Production costs and net margins for Welsh organic milk, beef and lamb

In 2006, Organic Centre Wales continued to survey organic dairy, beef and sheep enterprises to establish benchmark production costs and net margins. This report compares the OCW results for 2004/5 and 2005/6 with results published by the Welsh Farm Business Survey (FBS, 2006, 2007)

Contextualizing Theories and Practices of Bricolage Research

Within the last decade, bricolage, as an approach to qualitative inquiry, has gained popularity in academic circles. However, while conceptual and concrete precedents exist, the approach has remained relatively misunderstood, and unpopular, in broader research communities. This may be because the complexity of the approach has stymied widespread discussions and commentary. This article means to address this concern by providing a thick, yet accessible, introduction to bricolage as an approach to qualitative inquiry. While researchers and scholars have conceptualized bricolage, few have attempted to provide an overview of how the concept emerged in relation to qualitative research. Further, while the literature on bricolage offers invaluable conceptual insights, lacking is a survey that provides clear examples of how bricolage has been implemented in research contexts. Therefore, while greatest attention in this article is devoted to contextualizing bricolage and introducing influential theorists, it also provides key examples of research that adopts the bricolage approach. In drawing on a plurality of sources, the article provides a thick discussion of the complex bricolage project; one that can be beneficial to both novice and seasoned researchers who pursue alternative methodological approaches

Meeting the Challenges of an Aging Population with Success

With 117,099 people over the age of 65, Franklin County has the second-highest number of seniors among all Ohio counties. Projection data from the Ohio Department of Development indicates that Franklin County's 65-and-over population will grow to 224,340 by the year 2040. Key findings from this report indicate that improved coordination between the complex web of federal, state, county, and municipal resources would have significant impact on seniors' health and quality of life. The report also includes an analysis of the most vulnerable seniors in Franklin County identified at the neighborhood level

On Minimizing the Energy of a Spherical Graph Representation

Graph representations are the generalization of geometric graph drawings from the plane to higher dimensions. A method introduced by Tutte to optimize properties of graph drawings is to minimize their energy. We explore this minimization for spherical graph representations, where the vertices lie on a unit sphere such that the origin is their barycentre. We present a primal and dual semidefinite program which can be used to find such a spherical graph representation minimizing the energy. We denote the optimal value of this program by $\rho(G)$ for a given graph $G$. The value turns out to be related to the second largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $G$, which we denote by $\lambda_2$. We show that for $G$ regular, $\rho(G) \leq \frac{\lambda_{2}}{2} \cdot v(G)$, and that equality holds if and only if the $\lambda_{2}$ eigenspace contains a spherical 1-design. Moreover, if $G$ is a random $d$-regular graph, $\rho(G)=\left(\sqrt{(d-1)} +o(1)\right)\cdot v(G)$, asymptotically almost surely.Comment: Appears in the Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2023

Concert recording 2017-04-14

[Track 1]. Wine and roses / Johnny Mercer arranged by Joe Pass -- [Track 2]. Confirmation / Charlie Parker -- [Track 3]. Exhausted / Malachi Million -- [Track 4]. Inner urge / Joe Henderson -- [Track 5]. Body and soul / Heyman, Sour, Eyton, Green -- [Track 6]. Unseemly / Malachi Million -- [Track 7]. Moment\u27s notice / John Coltrane -- [Track 8]. Inadequate / Malachi Million -- [Track 9]. Always and forever / Pat Metheny arranged by Malachi Million

Concert recording 2017-04-11c

[Track 1]. Misty / Erroll Garner -- [Track 2]. All the things you are / Jerome Kern -- [Track 3]. Giant steps / John Coltrane -- [Track 4]. Big sky [Track 5]. What lies ahead [Track 6]. Only this once [Track 7]. Think kindly of me / Drew Rogers

Using bacterial biomarkers to identify early indicators of cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbation onset

Acute periods of pulmonary exacerbation are the single most important cause of morbidity in cystic fibrosis patients, and may be associated with a loss of lung function. Intervening prior to the onset of a substantially increased inflammatory response may limit the associated damage to the airways. While a number of biomarker assays based on inflammatory markers have been developed, providing useful and important measures of disease during these periods, such factors are typically only elevated once the process of exacerbation has been initiated. Identifying biomarkers that can predict the onset of pulmonary exacerbation at an early stage would provide an opportunity to intervene before the establishment of a substantial immune response, with major implications for the advancement of cystic fibrosis care. The precise triggers of pulmonary exacerbation remain to be determined; however, the majority of models relate to the activity of microbes present in the patient's lower airways of cystic fibrosis. Advances in diagnostic microbiology now allow for the examination of these complex systems at a level likely to identify factors on which biomarker assays can be based. In this article, we discuss key considerations in the design and testing of assays that could predict pulmonary exacerbations

Interventions for increasing colorectal cancer screening uptake among African-American men: a systematic review and meta-analysis

This is a protocol of a systematic review

Syllabus: Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education

This is a syllabus for a mixed MA/PhD level course, Equity, Elitism, and Public Higher Education, taught in Spring 2021 at the Graduate Center by Matt Brim and Katina Rogers. Higher education can be a powerful engine of equity and social mobility. Yet many of the structures of colleges and universities—including admissions offices, faculty hiring committees, disciplinary formations, institutional rankings, and even classroom pedagogies and practices of collegiality—rely on tacit values of meritocracy and an economy of prestige. For public universities like CUNY this tension can be especially problematic, as structurally-embedded inequities undermine the institution’s democratizing mission and values. It is no surprise that normative institutional structures correspond with normative formulations of sexuality, class, race, and gender such that sociocultural biases are built into the academy. This correspondence governs what counts as valuable intellectual work, and in doing so, it also overdetermines where and how and to whom resources accrue in the university. In other words, many academic structures actually undermine the values that we associate with possibilities for the most challenging and productive and diverse academic life. In this course, we examine the purposes and principles of universities, especially public universities; consider whether various structures advance or undermine those goals; and imagine new possibilities for educational systems that weave equity into the fabric of all they do