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The Collison Floating Evaporation Pan: Design, Validation, and Comparison
No full textAccurate tracking of open-water evaporative losses, one of the largest consumptive uses of water in the Southwestern USA, is increasingly important with anticipated climate shifts toward longer and more severe droughts. A new open-water evaporation technique, the Collison Floating Evaporation Pan, (CFEP), was tested on Cochiti Lake, New Mexico, USA for one year with objectives being: identify the limitations and potential solutions to evaporation techniques; deploy, test the reliability, and validity of the CFEP and evaluate uncertainties in standard evaporation techniques; and improvements over prior evaporation techniques. The CFEP provided reliable evaporation measurements during sustained winds greater than 20 m/s. The accuracy of the CFEP was validated with an averaged percent difference of 1.72 of actual. The CFEP provided more accurate evaporation measurements than the five methods it was compared to with the Class A Pan underestimating evaporation by 910 acre-feet from May 13 through November 30, 2018
Chelating Agent for Micronutrient Fertilisers
No full textPATENT: M. J. McLaughlin, S. P. Stacey, E. Lombi (Assignee: Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty Ltd and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). NZ 564801 (PCT/AU2006/000951) filed Jan. 3, 2008; published Jan. 29, 2010; expires Jul. 11, 2026.The invention describes a method and product for chelating micronutrients when used to provide the micronutrients to a plant, which comprises applying to an area of the plant or soil/substrate surrounding the plant an effective amount of a plant fertiliser composition comprising a chelating polymer having the general formula (I), capable of forming coordinate bonds with the micronutrients, transporting the micronutrients across a membrane of the plant and releasing the micronutrients for use by the plant.Invented by M. J. McLaughlin, S. P. Stacey, E. Lombi; Assigned to Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty Ltd and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Collison & Co agents for inventors
Sequestering Agent for Micronutrient Fertilisers
No full textPATENT: M.J. McLaughlin, S.P. Stacey, E. Lombi (Assigned to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty Ltd) AU 2006/225072 A1 (PCT/AU2006/000334) filed on Mar 15, 2006; published Sept 21, 2006; accepted on Sept 9, 2010; Standard Patents Sealed on Jan 13, 2011.According to the present invention, there is provided a method of sequestering micronutrients when used to provide the micronutrients to a plant, which comprises applying to an area of the plant or soil/substrate surrounding the plant an effective amount of a plant fertilizer composition comprising a surfactant, such as general formula (III), that is capable of forming coordinate bonds with micronutrients.Invented by M.J. McLaughlin, S.P. Stacey, E. Lombi; Assigned to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty Ltd; Collison & Co agent for the inventors
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
CCDC 1405714: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
No full textRelated Article: Bin Chen, Zhong-Peng Lv, Carol Hua, Chanel F. Leong, Floriana Tuna, Deanna M. D’Alessandro, David Collison, and Jing-Lin Zuo|2016|Inorg.Chem.|55|4606|doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b0043
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Interaction of cholinergic-dopaminergic systems in the regulation of memory storage in aversively motivated learning tasks
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