400 species were encountered. Many species were transient; particularly rich years showed species occurring for only one year. This indicates that the number of species will substantially increase if the survey is continued. Within years, the species richness, abundances and periods of fruiting were tightly correlated. The abundance data of species within a year seemed symmetrically distributed over their fruiting period. The relation between species richness and abundances within years was studied by fitting species-abundance plots, known from numerical ecology. The surface area under the curves was taken as a parameter for ecological/fungal diversity. Productivity was correlated with the precipitation from June until October. The time of fruit body appearance was correlated with the temperatures in July and August. As groups, mycorrhizal and saprotrophic species behaved similarly over the years. The productivity of species was compared with their distribution in The Netherlands indicating a correlation between the level of local abundance and the geographic range of specie