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Developing a Musically Educated Person Through the Secondary School Band Program
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Agency Theory Issues in the Food Processing Industry
The objective is to identify significant determinants of performance for food processing firms over the 1992 to 2003 time period, focusing particularly on the issue of family control. Variables measuring firm effects such as asset size, governance, income distribution, and risk are used to explain return on equity. This study builds upon previous research by including a measure of income distribution in the food processing industry. Governance variables are found to be significant determinants of return on equity. The results found no evidence of agency problems in family-controlled firms during this time period.agribusiness, institutional economics, organizational economics, Agribusiness, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Production Economics, D23, G34, Q13, Q14,
Geology and land-use planning: Great Broughton-Lamplugh area, Cumbria. Part 2, land-use planning
This report is one of two which describes the results
of a research project funded jointly by the
Department of the Environment and the British
Geological Survey. The objectives of the project
were to provide an up-to-date geological database
for the Great Broughton-Lamplugh area as a foundation
for land use and development, effective future geological research and the safeguarding of mineral resources. Part 1 (BGS Technical Report WA/92/54), available separately, describes the geology. The results, with particular emphasiso n landuse planning, are described here. The present study is the third DOE sponsored applied geological
mapping project in Cumbria; previous surveys have covered the Workington and Maryport, and Dearham and Gilcrux areas
Chlorophyll catabolites in the frass of the Small Tortoiseshell caterpillars (Aglais urticae L.)
Herbivorous insects excrete most of the consumed chlorophyll as partly degraded derivatives lacking the phytol side chain and the central magnesium ion. To study common degradation patterns of chlorophyll in plant-feeding insects, the frass of the Lepidopteran caterpillar, Aglais urticae was analysed for chlorophyll catabolites. The major metabolites were determined as pheohorbide a and pyropheophorbide a by using LC-MS, LC-SPE-NMR and UV. These compounds are not present in fresh leaves of the food plants (Urtica dioica). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjc.v14i0.198 Mongolian Journal of Chemistry 14 (40), 2013, p46-5
A framework for efficient wastewater treatment and recycling systems
Water reuse / Wastewater / Recycling / Pricing / Water allocation / Cost benefit analysis / Wastewater irrigation / Developing countries / Developed countries / Case studies
PERFORMANCE OF ALTERNATIVE COMPONENT PRICING SYSTEMS FOR PORK
One method of implementing value-based marketing is a component pricing system. This research develops and evaluates alternative component pricing systems for pork. Two electronic technologies for estimating carcass components (optical probe and electromagnetic scanner) were evaluated on two sets of data representing different populations. Model accuracy increased as additional components were added.Carcass merit, Component pricing, Electromagnetic scanning, Pork, Marketing,
Studies on the physics and chemistry of estuarine waters In Chesapeake Bay
Estuarine waters are understood to be those water masses which by virtue of their position are directly subject to the combined action of river and tidal currents. They may be considered to reflect certain dominant forces as well as progressive trends that determine their individualistic though changing hydrographic as well as biologic properties. The factors that lend individuality to these bodies may exhibit profound differences in different latitudes and yet, in certain fundamental respects, the waters possess important characteristics in common...
Proximal Sciatic Nerve Intraneural Ganglion Cyst
Intraneural ganglion cysts are nonneoplastic, mucinous cysts within the epineurium of peripheral nerves which usually involve the peroneal nerve at the knee. A 37-year-old female presented with progressive left buttock and posterior thigh pain. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a sciatic nerve mass at the sacral notch which was subsequently revealed to be an intraneural ganglion cyst. An intraneural ganglion cyst confined to the proximal sciatic nerve has only been reported once prior to 2009
Flows and Non-thermal Velocities in Solar Active Regions Observed with the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer on Hinode: A Tracer of Active Region Sources of Heliospheric Magnetic Fields?
From Doppler velocity maps of active regions constructed from spectra
obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Hinode
spacecraft we observe large areas of outflow (20-50 km/s) that can persist for
at least a day. These outflows occur in areas of active regions that are faint
in coronal spectral lines formed at typical quiet Sun and active region
temperatures. The outflows are positively correlated with non-thermal
velocities in coronal plasmas. The bulk mass motions and non-thermal velocities
are derived from spectral line centroids and line widths, mostly from a strong
line of Fe XII at 195.12 Angstroms. The electron temperature of the outflow
regions estimated from an Fe XIII to Fe XII line intensity ratio is about
1.2-1.4 MK. The electron density of the outflow regions derived from a density
sensitive intensity ratio of Fe XII lines is rather low for an active region.
Most regions average around 7E10+8 cm(-3), but there are variations on pixel
spatial scales of about a factor of 4. We discuss results in detail for two
active regions observed by EIS. Images of active regions in line intensity,
line width, and line centroid are obtained by rastering the regions. We also
discuss data from the active regions obtained from other orbiting spacecraft
that support the conclusions obtained from analysis of the EIS spectra. The
locations of the flows in the active regions with respect to the longitudinal
photospheric magnetic fields suggest that these regions might be tracers of
long loops and/or open magnetic fields that extend into the heliosphere, and
thus the flows could possibly contribute significantly to the solar wind.Comment: one tex file, 11 postscript figure file
Exploring music with a probabilistic projection interface
We present the design and evaluation of an in-
teractive tool for music exploration, with musi-
cal mood and genre inferred directly from tracks.
It uses probabilistic representations of multivari-
able predictions of subjective characteristics of
the music to give users subtle, nuanced visuali-
sations of the 2D map. These explicitly repre-
sent the uncertainty and overlap among features
and support music exploration and casual playlist
generation. A longitudinal trial in users’ homes
showed that probabilistic highlighting of subjec-
tive features led to more focused exploration in
mouse activity logs, and 6 of 8 users preferred
the probabilistic highlighting
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