21 research outputs found
1994 Agriculture Outlook & Policy Issues
No full textIntroduction – Sam Cordes, Department Head
1994 General Economic Outlook — A.L. (Roy) Frederick
Agricultural Export Trading Companies: Their Potential for Nebraska Under NAFTA – Robert L. McGeorge
NAFTA and Agriculture in Nebraska – Jay E. Rempe and E. Wesley F. Peterson
Long-term Trends in Nebraska\u27s Farm Product Mix – Rlchard K. Perrin
The State of the State\u27s Transportation System – Dale G. Anderson
Issues For The 1994 Nebraska Legislature –A.L. (Roy) Frederlck
Agricultural Income and Finance Outlook – H. Doug Jose
Production Cost Prospects for 1994 – H. Doug Jose
1994 Custom Rates Outlook – Raymond E. Massey
Projected U.S. and Nebraska Tractor Sales – Dennis M. Conley
Soybean Outlook for 1994 – Lynn H. Lutgen
Corn Outlook for 1994 – Lynn H. Lutgen
Wheat Outlook for 1994 – Lynn H. Lutgen
1994 Slaughter Cattle Outlook – Allen C. Wellman
1994 Feeder Cattle Outlook – Allen C. Wellman
1994 Slaughter Hog Outlook – Allen C. Wellman
Nebraska\u27s Role in the Changing Pork Industry – Jefrey S. Royer
Local Grain Basis: What Changes It, Outlook for 1994 – James Kendrick
Future Sources of Agricultural Marketing Information – Daryl E. Ellis
Agricultural Land Market Conditions and Trends – Bruce Johnson
Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 on Nebraska Taxpayers – George H. Pfeiffer
Adjusting Plantings, Farm Program Participation and Crop Insurance Coverage in 1994 – Roger Selley
Crop Insurance in 1994 – H. Doug Jose
Nebraska\u27s CRP and Producer Intentions for Future Use – Richard T. Clark. Steven L. Elmore, Maurice Baker, and Bruce Johnson
Payments Required for Renewal of Nebraska CRP Contracts – Steven L. Elmore, Maurice Baker, Rlchard T. Clark, and Bruce Johnson
Solid Waste Management: Debatable Issues – Wanda Leonard
Water Policy Developments in 1993: Implications for Agriculture – Raymond J. Supalla
Must Farmers be Regulated to Maintain Water quality? – Raymond J. Supalla
State Pesticide Regulations – J. David Aiken
Implications of Environmental Compliance on the Retail Fertilizer and Ag Chemical Industry – Michael S. Turner and Keith Volker
Pathogens in the U.S. Food Supply– Rlchard K. Perrin
Limited Liability Companies and Initiative 300 – J. David Aiken
Community Change in Nebraska – .John C. Allen
Locally Directed Rural Economic Development Experiences – Duane A. Olsen and Bruce Johnson
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Managing the civil service : what LDCs can learn from developed country reforms
No full textThe author examines current civil service management (CSM) practices in advanced countries to provide guidance for developing country governments that face the dilemma of how to recruit, retain, and motivate appropriately skilled staff at affordable costs, given a limited human resource base. Advanced country administrations are following two distinct paths to improving CSM. Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, are engaged insweeping"managerialist"reforms to decentralize civil service functions and make them more responsive to the client public. By introducing complex financial reporting systems, managers have increased autonomy; some functions are spun off into semi-autonomous agencies operating on an increasingly commercial basis. By contrast, other industrialized countries, such as Singapore, have retained more traditional, largely centralized civil service structures, pursuing only incremental improvements in specific aspects of CSM. The author speculates about what is likely to work best in developing country administrations: Centralized civil service management models provide the best starting point for most developing countries because decentralized agency systems require technological and human resources beyond their capabilities. Some better-endowed countries could use certain agency-type features selectively. Such administrations could establish strategic plans to move toward a fuller agency system as their institutional capabilities increase. Developing countries face trade-offs in choosing which CSM functions should be strengthened first. Two functions - personnel establishment control and staff recruitment - are essential for civil service performance and should get top priority. Senior Executive Services have proved difficult to design and implement in advanced countries, but many flaws can be corrected in adapting them to developing countries, where there is often an urgent need to groom higher-level staff. Assuming minimal, essential levels of personnel establishment and budgetary control, unified pay and classification could be relaxed in developing countries, following the lead of increasing numbers of advanced countries that have done this. Given the urgency of other CSM tasks, lower priority should be assigned to reform involving performance pay, the benefits of which have yet to be demonstrated in the public sectors of developed countries. The management requirements and costs of installingperformance pay systems can be considerable and employee resistance may subvert such efforts. But performance-related promotion systems, even if imperfectly implemented, can help move developing country civil service values toward standards of competence and merit.National Governance,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Work&Working Conditions,Governance Indicators,Public Sector Economics&Finance
Diversity in leadership: Australian women, past and present
No full textThis book provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts.
