Using Weak Separability and Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem in Modeling Ground Beef Demand

Replaced with revised version of paper 06/15/11.Aggregation, Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem, beef demand, weak separability, Demand and Price Analysis, Q13, Q18, R32,

Progress in becoming established in farming

"In this study, no attempt is made to try to determine how many beginning farmers are needed as replacements each year, or how to keep young people on the farm. Attention is centered on the procedures that have been used in getting started and the factors such as size and type of business, tenure status, educational training and experience that contributed to the success of the people who made the start in 1953."--Introduction

Impacts from Government Regulations on the Canadian-U.S. Basis for Fed Cattle

Replaced with revised version of paper 09/01/09.Canada, Fed Cattle, Government Policy, International Trade, Prices, U.S., Livestock Production/Industries, Marketing, Q13, Q17, Q18,

Trade-Related Policy and Canadian-U.S. Fed Cattle Transactions Basis

Price differences among fed cattle prices in Canada and the United States (referred to here as fed cattle basis) are important for Canadian cattle feeders, but changing government regulations in Canada and the United States have made basis more variable. This article uses transaction data from Canadian feedlots to quantify fed cattle price differentials in light of new policy initiatives. Using transaction prices, we find that differing slaughter regulations, labeling laws, and policies affecting access to U.S. markets for Canadian cattle affect fed cattle basis.basis, Canada, cattle prices, government policy, international trade, market access, transaction prices, International Relations/Trade, Livestock Production/Industries,

VALUE OF BEEF STEAK BRANDING: HEDONIC ANALYSIS OF RETAIL SCANNER DATA

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/18/10.beef steak, brand premium, hedonic modeling, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Livestock Production/Industries, Marketing,

Irrigation practices and costs in southeastern Missouri, 1960

Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station and Farm Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating.Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references

References to the \u3ci\u3eShepherd of Hermas\u3c/i\u3e at the Monastery of Gunda Gundē

The monastery of Gunda Gundē played a significant historical role in preserving the Ethiopic translation of the Shepherd of Hermas, but its relationship to the book was not simply as a passive guardian. As witnessed through a few locally-produced commentary manuscripts referencing this work, at least some monks actively engaged theologically with it. Their interest in the Shepherd may have been stimulated in part by writings alluding to Hermas authored by the fourteenth-century Ethiopian theologian Retu‘a Hāymānot, copies of which were also held by the monastery

Nature and extent of irrigation in Missouri

Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, and Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating--P. [2].Digitized 2007 AES

Irrigation practices and costs in southeastern Missouri, 1959

Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station and Farm Economics Division, Economic Research Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating.Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references

A Functional Imaging Study of Cooperation in Two-Person reciprocal Exchange

Cooperation between individuals requires the ability to infer each other’s mental states to form shared expectations over mutual gains and make cooperative choices that realize these gains. From evidence that the ability for mental state attribution involves the use of prefrontal cortex, we hypothesize that this area is involved in integrating theory-of-mind processing with cooperative actions. We report data from a functional MRI experiment designed to test this hypothesis. Subjects in a scanner played standard two-person ‘‘trust and reciprocity’’ games with both human and computer counterparts for cash rewards. Behavioral data shows that seven subjects consistently attempted cooperation with their human counterpart. Within this group prefrontal regions are more active when subjects are playing a human than when they are playing a computer following a fixed (and known) probabilistic strategy. Within the group of five noncooperators, there are no significant differences in prefrontal activation between computer and human conditions.Neuroeconomics; Exchange; Trust; Theory-of-Mind; functional Imaging of brain