Demand Analysis of Fresh and Frozen Finfish and Shellfish in the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiang‐tai Cheng ◽  
Oral Capps
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demand Analysis

scholarly journals Modeling U.S. Butter Consumption with Zero Observations

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven T. Yen ◽  
Shew-Jiuan Su
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Elasticity ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Demand Analysis ◽  
Hurdle Model ◽  
Double Hurdle Model ◽  
Heteroscedastic Errors ◽  
Double Hurdle

A heteroscedastic double-hurdle model is used to investigate household butter consumption in the United States. Results suggest that failure to incorporate heteroscedastic errors may lead to unreliable elasticity estimates. Decomposition of the effects of variables leads to insightful information and makes the double-hurdle model a more useful tool in micro demand analysis. Larger and higher-income households are more likely to consume butter than others and also consume more, but income elasticity is very small. Age, region, and seasonality are among the other significant determinants of household butter consumption.

scholarly journals Demand analysis of peanuts and tree nuts in the United States: a micro-perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Guo ‘Chris’ Cheng ◽  
Oral Capps ◽  
Senarath Dharmasena
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demand Analysis ◽  
Pricing Strategies ◽  
Product Positioning ◽  
Target Marketing ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tree Nuts ◽  
Macadamia Nuts ◽  
Date Analysis

This paper examines household purchases of peanuts and tree nuts in the United States using the Nielsen Homescan Panel for calendar year 2015. Households located in different regions and from different races and ethnicities along with seasonality were important factors affecting the propensities to purchase and actual quantities purchased. The demand for pecans, almonds, and walnuts was sensitive to price changes. The reverse was true regarding the demands for cashews, macadamia nuts, pistachios, mixed nuts, and peanuts. All nuts were identified as necessities. Findings of this research provide insights for stakeholders in the nut industry, in terms of target marketing, product positioning, and pricing strategies. Moreover, we contribute to the literature by providing a micro-perspective investigation concerning the demand for nut products in the United States. In addition, we provide a more up-to-date analysis concerning factors affecting not only the likelihood of purchasing nuts but also the quantities purchased.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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