Overview
While leadership is an over-used term today, how it is defined for women and the contexts in which it emerges remains elusive. Moreover, women are exhorted to exercise leadership, but occupying leadership positions has its challenges. Issues of access, acceptable behaviour and the development of skills to be successful leaders are just some of them.
Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts. It brings interdisciplinary expertise to the topic from leading scholars in a range of fields and diverse backgrounds. The aims of the essays in the collection document the extent and diverse nature of women’s social and political leadership across various pursuits and endeavours within democratic political structures
Resilient places? The healthcare gardens and the Maggie's Centres
No full textThis thesis takes as its focus the Maggie’s Cancer Centres exploring for the first time the impact of their designed gardens. This research is situated within the immediate context of Maggie’s ambitions as an organisation and looks closely at their design process. It is also set within the wider debates about the effects of green space on health and the historical context of the restorative garden. By exploring both historical and contemporary examples, it argues that a healthcare garden may be a space for transformation.
Using four different Maggie’s gardens as case studies, the research seeks to investigate the role of these outdoor spaces and their impact on users. Through ethnographic and sensory methods, each garden is considered and mapped. It looks at the design brief and the intentions of the designers’, but the core work is an exploration of the experiences of staff and visitors. The focus is on the everyday use of these gardens as well as the design historiography. The experiences of gardens within healthcare are examined in order to expose the ways in which gardens, people, health and care are entwined.
Through the qualitative research process this thesis develops a new hypothesis as to how healthcare gardens may operate – offering a new definition for them as “resilient places”. Careful analysis of the data reveals the specific networks and affordances presented by these gardens. The thesis argues, based on the evidence of users, that healthcare gardens can uniquely embrace certain “essences” where essence is defined as conveying a quality or attribute. These garden essences are identified as thresholds, sensory richness, the density of time and homeliness. The thesis also argues that a healthcare garden can provide specific and unique opportunities for care and this, in turn, can enhance the healing ethos of an organisation such as Maggie’s
Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
No full textThree groups are examined: the family, followers and friends. The structure,functions and tensions of these groups are described and their dynamics analysed in the fields of decision making and conflict resolution.
The approach offers a dialectic between Latin and French sources, historical and literary, and social science theories. This opens up new avenues for analysis and allows a holistic description of medieval politics and society.
The family comprised parents and their children. Within this small unit affection was very strong; outside, it quickly declined. Although uncles and nephews had political links there was considerably less emotional attachment between them than between parent-child and sibling relationships.
Three types of follower are examined: household retainers, enfeoffed tenants and 'neighbours'. Household knights had the strongest emotional bonds to their lord and were
seen as the most loyal. Tenants who performed homage were called `men'; 'vassal' is shown to mean 'good follower'. An aristocrat exercised considerable control within his lands and beyond them he maintained some power. In these areas people may have obeyed his will without having any direct link with him. Such people were often called 'neighbours'.
Informal influences such as love and fear are shown to have more force than the formal bonds created through homage and oaths. Concepts of 'treason' and 'defiance' are also examined.
Five types of friendship are identified: friendship as courtesy, formal friendship, emotional friendship, company and companionship. Calling someone 'friend' was a sign of
politeness. Political agreements, often termed covenants, created formal bonds of friendship. A new methodology for investigating emotional friendship is proposed. Groups with a strong identity were called companies. Companionship was a close bond, usually between two men, that combined elements of formal and emotional friendship.
