Some Aspects of Price Inflation in Ireland. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 40, January 1968

In every country prices have risen sUbstantiaUy since the end of the war. In Ireland, as in six other European countries, consumer prices had almost doubled between 1948 and 1965--see Table 2. Is this situation of continuously rising prices in the indefinite future a fact of life which must be accepted and with which we must somehow cope, or does it mean that a sudden, and possibly catastrophic, fall in prices, like that of May 192o after World War I, is to be anticipated? History generally has a way of repeating itself and similarities are observable between our times and others, but with much longer time-lags between cause and effect in the more recent period. One might hope that, as governments nowadays have much greater control of their economies than in the past, and with the development of the social conscience, disastrous price falls can be avoided or mitigated. It is only a hope, however

Certain Aspects of Non-Agricultural Unemployment in Ireland. General Research Series Paper No. 52, January 1970

In Ireland less attention is paid to the chronically high Irish unemployment rate than the gravity of the problem merits. Indeed, the reason it is more or less tacitly tolerated may be its permanent character. Also, unemployment has declined considerably over the years. At the Census of Population (CP) of April 1936 those out of work numbered 95,000; in April 1966 the number was 52,000 in a labour force which, comparatively, did not change much. As regards non-agricultural unemployment (NAU), with which we are solely concerned here, numbers declined in the 30 years from 69,000 to 42,000. Since the non-agricultural employee labour force (employed and unemployed) greatly increased, the decline in rates (i.e. out of work as percentage of employee labour force) is even more striking: from 12.2 per cent to 6.3 per cent. In the next section we shall find that the decline in rates was also very marked in the post-war II period. No doubt the fact of the decline, as well as the efforts (largely successful in the economic sense)being made to develop industry (and incidentally1 to create new jobs) has done much to assuage the public conscience. We shall see, however, that in Irish conditions, there is no necessary connection between increased employment and decline in unemployment at rates of expansion of the economy prevailing in recent years and we shall show why. As a consequence, it would appear that, to cope with the problem of high unemployment, more must be done than expanding the economy. Unemployment must be regarded as a specific social problem, almost as if it were isolated from economic development. Employment and unemployment are not one problem but two

User's manual for the REEDM (Rocket Exhaust Effluent Diffusion Model) computer program

The REEDM computer program predicts concentrations, dosages, and depositions downwind from normal and abnormal launches of rocket vehicles at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The atmospheric dispersion models, cloud-rise models, and other formulas used in the REEDM model are described mathematically Vehicle and source parameters, other pertinent physical properties of the rocket exhaust cloud, and meteorological layering techniques are presented as well as user's instructions for REEDM. Worked example problems are included

Program listing for the REEDM (Rocket Exhaust Effluent Diffusion Model) computer program

The program listing for the REEDM Computer Program is provided. A mathematical description of the atmospheric dispersion models, cloud-rise models, and other formulas used in the REEDM model; vehicle and source parameters, other pertinent physical properties of the rocket exhaust cloud and meteorological layering techniques; user's instructions for the REEDM computer program; and worked example problems are contained in NASA CR-3646

US Participation in the GOME and SCIAMACHY Projects

The research performed during this reporting period includes development and maintenance of scientific software for the GOME retrieval algorithms, consultation on operational software development for GOME, further sensitivity and instrument studies to help finalize the definition of the SCIAMACHY instrument, and consultation on optical and detector issues for both GOME and SCIAMACHY. The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment was successfully launched on the ERS-2 satellite on April 20, 1995, during this reporting period, and is working in the expected fashion. The European Space Agency has made their selections from responses to the Announcement of Opportunity for GOME validation and science studies, part of the overall ERS AO. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) proposal has been selected. These proposals are primarily for access to the data; ESA does not provide research funding for the selected investigations. The SAO activities that are carried out as a result of selection by ESA are funded by the present grant, to the limit that can be accomplished at the present level of funding. SCIAMACHY is currently in Phase C/D. Instrument design is almost finalized and selection of infrared detectors from the initial production run has been made

Beyond Safe Harbor: Risk of Exposing Location in De-Identified Clinical Data

The use of de-identified EHR data for clinical and translational research has increased significantly since the HIPAA Privacy Rule De-Identification standards went into effect -Inclusion of SDOH measures in de-identified research is increasing as well, which presents an inherent risk of re-identifying PHI (primarily location units smaller than the state) -Data warehouse architecture and institutional policies need to recognize the risk associated with providing multiple location-based indices -Research interests are secondary to privacy concerns throughout biomedical research, but particularly in de-identified research, which is intended to promote more secure access to EHR data while allowing for expedient access (fewer institutional barriers to entry)https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/com_neuro_pres/1000/thumbnail.jp

US Participation in the GOME and SCIAMACHY Projects

This report summarizes research done under NASA Grant NAGW-2541 through September 30, 1997. The research performed under this grant includes development and maintenance of scientific software for the GOME retrieval algorithms, consultation on operational software development for GOME, sensitivity and instrument studies to define GOME and SCIAMACHY instruments, consultation on optical and detector issues for both GOME and SCIAMACHY, consultation and development for SCIAMACHY near-real-time (NRT) and off-line (OL) data products, and development of infrared line-by-line atmospheric modeling and retrieval capability for SCIAMACHY. The European Space Agency selected the SAO to participate in GOME validation and science studies, part of the overall ERS AO. This provided access to all GOME data; The SAO activities that are carried out as a result of selection by ESA were funded by the present grant. The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment was successfully launched on the ERS- 2 satellite on April 20, 1995, and remains working in normal fashion. SCIAMACHY is currently scheduled for launch in early 2000. The first two European ozone monitoring instruments (OMI), to fly on the q series of operational meteorological satellites being planned by Eumetsat, have been selected to be GOME-type instruments (the first, in fact, will be the refurbished GOME flight spare). K. Chance is the U.S. member of the OMI Users Advisory Group

Two 'b's in the Beehive: The Discovery of the First Hot Jupiters in an Open Cluster

We present the discovery of two giant planets orbiting stars in Praesepe (also known as the Beehive Cluster). These are the first known hot Jupiters in an open cluster and the only planets known to orbit Sun-like, main-sequence stars in a cluster. The planets are detected from Doppler shifted radial velocities; line bisector spans and activity indices show no correlation with orbital phase, confirming the variations are caused by planetary companions. Pr0201b orbits a V=10.52 late F dwarf with a period of 4.4264 +/- 0.0070 days and has a minimum mass of 0.540 +/- 0.039 Mjup, and Pr0211b orbits a V=12.06 late G dwarf with a period of 2.1451 +/- 0.0012 days and has a minimum mass of 1.844 +/- 0.064 Mjup. The detection of 2 planets among 53 single members surveyed establishes a lower limit on the hot Jupiter frequency of 3.8 (+5.0)(-2.4) % in this metal-rich open cluster. Given the precisely known age of the cluster, this discovery also demonstrates that, in at least 2 cases, giant planet migration occurred within 600 Myr after formation. As we endeavor to learn more about the frequency and formation history of planets, environments with well-determined properties -- such as open clusters like Praesepe -- may provide essential clues to this end.Comment: 5 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures. Published in ApJ Letter