Can a State Funded Rural Economic Development Program Positively Impact the State’s Economy? A Case Study Application using Texas Department of Agriculture’s Rural Tourism Economic Development Program

In this paper, we review the tourism impact from supported tourism events and measure their economic value to the local economy. The economic values are the result of visitor spending and extrapolated to total event attendance creates economic values from the state-supported event. Communities receiving funding were responsible for collecting visitor surveys to measure consumer spending as well as the community completing a survey to record the investment cost of the event. The results were that state support represented 14 percent of the total event investment and total event value from visitor spending was $7.8 million for 31 events. The state percent share in value represents$1.1 million and considering the program-expended funds of $147,276 there is a$7.50 return for every $1 of state funding. Economic impacts from the funds add additional value and measure total economic value to Texas. We conclude that state supported programs focusing in the area of partial marketing support can create positive return on investment value of state funding.tourism, economic development, Texas tourism, state sponsored tourism, Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Marketing,

Internal Gravity Waves Modulate the Apparent Misalignment of Exoplanets around Hot Stars

We propose that the observed misalignment between extra-solar planets and their hot host stars can be explained by angular momentum transport within the host star. Observations have shown that this misalignment is preferentially around hot stars, which have convective cores and extended radiative envelopes. This situation is amenable to substantial angular momentum transport by internal gravity waves (IGW) generated at the convective-radiative interface. Here we present numerical simulations of this process and show that IGW can modulate the surface rotation of the star. With these two- dimensional simulations we show that IGW could explain the retrograde orbits observed in systems such as HAT-P-6 and HAT-P-7, however, extension to high obliquity objects will await future three- dimensional simulations. We note that these results also imply that individual massive stars should show temporal variations in their v sini measurements.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Sintomas e tratamento da tripanossomiase (T.vivax) em búfalos.

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Rotação de pastagem no controle de helmintos gastrintestinais em búfalos.

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Efeitos tóxicos de Lantana camara e de Pithomyces chartarum em búfalos.

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Manual de práticas sanitárias para bubalinos jovens.

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Hérnia inguinal em búfalo (Bubalus bubalis) relato de um caso.

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Aspectos sobre desnutrição mineral em búfalos e método de tratamento.

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Eimerideos parasitos de búfalos no Estado do Pará.

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