Effect of furazolidone on the utilization of carotene by laying hens

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1961 Z5

Dwyer Google Migration

The IT staff at Dwyer Instruments encountered several issues when switching to use Google’s business technology services. These problems included lack of a button to open a new email draft with a PDF already attached, the timestamp function in Google Sheets displaying the current time instead of the time it was entered, duplicate Google Sheets spreadsheets not maintaining protected ranges, lack of a timeline chart in Google Sheets, inability to save Gmail searches, lack of event templates in Google Calendar, and lack of a workflow management tool in Google’s business technology suite. On site personnel were asked to communicate what would help smooth the transition to the G Suite. One challenge encountered was the difficulty in publishing G-Suite add-ons to Google’s online marketplace. Another challenge is presented by the lack of examples of G-Suite add-ons. This makes it tough to create add-ons since there are few resources to go off of. A G-Suite add-on was developed to create an in-page side window in Gmail and Drive to allow attachments from selected conversations or Drive files to be attached and sent with an email. A Google Sheets add-on was also developed in order to insert the current time into a selected cell. While some needs remain outstanding, but the project made significant progress toward solving some of their IT issues

Development and Validation of Preenlistment Screening Composites for Army Enlisted Personnel

Prepared for: US Army Recruiting Command Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate Research and Studies Divisionhttp://archive.org/details/developmentvalid56zimmNAN

Follow-up Study of Recruitment of College-Bound Students Through Use of the ACT Assessment File

Final ReportThe purpose of the present study was to: 1) further evaluate the methodology employed in the pilot studies for using ACT records in targeting college-bound young people for recruiting, and 2) develop mail-out .materials and identify ACT selection criteria that may be used to target students with other skills or interests. This effort was divided into three tasks. Task 1 involved a follow-up evaluation of the pilot studies, including: l)a .content analysis of comments made by recruiters who had processed leads resulting from the pilot studies, and 2) an examination of the relationships between demonstrated interest and responses to iterns in the Student Profile Section of the ACT assessment file. Task 2 consisted of comparing the target-specific approach (i.e., tailoring mail campaign materials for a target group with specific aptitudes or interests) with the geineral approach, currently in use , of mailing general information regarding Army educational assistance to all students participating in the ACT program. Materials were developed in Task 3 to extend the target-specific approach to other specialized skill/aptitude areas. The results of log-linear analyses indicated that the general approach was more effective in generating testers and enlistees among the general college- bound population, but was less effective in generating interest for foreign language students. The target-specific approach effectively generated interest among language students, bringing in high-mental-aptitude students for testing, yet it was not highly effective in producing enlistments. However,a cost-effectiveness analysis, showing only a modest cost increase for targeted recruiting, supports this approach, particularly for hard-to-fill military occupational specialties.Research and Studies Division, Program Analysis and Evaluation DirectorateNaval Postgraduate Schoo

National Producer and Consumer Survey: Increasing Alfalfa Hay Sales to Horse Owners

Horse owners were surveyed regarding their hay feeding choices. Unique factors of this market are discussed

Dwyer Google Migration

The IT staff at Dwyer Instruments encountered several issues when switching to use Google’s business technology services. These problems included lack of a button to open a new email draft with a PDF already attached, the timestamp function in Google Sheets displaying the current time instead of the time it was entered, duplicate Google Sheets spreadsheets not maintaining protected ranges, lack of a timeline chart in Google Sheets, inability to save Gmail searches, lack of event templates in Google Calendar, and lack of a workflow management tool in Google’s business technology suite. On site personnel were asked to communicate what would help smooth the transition to the G Suite. One challenge encountered was the difficulty in publishing G-Suite add-ons to Google’s online marketplace. Another challenge is presented by the lack of examples of G-Suite add-ons. This makes it tough to create add-ons since there are few resources to go off of. A G-Suite add-on was developed to create an in-page side window in Gmail and Drive to allow attachments from selected conversations or Drive files to be attached and sent with an email. A Google Sheets add-on was also developed in order to insert the current time into a selected cell. While some needs remain outstanding, but the project made significant progress toward solving some of their IT issues

THE HIDDEN SYSTEM COSTS OF WIND GENERATION IN A DEREGULATED ELECTRICITY MARKET

WP 2011-01Earlier research has shown that adding wind capacity to a network can lower the total annual operating cost of meeting a given pattern of loads by displacing conventional generation. At the same time, the variability of wind generation and the need for higher levels of reserve generating capacity to maintain reliability standards impose additional costs on the system that should not be ignored. The important implication for regulators is that the capacity payments [“missing money”] for eachMW of peak system load is now much higher. Hence, the economic benefits to a network of using storage, controllable load and other mechanisms to reduce the peak system load will be higher with high penetrations of wind generation. These potential benefits are illustrated in a case study using a test network and a security constrained OPF with endogenous reserves (SuperOPF). The capabilities of the SuperOPF provide a consistent economic framework for evaluating Operating Reliability in real-time markets and System Adequacy for planning purposes. The scenarios considered make it possible to determine 1) the amount of conventional generating capacity needed to meet the peak system load and maintain System Adequacy, and the amount of wind dispatched, 2) total payments by customers in the Wholesale Market, and the amount of missing money paid to generators to maintain their Financial Adequacy, 3) changes in the congestion rents for transmission that are collected by the system operator, and finally, 4) the total annual system costs paid by customers directly in the Wholesale Market and, indirectly, as missing money. The results show that the benefits (i.e. the reduction in the total annual system costs) from making an investment in wind capacity and/of upgrading a tie line are very sensitive to 1) how much of the inherent variability of wind generation is mitigated, and 2) how the missing money paid to conventional generators is determined (e.g. comparing a regulated market with a deregulated market).This research was supported by the US Department of Energy through the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS) and by the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)

Global Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion: Lessons, Challenges, and Directions

Global Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion: Lessons, Challenges, and Direction