Greater Boston Geomorphology

Guidebook to field trips in the Boston area and vicinity : 56th annual meeting October 2-4, 1964 held at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: Trip

A Consumer Test of Citrus Drinks made from Comminuted Whole Citrus Fruit

Consumer, Citrus, Whole Citrus Fruit, Citrus Fruit, Consumer Test, Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Modern and Holocene formanifera in the Chesapeake Bay region

Estuaries are highly variable coastal ecosystems. Some of the variation is seasonal and some is longitudinal along the environmental gradient from the river to the sea. Foraminifera are tuned to the periodicity, and a progressive change in the composition and structure of foraminiferal faunas parallels the longitudinal ecocline, identified by the gradient in salinity. In marshes and tributary estuaries where water is fresh, thecamoebinids comprise the microfauna. Three other marsh faunas are composed chiefly of the agglutinate species: Ammoastuta salsa, Miliammina fusca, Arenoparrella mexicana, Alllmobaculites crassus and species of Haplophragmoides and Trochammina. Their distribution is influenced by salinity and exposure. In the estuaries, where fresh and salt water mix:, two faunas are characterized by: Anmlobaculites crassus, in the middle and upper reaches where salinity is less than about 15 % and the estuary is periodically freshened by river flushing, and by Elphidim clavatum in lower reaches and deeper channels where salinity is higher and mixing is moderate. Elphidium, furthermore, dominates the faunas in the lower part of Chesapeake Bay and, on the inner part of the shelf. At a depth of about 25 m the Elphidium fauna is succeeded by a larger and more diverse fauna that may be partly relict. The marsh and estuarine faunas shift headward and mouthward with changing river inflow and salinity, and their changes are recorded in cores of estuarine and marsh deposits. Short-term events and paleoclimatic episodes with durations of several hundred years are superimposed on a long-term trend of decreasing salinity during the past 6,000 years as sedimentary infilling exceeded the rise in sea level.https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsbooks/1187/thumbnail.jp

Estuarine foraminifera from the Rappahannock River, Virginia

Populations of benthonlc foraminifera were studied from 263 samples obtained in 5 collections from the estuary, its tributaries and borderlng marshe

APPLICATION OF A BIO-ECONOMIC-ENGINEERING MODEL FOR SHRIMP MARICULTURE SYSTEMS

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Does birth weight predict childhood obesity?

A birth weight greater than 4,000 g is associated with an increased risk of obesity in both childhood and adolescence (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, systematic review and multiple cohort studies)

A Consumer Test of Canned Seasoned Salad Tomatoes

Consumer, Canned Tomatoes, Salad Tomatoes, Seasoned Tomatoes, Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Effects of various fat sources on growth performance of finishing pigs

One hundred and twenty-eight finishing pigs averaging 124 lb were utilized to evaluate the effects of different fat sources on growth performance. Pigs were fed one of four diets containing either no added fat (control) or 4% added fat from soybean oil, coconut oil, or choice white grease. The control diet was formulated to contain 14.5 % crude protein and .66 % lysine. All fat-added diets were formulated with the same calorie:lysine ratio as the control diet. There were no differences in average daily gain between pigs fed either the control diet or diets containing added fat. Daily feed intake was reduced for pigs fed added fat from 4 to 7% compared to pigs fed no added fat, with pigs fed choice white grease having the lowest feed intake. This resulted in pigs fed choice white grease having 11% better feed efficiency compared to pigs fed no added fat. Pigs fed soybean oil exhibited a 4% improvement in feed efficiency, and those fed coconut oil were intermediate, with an 8% improvement in feed efficiency. These results indicate that 4% added fat reduces feed intake and improves feed efficiency of finishing pigs. In addition, it appears that choice white grease may be a superior fat source in finishing pig diets.; Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 16, 198

Automated Data for DevSecOps Programs

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Automated Data for DevSecOps Programs

Excerpt from the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Acquisition Research SymposiumAutomation in DevSecOps (DSO) transforms the practice of building, deploying, and managing software intensive programs. Although this automation supports continuous delivery and rapid builds, the persistent manual collection of information delays (by weeks) the release of program status metrics and the decisions they are intended to inform. Emerging DSO metrics (e.g., deployment rates, lead times) provide insight into how software development is progressing but fall short of replacing program control metrics for assessing progress (e.g., burn rates against spend targets, integration capability tar-get dates, and schedule for the minimum viable capability release). By instrumenting the (potentially in-teracting) DSO pipelines and supporting environments, the continuous measurement of status, identifica-tion of emerging risks, and probabilistic projections are possible and practical. In this paper, we discuss our research on the information modeling, measurement, metrics, and indicators necessary to establish a continuous program control capability that can keep pace with DSO management needs. We discuss the importance of interactive visualization dashboards for addressing program information needs. We also identify and address the gaps and barriers in the current state of the practice. Finally, we recommend future research needs based on our initial findings.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited