Editor\u27s Note

It is once again that time of year when I have the distinct honor and pleasure of sharing a few comments related to the publication of the most recent volume of the Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences. The current issue, Volume 18 (2015), represents the fifth and final year of my first term as senior editor in chief. I have been fortunate during this time period to have been able to work with a talented and dedicated staff of coeditors, referee-reviewers and, of course, authors. I am extremely pleased to report that the current volume presents another outstanding collection of high-quality cutting-edge research articles that reflect the rich diversity of social science disciplines, topics, and methods. Our current issue represents a balance between research dealing with national and local issues, and includes papers on international topics as well

Clams and oysters in Charlotte County and vicinity

Charlotte and Okaloosa Counties have experienced the greatest increase in commercial shellfishing activity and interest in Florida. This study has been made in recognition of the important ro)e Charlotte County is playing in the I Florida seafood industry. If tho present boom in shellfish harvesting and culture is to continue and succeed, bulkhead lines will have to be set at or near mangrove shorelines and dredging as well as filling limited by the bulkhead lines. The most realistic method to assure marine productivity is to allow those low shorelands lying in the path of urbanization to be raised to levels suitable for human habitation with fill material obtained from draglining canals inside bulkhead lines, (28pp.

Top quark production and flavor physics

Because of the top quark’s very large mass, about 175 GeV, it now provides the best window into flavor physics. Thus, pair–production of top quarks at the Tevatron Collider is the best probe of this physics until the Large Hadron Collider turns on in the next century. I will discuss aspects of the mass and angular distributions that can be measured in tt production with the coming large data samples from the Tevatron and even larger ones from the LHC.Accepted manuscrip

Technicolor

Technicolor, with extended technicolor, is the theory of dynamical electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking at energies far below the Planck scale. To motivate it, I describe the most important difficulties of the standard electroweak model of symmetry breaking by elementary scalar bosons. I then tell how technicolor deals with these difficulties in a way that is both technically and physically natural. Finally, I discuss the problems of technicolor, both past and present.Accepted manuscrip

Biological survey of north Lake Worth (Palm Beach County) with special reference to bulkhead lines

The town of Palm Beach Shores is establishing formal bulkhead lines. In conjunction with this work we would like to have a biologic survey made of the north end of Lake Worth. The purpose of this survey would be to determine the extent of damage to the ecology of the lake resulting from past as well as proposed dredging and filling projects. (19pp.

Color-singlet technipions at the Tevatron

I discuss production and detection at the Tevatron collider of pairs of light (MπT = 100–200GeV) color-singlet technipions that are expected in all nonminimal models of technicolor. Gluon fusion production rates can be as large as O(1 pb). Topcolor-assisted technicolor is required to prevent top quarks from decaying at t → πT^+b. An intriguing consequence of this is that the decays πT^+ → τ+ντ, and may also be suppressed so that πT^+ → W^+γ and πT^0 → γγ are significant. These modes have spectactular signatures at the Tevatron.First author draf