James Macdonald

Publication List Details

Period

1860 - 2008

Number

48

Co-Authors

U.S. Fresh Produce Markets Marketing Channels, Trade Practices, and Retail Pricing Behavior (2008)

United States, Carolyn Dimitri, Abebayehu Tegene, Phil R. Kaufman, Acknowledgments The, Mark Denbaly, ...

Retail consolidation, technological change in production and marketing, and growing consumer demand for produce have altered the traditional market relationships between producers, wholesalers, and...

Ages of Globular Clusters: A New Approach (2007)

Raul Jimenez, Uffe G. J��rgensen, James Macdonald

We have applied a new method to analyze the horizontal branch (HB) morphology in relation to the distribution of stars near the red giant branch (RGB) tip for the globular clusters M22, M5, M68,...

IPM program successful in California greenhouse cut roses (2007)

Casey, Christine, Newman, Julie, Robb, Karen, Tjosvold, Steven, MacDonald, James, Parrella, Michael P

We developed and tested an integrated pest management (IPM) program for the key pests of cut roses, which was based on fixed precision sampling plans, thresholds, biological control, directed sprays...

Prostate cancer cells regulate growth and differentiation of bone marrow endothelial cells through TGFΒ and its receptor, TGFΒRII (2006)

Barrett, Jeffrey M., Rovedo, Mark A., Tajuddin, Aamair M., Jilling, Tamas, Macoska, Jill A., MacDonald, James, ...

BACKGROUND The underlying mechanisms permitting prostate cancer bone metastasis are poorly understood. We previously showed that the highly metastatic prostate cancer cell line, PC-3, inhibits bone...

The Utility of Genetically Modified Mouse Assays for Identifying Human Carcinogens: A Basic Understanding and Path Forward (2004)

MacDonald, James, French, John E., Gerson, Ronald J., Goodman, Jay, Inoue, Tohru, Jacobs, Abigail, ...

The Alternatives to Carcinogenicity Testing Committee of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) conducted a large-scale, multinational...

The cosmic production of helium (2003)

Jimenez, Raul, Flynn, Chris, MacDonald, James, Gibson, Brad K.

We estimate the cosmic production rate of helium relative to metals (ΔY/ΔZ) using K dwarf stars in the Hipparcos catalog with accurate spectroscopic metallicities. The best fitting value is ΔY/ΔZ...

The Utility of Genetically-Modified Mouse Assays for Identifying Human Carcinogens - A Basic Understanding and Path Forward (2003)

MacDonald, James, French, John E., Gerson, Ronald J., Goodman, Jay, Inoue, Tohru, Jacobs, Abigail, ...

The Alternatives to Carcinogenicity Testing Committee of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) conducted a large-scale, multinational...

The Utility of Genetically-Modified Mouse Assays for Identifying Human Carcinogens - A Basic Understanding and Path Forward (2003)

MacDonald, James, French, John E., Gerson, Ronald J., Goodman, Jay, Inoue, Tohru, Jacobs, Abigail, ...

The Alternatives to Carcinogenicity Testing Committee of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) conducted a large-scale, multinational...

Alternative Models for Carcinogenicity Testing (2001)

Cohen, Samuel M., Robinson, Denise, MacDonald, James

The International Conference on Harmonisation Expert Working Group on Safety suggested that under certain circumstances, data from alternative assays could be used in safety evaluation in place of a...

NOTES ON FORESTRY IN SICILY (1955)

MACDONALD, JAMES

An account, by a delegate from Great Britain to the eleventh Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations held in Rome in 1953, of some aspects of the work being undertaken by...

Technological Change and Economies of Scale in U.S. Poultry Slaughter

Milton Madison, James MacDonald, Michael Ollinger

This paper uses a unique data set provided by the Census Bureau to empirically examine technological change and economies of scale in the chicken and turkey slaughter industries. Results reveal...

The Minimum Wage, Restaurant Prices, and Labor Market Structure

Daniel Aaronson, Eric French, James MacDonald

Using store-level and aggregated Consumer Price Index data, we show that restaurant prices rise in response to minimum wage increases under several sources of identifying variation. We introduce a...

