Fearless: V Rosenberger and Tori Reynolds

“Getting Out,” the compelling prison drama by Marsha Norman, is opening tonight at 7:30pm on Kline Theater at Gettysburg, and bringing this play to life are two very fearless women. [excerpt

If You Provide It, Will They Read It? The Effect of Information on Choices

This paper investigates the effect of information on respondent's choices in an internet survey for measuring the value of water quality improvements in Deckers Creek (DC) watershed in Monongalia and Peterson Counties of West Virginia, USA. A multiattribute, choice experiment and multinomial logit (MNL) models are used in estimating the marginal utilities of restoring the three attributes of DC: aquatic life, swimming safety, and scenic quality. Response times serve as proxy variables regarding whether respondents read or did not read all the information provided in the survey. Response times fell quickly, but then tapered off as they progressed through the various sections of the survey. Results show that the estimated coefficients of subsamples, read and did not read all the information, were statistically different from each other. Based on log likelihood tests of MNL models, two subsamples of the survey population (read and did not read all information) were found to be from different populations. Estimates of marginal utilities reveal that respondents value aquatic life restoration the highest, followed by scenic quality restoration. Average compensating variation estimates for full restoration of the aquatic life and scenic quality attributes are $9 and$ 6 per month per household, respectively, when the subsamples are pooled. However, the individual subsamples resulted in $5 per month for aquatic life and$3 per month for scenic quality for respondents that read the information, while respondents that did not read the information resulted in statistically higher estimates of $16 and$12, respectively. While respondents' motives for not reading the resource information provided is uncertain, results show their values for watershed restoration are substantially higher than respondents that read the information.Demand and Price Analysis,

Zwischen Kunst und Kommerz – die Vettern Romberg und ihre Musikverleger

Die Vettern Andreas (1767-1821) und insbesondere Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841) haben ihre durch Virtuosentum und populäre Kompositionen erreichte internationale Bekanntheit geschickt genutzt, um sich auf dem zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts rasch expandierenden Musikalienmarkt gut zu positionieren. Die heute nur noch höchst selten im Konzert-Repertoire vertretenen Kompositionen von Andreas und Bernhard Romberg erschienen zu ihren Lebzeiten sowie in den ersten Jahren nach ihrem Tode in einer Vielzahl von gedruckten Ausgaben. Der Aufsatz beleuchtet die für diese Tatsache notwendigen gesellschaftlichen wie technologischen Voraussetzungen sowie das Verhältnis der beiden Musiker zu ihren Verlegern

Is access synonymous with use?: evaluation of access and use of technology in Salem County high schools

The high schools of Salem County were studied for their use of technology in general and the Internet specifically. Literature regarding the effective use of technology in education nationwide was researched. It was found that even though Salem County has access to much technology, it is underutilized, due primarily to lack of thorough professional development. Particular attention was given to Internet technology because of grants received by the county for the express purpose of establishing a local node for use by the schools in the county. A preliminary review of the literature indicated that the scope of the study needed to include technology in general, because the Internet is but one form of technology that education has embraced. The reviewed literature addressed the broad spectrum of technology: its potentials, its expected uses, its actual uses. A survey, patterned after one studied in the literature reading, was distributed to all the high school educators, administrators, and school board members in Salem County. The information gathered from this local survey was used to focus recommendations to an area that will be most useful in the county, quality professional development. The findings of the national survey that measured telecommunications use in K-12 districts, the design of the local survey, and the results and implications of this survey have been discussed in detail; graphs comparing the local survey results to the national survey are also included. Based on this survey analysis, implications and suggestions are included that can help ensure that expensive technology that is regularly being brought into the high schools of Salem County will be effectively and routinely used to better education

