Furniture manufacturing and wood use in the north central region.

"Sponsored by the agricultural experiment stations of Illinois [and others]""Agricultural experiment stations of Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating."Bibliography: p. 66

A primary health care approach to men's health in community health settings: it's just better practice

The goal of the Just Better Practice project is to describe primary health care approaches to developing a framework for practice in men’s health in community health settings. The objectives of the project are to: illustrate better practice principles using South Australian examples of men’s health projects in community health settings based on developing sustained partnerships and building community capacity; provide practical examples of how better practice for men’s health is applied in various community health settings; inform education, training and development for community health service providers in relation to men’s health and wellbeing; contribute to the provision of information and resources on men’s health and wellbeing; and to reflect a focus on primary health care, health promotion and illness prevention in community health settings

An Investigation of the Physical Education Specialist in the Elementary School

Acting on the premise that the physical education program is a vital part of the elementary school curriculum, every elementary school should provide qualified leadership, proper facilities, and activities suited to the growth and development of the participants

Images of Pakeha-Māori: A Study of the Representation of Pakeha-Māori by Historians of New Zealand From Arthur Thomson (1859) to James Belich (1996)

This thesis investigates how Pakeha-Māori have been represented in New Zealand non-fiction writing during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chronological and textual boundaries range from Arthur Thomson's seminal history The Story of New Zealand (1859) to James Belich's Making Peoples (1996). It examines the discursive inventions and reinventions of Pakeha-Māori from the stereotypical images of the Victorian era to modern times when the contact zone has become a subject of critical investigation and a sign of changing intellectual dynamics in New Zealand and elsewhere. This thesis is about the history of attitudes to culture-crossers in New Zealand, the use of the term 'Pakeha-Māori', and the images that underlie the thinking of Britons and Pakeha about them. It explores the motives and backgrounds of specific authors and the ways in which they frame New Zealand history. It elucidates the ambiguous and contradictory perspectives of Pakeha-Māori in the literature and analyses its impact on changing public perceptions about them. The study critiques the literature with emphasis on theoretically informed research, historical analysis, and literary insights. Discussion is confined to published texts, with the aim of exploring the multiplicity of Pakeha-Māori images and the processes that gave rise to them. This study is essentially an investigation into how and why historians and other scholars try to draw boundaries between cultures in order to create a satisfactory metanarrative or myth of the 'settlement' of New Zealand and thus to forge a sense of New Zealandness. The cultural and racial categories of 'Māori' and 'Pakeha' are very unstable, however, and a consideration of the 'in-between' or 'culture-crossing' category of 'Pakeha-Māori' can reveal the way in which 'Māori' and 'Pakeha' and a sense of New Zealand and New Zealanders have been constructed. More particularly, consideration of representations of those culture-crossers or race-crossers called Pakeha-Māori can reveal the hopes and fears of Pakeha writers regarding Pakeha, Māori and New Zealand and how Pakeha-Māori have frequently been a barometer or litmus test of public perceptions of relations between Māori and Pakeha in different historical periods

Evaluating Contingency Construction Methods: A Delphi Study

The purpose of this research was to evaluate which existing RED HORSE vertical construction system was “best” suited for contingency operations and the relative pros/cons/challenges associated with each. RED HORSE units, having existed for over 50 years, currently have 4 active duty squadrons currently employed overseas in multiple military contingency environments. Based on site visits, it was established that the Ultimate Building Machine (UBM)/K-Span, Professionally Engineered Buildings (PEB), and the FrameCAD system are the three most prevalent vertical construction systems/methods in use by RED HORSE. Fourteen Subject Matter Experts (SME) from across the Air Force participated in a Delphi study to evaluate these construction methods and answer multiple rounds of questions. While no one system/method could be conclusively declared “the best”, the Delphi study did generate consensus around the pros, cons, and challenges of each of these contingency construction methods/systems. The results of this study will serve to inform RED HORSE commanders/planner decisions regarding the use of vertical construction methods/systems for current and future contingency operations

Future Forest Design

Management of commercial forest resources in North America has undergone two transitions and is about to undergo a third. First is the transition from old growth to second growth which is akin to moving from a “coal mining ethic to a “hunt and gather society. Second is the transition from second growth to managed forests. While some old growth still exists, commercial forestry is essentially at the forest management stage. The next transition will be designed forests

Oxygen Polarography in the Awake Macaque: Bridging BOLD fMRI and Electrophysiology

Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fMRI is the predominant method for evaluating human brain activity. This technique identifies brain activity by measuring blood oxygen changes associated with neural activity. Although clearly related, the nature of the relationship between BOLD fMRI identified brain activity and electrophysiologically measured neural activity remains unclear. Direct comparison of BOLD fMRI and electrophysiology has been severely limited by the technical challenges of combining the two techniques. Microelectrode electrophysiology in non-human primates is an excellent model for studying neural activity related to high order brain function similar to that commonly studied with BOLD fMRI in humans, i.e. attention, working memory, engagement. This thesis discusses the development of, validation of, and first results obtained using a new multi-site oxygen polarographic recording system in the awake macaques as a surrogate for BOLD fMRI. Oxygen polarography measures tissue oxygen which is coupled to blood oxygen. This tool offers higher resolution than BOLD fMRI and can be more readily combined with electrophysiology. Using this new tool we evaluated local field potential and oxygen responses to an engaging visual stimulus in two distinct brain systems. In area V3, a key region in the visual system and representative of stimulus driven sensory cortex, we show increased tissue oxygen and local field potential power in response to visual stimulus. In area 23 of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), a hub of the default-mode network we show decreased oxygen and local field potential in response to the same stimulus. The default-mode network is a set of brain regions identified in humans whose BOLD fMRI activity is higher at rest than during external engagement, arguing that they sub-serve a function that is engaged as the default-mode in humans. Our results provide new evidence of default-mode network activity in the macaque similar to that seen in humans, provide evidence that the BOLD identified default-mode suppression reflects neural suppression and overall support a strong relationship between neural activity and BOLD fMRI. However, we also note that the LFP responses in both regions show substantial nuances that cannot be seen in the oxygen response and suggest response complexity that is invisible with fMRI. Further the nature of the relationship between LFP and oxygen differs between regions. Our multi-site technique also allows us to evaluate inter-regional interaction of ongoing oxygen fluctuations. Inter-regional correlation of BOLD fMRI fluctuations is commonly used as an index of functional connectivity and has provided new insight into behaviorally relevant aspects of the brains organization and its disruption in disease. Here we demonstrate that we can measure the same inter-regional correlation using oxygen polarography. We utilize the increased resolution of our technique to investigate the frequency structure of the signals driving the correlation and find that inter-regional correlation of oxygen fluctuations appears to depend on a rhythmic mechanism operating at ~0.06 Hz

Reflections from the Seventh American Forest Congress: Some Thoughts for National Forest Management

21 pages. Contains endnotes and references