Industrial engineers in the food-processing industry have developed the Halyard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system as a preventive approach to ensuring the safety of meat and poultry products. This paper discusses both the origins of HACCP as an engineering concept and the economics of HACCP as a regulatory tool. The authors contend that the economics literature has not adequately e...

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. In 1993, the EITC benefit levels were changed significantly based on the number of children in the household such that families with two or more children experienced a substantial increase in their incomes. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the NLSY79 Child and Young Adult cohort...

Space use is an important aspect of animal ecology, yet our understanding is limited by a lack of synthesis between interspecific and intraspecific studies. We present analyses of a dataset of 286 estimates of home range overlap from 100 primate species, with comparable samples for other space-use traits. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first multispecies study using overlap d...

neuroeconomics that has merged from the interaction of neuroscience, economics and psychology, is. promising new approach to understanding human behavior in economic analysis, especially as an selector (that is the fundamental issue is economics). this article illustrate the advantages of neuroeconomics and with focus on methodology of economics and ability of this branch of economic for theori...

sset securitization — transforming illiquid assets into tradable securities — is a large and growing market, even rivaling the corporate debt market in size. While the underlying assets can be very different — ranging from song royalties to home mortgages — most asset-backed securities nevertheless share some distinctive features. In “The Economics of Asset Securitization,” Ronel Elul explains ...

In this paper, we described ICT (Information and communication technologies) and e-learning in education of Korea. We conducted a case study of teaching education based on blended learning and collaborative education for Home Economics Education of Masuk middle school in Korea. And we suggested the feasible design of the e-classroom and e-school. We can see that three of fourths of the students...

1Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 2Department of Information and Media Studies, Nagoya Bunri University, Maeda 365, Inazawa-cho, Inazawa, Nagoya 492-8620, Japan 3Graduate School of Engineering, Fukui University, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 4Facility of Home Economics, Kobe Women’s University, 2-1 Aoyama, Higashisuma,...

The authors thank Sidney Kushner and Tapan Som for plasmids and P.C. Tai for antibodies. This is journal paper No. J-18212 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, IA, Project No. IOW3220, and was supported by the National Institutes of Health (GM5083604), Hatch Act and State of Iowa funds. Address correspondence to Dr. Gregory J. Phillips, Department of Microbiology...