Preface: A Nested Logit Model of Recreational Fishing Demand in Alaska

Public Economics, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,

The Education of Real Estate Salespeople and the Value of the Firm

In order to protect the public, most states require salespeople and brokers to meet specific licensing requirements, typically in the form of classroom instruction and/or successful completion of an examination. Frequently, however, many real estate brokers require their sales staff to undertake education that exceeds these minimum requirements. In this study, we derive a theoretical model that shows how optimally-timed, firm provided education that exceeds legal minimums can increase staff productivity, reduce litigation risks and perhaps raise and/or maximize the expected value of the firm.

Influence of Laser Processing Parameters on the Corrosion Behavior in 316L Stainless Steel Laser Powder Depositions

Mechanical Engineerin

Metamorphic Veins in the Paleozoic Rocks of Central and Northern Vermont

Guidebook for field trips in Vermont: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 79th annual meeting, October 16, 17 and 18, 1987: Trips B-

A radar data processing and enhancement system

This report describes the space position data processing system of the NASA Western Aeronautical Test Range. The system is installed at the Dryden Flight Research Facility of NASA Ames Research Center. This operational radar data system (RADATS) provides simultaneous data processing for multiple data inputs and tracking and antenna pointing outputs while performing real-time monitoring, control, and data enhancement functions. Experience in support of the space shuttle and aeronautical flight research missions is described, as well as the automated calibration and configuration functions of the system

ERTS-1 and Data For National Land Use Planning

Many responsible public officials and prominent authorities on land resource planning, decision making, and management have stressed the need for more information about existing land use. To be most useful such information must be timely and it must be kept current. An Earth Resources Technology Satellite can provide such information at a relatively generalized level of presentation on a repetitive basis. Experiments related to the acquisition of land use data being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have indicated that most of the nine more generalized Level I categories of land use and land cover data can be obtained with sufficient consistency to provide useful data for nationwide planning activities. Both visual interpretation of ERTS-1 imagery and the use of computer compatible tapes have been employed in research projects being carried out in the U.S. Geological Survey and preliminary results are now available. Further refinements in the use of ERTS-1 data to obtain land use information are needed if such data are to be effectively used in the planning process. Also needed is a better general understanding of what ERTS data can be most appropriately used for among those engaged in national and interstate regional planning activity

Convergence Of The Iteration Process In The Solution Of Algebraic And Transcendental Equations

The science of algebra arose in an effort to solve equations. Since the main objects in algebra have been the discussion of equalities and the transformation of forms into simpler equivalent ones, that science may well be called the Science of Equations. The solution of an equation containing one unknown quantity consists of the determination of its value or values, these being called roots. An algebraic equation of degree n has n roots, while transcendental equations have an infinite number of roots. There has existed for years the problem of finding values, as exact as possible, or as close as one wishes of the roots. It is the object of the study to show the convergence of the iteration process and methods of inducing convergence in numerical analysis. The use of a computer in testing convergence of algebraic and transcendental equations is also shown. The definitions of convergence and divergence are now commonplace in elementary analysis. The ideas were familiar to mathematicians before Newton and leibuix; and all the great mathematicians of the seventeenth and eighteen centuries. Bo Definitions. The following terms and expressions will he used throughout this paper. Their definitions are given here. Definition 1: Transcendental equation - An equation for which there is no general method of stating its roots in terms of its coefficients. (Example: a ex + b cos = + 0) Definition 1.1: Iteration - The process of repeating to give successive approximations. Definition 1.2: Convergence - lim Sn = U : Sn approaches the limit U. The value of the series is the number U (sometimes called the sum)