The Canadian ‘Model Forest’ approach : a way forward for Tasmania?

Forest policy and forestry management in Tasmania have undergone a number of changes in the last thirty years, many explicitly aimed at improving industry sustainability, job security, and forest biodiversity conservation. Yet forestry remains a contentious issue in Tasmania, due to a number of interacting factors, most significant of which is the prevalence of a ‘command and control’ governance approach by policymakers and managers. New approaches such as multiple-stakeholder decision-making, adaptive management, and direct public participation in policymaking are needed. Such an approach has been attempted in Canada in the last decade, through the Canadian Model Forest Program, and may be suitable for Tasmania. This paper seeks to describe what the Canadian Model Forest approach is, how it may be implemented in Tasmania, and what role it may play in the shift to a new forestry paradigm. Until such a paradigm shift occurs contentions and confrontations are likely to continue

We Need Creative Classrooms (Chapter One of Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student)

Excerpt: You\u27ve seen them. The most successful people in the world aren\u27t defeated by change; they thrive on it. They build solutions and problem-solve on the fly. They make products that serve thousands, even millions, of people. They are creative. And their creativity helps them navigate new technology, new problems, and new environments. Their creativity gives them the tool set to succeed in a world where there is no proven path and no guarantee that anything will stay the same. This is why so many people have pushed for more creative classrooms. It\u27s why videos about creativity in education go viral. It\u27s why the Maker Movement has filled schools around the world, inspiring young minds to build, tinker, and play. Yet, as a classroom teacher or school leader, you know that after years of honing standardized, formulaic processes, making the shift to innovative teaching and learning is not as easy as snapping your fingers and saying, Voila! Let\u27s put creativity back into our schools

The Starting Point for Empowering Your Students (Chapter 12 of Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning)

Excerpt: Student ownership is a big idea. It takes time to develop the systems and structures for things like student-selected intervention, enrichment, and student self-assessments. Besides, you probably have great lessons that aren\u27t necessarily choice driven (like that amazing read-aloud with that Socratic Seminar built into it). This is the start of a journey. It will take years to figure out what works for you. But that\u27s okay. Every small act of student ownership is another step in the journey. Sometimes it helps to start out with one choice-driven project. This allows you to spend some time planning and reflecting while also continuing to teach in a way that feels comfortable. It might be a two-week unit that you try out. Or it might be a day-long project that you can try on a wasted day like the day before Spring Break or the last day of state mandated testing. In the next few pages, we\u27ll be exploring some of the projects you can use as a starting point to student choice

The Profile and Motivations of Elderly Women Gamblers

Survey research was conducted to determine the profile and motivations of elderly women gamblers. The survey results indicate there is potential to increase revenues by appealing to this segment. Those that do visit casinos, do so primarily for the entertainment and excitement it provides. Furthermore, as a group, elderly women gamblers are disciplined and do not suffer from compulsive gambling problems

Sorghum grain for lactating dairy cows

The 1990 Annual KSU Dairy Day is known as Dairy Day, 1990Holstein cows in early lactation were utilized to evaluate the effects of supplementing concentrate diets of sorghum grain on milk production, milk composition, somatic cell count, and body condition. At 21 d postpartum, cows were randomly assigned to receive four concentrate diets consisting of 1) corn, 2) sorghum, 3) sorghum plus 1 lb tallow, and 4) sorghum plus wheat in a 70:30 ratio. All concentrates were combined with chopped alfalfa hay in a total mixed diet and fed twice daily. Treatments included a 7-day preliminary period and a 16-week experimental period. Cows fed the sorghum plus tallow diet produced 14% more milk than cows fed either corn or sorghum alone and 10% more than cows fed the 70:30 sorghum plus wheat diet. Milk fat was unaffected by diet, although cows receiving the sorghum plus wheat diet tended to produce milk with less fat (3.3% vs 3.5% for the other diets). Body weight and body condition tended to be higher for cows fed the sorghum plus wheat combination. The addition of tallow or wheat to grain sorghumbased diets appears to improve its value for high-producing cows

Five day attachment ECG electrodes for longitudinal bio-sensing using conformal tattoo substrates

State-of-the-art ECG (electrocardiography) uses wet Silver/Silver-Chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrodes where a conductive gel is used to provide a esistive, low impedance, connection to the skin. These electrodes are very easy to apply, but have a significant number of limitations for personalized and preventative healthcare. In particular that the gel dries out giving a limited connection time. This paper presents ECG electrodes manufactured using the inkjet printing of Silver nanoparticles onto a conformal tattoo substrate. The substrate maintains a high quality connection to the body for many days at a time allowing ECG monitoring over periods not previously possible without electrode re-attachment. The design and manufacture of the conformal electrodes is presented, together with detailed characterization of the electrode performance in terms of the Signal to Noise Ratio and baseline wander. The Signal to Noise Ratio is shown to still be over 30 dB five days after the initial electrode attachment

Weak helix submanifolds of euclidean spaces

It is shown that there exist nonstrong weak 2-helix surfaces of R

Interspecific differences in the Diel Vertical Migration of Marine Copepods : the Implications of size, color, and morphology

Samples collected by continuous plankton recorders (CPRs) between 1948 and 1992 were used to describe the diel vertical migration (DVM) behavior of 41 copepod taxa in the northeast Atlantic between 45 and 55?N and 11 and 31?W. A total of 13,622 samples, each representing - 18.5 km (10 nm) of tow, were analyzed. Since CPRs are towed in near-surface waters, taxa that exhibit DVM occur predominantly in samples taken at night. Larger taxa showed significantly stronger DVM, with body size explaining 47% of the intertaxa variation in DVM. For small taxa (< 1 mm wide) the residual variation in DVM was correlated with carotenoid pigment levels but not with body morphology, with more heavily pigmented taxa exhibiting DVM. For larger taxa (> 1 mm wide) the residual variation in DVM was correlated with body morphology but not with carotenoid pigment levels, with more elongate copepods not exhibiting DVM

Bank Funds Management: Interest-Margin Measures and Relative Profitability*

John A. Haslem is Professor of Finance in the College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland. James P. Bedingfield is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland. A.J. Stagliano is Sutula Professor of Accounting at St. Joseph\u27s University