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Design and Implementation of an Automatic Followspot Tracking System
No full textFor stage lighting, follow spot systems are in general manually operated, and therefore both labour intensive and expensive. This paper describes a 3rd year project as part of an electronics degree at the University of Southampton, which aims to automate a followspot tracking systems. The technique chosen utilises a wearable belt pack for the actor, which contains a radio receiver for synchronisation and an ultrasound transmitter, whose signal can be picked up by various stationary receivers on the stage. From these signals, the transport delay is determined, permitting the calculation the exact position of the pack by triangulation. The minimum accuracy of the system is around 10cm
Hay Price Forecasts at the State Level
No full textHigher prices for major crops (e.g., corn, soybeans and wheat) have received considerable attention by analysts, researchers, and producers. A common perception is that acres can be readily bid away from other crops to quickly return to equilibrium price levels. Seldom mentioned are crops that do not trade on a national platform. Principal among these crops probably would be hay from alfalfa and grass. A balance sheet model is developed at the state level for South Dakota. As a state with typically large carryover stocks of hay and multiple markets served, South Dakota presents a stark contrast to states with more stable production, supply, and use. Several structural relations and equations are presented to forecast acres, supply, and price through an inverse demand function. A discussion follows on how to update the price forecast as additional information is obtained. Suggestions are also offered on extending the model to other states.alfalfa price, feed demand, perennial crop, hay stocks, Agricultural Finance,
Hay Price Forecasts at the State Level
No full textHigher prices for major crops (e.g., corn, soybeans and wheat) have received considerable attention by analysts, researchers, and producers. A common perception is that acres can be readily bid away from other crops to quickly return to equilibrium price levels. Seldom mentioned are crops that do not trade on a national platform. Principal among these crops probably would be hay from alfalfa and grass. A balance sheet model is developed at the state level for South Dakota. As a state with typically large carryover stocks of hay and multiple markets served, South Dakota presents a stark contrast to states with more stable production, supply, and use. Several structural relations and equations are presented to forecast acres, supply, and price through an inverse demand function. A discussion follows on how to update the price forecast as additional information is obtained. Suggestions are also offered on extending the model to other states.alfalfa price, feed demand, perennial crop, hay stocks
Factors Affecting Hay Supply and Demand in Tennessee
No full textUnderstanding the interactions between supply and demand for hay is important because of hay’s significance to the agricultural sector and economy, and because hay is an important crop on highly erodible soils. As an example, Tennessee has the most erodible cultivated cropland in the United States (Denton, 2000), nearly half of the state’s current CRP acreage contracts are set to expire in 2007 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2006), and hay is one of the most economically important crops produced in the state (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2004). Cross (1999) attributed the upward trend in Tennessee hay acreage since 1980 to an increasing number of farmers who were searching for alternative production activities, such as hay, pasture and livestock, to replace row crops on erodible soils (U.S. Congress, House of Representatives and Senate, 2002). Hay ranked tenth in value of receipts in Tennessee at 500 million. Hay ranked second in value of production at 248 million over a five period from 2002 – 2006. Underscoring the importance of hay in Tennessee was the state’s national ranking of fourth in the production of other hay (excluding alfalfa) at 4.25 million tons in 2006 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2007). To quantify these supply and demand relationships, one must understand the characteristics of hay markets. Markets are usually localized because of the weight and bulky physical characteristics of hay. Although hay species are not identical, in many livestock production situations most are close substitutes, with the possible exception of alfalfa hay. In Tennessee, alfalfa is a differentiated hay product used mostly by dairy and equine producers. Nevertheless, alfalfa constituted only 2.5% of all hay produced in Tennessee in 2003 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2004) and its price tends to move proportionally with other hay prices; thus, for modeling purposes alfalfa and other hay can be aggregated as in Shumway’s (1983) study of Texas field crops and treated as a composite