The 2016 Nebraska Manufacturing Report

The purpose of this report is to provide an economic snapshot of the Nebraska manufacturing industry. In particular, the report is designed to present contributions of manufacturing to the state economy, recent trends in Nebraska manufacturing, and considerations for the future of Nebraska manufacturing. The information contained within the report will help policy makers and stakeholders better understand the current state of manufacturing in the state, particularly in relation to recent demographic and economic trends in Nebraska and the United States. The report finds that the manufacturing sector has a significant impact on the Nebraska economy. Approximately 10 percent of the Nebraska workforce is engaged in manufacturing. This is typical of what is found in most states. Manufacturing also accounts for about 13 percent of value-added in the Nebraska economy. Value-added is the same concept used to measure gross domestic product. These direct impacts, however, only partially reflect manufacturing’s impact on the Nebraska economy. The total economic impact, including the multiplier impact, is even larger. Including the multiplier impact, Nebraska manufacturing accounts for about one-quarter of Nebraska’s economy. The prospects for the manufacturing sector, therefore, will play an important role in the future of the Nebraska economy. In terms of future prospects, the Nebraska manufacturing sector has a number of advantages including growing exports, lower electricity prices, a skilled workforce, the presence of workforce training, and services from the Nebraska Manufacturing Extension Partnership. In addition, Nebraska enjoys strength in food processing and other agriculture related industries. The Food Manufacturing sector accounts for 37% of the total Nebraska manufacturing employment statewide. This sector of the industry appears to be in a favorable position, given the relatively low prices of relevant commodities. Machine manufacturing, which includes production of agricultural machinery and implements, accounts for 11% of state manufacturing employment. The report also finds that Nebraska has largely followed national trends in manufacturing in the last decade. Employment has grown in many years but suffered steep declines during the Great Recession of 2007 through 2009. There also has been a drop recently due to pressure from a strong dollar. Industries producing non-durable goods appear to have returned to pre-recession levels of employment, while employment in durable goods industries has failed to recover. As of 2014, the Nebraska manufacturing sector had approximately 97,500 wage and salary workers and another 1,500 selfemployed individuals who operate “nonemployer” firms. Examination of geographic differences in manufacturing produce several notable findings. Manufacturing employment in metropolitan areas of the state followed national trends, with employment decreasing during the recent recession. However, manufacturing employment in the Omaha and Sioux City metropolitan areas has recovered, while employment in the Lincoln metropolitan area has not. Further, manufacturing comprises a substantial portion of the adult workforce in a number of Nebraska counties, both metropolitan and non-metropolitan. In general, the counties with the largest proportion of adults working in manufacturing are those counties with large food processing operations

The 2016 Nebraska Manufacturing Report

The purpose of this report is to provide an economic snapshot of the Nebraska manufacturing industry. In particular, the report is designed to present contributions of manufacturing to the state economy, recent trends in Nebraska manufacturing, and considerations for the future of Nebraska manufacturing. The information contained within the report will help policy makers and stakeholders better understand the current state of manufacturing in the state, particularly in relation to recent demographic and economic trends in Nebraska and the United States. The report finds that the manufacturing sector has a significant impact on the Nebraska economy. Approximately 10 percent of the Nebraska workforce is engaged in manufacturing. This is typical of what is found in most states. Manufacturing also accounts for about 13 percent of value-added in the Nebraska economy. Value-added is the same concept used to measure gross domestic product. These direct impacts, however, only partially reflect manufacturing’s impact on the Nebraska economy. The total economic impact, including the multiplier impact, is even larger. Including the multiplier impact, Nebraska manufacturing accounts for about one-quarter of Nebraska’s economy. The prospects for the manufacturing sector, therefore, will play an important role in the future of the Nebraska economy. In terms of future prospects, the Nebraska manufacturing sector has a number of advantages including growing exports, lower electricity prices, a skilled workforce, the presence of workforce training, and services from the Nebraska Manufacturing Extension Partnership. In addition, Nebraska enjoys strength in food processing and other agriculture related industries. The Food Manufacturing sector accounts for 37% of the total Nebraska manufacturing employment statewide. This sector of the industry appears to be in a favorable position, given the relatively low prices of relevant commodities. Machine manufacturing, which includes production of agricultural machinery and implements, accounts for 11% of state manufacturing employment. The report also finds that Nebraska has largely followed national trends in manufacturing in the last decade. Employment has grown in many years but suffered steep declines during the Great Recession of 2007 through 2009. There also has been a drop recently due to pressure from a strong dollar. Industries producing non-durable goods appear to have returned to pre-recession levels of employment, while employment in durable goods industries has failed to recover. As of 2014, the Nebraska manufacturing sector had approximately 97,500 wage and salary workers and another 1,500 selfemployed individuals who operate “nonemployer” firms. Examination of geographic differences in manufacturing produce several notable findings. Manufacturing employment in metropolitan areas of the state followed national trends, with employment decreasing during the recent recession. However, manufacturing employment in the Omaha and Sioux City metropolitan areas has recovered, while employment in the Lincoln metropolitan area has not. Further, manufacturing comprises a substantial portion of the adult workforce in a number of Nebraska counties, both metropolitan and non-metropolitan. In general, the counties with the largest proportion of adults working in manufacturing are those counties with large food processing operations

