The Other Green Jobs: Legal Marijuana and the Promise of Consumption-Driven Economic Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Marc Doussard
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
State Level ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Job Growth ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Development Outcomes

Legalizing marijuana at the state level establishes via fiat a new industry. In practice, legal marijuana constitutes a large-scale test of consumption-driven economic development policies, which seek to shape industry and job growth via changes in local spending. Drawing on the critical case of Colorado, I assess the economic development outcomes and future potential of legal marijuana, and evaluate the broader applicability of consumption-driven development processes heretofore confined to the arts and isolated local cases. While most states should be able to replicate Colorado’s import-substitution gains, the most enduring economic benefits to legalization require place amenities that legalization alone cannot provide.

scholarly journals Film, Arts and Culture as Community Outreach Tools

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor S. O. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Major City ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Production And Distribution

FILM, ARTS AND CULTURE AS COMMUNITY OUTREACH TOOLS: PERSPECTIVES FROM SINGAPOREIntroductionSingapore’s vision of nationhood involves a sense of shared destiny based on multiculturalism. It cultural and creative vibrancy can be seen in terms of economic, political and social conditions governing the production and distribution of expression. Much coordinated efforts among government, businesses, filmmakers and arts leaders have taken place to ensure the arts and culture industry is creating significant economic benefits to the country. Every major city in the Asia Pacific region is in the race for talent, competitiveness and economic success. In many of these cities, film, arts and culture is playing a central role in economic development and community life. It is essential to integrate film, arts and culture into Singapore’s economic development initiatives and increase the vibrancy of and financial resources for its film, arts and cultural sectors. Singapore has often...

scholarly journals DIRECTIONS OF ACCOUNTING AND ANALYTICAL PROVISION FOR THE INVESTMENT IN INNOVATIONS OF FOOD INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (43) ◽  
pp. 36-54
Author(s):  
Nina Dorosh ◽  
Alina Snetkova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
State Level ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Innovation Potential

Nowadays, innovation activity is becoming the most important factor of economic development. The scale and effectiveness of innovation are the major contributing items, which determine the level of socio-economic development of the country and its national security. The large-scale and multi-vector changes of recent decades have transformed a significant part of the world's socio-economic processes. The speed of change has significantly accelerated, and competitiveness is increasingly determined by innovations. There is a need to study the innovative component of investment. Ukraine faces objectively necessary investment processes for transition to an innovative model of development. Taking into account these trends, the question about the theoretical coverage of the main approaches and the display of information on the costs of innovation of enterprises in Ukraine, adhering to national and international accounting standards, becomes of particular urgency. Thus, the author considers the accounting and analytical support issues of innovative activity of enterprises of the processing industry, in particular, the food industry of Ukraine. A thorough analysis of approaches to the interpretation of the definition of "innovation" has been conducted. Component analysis of national and international statistical indicators of Ukraine's innovation potential has been carried out. The dynamics of the introduction of innovations in industrial enterprises by types of activities and directions of innovations is presented. The features of cost accounting for innovations in processing enterprises (on the example of enterprises of the food industry) were investigated and accounting approaches were adopted for ensuring the costs of innovations and R & D taking into account the accounting standards and international financial reporting standards. Specific objects of accounting, accounts of synthetic and analytical accounting are outlined. The author has proved that the use of the proposed approaches to accounting for investment in innovations requires additional regulation both at the state level and at the enterprise level. The measures for improving the accounting of investments in innovations of the enterprises of the processing industry are proposed, and the creation of a unified method of accounting for the costs of innovations is proposed.

scholarly journals MONITORING OF THE PROSPECTS AND INVESTMENT INSTRUMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halyna Mashliy ◽  
Olha Mosiy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
The Government

The article considers the trends of development of territorial communities, substantiates the need to intensify investment processes, which in the context of reform of the administrative and territorial structure of the country will provide communities with greater opportunities for socio-economic development of territories. The administrative-territorial reform is becoming a significant instrument for the spatial regulation of the socio-economic development of the country, which implies a balanced and sustainable development of the regions and the growth of the economic level of the territory by creating the favorable conditions for the development of all regions, as well as territorial communities. The main advantages of territorial reform are proved and determined, the prospects of development of territorial communities in Ukraine are analyzed. The stages of territorial communities creation are considered and prospects of their development in Ukraine are analyzed. The final-term action plan of the government until 2021 of the reform of local self-government is analyzed. It is established that the reform of the administrative and territorial structure of the country is a complex, multi-level and large-scale process, which is closely related to the efficiency of all systems and components of social development. Consequently, this reform should take place in the context of a systemic reform of the administrative and territorial structure at all levels, based on the approved conceptual framework of the reform and a clear understanding of its implementation strategy. It is established that the investment development of the country is a complex, multilevel and large-scale process, which is closely related to the efficiency of all systems and components of social development on the state level, regional level and territorial community level. It is noted that the increase of human resources, qualified development of investment proposals, full use of marketing tools, public consultation, cooperation of communities are important tools to promote their development.