commodity (Nicholson, 2005) called hay. In 2002, 47,000 operations within the state produced forage, while on the demand side, 50,000 operations were involved in beef and dairy production with another 24,000 equine operations (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2004). Despite the lack of national and state central markets for hay (Cross, 1999), buyers and sellers seem to be aware of the current prices in their area. Word of mouth, a hay directory website (Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, 2005), and the Farm Facts bulletin (Tennessee Agricultural Statistics Service, 2004) are among the primary outlets for price discovery (Rawls, September 2004). Hay producers are typically assumed to be price takers (Shumway, 1983) because of the large numbers of sellers and buyers; nevertheless, search costs and price differentials can result from the lack of a central market. Even though hay and livestock producers have avenues for price determination in the short run, they have little information about what causes supply and demand for hay to change from year to year. The overall objective of this research was to illustrate how the understanding of hay markets can provide valuable information to hay and livestock producers and agricultural policymakers. Using the Tennessee hay market as an example, the specific objectives were to: 1) determine the factors that influence Tennessee hay supply and quantify their effects, 2) determine the factors that influence Tennessee hay demand and quantify their effects, and 3) briefly illustrate the importance of hay supply and demand information to policymakers. Estimating factors that influence hay supply and demand can help to provide hay and livestock producers with valuable information for making more informed business decisions and policymakers with insight into how proposed agricultural policies might affect hay and livestock producers. To accomplish the objectives, Tennessee hay supply and demand were modeled econometrically, and the coefficients of the models were used to quantify hay acreage, yield, and price responses to the factors that influence the Tennessee hay market. The results were then used to briefly illustrate the potential impacts on the 2008 Tennessee hay price from the retirement of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acreage in 2007. Hay acreage proved to be fairly unresponsive to output and input prices in both the short and long runs. The weak response of hay acreage to own and substitute crop prices may result from many hay producers also being cattle producers that harvest their own hay in an effort to guarantee a reliable supply of roughage to feed their herds throughout the winter months. They might be willing to give up potentially higher profits from a production alternative to avert the risk of feed shortages for their cattle. The hay price appeared to be responsive to real per capita income with a price flexibility of 1.55. This finding is reasonable because an increase in real per capita income results in more purchasing power for a typical household. As purchasing power increases, one would expect beef consumption to increase because beef is a normal good (Schroeder and Mark, 1999). Increased beef consumption would positively influence the derived demand for beef production inputs; hence, increased demand for hay. A weak response of hay price to the quantity of hay produced (HPRODt) could be explained by the hay market structure. First, some livestock farmers may produce large amounts of hay for their own livestock, much of which is not sold on the market. These farmers may be able to produce hay at a lower cost than market price, or they may be willing to forgo the potential cost savings from buying hay from an off-farm source to avert the risk of feed shortages for their cattle. Additionally, unlike the market for corn or cattle, the hay market is much less organized and structured. Farmers producing hay for the cash market have no nearby and convenient grain elevator or auction market at which to sell their product. Weak response to changes in hay quantity and price suggests that hay farmers may not be driven solely by the profit motive. Instead, other motives may also enter into their objective functions as utility maximizers.acreage response, derived demand, elasticities, hay, inverse demand function, price flexibilities, yield response, Crop Production/Industries, Demand and Price Analysis, D,
SEQUENTIAL STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION DECISIONS FOR A PERENNIAL CROP: THE YIELD/QUALITY TRADEOFF FOR ALFALFA HAY
No full textThe "optimal cutting schedule" for alfalfa hay is described as a function of the trade-off between rising yield and falling quality of alfalfa over time and the local market prices being offered for different qualities of hay during the harvest season. Field test results quantify the yield/quality tradeoff for a California case study. A general decision rule is then derived to assist growers in making cutting decisions during a season. Finally, the optimal cutting schedule is shown to be the sum of sequential decisions for cuttings throughout the harvest season, with no schedule being best a priori.Crop Production/Industries,
