Address at the Annual Meeting of the Maine Branch of the Women\u27s National Indian Association: Portland, Maine, January 24, 1887

Ladies of the Association, and friends: This meeting is at once the result and the evidence of a deep and abiding interest in the American Indians. Of these, there are now, within the limits of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, about 260,000, a quarter of a million, enough to make seven or eight cities of the size of Portland. They are mainly in our western interior, driven very far back from the Atlantic coast, and being also pressed back from the Pacific coast. Almost infinitesimal are the living fragments that have been broken off from the tribes, and have a place among the whites. Asked to speak of these people, this evening, I consented gladly, but timidly, gladly because of my sympathy with the cause, timidly, because of my lack of any special and intimate knowledge of Indian affairs, and of the Indian question. And when I considered what to say, my mind at once put to me this question, Why, with your merely general knowledge of this matter, do you feel such keen interest, and such readiness to assert it? I began to look around for the reasons and seemed to myself to have found some of them. I have written them out, and decided to bring them here this evening, as my contribution to this feast. Rev. Dr. George D.B. Pepperhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1087/thumbnail.jp

Are small firms really sub-optimal?: compensating factor differentials in small dutch manufacturing firms

The advent of a growing share of small firms in modern economies raises some intriguing questions. The most intriguing question undoubtedly is why so many smaller firms, which have traditionally been classified as sub-optimal scale firms, can exist. We suggest that, through pursuing a strategy of compensating factor differentials, that is by remunerating and deploying factors of production differently than their larger counterparts, small firms are able to compensate for size-inherent cost disadvantages. Using a sample of over seven thousand Dutch manufacturing firms, we find considerable evidence that such a strategy of compensating factor differentials is pursued within a European context. When viewed through a static lens, the existence of such a strategy, while making small and sub-optimal scale firms viable, suggests that they impose a net welfare loss on the economy. However, when viewed through a dynamic lens, the findings of a positive relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at least a tendency for the inefficient firm of today to become the efficient firm of tomorrow. 5 Are Small Firms Really Sub-Optimal

Federal Aid Project No. W-49-R(25) Study I: Population Trends and Characteristics Job No.8: Beaver investigations

A partial census of the beaver (Castor canadensis) inhabiting the inland streams of Jo Daviess County, Illinois, was conducted during the fall of 1977. A search of 115.7 km (44.1 percent) of the streams present yielded a county-wide population estimate of 184 to 219 animals. This estimate was 25 percent lower than the one based on a similar census conducted in 1950. Beaver sign observations were also recorded for 463 km of stream sampled as a part of the 1977 statewide wood duck (Aix sponsa) census. Individual colonies could not be delineated from the spring observations. A sample of 20 unskinned beavers was examined at a fur house in DeKalb County, Illinois, between 15 November 1977 and 13 January 1978. The sex ratio of these animals was 1:1. Body weights ranged from 5.6 to 29.0 kg. Age composition of the sample was 11 kits (55 percent), 5 yearlings (25 percent), 2 two-year olds (10 percent), and 2 adults (10 percent). Aging techniques based on body weight, tail dimensions, zygomatic breadth, and saggital crest development appeared to overage 29 to 50 percent of the specimens and have little applicability for winter-trapped beaver taken in Illinois. The development of mandibular teeth seemed to be the most reliable and consistent of all age criteria employed.unpublishednot peer reviewedOpe

Increasing the size of the microbial biomass altered bacterial community structure which enhances plant phosphorus uptake

Agricultural production can be limited by low phosphorus (P) availability, with soil P being constrained by sorption and precipitation reactions making it less available for plant uptake. There are strong links between carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) availability and P cycling within soil P pools, with microorganisms being an integral component of soil P cycling mediating the availability of P to plants. Here we tested a conceptual model that proposes (i) the addition of readily-available organic substrates would increase the size of the microbial biomass thus exhausting the pool of easily-available P and (ii) this would cause the microbial biomass to access P from more recalcitrant pools. In this model it is hypothesised that the size of the microbial population is regulating access to less available P rather than the diversity of organisms contained within this biomass. To test this hypothesis we added mixtures of simple organic compounds that reflect typical root exudates at different C:N ratios to a soil microcosm experiment and assessed changes in soil P pools, microbial biomass and bacterial diversity measures. We report that low C:N ratio (C:N = 12.5:1) artificial root exudates increased the size of the microbial biomass while high C:N ratio (C:N = 50:1) artificial root exudates did not result in a similar increase in microbial biomass. Interestingly, addition of the root exudates did not alter bacterial diversity (measured via univariate diversity indices) but did alter bacterial community structure. Where C, N and P supply was sufficient to support plant growth the increase observed in microbial biomass occurred with a concurrent increase in plant yield

