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Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Implications for Productive Factors in the U.S.
No full textThis report presents preliminary results of impacts on factors of production in the United States, following reductions in assistance to agriculture. Analysis was conducted by modifying the production structure of the U.S. country model in SWOPSIM to explicitly include inputs employed by agriculture. The results indicate that it is important to adequately model the production technology and include inputs, otherwise simulation results may not capture the impact of liberalization on input use and may not adequately represent changes in producer income.International Relations/Trade,
The Peter Martyr reader
No full textAccession Number: ATLA0001328116; Language(s): English; Issued by ATLA: 20080715; Publication Type: Review; Related Books/Electronic Resources: By: Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 Peter Martyr reader viii, 260 p. Publisher: Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 1999. ATLA0001327874Source type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=reh&AN=ATLA0001328116&loginpage=Login.asp&site=ehost-liv
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF COTTON INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES: REPLY
No full textCrop Production/Industries,
Influences of host community characteristics on Borrelia burgdorferi infection prevalence in Blacklegged ticks
No full textLyme disease is a major vector-borne bacterial disease in the USA. The disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, and transmitted among hosts and humans, primarily by blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis). The ~25 B. burgdorferi genotypes, based on genotypic variation of their outer surface protein C (ospC), can be phenotypically separated as strains that primarily cause human diseases – human invasive strains (HIS) – or those that rarely do – and are non-randomly associated with host species. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which phenotypic outcomes of B. burgdorferi could be explained by the host communities fed upon by blacklegged ticks. In 2006 and 2009, we determined the host community composition based on abundance estimates of the vertebrate hosts, and collected host-seeking nymphal ticks in 2007 and 2010 to determine the ospC genotypes within infected ticks. We regressed instances of B. burgdorferi phenotypes on site-specific characteristics of host communities by constructing Bayesian hierarchical models that properly handled missing data. The models provided quantitative support for the relevance of host composition on Lyme disease risk pertaining to B. burgdorferi prevalence (i.e., overall nymphal infection prevalence, or NIPAll) and HIS prevalence among the infected ticks (NIPHIS). In 2006, we found positive associations of the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews with NIPAll. We also found positive associations of NIPHIS with shrews, and with host community diversity (H’), but negative associations with mice, and with chipmunks. In 2009, the relative abundance of mice showed a positive association with NIPAll, whereas the relative abundance of shrews and of H’ showed a negative association. With NIPHIS, only H’ showed a positive association, whereas the relative abundances of mice, of chipmunks, and of shrews, had negative associations. Our study highlights the variability between two years in the effects of host composition on B. burgdorferi genotypes. More importantly, our results highlight how disease risk inference, based on the role of host community, changes when we examine risk overall or at the phenotypic level. Long-term studies will be necessary to detect any consistent effects of host community composition on genotypic variation in the Lyme disease spirochetes
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF COTTON INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
No full textCrop Production/Industries,
Author and Authority. John Gielgud's Prospero in Peter Greenway's "Prospero's Books"
No full textIn 1991, film director Peter Greenaway turned William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" into an experimental and visually daring film called "Prospero’s Books", starring John Gielgud as Prospero. Shot on 35mm film and edited making extensive use of electronic image processing, "Prospero’s Books" is a technologically advanced phantasmagoria that reveals the multiple aspects of Shakespeare's meta-masque. In the film, Gielgud voices all the characters, thus turning "The Tempest" into a creative act that unravels inside Prospero’s own mind. This way, "Prospero’s Books" questions the roles of the author, the actor and the director, taking "The Tempest" as a pre-text to a meta-linguistic meditation
Corolla size and temporal displacement of flowering times among sympatric diploid and tetraploid highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