Screening for the FV: Q506 Mutation – Evaluation of Thirteen Plasma-based Methods for their Diagnostic Efficacy in Comparison with DNA Analysis

1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (03) ◽  
pp. 436-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Tripodi ◽  
Barbara Negri ◽  
Rogier M Bertina ◽  
Pier Mannuccio Mannucci
Keyword(s):  
Venous Thrombosis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
Genetic Defect ◽  
Laboratory Diagnosis ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Factor V ◽  
Factor X ◽  
Diagnostic Efficacy ◽  
Dna Test

SummaryThe factor V (FV) mutation Q506 that causes resistance to activated protein C (APC) is the genetic defect associated most frequently with venous thrombosis. The laboratory diagnosis can be made by DNA analysis or by clotting tests that measure the degree of prolongation of plasma clotting time upon addition of APC. Home-made and commercial methods are available but no comparative evaluation of their diagnostic efficacy has so far been reported. Eighty frozen coded plasma samples from carriers and non-carriers of the FV: Q506 mutation, diagnosed by DNA analysis, were sent to 8 experienced laboratories that were asked to analyze these samples in blind with their own APC resistance tests. The APTT methods were highly variable in their capacity to discriminate between carriers and non-carriers but this capacity increased dramatically when samples were diluted with FV-deficient plasma before analysis, bringing the sensitivity and specificity of these tests to 100%. The best discrimination was obtained with methods in which fibrin formation is triggered by the addition of activated factor X or Russell viper venom. In conclusion, this study provides evidence that some coagulation tests are able to distinguish carriers of the FV: Q506 mutation from non-carriers as well as the DNA test. They are inexpensive and easy to perform. Their use in large-scale clinical trials should be of help to determine the medical and economic benefits of screening healthy individuals for the mutation before they are exposed to such risk factors for venous thrombosis as surgery, pregnancy and oral contraceptives.

Economic benefit of shale gas exploitation based on back propagation neural network

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 8823-8830
Author(s):  
Jiafeng Li ◽  
Hui Hu ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Qian Jin ◽  
Tianhao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Shale Gas ◽  
Bp Neural Network ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Back Propagation Neural Network ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Well Production

Under the influence of COVID-19, the economic benefits of shale gas development are greatly affected. With the large-scale development and utilization of shale gas in China, it is increasingly important to assess the economic impact of shale gas development. Therefore, this paper proposes a method for predicting the production of shale gas reservoirs, and uses back propagation (BP) neural network to nonlinearly fit reservoir reconstruction data to obtain shale gas well production forecasting models. Experiments show that compared with the traditional BP neural network, the proposed method can effectively improve the accuracy and stability of the prediction. There is a nonlinear correlation between reservoir reconstruction data and gas well production, which does not apply to traditional linear prediction methods

A model of the analysis of the dynamics and structure of socio-economic development (an example of the set of the largest Polish cities in the years 1998–2015)

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Lidia Mierzejewska ◽  
Jerzy Parysek
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The State ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract The complexity of the reality studied by geographical research requires applying such methods which allow describing the state of affairs and ongoing changes in the best possible way. This study aims to present a model of research on selected aspects of the dynamics and structure of socio-economic development. The idea was to determine whether we deal with the process of reducing or widening the differences in terms of individual features. The article primarily pursues a methodological goal, and to a lesser extent an empirical one. The methodological objective of the paper was to propose and verify a multi-aspect approach to the study of development processes. The analyses carried out reveal that in terms of the features taken into account in the set of 24 of the largest Polish cities the dominating processes are those increasing differences between cities, which are unfavourable in the context of the adopted development policies aiming at reducing the existing disparities. In relation to the methodological objective, the results of the conducted research confirm the rationale of the application of the measures of dynamics and the feature variance to determine the character (dynamics and structure) of the socio-economic development process of cities. Comparatively less effective, especially for interpretation, is the application of principal component analysis and a multivariate classification, which is mainly the result of differences in the variance of particular features.

scholarly journals Analysis of 220 Years of Floodplain Population Dynamics in the US at Different Spatial Scales

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Firoza Akhter ◽  
Maurizio Mazzoleni ◽  
Luigia Brandimarte
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
National Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
The Us ◽  
Over Time

