Report of Investigations No. 131 Origin and Diagenesis of Cap Rock, Gyp Hill and Oakwood Salt Domes, Texas

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A Study of the Manufacture of Cultured Butter and Retail Store Sales in Brookings, South Dakota

Butter consumption in the united stated had dropped to 8.4 pounds per capita in 1953 from approximately 17 pounds prior to World War II. There has been only a very slight increase during the last five years. Dairy industry leaders and research workers have south to find the reason for this situation and possible remedies for it. A recent consumer preference study conducted by Rollag and Krist Janson (21) in Brookings and Sioux Falls, South Dakota indicated a fairly strong preference for high quality butter with a considerable amount of flavor obtained by adding butter culture to the butter. The present study is an attempt to determine consumer demand for high quality butter with culture flavor as measured by purchases from grocery stores in Brookings. It was a part of a cooperative research project between the Dairy Husbandry and Economics Departments of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station

University Extension Work in Forestry

The wag who said he had no use for forestry because Posterity has never done anything for me\u27\u27 was fairly well informed and very honest. The man who waxed warm on the wastefulness of the lumberman and the timeliness of forestry and then pastured his woods and kept them full of dead and down timber was also well informed but not so honest. The County Fair visitor who asked the man in the forestry booth whether he was an organizer for the Ancient Order of Foresters or a Tree Surgery expert was honest enough but in sore need of information. These men represent very well the attitude of the average citizen who has any idea of forestry at all. They also stand as an eloquent indication of the great opportunity in educational work for the general public along forestry lines

Race-Based Reverse Employment Discrimination Claims: A Combination of Factors to the Prima Facie Case for Caucasian Plaintiffs

This Note discusses the practical impact resulting from the different modifications of the first prong of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework in reverse discrimination cases. Part I of this Note will provide background information on traditional Title VII racial discrimination claims, when a minority plaintiff alleges racial discrimination in her workplace. Then, it will introduce the three step burden-shifting framework set forth in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, which is the foundation for reverse racial discrimination cases. This Note focuses on the first of the four prongs of the prima facie analysis used by federal courts. Part II will introduce each of the three modified approaches for reverse race discrimination analysis. This Part will also analyze, in detail, the divergent elements that circuit courts consider for satisfying the first prong of the prima facie case. Part II will continue by focusing on the arguments set forth by legal scholars, including the advantages and critiques associated with each approach. The essential link between these approaches’ advantages and disadvantages and their rationale rests on Caucasian plaintiffs’ burdens. Part III will propose a combination of factors test. This approach to the McDonnell Douglas framework recommends that the first prong of the prima facie case draw from essential factors that are viable to the current three approaches. The combination of factors test allows a Caucasian plaintiff to make a prima facie case for reverse discrimination by alleging relevant background circumstances as well as indirect evidence. This Note concludes by reiterating the importance for federal courts to unify its approaches when dealing with the first prong of the McDonnell Douglas reverse discrimination prima facie case

Hardware Algorithm Implementation for Mission Specific Processing

There is a need to expedite the process of designing military hardware to stay ahead of the adversary. The core of this project was to build reusable, synthesizeable libraries to make this a possibility. In order to build these libraries, Matlab® commands and functions, such as Conv2, Round, Floor, Pinv, etc., had to be converted into reusable VHDL modules. These modules make up reusable libraries for the Mission Specific Process (MSP) which will support AFRL/RY. The MSP allows the VLSI design process to be completed in a mere matter of days or months using an FPGA or ASIC design, as opposed to the current way of developing a system which can take 1-2 years to complete. By having the libraries built, the components can be implemented in an FPGA or ASIC design over and over again. The libraries make it possible to make upgrades to weapons systems to meet the ever-changing needs the War Fighter faces. MSP makes it possible to develop various algorithms, including algorithms implemented in Matlab®. The MSP libraries were built and tested using TSMC 250-nmrtechnology library from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. They were also synthesized for an FPGA. The modules were all synthesized using the CAD tools from Cadence® and Mentor Graphics®. Power, area, and delay results for each module were presented

The Forests of the Southeast Come Back

The big chance for successful practice of forestry in southeastern United States, has come in for a lot of publicity in the past three or four years and it is a poor forester who hasn’t read and talked of this land of “sudden sawlogs” and of various tricks to ease the chafing of interest and taxes

Extension Work for Foresters

Whether wanderlust may be inherited is an open question and interesting for speculation. Anyway, one itinerant minister’s family produced a forester who had four jobs during his first six years out of school. Three of these were on as many California National Forests and one in an Eastern university

Doubly stochastic continuous-time hidden Markov approach for analyzing genome tiling arrays

Microarrays have been developed that tile the entire nonrepetitive genomes of many different organisms, allowing for the unbiased mapping of active transcription regions or protein binding sites across the entire genome. These tiling array experiments produce massive correlated data sets that have many experimental artifacts, presenting many challenges to researchers that require innovative analysis methods and efficient computational algorithms. This paper presents a doubly stochastic latent variable analysis method for transcript discovery and protein binding region localization using tiling array data. This model is unique in that it considers actual genomic distance between probes. Additionally, the model is designed to be robust to cross-hybridized and nonresponsive probes, which can often lead to false-positive results in microarray experiments. We apply our model to a transcript finding data set to illustrate the consistency of our method. Additionally, we apply our method to a spike-in experiment that can be used as a benchmark data set for researchers interested in developing and comparing future tiling array methods. The results indicate that our method is very powerful, accurate and can be used on a single sample and without control experiments, thus defraying some of the overhead cost of conducting experiments on tiling arrays.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOAS248 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org