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Market Information on Sourcing Cellulosic Feedstock for Biofuel Production in Northern Plains Region of the United States
This study investigates the availability crop residues within 100 mile radius of a potential biorefinery in southeast North Dakota. Due to the lack of market information on biomass residue supply, we conducted farm focus ...
Modeling Impact of Hurricane Damages on Income Distribution in the Coastal U.S.
This article examines the impact of catastrophic
hurricane events on income distribution in hurricane
states in the United States. Media claims have been
made and the perception created that the most damaging
impact ...
The Logistics of Supplying Single vs. Multi-crop Cellulosic Feedstocks to a Biorefinery in Southeast North Dakota
This study investigates the economics of supplying cellulosic crop residue feedstocks within 100 mile (or 161 km) radius of a potential new biorefinery in southeast North Dakota. We utilize linear programming transportation ...
Using Model Averaging to Determine Suitable Risk Measure Estimates
Recent research in loss modeling resulted in a growing number of classes of statistical models as well as additional models being proposed within each class. Empirical results indicate that a range of models within or ...
Identifying subgroups of age and cohort effects in obesity prevalence
The obesity epidemic represents an important public health issue in the United States. Studying obesity trends across age groups over time helps to identify crucial relationships between the disease and medical treatment ...
An exploration of gender gap using advanced data science tools: actuarial research community
This paper explores the role of gender gap in the actuarial research community with advanced data science tools. The web scraping tools were employed to create a database of publications that encompasses six major actuarial ...
Mixture modeling of data with multiple partial right-censoring levels
In this paper, a new flexible approach to modeling data with multiple partial right-censoring points is proposed. This method is based on finite mixture models, flexible tool to model heterogeneity in data. A general ...
Modeling veterans’ health benefit grants using the expectation maximization algorithm
A novel application of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is proposed for modeling rightcensored multiple regression. Parameter estimates, variability assessment, and model selection are summarized in a multiple ...
UTILIZATION OF MODIFIED WHEAT AND TAPIOCA STARCHES AS FAT REPLACEMENTS IN BREAD FORMULATION
Using fat in bread production is expensive, and from the diet point of view, it
counts as high caloric food. Since obesity is a significant problem in the USA and
many other countries, food industries are turning to the ...