SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL WATER ALLOCATION IN THE KISSIMMEE RIVER BASIN

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

One year of monitoring the Vela pulsar using a Phased Array Feed

We have observed the Vela pulsar for one year using a Phased Array Feed (PAF) receiver on the 12-metre antenna of the Parkes Test-Bed Facility. These observations have allowed us to investigate the stability of the PAF beam-weights over time, to demonstrate that pulsars can be timed over long periods using PAF technology and to detect and study the most recent glitch event that occurred on 12 December 2016. The beam-weights are shown to be stable to 1% on time scales on the order of three weeks. We discuss the implications of this for monitoring pulsars using PAFs on single dish telescopes.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in PAS

GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS TO FARMERS AND REAL AGRICULTURAL ASSET VALUES IN THE 1980S

This study determines the effect of government payments on real agricultural asset values using Bayesian vector autoregression. In developing the empirical model, special attention is focused on the informational content of government payments. The results indicate that government payments to farmers have little effect on real asset values in the long run. In the short run, an increase in government payments to farmers may be associated with decline in asset values.Agricultural Finance,

Ethnicity and rural self-help initiative: a proposal for field research

I propose to investigate the association between ethnic identity and rural self-help activity, especially that related to educational innovations, in a rural settlement area in Kenya. The rapidly expanding commitment to formal education among rural populations in Kenya is evidenced by the considerable amount of self-help activity devoted to the provision of educational facilities. Self-help as a developmental strategy in this country has been of increasing importance over the last decade, and while the role of ethnicity in shaping the course, content, and extent of the self-help movement has clearly been substantial, it has not been fully comprehended. My work will address the question of ethnic identity as a determinate in self-help activity, and I will be specifically interested in examining a hypothesis concerning the creation and utilization of identity in the organisation of such activity. The research will draw upon, and test the utility of, certain anthropological approaches to the study of socio-cultural change and ethnic group phenomena. The results should be of significance to future studies and programs in economic and educational development in all contexts where ethnic plurality is a relevant factor. Investigation will proceed on the basis of the established anthropological techniques of participant observation and structured and unstructured interviewing. Data will be analyzed with the aid of the SPSS system of computer programs

Factors affecting farmland values in the United States

Farmland value has more than quadrupled since 1940. Before the early 1950\u27s, however, changes in farmland value had been closely related to changes in farm product prices and net farm income. But since that time, farmland value has increased substantially without a corresponding rise in net farm income. This widening spread between farmland values and net farm income created the interest for this study. Our major objective was to identify the principal factors affecting farmland value and to estimate the effect of these variables. To accomplish this objective, we developed hypotheses to explain the changes in farmland value that included the effect of expected net farm income, government farm—program payments, expected capital gains, technological advance, farm enlargement, the number of voluntary transfers of farmland and an in creasing demand for land from a growing population

1861-08-31 Adjutant John E. Reynolds expresses frustration to Adjutant General John Hodsdon regarding incomplete descriptive rolls

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1861-09-30 Adjutant John E. Reynolds submits a report to Adjutant General John L. Hodsdon

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1861-08-18 Adjutant John Reynolds sends descriptive list and requests bounty payments for men

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Distribution of Quercus muhlenbergii in Indiana

In a complex forest association such as found in Indiana one is confronted with interesting distribution patterns of some species. These same species may to some degree all associate in the mixed mesophytic forest association. All of them are adapted to the macroclimate but can be segregated from the climax association complex into smaller individual groups by variations of the microclimate. This is determined by physiographic conditions which may modify aerial and edaphic factors. Potzger has discussed this phenomenon as operative in distribution of sugar maple, beech and white oak. Potsger and Friesner referred to it in Quercus rubra and Q. velutina. All of these segregations are, of course, due to modifications of the macroclimate in more or less limited areas. It is quite obvious that identical soil and physiographic factors in Indiana and northern Michigan, let us say, could not involve segregation of the same genera and species with small variations in the edaphic and aerial factors because of the major selection of species by the macroclimate, or generalized climate, which is greatly different in the two locations