Enterprising Rural Families: Making It Work

Enterprising Rural Families (ERFTM) is an international course for the rural family in business. ERFTM teaches a process of finding success, resilience and satisfaction for rural families engaged in enterprises; including agriculture. Instructors from the United States, Canada and Australia have teamed together to offer this course that focuses on the three main components of a family business: individuals, the family unit and the business enterprise. This course also allows families in business to increase their awareness of cultural differences and similarities and improve their understanding of global issues. The course consists of written presentations, online chat sessions, threaded discussions, readings, videos, case studies and individual projects. Using these mechanisms, the online interaction provides rural families with both the tools and skills to resolve immediate family business issues and build a profitable business for the future.Consumer/Household Economics, Farm Management,

Social and Ethical Considerations of Nuclear Power Development

A new urgency is emerging around nuclear power development and this urgency is accentuated by the post-tsunami events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. This urgency extends beyond these dramatic events in Japan, however, to many other regions of the world and situations where nuclear power development is receiving renewed attention as an alternative to carbon-based energy sources. As a contribution to the growing public debate about nuclear power development, this paper offers a set of insights into the social and ethical aspects of nuclear power development by drawing from published literature in the humanities and social sciences. We offer insights into public risk perception of nuclear power at individual and national levels, the siting of nuclear waste repositories, the changing policy context for nuclear power development, social movements, and the challenges of risk management at the institutional level. We also pay special attention to the ethical aspects of nuclear power with attention to principles such as means and ends, use value and intrinsic value, private goods and public goods, harm, and equity considerations. Finally, we provide recommendations for institutional design and performance in nuclear power design and management.nuclear power, risk perception, social context, megaprojects, energy production, applied ethics, social values, social movements, complexity, hazards, disaster response, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Risk and Uncertainty, Q40, Z00,

New York v. Quarles:The Public Safety Exception to Miranda

In New York v. Quarles, the Supreme Court attempted to limit the exclusionary sanction provided under Miranda v. Arizona. Quarles is a significant decision in the criminal procedure area not only because of the exception which it establishes, but because it represents a legitimate effort by the Burger Court to reconcile the realities of effective law enforcement with the often hyper technical rules of criminal justice. Many observers have interpreted the Quarles decision as the long-awaited fruition of the conservatism now presiding over the Burger Court. However, the setting for Quarles can be traced back to the Miranda decision itself

An Analysis of the Programs of Fourteen FSA Farms at Prairie View, Texas

This study is an analysis of the programs of the fourteen farms under the Federal Security Administration which are located at Prairie View, Texas. Its purpose is to determine through such analysis if the programs of these farmers from the time they were begun to the present have proved successful, thereby determining if the farmers to whom the farm ownership loans have been made are good risks. A history of the Federal Security Administration is first given in the introduction; then follow case studies of the fourteen farms based upon information obtained from the inquiry forms that the writer took to each farm and filled out and from interviews with the Senior Administrative Assistant of the Farm Home Administration, the present agency having control of these farms, and upon the observations of the writer upon visiting each of the farms. Each of the case studies gives personal data on the farmer, a description of the farm lay-out, a detailed analysis of each enterprise Included in the farm program, with the income from each enterprise being given, and a summary of the condition of the farm as observed by the writer. The summary gives a statement of the trends of the fourteen farms

Movement Behavior and Habitat Selection of Juvenile Mountain Lions (\u3ci\u3ePuma concolor\u3c/i\u3e) During Three Behavioral States of Dispersal

Juvenile dispersal, the act of moving from their natal range to the place where they eventually reproduce and establish an adult home range is hazardous. Juveniles must travel and find food across unfamiliar landscapes, where they must also cross roads, avoid harvest, and navigate developed landscapes. Despite the inherent dangers of dispersal, this demographic process is important for finding suitable mates and reducing inbreeding depression. Wildlife conservation concerns arise when individuals are unable to disperse due to a loss of connectivity, as this can negatively impact population demographics and genetic diversity. We explored the effects of hunting and human-developed landscapes on the dispersal behavior of juvenile mountain lions (Puma concolor) in two geographically separated populations subject to different management practices—one with hunting in Nevada and one protected from hunting in California. We used GPS-collar data from 12 and 13 individuals in Nevada and California, respectively, and divided juvenile dispersal into three distinct movement states: exploratory, departure, and transient home range. We then compared used and available locations to identify habitat selection and avoidance characteristics. Our study revealed consistencies between the two sites, including selection for habitat features such as forest, shrub, elevation, and terrain ruggedness. Notably, only the population subjected to hunting pressure exhibited avoidance of human-developed habitat types. Results suggest that hunting influences the dispersal behavior of juvenile mountain lions. This thesis highlights the utility of research using comparative populations to further our understanding of dispersal behavior

Designing triple resonance Tesla transformers of arbitrary modal frequency ratio

The purpose of this article is to disclose an automated method to design and investigate multimegavolt triple resonance Tesla transformers. The pulse transformer\u27s frequency equation is presented for the first time. The frequency equation derivation properly models all the inductors, with their self-capacitances, which have yet to be treated in an orthodox manner. The analysis gives new insight into the transformer by showing the relationship between the roots of the frequency equation and the transformer\u27s modal frequencies. The roots are shown to be subject to manipulation, and so the modal frequencies are controllable. The method efficiently extracts solutions (transformer circuits) from the frequency equation constrained to oscillate at an arbitrary and general modal frequency ratio (to include noninteger). A ratio of the present general interest is 1:2:3. This particular ratio forces the maxima of the three coexisting modal oscillations to align, and their amplitudes sum to produce a local maximum, at a specific time. The same alignment phenomenon occurs with the dual resonance transformer with a modal ratio of 1:2. A pulse transformer is designed as a demonstration. The energy in each of the three oscillations is examined at the moment of peak voltage in the demonstration transformer to show the investigative power of the new equations. This generalized tool will prove useful in the campaign to analytically locate global maximums from the triple resonance transformer\u27s governing amplitude equation for output voltage