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Comparative assessment of energy-economy interactions

This analysis is concerned with the impact of energy-policy measures on the level, growth, and structure of the US economy. In particular, the nature and magnitude of the causal relationship between variations in the prices of various energy forms and economic performance, as measured by real gross national product (GNP), is studied. The combined Brookhaven National Laboratory/Dale W. Jorgenson Associates (BNL/DHA) energy-economy model system is used to determine the economic effects of three e… more

Date: December 1, 1978

Creator: Goettle, R.J. IV; Hudson, E.A. & Lukachinski, J.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Critical review of a quantitative study of a specialty in high energy particle physics

A review is made of the authors' series of quantitative, historical, and social studies of the weak interactions of elementary particles. A short intellectual history, the quantitative methodology, and a summary of the papers analyzing specific episodes in this field are presented. The social organization of the field is described, and an overall policy for resource management is discussed. 6 figures, 3 tables.

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: White, D H & Sullivan, D

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Energy-related doctoral scientists and engineers in the United States, 1977

Information is compiled about the number and characteristics of doctoral-level engineers and scientists in primarily energy-related activities. These data are for the year 1977 and are part of the data base for a program of continuing studies on the employment and utilization of all scientists and engineers involved in energy-related activities. Data on mathematics, physics, chemistry, environmental engineering, engineering, life sciences, psychology, and social sciences doctoral degree special… more

Date: April 1, 1980

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Age of substitutability: or what do we do when the mercury runs out

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Date: September 18, 1975

Creator: Goeller, H.E. & Weinberg, A.M.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Social values and solar energy policy: the policy maker and the advocate

Solar energy policy makers and advocates have significantly different hierarchies (clusters) of values upon which they evaluate the adoption of solar technologies. Content analysis, which examines the frequency with which policy makers identify different types of values, indicates that they hold economic values to be of primary importance. Environmental, social, and national security values are also substantial elements of the policy makers' value clusters associated with solar energy. This fin… more

Date: July 1, 1980

Creator: Shama, A. & Jacobs, K.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Energy-related doctoral scientists and engineers in the United States, 1975

The pursuit of a vigorous research and development program to provide renewable and other resources to meet U. S. energy needs in the next century is an important objective of President Carter's National Energy Plan. A highly educated and motivated pool of engineers and scientists must be available for energy research and development if this objective is to be achieved. This report provides, for the first time, information about the number and characteristics of doctoral-level engineers an… more

Date: November 1, 1977

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Basic research needs and priorities in solar energy. Volume I. Executive summary. Technology crosscuts for DOE

This report identifies, describes, and recommends priorities for basic research important to the future development of solar energy. In response to a request from the US Department of Energy, SERI surveyed more than 120 leading scientists who were engaged in or knowledgeable of solar-related research. SERI scientists relied heavily on the opinions of scientists polled, but weighted their own recommendations and opinions equally. The result is an amalgam of national scientific opinion representi… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Jayadev, T S & Roessner, D

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Basic research needs and priorities in solar energy. Volume II. Technology crosscuts for DOE

Priorities for basic research important to the future developments of solar energy are idenified, described, and recommended. SERI surveyed more than 120 leading scientists who were engaged in or knowledgeable of solar-related research. The result is an amalgam of national scientific opinion representing the views of key researchers in relevant disciplines and of SERI staff members. The scientific disciplines included in the report are: chemistry, biology, materials sciences, engineering and ma… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Jayadev, J S & Roessner, D

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Intergroup welfare comparisons using aggregate consumption data

In this paper, the distributional impact of President Carter's domestic-oil-price decontrol program on different groups of households in the economy, distinguished by income, age of head of household, size of household, region (Northeast, North Central, South, and West), residential location (urban/rural), and race (white/non-white), is explored. The specific question being addressed is: how much additional disposable income (called compensating variation, which may be negative) should be given… more

Date: August 1, 1979

Creator: Jorgenson, D.W.; Lau, L.J. & Stoker, T.M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Energy planning and management in developing countries: thoughts concerning a conceptual framework

The unique characteristics of the energy situation in developing countries imposes a unique set of requirements on analytical techniques used for energy planning. The urgency of the situation requires the rapid development and use of simplified models which make maximum use of available data but which can reflect the international energy context. Those techniques must also be able to deal with central energy/development issues such as energy equity or the energy implication of social equity pol… more

Date: October 11, 1977

Creator: Nathans, R. & Palmedo, P.F.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Mathematical model of a utility firm. Executive summary

The project was aimed at developing an understanding of the economic and behavioral processes that take place within a utility firm, and without it. This executive summary, one of five documents, gives the project goals and objectives, outlines the subject areas of investigation, discusses the findings and results, and finally considers applications within the electric power industry and future research directions. (DLC)

Date: August 21, 1983

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Emergence of collective action and environmental networking in relation to radioactive waste management

This paper explores the relationship between the national environmental movement and nuclear technology in relation to a local emergent group. The historical development of nuclear technology in this conutry has followed a path leading to continued fear and mistrust of waste management by a portion of the population. At the forefront of opposition to nuclear technology are people and groups endorsing environmental values. Because of the antinuclear attitudes of environmentalists and the value o… more

Date: January 1, 1985

Creator: Williams, R.G. & Payne, B.A.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Procedures for aggregating citizen preferences in the context of the nuclear waste management problem. Final report

The purpose of the present paper is to provide an introduction to the theory of social choice and related disciplines, and to relate this theory to the concrete problem of nuclear waste management. In Section I of this report, an overview of the problem is provided. In Section II, two candidate preference aggregation procedures that can be used to identify a socially optimal waste management policy are identified. In Section III, a somewhat lengthy defense of the use of these two aggregation pr… more

