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Yesterday, I went out with my wife for some coffee. The cost was nearly ten dollars as we ordered one regular coffee, one tall mocha and two scones. (If you know what a “tall mocha” is, you too are spending anywhere from $1.35 for a regular coffee to $2.50 for a mocha [the cost of a tall mocha at my local coffee hangout is much less expensive than the cost of the exact same cup of coffee in a major city, an airport, or hotel].) If you buy a magazine when you are waiting in line at the grocery store, it will cost you three or four dollars (O: The Oprah Magazine costs $3.95 and Martha Stewart Living costs $4.75 for a single issue). If you drink one tall mocha a day and buy one magazine such as O, you will spend at least $21.45 per week or about $3.00 a day.

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Impact of the Distance between Settlements and Regional Center of Chelyabinsk Region on the Amount of Ground Rent

International Conference on Eurasian Economies 2014 ◽

10.36880/c05.01026 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Viktor Barhatov ◽

Dmitri Pletnev ◽

Alfia Sagitova

Keyword(s):

State Estimation ◽

The State ◽

Tax Rates ◽

Land Rent ◽

Major City ◽

Regional Centre ◽

Regional Center ◽

Chelyabinsk Region ◽

The Cost

A goal of the present paper is to consider how a differentiation of cadastral values of land plots and different distances from major cities create preconditions for a larger volume of a rental income at a minimum remoteness from a major city. In order to test this hypothesis, a relationship between an increase in land tax rates while reducing the distance of land settlements of the Chelyabinsk Region from Chelyabinsk was evaluated. To verify this assumption, we have analysed some results of a state cadastral evaluation of land settlements of the Chelyabinsk Region. For our calculations, we used land settlements with the highest cost per square meter based on permitted uses. We analysed the cost for these types of permitted use of land. The study and analysis of the results of the state estimation of land settlements in the Chelyabinsk Region have showed that in most cases the hypothesis was confirmed. The closer the plot is to the regional centre, the higher is its cadastral value and, consequently, the amount of a land rent.

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The Consumers’ Co-operative Union: Embedding Integrated Popular Front and War on Poverty Social Programs in the South

Cooperatives in New Orleans ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496827616.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 83-114

Author(s):

Anne Gessler

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Credit Union ◽

Grocery Store ◽

Popular Front ◽

The South ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

Racially Mixed ◽

The Cost

Chapter three analyzes radical Great Depression- and World War II-era consumer cooperatives in working-class Freret neighborhood as their anti-racist, socialist calls for a complete overhaul of the capitalist system careened into their constituents desire for economic expediency. Opening an integrated grocery store called Consumers’ Co-operative Union, along with host of affiliated cooperatives, German, black, and Latin American organizers muted their Popular Front sympathies to lower the cost of living for racially mixed Freret residents and implement New Deal economic reforms in the South. Although critics charged that Rochdale cooperatives were too apolitical, and while radicals’ principles were co-opted to serve a capitalist agenda, chapter three illuminates how the city’s mid-twentieth-century credit union movement embedded Popular Front ideals into Great Society social policies. Credit unions operated as political channel for marginalized communities, situating New Orleans urban growth within the context of the long civil rights movement.

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Marxism and the Moral Status of Animals

Society and Animals ◽

10.1163/156853003321618855 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 73-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ted Benton

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Political Party ◽

Animal Rights ◽

Moral Status ◽

Movement Activity ◽

Single Issue ◽

Green Politics ◽

Liberal Capitalism ◽

Moral Status Of Animals ◽

The Cost

AbstractPerlo's engagement with the complex and ambiguous relationship between Marxism (and, more broadly, the socialist traditions) and the moral status of animals is very much to be welcomed. This sort of engagement is valuable for three main reasons. First, the more narrowly focused social movement activity—whether committed to animal rights, social justice in the workplace, or advancement for women—is liable to cut itself off from critical insights created in the context of other movements. I became aware of this, particularly during the 1980s in relation to radical green politics, as both deepening and widening the already existing socialist case against neo-liberal capitalism, just as the women's liberation movement had done a decade or more earlier. Second, this sort of analysis is valuable because without it "single-issue" movements run a serious risk of advancing the claims of their own preferred social group at the cost of (usually unknowingly and unintentionally) deepening the oppression or exploitation of other groups. Third, where radical social movements campaign for changes that conflict with the interests of wealthy and powerful interests, and are committed to democratic values, they need to be able to bring public opinion with them. Single-issue movements rarely can do this on their own: Broad-based coalitions are needed. Moreover, the sources of radical thought and the range of justified grievances are now so diverse that the notion of a single, unified political party as the centralized vehicle of change is no longer viable (if it ever was). So, the broadly based coalition has to be diverse and difference-respecting. But can it be this while still maintaining enough unity of purpose and coordination of its actions to be effective?

