The Beef Delivery System: Optimal Plant Sizes, Locations and Product Flows

The United States beef delivery system is composed of three stages: procurement, processing, and distribution. Minimization of costs associated with these stages can be accomplished best by identification of optimal plant sizes and locations. Research was directed toward an analytical approach that could be used to minimize total costs of the U.S. beef delivery system. This report will discuss the grid system used to divide the · United States into study units, describe features of the model used, discuss research results, and offer conclusions

The Beef Delivery System: Optimal Plant Sizes, Locations and Product Flows

The United States beef delivery system is composed of three stages: procurement, processing, and distribution. Minimization of costs associated with these stages can be accomplished best by identification of optimal plant sizes and locations. Research was directed toward an analytical approach that could be used to minimize total costs of the U.S. beef delivery system. This report will discuss the grid system used to divide the · United States into study units, describe features of the model used, discuss research results, and offer conclusions

Taxing Business in Missouri

If one believes popular rankings of “tax climate” across the states, Missouri fares pretty well. Using generic types of business tax rankings, however, can mask underlying issues that may belie their message. This study uses the Tax Foundation’s 2015 report “Location Matters: The State Tax Costs of Doing Business” to compare total tax rates paid by different types of businesses in Missouri to those paid by similar businesses in other states. Looking at the total taxes paid—not only corporate income taxes, but also property taxes, unemployment taxes, etc.—is crucial to understanding the total or effective burden of state taxes on businesses. It is this broader picture of tax burdens that allows us to, for example, better understand decisions by firms to locate, or not, in Missouri

Pilot Project Funding Opportunities

Learn about funding opportunities offered through the UMCCTS in the 2012-2013 academic year. Bill Thomas and Greg Babcock describe the resources available at MassBiologics and the new Next Hundred Million Pilot Program funding opportunity

The RADx Tech Test Verification Core and the ACME POCT in the Evaluation of COVID-19 Testing Devices: A Model for Progress and Change

Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, the US system for developing and testing technologies was challenged in unparalleled ways. This article describes the multi-institutional, transdisciplinary team of the “RADx SM Tech Test Verification Core” and its role in expediting evaluations of COVID-19 testing devices. Expertise related to aspects of diagnostic testing was coordinated to evaluate testing devices with the goal of significantly expanding the ability to mass screen Americans to preserve lives and facilitate the safe return to work and school. Focal points included: laboratory and clinical device evaluation of the limit of viral detection, sensitivity, and specificity of devices in controlled and community settings; regulatory expertise to provide focused attention to barriers to device approval and distribution; usability testing from the perspective of patients and those using the tests to identify and overcome device limitations, and engineering assessment to evaluate robustness of design including human factors, manufacturability, and scalability

Baby Boomers’ Attitudes Towards Product Placements

Including branded products within mass media programming is becoming common. Previous research has focused almost entirely on college-age students\u27 attitudes about placements in movies and television. This research focuses on Baby Boomers and is the first to include questions about multiple media in forming attitudes towards product placements. Six hypotheses were tested. Attitude toward product placement is related to media consumption. Males appear more positive than females. Interactions effects of media consumption x gender and media consumption x age appear insignificant. Analytical results, graphs, tables and managerial implications and representative comments from respondents are presented

A warning on the use of the Cochrane-Orcutt procedure based on a money demand equation for the United States

We show that estimates of the elasticity if demand for money in the United States depend crucially on which of the three minima of the residual sum of squares is selected by the Cochrane-Orcutt procedure applied to a model which contains a lagged endogenous variable. The model constitutes the first real example of multiple minima obtainable by the Cochrane-Orcutt procedure -- with or without a lagged endogenous variable -- and is used to caution against routine use of this procedure.

Biola Hour Highlights, 1976 - 10

Interview with Dr.Samuel H. Sutherland Special Youth Panel with Ron Hafer, Jerry Root, and Frank Mercer Panel Discussions with Richard Chase, Charles Feinberg, and Samuel Sutherland This We Believe Introduction by Richard Chase Satan by Robert Moroscohttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/bhhs/1032/thumbnail.jp

Biola Hour Highlights, 1976 - 10

Interview with Dr.Samuel H. Sutherland Special Youth Panel with Ron Hafer, Jerry Root, and Frank Mercer Panel Discussions with Richard Chase, Charles Feinberg, and Samuel Sutherland This We Believe Introduction by Richard Chase Satan by Robert Moroscohttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/bhhs/1032/thumbnail.jp

EFFECTS OF CHRONOLOGICAL DEER DAMAGE ON CORN YIELDS

To examine the relationship between the timing of deer (Odocoileus virginianus) damage and subsequent yields of field corn, we conducted 2 studies in 2 cornfields in eastern Nebraska during 1989 and 1991