IMPACT OF FEDERAL ACREAGE LIMITATION POLICY ON WESTERN IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE

Long-Run Average Cost Curves were developed for 18 Federal irrigation districts indicating in general constant cost industry. Conclusions were that InteriorÂ’s acreage limitation policy would cause no appreciable loss in economic efficiency nor an increase in food costs. Implementation of full-cost water pricing to recapture Federal subsidies would greatly reduce the amount of water demanded and significantly impact production of forages and other high water using crops.Land Economics/Use,

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Combined study program. Volume 4 - Inlet leak study Final report

Inlet leak analysis for spacecraft mass spectrometer atmospheric sensor syste

Majorana fermion chain at the Quantum Spin Hall edge

We study a realization of a 1d chain of Majorana bound states at the interfaces between alternating ferromagnetic and superconducting regions at a quantum spin Hall insulator edge. In the limit of well separated Majoranas, the system can be mapped to the transverse field Ising model. The disordered critical point can be reached by tuning the relative magnitude or phases of the ferromagnetic and superconducting order parameters. We compute the voltage dependence of the tunneling current from a metallic tip into the Majorana chain as a direct probe of the random critical state.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Next-to-Leading Order Shear Viscosity in lambda phi^4 Theory

We show that the shear viscosity of lambda phi^4 theory is sensitive at next-to-leading order to soft physics, which gives rise to subleading corrections suppressed by only a half power of the coupling, eta = [3033.54 + 1548.3 m_{th}/T] N T^3]/[ (N+2)/3 lambda^2], with m^2_th=(N+2)/72 lambda T^2. The series appears to converge about as well (or badly) as the series for the pressure.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Typos fixed, tiny change in discussio