Assessing the Impact of the Conservation Reserve Program on Honey Bee Health

Insect pollinators are critically important for maintaining U.S. food production and ecosystem health. The upper Midwest is home to more than 40 percent of all U.S. honey bee colonies and is considered by many beekeepers to be America’s last beekeeping refuge. Beekeepers come to this region because their honey bees require high-quality grassland and bee-friendly agricultural crops to make honey and to improve bee health. Agricultural grassland, such as those enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), support flowers that provide bees with the pollen and nectar they need. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) formed a partnership to assess the impact of the CRP on honey bee health and determine how the costeffectiveness of the CRP could be improved to promote pollinator habitat. This USGS assessment has generated important findings that could improve USDA’s program delivery and demonstrates the importance of the CRP to honey bees, beekeepers, agricultural producers, and the public (Otto and others, 2017, 2018)

Frontline(s)

The challenge of theorising and analysing socio-political phenomena can feel overwhelming given today’s somewhat threatening realpolitik (9/11, US-led wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and now, perhaps, Syria) and the rapid pace with which (dis)information is received, digested and discarded. Through an act of ‘literary montage’ construction, and prefaced by some interpretation of my own, I offer this ‘exhibit’ as an attempt to highlight this sense of dislocation whilst simultaneously ‘building a picture’. A specific concern is to problematise the notion of ‘the frontline’. Given blatant military and economic imperialism by the US, underscored by the construction and fetishising of the rational subject under modernity and the social democratic state, I suggest that frontlines are located in any public or private space where the legitimacy of these interests and categories is questioned. Expressions of difference, including peace activism, thus become ‘proliferating illegitimacies’ and are policed as such. Against this context, the texts positioned here tell of growing realisation and fear of the coldness and instrumentalism at the heart of empire-building, of which both the horrific violence currently inflicted on Iraqi people, and the discounting and suppression of dissent to war worldwide, are part. For a global anti-capitalist/pro-justice movement that recognises trade in arms as a core constraint on human potential, reaching beyond this fear - retaining the hope of the ‘politics of possibility’ with which this ‘movement of movements’ has come to be identified – emerges as a latent and essential challenge

Cruise Report 62S5,62S6, 62M1, 62M2 - Abalone

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Wittgenstein´s Critique of Gödel´s Incompleteness Results

It is often said that Gödel´s famous theorem of 1931 is\ud equal to the Cretian Liar, who says that everything that he\ud says is a lie. But Gödel´s result is only similar to this\ud sophism and not equivalent to it. When mathematicians\ud deal with Gödel´s theorem, then it is often the case that\ud they become poetical or even emotional: some of them\ud show a high esteem of it and others despise it. Wittgenstein\ud sees the famous Liar as a useless language game\ud which doesn´t excite anybody. Gödel´s first incompleteness\ud theorem shows us that in mathematics there are\ud puzzles which have no solution at all and therefore in\ud mathematics one should be very careful when one\ud chooses a puzzle on which one wants to work. Gödel´s\ud second imcompleteness theorem deals with hidden\ud contradictions – Wittgenstein shows a paradigmatic\ud solution: he simply shrugs his shoulders on this problem\ud and many mathematicians do so today as well. Wittgenstein\ud says than Gödel´s results should not be treated as\ud mathematical theorems, but as elements of the humanistic\ud sciences. Wittgenstein sees them as something which\ud should be worked on in a creative manner

On the Difference S(Z(n)) - Z(S(n)

In this paper, we prove that there exist infmitely many positive integers n satisfying S(Z(n))> Z(S(n)) or S(Z(n)) < Z(S(n))

Cruise Report 69-S-2: Prawns

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Cruise 5 of the N. B. Scofield for 1952. Cruise Report 52-S-5

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Cruise 3 of the N. B. Scofield for 1953. Cruise Report 53-S-3

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Cruise 8 of the N. B. Scofield for 1951. Cruise Report 51-S-8

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