A DISCUSSANT'S VIEWS OF COMPUTERIZED BUDGET DEVELOPMENT, DISTRIBUTION AND USE

Farm Management,

Unlocking Creativity in Actors: Inhibiting Factors

This article attempts to examine the nature of imagination and creativity in the acting process. It argues that successful acting is the ability to extend the imagination into the creative act of developing a role and building a character. Of particular concern will be the identification of significant personal, social and professional factors that tend to inhibit the creative process. It will close with some observations about the work of Jose Quintero of the Asolo Conservatory, in terms of the specific ways in which he inspires creativity in our actors. It is important to differentiate imagination and creativity. Imagination is that act or power of forming mental images of something not present or perceived before in reality. This would suggest that imagination is entirely an internal process and impossible to measure in any observable way. Indeed, when people say that someone is very imaginative, it is only because they have communicated their imagination in some creative way. The suggestion is that imagination is the emotional foundation for creativity. It is the gasoline which powers the creative act and not the act itself. At some level we are all imaginative, but for some unknown reason artists (and others) seem to have the need to transform this imagination into the external world. In the acting process, imagination is the actor\u27s ability to clearly and vividly connect with the emotional given circumstances of the character and acknowledge analogous feelings and experiences in their own lives

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE AND AGRIBUSINESS

Agribusiness,

Multivariate AIM Consumer Demand Model Applied to Dried Fruit, Raisins, and Dried Plums

Abstract: We estimate a semi-nonparametric demand system based on a multivariate version of the Muntz-Szatz series expansion which is called the Asymptotically Ideal Model (AIM). The model is applied to consumer demand for dried fruits, raisins, and dried plums. Results from the first and second order AIM expansions suggest that the second order expansion leads to a more economically consistent model, but the likelihood ratio test indicates the AIM(2) model was not a statistical improvement over the AIM(1) model.demand, consumers, AIM, Demand and Price Analysis,

β decay of odd-A As to Ge isotopes in the interacting boson-fermion model

The structure of odd-mass isotopes of As and Ge is described in the framework of the proton-neutron interacting boson-fermion model. The energy levels and the electromagnetic properties of 69, 71, 73As and 69, 71, 73Ge are calculated and compared with the experiment. The beta-decay rates from the As isotopes to the Ge isotopes are calculated. The calculated decays tend to be stronger than the observed ones. This may indicate a mixture of components outside the model space in the wave functions of actual nuclei. The effect of the higher-order terms in the decay operators seems small

β decay of the even-even 124Ba nucleus: A test for the interacting boson-fermion-fermion model

IBFFM is applied to β decay of 124Ba to 124Cs. The interacting boson-fermion-fermion model approach to β decay is applied to the decay from the even-even 124Ba to the odd-odd 124Cs nucleus. The theoretical results for energy levels, electromagnetic properties and β decay rates are compared with experimental data for 124Cs. The calculated β-decay rates demonstrate that the interacting boson approximation can be applied in the description of β decays from even-even to odd-odd nuclei

β decay of odd-A Cs isotopes in the interacting boson-fermion model

The structure of odd-mass isotopes of Cs and Xe is described in the framework of IBFM. The model provides a consistent description of beta decay from Cs to Xe nuclei of mass number A = 125, 127, and 129

Total skin self-examination at home for people treated for cutaneous melanoma : development and pilot of a digital intervention

This work was funded by the RCUK Digital Economy award to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, University of Aberdeen; award reference: EP/G066051/1. The Experience Laboratory event was supported in part by a separate award from the University of Aberdeen Knowledge Exchange and Transfer Fund; award reference: GP057 UZZ0101.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Feasibility of using teleradiology to improve tuberculosis screening and case management in a district hospital in Malawi.

Malawi has one of the world's highest rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (10.6%), and southern Malawi, where Thyolo district is located, bears the highest burden in the country (14.5%). Tuberculosis, common among HIV-infected people, requires radiologic diagnosis, yet Malawi has no radiologists in public service. This hinders rapid and accurate diagnosis and increases morbidity and mortality

Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium

This paper compares partial and general equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions. Altruistic parents make inter vivos transfers to their children. Labor supply during college, government grants and loans, as well as private loans, complement parental transfers as sources of funding for college education. We find that the current financial aid system in the U.S. improves welfare, and removing it would reduce GDP by two percentage points in the long-run. Any further relaxation of government-sponsored loan limits would have no salient effects. The short-run partial equilibrium effects of expanding tuition grants (especially their need-based component) are sizeable. However, long-run general equilibrium effects are 3-4 times smaller. Every additional dollar of government grants crowds out 20-30 cents of parental transfers