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Ratios Of Multijet Cross Sections In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.8 Tev, B. Abbott, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration Mar 2001

Ratios Of Multijet Cross Sections In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.8 Tev, B. Abbott, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

Gregory Snow Publications

We report on a study of the ratio of inclusive three-jet to inclusive two-jet production cross sections as a function of total transverse energy in pp̅ collisions at a center-of-mass energy√s = 1.8 TeV, using data collected with the D0 detector during the 1992–1993 run of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The measurements are used to deduce preferred renormalization scales in perturbative O(αs3) QCD calculations in modeling soft-jet emission.

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Repelling Sandhill Cranes From Corn: Whole-Kernel Experiments With Captive Birds, Bradley F. Blackwell, David A. Helon, Richard A. Dolbeer Mar 2001

Repelling Sandhill Cranes From Corn: Whole-Kernel Experiments With Captive Birds, Bradley F. Blackwell, David A. Helon, Richard A. Dolbeer

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) are opportunistic omnivores that incorporate both waste and unharvested cereal grains (Gramineae) in their diets. Limited hunting of cranes to reduce crop damage has had questionable results, and lethal control of depredating species is increasingly contentious. Our objectives were to evaluate anthraquinone-based Flight ControlTM and methyl anthranilate-based ReJeX-iTTM AG-36 as nontoxic avian foraging repellents in separate 2-choice pen tests with captive greater sandhill cranes (G. c. tabida) fed with whole-kernel corn (Zea mays). In both tests, crane pairs consumed, respectively, 8.6 and 9.8 times more untreated than treated …

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Case Study 2: Seed Treatment, Peter Edwards, Kees Romijn, Michael L. Avery, Ralf Barfknecht, Mark Clook, Wout Slob, Martin Urban Mar 2001

Case Study 2: Seed Treatment, Peter Edwards, Kees Romijn, Michael L. Avery, Ralf Barfknecht, Mark Clook, Wout Slob, Martin Urban

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

General information and use pattern
Function: Insecticide seed treatment
Mode of action: Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor
Type and composition of formulation: Cereal seed treatment with colored dye. Nominal concentration on seed is 1000 mg a.i./kg.
Crop and pest: Control of wheat bulb fly in autumn/winter-sown cereals
Application: Treated seed is drilled to a depth of approximately 2.5 cm at a sowing rate of approximately 180 kg seed/ha. Soil type, seedbed, and climatic conditions may influence the proportion of seeds left on the soil surface. The label is explicit about procedures to minimize seed left on the soil surface and collection and …

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A Direct Comparison Of Trapping And Spotlight Searches For Capturing Brown Tree Snakes On Guam, Richard M. Engeman, D.S. Vice Mar 2001

A Direct Comparison Of Trapping And Spotlight Searches For Capturing Brown Tree Snakes On Guam, Richard M. Engeman, D.S. Vice

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Brown Tree Snake populations on Guam are controlled in the vicinities of cargo staging and transport areas to prevent their dispersal from Guam, and their populations are controlled in areas where endangered species are to be reintroduced. Trapping and night-time spotlight searches of fences are the two primary Brown Tree Snake population reduction methods used on Guam. We conducted a three month study comparing Brown Tree Snake captures by spotlighting fences to captures by trapping. Traps were placed either on the edge of the forest paralleling the fences, or they were hung on the fences. Applications of each capture method …

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Daily Activity Budgets And Population Size Of American White Pelicans Wintering In South Louisiana And The Delta Region Of Mississippi, D. Tommy King, Scott J. Werner Mar 2001

Daily Activity Budgets And Population Size Of American White Pelicans Wintering In South Louisiana And The Delta Region Of Mississippi, D. Tommy King, Scott J. Werner

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Twenty-one American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) were captured and fitted with radio-transmitters in South Louisiana and the delta region o f Mississippi during the winter and early spring of 1994-1997. The pelicans were monitored to determine their daily activity budgets while using different habitats such as catfish ponds, crawfish ponds, rivers, lakes, and bayous. Pelicans foraging at catfish ponds spent about 4% of their day foraging and 96% loafing, while pelicans foraging in other habitats spent about 28% of their day foraging and 72% loafing. For an individual bird, the mean number of foraging sessions per day was …

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Bear Behavior In The Vicinity Of Supplemental Feeding Stations In Western Washington, Dale L. Nolte, Timothy J. Veenendaal, Georg J. Ziegltrum, Philipp Fersterer Mar 2001