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Impact of price elasticity on the healthfulness of food choices by gender

Health Education Journal ◽

10.1177/0017896918813009 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 78 (4) ◽

pp. 428-440 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gregory J Privitera ◽

James J Gillespie ◽

Faris M Zuraikat

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

New York ◽

Price Elasticity ◽

Consumer Choice ◽

Fruits And Vegetables ◽

Price Impact ◽

Grocery Store ◽

Median Income ◽

Higher Ed ◽

The Cost

Objective: To extend findings from experimental price elasticity studies by examining these effects in a field setting and identifying gender differences in purchasing behaviour in response to variations in the cost of lower energy-dense (ED) and higher ED foods. Setting: Data were collected from low- and median-income male and female grocery shoppers at a supermarket in the Western New York region. Design: Using a procedure adapted from experimental economics, participants were given a debit card in a grocery store setting and allowed to purchase any foods from two pricing conditions. Conditions were identical, except one had lower ED foods low priced, and the other had lower ED foods higher priced. The design was fully counterbalanced. Results: Overall, when lower ED foods were more expensive, fewer lower ED foods were purchased (95% confidence interval [CI]: −1.0, −.40). Gender differences revealed that men spent more money (in dollars) when higher ED foods were higher priced (95% CI: US$0.51, US$1.73) and women spent more money when lower ED foods were higher priced (95% CI: − US$2.21, − US$0.11). Furthermore, women, but not men, increased spending when lower ED foods were higher priced (95% CI: − US$2.85, − US$0.73). Conclusion: Higher costs for fruits and vegetables among consumers can adversely affect the purchase volume of these foods, with men being most susceptible to pricing manipulations. Results contribute to an understanding of how perceptions of price impact consumer choice and suggest that efforts aimed to increase the perceived value of health over cost should be tailored towards men.

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The IBM-PC in electron microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100165525 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 612-613

Author(s):

James F. Mancuso

Keyword(s):

Head Start ◽

Image Acquisition ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Financial Applications ◽

Number Of Factors ◽

Instrument Control ◽

The Cost ◽

Training And Support ◽

Control Image ◽

Ibm Pc

IBM PC compatible computers are widely used in microscopy for applications ranging from control to image acquisition and analysis. The choice of IBM-PC based systems over competing computer platforms can be based on technical merit alone or on a number of factors relating to economics, availability of peripherals, management dictum, or simple personal preference.IBM-PC got a strong “head start” by first dominating clerical, document processing and financial applications. The use of these computers spilled into the laboratory where the DOS based IBM-PC replaced mini-computers. Compared to minicomputer, the PC provided a more for cost-effective platform for applications in numerical analysis, engineering and design, instrument control, image acquisition and image processing. In addition, the sitewide use of a common PC platform could reduce the cost of training and support services relative to cases where many different computer platforms were used. This could be especially true for the microscopists who must use computers in both the laboratory and the office.

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New Feasible Concepts of Aberration Correction for Realizing High-Resolution Electron Microscopes

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100179762 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 202-203

Author(s):

H. Rose

Keyword(s):

Spherical Aberration ◽

Wave Length ◽

Electron Wave ◽

Optical Lens ◽

Resolution Electron ◽

Rotationally Symmetric ◽

Electron Microscopes ◽

The Cost ◽

Imaging Performance ◽

Acceleration Voltage

The imaging performance of the light optical lens systems has reached such a degree of perfection that nowadays numerical apertures of about 1 can be utilized. Compared to this state of development the objective lenses of electron microscopes are rather poor allowing at most usable apertures somewhat smaller than 10-2 . This severe shortcoming is due to the unavoidable axial chromatic and spherical aberration of rotationally symmetric electron lenses employed so far in all electron microscopes.The resolution of such electron microscopes can only be improved by increasing the accelerating voltage which shortens the electron wave length. Unfortunately, this procedure is rather ineffective because the achievable gain in resolution is only proportional to λ1/4 for a fixed magnetic field strength determined by the magnetic saturation of the pole pieces. Moreover, increasing the acceleration voltage results in deleterious knock-on processes and in extreme difficulties to stabilize the high voltage. Last not least the cost increase exponentially with voltage.

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