General Samuel A. Rice at Jenkins' Ferry

Golden Rice April Jenkins SOC 242 : Food and Society

Forecasting Milled Rice Production in Ghana Using Box-Jenkins Approach

The increasing demand for rice in Ghana has been a major concern to the government and other stakeholders. Recent concerns by the coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) to double rice production within ten years in Sub-Saharan countries have triggered the to implement strategies to boost rice production in the government. To fulfill this requirement, there is a need to monitor and foreca...

A ferry between cultures

the new field of research into the ethical, legal and social aspects of scientific and technological developments (ElSa) is rapidly becoming a professional field with grants, research programmes and university departments devoted to it. at first glance, ElSa seems to be a new development intended to address questions and challenges that arise from advances in the natural sciences. the professio...

Sanitation and Parasitism at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

One focus of historical archaeology at Harpers Ferry Na­ tional Historical Park, West Virginia, is tracing the devel­ opment of sanitation at the town through the 1800s and 1900s. Historical documentation indicates that there was a degree of resistance to the modernization of village sanita­ tion. This study attempts to verify this resistance through examination of privy soils for parasites ind...

Discussion - Paul Jenkins

Central bank talk has been a topic of debate and empirical analysis within the central bank community and the economics profession for at least the thirty years that span Chuck’s career as a central banker. And what many regard as the seminal work in this area has a particularly Canadian connection. The work on bureaucratic theory and the choice of central bank goals by Acheson and Chant (1973)...