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SPECIFICATION OF SUPPLIES AND DEMANDS FOR SUBSECTOR AND SUBMARKET STUDIES
Demand and Price Analysis,
INCOME AND WEALTH ISSUES IN COMMERCIAL FARM AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Agricultural and Food Policy,
STRUCTURAL CHANGE: FARM AND FINANCIAL DIMENSIONS
Industrial Organization,
The Distribution of Rents in Supply Chain Industries: The Case of High Oil Corn
Value-enhanced crops (VEC's) have been the focus of "second-generation" genetically modified (GM) crops. The market power granted by intellectual property rights (IPR) and the use of contractual arrangements in VEC gene and seed production have fostered a move toward tightly-aligned supply chain industries. This paper suggests and tests an analytical methodology for examining a number of issues in tightly-aligned supply chain industries: (1) the distributions of potential monopolistic and monopsonistic rents, (2) choices of licensing intellectual property versus in-house seed production and distribution (3) implications of alternative marketing strategies and elasticities of demand on the magnitudes of rents, and (4) determining impacts on different stages within the supply chain and on substitute commodities. The high-oil corn industry is used as a case study.equilibrium displacement, high-oil corn, mathematical programming, value-enhanced crops, Crop Production/Industries, Industrial Organization,
AN ANALYSIS OF HOWLING RESPONSE PARAMETERS USEFUL FOR WOLF PACK CENSUSING
Gray wolves (Canis lupus) were studied from April 1972 through April 1974 in National Forest in northeastern Minnesota by radio-tracking and simulated howling. Based during 217 of 456 howling sessions, the following recommendations were derived for using howling as a census technique: (1) the best times of day are dusk and night; (2) July, August, and are the best months; (3) precipitation and winds greater than 12 km/hour should be avoided; (of 5 single howls should be used, alternating flat and breaking howls; (5) trials should 3 times at about 2-minute intervals with the first trial at lower volume; and (6) the trial series repeated on 3 nights as close to each other as possible. Two censuses are described: a saturation and a sampling census
WOLF HOWLING AND ITS ROLE IN TERRITORY MAINTENANCE
The wolf (Canis lupus) is a wide-ranging social carnivore with a complex spatial organization (MECH, 1972; 1973). The precise manner in which this organization is maintained is unknown, but territory advertisement using olfactory and acoustic modes seems to be involved.
The acoustic mode includes primarily howling. Within a wolf pack, howling may be useful to reassemble separated members (MECH, 1966; THEBERGE & FALLS, 1967), and may communicate information on individual identity, location, and other behavioral and environmental contingencies (THEBERGE & FALLS, 1967). Between packs, however, howling may serve to advertise territory, communicating the locations of packs and thus minimizing contact between them (JOSLIN, 1967).
The objective of the present study was to determine the possible role of howling in territorial maintenance by investigating the responses of wolves in northeastern Minnesota to simulated wolf howling
The Changing Financial Structure of the U.S. Farm Sector
Agricultural Finance,
Triple-Pomeron Matrix Model for Dispersive Corrections to Nucleon-Nucleus Total Cross Section
Dispersive corrections to the total cross section for high-energy scattering
from a heavy nucleus are calculated using a matrix model, based on the
triple-Pomeron behavior of diffractive scattering from a single nucleon, for
the cross section operator connecting different states of the projectile
nucleon . Energy-dependent effects due to the decrease in longitudinal momentum
transfers and the opening of more channels with increasing energy are included.
The three leading terms in an expansion in the number of inelastic transitions
are evaluated and compared to exact results for the model in the uniform
nuclear density approximation for the the scattering of nucleons from Pb^{208}
for laboratory momenta ranging from 50 to 200 GeV/c.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, RevTex
Net incomes and resource valuations of optimum organizations for dairy farms in northern New England, Station Bulletin, no.490
The Bulletin is a publication of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
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