Allocating Scarce Water Resources:Examining if Price Differentials Exist in a Prior Appropriations Setting

This study examines the potential for a water leasing market within one singular basin in Southwestern, New Mexico. The goal of this research is to test the feasibility of a water market in the river basin and determine if price differentials are found in a prior appropriations setting. This was done through a laboratory experiment to test if participants would simulate an effective water leasing market in a basin within New Mexico. In order to assess the potential for a water leasing market, a water leasing market was designed to incorporate the hydrologic, engineering, institutional, and economic market of the Upper Mimbres Basin (Broadbent et. al., 2009). Using experimental economics, which uses computer programs and simulation to test an economic theory, the market value of water was induced through the set up of the experiment. The set up involved double auction where all bids and offers are presented publically and each bid and offer is presented simultaneously. The advantages of conducting a laboratory experiment is predominantly time, data that would usually take a year to collect can be done in a short amount of time. By simulating the water leasing market we can test participants’ reactions to drought conditions, which could take years to occur in the real setting of New Mexico

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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy vs. Bimanual Therapy for Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy

Background About half the children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) experience limitations in activities of daily living and involvement in education, leisure, and other occupational activities due to impairment in hand and arm function (Tevahauta, Girolami, and Øberg, 2017). Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) is a common intervention for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (Chen, Pope, Tyler, and Warren, 2014). By restraining the unaffected arm during functional participation, CIMT aims to increase spontaneous use of the affected arm (Dong, Tung, Siu & Fong, 2013). Bimanual therapy (BIT) is also implemented with this population and includes intensive training in functional bimanual tasks and play. The aim of this treatment is to improve the coordination of both arms through meaningful, structured activities (Dong, et al., 2013)

Workshop: AI and Deep Learning Using SAS Viya

The Special Interest Group on Ontology Driven Intelligent Systems (SIGODIS) and SAS Inc. invite you to the workshop on AI and Deep Learning using SAS Viya. This workshop will focus on building basic machine learning models as well as deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks in SAS Viya

From fat to bilayers: Understanding where and how vitamin E works

Vitamin E was one of the last fat-soluble vitamins to be discovered. We provide here an historical review of the discovery and the increasingly more detailed understanding of the role of α-tocopherol both as an antioxidant and as a structural component of phospholipid bilayer membranes. Despite the detailed descriptions now available of the orientation, location, and dynamics of α-tocopherol in lipid bilayers, there are still gaps in our knowledge of the effect of α-tocopherol and its potential receptors than control gene transcription

Investigating a Data Management Environment for Structural Bioinformatics Research Data

This study investigates the Structural Biology Central Facility at a large academic research institution and examines the Central Facility's most pressing data management needs. The University's Health Affairs Library has undertaken an initiative to pursue data management support for researchers in the biomedical sciences and the central facility has been identified as one of the library's first partners in assessing and proposing data management services the library could provide. Five groups of campus stakeholders that mutually contribute and participate in assisting the structural biology central facility were identified and interviewed to identify contributions to the central facility's data management practices. From these interviews, seven major obstacles were identified around which the Health Affairs Library could develop novel strategies for extending data management services into biomedical research environments.Master of Science in Information Scienc