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope: Highlights of the GeV Sky

Because high-energy gamma rays can be produced by processes that also produce neutrinos. the gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers a view of potenl ial targds for neutrino observations. Gamma-ray bursts. active galactic nuclei, and supernova remnants are all sites where hadronic, neutrino-producing interactions are plausible. Pulsars, pulsar wind nebulae, and binary sources are all phenomena that reveal leptonic particle acceleration through their gamma-ray emission. \Vhile important to gamma-ray astrophysics. such sources are of less interest to neutrino studies. This talk will present a broad overview of the constantly changing sky seen with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi spacecraft

Review of From Author to Text: Re-reading George Eliot\u27s Romola; George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Politcal Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento

Each of these books took me by surprise. There is a curious tension between the incorporativeness of Andrew Thompson\u27s title, George Eliot and Italy, and his compendiously specific sub-title, Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento, which somehow led me to expect something like a descriptive catalogue of alleged influences. Instead, I found a book which indeed has awkwardnesses, but which pursues an argument and offers valuable illumination of George Eliot\u27s whole career (and not just Romola, as might easily be assumed). Barbara Hardy memorably observed in 1959 that \u27Romola is undoubtedly a book which it is more interesting to analyse than simply to read\u27, an opinion to which I still subscribe after a fashion which has been profoundly qualified by the collection of essays on Romola assembled by Caroline Levine and Mark W. Turner, which added to other work on the novel in recent years makes it impossible \u27simply to read\u27 Romola. Levine and Turner and their contributors challenge the whole range of judgments and assumptions about the novel of which George Eliot herself declared \u27I began it a young woman, I finished it an old woman\u27

Uranium-bearing Fox Hills and Laramie aquifers, Cheyenne Basin, Colorado: structure, depositional systems and groundwater: an interim report, part II, groundwater, The

January, 1980.Includes bibliographical references

ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAM DIRECTING MEANS-SAMPLE ANALYSIS SYSTEM STAGE, AND METHOD OF USE

Disclosed is an electromagnetic beam directing means for use with sample analysis systems, such as relfectometers, ellipsometers and polarimeters and the like, use of which facilitates investigation of sample systems which are not mounted to a sample analysis system sample system supporting stage. The present invention eliminates the requirement os extensice sample analysis system component realignment when alternatingly performing analysis of sample systems mounted upon, and mounted other than upon, a sample analysis system sample system supporting stage

Noninvasive Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Cognitive Flexibility in Tool Use

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cognitive Neuroscience on 2013-06-1, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17588928.2013.768221.Recent neuroscience evidence suggests that some higher-order tasks might benefit from a reduction in sensory filtering associated with low levels of cognitive control. Guided by neuroimaging findings, we hypothesized that cathodal (inhibitory) transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) will facilitate performance in a flexible use generation task. Participants saw pictures of artifacts and generated aloud either the object’s common use or an uncommon use for it, while receiving cathodal tDCS (1.5 mA) either over left or right PFC, or sham stimulation. A forward digit span task served as a negative control for potential general effects of stimulation. Analysis of voice-onset reaction times and number of responses generated showed significant facilitative effects of left PFC stimulation for the uncommon, but not the common use generation task and no effects of stimulation on the control task. The results support the hypothesis that certain tasks may benefit from a state of diminished cognitive control

Possible Seasonality of Clostridium difficile in Retail Meat, Canada

We previously reported Clostridium difficile in 20% of retail meat in Canada, which raised concerns about potential foodborne transmissibility. Here, we studied the genetic diversity of C. difficile in retail meats, using a broad Canadian sampling infrastructure and 3 culture methods. We found 6.1% prevalence and indications of possible seasonality (highest prevalence in winter)