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Alumni aset penting sumbang kecemerlangan UPM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
SERDANG, 16 Okt– Alumni adalah asset penting yang menyumbang kepada kecemerlangan UPM, kata Prof. Emeritus Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Mohd. Rashdan Baba yang merupakan mantan Naib Canselor pertama Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM).
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bahagian Komunikasi Korporat
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Budding enrollment: The impact of cannabis policy on US colleges and universities

open access: yesContemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine how liberalized recreational marijuana laws have affected freshmen enrollment and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) major choice using difference‐in‐differences and event study models. Estimates indicate near‐zero initial enrollment growth as schools substituted between in‐state and out‐of‐state students.
Joshua H. Hess, Danna Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Brown, Murray L., d. 1980 (SC 1607) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1607. Brown\u27s military induction order dated 18 May 1918; letter to Dr. Thomas C. Meredith 23 October 1989 from Bill Tooms donating some of Brown\u27s materials to Western Kentucky University, Brown ...
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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Direct democracy and political extremism

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract We study how citizens' right to directly decide on policies through popular initiatives affects the attractiveness of extreme candidates in representative elections. In our theoretical framework, single prominent policy issues on which individual voters hold extreme views get a large weight in their assessment of candidates, thereby favouring ...
Nicolas Schreiner, Alois Stutzer
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Stress Drives Plasticity in Sexual Bimaturism in the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens Linnaeus, 1758)

open access: yesEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
We measured the plasticity in sexual bimaturism (SBM; differences between sexes in the timing of sexual maturity) in the black soldier fly (BSF) by exposing larvae to nutrient availability and humidity stress. Our results show that SBM can range between protandry and protogyny depending on the environmental quality. Additionally, we found the degree of
Luis Rodrigo Arce‐Valdés   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Writer Speaks: An Interview with Lorenz Bell Graham [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
Missionary, teacher, professor, strikebreaker, cook, waiter, and author are embodied in the national treasure interviewed here. Lorenz Graham received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from his alma mater forty-seven years after receiving the B.A. degree.
Irby, Charles C.
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RELATING LOSS OF SOIL FERTILITY TO WATER AGGREGATE STABILITY AND NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY IN MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURAL CALCARIC SOILS

open access: yesEQA, 2014
We investigated the topsoil from some mountain Regosols for their nutrient status and loss of fertility due to aggregate breakdown, establishing also the relationship between the nutrient losses, the soil characteristics and the aggregates stability. The
Patrizia Guidi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

“A time to be born, and a time to die.” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
While surgeons were well acquainted with the horrors of a field hospital in the aftermath of a grand battle like Gettysburg, the civilians of the North were woefully unprepared for the carnage at play in the halls of their local institutions and homes ...
Rudy, John M.
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing Resilience Indicator Traits in Austrian Fleckvieh, Brown Swiss and Holstein‐Friesian Cattle

open access: yesJournal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest that variations in milk yield during lactation can serve as a metric for assessing individual resilience, with minimum fluctuations reflecting greater resilience in cows. With automatic milking systems, multiple records can be obtained from many cows on a daily basis. Given that animals are continually exposed to a range
M. Agyiri   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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