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Saturday Night Live Club Lamb Sale
âCompetition is said to be the backbone of the stock show industry,â (Davis, 1998). A statement spoken in a 1998 thesis paper on the junior livestock industry still holds water in todayâs world. Youth livestock exhibition, especially in California, continues to grow in the number of youth participants and the number of livestock entries at shows (Switzer, 2019).
It is the responsibility of livestock breeders to breed, raise, and sell their livestock to maximize the opportunity for youth to acquire livestock to show. In his research, Wendt discusses the capabilities of purchasing livestock through online platforms. He speaks to the wide variety of livestock outside of Oklahoma, where the study was conducted, and how much easier it was to find stock on the internet for his agricultural students (Wendt, 2014). Although technology has advanced to market and sell livestock in a digital era, the practicality of modern day live auctions will remain intact
Livestock exhibition and youth livestock sales promote improvement in life skills. Future education goals in youths were reported to be positively impacted around those who are involved in the livestock industry (Evans, 2019). The industry only exists if it is continually feed by consumers. There are hundreds of live and online sales each year, so it was only fitting to bring one to the Central Valley of California. Consigners from across the United States have already shown interest in the sale and the author noted providing another opportunity for youth to purchase show quality livestock exists. The author will establish a youth livestock sale called the Saturday Night Live Sale and it will be hosted in Modesto, California
On the generation of ocean wind waves as inferred from airborne radar measurements of fetch-limited spectra
A section of sea surface that had been subjected to a constant offshore wind was profiled by using an airborne radar-wave profiler. The profiles extended seaward from the coast for a distance of 350 km . From these data, estimates of the spectrum of encounter of the sea surface were obtained for different fetch lengths...
Dicaesium tetraÂchloridoÂdioxidoÂplutonate(VI)
The anion of the title complex, Cs2[PuCl4O2], adopts a pseudo-octaÂhedral geometry (2/m crystallographic site symmetry) with two plutonyl oxide ligands in axial sites and four chloride ligands occupying the equatorial plane. Charge balance is maintained by two caesium cations per tetraÂchloridoÂdioxidoÂplutonate(VI) anion. Principal bond lengths include PuâO = 1.752â
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âTeaching First-Year Seminar: The hidden curriculum of culture, history, and heritage at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Teaching First-Year Seminar: The hidden curriculum of culture, history, and heritage at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Abstract First Year Seminar (FYS) is a commonly used retention tool developed to support the progression and encourage the completion of college for students during their initial year of post-secondary education. Yet very little is known about the pedagogical approaches of FYS instructors, particularly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This study specifically explores the experiences and pedagogical perceptions of HBCU FYS instructional professionals. The researchers interviewed six participants to understand ways in which these institutional agents, specifically instructors, leveraged tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy and aspects of fictive kinship to enact social justice, within teaching approaches. Based on the coding and interpretation of semi-structured qualitative interviews, the results uncovered attempts to culturally reach and teach students. Thus, the researchers argue, that HBCU FYS instructors practice a hidden curriculum of instruction informed by Black culture and the institutionâs history as a form of explicating heritage as capital in teaching
Geometry and kinematics of the Nuncios detachment fold complex: implications for lithotectonics in northeastern Mexico
Using recent geologic mapping combined with
digital elevation data, aerial photo interpretation, and
cross section balancing, we describe the threedimensional
(3-D) geometry and kinematics of the
Nuncios Fold Complex in the Monterrey Salient of
northeastern Mexico. This map-scale, evaporite-cored
detachment fold structure involves Upper Jurassic
through Cretaceous rocks deformed during the
Laramide orogeny and comprises two westward
plunging anticlines and an intervening, eastward
plunging syncline. Seven balanced cross sections and
a 3-D model of this north vergent structure document
substantial along-strike variations in both fold
geometry and detachment depth, suggesting that 3-D
flow of the detachment layer may have occurred
during folding. Comparison of folds in the Monterrey
Salient with those in the neighboring Parras Basin
suggests that the latter south vergent folds root to a
shallower detachment. We suggest that northward
transport of the Monterrey Salient folds on the lower
evaporite detachment may have been inhibited by a
thick sequence of foreland basin rocks in the
northeastern Parras and southern La Popa basins and
that the smaller, south verging folds formed where the
lower detachment was abandoned and slip was
transferred to the shallower detachment, forming a
triangle zone at the front of the Sierra Madre orogenic
wedge
Size-Fractionated Nitrogen Uptake Measurements in the Equatorial Pacific and Confirmation of the Low Si-High-Nitrate Low-Chlorophyll Condition
The equatorial Pacific Ocean is the largest natural source of CO(2) to the atmosphere, and it significantly impacts the global carbon cycle. Much of the large flux of upwelled CO(2) to the atmosphere is due to incomplete use of the available nitrate (NO(3)) and low net productivity. This high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) condition of the equatorial upwelling zone (EUZ) has been interpreted from modeling efforts to be due to low levels of silicate ( Si( OH) 4) that limit the new production of diatoms. These ideas were incorporated into an ecosystem model, CoSINE. This model predicted production by the larger phytoplankton and the picoplankton and effects on air-sea CO(2) fluxes in the Pacific Ocean. However, there were no size-fractionated rates available for verification. Here we report the first size-fractionated new and regenerated production rates (obtained with (15)N - NO(3) and (15)N - NH(4) incubations) for the EUZ with the objective of validating the conceptual basis and functioning of the CoSINE model. Specifically, the larger phytoplankton ( with cell diameters \u3e 5 mu m) had greater rates of new production and higher f-ratios (i.e., the proportion of NO(3) to the sum of NO(3) and NH(4) uptake) than the picoplankton that had high rates of NH(4) uptake and low f-ratios. The way that the larger primary producers are regulated in the EUZ is discussed using a continuous chemostat approach. This combines control of Si(OH)(4) production by supply rate (bottom-up) and control of growth rate ( or dilution) by grazing ( top-down control)
Overlap of QRPA states based on ground states of different nuclei --mathematical properties and test calculations--
The overlap of the excited states in quasiparticle random-phase approximation
(QRPA) is calculated in order to simulate the overlap of the intermediate
nuclear states of the double-beta decay. Our basic idea is to use the
like-particle QRPA with the aid of the closure approximation and calculate the
overlap as rigorously as possible by making use of the explicit equation of the
QRPA ground state. The formulation is shown in detail, and the mathematical
properties of the overlap matrix are investigated. Two test calculations are
performed for relatively light nuclei with the Skyrme and volume delta-pairing
energy functionals. The validity of the truncations used in the calculation is
examined and confirmed.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figures, full paper following arXiv:1205.5354 and Phys.
Rev. C 86 (2012) 021301(R
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