REVITALIZING FAMILY FARM AGRICULTURE

Agricultural and Food Policy,

G84-729 Financing Roads, Streets and Highways in Nebraska (Revised August 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication focuses on roads, streets and highways. Roads, streets and highways are among the most important public goods provided by government. Public goods are items whose availability can\u27t be limited to those who specifically pay for them. In the case of roads, collective support for an adequate surface transportation system is long-standing, extending from the rutted trails of colonial America to the interstate highways of today

G84-732 Property Taxes in Nebraska (Revised September 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication describes how property taxes support local government functions. The property tax is the primary source of revenue for more than 3,000 units of local government in Nebraska, including school districts, counties and municipalities. In 1991, statewide property tax levies totalled $1.257 billion, a sum that approximated the combined revenues from state income and sales taxes

G84-729 Financing Roads, Streets and Highways in Nebraska (Revised August 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication focuses on roads, streets and highways. Roads, streets and highways are among the most important public goods provided by government. Public goods are items whose availability can\u27t be limited to those who specifically pay for them. In the case of roads, collective support for an adequate surface transportation system is long-standing, extending from the rutted trails of colonial America to the interstate highways of today

G84-732 Property Taxes in Nebraska (Revised September 1992)

This is one of a series of NebGuides on financing state and local government. This publication describes how property taxes support local government functions. The property tax is the primary source of revenue for more than 3,000 units of local government in Nebraska, including school districts, counties and municipalities. In 1991, statewide property tax levies totalled $1.257 billion, a sum that approximated the combined revenues from state income and sales taxes

Immersive Composition for Sensory Rehabilitation: 3D Visualisation, Surround Sound, and Synthesised Music to Provoke Catharsis and Healing

There is a wide range of sensory therapies using sound, music and visual stimuli. Some focus on soothing or distracting stimuli such as natural sounds or classical music as analgesic, while other approaches emphasize the active performance of producing music as therapy. This paper proposes an immersive multi-sensory Exposure Therapy for people suffering from anxiety disorders, based on a rich, detailed surround-soundscape. This soundscape is composed to include the users’ own idiosyncratic anxiety triggers as a form of habituation, and to provoke psychological catharsis, as a non-verbal, visceral and enveloping exposure. To accurately pinpoint the most effective sounds and to optimally compose the soundscape we will monitor the participants’ physiological responses such as electroencephalography, respiration, electromyography, and heart rate during exposure. We hypothesize that such physiologically optimized sensory landscapes will aid the development of future immersive therapies for various psychological conditions, Sound is a major trigger of anxiety, and auditory hypersensitivity is an extremely problematic symptom. Exposure to stress-inducing sounds can free anxiety sufferers from entrenched avoidance behaviors, teaching physiological coping strategies and encouraging resolution of the psychological issues agitated by the sound

Graphene field effect transistor biosensors based on aptamer for amyloid-β detection

The development of cost-efficient, sensitive and specific methods to detect amyloid-beta 42 ( Aβ42 ) biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid and serum-samples is of considerable interest to enable early and reliable diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease as a precondition for future disease-modifying therapies. This paper presents a reduced graphene oxide field effect transistor (r-GO FET) for label free ultrasensitive detection of an Aβ42 -biomarker with RNA aptamer. The channel in the device was formed by reduction of graphene oxide nanosheets by self-assembly process. As a result, the interaction between Aβ42 and RNA aptamer on the surface of r-GO channel caused a linear response in the shift of the gate voltage ( VTG ) where the minimum conductivity occurs. The r-GO FET can detect the biomarker in range of 1ng/ml to 1pg/ml at pH 7.4 with high specificity. The developed r-GO FET is a low-cost, highly sensitive and selective method for detecting tiny concentrations of Aβ42 , which would also enable measurements in serum-samples