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.

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

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

Origins of the Federal Reserve book-entry system

The conversion of U.S. Treasury securities from physical to book-entry form was a major event in the history of the Treasury market. The conversion, which began in 1966, resulted in an automated system that has greatly reduced market operating costs and risks. This article examines the origins and development of the Federal Reserve book-entry system for Treasury securities. It suggests that the system was the product of three important factors: the interest of the Federal Reserve Banks and the Treasury in lowering their operating costs and risks, the intention of the Reserve Banks and the Treasury to preserve the liquidity of the market, and the desire of the Reserve Banks to reduce member bank operating costs. Two critical incidents-a loss of securities at a Reserve Bank in 1962 and an "insurance crisis" in 1970-71-played major roles in the early development and subsequent expansion of the book-entry system.Treasury bonds ; Federal Reserve banks - Automation ; Government securities ; Federal Reserve banks - Costs

Order Backlogs and Production Smoothing

Empirical examination of some aggregate manufacturing data suggests that order backlogs may help explain two puzzling facts: (1) the variability of production appears to be greater than that of demand, and (2) inventories appear to be drawn down when demand is low, built up when demand is high.