Federal Order Product Price Formulas and Cheesemaker Margins: A Closer Look

Agricultural and Food Policy, Demand and Price Analysis,

Bostonia: The Boston University Alumni Magazine. Volume 37

Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs

British and Tory Marauders on the Penobscot

A history of British tension in settlements on the Penobscot Bay and River from 1779 to 1783. Also includes a section titled, In the Revolutionary War, These Were the Coast Guard Companies Containing Knox County Men, and an index

Electronic Military History: A User-Centred Approach to a Web-Based Information System

This paper describes the design and implementation of a web-based information system relating to military history. The data is “non-traditional” in nature being chronologically based and relates the participants in World War 1 to their locations. Its purpose is to allow interrogation by a wide cross section of the community who seek to find the location of particular servicemen who took part in the Great War. The interface uses time dependent maps to enable inquirers to follow the progress of individual participants in the conflict. Activity Theory is used as a means of relating the system to the users by its focus on the computer as a tool which meshes into the users real life activity

Understanding aseptic technique: an RCN investigation into clinician views to guide the practice of aseptic technique

Aseptic technique is recognised as an essential component of all infection prevention programmes but terminology used to define it varies. This publication is an RCN investigation into clinical views to guide the practice of aseptic technique. BD have funded this report. BD has had no influence on, or involvement in its content

Detection of Coronal Mass Ejections in V471 Tauri with the Hubble Space Telescope

V471 Tauri, an eclipsing system consisting of a hot DA white dwarf (WD) and a dK2 companion in a 12.5-hour orbit, is the prototype of the pre-cataclysmic binaries. The late-type component is magnetically active, due to its being constrained to rotate synchronously with the short orbital period. During a program of UV spectroscopy of V471 Tau, carried out with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we serendipitously detected two episodes in which transient absorptions in the Si III 1206 A resonance line appeared suddenly, on a timescale of <2 min. The observations were taken in a narrow spectral region around Ly-alpha, and were all obtained near the two quadratures of the binary orbit, i.e., at maximum projected separation (~3.3 Rsun) of the WD and K star. We suggest that these transient features arise when coronal mass ejections (CME's) from the K2 dwarf pass across the line of sight to the WD. Estimates of the velocities, densities, and masses of the events in V471 Tau are generally consistent with the properties of solar CME's. Given our detection of 2 events during 6.8 hr of GHRS observing, along with a consideration of the restricted range of latitudes and longitudes on the K star's surface that can give rise to trajectories passing in front of the WD as seen from Earth, we estimate that the active V471 Tau dK star emits some 100-500 CME's per day, as compared to 1-3 per day for the Sun. The K dwarf's mass-loss rate associated with CME's is at least (5-25) x 10^{-14} Msun/yr, but it may well be orders of magnitude higher if most of the silicon is in ionization states other than Si III.Comment: 24 pages AASTeX, 4 figures. Accepted by Astrophysical Journa

Wage inequality in the United States

This research seeks to assess the factors affecting unskilled wages. This is a means to analyse the development of low paid wages, and whether it is sustainable. Chapter 1 seeks to measure relative income effects coming from outside of the individuals control as opposed to the the increase in wage inequality coming from an increase in relative level of skills. I find that skill levels attributed to high earners grew at a steady rate in the US from the 1940s. The income these skills earned stagnated after the 1970s, while unskilled wages actually decreased, after growing rapidly before the 1970s. As skilled workers can increase their earnings by growing their skill levels, not just by relying on the income growth for the pre-existing abilities, their wages continued to grow, resulting in rising wage inequality. The stagnation of income going to already obtained skills and unskilled wages is indicative of a structural shift in the economy and rising relative demand for skilled workers even as skill levels increased. This shift ensured the level of pay for Individuals’ skills grew faster than the unskilled wage. The second Chapter looks at the role of factor inputs and relative scarcity to explain an increase in demand for skilled labour. I conclude that the transition from unskilled to skilled biassed growth is a result of bottlenecks in certain inputs to production. Using US manufacturing data, I find that capital equipment predominantly complements better paid non-production workers, while energy predominantly complements worse paid production workers. As a result of the elasticity values and relative rise of inputs, there has been a large net increase in demand for non-production workers. The third chapter analyses the implications of factor inputs on technology growth and how this further impacts income distribution in a way that helps explain what type of shock or structural change has initiated the increasing inequality that has been observed. This finds that observed changes in prices and skill premium are consistent with being induced by a permanent shock in energy prices. The finding indicates potential benefits of technologies that reduce energy prices that in Chapter 2 were shown to complement lower paid workers