The Paleozoic Formations of Allegany County, Maryland

Tri-County Workforce Development: A TANF INITIATIVE IN RURAL MARYLAND

Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis in Baltimore County, Maryland

Analytic mapping and geographic databases are being increasingly recognized by police departments as an important tool in crime analysis, crime prevention and program evaluation. Improvements in technology, reasonably priced computer-based geographic information systems (GISs), and the availability of geographic data sources make it possible for law enforcement agencies to use analytic mapping....

The effect of trihalomethane and haloacetic acid exposure on fetal growth in a Maryland county.

As water flows from treatment plants to the tap, chlorine, used to disinfect surface water meant for residential use, reacts with residual organic and inorganic matter, creating chlorine disinfection by-products. In recent years, these by-products have been scrutinized as a potential reproductive and developmental hazard. This study examined whether exposure to the four total trihalomethanes or...

The University of Maryland College Park, Maryland

Question 2 (25 points) Consider the problem of minimizing the cost of producing some output level Y . The firm uses two inputs, labor (L) and capital (K), which can be combined to produce goods according to the production function f (L,K) = LαK1−α, α ∈ (0, 1). The effective amount of labor that is used in production is determined as L = l× t, where l is the number of workers hired, and t is the...

Specifying, Estimating, and Validating a New Trip Generation Model: A Case Study of Montgomery County, Maryland

This paper discusses the development of an afternoon peak period trip generation model for both work and non-work trips. Three data sources are used in model development, a Household Travel Survey, a Census-Update Survey, and a Trip Generation Study. Seven one-direction trip purposes are defined, specifically accounting for stops made on the return trip from work to home. Trips are classified b...