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U.S. Senator James O. Eastland Staff Reading Stories on L. Patrick Gray Nomination
No full textU.S. Senator James O. Eastland staff member reading news stories about L. Patrick Gray nomination as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
M. Patrick Graham & Steven L. McKenzie (ed.), The Chronicler as Author. Studies in Text and Texture, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 263), ISBN 1-84127-057-1
No full textRobert Philippe de. M. Patrick Graham & Steven L. McKenzie (ed.), The Chronicler as Author. Studies in Text and Texture, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 263), ISBN 1-84127-057-1. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 80e année n°2, Avril-juin 2000. p. 297
Chas. White, author of Story of Australian bushranging ; Dr. Pechey, present at Keightly episode ... [picture] /
No full textIncludes portrait of Captain Starlight from: Robbery under arms / by Rolf Boldrewood.; Exhibited: "Bushrangers and Bandits", National Museum of Australia, June 2002 - June 2003.; Exhibited: "In the Line of Duty: Policing in Australia 1788 - 2006", Old Parliament House, August 2006 - February 2007. AuCNL. Portraits and inscriptions (top L to R): Chas. White author of Story of Australian bushranging; Dr. Pechey present at Keightly episode; Hipkiss gave Ben Hall first death wound at Billabong 5th May -65; Ver. Rev. Dr. Gibney heroic rescue at Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Superintnt Hare author of Last of the bushrangers; Ben Hall; Lowry; Starlight; T. Clarke; Rutherford; Martin Cash Tasmanian outlaw after sentence lived a respected farmer; Const. Bracken escaped from Kellys Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Insr Stephenson daring capture & shooting of Lowry; McKinley [McKinlay?], Burns & Day daring shooting & capture of Angel & Thurston; J. Hawthorne now a squatter Wee Waa daring capture of Dunne
Barriers to trade in Sub-Saharan Africa food markets
Get PDFThis continent-wide review of studies on price transmission implemented for the global, regional cross-border, within-country urban and within-country rural market segments provides a broad overview of current conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa food markets and provides insights into how market development varies across regions and crops. The review focuses on barriers to trade, both those related to policy and those related to general market development. Observations in the reviewed studies show that there are several long-run and short-run factors that have inhibited, and currently inhibit, food trade in the analysed markets. The long-run factors are related to general market development, such as imperfect substitutability between imported and domestic produce and infrastructure deficiencies. Short-run factors include intermittent changes in trade and/or tax policy and changes in self-sufficiency status. In only a few cases were no barriers to trade identified, and these were for highly traded foods between markets within countries. Since tradability is an indicator of market development, greater policymaker and donor partner attention is needed to remove barriers to trade, especially for foods that are efficiently produced domestically but do not yet have a welldeveloped domestic or international market
Response of marine communities to local temperature changes
No full textAs global climate change and variability drive shifts in species’ distributions, ecological communities are being reorganized. One approach to understand community change in response to climate change has been to characterize communities by a collective thermal preference, or community temperature index (CTI), and then to compare changes in CTI with changes in temperature. However, important questions remain about whether and how responsive communities are to changes in their local thermal environments. We used CTI to analyze changes in 160 marine assemblages (fish and invertebrates) across the rapidly-changing Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem and calculated expected community change based on historical relationships between species presence and temperature from a separate training dataset. We then compared interannual and long-term temperature changes with expected community responses and observed community responses over both temporal scales. For these marine communities, we found that community composition as well as composition changes through time could be explained by species associations with bottom temperature. Individual species had non-linear responses to changes in temperature, and these nonlinearities scaled up to a nonlinear relationship between CTI and temperature. On average, CTI increased by 0.36°C (95% CI: 0.34–0.38°C) for every 1°C increase in bottom temperature, but the relationship between CTI and temperature also depended on community composition. In addition, communities responded more strongly to interannual variation than to long-term trends in temperature. We recommend that future research into climate-driven community change accounts for nonlinear responses and examines ecological responses across a range of temporal and geographical scales.Peer reviewe
Job final report, anadromous fish project
Get PDFprepared by: Patrick L. Keeley, Thomas E. Nickelson, Fishery Biologists, Research Division."Project period: July 1, 1973 - June 30, 1974."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 18).Financed in part with Anadromous Fish Act (PL 89-304) funds through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 14-16-0001-5158 AFS-62 3.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Food Security Crop Price Transmission and Formation in Nigeria
Get PDFThe three studies in this dissertation explore the current conditions and operations of markets for seven key food security crops (cassava, cowpeas, maize, millet, rice, sorghum, and yams) in Nigeria. Chapter 2 is an empirical analysis of the current agricultural statistics system in Nigeria. A number of sources gather and report agricultural statistics for the country. Since there has not been an agricultural census implemented there for multiple decades, however, there is no objective source for data verification. Therefore, this study uses two additional types of “on the ground information” to assess if agricultural production estimates reflect growing conditions: prices and remote sensing data in the form of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The results show that existing production estimates are poorly correlated with both prices and the NDVI. Prices and the NDVI data are highly correlated, however. These findings imply that existing production estimates do not reflect growing conditions, and, therefore, are of poor quality. Chapter 3 is a comprehensive analysis of crop price transmission from global and neighbor country prices to Nigerian commercial hub and urban markets, and from commercial hubs to other urban and