Tornado-Related Structural Property Damage Assessments

Abstract Using a dual economic specification of a multiproduct technology, the structure of agricultural production was tested for five South Central states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana). A comprehensive set of output supplies and input demands comprised the estimation equations in each state. Evidence of nonjoint production in a subset of commodities was detected in four of the five states. Several commodities also satisfied sufficient conditions for consistent aggregation. However, the specific outputs satisfying each structural property varied by state. Sufficient conditions for consistent geographic aggregation across the states were not satisfied. These results provide empirical guidance and important cautions for legitimately simplifying state-level model specifications of southern agricultural production.

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Examining the Influence of Development Patterns on Flood Damages along the Gulf of Mexico

Journal of Planning Education and Research ◽

10.1177/0739456x11419515 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 438-448 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Samuel D. Brody ◽

Joshua Gunn ◽

Walter Peacock ◽

Wesley E. Highfield

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Gulf Of Mexico ◽

Open Space ◽

Property Damage ◽

Development Patterns ◽

Low Intensity ◽

Flood Loss ◽

Resilient Communities ◽

Flood Damages ◽

The Relationship

The rising cost of floods is increasingly attributed to the pattern and form of the built environment. Our study empirically tests this notion by examining the relationship between development intensity and property damage caused by floods. We examine five years of insured flood loss claims across 144 counties and parishes fringing the Gulf of Mexico. Results indicate that clustered, high-intensity development patterns significantly reduce amounts of reported property damage, while increasing percentages of sprawling, low-intensity development involving recent conversion of open space greatly exacerbate flood losses. These findings demonstrate the importance of community development design in fostering flood-resilient communities.

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Structural Property Analysis of a Kind of Petri Net Synthesis

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.255-260.1989 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 255-260 ◽

pp. 1989-1993

Author(s):

Chuan Liang Xia ◽

Zhen Dong Liu ◽

Peng Sun

Keyword(s):

Structural Properties ◽

Structural Property ◽

Petri Net ◽

The State ◽

Property Analysis ◽

Petri Net Synthesis

Petri net synthesis can avoid the state exploration problem by guaranteeing the correctness in the Petri net while incrementally expanding the net. This paper proposes the conditions imposed on a synthesis shared a kind of subnet under which the following structural properties will be preserved: repetitiveness, consistency, structural boundedness, conservativeness, structural liveness, P-invariant and T-invariant.

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Dynamic structural property of organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite

iScience ◽

10.1016/j.isci.2020.101959 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 101959

Author(s):

Jin-Wook Lee ◽

Seongrok Seo ◽

Pronoy Nandi ◽

Hyun Suk Jung ◽

Nam-Gyu Park ◽

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Keyword(s):

Structural Property ◽

Metal Halide ◽

Metal Halide Perovskite ◽

Halide Perovskite

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Mandatory Compensation Orders for Crime Victims and the Rhetoric of Restorative Justice

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology ◽

10.1375/acri.36.1.60 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 60-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kate Warner ◽

Jenny Gawlik

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Criminal Justice System ◽

Restorative Justice ◽

Justice System ◽

Public Support ◽

Crime Victims ◽

Property Damage ◽

Victims Of Crime ◽

To Receive ◽

Legislative Measures

Increased recognition of the need for victims of crime to be integrated into the criminal justice system and to receive adequate reparation has led, in a number of jurisdictions, to legislative measures to encourage the greater use of compensation orders. The Sentencing Act 1997 (Tas) (which came into force on 1 August 1998) went further and made compensation orders compulsory for property damage or loss resulting from certain crimes. This article shows that this measure has failed victims and argues that they have been used in the service of other ends. Mandatory compensation orders are a token gesture repackaged as restorative justice to gain public support for the administration of the criminal justice system.Ways in which compensation orders could be made more effective and the possibilities of accommodating restorative compensation into a conventional criminal justice system are explored.

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