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Teaching in higher education: using reflexivity to construct a comparative analysis of tutor biographies between South Africa and the UK
Groundwater Conservation Policy in Agriculture
Transboundary water conflicts between urban and rural populations often center on water use in the agricultural sector. Public officials may select a water conservation policy as the primary tool for reducing agricultural water use with the goal to improve water availability to urban areas and future generations. The Groundwater Management Act of 1980 (GMA) in Arizona was designed, in part, to induce water conservation in irrigated agriculture to sustain economic growth in an arid climate. Our mixed-method evaluation design merges qualitative, interview-based information with an estimated water demand function using panel data. We find that the GMA began with a flawed design and evolved through political circumstances into a ineffective water conservation tool. We explain nearly all water use in Arizona's agricultural sector from 1984-2002 using prices and weather data. We found no statistical evidence that the management plans of the GMA directly contributed to reduced water demand in Arizona's agricultural sector over the study period.Impact assessment, public policy, irrigation, water conservation, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Antibiotics and sterilisers in the dairy industry
A S a consequence of the rapid advances made in all aspects of technology there are an ever increasing number of preparations becoming available to the dairy farmer, to assist both in the control of disease in his crops, pastures and animals and to maintain and enhance the quality of his dairy products.
These areâantibiotics, sterilisers, detergents, various weedicides and pesticide
Marker dyes in antibiotics
\u27For some years the presence of penicillin in milk has been a serious problem for the dairy industry.
When cows are treated for mastitis with antibiotics some residue finds its way into the milk.
Unless the milk from treated cows is withheld for at least 72 hours after treatment this residue enters the bulk milk supply
Using ordinary multiplication to do relativistic velocity addition
Relativistic addition of velocities in one dimension, though a mainstay of
introductory physics, contributes much less physical insight than it could. For
such calculations, we propose the use of velocity factors (two-way doppler
factors). Velocities can easily, often by inspection, be turned into velocity
factors, and vice versa. Velocity factors compose by ordinary multiplication.
This simple device considerably extends the kinds of questions that can be
asked and answered in an introductory course.Comment: 6 page
Competitive market for multiple firms and economic crisis
The origin of economic crises is a key problem for economics. We present a
model of long-run competitive markets to show that the multiplicity of
behaviors in an economic system, over a long time scale, emerge as statistical
regularities (perfectly competitive markets obey Bose-Einstein statistics and
purely monopolistic-competitive markets obey Boltzmann statistics) and that how
interaction among firms influences the evolutionary of competitive markets. It
has been widely accepted that perfect competition is most efficient. Our study
shows that the perfectly competitive system, as an extreme case of competitive
markets, is most efficient but not stable, and gives rise to economic crises as
society reaches full employment. In the economic crisis revealed by our model,
many firms condense (collapse) into the lowest supply level (zero supply,
namely bankruptcy status), in analogy to Bose-Einstein condensation. This
curious phenomenon arises because perfect competition (homogeneous
competitions) equals symmetric (indistinguishable) investment direction, a fact
abhorred by nature. Therefore, we urge the promotion of monopolistic
competition (heterogeneous competitions) rather than perfect competition. To
provide early warning of economic crises, we introduce a resolving index of
investment, which approaches zero in the run-up to an economic crisis. On the
other hand, our model discloses, as a profound conclusion, that the
technological level for a long-run social or economic system is proportional to
the freedom (disorder) of this system; in other words, technology equals the
entropy of system. As an application of this new concept, we give a possible
answer to the Needham question: "Why was it that despite the immense
achievements of traditional China it had been in Europe and not in China that
the scientific and industrial revolutions occurred?"Comment: 17 pages; 3 figure
The evolution problem for the 1D nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation with a top hat kernel. Part 1. The Cauchy problem on the real line
We study the Cauchy problem on the real line for the nonlocal Fisher-KPP
equation in one spatial dimension, where
is a spatial convolution with the top hat kernel, .
After showing that the problem is globally well-posed, we demonstrate that
positive, spatially-periodic solutions bifurcate from the spatially-uniform
steady state solution as the diffusivity, , decreases through
. We explicitly construct these spatially-periodic
solutions as uniformly-valid asymptotic approximations for , over one
wavelength, via the method of matched asymptotic expansions. These consist, at
leading order, of regularly-spaced, compactly-supported regions with width of
where , separated by regions where is exponentially small at
leading order as .
From numerical solutions, we find that for , permanent form
travelling waves, with minimum wavespeed, , are generated, whilst
for , the wavefronts generated separate the regions where
from a region where a steady periodic solution is created. The structure
of these transitional travelling waves is examined in some detail
Analytic structure of the S-matrix for singular quantum mechanics
The analytic structure of the S-matrix of singular quantum mechanics is examined within a multichannel framework, with primary focus on its dependence with respect to a parameter (Ω) that determines the boundary conditions. Specifically, a characterization is given in terms of salient mathematical and physical properties governing its behavior. These properties involve unitarity and associated current-conserving Wronskian relations, time-reversal invariance, and Blaschke factorization. The approach leads to an interpretation of effective nonunitary solutions in singular quantum mechanics and their determination from the unitary family.Fil: Camblong, Horacio E.. University of San Francisco; Estados UnidosFil: Epele, Luis Nicolas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de FĂsica. Laboratorio de FĂsica TeĂłrica; ArgentinaFil: Fanchiotti, Huner. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de FĂsica. Laboratorio de FĂsica TeĂłrica; ArgentinaFil: GarcĂa Canal, Carlos Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de FĂsica. Laboratorio de FĂsica TeĂłrica; Argentin
BNFinder: exact and efficient method for learning Bayesian networks
Motivation: Bayesian methods are widely used in many different areas of research. Recently, it has become a very popular tool for biological network reconstruction, due to its ability to handle noisy data. Even though there are many software packages allowing for Bayesian network reconstruction, only few of them are freely available to researchers. Moreover, they usually require at least basic programming abilities, which restricts their potential user base. Our goal was to provide software which would be freely available, efficient and usable to non-programmers
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