rural markets within the country. The results show that tradability matters for price transmission, but that tradability varies across crops and scopes of markets. Nigerian urban rice prices are highly correlated with prices on global markets and those in neighboring countries. Coarse grain prices appear disconnected from global markets, however, but move closely with those in neighboring countries. Large margins were estimated for prices of rice imported from global markets (in all regions), and for coarse grains to Southern Nigerian markets only. The existence of large margins implies that there are transactions costs and/or quality premiums that vary systematically with the world price, and/or mark-ups by traders with market power in these markets. While domestic market prices are almost always cointegrated, perfect price transmission is generally found only between commercial hubs and other urban markets. Moreover, long lags were found for price transmission across all scopes of markets, but especially between urban and rural prices in some regions. These results imply that local conditions (e.g., weather) are relatively more important than external market prices for explaining price variation in rural markets, especially in the short-run. Chapter 4 incorporates NDVI data into price formation models to estimate whether observable growing conditions explain price variation in Nigerian food security crop markets. Four issues related to use of NDVI data that exist within the literature are investigated: whether NDVI is a valid proxy for expected production, how NDVI is a proxy for seasonality, the relationship between market size and the area scope used to average NDVI values across space, and if anomalous harvest expectations can change long-run price variation and price relationships between markets. The results show that information on growing conditions is more informative for isolated than interconnected markets. Even for those local prices, however, other non-weather and non-external market price factors are relatively more important for explanation of price variation. An implication of these results is that Nigeria cannot plausibly rely solely on direct imports from global markets to meet short-run demand during future weather shock periods. Thus, storage is required to ensure stability of food security, either for imports or domestically produced surpluses acquired in non-crisis periods. Given the isolation of rural markets, local and on-farm stocks are at least as important as large facilities in commercial hubs. Improvement of village level and on-farm storage systems and elimination of other market distortions that inhibit trade between urban and rural markets would make public storage less needed. The findings on poor quality of agricultural statistics indicate a clear priority to improve agricultural data, to facilitate better planning of any food security strategies. A combination of surveys with remote sensed and crowd sourced data may improve feasibility in the funding constrained environment
1972 Jay-Cee-An BJC -- Page 104
No full textPhotographs of BJC freshmenFiechtner, Ronald A.
Foss, ylene K.
Fowler, Clarinda R.
Fraase, Candyce R.
Fracassi, Dennis F.
Fracassi, Leonard H.
Frank, Paulette A.
Frappia, Anne L.
Fredericks. Luke
Freeman. Larry D.
Freith. Terrance R.
Fn"~~. Sonald C.
Frieson. Douglas J.
Froelich, Theodore A.
Froelick, Linda S.
Galster, Judy E.
Gartner, Martie K.
Gehring, John D.
Gerbig, Kathy A.
Gilbertson, Jerry L.
Gilchrist, Marie E.
Gilman, Diann L.
G lass, Derrick A.
Glaser, Lusille A.
G leeson, George J.
Glood, Charles J.
Glum, David C.
Goldmann. Mark H.
Gossett, A nnelle M.
Grade, Larry R.
Graff, Vivian
Graner, Gordon D.
Graner, Lucinda
Gress, Elizabeth M.
Griffin, Gary D.
Grorud, Craig B.
Grosz, Cindi C.
Guier, Brian L.
Gunsch, Donald D.
Gwin, Vivian
Haar, Patrick L.
Haas, Fred C.
Hagarty, Patrick J.
Hall, Pamela J.
Halvorsen, Vicki
Halvorson, Merlyn J.
Haman, Clayton D.
Hanson, Carla M.
Hammeren, Kenneth E
Hanson, Keith C.
Hanson, Kenneth C.
Harrington, Fay L.
Hart. Cary R.
Hatzenbuehler, Duane S.
Hatzenbuhler, Darryl J.
Hatzenbuhler, Lorraine
Hauff, Jerry L.
Haugarth. Linda C.
Hausauer. James C.
Hegland, Roy N.
Hehr, Coradine M.
Heintzman, Timothy J.
Hedberg, Gerald K.
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Filiation et écriture de l'Histoire chez Patrick Modiano et Monika Maron
No full textThis study deals with the relationship between filiation and the writing of history in the works of two contemporary authors, the French author Patrick Modiano and the German novelist Monika Maron. Both authors approach history mainly through family romance. First, the two authors are situated in their respective literary environment, and some key notions are developed in detail, such as autobiography, autofiction, and family romance. On that basis, the fictional characters that bear marks of filiation are portrayed by confronting biographical facts with their fictional transpositions. A subsequent analysis of narrative structures reveals that the past and history do not only have an impact on contents, but also on the form of the narrative. Special attention is paid to the way history is told, which turns out to be complex, oscillating between historical objectivity, fantasy, and fiction. The access to history through family romance empha! sizes the memorial aspect of the writing of history. Consequently, personal identity is defined in terms of heritage, both family heritage and historical heritage. In this respect, Patrick Modiano and Monika Maron belong to an entire school of writing, the “generational literature” of the second half of the 20th century.Ce travail se propose d´étudier le rapport entre la filiation et l´écriture de l´Histoire chez deux écrivains contemporains : le Français Patrick Modiano et la romancière allemande Monika Maron. Chez ces auteurs, le « roman familial » constitue un accès privilégié à l´Histoire. Après avoir replacé les deux écrivains dans leurs paysages littéraires respectifs et précisé des notions utiles comme l´autobiographie, l´autofiction et le roman familial, le travail s´attache à dégager les figures de la filiation dans les deux œuvres en confrontant les données biographiques à leurs transpositions romanesques. Une étude des structures narratives montre ensuite que le passé et l´Histoire n´interviennent pas seulement au niveau thématique mais influencent jusqu´à la forme du récit. Un intérêt tout particulier est porté aux modalités d´une écriture de l´Histoire qui se révèle complexe, entre objectivité historique, fantasme et fiction. L´approche par la filiation confère à l´écriture de l´Histoire une forte dimension mémorielle. La question de l´identité se pose alors en termes d´héritage familial et historique. En cela, Patrick Modiano et Monika Maron s´inscrivent dans l´ensemble plus large d´une littérature « générationnelle » de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle
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