Modeling hard clinical end-point data in economic analyses

Four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State generate hydropower and allow for regional agriculture and barge shipping to Portland OR. However, the dams impede the migration of local salmon populations (Oncorhynchus spp.), which are in steep decline, and drastically impact the populations of salmon and orca whales, for whom salmon are a primary food source. For years, environmental groups have argued for breaching the dams; other interests counter that the dams are too critical to the economy of the region to lose; and federal agencies assert that the dams can remain and salmon populations will recover with mitigation techniques. Scientific and economic analyses, litigation, and elected officials’ efforts have not been able to move the issue towards a solution. Readers will examine the interests of primary actors in the issue, how they influence the policy process, the role of scientific and economic analyses, and possible approaches for resolving the issue.

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Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

The Public Historian ◽

10.1525/tph.2019.41.4.7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 7-35

Author(s):

Andrea Lynn Smith

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Revolutionary War ◽

The State ◽

The Public ◽

150Th Anniversary ◽

End Point ◽

Indian Land ◽

Indian Relations ◽

Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

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Investigating Applicability of the Meshfree Method to the Structural Analysis of Tires

Tire Science and Technology ◽

10.2346/1945-5852-40.2.60 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 60-82

Author(s):

Ken Ishihara ◽

Takehiro Noda ◽

Hiroyuki Sakurai

Keyword(s):

Meshfree Method ◽

Alternative Methods ◽

The Finite Element Method ◽

Tire Industry ◽

Academic Communities ◽

The Past ◽

New Methodologies ◽

Tire Modeling ◽

Point Data ◽

Conducting Research

ABSTRACT In contrast to the finite element method (FEM), which is widely used in the tire industry nowadays, some alternative methods have been proposed by academic communities over the past decade or so. The meshfree method is one of those new methodologies. Originally intended to remove the burden of creating the mesh that is inherent in FEM, the meshfree method relies on the point data rather than the mesh, which makes it much easier to discretize the geometry. In addition to those modeling issues, it has been found that the meshfree method has several advantages over FEM in handling geometrical nonlinearities, continuities, and so forth. In accordance with those emerging possibilities, the authors have been conducting research on the matter. This article describes the results of the authors' preliminary research on the applicability of the meshfree method to tire analyses, which include the theoretical outline, the strategy of tire modeling, numerical results, comparisons with results of FEM, and conclusions.

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End-Point Controller Design for an Experimental Two-Link Flexible Manipulator using Convex Optimization

10.23919/acc.1990.4791033 ◽

1990 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Celia M. Oakley ◽

Craig H. Barratt

Keyword(s):

Convex Optimization ◽

Controller Design ◽

Flexible Manipulator ◽

End Point

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Analyzing the liquidity ratios of the world's leading public oil and gas corporations

Finance and Credit ◽

10.24891/fc.26.7.1571 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (7) ◽

pp. 1571-1589 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

O.V. Shimko

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Annual Reports ◽

Main Factors ◽

Economic Analyses ◽

Oil And Gas Companies

Subject. This article explores the key liquidity figures of the twenty five largest public oil and gas companies between 2006 and 2018. Objectives. The article aims to determine the current values of the key liquidity figures of the largest public oil and gas companies, identify key trends in their changes within the study period, and identify the factors that have caused these changes. Methods. For the study, I used comparative, and financial and economic analyses, and generalization. Results. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the twenty five oil and gas companies' annual reports, the article identifies trends in the changes in the key liquidity indexes in the industry's public sector, and establishes the main factors that affected these changes. Conclusions and Relevance. The largest public oil and gas companies are able to maintain their own liquidity in times of crisis, even. The industry pays the most attention to increasing the instant liquidity ratios. The results of the study can be used to evaluate, forecast, and develop measures to enhance the liquidity of public oil and gas companies.

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