Iran: 1945 - 1949 ; Internal affairs, decimal number 891, and foreign affairs, decimal numbers 791 and 711.91
In: Confidential U.S. State Department central files Iran,1,guide
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In: Confidential U.S. State Department central files Iran,1,guide
In: The latin americanist: TLA, Band 62, Heft 2, S. 186-212
ISSN: 1557-203X
In: The New African: the radical review, Heft 370, S. 23
ISSN: 0028-4165
In: The New African: the radical review, Heft 368, S. 25
ISSN: 0028-4165
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 517, S. 146-156
ISSN: 0002-7162
THE ANTICIPATED CUTS IN DEFENSE SPENDING WILL HAVE A LIMITED IMPACT ON THE U.S. ECONOMY. NEVERTHELESS, THE UNITED STATES HAS INVESTED VAST RESOURCES IN DEVELOPING HUMAN AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL FOR MILITARY PRODUCTION. IF DEFENSE REQUIREMENTS, MILITARY PERSONNEL, AND INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY SHIFT RAPIDLY TO NONDEFENSE WORK, IT WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO RETURN QUICKLY TO THE MILITARY SECTOR AND, THEREFORE, THE DEFENSE MOBILIZATION BASE WILL HAVE BEEN WEAKENED, IF NOT DESTROYED. THE TRANSITION SHOULD BE PLANNED IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE MOBILIZATION AND SURGE CAPABILITY AND TO ENSURE THAT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DO NOT ATROPHY.
In: Proceedings of the annual meeting / American Society of International Law, Band 96, S. 193-195
ISSN: 2169-1118
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 495
ISSN: 0362-9805
In: Federal facilities environmental journal, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 63-76
ISSN: 1520-6513
AbstractTwo RCRA solid waste management unit/underground storage tank remediations were scheduled at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Environmental Research Center, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. By negotiating health risk‐based alternative cleanup levels (ACLs), using advanced laboratory methods, and employing bioremediation technology, ENSR provided a solution that satisfied the state agency and saved TVA time and money. Eliminating the need for transportation and off‐site disposal, TVA's environmental liabilities were also mitigated. This article presents a "how‐to" case study for effectively managing remediation projects and costs.
In: Family Law Quarterly, Band 39, S. 247
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In: Growth and change: a journal of urban and regional policy, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 48-51
ISSN: 1468-2257
In: Journal of developmental and physical disabilities, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 33-51
ISSN: 1573-3580
The authors review the experimental work that has been done since the Second World War on the use of chemical molluscicides in Southern Rhodesia and describe the development of a co-operative snail control campaign involving local landowners and various Government departments. In 1959 and 1960 efforts were concentrated on four large-scale experiments to test the methods of application of copper sulfate, sodium pentachlorophenate and Bayer 73 under a variety of climatic and physiographic conditions.
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The Asian corn borer (ACB), Ostrinia furnacalis Guenee, is the major insect pest of corn in the Philippines. It causes yield reduction from 20 to 80%. For this reason, farmer adoption of Bt-corn since its approval for commercial use in 2002 has been increasing. Bt-corn is the latest technology introduced to control the population of the ACB. This technology involves the transfer of a gene from a common soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), to a corn plant. The gene produces Cry1Ab protein that is lethal to ACB. About 400,000 hectares of the total corn production area have been planted to Bt-corn. Thus the Philippines is now ranked as #10 among 13 Biotech Mega-countries. Despite the commercial success of Bt crops, there is widespread concern that the advantages provided by the technology will be short-lived because the Bt toxin in plant tissues can lead to the selection and multiplication of rare Bt-resistant ACB survivors. Monitoring the performance of Bt-corn is required to detect the development of ACB resistance at the earliest time possible. The government therefore, mandated formulation of an Insect Resistance Management (IRM) strategy for Bt corn. This study aimed to document the effect of Cry1Ab protein on the ACB. The ACB females were collected in Lubao, Pampanga from May 2006 to the present. Collected insects from the field were reared in the laboratory using an ACB artificial diet. The F1 generations of ACB were sib-mated to produce the F2 generations in the bioassay test for the Cry1Ab protein. A total of twenty two thousand four hundred eighty five (22,485) neonates or newly hatched larvae from five hundred (500) female lines were individually assayed using surface contamination technique with a discriminating dose of Cry1Ab (LC99=120 ng/cm2, Alcantara, unpubl.). An equal number of larvae served as control check using 0.1M carbonate buffer. Mortality rate for all of the lines is at its peak during the first seven days of exposure to the toxin. Around 800 gravid females are expected to be collected, reared, and progenies tested at the end of the project.
