Saint Anselm College

About: Saint Anselm College is a education organization based out in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Nurse education & Extinction (psychology). The organization has 255 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7222 citations.

Production, Prices, and Technology: A Historical Analysis of the United States Coal Industry

Abstract: This article contributes to the literature regarding non-renewable resource extraction and production by using historical accounts and newly-collected county coal mining production, average value, and employment data, spanning the entire United States from 1900 to 1976, to analyze how fluctuations in prices and technology impacted the production decisions of the coal mining industry at the county level in the United States. It provides a description of how coal production, technology, and average prices changed throughout the twentieth century. It also provides evidence that coal producers responded in a significant way to variation in national and local coal prices, and that coal producers were aware, and responded at the local level, to the behavior of past coal prices.

Backus language for functional nano-devices

Abstract: The emergent nano-technologies must be used to design functional nano-devices with complexity in the range of their size. The way to achieve this goal is to define parallel programmable engines. The concept of FP System, introduced by John Backus in 1978, is used to define a high level architectural environment: Backus-Connex Parallel Functional Programming System. The functional forms of FP Systems correspond perfect with the four types of parallelism derived for ConnexArray™ from the Kleene's computational model. The paper defines the BC programming environment, describes its implementation in Scheme and presents its use for developing real applications for functional nano-devices.