In this study, we explore the long-term trends of floodplain population dynamics at different spatial scales in the contiguous United States (U.S.). We exploit different types of datasets from 1790–2010—i.e., decadal spatial distribution for the population density in the US, global floodplains dataset, large-scale data of flood occurrence and damage, and structural and nonstructural flood protection measures for the US. At the national level, we found that the population initially settled down within the floodplains and then spread across its territory over time. At the state level, we observed that flood damages and national protection measures might have contributed to a learning effect, which in turn, shaped the floodplain population dynamics over time. Finally, at the county level, other socio-economic factors such as local flood insurances, economic activities, and socio-political context may predominantly influence the dynamics. Our study shows that different influencing factors affect floodplain population dynamics at different spatial scales. These facts are crucial for a reliable development and implementation of flood risk management planning.

scholarly journals Solving the Real Power Limitations in the Dynamic Economic Dispatch of Large-Scale Thermal Power Units under the Effects of Valve-Point Loading and Ramp-Rate Limitations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1274
Author(s):  
Loau Al-Bahrani ◽  
Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian ◽  
Ben Horan ◽  
Alex Stojcevski
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Economic Dispatch ◽  
Pso Algorithm ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Ramp Rate ◽  
Dynamic Economic Dispatch

Few non-traditional optimization techniques are applied to the dynamic economic dispatch (DED) of large-scale thermal power units (TPUs), e.g., 1000 TPUs, that consider the effects of valve-point loading with ramp-rate limitations. This is a complicated multiple mode problem. In this investigation, a novel optimization technique, namely, a multi-gradient particle swarm optimization (MG-PSO) algorithm with two stages for exploring and exploiting the search space area, is employed as an optimization tool. The M particles (explorers) in the first stage are used to explore new neighborhoods, whereas the M particles (exploiters) in the second stage are used to exploit the best neighborhood. The M particles’ negative gradient variation in both stages causes the equilibrium between the global and local search space capabilities. This algorithm’s authentication is demonstrated on five medium-scale to very large-scale power systems. The MG-PSO algorithm effectively reduces the difficulty of handling the large-scale DED problem, and simulation results confirm this algorithm’s suitability for such a complicated multi-objective problem at varying fitness performance measures and consistency. This algorithm is also applied to estimate the required generation in 24 h to meet load demand changes. This investigation provides useful technical references for economic dispatch operators to update their power system programs in order to achieve economic benefits.

scholarly journals Institutions and Pastoralist Conflicts in Africa: A Conceptual Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 154231662199573
Author(s):  
Dennis Amego Korbla Penu ◽  
Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
State Level ◽  
Typical Case ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Institutional Pluralism ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
New Institutions

Pastoralist conflicts are important global development outcomes, especially in Africa. Analysing relevant literature on this phenomenon, we identify “institutions” as a key but fragmented theme. This blurs a composite understanding of how institutions affect these conflicts and their management. Hence, this article proposes a conceptual framework that brings harmony to this discourse by analysing 172 relevant publications. The framework was then tested using evidence from interviews and policy documents collected on a typical case in Agogo, Ghana. The findings show that pastoralist conflicts in Africa are shaped from three main dimensions: institutional change, institutional pluralism, and institutional meanings. Thus, state-level institutional changes create different institutions at the community level, and stakeholders using these institutions place different evaluations on them based on obtained outcomes. These dynamics contribute to conflict management dilemmas. Hence, the study recommends that intervention efforts examine whether new institutions contradict existing ones and to resolve them before implementation.

scholarly journals Cultural Diplomacy and Europe's Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939: Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Benjamin G. Martin ◽  
Elisabeth Piller
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Arts ◽  
International Exposition ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Iconic Image ◽  
Industrial Designers

Photographs of the German and Soviet pavilions facing off at the Paris International Exposition in 1937 offer an iconic image of the interwar period, and with good reason. This image captures the interwar period's great conflict of ideologies, the international interconnectedness of the age and the aestheticisation of political and ideological conflict in the age of mass media and mass spectacle. [Figure 1] Last but not least, it captures the importance in the 1930s of what we now call cultural diplomacy. Both pavilions – Germany's, in Albert Speer's neo-classical tower bloc crowned with a giant swastika, and the Soviet Union's, housed in Boris Iofan's forward-thrusting structure topped by Vera Mukhina's monumental sculptural group – represented the outcome of a large-scale collaboration between political leaders and architects, artists, intellectuals and graphic and industrial designers seeking to present their country to foreign visitors in a manner designed to advance the country's interests in the international arena. Each pavilion, that is, made an outreach that was diplomatic – in the sense that it sought to mediate between distinct polities – using means that were cultural – in the sense that they deployed refined aesthetic practices (like the arts and architecture) and in the sense that they highlighted the distinctive features, or ‘culture’, of a particular group (like the German nation or the Soviet state).

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