Date: October 1, 1978

Creator: Brock, H.W. & Sauer, G.L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market

The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the difference in planning horizons between individuals and government; and (c) the external benefits that would accrue to society from energy-conscious decision making by individuals, it is apparent that the… more

Date: January 1, 1980

Creator: Noll, S.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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A Content Analysis of Citations to Four Prominent Philosophers of Science in Selected Sociology Journals

Numerous studies have attempted to measure scientists' influence by measuring the quantity of citations to their works. The problem with "citation counting," as it is called, is that it assumes that each listing of an author in a citation index is equal to another without bothering to explore the substantive uses of citations in the source article. The present study attempts to alleviate this problem by content analysis of citations in a limited sphere: reference to major philosophers of scienc… more

Date: August 1985

Creator: Rowe, M. Edward (Montie Edward)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Proc. Agent 2004 Conf. on Social Dynamics : Interaction, Reflexivity and Emergence

I'd like to welcome you to the Agent 2004 conference. As most of you are aware, this conference is the fifth in a series of meetings that began in 1999. A conference followed the next year in 2000. The 2001 conference was skipped because of some conflicts with other conferences, and the conferences have proceeded annually since then. We have the proceedings of the previous conferences available here on CDs. One CD has the proceedings from 1999, 2000, and 2002; the other contains last year's pro… more

Date: January 1, 2004

Creator: C. M. Macal, D. Sallach, M. J. North, eds.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Communal spaces: aggregation and integration in the Mogollon Region of the United States Southwest

Aggregation and integration are processes that occur in human societies throughout the globe. An informative example of population aggregation and social integration can be observed in the North American desert borderlands from A.D. 250 to 1450 in the area known as the Mogollon region. In fact, Mogollon communities oscillated from smaller social groups into larger ones and dispersed into smaller groups only to form larger ones again. For this reason, examining the groups of people living in the… more

Date: December 1, 2006

Creator: Nisengard, Jennifer E.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Agent 2003 Conference on Challenges in Social Simulation

Welcome to the Proceedings of the fourth in a series of agent simulation conferences cosponsored by Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago. Agent 2003 is the second conference in which three Special Interest Groups from the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) have been involved in planning the program--Computational Social Theory; Simulation Applications; and Methods, Toolkits and Techniques. The theme of Agent 2003, Challe… more

Date: January 1, 2003

Creator: Clemmons, Margaret

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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R&D for computational cognitive and social models : foundations for model evaluation through verification and validation (final LDRD report).

Sandia National Laboratories is investing in projects that aim to develop computational modeling and simulation applications that explore human cognitive and social phenomena. While some of these modeling and simulation projects are explicitly research oriented, others are intended to support or provide insight for people involved in high consequence decision-making. This raises the issue of how to evaluate computational modeling and simulation applications in both research and applied settings… more

Date: September 1, 2008

Creator: Slepoy, Alexander; Mitchell, Scott A.; Backus, George A.; McNamara, Laura A. & Trucano, Timothy Guy

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Organizational Cultural Assessment of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

An Organizational Cultural Assessment (OCA) was performed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) by administering an Organizational Culture Survey (OCS) that queried employees on the subjects of organizational culture, various aspects of communications, employee commitment, work group cohesion, coordination of work, environmental concerns, hazardous nature of work, safety and overall job satisfaction. Many of these subjects are assessed in the OCS through highly developed and valid… more

Date: June 1, 1991

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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An organizational survey of the Los Alamos Site

An Organizational Survey (OS) was administered at the Los Alamos Site that queried employees on the subjects of organizational culture, various aspects of communications, employee commitment, work group cohesion, coordination of work, environmental, safety, and health concern, hazardous nature of work, safety and overall job satisfaction. The purpose of the OS is to measure in a quantitative and objective way the notion of culture;'' that is, the values, attitudes, and beliefs of the individual… more

Date: November 1, 1991

Creator: Shurberg, D.A. & Haber, S.B.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Estimation of the social costs of natural gas

This study determines the extent to which it is possible to develop monetary estimates of the marginal social cost of fuels, using natural gas to test a methodology that could be applied to other fuels. This requires review of previous estimates of both market and nonmarket costs to the extent that such are available. For some components of social cost, calculation of estimates from secondary data is required. The feasibility of using these estimates to develop marginal social-cost estimates fo… more

Date: December 1, 1979

Creator: Nieves, L. A. & Lemon, J. R.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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An organizational survey of the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center

An Organizational Survey (OS) was administrated at the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (PETC) that queried employees on the subjects of organizational culture, various aspects of communications, employee commitment, work group cohesion, coordination of work, environmental, safety, and health concerns, hazardous nature of work, safety and overall job satisfaction. The purpose of the OS is to measure in a quantitative and objective way the notion of culture''; that is, the values attitudes, a… more

Date: September 1, 1991

Creator: Stock, D. A.; Shurberg, D. A. & Haber, S. B.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Inferred referendum: a rule for committee decisions

A new method of social choice is presented. The result of the method coincides with that of majority voting when it does not produce an intransitivity among the alternatives under consideration. When majority voting would produce an intransitivity, the method orders the alternatives in the same way as the transitive constituency would whom the committee members are most likely to represent. Analysis of the application of the method to three alternatives shows that the resulting order depends on… more

Date: January 1, 1979

Creator: Wolsky, A & Sanathanan, L

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department