PRODUCT QUALITY IN THE CANADIAN DAIRY INDUSTRY

Supply management has been shown to increase the price of milk. Technological change has induced (and allowed) processors to substitute alternative inputs, many of which can be imported tariff-free, for the traditional ingredients to lower costs and maximize profit. Meanwhile, there has been a great deal of consolidation in the dairy processing industry. We analyse the effect of these trends on cheese quality by measuring the increase in casein imports. Results suggest that supply management is negatively affecting cheese quality, by increasing casein imports due to the higher milk price. Furthermore, we were able to calculate that approximately 9.8% of specialty cheese is produced used casein. A 22% ad valorem tariff is needed to drive casein imports down to zero.Industrial Organization,

Product Quality in the Canadian Dairy Industry

Supply management has been shown to increase the price of milk. Technological change has induced (and allowed) processors to substitute alternative inputs, many of which can be imported tariff-free, for the traditional ingredients to lower costs and maximize profit. Meanwhile, there has been a great deal of consolidation in the dairy processing industry. We analyse the effect of these trends on cheese quality by measuring the increase in casein imports. Results suggest that supply management is negatively affecting cheese quality, by increasing casein imports due to the higher milk price. Furthermore, we were able to calculate that approximately 9.8% of specialty cheese is produced used casein. A 22% ad valorem tariff is needed to drive casein imports down to zero.Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Industrial Organization,

AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT QUALITY WITHIN THE CANADIAN CHEESE INDUSTRY

Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Principal Component Analysis as a Tool for Characterizing Black Hole Images and Variability

We explore the use of principal component analysis (PCA) to characterize high-fidelity simulations and interferometric observations of the millimeter emission that originates near the horizons of accreting black holes. We show mathematically that the Fourier transforms of eigenimages derived from PCA applied to an ensemble of images in the spatial-domain are identical to the eigenvectors of PCA applied to the ensemble of the Fourier transforms of the images, which suggests that this approach may be applied to modeling the sparse interferometric Fourier-visibilities produced by an array such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). We also show that the simulations in the spatial domain themselves can be compactly represented with a PCA-derived basis of eigenimages allowing for detailed comparisons between variable observations and time-dependent models, as well as for detection of outliers or rare events within a time series of images. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the spectrum of PCA eigenvalues is a diagnostic of the power spectrum of the structure and, hence, of the underlying physical processes in the simulated and observed images.Comment: 16 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Ap

KARAKTERISTIK PENDERITA TUBERKULOSIS PARU DI POLIKLINIK PARU RUMAH SAKIT UMUM DAERAH DR. ZAINOEL ABIDIN BANDA ACEH PERIODE JANUARI 2014 - MEI 2014

ABSTRAKTuberkulosis (TB) merupakan panyakit infeksi bakteri menahun yang disebabkan oleh Mycobacterium Tuberkulosis yang di tandai dengan pembentukan granuloma pada jaringan yang terinfeksi. Penyakit tuberkulosis ini biasanya menyerang paru tetapi dapat menyebar ke hampir seluruh bagian tubuh termasuk ginjal, tulang, nodus limfe. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk untuk mengetahui gambaran penderita Tuberkulosis Paru di poliklinik Paru Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah Zainoel Abidin periode Januari-Mei 2014. Penelitian ini dilakukan secara deskriptif dengan rancangan cross sectional. Populasi penelitian ini pasien yang berobat di Poliklinik Paru RSUDZA Banda Aceh periode Januari 2014-Mei 2014 yang terdiagnosa Tuberkulosis paru. Hasil penelitian berdasarkan jenis kelamin, laki-laki lebih banyak terkena Tuberkulosis paru di bandingkan pada wanita yaitu sebesar 64 orang (68%), usia lansia terbanyak menderita penyakit Tuberkulosis Paru sebesar 40 orang (42,6%), tidak memiliki parut BCG jelas 8 orang (9%), sedangkan yang tidak ada parut BCG 86 orang (BCG 91%) dan berdasarkan riwayat pengobatan sebelumnya penderita yang belum pernah diobati yaitu 67 orang (71,3%) dan pernah di obati lebih dari 1 bulan 28,7% dan berdasarkan asal daerah Aceh besar 35,10%, Kota Banda Aceh 57,44%, Pulo Aceh 1,06%, Pidie 1,06%, Pidie Jaya 1,06%, Aceh Jaya 2,12%, Simeulu 1,06%, Aceh Barat 1,06%. Dari hal tersebut di harapkan kepada semua pihak yang terkait untuk lebih memperhatikan masalah-masalah mengenai penyakit TB Paru ini.Kata kunci: Tuberkulosis Usia, Jenis Kelamin, Riwayat Pengobatan Sebelumnya, Parut BCG, Asal Daerah

NO DIVING FROM BRIDGE

Lia Mendez grew up on the frontlines of America\u27s breadbasket in the great Central Valley of California where Big Ag and Big Oil reign supreme. When Lia returns home after a long absence and joins local activists in her hometown\u27s fight to reclaim its dying river from agribusiness, she discovers that the land holds secrets whose truths have been long hidden in plain sight. As Lia\u27s love and concern deepen for the very place she promised herself she\u27d never wind up in, so, too, does her understanding deepen of the systems of oppression and extraction which rule her world. In this memoir, Lia Mendez struggles to define her role not just as an activist, but as a wife and daughter with close ties to the very extractive industries whose practices she challenges