This description of the socio-political dynamics of the aristocracy offers an alternative to earlier models and greatly enhances our understanding of Anglo-Norman politics and society
Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
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Proceedings of Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design, FMCAD 2009
No full textTable of Contents: Preface (p. v) -- Organizing Committee (p. vii) -- Program Committee (p. vii) -- Referees (p. ix) -- Keynote Presentations (p. x) -- Tutorials (p. xii) -- Industrial Experience Reports (p. xiv) -- Panels (p. xvii) -- Session 1. Model Checking -- Interpolation-Sequence Based Model Checking / by Yakir Vizel and Orna Grumberg, The Technion (p. 1) -- Structure-Aware Computation of Predicate Abstraction / by Alessandro Cimatti, FBK-irst; Jori Dubrovin, Helsinki University of Technology; Tommi Junttila, Helsinki University of Technology; and Marco Roveri, FBK-irst (p. 9) -- Enhanced Verification by Temporal Decomposition / by Michael L. Case, Hari Mony, Jason Baumgartner, and Robert Kanzelman, IBM (p. 17) -- Session 2. Software Verification -- Software Model Checking via Large-Block Encoding / by Dirk Beyer, Simon Fraser University; Alessandro Cimatti, FBK-irst; Alberto Griggio, University of Trento & Simon Fraser University; M. Erkan Keremoglu, Simon Fraser University; and Roberto Sebastiani, University of Trento (p. 25) -- Verification of Recursive Methods on Tree-like Data Structures / by Jyotirmoy Deshmukh and E. Allen Emerson, University of Texas at Austin (p. 33) -- MCC: A Runtime Verification Tool for MCAPI User Applications / by Subodh Sharma and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah; Eric Mercer, Brigham Young University; and Jim Holt, Freescale Semiconductor (p. 41) -- Session 3. Satisfiability Modulo Theory -- Generalized and Efficient Array Decision Procedures / by Leonardo de Moura and Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft Research (p. 45) -- Decision Diagrams for Linear Arithmetic / by Sagar Chaki and Arie Gurfinkel, SEI/CMU; Ofer Strichman, Technion (p. 53) -- Efficient Decision Procedure for Non-linear Arithmetic Constraints using CORDIC / by Malay Ganai and Franjo Ivančić, NEC Laboratories America (p. 61) -- Mixed Abstractions for Floating-Point Arithmetic / by Angelo Brillout, ETH Zurich; Daniel Kroening and Thomas Wahl, Oxford University (p. 69) -- Session 4. Games -- Safety First: A Two-Stage Algorithm for LTL Games / by Saqib Sohail and Fabio Somenzi, University of Colorado at Boulder (p. 77) -- Synthesizing Robust Systems / by Roderick Bloem and Karin Greimel, Graz University of Technology; Thomas Henzinger, EPFL & IST Austria; Barbara Jobstmann, EPFL (p. 85) -- Session 5. Quantitative Reasoning -- Formal Verification of Analog Designs Using MetiTarski / by William Denman, Behzad Akbarpour, and Sofiène Tahar, Concordia University, Montreal; Mohamed H. Zaki, University of British Columbia; and Lawrence Paulson, University of Cambridge (p. 93) -- Formal Verification of Correctness and Performance of Random Priority-based Arbiters / by Krishnan Kailas, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Viresh Paruthi and Brian Monwai, IBM Systems & Technology Group (p. 101) -- Session 6. Assume Guarantee Reasoning -- Assume-Guarantee Validation for STE Properties within an SVA Environment / by Zurab Khasidashvili and Gavriel Gavrielov, Intel Israel; and Tom Melham, Oxford University (p. 108) -- Data Mining Based Decomposition for Assume-Guarantee Reasoning / by He Zhu and Fei He, Tsinghua University; William N. N. Hung, Synopsys; Xiaoyu Song, Portland State University; and Ming Gu, Tsinghua University (p. 116) -- Session 7. Equivalence Checking -- Scalable Conditional Equivalence Checking: An Automated Invariant-Generation Based Approach / by Jason Baumgartner, Hari Mony, and Michael Case, IBM Systems & Technology Group; Jun Sawada, IBM Austin Research Laboratory; and Karen Yorav, IBM Haifa (p. 120) -- Verifying Equivalence of Memories Using a First Order Logic Theorem Prover / by Zurab Khasidashvili and Mahmoud Kinanah, Intel Israel; and Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester (p. 128) -- A Compositional Theory for Post-Reboot Observational Equivalence Checking of Hardware / by Zurab Khasidashvili, Daher Kaiss, and Doron Bustan, Intel Israel (p. 136) -- Session 8. Debugging -- Scaling VLSI Design