No full textPolyploidy (whole-genome duplication) is common in vascular plants, but the modes of establishment and persistence, as well as the ecological consequences, of polyploidy remain vague. Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) is an ecologically and economically important understory shrub with an unclear species definition, coexisting in sympatric populations of diploid and tetraploid cytotypes. This study analyzes differences in bloom time between sympatric diploid and tetraploid V. corymbosum in natural populations, testing the potential for these cytotypes to interbreed and contributing to the formation and continuity of ploidy-level diversification within this species. Ploidal level was confirmed through DNA flow cytometry of sympatric plants from two populations in New Jersey, USA. Flower bloom date and corolla size were recorded over a three-year period. Diploid corollas were 32% smaller than tetraploid corollas, making them easily identifiable in the field. Ploidy accounted for 55-69% of the variation in bloom date, with diploids flowering about one week before tetraploids, and the remaining variation distributed among plants, among branches, and within branches. Notwithstanding these differences, there was modest overlap in flowering time between cytotypes, suggesting that cross-pollination is possible. This contributes evidence to the most current species definition of V. corymbosum as a single (mixed ploidy) species.Poster's Graduate Student Thesis Publication.Peer reviewed
Biomass Scenarios, Present and Future: Evaluation of WEC's and Hall's Projections and Comparison to IEW Poll Responses
No full textThis document was written at the conclusion of the author's participation in the 1993 YSSP program. The author has benefitted from discussions with Gilbert Ahamer, Leo Schrattenholzer, Alan Manne, and Wei Zhihong Peter de Janosi Director of IIASA iii iv Biomass Scenarios, Present and Future: Evaluation of WEC's and Hall's Projections and Comparison to IEW Poll Response
The multiplied author: in search of Peter Greenaway's artifices
No full textOrientador: Ivan Santo BarbosaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de ArtesResumo: O autor multiplicado: em busca dos artificios de Peter Greenaway Neste trabalho, centrado na obra cinematográfica de Peter Greenaway, investigo questões relativas à sua expressão autoral. Ao tratar da questão da autoria, levo em consideração o curso da obra e a conseqüente detecção de três fases de realização. Assim, sob o impulso do cinema experimental dos anos 60 e já esmaecido na década seguinte, Greenaway produzi14 dirigiu e montou, primeiramente, filmes não muito expressivos, mas, posteriormente, ganharia respaldo institucional para desenvolver projetos ousados na trilha de uma vanguarda tardia; os filmes realizados durante a década de oitenta testemunham um deslocamento abrupto de sua realização assumidamente experimental para o circuito de produção, distribuição e exibição do cinema de arte comercial. Finalmente, para análise do terceiro momento, exploro as relações entre o cinema, a televisão e as novas mídias, o que ID¿ fez retomar à década de 80, momento em que se verifica a exploração do meio por parte do diretor, dando prosseguimento, tal como nos primeiros filmes, ao ideal de resistência às formas dominantes da narrativa audiovisual. Em todo o trabalho, os filmes são analisados textual e contextualmente em suas feições culturais e históricas, direcionadas para decodificar uma explícita estética do artificio ensejada pela assinatura de Peter GreenawayAbstract: The multiplied author: in the search ofPeter Greenaway's artifices In this work, focused on Peter Greenaway's films, I investigate his authorial expression. Dealing with authorship, I took in account the films in their chronological development, to reveal, consequentIy, three realization phases. Thus, under the experimental cinema exploitation from the 60's and, then, faded in the following decade, he produced, directed and edited unexpressed films at first, but, later, he would have institutional sponsorship to develop audacious projects in a late avant-garde route. During the 80's, an abrupt displacement is testified in his films: Greenaway shifted from the experimental ghetto to the art cinema production, distribution and exhibi~ion circuit. Finally, to delimitate the last phase, I consider the relationship among film, television and new media; to accomplish this, a return to the 80's was necessary because Greenaway, since then, has been interacting to the medium, making use of a resistant approach to the dominant audiovisual forms, such as in the early films. In the whole work, the fihns are textually analyzed and a cultural and historical contextualization is envisaged, both aspects addressed to decode an explicit artificial aesthetic fonned under Peter Greenaway's signatureDoutoradoMultimeiosDoutor em Multimeio
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