La acción civil en el proceso penal: elementos subjetivos
No full textLa regulación actual relativa al ejercicio acumulado de la acción civil a la penal en una causa criminal resulta a todas luces anacrónica. Esto es así porque es evidente que el proceso penal actual no ha de limitarse a ser exclusivamente el escenario para el ejercicio del 'ius puniendi' del Estado, sino que debe ser además el lugar de encuentro de todas aquellas personas afectadas por la comisión de un ilícito penal, facilitando así la obtención de la justicia proclamada por el Estado Social. En el presente trabajo hemos tratado de analizar cuál es el alcance y contenido que la acción civil ejercitable en el proceso penal ha cobrado en nuestros días. La apuesta del legislador penal por la institución de la acumulación heterogénea de acciones, que nos ha situado a la cabeza de los sistemas más modernos en protección a las víctimas de delitos, requiere en este momento de un nuevo impulso que permita adecuarla a las nuevas tendencias y necesidades de la justicia penal. De nada serviría el acierto del legislador de 1882 al diseñar una institución tan encomiable como ésta, si la misma permaneciese inalterable frente a los nuevos tiempos que corren
Penerjemahan Cerita Anak Kitab Syajarah Al-Hay?t Karya Kamil Kailani Dengan Pendekatan Komunikatif
No full textPenerjemahan Cerita Anak Kitab Syajarah al-Hayat Karya Kamil Kailani dengan Pendekatan Komunikatif, Skripsi Program Studi Tarjamah, Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora, Universitas Islam Negri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penerjemahan cerita anakkitab Syajarah al-Hay?t karya Kamil Kailani yang peneliti terjemahkansendiri dengan pendekatan komunikatif. Proses dan strategi penerjemahankomunikatif dalam pengumpulan dan pengklasifikasian kata, frasa danklausa yang dipadankan dari bahasa Arab (BSu) ke dalam bahasaIndonesia (BSa) diperoleh melalui proses analysing, translating &transferring, serta restructuring, kemudian beberapa strategipenerjemahan seperti, hadzf (menghapus), ziyadah (menambahkan), tabdil(mengganti), transposisi, peminjaman, ekuivalen, dll. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif yaitu penelitian dengan cara mengumpulkan, mengklasifiksikan dan menganalisis kata dan frasa secaranon statistik. Hasil penelitian ini menemukan ada 59 data yang terdiri dari28 kata, 29 frasa, dan 12 klausa. Data yang diperoleh dari hasil analisistersebut diterjemahkan berdasarkan pemilihan padanan yang disesuaikandengan pembaca teks sasaran, guna menciptakan terjemahan komunikatifdengan tidak menghilangkan pesan pada teks sumber. Hasil dari penelitianini dijelaskan melalui sebuah pertanggungjawaban peneliti terhadaptemuan data yang kemudian menghasilkan sebuah produk terjemahancerita anak menggunakan penerjemahan komunikatif yang berorientasikepada bahasa sasaranxvii, 112 Hlm, 25 C
Body weight and statistic vital of Texel sheep in Wonosobo District by giving the ramie hay as an additional woof
No full textAbstract. Kuntjoro A, Sutarno, Astirin OP. 2009. Body weight and statistic vital of Texel sheep in Wonosobo District by giving the
ramie hay as an additional woof. Nusantara Bioscience 1: 23-30. This research is aimed to observe the body weight and statistic vital
measurement of 50 Texel sheep. Sheep are classified into five treatments of giving woof P0 (giving tree greenish woof without
concentrate), P1 (giving greenish woof and concentrate without adding the ramie hay/0%) concentrate), P2 (giving greenish woof and
concentrate by adding 10%) ramie hay), P3 (giving greenish woof and concentrate by adding 20%) ramie hay), P4 (giving greenish
woof and concentrate by adding 30%) ramie hay), every treatment was repeated 10 times. The result shows that even it can’t yet replace
the concentrate function, but adding ramie hay as much as 10%), 20%) and 30%) on sheep woof can increase the body weight’s growth
respectively 186.67 g/day, 153.34 g/day dan 103.34 g/day. The addition of ramie hay 10%), 20%) and 30%) can increase the addition of
statistic vital’s measurement on breast of sheep livestock 1.20 cm); 0.95 cm) and 0.90 cm); the addition of statistic vital measurement on
the body length of sheep livestock 0.05 cm); 1.00 cm) and 0.75 cm) and also the addition of breast width is 1.50 cm); 0.15 cm) and 0.3
cm). Meanwhile the addition of ramie hay on livestock woof can only increase the addition of statistic vital mesurement on breast at
giving 30%) as big as 0.15 cm). It is needed to know further on giving ramie hay by concentration comparasion of hay of different leaf
and stem
Hay, T N, 56177
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/391191Surname: HAY. Given Name(s) or Initials: T N. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 56177. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 56945.207461
Item: [2016.0049.23484] "Hay, T N, 56177
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