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A GIS-based Assessment of Coal-based Hydrogen Infrastructure Deployment in the State of Ohio

Johnson, Nils; Yang, Christopher; Ogden, J - Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2009

Hydrogen infrastructure costs will vary by region as geographic characteristics and feedstocks differ. This paper proposes a method for optimizing regional hydrogen infrastructure deployment by combining detailed spatial data in a geographic information system (GIS) with a technoeconomic model...

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The Optimal Gas Tax for California

Lin, C.-Y. Cynthia; Prince, Lea - Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2010

This paper calculates the optimal gasoline tax for the state of California. According to our analysis, the optimal gasoline tax in California is $1.37/gallon, which is over 3 times the current California tax when excluding sales taxes. The Pigovian tax is the largest part of this tax, comprising...

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Report: Public Trust in Higher Education and A Media Review of Press Articles in California

Fox, Warren H.; Earl-Novell, Sarah L. - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2004

The purpose of this report is to better determine the level of general public trust in public higher education and the content of published articles in the press that may influence and reflect public confidence. By conducting a six-month media scan of four California newspapers, an overview is...

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All Globalization Is Local: Countervailing Forces and the Influence on Higher Education Markets

Douglass, John Aubrey - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2005

Globalization trends and innovations in the instructional technologies are widely believed to be creating new markets and forcing a revolution in higher education. Much of the rhetoric of "globalists" has presented a simplistic analysis of a paradigm shift in higher education markets and the way...

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The Corporation of Learning: Nonprofit Higher Education Takes Lessons from Business

Kirp, David L. - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2003

This essay examines the ways in which nonprofit universities increasingly emulate businesses, focusing on two of the most direct forms of emulation: the creation of internal university markets at the University of Southern California through adoption of variants of resource center management...

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Entrepreneurial potential in Business and Engineering courses … why worry now?

Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2007

subjects. In this paper we analyze the magnitude of this propensity in engineering and economics/business courses. The reason … statistical difference exists in entrepreneurial potential of economics/business and engineering students, and that these two … entrepreneurial education is undertaken in business and engineering schools. …

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A cross-country evaluation of cheating in academia: is it related to ‘real world’ business ethics?

Rocha, Maria Fátima; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006

Today’s economics and business students are expected to be our future’s business people and potentially our tomorrow … and business ethics. The empirical evaluation of the cheating phenomenon in academia has been almost exclusively focused … perform a wide cross-country study on the determinants of economics and business undergraduate cheating which involves 21 …

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