Management of Multipurpose Heterogeneous Fishing Fleets Under Uncertainty

This paper describes an approach to modeling fisheries that can be useful in policy analysis when the population dynamics are not well known and the fleet is composed of a variety of multipurpose vessels. An empirical application of the methodology to the northern California Dungeness crab fishery is discussed. A multivariate time-series model provides the intertemporal (year-to-year) relationships for a simulation model describing both within season and year-to-year fleet behavior. Appropriate modifications of the simulation model parameters reflect alternative policy scenarios. The analysis of the simulation outcomes provide insight into fleet response to several management alternatives that have been considered for the crab fishery.Environmental Economics and Policy, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Risk and Uncertainty,

Assessing Students\u27 Writing: Countering Some Common Misbeliefs

In their attempt to come to terms with evaluating students\u27 writing, many instructors across the curriculum fall prey to several common misbeliefs, which themselves reflect a paucity of information on the part of evaluates on how to evaluate writing fairly and objectively. Besides being in a quandary about what to evaluate, instructors are not certain either about how to go about assessing students\u27 writing. In this paper, these common misbeliefs are first identified and discussed, after which suggestions are made on how to counter or rectify these types of fallacious thinking. By countering these misbeliefs, instructors can use evaluation as a catalyst to promote better writing skills on the part of the students

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Utilizing Writing-Across-The-Curriculum Principles in the Traditional Classroom: Rethinking Teaching Strategies and Evaluative Criteria

Writing-across-the-curriculum (w-a-c) programs have become firmly entrenched in a large number of universities throughout the USA. Many universities, however, still have not adopted the program itself nor the major tenets of this program. Since w-a-c addresses learning and teaching strategies that are applicable across the curriculum, its adoption, if only by individual teachers in various disciplines, can result in students writing better and learning more about these subject areas, while they are writing. By requiring that students write more while exploring and acquiring the meaning-making strategies of their disciplines, students become more proficient writers while learning more about their respective disciplines. In order to do justice to this innovative approach, teachers must develop evaluative criteria that reflect w-a-c principles

Hospitality Administration Program Administrators View Core Areas of Knowledge

In 1992 the Accrediting Commission on Programs of Hospitality Administration established standards for hospitality administration programs. The authors surveyed program administrators regarding the current and preferred location for the teaching of the common core areas of hospitality administration knowledge

Simulation of regional product and income with emphasis on Iowa, 1954-1974

To simulate the growth of a region\u27s product and income is to create the data that describe the evolution of a regional economic system. In this study the data pertain to the Iowa economy for the 20-year period - 1954 to 1974. They are presented for two primary purposes - to illustrate (a) the effects of major market and technological trends on a state or regional economy and (b) the uses of social accounting data in state or regional development and planing. Estimates of the gross Iowa product are presented to show its changing composition over the 1954-74 period. In addition, a system of economic relationships is used to generate year-to-year changes in specific components of Iowa\u27s gross product. The Iowa data show the principal structural features of the state\u27s economy. In 1954, for example, the gross Iowa product (i.e., the value added by economic activity in Iowa) was 5.6 billion dollars, of which 4.5 billion dollars was in the form of personal income payments. Thus, the 1954 gross state product of $2,090 per capita was sufficient to allow for an average personal income of$1,690, given a total Iowa population of 2,665,000. By 1974, the Iowa gross product will reach 9.5 billion dollars (in constant 1954 dollars) - an increase over the 20-year period of 2.7 percent per year, compounded annually - according to the benchmark projections. Total population in 1974 is estimated at 2,852,400, an increase of only 1/3 percent per year. Per-capita personal income would reach 2,560 dollars per person, while projected gross investment would reach 2.2 billion dollars