The staggered domain wall fermion method

A different lattice fermion method is introduced. Staggered domain wall fermions are defined in 2n+1 dimensions and describe 2^n flavors of light lattice fermions with exact U(1) x U(1) chiral symmetry in 2n dimensions. As the size of the extra dimension becomes large, 2^n chiral flavors with the same chiral charge are expected to be localized on each boundary and the full SU(2^n) x SU(2^n) flavor chiral symmetry is expected to be recovered. SDWF give a different perspective into the inherent flavor mixing of lattice fermions and by design present an advantage for numerical simulations of lattice QCD thermodynamics. The chiral and topological index properties of the SDWF Dirac operator are investigated. And, there is a surprise ending...Comment: revtex4, 7 figures, minor revisions, 2 references adde

Current Distribution in the Three-Dimensional Random Resistor Network at the Percolation Threshold

We study the multifractal properties of the current distribution of the three-dimensional random resistor network at the percolation threshold. For lattices ranging in size from $8^3$ to $80^3$ we measure the second, fourth and sixth moments of the current distribution, finding {\it e.g.\/} that $t/\nu=2.282(5)$ where $t$ is the conductivity exponent and $\nu$ is the correlation length exponent.Comment: 10 pages, latex, 8 figures in separate uuencoded fil

EC62-219 Nebraska Swine Production Report

This 1962 Nebraska Swine Production Report was developed by the Animal Husbandry Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Authors from the departments of Animal Husbandry, Agricultural Economics Veterinary Science, Agricultural Engineering contributed to this publication. It covers the following areas: breeding, feeding, economics, disease control, mechanization, housing and equipment

Brand origin identification by consumers: A classification perspective

The authors apply a classification perspective to (1) examine the extent to which consumers can identify the correct country of origin (COO) of different brands of consumer durables, (2) investigate the factors facilitating/hindering correct COO identification, and (3) trace the implications of correct/incorrect COO identification on brand evaluation. The results from a U.K. sample indicate that consumers' ability to classify brands correctly according to their origin is limited and also reveal substantial differences in the classification of different brands to their COO. Moreover, the key antecedent of correct COO identification is consumer ethnocentrism, with sociodemographics (e.g., age, gender) also playing a role. Finally, the authors find that though there are differences in brand evaluations depending on whether the correct COO was identified, such differences are not observed for all brands investigated

A deep cut ellipsoid algorithm for convex programming

This paper proposes a deep cut version of the ellipsoid algorithm for solving a general class of continuous convex programming problems. In each step the algorithm does not require more computational effort to construct these deep cuts than its corresponding central cut version. Rules that prevent some of the numerical instabilities and theoretical drawbacks usually associated with the algorithm are also provided. Moreover, for a large class of convex programs a simple proof of its rate of convergence is given and the relation with previously known results is discussed. Finally some computational results of the deep and central cut version of the algorithm applied to a min—max stochastic queue location problem are reported

Register Allocation Via Coloring of Chordal Graphs

Abstract. We present a simple algorithm for register allocation which is competitive with the iterated register coalescing algorithm of George and Appel. We base our algorithm on the observation that 95 % of the methods in the Java 1.5 library have chordal interference graphs when compiled with the JoeQ compiler. A greedy algorithm can optimally color a chordal graph in time linear in the number of edges, and we can eas-ily add powerful heuristics for spilling and coalescing. Our experiments show that the new algorithm produces better results than iterated regis-ter coalescing for settings with few registers and comparable results for settings with many registers.