Exploiting the Cointegration Properties of China’s Monthly Cotton Import Market and World Apparel Market Conditions: A Preliminary Analysis

Crop Production/Industries, International Relations/Trade,

Improving Medication Reconciliation Using Provider Education and an EHR Hard Stop

AIM: By using a sequence of two distinct interventions, we aim to improve the rate of medication reconciliation at Jefferson Internal Medicine Assoc.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/patientsafetyposters/1026/thumbnail.jp

Renewable sources of energy in farming

One of significant elements of balanced progress, bringing in considerable ecological and energetic effects, is making use of energy from renewable sources. The development and exploitation of renewable energy is the proper course of action in favour of respecting the energy from conventional sources, as well as increase in energetic efficiency. Farming, aside from its basic function of producing food, may also provide materials for producing electrical and thermal energy, as well as fuel. Such materials may not only be farming products, but also its by-products or waste. By using them to produce energy or fuel, we gain doubled profit – we reduce the problem of management of these products and the following environmental burden and we diminish the consumption of conventional sources

A TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. DURUM WHEAT AND PASTA MARKETS

A quarterly, partial-equilibrium vector-autoregression model of the U.S. durum wheat and pasta markets was estimated and simulated under three trade-barrier changes that are of potential relevance for the current round of WTO agricultural negotiations: a rise in the U.S. market-clearing durum wheat quantity from increased imports; a policy- or tariff- reduction-induced decline in U.S. durum wheat price; and a tariff-induced rise in U.S. pasta product prices. In response to each shock, an array of quarterly dynamic response characteristics are examined: response reaction times, direction and pattern of quarterly responses, response durations, response multipliers, and strength of durum/pasta market interrelationships.Industrial Organization,

THE CORN-EGG PRICE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM

A vector autoregression (VAR) model of corn, farm egg, and retail egg prices is estimated and shocked with a corn price increase. Impulse responses in egg prices, t-statistics for the impulse responses, and decompositions of forecast error variance are presented. Analyses of results provide insights on the corn/egg price transmission mechanism and on how corn price shocks pulsate through the egg-related economy.Demand and Price Analysis,

Boosting graduates' confidence in statistics

Recent research points to a lack of statistics knowledge in today’s graduate students