THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGERIAL HEURISTICS AND ECONOMICS IN PRICING RETAIL MEATS

This study develops a theoretical model of the multiproduct firm which allows for imperfect competition in the output market. Hypotheses are tested for retail meat prices concerning the degree and speed of price transmission, the effects of interfirm competition, and the interrelationship between prices within the store. Empirical results indicated that meat prices within a store were highly interrelated. Further, the firm was found to be very responsive to prices of competitors in the short run, but more responsive to wholesale price changes in the long run.Demand and Price Analysis,

Statistical Study of Supply Chain Developmental Training on Original Equipment Manufacturer’s Defect Rates

Learning is an amalgam of a student’s desire to understand, the willingness of an instructor to educate, the subject taught, its quality, and the delivery environment. Most importantly, a learning goal, both actionable and investment worthy, must exist for effective learning to take place. The ability to learn and then implement new concepts and ideas is the significant difference separating our species from other life on this planet. It has led to diverse discoveries such as disease vaccines, nuclear energy, the automobile, electronics, and rocket planes to name just a few.Science advances in small steps and big leaps. Inventions increase daily to improve the quality of life for this planet’s population. At the center of all these ideas are researchers looking to tease out the next piece of information for our world’s knowledge base. This body of knowledge (BOK) grows at an ever-expanding rate, doubling every few years. This doubling period is shrinking rapidly as more knowledge is accumulated.In the manufacturing world of products, this BOK is brought to bear on products that, hopefully, stand above their competition. If a product is excellent, consumers and producers are satisfied. The consumer gets the best quality for the price while the producer gets the best price for the quality offered. If product quality and price are right, there is someone willing to buy it.However, what happens when the opposite is experienced and the product, at its asking price, is of poor quality? Buyers are less willing to spend and quick to mention the lack of quality or defects found. Defects can impact the maker’s selling price and translate into extensive efforts to make the customer whole through warranty. The producer also risks the loss of their customer (brand loyalty) if the product is deficient in quality.Within this dissertation, training methods, useful practices, experiences, and the body of training knowledge will be presented in defense of developmental training and will conclude with a case study exploration into the connections between supply chain developmental training and defect reductions at an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) using multiple statistical techniques

Singularities

SINGULARITIES is a work of fiction; it is the beginning of a novel about a mathematician, Allie Waters, who is haunted--and still mesmerized--by her lover, Shelby, more than twenty years after her death. The novel is structured as a collection of individual pieces of Allie's memory as filtered through her mathematically-inspired theory of life based on the "Calculus of Residues." Some of Allie's "singularities" include her experiences growing up in rural Florida with her best friend Michael, a series of mystical out-of-body experiences that are ultimately diagnosed as temporal lobe seizures, her short but intense relationship with Shelby in college, and the complex connection she continues to share with both Shelby and Michael throughout her life

How much of what? An analysis of the espoused and enacted mathematics and English curricula for intermediate phase student teachers at five South African universities

Regulatory bodies such as the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) provide a framework of formal criteria to be addressed by providers of initial teacher education (ITE) but these  criteria can be interpreted in many different ways. The Initial Teacher Education Research Project (ITERP) has investigated the preparation of intermediate phase (grades 4 to 6) teachers of mathematics and English at five South African universities, selected as representative of the major ‘types’ of institutions offering ITE. In this article we draw on our analysis of data from this research to describe and discuss the courses in mathematics and English offered by each of the five universities to student teachers specialising in mathematics or English and to ‘non-specialists’. We suggest that while there are examples of excellent curriculum design and implementation, none of the universities in the study is fully addressing the challenges of teaching and learning in diverse intermediate phase classrooms. While acknowledging that answering the question “how much of what?” is particularly complex in teacher education contexts in which some students enter university with an inadequate knowledge base from which to develop content and pedagogic knowledge in a number of disciplines and inter-disciplinary fields, we offer some curriculum suggestions for teacher educators to consider

THE EFFECTS OF FIRM EXIT IN A RETAIL GROCERY MARKET

Agribusiness,

Senior Recital:Denise Lynn Yonker,Clarinet Anna Melissa Reed, Trumpet

Kemp Recital Hall Saturday Afternoon November 17, 2001 1:30p.m

Diet of the Orangebelly Darter, Etheostoma radiosum, among Tributaries of the Lower Mountain Fork River

Previous studies, in the Blue and Glover Rivers of Oklahoma, revealed that the endemic orangebelly darters, Etheostoma radiosum, are selective feeders with diets consisting primarily of aquatic insect larvae and dominated by fly larvae. In this study, orangebelly darters were collected from tributaries of the Lower Mountain Fork River, below Broken Bow Dam, with backpack electrofishing equipment in February and April 2015. One hundred and forty-one darters were captured from five tributaries and stomach contents were examined to determine benthic macroinvertebrate prey use. Standard length of darters was compared to determine if size differed among tributaries. Non-insect food items were grouped by order, while insect food items were identified to family. Prey composition was compared among tributaries. A total of 11 food types were found, with isopods being the most frequently consumed organism. Other common food items included aquatic insects in the families Heptageniidae, Chironomidae, Perlidae and Simuliidae (in order of abundance). Although no significant difference was found for darter lengths, a significant difference for consumed isopods was found among the tributaries. Darters appeared to be generalist feeders on aquatic macroinvertebrates in most tributaries and utilized different prey than previously reported. Additionally, for the first time, Acanthocephalan (Spiny-head worm) parasites were found in the stomachs of 17 of the orangebelly darters (Bee branch = 12, Beaver = 3, Rough Branch = 2). Studies such as this improve knowledge of freshwater biodiversity, ecology, and conservation and highlight differences in diet among populations of small fish inhabiting headwater tributaries and main channels in southeastern Oklahoma.Environmental Scienc