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We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search, ephemerides overlapping the run period were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We demonstrate an updated search method that allows for small uncertainties in the pulsar phase parameters to be included in the search. We report no signal detection from any of the targets and therefore interpret our results as upper limits on the gravitational wave signal strength. The most interesting limits are those for young pulsars. We present updated limits on gravitational radiation from the Crab pulsar, where the measured limit is now a factor of 7 below the spin-down limit. This limits the power radiated via gravitational waves to be less than similar to 2% of the available spin-down power. For the X-ray pulsar J0537-6910 we reach the spin-down limit under the assumption that any gravitational wave signal from it stays phase locked to the X-ray pulses over timing glitches, and for pulsars J1913+1011 and J1952+3252 we are only a factor of a few above the spin-down limit. Of the recycled millisecond pulsars, several of themeasured upper limits are only about an order of magnitude above their spin-down limits. For these our best (lowest) upper limit on gravitational wave amplitude is 2.3 x 10(-26) for J1603-7202 and our best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0 x 10(-8) for J2124-3358. ; Australian Research Council ; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India ; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy ; Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia ; Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes Balears ; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research ; Royal Society ; Scottish Funding Council ; Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; Foundation for Polish Science ; Scottish Universities Physics Alliance ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Carnegie Trust ; Leverhulme Trust ; David and Lucile Packard Foundation ; Research Corporation ; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ; Commonwealth Government ; Astronomy
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United States National Science Foundation (NSF) ; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom ; Max-Planck-Society (MPS) ; State of Niedersachsen/Germany ; Australian Research Council ; International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia ; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India ; Department of Science and Technology, India ; Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India ; Ministry of Human Resource Development, India ; Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad ; Conselleria d'Economia i Competitivitat and Conselleria d'Educaci, Cultura i Universitats of the Govern de les Illes Balears ; Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter - Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research ; Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science ; European Union ; Royal Society ; Scottish Funding Council ; Scottish Universities Physics Alliance ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) ; Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO) ; National Research Foundation of Korea ; Industry Canada ; Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation ; National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada ; Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation ; Carnegie Trust ; Leverhulme Trust ; David and Lucile Packard Foundation ; Research Corporation ; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ; NSF ; STFC ; MPS ; INFN ; CNRS ; Science and Technology Facilities Council ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000938/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006285/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006269/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000946/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000962/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L003465/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K000845/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/J00166X/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000911/1 Gravitational Waves ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: Gravitational Waves ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: PPA/G/S/2002/00652 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006269/1 Gravitational Waves ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000911/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: 1362895 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006277/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/H002359/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K005014/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K00137X/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M006735/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M000931/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000938/1 Gravitational Waves ; We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) in data from the sixth Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) science data run. The targets were nine young supernova remnants not associated with pulsars; eight of the remnants are associated with non-pulsing suspected neutron stars. One target ' s parameters are uncertain enough to warrant two searches, for a total of 10. Each search covered a broad band of frequencies and first and second frequency derivatives for a fixed sky direction. The searches coherently integrated data from the two LIGO interferometers over time spans from 5.3-25.3 days using the matched-filtering. -statistic. We found no evidence of GW signals. We set 95% confidence upper limits as strong (low) as 4 x 10(-25) on intrinsic strain, 2 x 10(-7) on fiducial ellipticity, and 4 x 10(-5) on r-mode amplitude. These beat the indirect limits from energy conservation and are within the range of theoretical predictions for neutron-star ellipticities and r-mode amplitudes.
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