Debugging with Interpolation / by Brian Keng and Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto (p. 144) -- Debugging Formal Specifications Using Simple Counterstrategies / by Robert Könighofer, Georg Hofferek, and Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology (p. 152) -- Connecting Pre-silicon and Post-silicon Verification / by Sandip Ray and Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin (p. 160) -- Session 9. Case Studies and Verification in the Large -- A Verified Platform for a Gate-Level Electronic Control Unit / by Sergey Tverdyshev, Saarland University (p. 164) -- Protocol Verification Using Flows: An Industrial Experience / by John O’Leary, Murali Talupur, and Mark Tuttle, Intel (p. 172) -- Industrial Strength Refinement Checking / by Jesse Bingham, John Erickson, Gaurav Singh, and Flemming Andersen, Intel (p. 180) -- Towards a Formally Verified Network-on-Chip / by Tom van den Broek and Julien Schmaltz, Radboud University Nijmegen (p. 184) -- Hardware/Software Co-Verification of Cryptographic Algorithms using Cryptol / by Levent Erkök, Magnus Carlsson, and Adam Wick, Galois, Inc. (p. 188) -- Session 10. Synthesis -- Retiming and Resynthesis with Sweep Are Complete for Sequential Transformation / by Hai Zhou, Northwestern University (p. 192) -- SAT-Based Synthesis of Clock Gating Functions Using 3-Valued Abstraction / by Eli Arbel, Oleg Rokhlenko, and Karen Yorav, IBM Haifa (p. 198) -- Finding Heap-Bounds for Hardware Synthesis / by Byron Cook, MSR; Ashutosh Gupta, MPI-SWS; Stephen Magill, CMU; Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI-SWS; Jiri Simsa, CMU; Satnam Singh, MSR; and Viktor Vafeiadis, MSR (p. 205) -- Author Index (p. 213)15-18 November, 2009 in Austin, TexasIEEE, IBM, Intel, Jasper Design Automation, NEC Labs America, NVIDIAhttp://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/Computer Scienc
Correction to: Impact of intensive care unit supportive care on the physiology of Ebola virus disease in a universally lethal non-human primate model
No full textPlease note that four authors (Logan Banadyga, Alixandra Albietz, Brad Pickering, and Gary Wong) have been erroneously omitted from the author list in the published original article [1]
Questions of popular cult(ure)
No full textQuestions of Popular Cult(ure) works in the uncomfortable and unclear spaces of popular culture. This thesis demonstrates how cult cauterizes ambiguity and functions as a framing agent for unpopular politics in popular culture. In tracking the flows and hesitations in the postwar period through the rise of the New Right and identity politics, this thesis shows how cult contains moving and malleable meanings that maneuver through everyday life. It is a slippery and slight subject that denies coherent categorization in definitional frames.
This thesis negotiates this liminality by tracking broad social shifts in race, class and gender through textualised traces. The complicated concept of cult is activated within a series of case studies. These chapters are linked together to demonstrate the volatile variance of the cult category.
Section one contextualises the terrain of the intellectual work in this thesis. It paints broad brush-strokes of the postwar period, through an animated intersection of politics and popular culture. The first chapter defines the currency of cult in contemporary times. It is devoted to investigating the relationships between colonisation and popular culture. By pondering postcolonialism, this chapter prises open thirdspace to consider how writing and madness performs proximity in the pre and post-colonial world. The 'maddening' of cargo cults by colonisers in Melanesia operates as a metonym for the regulation of marginal modalities of resistance. In popular culture, this trajectory of insane otherness has corroded, with the subversion of cult being appropriated by fan discourses, as worship has become 'accountable' for the mainstream market.
Chapter two unpacks The X-Files as a text tracking the broad changes in politics through popular culture. This innovative text has moved from marginality into the mainstream, mapping meanings through the social landscape. Consciousness and reflexivity in the popular embeds this text in a cult framework, as it demonstrates the movement in meanings and the hegemonic hesitations of the dominant in colonising (and rewriting) the interests of the subordinate as their own.
