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Lutheran Confessions: A Harmony and Resource Book
Tjernagel, November S. Lutheran Confessions: A Harmony and Resource Book. Mankato, Minn: Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1979
ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION IN NORTH DAKOTA
The U. S. biodiesel industry is rapidly expanding due to energy production concerns, environmental concerns, and recent legislation. The most common type of biodiesel in the United States is derived from soybean oil. Soybeans are a major crop in North Dakota and could easily supply a 5 million gallon per year biodiesel facility. Potential market segments of a biodiesel facility in North Dakota include agriculture, construction, and state fleet sectors based on current diesel use. However, with existing technology and no subsidy, biodiesel operation and investment costs for a North Dakota facility are not competitive with petroleum diesel. Using soybean oil prices of 17 cents to 25 cents per pound, the per gallon cost of producing diesel in southeastern North Dakota ranges between 2.64, while the wholesale price for regular diesel is $0.91. The cost of producing biodiesel is highly dependent on the price and availability of soybean oil. While biodiesel production technology is feasible and fairly simple, producing biodiesel in North Dakota is not economically feasible at least in the foreseeable future.biodiesel, soybeans, economic feasibility, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THREE KINDS: THE WRITING OF INDIAN HISTORY, A Review Essay
Can non-Indians write ”Indian history”? Professor Roy W. Meyer, Director of American Studies at Mankato State University, confronts himself with that vexing question in the prefatory remarks to his survey of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples from pre-European contact times through the 1970‘s. Although Meyer‘s book is a case study of specific Indian societies, a number of themes he emphasizes will be useful for teachers and students who are not specialists in Indian studies
The Two-Point Angular Correlation Function and BATSE Sky Exposure
The Two-Point Angular Correlation Function is a standard analysis tool used
to study angular anisotropies. Since BATSE's sky exposure (the angular sampling
of gamma-ray bursts) is anisotropic, the TPACF should at some point identify
anisotropies in BATSE burst catalogs due to sky exposure. The effects of BATSE
sky exposure are thus explored here for BATSE 3B and 4B catalogs. Sky-exposure
effects are found to be small.Comment: 5 pages, 1 postscript figure. To appear in the Fourth Huntsville
Gamma-Ray Burst Symposiu
AI Gamma-Ray Burst Classification: Methodology/Preliminary Results
Artificial intelligence (AI) classifiers can be used to classify unknowns,
refine existing classification parameters, and identify/screen out ineffectual
parameters. We present an AI methodology for classifying new gamma-ray bursts,
along with some preliminary results.Comment: 5 pages, 2 postscript figures. To appear in the Fourth Huntsville
Gamma-Ray Burst Symposiu
Common Cents Public Participation Findings
Presents findings from focus groups and online surveys, examines citizens' values and long-term priorities in addressing state budget challenges, including reforms in services and the tax structure and a competent, innovative government to implement them
BATSE Sky Exposure
Angular sky exposure is presented for a number of published BATSE gamma-ray
burst catalogs. A new algorithm was required due to telemetry gaps resulting
from onboard tape recorder failures; the new algorithm improves the 1B Catalog
exposure calculation. The most influential effects limiting BATSE's exposure
are (1) deadtime due to triggering, (2) sky blockage by the Earth, and (3)
trigger disabling when the spacecraft is in the SAA and over other specific
Earth locations. Exposure has improved during the CGRO mission as a result of
decreased Solar flares and magnetospheric particle events.Comment: 5 pages, 1 postscript figure. To appear in the Fourth Huntsville
Gamma-Ray Burst Symposiu
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