THE 1995 FARM BILL ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Economics and Policy,

THE POLITICAL/ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT: ARE WE AT A WATERSHED?

Political Economy,

U.S. COMPETITIVENESS AND NEEDED ADJUSTMENTS

Agricultural and Food Policy,

TOWARD A POSSIBLY PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Understanding The Theory and Design of Organizations -10/E.

Each chapter is highly focused and is organized into a logical framework. Many organization theory textbook treat material in sequential fashion, such as here’s view A, here’s view B, here’s view C, and so on. Understanding the theory and design of organization shows how they apply in organizations. Moreover, each chapter sticks ti the essential point. Students are not introduced to extranedous material or confusing methodological squabbles that occur among organizational researchers. The body of research in most areas points to a major trend, which is reported here. Several chapter develop a framework that organizes major ideas into an overall scheme

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound to the Right Prefrontal Cortex Improves Mood and Alters Functional Connectivity in Humans

Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is an emerging method for non-invasive neuromodulation akin to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). tFUS offers several advantages over electromagnetic methods including high spatial resolution and the ability to reach deep brain targets. Here we describe two experiments assessing whether tFUS could modulate mood in healthy human volunteers by targeting the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG), an area implicated in mood and emotional regulation. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study, participants received 30 s of 500 kHz tFUS or a placebo control. Visual Analog Mood Scales (VAMS) assessed mood four times within an hour (baseline and three times after tFUS). Participants who received tFUS reported an overall increase in Global Affect (GA), an aggregate score from the VAMS scale, indicating a positive shift in mood. Experiment 2 examined resting-state functional (FC) connectivity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) following 2 min of 500 kHz tFUS at the rIFG. As in Experiment 1, tFUS enhanced self-reported mood states and also decreased FC in resting state networks related to emotion and mood regulation. These results suggest that tFUS can be used to modulate mood and emotional regulation networks in the prefrontal cortex

Examining the effects of experimental/academic electroacoustic and popular electronic musics on the evolution and development of human–computer interaction in music

This article focuses on how the development of human–computer interaction in music has been aided and influenced by both experimental/academic electroacoustic art music and popular electronic music. These two genres have impacted upon this ever-changing process of evolution in different ways, but have together been paramount to the establishment of interactivity in music as we understand it today; which is itself having wide-ranging implications upon the modern-day musical landscape as a whole—both in the way that we, as listeners and audience members, purchase and consume music as well as conceptualise and think about it