Future thinking on carved stones

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Scottish Archaeological Research Framework: Future Thinking on Carved Stones

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Paper Session I-B - The Human Space Flight Approach to Crew Resource Mangement

She was carrying more than 2220 passengers when she left the Southampton docks just after noon on that April day. This maiden voyage of discovery and adventure would soon become one of the most devastating maritime disasters of all time as the great ship collided with an iceberg, only minutes before midnight on April 14, 88 years ago. In just under 3 short hours, the freezing waters of the North Atlantic swallowed the Titanic ending the lives of over 1500 of her passengers and crew, forever changing those of the 707 survivors. In the early hours of the morning on April 26, 1986 a routine test of the reactor went very wrong. The nuclear power control engineers at Chernobyl unit 4 had no idea that their actions were about to produce the worst nuclear disaster of all time. Several human errors led to an uncontrolled reaction in the core resulting in explosions that lifted the cap off the containment facility. In all some 8 tons of fuel containing highly radioactive plutonium and other fission products were ejected from the reactor into the surrounding atmosphere

JSKETCH: Sketching for Java

Sketch-based synthesis, epitomized by the SKETCH tool, lets developers synthesize software starting from a partial program, also called a sketch or template. This paper presents JSKETCH, a tool that brings sketch-based synthesis to Java. JSKETCH's input is a partial Java program that may include holes, which are unknown constants, expression generators, which range over sets of expressions, and class generators, which are partial classes. JSKETCH then translates the synthesis problem into a SKETCH problem; this translation is complex because SKETCH is not object-oriented. Finally, JSKETCH synthesizes an executable Java program by interpreting the output of SKETCH.Comment: This research was supported in part by NSF CCF-1139021, CCF- 1139056, CCF-1161775, and the partnership between UMIACS and the Laboratory for Telecommunication Science

MEASURING AN ALMOST IDEAL DEMAND SYSTEM WITH GENERALIZED FLEXIBLE LEAST SQUARES

Structural change in meat consumption has been the focus of many researchers during the last two decades. In this paper we develop a dynamic linear Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model from a cost function that allows for time varying parameters. This model is consistent with inertia in the parameters of the cost and indirect utility functions. It allows for persistent preferences which may arise from cultural biases, lifestyles, peer pressure, etc. An empirical application is conducted with US meat consumption and price data using a generalized system of flexible least squares, Generalized Flexible Least Squares (GFLS). GFLS allows parameters to evolve slowly over time through incorporating of penalties in fluctuations. Estimated quarterly elasticities were subjected to additional analysis to determine how highly they were related to the Brown and Schrader Cholesterol Index and relative prices. The combined results support that the movements of elasticities over time are related to both.Demand and Price Analysis, Institutional and Behavioral Economics,