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Spatial Price Discovery, Dynamics, and Leadership in Evolving Distiller’s Grain Markets

Recent dramatic growth in corn-based bio-refining has generated considerable growth in the by-product of this process, distiller’s grains. Distiller’s grains are rapidly becoming important livestock feed ingredient sources. However, little public market information is available on distiller’s grain. This study determines spatial and temporal price relationships among distiller’s grain markets. Results indicate spatial distiller’s grain markets operate somewhat independently suggesting potential arbitrage opportunities and indicating distiller’s grain markets are information starved. Furthermore, available futures markets are not viable price risk transfer tools for distiller’s grains.Crop Production/Industries, Demand and Price Analysis,

Negligence - Breach of Duty - Standard of Care Required of Infant Defendants

One of the defendants, a child four years and eight months of age, while playing with infant plaintiff, threw a stone which struck a bottle near where plaintiff was standing. A chip of glass Hew from the bottle into the eye of plaintiff, resulting in injury. The action was brought by infant plaintiff\u27s father individually and as guardian ad litem against infant defendant\u27s father individually and as guardian ad litem. The trial court denied infant defendant\u27s motion for summary judgment. On appeal, held, reversed and remanded with directions to dismiss the complaint as to infant defendant. The authorities do not generally distinguish between primary and contributory negligence of infants; a child under five and one-half years of age is generally considered incapable of negligence. Shaske v. Hron, 266 Wis. 384, 63 N.W. (2d) 706 (1954)

Meaningful Learning at a National Historic Site: How Interpretive Tour Message Content Affects Visitor Learning Transfer

This study examines meaningful learning transfer at a historic site. Transfer is the ability to apply knowledge to a new situation or setting and can be divided into near and far transfer. Near transfer is characterized by the ability to transfer knowledge to a similar situation, whereas far transfer is the ability to transfer knowledge to a different situation. This between-subject post-test only field experiment investigated the effect of interpretive message design on visitors\u27 ability to transfer leaning from an interpretive audio tour at a heritage site. Interpretive messages were designed to examine the effect of message organizers (i.e. presence or absence of an advance organizer) and message content (i.e. basic, personalized or analogical references) on learning transfer. Visitors to the Winnipeg Exchange District National Historic Site during the 2006 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival were intercepted at the outdoor site and were asked to listen to an interpretive audio tour. After listening to the audio tour participants completed near and far transfer tests. The MANOVA results revealed that no significant differences existed between messages with and without advance organizers with regards to learning transfer. Significant differences were found between personalized messages and basic messages with regards to near and far transfer; furthermore, significant differences existed between analogical reference messages and basic messages with respect to far transfer. These results suggest that near and far transfer are accomplished through different mechanisms and therefore messages need to be carefully designed to accomplish the type of transfer desired. This study provides interpreters with insight into how visitors\u27 meaningful learning can be enhanced at historic sites

Family Trajectories Across Time and Space: Increasing Complexity in Family Life Courses in Europe?

Family life courses are thought to have become more complex in Europe. This study uses SHARELIFE data from 14 European countries to analyze the family life courses of individuals born in 1924-1956 from ages 15 to 50. A new methodological approach, combining complexity metrics developed in sequence analysis with cross-classified multilevel modeling, is used to simultaneously quantify the proportions of variance attributable to birth cohort and country differences. This approach allows the direct comparison of changing levels of family trajectory differentiation across birth cohorts with cross-national variation, which provides a benchmark against which temporal change may be evaluated. The results demonstrate that family trajectories have indeed become more differentiated but that change over time is minor compared with substantial cross-national variation. Further, cross-national differences in family trajectory differentiation correspond with differences in dominant family life course patterns. With regard to debates surrounding the second demographic transition thesis and the comparative life course literature, the results indicate that the degree of change over time tends to be overstated relative to large cross-national differences. Supplementary material: s.: 13524_2017_628_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

Two Reading Tests\u27 Ability to Predict Academic Success

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Education School at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Education Specialist in Higher Education by Oda Van Winkle on December 21, 1978

The Impact of Fast ForWord on MCT Scores and Student Achievement

Educators today were concerned with how the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 dealt with the improvement of education throughout the United States. Schools should have put forth a greater effort and reduced the achievement gap between different groups of students based on race, gender, special education status, and if that student was economically disadvantaged. A problem was identified as low student MCT scores in the state of Mississippi. A tutorial method that claimed to help improve students in the areas of reading and language was identified as Fast ForWord. This study set out to find if there was a significant improvement in student Mississippi Curriculum Test (MCT) reading and language scores after students completed the computer based program Fast ForWord. This study also set out to find if the teachers, teacher assistants, parents and administrators had a positive perception by about the Fast ForWord program. In other words did they feel the program improved student MCT reading and language scores? A sample of two hundred fifty one students was utilized in this study. A sample of one hundred four educators and parents was utilized in this study also. The survey measured the perception that educators and parents had about the Fast ForWord program. The instrument measured the academic gain or loss by students in grades six through eight who had successfully completed the Fast ForWord program. The survey data was examined by reviewing all the variables in the descriptive statistics. The study found that administrators had a higher level of confidence than any of the other groups of educators or the parents. A paired samples t-test was used to compare the MCT reading and language scores before and after completing the Fast ForWord program. The finding was not positive so the researcher ran a Pearson Chi-Square test to find out exactly how many students improved, stayed the same, or decreased their MCT reading or language score. The finding was that the majority of students either remained at the same level of proficiency or dropped a level of proficiency after completing the Fast ForWord