Closing Keynote: Let’s Not Stop Now, Where We Go From Now

Goals and challenges of the Rural Grocery Initiative are discussed, followed by responses to grocer challenges, including generating community support, meeting minimum buying requirements, identifying and assisting with sustainable models of grocery operation, and building information networks for rural grocers and stakeholders

Closing Keynote: Kansas State University’s “Rural Grocery Initiative”

Why focus on rural food retail? Rural grocery stores provide economic development, food access, and are important community hubs. Kansas State University’s Rural Grocery Initiative’s goals are to identify challenges facing rural grocery stores, develop responses to those challenges, identify and detail sustainable business models of grocer operation, and build virtual and face-to-face information networks for rural grocers

Closing Session: Moving Forward with Funding

In the closing session, the presenter discusses the challenges that rural grocery stores face and ways to improve information, as well as ways that the Rural Grocery Institute helps

Interpretation of a basic hypergeometric identity with Lie characters and Young tableaux

A combinatorial interpretation involving semistandard tableaux is provided for a four parameter terminating sum identity for the basic hypergeometric series 6φ5. This identity is first produced by taking the principal specialization of a tensor product identity for two GL(n) characters

Interpretation of a basic hypergeometric identity with Lie characters and Young tableaux

A combinatorial interpretation involving semistandard tableaux is provided for a four parameter terminating sum identity for the basic hypergeometric series 6φ5. This identity is first produced by taking the principal specialization of a tensor product identity for two GL(n) characters

Recent Advances in the Chemistry of SmI2–H2O

Recent work from our laboratories has shown SmI2–H2O to be a versatile, readily-accessible and non-toxic reductant that is more powerful than SmI2. This review describes the reduction of functional groups that were previously thought to lie beyond the reach of SmI2 and complexity-generating cyclisations and cyclisation cascades triggered by the reduction of the ester carbonyl group with SmI2–H2O

Issues for the sharing and re-use of scientific workflows

In this paper, we outline preliminary findings from an ongoing study we have been conducting over the past 18 months of researchers’ use of myExperiment, a Web 2.0-based repository with a focus on social networking around shared research artefacts such as workflows. We present evidence of myExperiment users’ workflow sharing and re-use practices, motivations, concerns and potential barriers. The paper concludes with. a discussion of the implications of these our findings for community formation, diffusion of innovations, emerging drivers and incentives for research practice, and IT systems design

Panel: Restoring Grocery Access: The Vinton, Ohio

The village of McArthur sits in rural Vinton County in Southeast Ohio, with approximately 1,300 residents. In 2013, McArthur’s grocery store, the only grocery store in the county, was sold to Dollar General, which does not sell fresh food. As a result, residents had to travel more than 30 minutes from McArthur to another county to get fresh produce and groceries. McArthur also has a large population of seniors and others for whom access to transportation and to grocery stores is particularly limited. Launched in March of 2016, the Healthy Food for Ohio (HFFO) program, a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), was able to attract and support a local grocer, Campbell’s Market, restoring the county with fresh food. The Campbell’s family has been in the grocery industry for more than 85 years and opened a 12,000 square foot store, adjacent to the local high school, in the winter of 2017. Campbell’s has hired over 30 employees from the local community and accepts SNAP and WIC food assistance benefits