FARM PROGRAM PAYMENTS AND ECONOMIES OF SCALE

Economies of scale are investigated and the impacts of farm payment limitations for producers of cotton and soybeans in Mississippi are evaluated. Limits proposed by the Senate following the recent farm bill debate are overlaid on estimates of the scale economies for the cost of producing these crops to determine the different impacts on farm efficiency and welfare benefits.Agricultural and Food Policy,

Postcard: To Wish You the Greetings of the Season. Ernst F. Pihlblad

This color printed postcard features an illustration of all the highlights of Lindsborg, Kansas. Two images at the top right depict The Messiah Chorus a large choir, and Bethany College , a building on campus. An illustration of a woman in a white dress sits on a chair with her hand on the Lindsborg Crest. She has a harp on her lap and items placed around her on the ground. Buildings are in the background and a stretch of land has the words Wheat Belt written on it. Printed text is at the bottom of the card. Printed text and handwriting is on the back of the card.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_postcards/1823/thumbnail.jp

The weekend trading profitability: evidence from international mutual funds

The weekend effect is described as the tendency for Monday security returns to be low (or negative) compared to other days of the week. The weekend effect may not be exploited by trading individual stocks because of transactions costs. However, the institutional characteristics of the US-based international open-end mutual funds may allow investors to exploit the weekend effect because mutual funds lack much of the transactions costs associated with individual stocks. This paper extends the study of Compton and Kunkel (1999), Varela (2002), and Miller, Prather and Mazumder (2003) by examining the weekend predictability and profitable trading opportunities for international mutual funds. The rationale behind the weekend predictability and profitability of international funds lies on the fact that the Net Asset Values (NAVs) of international funds are computed from stale prices of the underlying assets of these funds. The sample of international funds is divided into two sub-samples and the initial sub-sample is used to test the weekend effect and develop trading strategies. Returns of trading strategies are then evaluated out-of-sample and compared with the returns of a buy-and-hold strategy. Empirical findings suggest that smart investors may earn higher risk-adjusted returns by following daily dynamic trading strategies. Results also document that trading strategies based on the weekend effect produce higher risk-adjusted returns. Finally market timing models are also tested for trading strategy returns and Treynor-Mazuy and Henriksson-Merton timing measures are positive and statistically significant. Moreover, the trading rules of this study may be useful in future if fair value pricing or other institutional regularities eliminate any profitable trading opportunity based on the US market signals

Optimization proposal for data capture monitoring of charapa turtle at parques nacionales under project management institute focus

La estrategia de conservación para tortuga charapa en el contexto en el que se desenvuelve, se centra en acuerdos de uso de la especie con las comunidades indígenas y en la protección de nidadas, las actividades de monitoreo se concentran principalmente en establecer el número de nidadas y el porcentaje de eclosión de huevos. La variable tiempo en la captura datos juega un papel fundamental para acelerar procesos de análisis y toma de decisiones a nivel territorial y central.Aceleración que se piensa hacer mediante la propuesta de optimización de la captura de datos.The conservation strategy for charapa turtle is focused on agreements of use with native communities and the protection of nest, monitoring activities are mainly target to know nest figures and hatching percent of the turtle eggs. Time in data capture as a variable plays a key role for accelerate downstream process at local and central levels. This is the reason because will do an optimization proposal for data capture

The Joint ESA/NASA Galileo/GPS Receiver Onboard the ISS the GARISS Project

ESA and NASA conducted a joint Galileo/GPS space receiver experiment on-board the International Space Station (ISS). The objectives (Enderle 2017) of the joint project were to demonstrate the robustness of a combined Galileo/GPS waveform uploaded to NASA hardware already operating in the challenging space environment - the SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) software defined radio (SDR) testbed (FPGA) - on-board the ISS. These activities data included the analysis of the Galileo/GPS signal and on-board Position/Velocity/Time (PVT) performance, processing of the Galileo/GPS raw data (code- and carrier phase) for Precise Orbit Determination (POD), and validate the added value of a space-borne dual GNSS receiver compared to a single-system GNSS receiver operating under the same conditions. This paper will provide a general overview of the Galileo/GPS experiment called GARISS - on-board the ISS, describe design, test and validation and also the operations of the experiment. Further, the various analysis conducted in the con is joint project and also the results obtained will be presented with a focus on the (Precise) Orbit Determination results