OPERATIONAL COSTS OF CANAL COMPANIES AND IRRIGATION DISTRICTS IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGION

This study reports on the trends of operational costs of farmer owned and operated irrigation enterprises (irrigation districts and canal companies) in five intermountain states. Administrative costs have risen faster then operation and maintenance costs. While salaries of employees have not risen significantly over time, legal costs have greatly escalated.Agribusiness,

Review of book Down in the Holler by Vance Randolph and interviews with Harry C Wright, William H. Jetrow, and Abe Snyder

A review of book Down in the Holler by Vance Randolph and interviews with Harry C Wright, William H. Jetrow, and Abe Snyder 00:06:13 - Interview with Mrs. Nelson regarding common sayings in the Ozarks 00:15:13 - Harry C. Wright, Song, Old Dan Tucker 00:16:11 - Song, Shoot The Buffalo 00:17:05 - Song, Rosa Betza Lina 00:17:39 - Song, Wait Until The Sun Shines, Nelly 00:18:56 - Song, ? Green 00:20:02 - Song, Happy Is The Miller Boy 00:20:24 - William H. Jetrow, introduction 00:21:06 - Song, The Velvet Black Band (recited) 00:22:56 - Song, The Dutch Girl\u27s Name (recited) 00:24:06 - Song, Skip to My Lou, Little Brother verse (recited) 00:25:01 - Song, Happy Is The Miller Boy (recited) 00:25:55 - Song, The Drunken Driver (recited) 00:26:22 - Song, The Head Without The Eyeballs (recited) 00:27:01 - Song, Little Brown Jug, cow verse (recited) 00:27:45 - Song, Put A Hat On Your Head (recited) 00:28:07 - Song, In This Ring (recited) 00:28:46 - Advertising the Solomon Valley back east 00:29:10 - Labels on covered wagons 00:29:32 - Song, Down On The Carpet (recited) 00:30:05 - Song, If You Want To Go To Heaven, Uncle Joe 00:30:45 - Play parties 00:32:05 - Abe Snyder, Introduction 00:32:18 - Staying with the preacher 00:33:22 - Biographical information 00:34:03 - Moving to Stockton 00:38:25 - Fire in Palco 00:39:54 - Visiting England 00:53:38 - Mrs. Snyder, teaching and homesteading 00:55:44 - Webster Picnichttps://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/1046/thumbnail.jp

Presence of multiple protein kinase activities in rat liver nuclei

Protein kinase activity was found in the acidic nuclear protein fraction extracted from rat liver nuclei. Four distinct kinase activities were separated by phosphocellulose and DEAE-Sephadex chromatography. Additional evidence for separate enzyme activities is based on differences in pH optimum, enzyme stability, and substrate specificity.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/34156/1/0000442.pd

Conduct of operations implementation plan

This implementation plan describes the process and provides information and schedules that are necessary to implement and comply with the Department of Energy (DOE) Order 5480.19, {open_quotes}Conduct of Operations{close_quotes} (CoOp). This plan applies to all Pinellas Plant operations and personnel. Generally, this Plan discusses how DOE Order 5480.19 will be implemented at the Pinellas Plant

High pressure mechanical seal

A relatively impervious mechanical seal is formed between the outer surface of a tube and the inside surface of a mechanical fitting of a high pressure fluid or hydraulic system by applying a very thin soft metal layer onto the outer surface of the hard metal tube and/or inner surface of the hard metal fitting, prior to swaging the fitting onto the tube. The thickness of such thin metal layer is independent of the size of the tube and/or fittings. Many metals and alloys of those metals exhibit the requisite softness, including silver, gold, nickel, tin, platinum, indium, rhodium and cadmium. Suitably, the coating is about 0.0025 millimeters (0.10 mils) in thickness. After swaging, the tube and fitting combination exhibits very low leak rates on the order or 10.sup.-8 cubic centimeters per second or less as meaured using the Helium leak test

A Survey of OB / GYN Physicians' Training & Current Practice Patterns in Breast Care

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/94493/1/tbj12028.pd

Evolution of rarefaction pulses into vortex rings

The two-dimensional solitary waves of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili limit are unstable with respect to three-dimensional perturbations. We elucidate the stages in the evolution of such solutions subject to perturbations perpendicular to the direction of motion. Depending on the energy (momentum) and the wavelength of the perturbation different types of three-dimensional solutions emerge. In particular, we present new periodic solutions having very small energy and momentum per period. These solutions also become unstable and this secondary instability leads to vortex ring nucleation.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

Diversity and dynamics of a widespread bloom of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense

© The Author(s), 2011. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in PLoS One 6 (2011): e22965, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022965.Historically, cosmopolitan phytoplankton species were presumed to represent largely unstructured populations. However, the recent development of molecular tools to examine genetic diversity have revealed differences in phytoplankton taxa across geographic scales and provided insight into the physiology and ecology of blooms. Here we describe the genetic analysis of an extensive bloom of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense that occurred in the Gulf of Maine in 2005. This bloom was notable for its intensity and duration, covering hundreds of kilometers and persisting for almost two months. Genotypic analyses based on microsatellite marker data indicate that the open waters of the northeastern U.S. harbor a single regional population of A. fundyense comprising two genetically distinct sub-populations. These subpopulations were characteristic of early- and late-bloom samples and were derived from the northern and southern areas of the bloom, respectively. The temporal changes observed during this study provide clear evidence of succession during a continuous bloom and show that selection can act on the timescale of weeks to significantly alter the representation of genotypes within a population. The effects of selection on population composition and turnover would be magnified if sexual reproduction were likewise influenced by environmental conditions. We hypothesize that the combined effects of differential growth and reproduction rates serves to reduce gene flow between the sub-populations, reinforcing population structure while maintaining the diversity of the overall regional population.This work was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (1-P50-ES012742 to DMA and DLE), by the National Science Foundation through the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health (OCE-0430724), and by the ECOHAB program (NOAA Grant NA06NOS4780245)