Section two creates a dialogue between gendered politics and contemporary popular culture. The changes to the consciousness in masculinity and femininity are captured by Tank Girl, Tomb Raider, Henry Rollins and Spike (from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer). These texts perform the wavering popularity of feminism and the ascent of men's studies in intellectual inquiry. Tank Girl articulates unpopular feminist politics through the popular mode of film. The movement to more mainstream feminism is threaded through the third wave embraced by Tomb Raider that reinscribes the popular paradigms of femininity, via colonisation. The computer game discourse permits a pedagogy of power to punctuate Lara Croft's virtual surfaces and shimmer through the past into the present.
Tracking this historical movement, two chapters on masculinity brew the boom in men's studies' questioning of manhood. Henry Rollins is a metonym for an excessive and visible masculinity, in an era where men have remained an unmarked centre of society. His place within peripheral punk performance settles his inversionary identity. Spike from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer demonstrates the contradictions in manhood by moving through the masculine hierarchy to deprioritise men in the public sphere. This is a mobile masculinity in a time where changeability has caused a 'crisis' for men. Both these men embody a challenging and confrontational gender politics. Cult contains these characters within different spaces, at varying times and through contradictory politics.
Section three ponders the place and role of politics at its most persistent and relevant. It demonstrates the consequences for social justice in an era of New Right ideologies. The chapter on South Park mobilises Leftist concerns within an overtly Rightist context, and Trainspotting moves through youth politics and acceleration to articulate movement in resistive meanings.
These case studies contemplate the journey of popular culture in the postwar period by returning to the present and to the dominant culture. The colonisation of identity politics by the New Right makes the place of cultural studies - as a pedagogic formation - powerfully important. Colonisation of geographical peripheries is brought home to England as the colonisation of the Celtic fringe is interpreted through writing and resistance.
This thesis tracks (and connects) two broad movements - the shifting of political formations and the commodification of popular culture. The disconnecting dialogue between these two streams opens the terrain for cult. In the hesitations that delay their connection, cult is activated to cauterize this disjuncture
Why bios? : on the relationship between gospel genre and implied audience
No full textThis thesis addresses the gap in the scholarly record pertaining to the explicit relationship between gospel genre and implied audience. This thesis challenges the consensus that the canonical gospels were written to/for individual communities/churches and that these documents (gospels) address the specific historical/social circumstances of each community. It is argued in the thesis that the Evangelists chose the genre of biography because it was the genre that was best suited to present the words and deeds of Jesus to the largest possible audience. The central thesis is supported by four lines of evidence: two external and two internal (Chapters 3-6). Furthermore, the thesis is bolstered by a new typology for Greco-Roman biography that arranges the biographical examples within a relational matrix.
Chapter 2 is integral to the main thesis of this dissertation in that it proposes nuanced language capable of being applied to specific kinds of biographies with the emphasis on the relationship to implied audience. Chapter 2 sets the boundaries of the discussion of genre as a vital factor in potentially determining audience as well as raising the important consideration that genres are representative of authorial choice and intent.
Chapters 3 and 4 take up the discussion of the two lines of external evidence pertinent to placing the Gospels within the relational typology proposed in chapter 2. Chapter 3 supports the main argument of the thesis in that it demonstrates that the earliest Christian interpreters of the Gospels did not understand them to be sectarian documents written specifically to and/or for specific sectarian Christian communities. The second line of external evidence, taken up in chapter 4, deals with the wider context of Jesus literature in the second/third century. We argue that these texts, if any of them are indeed biographies, were part of the wider Christian practice of writing and disseminating literary presentations of Jesus and Jesus traditions.
Chapters 5 and 6 address the lines of internal evidence and chapter 5 deals specifically with the difficulty in reconstructing the various gospel communities that might lie behind the gospel texts. It is argued that the genre of biography does not allow us to reconstruct these communities with any detail. Finally, chapter 6 is concerned with the ‘all nations’ motif present in all four of the canonical gospels. The ‘all nations’ and ‘sending’ motifs in the Gospels suggest an evangelistic tone for the Gospels and further suggest an ideal secondary audience beyond those who could be identified as Christian
