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The Veterans Administration had given me an unusually fast job. It had only taken them eleven day s short of a year to get around to giving me the dental examination I had requested. I seated myself in a chair in the dentist\u27s reception room and picked up a magazine

Impact of fallow management regimes on nutgrass (Cyperus rotundus L.) tubers in irrigable broadacre crops in central Queensland

The effect of sequential applications of various herbicides applied during a long fallow period on nutgrass tubers has been recorded and compared with untreated unweeded controls as well as cultivated controls. Over 32 months, tuber mortality ranged between 15 and 95% for the different treatments. Brief implications to cropping systems management are drawn

Tom Hungerford: A Story of the Early Days of the Otago Goldfields

Originally published in 1872.Tom Hungerford was inspired by the Otago gold rush of 1861, but is practically unknown as it was published only as a serial in the Tuapeka Times. The author, William Baldwin, a larger-than-life figure who was a runholder, goldfields warden, politician and entrepreneur, wrote the novel as a record of his own adventures. His hero, Tom Hungerford, is the model of the great Victorian hero, staunch, loving and determined to right the wrongs done to his family

Prospectus, October 18, 1978

PARKLAND\u27S BOOKSTORE-- IS IT RIPPING YOU OFF?; letters to the editor One student does not want gay bars to turn into \u27freak shows\u27; Give blood today; College Cuisine; Dec. 31 is EC fellowship application deadline; Advertising Policy; Instructors attend meeting next week; Electronics \u27bugs\u27 invited to Parkland; Gammon elected charter member; Riding club has contest; Raffle winners have last day to claim prizes; Language clubs will have dinner; Nov. 5 poetry review deadline; PC defines typical student; Taiwan students to give performance at U of I; SNAP to host guest speakers; Parkland is getting ready for hard winter; PC math contest to be Saturday, April 28; Mimes visit campus; Legal clinic is Oct. 19; Farm emergency workshop to be held on Nov. 4; Women\u27s creativity honored; Parkland\u27s nursing program is Gogol\u27s first full-time job; High cost of books is common problem; DeShong attacking PC apathy; PC health service sponsors lectures; WPCD\u27s Top 15 For The Week Of Oct. 9; Final Christmas bazaar meeting; \u27I Quit Smoking\u27 draws fifteen; PC events for the week; Battered women series part 2: Battered women face struggles; Craft media in art exhibit; Free Classifieds; Informants can profit; Family Service conducts workshop; Golf team places 20th; PC still looking for wrestlers; Paxton still undefeated; \u27Spikers\u27 ready for tourney; Intramural basketball team organizing now; B-ball meeting for girls to be tuesday; Fast Freddy Contest; Fast Freddy has a winner with three wrong answershttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1978/1007/thumbnail.jp

Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity conservation

During the last three decades, the arena of biodiversity conservation has largely aligned itself with the globally dominant political ideology of neoliberalism and associated governmentalities. Schemes such as payments for ecological services are promoted to reach the multiple ‘wins’ so desired: improved biodiversity conservation, economic development, (international) cooperation and poverty alleviation, amongst others. While critical scholarship with respect to understanding the linkages between neoliberalism, capitalism and the environment has a long tradition, a synthesized critique of neoliberal conservation - the ideology (and related practices) that the salvation of nature requires capitalist expansion - remains lacking. This paper aims to provide such a critique. We commence with the assertion that there has been a conflation between ‘economics’ and neoliberal ideology in conservation thinking and implementation. As a result, we argue, it becomes easier to distinguish the main problems that neoliberal win-win models pose for biodiversity conservation. These are framed around three points: the stimulation of contradictions; appropriation and misrepresentation and the disciplining of dissent. Inspired by Bruno Latour’s recent ‘compositionist manifesto’, the conclusion outlines some ideas for moving beyond critique

Gait analysis in a murine model of collagen-induced arthritis

Murine collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) has become a valuable animal model for elucidating pathogenic mechanisms and evaluating therapeutic effects for rheumatoid arthritis. Recent advances in digital imaging and computer technology have enabled gait analysis to develop into a powerful tool for objectively detecting functional deficits in human and animal models. The present study explored the use of non-invasive video-capture gait analysis in the evaluation of a murine CIA model. CIA was induced in 45 female DBA/1LacJ mice (8 to 10 weeks old) by immunization with lyophilized bovine articular type II collagen. Gait parameters were determined by ventral plane videography and were correlated to traditional arthritis clinical scores. Our results showed that increases in clinical scores that measure the severity of CIA corresponded to changes in multiple gait parameters that reflect both morphologic (increases in paw area) and functional (increase in stride frequency, decrease in stride length, hind-limb paw placement angle, as well as stride, stance, and braking times) deficits. Our work indicated that the non-invasive video-capture device may be used as a simple and objective data acquisition system for quantifying gait disturbances in CIA mice for the investigation of mechanisms and the evaluation of therapeutic agents

The Lantern Vol. 38, No. 1, Winter 1971

• Thoughts for Today • Love\u27s Trilogy • He\u27s My Mountain Now • Activity • Crazy River • Seeyousoon • Wild Stallion • A Search • Nest • Depression • Bait • The Gentle Carpenter • An Ode to Ralph • Rain • Memories • Paranoiac Dreaming • The Two Last People on Earth • Brokedown Blues • Francis Baconhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1099/thumbnail.jp

Advanced Gearless Drivetrain - Phase I Technical Report

Boulder Wind Power (ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂBWPÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ) collaborated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, to demonstrate the economics of scaling an advanced gearless drivetrain technology to 6MW (and larger) turbine applications. The project goal was to show that this advanced drivetrain technology enables a cost of energy of less than $0.10/kWH in offshore applications. This drivetrain technology achieves this Cost of Energy (ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂCOEÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ) advantage via a 70% greater torque density versus current state-of-the-art drivetrain technologies. In addition, a new dynamically compliant design strategy is required to optimize turbine system-level COE. The BWP generator is uniquely suited for this new design strategy. This project developed a concept design for a 6MW drivetrain and culminated in a plan for a system-level test of this technology at 3MW scale. The project further demonstrated the advantage of the BWP drivetrain with increasing power ratings, with conceptual designs through 10 MW

Vermont Travel Model, 2013-2014

This report was prepared under the \u201cImprovement and Operation of the Vermont Travel Model\u201d contract with the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) for the 2013-2014 year (Year 6) of the contract. The primary objective of the project is to continue maintaining the Vermont Travel Model, ensuring that it remains a comprehensive, effective predictor of travel behavior of Vermonters. The purpose of this report is to document the activities which were completed in the 2013-2014 (Year 6) year of the contract. Other support activities undertaken in Year 6 of the contract using the Model to support VTrans efforts are documented separately. The Vermont Travel Model is a series of spatial computer models which uses the land use and activity patterns within Vermont to estimate the travel behavior of Vermonters. Origin and destination tables are created which describe the number of expected trips between zones. Accommodations are made for commercial-truck trips and the occupancy characteristics of passenger vehicles. The final outputs are traffic volumes by roadway link in the state-wide roadway network. The Model currently includes 939 traffic analysis zones (TAZs) and 5,327 miles of highway-network links. This report contains a description of the Vermont Travel Model, including its history and its current functional capabilities, a description of the data used in this Year, a description of the methods used to process data for use in improving the Model and the results of the update, and a summary of the results of this year\u2019s improvements with recommendations for Year 7