Availability of Supermarkets in Marion County

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Concern over significant increase in obesity has prompted interdisciplinary research to address the physical food environment in various regions. Empirical studies analyze units of geography independently of each other in studying the impact of the built environment in the health of a region. However, we know that geographical spaces have neighbors and these adjacent areas should be considered in analytical analysis that attempt to determine the effects present. This research incorporates the first neighbor influences by developing a refined hierarchical regression model that takes spatial autocorrelation and associated problems into account, based on Relative Risk of corporate supermarkets, to identify clustering of corporate supermarkets in Marion County. Using block groups as the unit of analysis, 3 models are run respectively incorporating population effect, environment effect, and interaction effects: interaction between population and environmental variables.Lastly, based on network distance to corporate supermarkets as a cost matrix, this work provides a solution to increase supermarkets in an optimal way and reduce access issues associated with these facilities. Ten new sites are identified where policy should be directed towards subsidizing entry of corporate supermarkets. These new sites are over and above the existing block groups that house corporate supermarkets. This solution is implemented using TransCAD

A Tale of Two (or Possibly Three?) Libraries: Monastic Libraries on the Edge of the Prairie

In 1877, only a little over 20 years after foundation of Saint John’s Abbey, two German monasteries—Metten and Ottobeuren—donated over a thousand books to this fledgling Benedictine offshoot on the edge of the prairie. Building on experiences and information gathered during the Benedictine Heritage Tour in June 2010, Dr. Heintzelman will place the stories of the two Bavarian library collections within a broader historical context. In the early 19th-century, the newly founded kingdom of Bavaria pursued a policy of secularization toward all Bavarian monasteries and religious houses, some with roots extending back to the age of Charlemagne. These spiritual communities lost not only their books and manuscripts, but also their very community, all other monastic properties, and even their own history. When monasticism finally reappeared in southeastern Germany a generation later, most communities needed to start over with almost nothing. Traces of this history can still be found today in the rare book collections at Saint John’s. The presentation will include materials from the Saint John’s University rare books collection that depict this story of loss and reconstruction. A story of loss and rebirth manifested in Saint John’s own history and HMML’s mission of photographic preservation of manuscripts

Putting Free-Riding to Work: A Partnership Solution to the Common-Property Problem

The common-property problem results in excessive mining, hunting, and extraction of oil and water. The same phenomenon is also responsible for excessive investment in R&D and excessive outlays in rent-seeking contests. We propose a "Partnership Solution" to eliminate or at least mitigate these excesses. Each of N players joins a partnership in the first stage and chooses his effort in the second stage. Under the rules of a partnership, each member must pay his own cost of effort but receives an equal share of the partnership's revenue. The incentive to free-ride created by such partnerships turns out to be beneficial since it naturally offsets the excessive effort inherent in such problems. In our two-stage game, this institutional arrangement can, under specified circumstances, induce the social optimum in a subgame-perfect equilibrium: no one has a unilateral incentive (1) to switch to another partnership (or create a new partnership) in the first stage or (2) to deviate from socially optimal actions in the second stage. The game may have other subgame-perfect equilibria, but the one associated with the ``Partnership Solution'' is strictly preferred by every player. We also propose a modification of the first stage which generates a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium. Antitrust authorities should recognize that partnerships can have a less benign use. By organizing as competing partnerships, an industry can reduce the ``excessive'' output of Cournot oligopoly to the monopoly level. Since no partner has any incentive to overproduce in the current period, there is no need to deter cheating with threats of future punishments.partnerships;common property;tragedy of the commons;cartels

Paris in Hades. A collection of original poems.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Gender Inequality in the Czech Republic: Institutional and Societal Barriers to Equality

This article explores the current situation of women in the Czech Republic by examining the historical background, women’s educational choices, and discrimination against women in the workforce. It also suggests possible ways in which government policies could create a more equal society

Integrating Technology to Engage Students with EBD: A Case Study of School Leader Support

The purpose of the study was to examine the role of leadership and school culture on the integration of technology to support instruction for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). A multiple embedded case study design was used to describe how a school leadership team supports a school culture for technology integration within classrooms where special education teachers integrate technology to engage students with EBD. The primary case of school culture includes a comprehensive description of how the school leadership team supports a culture for technology integration within classrooms. Embedded cases within the primary case describe how special education teachers integrate technology to engage students with EBD in classroom instruction. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) (Koehler & Mishra, 2005) is part of the conceptual framework to theoretically undergird the study. The findings of this study describe a school that serves students with EBD where there is a strong school culture and leaders support teachers who integrate technology to engage students. Patterns from the analysis indicate school leaders plan for staff development, participate in staff development sessions with teachers, observe teachers, provide feedback about teacher performance, and praise and encourage teachers to integrate technology. Teachers and leaders engage in formal and informal staff development opportunities to learn how to integrate technology into classroom lessons. As a result of these trainings and school leader support, teachers provide clear expectations for students while integrating technology to engage students, provide direct instruction, choices, and visual representation of content

The Day is Just Another Surface

Within a practice founded on both typographic form and language, I have continued to push myself to make work that is more sensitive to place, more contextual, more (hopefully) generous toward a public audience. These pieces might serve as useful instruments of institutional critique, resources for comprehension, or moments in which to interrogate preconceived modes of seeing. I deploy original texts in public spaces in order that they might force viewers to decide how to personally resolve the content they encounter. Is it language or object? Literal or figurative? Graphic design or art? The further I develop this body of work, the less interested I am in providing answers to those questions. The questions themselves are enough

Smokejumper Progress Report - Region 6, 1944

A photocopy of a report by smokejumper Jack Heintzelman of somkejumping activity in United States Forest Service Region 6, which includes much of the Pacific Northwest. Heintzelman jumped out of the Cave Junction Smokejumper Base in southern Oregon from 1943-1945 and continued to service in the Forest Service for many years. The report includes summaries of various aspects of smokejumping in the region including equipment, personnel, and training. It also includes first-hand narratives about specific jumps.https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumping_pubs/1016/thumbnail.jp