American Goat - 1992

Authors include: Tim Brown, Lara Jackson, Terry Jacobus, Patrick O\u27Connor, Christy Beatty, Glen Brown, Richard Calish, Tom Caulfield, Sean Condon, Robert Cooperman, John Dickson, Kurt Di Clementi, Robert K. Engler, Bill Freind, Donna Lu Goldman, Paul K. Haeder, J. Vanden Heavel, Bill Hennessey, Mary Hess, Don A. Hoyt, Robert Parran, Helen Reed, R. Russell, C. Sawyer, Daniel A. Scurek, Chaney Smith, Richard Zabranskyhttps://neiudc.neiu.edu/goat/1002/thumbnail.jp

Eastland et. all to James T. Lynn, 16 January 1976

Copy typed letter signed dated 16 January 1976 from Eastland; Birch Bayh; Ernest F. Hollings; Henry M. Jackson; William D. Hathaway; Edmund S. Muskie; Mike Gravel; Charles McC. Mathias; Gale W. McGee; Alan Cranston; Edward M. Kennedy; Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; Dick Clark; Harrison A. Williams, Jr.; John C. Stennis; John V. Tunney; Jennings Randolph; Strom Thurmond; Walter D. Huddleston; John C. Culver; Frank Church; Stuart Symington; Joseph M. Montoya; Floyd K. Haskell; John A. Durkin; James Abourezk; Vance Hartke; Jacob K. Javits; Daniel K. Inouye; Philip A. Hart; Humbert H. Humphrey; Henry Bellmon; Warren G. Magnuson; Thomas F. Eagleton; Gary Hart; Pete V. Domenici; Wendell H. Ford; George McGovern; Bob Packwood; Patrick J. Leahy; Hugh Scott; Walter F. Mondale; Mark O. Hatfield; Howard W. Cannon; and J. Bennett Johnston to James T. Lynn, re: Rural Housing Insurance Fund of the Farmers Home Administration, rural development; Agricultural Appropriations; 5 pages.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_g/1006/thumbnail.jp

Prevalence of Diarrhea and Associated Risk Factors Among Children Under-Five Years of Age in Nigeria

Diarrhea is the second leading cause of under-five child mortality after pneumonia. The absence of clean water source, essential sanitation and hygiene is responsible for almost 88% of the disease burden in the Nigeria. This study aimed to identify the risk factors for the occurrence of childhood diarrhea among children aged between 0-5 years in Nigeria. Nigeria Demographic and health survey (NDHS) data for year 2013 was used for the purpose of this study. Descriptive Statistics was used to identify the mean age of the mother, children and also the frequencies and percentage of the independent factors. Multilevel Probit Regression was computed to assess the independent factors of childhood diarrhea. Two-way table with measures of association was used to test the association of the predictor variables. The prevalence of diarrhea in the two weeks period among under- five children in Nigeria is 9.52%. The result showed that maternal/mother’s education attainment, region, sex of children, maternal/mother’s age, children’s age, source of water, place of residence, breast feeding status, family Income and mass media were found to be positively associated risk factors for childhood diarrhea. Keywords: Prevalence, Diarrhea, Risk factor, Probit Regression, Children, Mother/care givers. DOI: 10.7176/JAAS/60-05 Publication date: January 31st 202

Comments on the classification of the finite subgroups of SU(3)

Many finite subgroups of SU(3) are commonly used in particle physics. The classification of the finite subgroups of SU(3) began with the work of H.F. Blichfeldt at the beginning of the 20th century. In Blichfeldt's work the two series (C) and (D) of finite subgroups of SU(3) are defined. While the group series Delta(3n^2) and Delta(6n^2) (which are subseries of (C) and (D), respectively) have been intensively studied, there is not much knowledge about the group series (C) and (D). In this work we will show that (C) and (D) have the structures (C) \cong (Z_m x Z_m') \rtimes Z_3 and (D) \cong (Z_n x Z_n') \rtimes S_3, respectively. Furthermore we will show that, while the (C)-groups can be interpreted as irreducible representations of Delta(3n^2), the (D)-groups can in general not be interpreted as irreducible representations of Delta(6n^2).Comment: 15 pages, no figures, typos corrected, clarifications and references added, proofs revise

