The University of Nebraska at Omaha's Contribution to the Omaha Regional Economy.
Education is a primary mission of metropolitan universities. This article measures the value of education at the level of a student credit hour-the metric. It applies this metric to determine the value of education transmitted at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) for one academic year and the total contribution of UNO to the economy of the Omaha metropolitan region. The results show a much larger contribution than typical impact studies indicate.
The Economic Impact of the
Community efforts to attract the National Football League Championship Game are motivated by a number of issues. The Super Bowl is an internationally known, heavily watched event that typically provides a friendly showcase for a city. Pre and post game shows and several days of news events will likely depict a community’s many assets and attractions. These are valuable advertising events. A Super Bowl is an excellent opportunity to focus attention on a community’s sporting venues, often a desired amenity to businesses and residents. Sporting events like the Super Bowl with their concomitant festival atmosphere are just plain fun, and more welcomed to a community than the highly sought after annual meeting of the American Economic Association. And, of course, the Super Bowl attracts visitors, players, performers, revelers and the media to a community, often for lengthy periods – weeks or months before the game. This has an economic impact on a community in terms of wages, the value of goods and services sold and in tax receipts and expenditures. This report outlines the economic and fiscal impacts that can be anticipated in Indianapolis, should the Super Bowl come to the city. This is accomplished by briefly reviewing other studies of the Super Bowl’s impacts, constructing and testing a model of the Super Bowl’s impact using history from actual Super Bowls from 1969 through 2005 and then applying the estimated impact to Indianapolis and the surrounding regions’ economy.
Lupin alkaloids from teratogenic and nonteratogenic lupins. II. Identification of the major alkaloids by tandem gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in plants producing crooked calf disease.
The major alkaloids of lupin plants producing crooked calf disease were identified by tandem gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and infrared analysis. The gas chromatography peak invariably present in teratogenic plants proved to be anagyrine. A minor but irregular contaminant of the peak was α-isolupanine. Other alkaloids present but apparently not associated with crooked calf disease were lupanine and two others that were probably epimethoxylupanine and 5,6-dehydrolupanine.