ARGOS - Modelling the Economic, Environmental, and Social Implications for New Zealand from Different Scenarios Relating to the Demand and Supply of Organic Products

This paper reports on some of the initial findings of the ARGOS (Agricultural Research Group on (Sustainability) programme, a 6 year quasi-experimental research project with the aim to model the economic, environmental, and social differences between organic, environmentally friendly and conventional systems of production. In the first section the paper reviews the development of organic markets, details the production costs and reports some preliminary results from ARGOS. The information is then used to develop potential future scenarios relating to the organic sector, which are assessed using the Lincoln Trade and Environment Model (LTEM), a partial equilibrium trade model that differentiates between organic and conventional production methods. This paper concentrates upon the difference between organic and conventional production, consumption and trade.sustainability, New Zealand, organic markets, ARGOS, Demand and Price Analysis, F18, Q17,

3.46 Ga Apex chert 'microfossils' reinterpreted as mineral artefacts produced during phyllosilicate exfoliation

We acknowledge the facilities, scientific and technical assistance of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility at: Centre for Microscopy Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia; Electron Microscopy Unit, The University of New South Wales. These facilities are funded by the Universities, State and Commonwealth Governments. DW was funded by the European Commission and the Australian Research Council (FT140100321). This is ARC CCFS paper number XXX. We acknowledge Martin van Kranendonk, Owen Green, Cris Stoakes, Nicola McLoughlin, the late John Lindsay and the Geological Survey of Western Australia for fieldwork assistance, Thomas Becker for assistance with Raman microspectroscopy, Anthony Burgess from FEI for the preparation of one of the TEM wafers, and Russell Garwood, Tom Davies, Imran Rahman & Stephan Lautenschlager for training and advice on the SPIERS and AVIZO software suites. We thank Chris Fedo and an anonymous reviewer for comments that improved the manuscript.Peer reviewedPostprin

Marshall University Music Department Presents the Marshall University Jazz 12.0

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Marshall University Department of Music presents a Jazz 12.1

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Enhancing the sensitivity of NMR by Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation

Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation (DNP) is a method used to increase the signal available for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments. DNP is one of many hyperpolarisation methods and one implementation, so called ex-situ DNP, sees the sample polarised with a stable radical doping agent at low temperature and with microwave irradiation in a magnetic field before transfer to a second higher field NMR magnet to acquire a liquid state NMR spectrum. The primary goal of this project has been to gain an understanding of the underlying reasons for unpredictable ex-situ DNP polarisation failures and to develop methods to overcome these limitations. In the course of the work an additional polarisation mechanism arising from hindered methyl rotors was discovered. This thesis describes the preparation of DNP samples and the way in which DNP-NMR experiments are performed have been optimised. The concept of a co-polarisation agent has been introduced and methods employing a Nuclear Overhauser Effect have been implemented. Additionally the identification and characterisation of a quantum tunnelling effect that is a variant of the commonly known Haupt effect. Finally these methods have been combined in a number of situations to give results that would have otherwise been unobtainable

Marshall University Music Department Presents the 12.1 Jazz Ensemble, directed by, Dr. Martin Saunders

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Marshall University Music Department Presents the Jazz 12.1 Program, Dr. Saunders, director

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Marshall University Music Department Presents a Jazz 12.1 Ensemble, directed by, Dr. Martin Saunders

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