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Item An analysis of the economic and recreational impacts created in conjunction with the sport hunting of sandhill cranes at Muleshoe, Texas(Texas Tech University, 1974-05) Leonard, R. MichaelNot availableItem Building assets and resilience : the role of the local food system in reducing health and economic disparities(2011-05) Muraida, Laura Cristina; Wilson, Patricia AnnIn recent years, studies have linked various structural and environmental factors to disproportionately increased rates of morbidity, mortality, and adverse health outcomes in low-income racial and ethnic minority neighborhoods. Among the adverse health outcomes, is the constraint on the ability to access and afford a healthy diet. While local food systems play a significant role in influencing urban health and well-being outcomes, they also present an opportunity to develop community-based assets and resilience. By identifying limitations and successes in current food system literature and practice, this report examines how a more comprehensive approach to equitable community health and wellness can be achieved and sustained. Effective disparity reduction relies on cross-sectoral partnerships that not only promote food equity, but also provide participatory social, economic, and educational opportunities to marginalized communities.Item Economic Geology of the Las Cuevas Fluorspar Deposit, Salitrera, San Luis Potosi, Mexico(Texas Tech University, 1960-05) Foxworth, Wyckliff RileyNot Available.Item Efficient allocation of resources in human organ markets: is it achievable through economic tools?(Texas Tech University, 2004-05) Altinanahtar, AlperNot availableItem An industry in transformation : a master's report on news media economics(2011-05) Robertson, Benjamin Nicholas; Sylvie, George; Morrison, MarkThe focus of this report was the modern news media and how the industry has tried to adapt in a world where most news can be gathered with a few keystrokes for free. The report is segmented into four parts and investigates both how and what kind of news is consumed. The first part of the report focuses on the different types of news aggregators and how they affect the revenue of news sites. Pay-walls are also discussed, using The New York Times’ recent decision to charge for access to their web site as a starting point. Evidence shows that besides one glaring exception (The Wall Street Journal, which is examined as an aside) the attempts to charge customers for content that was once free have largely been fruitless. The second part investigates mobile-based applications (also known as “apps”) and their economic strengths and weaknesses; topics ranging from companies’ initial successes to the ease of piracy are examined. The third part examines the meteoric, although at times numerically misleading, rise of Twitter and its potential use as a news gathering and consuming source as well as its massive potential revenue streams. The fourth part examines what types of news are currently the most consumed, and dissects the profitability (and the attributes that lead to their popularity) of four genres: lifestyle, entertainment, business, and sports. The piece also looks at the potential of community-based, hyper-localized journalism, a venture that many claim profitable yet has failed to produce concrete results. Graphs are used as supplementary material for parts one and three. Taken as a whole, the report concludes that while there may be no sure-fire winner in the news media industry, the industry has finally shaken off the complacency that lead to hundreds of thousands of journalism jobs being lost and finally started to evolve.Item International migration: remittances and subsequent labor market performance(Texas Tech University, 1991-05) Al-Abidalrazag, BashierThe purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the rewards of international labor migration to sending country(s) and to immigrants in the receiving country(s). Earnings were used as a measure of the labor market performance of immigrants in the U.S. labor market, whereas the volume of the flow of remittances into Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey was used as a measure of the rewards of migration to sending countries. A human capital model of earnings was used to estimate the influence of various explanatory variables on earnings. Time variables representing the time of entry into the U.S. were included to capture the effect of time elapsed since migration on earnings. Immigrants' earnings reported in the 1982 NSF and June, 1988 CPS were analyzed through the comparisons with native-born by race and among foreign-born by race, place-of-birth, and years since migration. A time-series model was used to estimate the influence of the variation in the economic activities in receiving country(s) on remittance flows. Using two different surveys, the results revealed that there is an earnings differential between natives and immigrants. This earnings gap is in favor of professional immigrants, whereas it is in favor of U.S. natives in the general population. Using the CPS data, only 27% of earnings gap is explained by the endowment factor. Using the NSF data, immigrants' earnings equal that of natives' after 10 years of immigration, while using the CPS data immigrants' earnings equal that of natives after 2 3 years. Among immigrants, there is earnings differential due to the time of entry. Recent immigrants earn less than earlier immigrants. The variations in the level of economic activities in the receiving country(s) are important determinants of the volume of remittance inflows. These variations explained nearly 90-98% of the total variation in the remittance flowing to Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey.Item A review of the methods of economic analysis of nuclear power plants(2011-05) Cavender, Brittainy Anne; Popova, Elmira; Hess, StephenNuclear power plants across the United States are reaching the end of their current operating licenses, forcing decision makers to think about the way forward. As they consider the best alternatives for dealing with aging nuclear plants, it is becoming increasingly important to have an accurate method for calculating the long-term costs of nuclear power plants. This report begins by investigating the methodologies currently used in these calculations. They focus on the uncertainty associated with deregulated electricity markets and can be broken down into two main categories: discounted cash flow and real options analysis. Next the report discusses the limitations of the current methodologies, focusing specifically on those aspects of evaluation that are currently eclipsed by electricity market uncertainty. Finally the report offers recommendations for addressing these limitations and creating a stronger analytical framework for calculating the lifetime cost of nuclear power plants.Item The economics of precision farming in the Texas High Plains(Texas Tech University, 2002-12) Watson, Susan ElizabethNot available.Item Value capture programming to support a regionally significant project in a regionally significant transit project for the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG)(2011-05) Waggoner, Nathaniel James; Butler, Kent S.; Paterson, RobertThis report outlines five criteria common to successful value capture programs that support transit; 1) predictable need/unmet demand, 2) authority and capacity to achieve policy adoption and implementation, 3) the financial feasibility of the project, 4) the level of concurrent planning that support the project and lastly 5) the projects level of significance. This report will focus on a logical approach to evaluating the possibility of employing a value capture strategy within the jurisdiction of the Berkeley-Charleston- Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG) using the given criteria. The suggested value capture strategy that emerges from this evaluation recognizes the existing and potential value capture mechanisms that could support a regionally significant transit project if budgeting and select revenues are synergized in the context of the regional plan.