The Relative Accuracy of One-Day and Three-Day Weights of Range Cows

The weight of an animal is usually the most important measurement in assessing the results of livestock experiments. This is especially true with meat animals such as cattle, sheep, and hogs. The weight is measured by individual weightings is a variables that is influenced by many factors. In most experiments the weight desired is the average body weight under conditions being imposed by the experimental treatment. This weight can be measured only approximately, the error depending upon the precision of the scales, the care and accurac

I Thank You and All The Buildings That Make Me Feel so Small

I use drawing and 3D animation to access memories of intimacy and distinctive spaces of privacy. Prior to this year I primarily worked with drawing and video, but always keeping them separate. However with my most recent project, I Thank You, and All the Buildings that Make me Feel so Small, I decided to combine my practice of drawing and 3D animation. I used adobe photoshop to convert my drawings from physical objects into 3D objects in the digital sphere. The video you first encounter upon walking into my studio 400 Chambers and the video projected onto the ground Ivans Imaginary Aspen featured the practice of rendering drawings and converting them into 3D objects. The process of rendering and converting imagery was important to me as a form of personal documentation. Many of the buildings featured in the 400 Chambers video I’ve experienced first hand, either intimately, or from a distance. I choose to include 400 chambers, the residential building I grew up in because it was important to share the power of memory and a space that represents home as constantly evolving. Additionally the surrounding buildings are a reference to commuting through central park and the affected skyline by billionaires row. A collection of luxury residential buildings. What is the relationship between this sentiment of home and spaces of corporate modernism? How do private and intimate domestic spaces holding bodies create fullness? While also trying to confirm my personal connection to home through nurturing family, by notions of preparing food and communication. For Ivans Imaginary Aspen I looked at site specific material to explore my fathers relationship to home. I explored the relationship of my fathers connection to home by using the plot of land he built in Aspen, in the early 2000s. Including a charcoal drawing of the Aspen home was a way to show how I process Ivan’s ideal of a home. I surrounded my charcoal rendering with a collection of photos taken from a realtor website of the property. My drawing shows the house from only one angle, the front, while the photos were placed sporadically and show the house from a variety of angles. The second portion of the video shows a world with myself walking, arguing, and lying down. Additionally a video of CCTV footage showing the FDR during the middle of the day. In the video Bondi I made the decision to dedicate this piece to my mother, I wanted to engage with a world that was only about the two of us. I went through the process of filming her alone and filming us interacting, this was a form of cathartic documentation for me. Sharing these experiences was a way to reckon with the distance and closeness in our relationship in the past four years. Creating the work helped me review issues of home and family, and helped bring these issues to the physical form

Directory of research projects: Planetary geology and geophysics program

Information about currently funded scientific research within the Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program is provided. The directory consists of the proposal summary sheet from each proposal funded under the program during Fiscal Year 1992. The sheets provide information about the research project, including title, principal investigator, institution, summary of research objectives, past accomplishments, and proposed new investigations

Directory of research projects: Planetary geology and geophysics program

Information about currently funded scientific research within the Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program is provided, including the proposal summary sheet from each proposal funded under the program during fiscal year 1990. Information about the research project, including title, principal investigator, institution, summary of research objectives, past accomplishments, and proposed new investigations is also provided

Reports of planetary geology and geophysics program, 1989

Abstracts of reports from Principal Investigators of NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program are compiled. The research conducted under this program during 1989 is summarized. Each report includes significant accomplishments in the area of the author's funded grant or contract

Sapping Features of the Colorado Plateau: a Comparative Planetary Geology Field Guide

This book is an attempt to determine geomorphic criteria to be used to distinguish between channels formed predominantly by sapping and seepage erosion and those formed principally by surface runoff processes. The geologic nature of the Colorado Plateau has resulted in geomorphic features that show similarities to some areas on Mars, especially certain valley networks within thick sandstone formations. Where spring sapping is an effective process, the valleys that develop are unique in terms of their morphology and network pattern

Reports of planetary geology and geophysics program, 1988

This is a compilation of abstracts of reports from Principal Investigators of NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, Office of Space Science and Applications. The purpose is to document in summary form research work conducted in this program during 1988. Each report reflects significant accomplishments within the area of the author's funded grant or contract

Tools for adaptive governance for complex social-ecological systems: A review of role-playing-games as serious games at the community-policy interface

The management of natural resources—from forests to fisheries to freshwater—is becoming increasingly complex and requires new tools and processes for engaging with individuals, communities, and decision-makers. Policy makers and practitioners have begun using serious games (SGs) (those used for purposes other than entertainment) to overcome some of the complex challenges of governing resources in social-ecological systems. This paper uses a systematic literature review methodology to assess role-playing SGs for natural resource management. Fifty-two articles from the role-playing game (RPG) subset of SGs are identified, synthesised and analysed using a multi-criteria evaluation framework. First, we explore three theoretical and conceptual elements of games: principles of RPGs, functions of games, and (practical) game characteristics. We evaluate game elements, including game design, adherence to reality and the degree to which games integrate elements of participatory—and action research. These dimensions of RPGs are then analysed and discussed. Particular attention is paid to the value and application of RPGs to address complex problems with interacting environmental, social, cultural and economic challenges, and the extent to which they can inform adaptive governance solutions. Results show that RPGs can be a valuable tool at different levels; however, we also identify important gaps in the current state of knowledge, in particular, related to bridging community—and higher-level decision-making scales through RPGs

Climate-driven change in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean can greatly reduce the circulation of the North Sea

We demonstrate for the first time a direct oceanic link between climate‐driven change in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans and the circulation of the northwest European shelf‐seas. Downscaled scenarios show a shutdown of the exchange between the Atlantic and the North Sea, and a substantial decrease in the circulation of the North Sea in the second half of the 21st Century. The northern North Sea inflow decreases from 1.2‐1.3Sv (1Sv=106 m3s‐1) to 0.0‐0.6Sv with Atlantic water largely bypassing the North Sea. This is traced to changes in oceanic haline stratification and gyre structure, and to a newly identified circulation‐salinity feedback. The scenario presented here is of a novel potential future state for the North Sea, with wide‐ranging environmental management and societal impacts. Specifically, the sea would become more estuarine and susceptible to anthropogenic influence with an enhanced risk of coastal eutrophication

Environmental Awareness and Sustainable Development in the Russian Federation:Environmental Awareness in the Russian Federation

Drawing on empirical research from a qualitative study in the Russian Federation, this paper contributes to the limited academic literature on environmental awareness and sustainable development in Russia. Using data from nearly 100 interviews with firms, NGOs and environmental regulators, we explore current barriers to public environmental awareness and the avenues to sustainable development, in the context of a transition country. We conclude by calling for further research that investigates the possibilities for environmental education and sustainability in contemporary Russian society and the institutional barriers thereto. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment