The Global Movement and Tracking of Chemical Manufacturing Equipment: A Workshop Summary

This publication results from research supported by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC) via Assistance Grant/Agreement No. N00244-13-1-0028 awarded by the NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (NAVSUP FLC San Diego).Supported by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC) via Assistance Grant/Agreement No. N00244-13-1-0028 awarded by the NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (NAVSUP FLC San Diego)This publication results from research supported by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC) via Assistance Grant/Agreement No. N00244-13-1-0028 awarded by the NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (NAVSUP FLC San Diego).This publication results from research supported by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC) via Assistance Grant/Agreement No. N00244-13-1-0028 awarded by the NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (NAVSUP FLC San Diego)

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles Among Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Riverside County

The project reported here sought to increase healthy eating and physical fitness among grandchildren and grandparents using a two-pronged approach: 1) increased fruit and vegetable consumption and 2) increased physical activity. Families consisting of grandparents and grandchildren met at a community center for eight Saturdays to participate in educational activities to increase their knowledge of the benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption and increased physical activity. Among the families completing the program, desirable changes were observed in both fruit and vegetable consumption and increased physical activity. However, a larger study involving more participants is needed to confirm these results

Relation of certain ear and kernel characters of Reid Yellow Dent corn to yield

Considerable attention has been given to to the possible relationships which may exist between various visible characters in the seed ear and the relative ability of such seed to produce satisfactory yields when planted. The extent to which it is possible to influence the yield of corn by selecting seed with certain ear and kernel characters is a question of practical interest to all corn growers. The practical corn growers of the past, as well as those o f the present, in saving ears for seed, have probably had in mind characters believed to be associated with or contributing to type, maturity, or increased yield

Iowa farmers test new oat varieties

In this bulletin are reported the results secured by Iowa farmers in comparing some of the pure-line pedigreed varieties of oats, which have been developed at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, with the commercial varieties grown in various sections of the state. The farmers carrying on this cooperative experimental work to find the best oat varieties for the different soils and sections of Iowa are well distributed over the state. Comparison of oat varieties at the Iowa station began about the time that field investigations were first established and the new, pure-line, pedigreed varieties which the farmers have been testing are the result of many years of variety comparison and selection. Old varieties were dropped from the tests as their lack of merit became established and new ones were substituted. The results of the first tests were reported in 1889. Later reports were made in 1881, 1908, 1912, and 19181

An Analysis of the Quasicontinuum Method

The aim of this paper is to present a streamlined and fully three-dimensional version of the quasicontinuum (QC) theory of Tadmor et al. and to analyze its accuracy and convergence characteristics. Specifically, we assess the effect of the summation rules on accuracy; we determine the rate of convergence of the method in the presence of strong singularities, such as point loads; and we assess the effect of the refinement tolerance, which controls the rate at which new nodes are inserted in the model, on the development of dislocation microstructures.Comment: 30 pages, 16 figures. To appear in Jornal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solid

Irrigated Agriculture in Texas.

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High yielding strains and varieties of corn for Iowa

This publication is a report of the Iowa Corn Yield Test, the primary object of which is to locate the strains and varieties which will produce the largest yields of dry shelled corn in the different sections and districts of the state. The Farm Crops Section of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station has cooperated with the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association from the time the work was first undertaken in 1920. Since 1922 this cooperation has been shared by the Office of Cereal Crops and Diseases of the United States Department of Agriculture which at that time assigned a scientific assistant to the work. Thru the agricultural press and the annual reports of the association, yearly results of the yield comparisons have been given the public. But inasmuch as the average of accumulated tests is of especial significance in. a comparative study of varieties and strains, it is deemed advisable herewith to report certain results not previously available