Modeling adsorption equilibria of xylene isomers in a microporous metal–organic framework

Single and multicomponent adsorption equilibria of xylene isomers: o-xylene (o-x), m-xylene (m-x), pxylene (p-x) and ethylbenzene (eb) was investigated on the three dimensional microporous metal–organic framework Zn(BDC)(Dabco)0.5 (BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate, Dabco = 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]-octane), MOF 1, in the range of temperatures between 398 and 448 K and partial pressures up to 0.1 bar. The equilibrium data show that a significant amount (around 34 g/100gads at 398 K) of xylene isomers can be adsorbed in MOF 1. The affinity to the adsorbent measured by the Henry’s constants to decreases in the order o-x > m-x > eb > p-x for all temperatures. The zero coverage adsorption enthalpies are all similar and range from 77.4 (eb) to 79.8 kJ/mol (o-x). The Dual-Site Langmuir model (DSL) was used for the interpretation and correlation of the experimental data. The parameters obtained from the pure component isotherms fitting were also used to predict the multicomponent equilibrium data by an extended DSL model. A good agreement was obtained between the predictions and the experimental data. It was also demonstrated that the DSL model is also capable to explain the increase in the isosteric heat of sorption with increasing coverage.José A.C. Silva acknowledges the financial support from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under Project POCI/EQU/ 60828/2004. Patrick S. Bárcia acknowledges a FCT PhD Grant (SFRH/BD/30994/2006). This work was supported by an Award CHE 0718281 from the NSF (BC)

ICT and Market Efficiency: A Case Study of the Nairobi Securities Exchange

The efficiency of a capital market is important if savers funds are to be channeled to the highest valued stocks. A recent review of markets in Africa categorized the Nairobi Securities Exchange as one which has no tendency towards weak form efficiency. According to the random walk hypothesis stock market prices evolve in a random pattern and can therefore not be predicted. The weak form hypothesis examines whether or not security prices fully reflect historical returns. The NSE has increasingly used Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in their operation which has improved the integrity of the exchange trading systems and facilitated greater access to the securities market. ICT gives investors and market makers the opportunity to access current information so as to make informed decisions and may help make the market more efficient.  In an effort to establish efficiency of this market, we used non-parametric methods to establish the randomness of market returns at the NSE. The distribution of market returns appears normal although slightly negatively skewed and heavy tailed. The Q-Q and P-P plot also shows that the data approximates the normal distribution. The K-S and Runs test confirm that the data is not normally distributed which implies inefficiency in the weak form. This signifies market inefficiency of the weak form. Keywords:Random Walk, Market Efficiency, Weak form hypothesis, Frequency Tests, Runs test, Autocorrelation test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tes

A Garch Approach to Measuring Efficiency: A Case Study of Nairobi Securities Exchange

The efficiency of capital markets is important if savers funds are to be channeled to the highest valued stocks. A recent review of markets in Africa categorized the Nairobi Securities Exchange as one which has no tendency towards weak form efficiency. Recent efforts to establish its efficiency have used mainly Ordinary Least Squares regression and have yielded inconclusive results. Ordinary Least Squares method assumes that the variance of the error term obtained is constant over time. However due to economic cycles some time periods are known to be generally riskier than others and the latter assumption fails to hold. There is therefore need to use other models which relax this assumption. The Autoregressive Conditionally Heteroscedastic models have been popular and widely used. They recognize that the value of the variance of errors depends upon previous lagged variances and lagged innovation terms. Kenya has also increasingly embraced ICT which may be attributed to the comparative lower cost of access to internet via computers and mobile phone technology. This is expected to increase the rational buyers in the market none of whom can influence prices in the market which may make the market more efficient. This study first used non parametric methods to check for randomness and independence of stock market returns at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Results show that daily returns are non-random and the GARCH analysis shows that the current returns are dependent on the returns of the previous 3 days. The GARCH (3,1) model shows that returns on a particular day would be determined by the mean returns plus a white noise error term which would vary by 25.3% of return on day t-1, 9.5% of return on day t-2 and 12.05% of returns on day t-3 at 0.05 level of significance.  This signifies market inefficiency of the weak form. Keywords: Market Efficiency, Weak-Form Hypothesis, OLS, GARC