Factors Affecting Crop Insurance Purchase Decisions in Northern Illinois

When making crop insurance purchase decisions, farmers must consider multiple factors. This paper examines such factors through the use of a survey conducted in a 42 county region of Northern Illinois during 2005. Participants were asked who most influenced their crop insurance purchase decision and if the availability of a Premium Discount Plan (PDP) affected their decision. Respondents indicated that they generally made crop insurance purchase decisions independently, and that the availability of a PDP influenced about 25% of the decisions made. Questions about the importance of ten specific purchase factors were also asked in two distinct groups of five factors each. In one group of factors, price of the insurance was found to be more important than the probability of receiving a claim payment. The other group of factors revealed that government subsidization of premium and weather concerns were highly important to survey participants. Results have also been summarized according to the risk attitude of respondents. Crop insurance participation, plan and coverage level, and other demographic data were collected as well. Further analysis will be conducted to determine relationships between purchase decision factors and the characteristics of the respondents.Risk and Uncertainty,

CASES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW

A Review of CASES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW By Manley O. Hudson

Evidence - Hearsay - Prior Inconsistent Statements

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has held that prior inconsistent statements may be used substantively as well as for impeachment purposes. Commonwealth v. Loar, 399 A.2d 1110 (Pa. Super. Ct.), allocatur denied (1979)

Pennsylvania Antitrust Law: What is the Commonwealth\u27s Policy on Competition

Because there is no state antitrust statute in Pennsylvania, it is difficult to ascertain the Commonwealth\u27s policy on restrictive trade practices. The author of this comment looks first to Pennsylvania common law, then to selected Pennsylvania statutes, to determine if there is a clearly enunciated policy on competition. She concludes that Pennsylvania cases and legislation provide little help to the lawyer or business person seeking to determine what is encouraged and what is proscribed

Crop Insurance Purchase Decisions: A Study of Northern Illinois Farmers

When selecting crop insurance coverage, farmers must consider multiple factors. The importance associated with factors that are considered when making crop insurance decisions varies among individual farmers. As available crop insurance options increase, selecting the appropriate coverage becomes a more complicated process. The prevalence of crop insurance participation and the existence of multiple selection criteria also makes understanding participant decisions more difficult. This paper provides findings of a mail survey conducted among farmers in northern Illinois. Mainly, this paper examines factors influencing farmers’ crop insurance purchase decisions, types of coverage purchased, and farmers’ risk attitudes.Crop Production/Industries,

A Captive Beauty : Polka - Romanza

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Comparative Tests of Pitot-static Tubes

Comparative tests were made on seven conventional Pitot-static tubes to determine their static, dynamic, and resultant errors. The effect of varying the dynamic opening, static opening, wall thickness, and inner-tube diameter was investigated. Pressure-distribution measurements showing stem and tip effects were also made. A tentative design for a standard Pitot-static tube for use in measuring air velocity is submitted

Methods and materials for detection of multiple sclerosis

Methods and materials for diagnosis of a multiple sclerosis disease state. Antigenic blood fractions from patients clinically diagnosed for multiple sclerosis are employed to generate heterologous species antibodies. Novel antibody preparations are employed to detect the presence or absence, in a blood sample of a patient to be tested, of immunologically significant components specifically associated with a multiple sclerosis disease state

Interactive Multi-Instrument Database of Solar Flares

The fundamental motivation of the project is that the scientific output of solar research can be greatly enhanced by better exploitation of the existing solar/heliosphere space-data products jointly with ground-based observations. Our primary focus is on developing a specific innovative methodology based on recent advances in "big data" intelligent databases applied to the growing amount of high-spatial and multi-wavelength resolution, high-cadence data from NASA's missions and supporting ground-based observatories. Our flare database is not simply a manually searchable time-based catalog of events or list of web links pointing to data. It is a preprocessed metadata repository enabling fast search and automatic identification of all recorded flares sharing a specifiable set of characteristics, features, and parameters. The result is a new and unique database of solar flares and data search and classification tools for the Heliophysics community, enabling multi-instrument/multi-wavelength investigations of flare physics and supporting further development of flare-prediction methodologies