Influence of environmental factors during seed development and after full-ripeness on pre-harvest sprouting in wheat

Results on environmental and genotypic factors influencing preharvest sprouting of wheat are summarized. Other possible areas where additional research is needed is suggested

Jacob Marschak and the Cowles Approaches to the Theory of Money and Assets

Jacob Marschak shaped the emergence of monetary theory and portfolio choice at the Cowles Commission (which he directed from 1943 to 1948, but with which he was involved already from 1937) at the University of Chicago, where he was the doctoral teacher of Leonid Hurwicz, Harry Markowitz and Don Patinkin, and then from 1955 at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University, where he was a senior colleague of James Tobin until moving to UCLA in 1960. Marschak’s later attempts to clarify the concept of liquidity and to emphasize the role of new information for economic behavior date back as far as to his early experiences with hyperinflationary processes in the Northern Caucasus during the Russian Revolution. Marschak came to monetary theory with his 1922 Heidelberg doctoral dissertation on the quantity theory equation of exchange (published in 1924 as “Die Verkehrsgleichung”), and embedded monetary theory in a wider theory of asset market equilibrium in studies of “Money and the Theory of Assets” (1938), “Assets, Prices, and Monetary Theory” (with Helen Makower, 1938), “Role of Liquidity under Complete and Incomplete Information” (1949), “The Rationale of the Demand for Money and of ‘Money Illusion’” (1950), and “Monnaie et liquidité dans les modèles macroéconomiques et microéconomiques” (1955), as well as in Income, Employment and the Price Level (lectures Marschak gave at Chicago, edited by Fand and Markowitz, 1951). We examine Marschak’s analysis of money within a broader theory of asset market equilibrium and explore the relation of his work to the monetary and portfolio theories of his doctoral students Markowitz and Patinkin and his colleague Tobin and to the revival of the quantity theory of money by Milton Friedman, a University of Chicago colleague unsympathetic to the methodology of the Cowles Commission

Computer Modeling: The Adjunct Micro Technique for Lipids

Chemistry by computer provides access to microsystem information not readily achieved by other means. Simple computational analysis of saturated triglyceride polymorphism by molecular mechanics within constraints provided by X-ray data show that polymethylene interactions determine hydrocarbon crystal properties when they account for more than 60 percent of the total molecular interaction energy. Modeling predicts multiple , nearly equivalent, a -form triglycerides and a -form character in liquid near-crystalline triglycerides. Symmetrical molecules pack better than asymmetric molecules in a-form configurations and transform readily to 13\u27forms if activated sufficiently to disrupt lateral chain interaction and allow dimensional displacements during transformation. The formation of P\u27-forms, thought important for quality in certain foods, may depend on controlling both the configuration of a-form precursors and the sequence of molecular events during the transformation

Wolfgang Hagemann, Studi e documenti per la storia del Fermanonell’età degli Svevi (secoli XII-XIII), a cura di Francesco Pirani

Il volume raccoglie un'antologia di saggi di W. Hagemann, tradotti dal tedesco, corredati di indici e apparati critici inediti

Quantifying and contextualizing disinfection byproducts during the Flint Water Crisis: a case study, and framework for broader application

Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) and other disinfection byproducts (DBPs) have been a concern in Flint, Michigan, in both delivered water and water from home water heaters. Historical TTHM data and DBP sampling results from Flint were combined with models for predicting hot water TTHMs to assess the probability of certain DBP concentrations. Results were compared with hot and cold water DBPs from a water system in Florida. Flint results were used to estimate cancer risk resulting from chronic exposure to hot water TTHMs, and compared to similar risk assessments in other water systems. Results indicate TTHM concentrations decreased in Flint following a return to water from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, and were very near the mean value for public drinking water systems in the United States. Measurement of other unregulated DBPs also indicated levels within the typical ranges. Monte Carlo simulations coupled with modeling of hot water TTHMs indicated a low probability of TTHMs exceeding 80 μg/L in Flint in 2016. The estimated cancer risk from exposure to TTHMs in Flint is similar to other areas. The methods used in this work can apply broadly to other water systems to de-escalate perceptions of risk following a water crisis

Разработка многопользовательского игрового приложения в жанре «пошаговая стратегия»

Объектом разработки является трехмерное многопользовательское игровое приложение в жанре пошаговая стратегия. Цель работы – создание программного обеспечения для расширения рынка игровой индустрии и популяризации жанра пошаговая стратегия. В результате исследования данная система спроектирована и реализована в полном объёме.The object of development is a three-dimensional multiplayer game application in the genre of turn-based strategy. The purpose of the work is to create software for expanding the market of the gaming industry and popularizing the genre of turn-based strategy. As a result of the research, this system was designed and implemented in full

Эколого-геохимическая оценка территории города Владивосток по данным изучения листьев тополя (Приморский край)

Работа посвящена изучению элементного состава листьев тополя, как биогеохимического индикатора состояния окружающей среды урбанизированных территорий. Исследование проведено на примере города Владивосток.The work is devoted to the study of the elemental composition of the leaves of poplar, as a biogeochemical indicator of the state of the environment of urbanized territories. The study was conducted on the example of Vladivostok