A Generalization of the Real Mean Value Inequality

In dieser Arbeit wird eine Mittelwertungleichung für banachraumwertige Funktionen auf einem kompakten Intervall vorgestellt. Im Spezialfall reellwertiger Funktionen wurde diese Mittelwertungleichung bereits von Dale E. Varberg in seiner Arbeit "On Absolutely Continuous Functions" bewiesen. Da Varbergs Beweis jedoch wesentlich auf die Ordnungsstruktur von R zurückgreift, kann er nicht als Ausgangspunkt für die hier vorgestellte Verallgemeinerung dienen; vielmehr wird ein eigenständiger Beweis präsentiert, der an zentraler Stelle den Überdeckungssatz von Vitali zuhilfe nimmt. MSC 2000: 26A24, 26A46, 28A12, 28A75, 28A78 We propose a Mean Value Inequality concerning functions on a compact interval mapping into an arbitrary Banach space. In the special case of a realvalued function, the statement of our theorem was already formulated by Dale E. Varberg in his paper "On Absolutely Continuous Functions". Since Varberg's proof is essentially based on the ordered structure of R, it isn't possible to apply this proof to our generalized theorem. Therefore we establish a proper proof which makes use of the well-known Vitali Covering Theorem. MSC 2000: 26A24, 26A46, 28A12, 28A75, 28A7

Vapor crystal growth technology development: Application to cadmium telluride

Growth of bulk crystals by physical vapor transport was developed and applied to cadmium telluride. The technology makes use of effusive ampoules, in which part of the vapor contents escapes to a vacuum shroud through defined leaks during the growth process. This approach has the advantage over traditional sealed ampoule techniques that impurity vapors and excess vapor constituents are continuously removed from the vicinity of the growing crystal. Thus, growth rates are obtained routinely at magnitudes that are rather difficult to achieve in closed ampoules. Other advantages of this effusive ampoule physical vapor transport (EAPVT) technique include the predetermination of transport rates based on simple fluid dynamics and engineering considerations, and the growth of the crystal from close to congruent vapors, which largely alleviates the compositional nonuniformities resulting from buoyancy driven convective transport. After concisely reviewing earlier work on improving transport rates, nucleation control, and minimization of crystal wall interactions in vapor crystal growth, a detail account is given of the largely computer controlled EAPVT experimentation

What Makes a Monster and What Makes a Man? Exploring the Relationship between the Creator and the Creation in Three Gothic Novels

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray all tell tales of both men and monsters. Identifying which characters fit into which category, however, requires further analysis. Each story presents its own interpretation of the creation process pursued by very different creators and yielding very different creations. Victor Frankenstein is motivated by pride, scientific curiosity, and the hope of healing the human faults to build a huge creature out of corpse parts that becomes so ugly in life that no one can treat this monster with anything but fear and rage. Henry Jekyll is driven to resolve his inner spiritual conflict between the good and evil halves of his soul, and that leads him to unleash upon the world a being of pure, demoniacal malevolence. Artist Basil Hallward and philosopher Lord Henry Wotton take under their wing the young, beautiful Dorian Gray and influence him so strongly with their love and moral curiosity that he turns to a life of inescapable and damnable immorality. Can these creations be fully blamed for their actions? In each case, these monsters come from highly faulted creators that will not or cannot take the necessary action to see their creations through to success. These creations become monsters because they have no choice, yet if the creators are truly responsible for the beings to which they give life, does that not make them the monsters? The works of Shelley, Stevenson, and Wilde function as a clear warning. If a creator fails to provide his creation with the responsibilities called for by the creation process, the creature will fail. And, if the creation fails, so does the creator

PANEL STRATIFICATION IN META-ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMIC STUDIES

Meta-analyses of past research outcomes are becoming more popular, however, the issue of the panel nature of data has not been empirically investigated. We test various forms of data stratifications into panels for outdoor recreation economic studies but do not find any significant effects, possibly because of inherent data complexity.Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

On Lyndon's equation in some Λ-free groups and HNN extensions

In this paper we study Lyndon's equation xpyqzr = 1, with x, y, z group elements and p, q, r positive integers, in HNN extensions of free and fully residually free groups, and draw some conclusions about its behavior in Λ-free group