Transportation Systems Evaluation

A methodology for the analysis of transportation systems consisting of five major interacting elements is reported. The analysis begins with the causes of travel demand: geographic, economic, and demographic characteristics as well as attitudes toward travel. Through the analysis, the interaction of these factors with the physical and economic characteristics of the transportation system is determined. The result is an evaluation of the system from the point of view of both passenger and operator. The methodology is applicable to the intraurban transit systems as well as major airlines. Applications of the technique to analysis of a PRT system and a study of intraurban air travel are given. In the discussion several unique models or techniques are mentioned: i.e., passenger preference modeling, an integrated intraurban transit model, and a series of models to perform airline analysis

SPATIAL HEDONIC ANALYSIS OF VETERINARIAN INCOME

We investigate a hedonic model for veterinarian income using survey data from the American Veterinarian Medical Association. Diagnostic testing indicates the presence of spatial autoregression in the hedonic income model, which is accounted for by incorporating a spatial component into the regression model. The results provide unique empirical findings about determinants of veterinarian income and spatial patterns, as well as insight useful for governments and academic institutions planning programs and the veterinarian industry.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

Some transition metal complexes of 8-amino- quinoline

Transition metal complexes of 8-aminoquinolin

DETERMINANTS OF FAST FOOD CONSUMPTION

Replaced with revised version of paper 03/24/03.Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

COMMERCIAL BEEF HERD REPLACEMENT STRATEGIES

Annualized cow ownership costs represent a large component of the total costs in a cow-calf enterprise, and therefore impact profitability. Annualized cow costs are determined in large part by the price or cost of that cow when it entered the herd. We find that ownership costs, and in turn cow-herd profitability, can be significantly impacted by heifer replacement strategies. Timing (within the cattle cycle) and method (raise vs. purchase) are both important considerations.Livestock Production/Industries,

Compensation for atmospheric appropriation

Research on carbon inequalities shows that some countries are overshooting their fair share of the remaining carbon budget and hold disproportionate responsibility for climate breakdown. Scholars argue that overshooting countries owe compensation or reparations to undershooting countries for atmospheric appropriation and climate-related damages. Here we develop a procedure to quantify the level of compensation owed in a ‘net zero’ scenario where all countries decarbonize by 2050, using carbon prices from IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5 °C and tracking cumulative emissions from 1960 across 168 countries. We find that even in this ambitious scenario, the global North would overshoot its collective equality-based share of the 1.5 °C carbon budget by a factor of three, appropriating half of the global South’s share in the process. We calculate that compensation of US$192 trillion would be owed to the undershooting countries of the global South for the appropriation of their atmospheric fair shares by 2050, with an average disbursement to those countries of US$940 per capita per year. We also examine countries’ overshoot of equality-based shares of 350 ppm and 2 °C carbon budgets and quantify the level of compensation owed using earlier and later starting years (1850 and 1992) for comparison

Report of the workshop on assessing governance in the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem, Bangkok, Thailand, 28-30 October, 2014

The objective of the workshop was to begin a structured discussion on regional governance in the BOBLME, drawing on lessons from a region with similar issues, the Carribean. Conclusions were made about principles, regional governance arrangements, national-regional interface and national science-policy interfaces. Future work was also planned

Suffering flesh spectacular bodies : connecting costume and cinema through an analysis of symbolism, myth and ritual

University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.This thesis connects an understanding of the appearance of the hero in certain contemporary films to the field of costume theory, through an analysis of symbol, myth and ritual. The study has two underlying motivations. The first is that the narratives of many films, consciously or unconsciously, are informed by hero’s journey myths, as described by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), a work that has been influential in Hollywood film scripting. The second is to understand certain observations made by myself during my work as a costume designer over twenty years. In Chapter 1, I discuss psychoanalyst C. G. Jung’s approach to myth and symbol (mentioned by Campbell and often alluded to by film-makers), referring mainly to the appearance of Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the Matrix trilogy (1999, 2003) and that of Randy ‘the Ram’ Robinson (Mickey Rourke) in The Wrestler (2008), and drawing upon images from the myths of Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth (Sumerian, c. 2000 BCE) and Dionysus (Greek, c. 500 BCE). Chapter 2 extends Jane Gaines’ theory of spectacular costume by arguing that the appearance of the hero in films includes certain attributes of culture typical of the ancient magician-king. Rather than simply being ‘a sign’ for the plot, the hero’s often seemingly inexplicable appearance is intended to lift viewers beyond themselves into an experience of the numinous. Continuing with the motif of the hero as magicianking, Chapter 3 discusses the significance of the mask for costume theory. The mask was a motif of the god Dionysus in ancient Greek religious rituals and was used in the Greek tragic theatre of c. 500–400 BCE, performed to honour the god. I show how the closeness of the mask to the body creates a sense of distance or strangeness that has an ambiguous and uncanny representational power; it leads the viewer out of the literal experience of the body to an experience of other selves, felt as an emotional encounter with life. Finally, Chapter 4 further investigates transformation through symbolism of death, or more appropriately ‘non-death’, which in the hero’s journey points towards rebirth. Images of the body in a state of dismemberment and stasis signal the emergence of a new symbol-set for the hero, and also the spectator, that points towards a more vibrant way of showing the effects of living