At What Rate Do Farmers Substitute Manure For Commercial Fertilizers?

O'Donoghue, Erik, MacDonald, James, Nehring, Richard

Water quality has implications for the health of our ecosystem and the welfare of our population. Agriculture is one of the major contributors of non-point source pollution that contaminates our...

Local Monopsony Power in the Market for Broilers - Evidence from a Farm Survey

Key, Nigel, MacDonald, James

The exercise of monopsony power by broiler processing firms is plausible because production occurs within localized complexes, which limits the number of integrators with whom growers can contract....

Duration in Production Contracts

MacDonald, James, Korb, Penni

We use 2003 and 2004 ARMS data to analyze variations in contract duration among growers of broilers who hold production contracts. Most contracts cover just a single flock, but many extend for 1-2...

Age-Related Changes in Cochlear Gene Expression In Normal and Shaker 2 Mice

Gong, Tzy-Wen L., Karolyi, I. Jill, MacDonald, James, Beyer, Lisa, Raphael, Yehoash, Kohrman, David C., ...

The vertebrate cochlea is a complex organ optimized for sound transduction. Auditory hair cells, with their precisely arranged stereocilia bundles, transduce sound waves to electrical signals that...

STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN U.S. CHICKEN AND TURKEY SLAUGHTER

Ollinger, Michael, MacDonald, James, Madison, Milton

Cost function analyses using data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census reveal substantial scale economies in chicken and turkey slaughter. These economies show no evidence of diminishing as plant size...

Contracts, Markets, and Prices: Organizing the Production and Use of Agricultural Commodities

MacDonald, James, Perry, Janet, Ahearn, Mary, Banker, David, Chambers, William, Dimitri, Carolyn, ...

Production and marketing contracts govern 36 percent of the value of U.S. agricultural production, up from 12 percent in 1969. Contracts are now the primary method of handling sales of many livestock...

User-Fee Financing of USDA Meat and Poultry Inspection

MacDonald, James, Kuchler, Fred, Buzby, Jean, Lee, Fitzroy, Aldrich, Lorna

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) finances about 13.5 percent of its budget outlays through user fees for overtime and unscheduled meat and poultry inspections. User fees play an...

Profits, Costs, and the Changing Structure of Dairy Farming

MacDonald, James, O'Donoghue, Erik J., McBride, William D., Nehring, Richard F., Sandretto, Carmen L., Mosheim, Roberto

U.S. dairy production is consolidating into fewer but larger farms. This report uses data from several USDA surveys to detail that consolidation and to analyze the financial drivers of consolidation....

Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Payments

MacDonald, James, Hoppe, Robert, Banker, David

Crop production is shifting to much larger farms. Since government commodity payments reflect production volumes for program commodities, payments are also shifting to larger farms. In turn, the...

Pyrvinium Targets the Unfolded Protein Response to Hypoglycemia and Its Anti-Tumor Activity Is Enhanced by Combination Therapy

Yu, De-Hua, Macdonald, James, Liu, Guohong, Lee, Amy S., Ly, Mimi, Davis, Timothy, ...

We identified pyrvinium pamoate, an old anthelminthic medicine, which preferentially inhibits anchorage-independent growth of cancer cells over anchorage-dependent growth (∼10 fold). It was also...

A Systematic Approach to Mapping Recessive Disease Genes in Individuals from Outbred Populations

Hildebrandt, Friedhelm, Heeringa, Saskia F., Rüschendorf, Franz, Attanasio, Massimo, Nürnberg, Gudrun, Becker, Christian, ...

The identification of recessive disease-causing genes by homozygosity mapping is often restricted by lack of suitable consanguineous families. To overcome these limitations, we apply homozygosity...

Market Competition, Institutions, and Contracting Outcomes: Preliminary Model and Experimental Results

MacDonald, James, Wu, Steven Y.

Contracts, Competition, Market Power, Enforcement, Institutions, Agribusiness, Industrial Organization, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Production Economics, C91, D02, D43, D86,