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"Valuing Beach Closures on the Padre Island National Seashore"
In this paper we estimate the economic loss of hypothetical beach closures on the Padre Island National Seashore on the Gulf Coast of Texas. We use a travel cost random utility maximization (RUM) model with data from a random phone survey of Texas residents completed in 2001. We simulate realistic closures that may occur in event of an oil spill or other disruption. For comparison we valued the loss of beach closures in the heavily populated Galveston area. The aggregate losses on Padre Island were highest on weekend days in July estimated at ). They were lowest on weekdays in September at 28. A similar closure of beaches near Galveston resulted in losses of 852,000 (weekend day) with a per trip loss of $30.random utility model, beach use, non-market valuation
Believing you can is the first step to achieving
This easy-to-implement programme helps educational professionals to engage and motivate students aged 8-12 who are underachieving or have low self-belief. Based on techniques from CBT and AR, the workbook, games and activities in this programme teach students how negative and positive thinking can affect learning
Isospin Breaking Corrections to the HVP with Domain Wall Fermions
We present results for the QED and strong isospin breaking corrections to the
hadronic vacuum polarization using Domain Wall fermions. QED is
included in an electro-quenched setup using two different methods, a stochastic
and a perturbative approach. Results and statistical errors from both methods
are directly compared with each other.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, presented at the 35th International Symposium on
Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2017), Granada, Spain, June 18-24, 201
An intensive archaeological survey of Mansfield Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina
Research Papers of the Waccamaw Center for Cultural and Historical Studies, Research Manuscript 8. Published by the Coastal Carolina University Waccamaw Center for Cultural and Historical Studies.https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/michie-reports/1023/thumbnail.jp
Do We See Eye to Eye? Moderators of Correspondence Between Student and Faculty Evaluations of Day-to-Day Teaching
Students and instructors show moderate levels of agreement about the quality of day-to-day teaching. In the present study, we replicated and extended this finding by asking how correspondence between student and instructor ratings is moderated by time of semester and student demographic variables. Participants included 137 students and 5 instructors. On 10 separate days, students and instructors rated teaching effectiveness and challenge level of the material. Multilevel modeling indicated that student and instructor ratings of teaching effectiveness converged overall, but more advanced students and Caucasian students converged more closely with instructors. Student and instructor ratings of challenge converged early but diverged later in the semester. These results extend our knowledge about the connection between student and faculty judgments of teaching
Incentive Design to Enhance the Reach of Weight Loss Program
This study employed stated-preference methods to elicit individuals’ program participation preference towards different financial incentive attributes. The results of this study show promise for the use of carefully designed incentive programs to raise participation in weight loss programs. Results show that a fungible payment form is important for the incentive to be effective in reach (i.e., cash and grocery gift-cards are preferred over gym passes and waivers of insurance co-payments). Furthermore, immediate payment is preferred over delayed payment.Financial Incentives, Program Reach, Random Parameter Logit, Health Economics and Policy, F10, F13,
Exotic and excited-state radiative transitions in charmonium from lattice QCD
We compute, for the first time using lattice QCD methods, radiative
transition rates involving excited charmonium states, states of high spin and
exotics. Utilizing a large basis of interpolating fields we are able to project
out various excited state contributions to three-point correlators computed on
quenched anisotropic lattices. In the first lattice QCD calculation of the
exotic 1-+ eta_c1 radiative decay, we find a large partial width Gamma(eta_c1
-> J/psi gamma) ~ 100 keV. We find clear signals for electric dipole and
magnetic quadrupole transition form factors in chi_c2 -> J/psi gamma,
calculated for the first time in this framework, and study transitions
involving excited psi and chi_c1,2 states. We calculate hindered magnetic
dipole transition widths without the sensitivity to assumptions made in model
studies and find statistically significant signals, including a non-exotic
vector hybrid candidate Y_hyb? -> eta_c gamma. As well as comparison to
experimental data, we discuss in some detail the phenomenology suggested by our
results and the extent to which it mirrors that of quark potential models and
make suggestions for the interpretation of our results involving exotic quantum
numbered states
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