The Wyoming State Library is the official state library agency of Wyoming located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is a department under Wyoming's Department of Administration & Information. The State Librarian as of 2020 is Jamie Markus.The State Library maintains a Telework Lab for state employees. They also maintain the WYLD network of member libraries within the state which allows resource sharing. They sponsor an annual Wyoming Letters About Literature contest for Wyoming students in grades 4-12.
The proliferation of digital nudges in e-commerce interfaces has reshaped consumer decision-making, yet their psychological mechanisms and societal implications remain contested, particularly in non-Western markets. This paper examines how three dominant interface defaultssocial proof (Top ranked), monetary framing (40% off), and urgency cue (Livestream ends in 3 minutes)influence willingness to pay and decision difficulty in Chinas fast-paced digital marketplace. Using a randomized survey experiment with 519 respondents, we measure the causal effects of these nudges on engagement, purchase intent, and cognitive strain. Results show that nudges collectively increase WTP by 0.775 points (on a 5-point scale), with urgency cue producing the largest gains (1.063 points) but also raising decision difficulty by 0.304 points. Social proof and monetary framing boost WTP without increasing cognitive load. Heterogeneity analyses reveal stronger responses among women to social proof, greater sensitivity among lower-income users to discounts, and lower decision difficulty among tier-1 city residents. These findings highlight that the effectiveness and costs of digital nudges depend on demographic context and user characteristics, underscoring the need for ethical, user-centered interface design in digital commerce.
This repository contains a compilation of photos from the historical GC-Net AWS deployed by K. Steffen and his team between 1990 and 2022. Purpose: - repository of photos giving visual evidence of e.g., the relative instrument placement, how much the station is leaning, etc. - It's ideal to have photos from different vantages and before/after maintenance. So, 4 pix per site / year is a nice-to-have. Structure: The dataset is divided in the following folders: - curated_archive_of_GC-Net_AWS folder. This is the most important folder. It contains a currated selection of pictures from each AWS, if possible pre and post maintenance, and if useful, from differet angles. Importance is given to the visibility of the general geometry of the station. The pictures are *cropped* and *renamed* to increase ease of use. Nameing convention is \"NAME YYYY MM DDx pre/post via photographer.format\", e.g. \"CP1 1998 05 30a pre via J Box.jpg\". - all pictures GC-Net folder: This folder contains all the available pictures from the AWS. No removal of redundant pictures, no cropping, no renaming. Pictures are organized in year and station specific folders. - GC-Net_photo_grid.png and GC-Net_photo_grid_minor_stations.png which give an overview of the available photos. Contributors: - J. Box (main curator), K. Steffen, D. Houtz, B. Vandecrux, A. Heilig, H. Machguth, Dan McGrath
With people getting increasingly familiar with climate change adaptation, composting has become a popular way for people to take action on protecting the earth. In the U.S., 30-40% of the food supply is wasted, and in restaurants, 74% of the waste is organic material. In 2018, the EPA estimated that 2.6 million tons of food (4.1% of food waste) was made into compost. However, there are two different kinds of composting: sending waste to a composting company (offsite composting) or composting at the place where waste creates (onsite composting). The author conducted a case study at a high school in Pennsylvania, USA, and designed a Bokashi composting experiment and an evaluation model to compare the economic cost and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission for onsite and offsite composting. The study finds that the cost of 1 kg of food waste for onsite composting is $0.29 and that for offsite composting is $0.22 (a 24% reduction). However, in this case, the onsite composting causes 0.014 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per kg of food waste, while the mission of offsite composting is 0.035 kg of CO2e. It means that switching from offsite to onsite composing would result in a reduction of 21 kg of CO2e for 1000 kg of food waste, which is the amount of waste produced by a high school campus with 400 people within just about five days to a week. It is worth knowing that 21 kg of CO2e equals the amount of CO2 a mature tree can capture in an entire year. Therefore, onsite composting costs are higher but have more environmental benefits than offsite composting.
