Groups of type FPFP via graphical small cancellation

We construct an uncountable family of groups of type $FP$. In contrast to every previous construction of non-finitely presented groups of type $FP$ we do not use Morse theory on cubical complexes; instead we use Gromov's graphical small cancellation theory.Comment: 3 figures. Second version: two paragraphs added emphasizing the difference between our construction and Morse theoretic one

A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING FARM MACHINERY PURCHASE DECISIONS

This paper presents a model of the farm management process. The model suggests that certain socioeconomic characteristics of farm managers will influence their decision-making process. Several characteristics are hypothesized an tested using multivariate techniques (multivariate analysis of variance, range tests, and multiple comparisons). The analysis indicates that the soil zone, value of machinery inventory, operator's age, and operator's education influence the importance placed on each of 20 factors. On the basis of the analysis it was concluded that such a model of the farm management process can contribute to an understanding of farm management decisions. In addition, it was concluded that farm managers, farm machinery dealers, and extension agents had significantly different perceptions of the importance of these factors to farm managers. This latter conclusion suggests that more research related to the actual process of decision making is warranted.Farm Management,

Lincoln\u27s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union

Examining Lincoln’s Most Critical Days “How do you dramatize a decree? How do you turn emancipation into art? Louis P. Masur asks in Lincoln’s Hundred Days (264). These questions make his work an apt counterpart to a film released a few months after Masur’s book, Stephen Spielbe...

Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War

Examining Florida’s Markers of Memory This book is a valuable contribution to research on Civil War commemoration. William B. Lees, who is executive director of the Florida Public Archaeology Network at the University of West Florida, and Frederick P. Gaske, who is former state historic pr...

A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction

Investigating Paranoia during Reconstruction A Dangerous Stir is Mark Wahlgren Summers’s eighth major book in the past twenty-five years on mid-nineteenth-century politics, seven of which have focused on the postwar period. This latest volume applies his unsurpassed familiarity ...

Your Heritage Will Still Remain: Racial Identity and Mississippi\u27s Lost Cause

“The Lost Cause, and white Mississippian adherence to its doctrine, argues Michael J. Goleman, has done more to unify conservative Mississippians than any amount of pseudo-ethnic homogeneity or regional patriotism that swelled during the sectional conflict and Civil War (131). He earns this conclusion by devoting the first two of his six chapters to the politics of the 1850s and the secession crisis and the third to the war years, in each of which he points out divisions within the state that white Mississippians tried to resolve by stressing conflict with northerners. Goleman invokes group identity theory, and especially the works of social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner, to present the vilification of northerners as the construction of an other that offered a basis for coherent state character. The Lost Cause transformed that identity by aligning former Confederates with white northerners as heirs to the American legacy of a heroic civil war, establishing African Americans as the principal other for a more profound and durable white Mississippi identity