This paper is based on the premise that if CARICOM’s agricultural sector in general, and more specifically the export sub-sector, is to thrive in the rapidly changing trade environment there has to be a continuous systematic assessment of market opportunities and competitiveness status. Such...

According to the statistical data in the years 2004-2008, both Shift-Share Analysis and Location Quotient Analysis are used to compare the economic development status of counties (districts) in Dingxi City in the years 2004 and 2008. Advantages and disadvantages of industrial structure and...

Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies in the Coeur d'Alenes, to demand for a dollar increase in the daily wage of men employed. The companies usually act in concert on such matters but it is said today no conference...

Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...

Sidney miners take wage cut - Men employed by the Sidney mine have voluntarily accepted a 50-cent per day reduction in wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the...

The current study presents a statistical model for assessing the skill of fire danger indices and for forecasting the distribution of the expected numbers of large fires over a given region and for the upcoming week. The procedure permits development of daily maps that forecast, for the...

Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts from fires...

This paper addresses the economics of forest fuel thinning programs on federal lands in the U.S. West, and presents a model of regional timber and product market impacts. The issue of economics is vital to the debate about fire management, and this paper presents market implications of two...