More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved- Working Paper 278

What have the MDGs achieved? And what might their achievements mean for any second generation of MDGs or MDGs 2.0? We argue that the MDGs may have played a role in increasing aid and that development policies beyond aid quantity have seen some limited improvement in rich countries (the evidence on policy change in poor countries is weaker). Further, there is some evidence of faster-than-expected progress improving quality of life in developing countries since the Millennium Declaration, but the contribution of the MDGs themselves in speeding that progress is—of course—difficult to demonstrate even assuming the MDGs induced policy changes after 2002. The paper concludes with reflections on what the experience of MDGs in terms of global goal setting has taught us and how things might be done differently if there were to be a new set of MDGs after 2015. Any MDGs 2.0 need targets that are set realistically and directly link aid flows to social policy change and to results.

The calibration of a transmission dynamometer, and tests with same on engine lathe

Citation: Dearborn, Charles Sumner. The calibration of a transmission dynamometer, and tests with same on engine lathe. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1904.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: A transmission dynamometer is an instrument by means of which the power in a rotating shaft may be measured during its transmission through a belt or other connection to another shaft, without being absorbed. The dynamometer in question is of the Brigg's belt type, and was built by the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Kansas State Agricultural College, from drawings made by the author in 1902. Preliminary trials showed a stiffness in the action of the weighing mechanism that precluded reliable results, and changes in the construction were accordingly made for the purpose of doing away with this defect

The value of cotton seed meal as a stock food

Citation: Jones, Charles Sumner. The value of cotton seed meal as a stock food. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1906.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: The three most important principles which must be supplied in stock feed are protein, carbohydrates and fat. In most feeds fed today the two latter principles can be very easily supplied in feeds such as corn, which is the most universal feed used today, but this feed is very poor in protein which is a very important part of a ration and which costs the most. But the part of the feed which must be supplied to a feeding ration if a balanced rat ion is to be fed. The balanced ration rot only causes the animal to make better gains when in the feed lot but also keeps them in better health and they are more resistant to disease. The problem then that confronts the stockmen is, How can protein be added to the feed with a minimum cost. Linseed Meal, bran, and dried blood contain a large percent of this substance, but on account of the great demands for these substances, the price has risen so high that the average stockmen cannot afford to feed them. So some other source must be resorted to, and here is where cotton seed meal comes in to help out the stockmen. This meal is made every year in large Quantities at the southern oil mills and can be bought at a moderate price, about $25 per ton. No other food contains as much digestible protein pound for pound as does cotton seed meal. So if cotton seed meal does cost as much as oil meal or some of the other protein feeds it will pay to buy the cotton seed meal as we get much more protein than we would in the same weight of oil meal. Recent experiments have been conducted in feeding this concentrated feed to various domestic animals. The results of some of some of the most recent work along this line will be given in the following lines. Also some of the most recent conclusions reached in regard to the value of Cotton seed meal as a stock food

The relation of the endocrine system of alimentary motility and secretion

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1949. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Reception of the Roman Law in Germany

As in other countries. it was the universities which prepared the way for the Reception of Roman Law in Germany. Many of those great institutions which still .lead the world in learning date from about the middle of the thirteenth century, and instruction in foreign law was offered from the beginning. At first the emphasis was placed on the Canon law -but chairs of Roman law were established at Heidelberg in 1387, at Basel in 146o, at Ingolstadt in 1472, at Tfibingen in 1477, at Freiburg in 1479, at Vienna in 1493 and at Greifswald in 1498, and were filled by Italian, French and Spanish doctors.\u27 Where the latter were replaced2 by professors of German nationality the incumbent was usually required to be one who had taken a degree at an Italian University. Thus a strong connection was established with Roman jurisprudence and the leaders of thought were imbued therewith