Bear Behavior In The Vicinity Of Supplemental Feeding Stations In Western Washington, Dale L. Nolte, Timothy J. Veenendaal, Georg J. Ziegltrum, Philipp Fersterer

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Black bear can inflict severe negative Impacts on timber stands in the northwestern United States. A supplemental feeding program to provide bears an alternative food source during spring is practiced in the state of Washington, and to a lesser extent in other states. We initiated concurrent studies to assess characteristics of bear that forage at feeding stations, the interactions of bears around feeders, and impacts of the program on bear territories. Numerous bears fed at stations, including females with and without cubs, yearlings, and males. Bear feeding bouts at stations were generally short, less than 15 minutes. Bears generally fed …

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Effect Of Feeding Stations On The Home Ranges Of American Black Bears In Western Washington, Philipp Fersterer, Dale L. Nolte, Georg J. Ziegltrum, Hartmut Gossow Mar 2001

Effect Of Feeding Stations On The Home Ranges Of American Black Bears In Western Washington, Philipp Fersterer, Dale L. Nolte, Georg J. Ziegltrum, Hartmut Gossow

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Forest managers establish feeding stations throughout coniferous forests in western Washington that are vulnerable to American black bear (Ursus americanus) damage in the spring. This study was conducted to determine whether the home ranges of bears in areas with supplemental feeding were smaller than the home ranges of bears in similar adjacent areas without supplemental feeding. Home range sizes varied among bears. However, the home range sizes of bears in feeding areas did not differ (P > 0.35) from home ranges of bears in non-feeding areas. Male bears had larger (P = 0.0002) home ranges than female …

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Case Study 1 : Foliar Insecticide I, Monte Mayes, John D. Eisemann, Alain Baril, Tony Hawkes, Liesbeth Heijink, Peter Lawlor Mar 2001

Case Study 1 : Foliar Insecticide I, Monte Mayes, John D. Eisemann, Alain Baril, Tony Hawkes, Liesbeth Heijink, Peter Lawlor

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

A major part of the Woudschoten workshop was conducted in the form of breakout groups dealing with a case study each. A case study consists of a set of test results, data, and information on a fictitious pesticide which could be part of an application for authorization. The groups were asked to take the role of regulators assessing the risk to birds for a specified use. Basic data packages for each case containing a description of the use, standard toxicity data, and background information were prepared by the case study authors and distributed in advance. The groups were then asked …

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Critique Of "An Evaluation Of The Florida A-Plus Accountability And School Choice Program", Gregory Camilli, Katrina Bulkley Mar 2001

Critique Of "An Evaluation Of The Florida A-Plus Accountability And School Choice Program", Gregory Camilli, Katrina Bulkley

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

In 1999, Florida adopted the "A-Plus" accountability system, which included a provision that allowed students in certain low-performing schools to receive school vouchers. In a recently released report, An Evaluation of the Florida A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program, the author argued that early evidence from this program strongly implies that the program has led to significant improvement on test scores in schools threatened with vouchers. ...

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 09/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Mar 2001

Education Policy Analysis Archives 09/07 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Critique of An evaluation of the Florida a-plus accountability and school choice program / Gregory Camilli [and] Katrina Bulkley.

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2001-03-03, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents. Mar 2001

2001-03-03, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Morehead State University Board of Regents meeting minutes for March 3, 2001.

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Graduate Council Report No. 2000-2001-7, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate Mar 2001

Graduate Council Report No. 2000-2001-7, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.

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Volume 38, Number 26: March 2, 2001, University Of North Dakota Mar 2001

Volume 38, Number 26: March 2, 2001, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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Sandspur, Vol 107 No 17, March 2, 2001, Rollins College Mar 2001

Sandspur, Vol 107 No 17, March 2, 2001, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

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Volume 38, Number 26: March 2, 2001, University Of North Dakota Mar 2001

Volume 38, Number 26: March 2, 2001, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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Board Of Trustees Minutes, March 2, 2001, Eastern Washington University Mar 2001

Board Of Trustees Minutes, March 2, 2001, Eastern Washington University

Board of Trustees Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Washington University Record, March 2, 2001 Mar 2001

Washington University Record, March 2, 2001

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

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Montana Kaimin, March 2, 2001, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana Mar 2001

Montana Kaimin, March 2, 2001, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

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Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association Mar 2001

Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

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First Class: Gladys Sakowich Campus Center Opens, Merrimack College Mar 2001

First Class: Gladys Sakowich Campus Center Opens, Merrimack College

Merrimack Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Keeping Promises: An Examination Of Charter Schools' Vulnerability To Claims For Educational Liability, Julie F. Mead, Preston C. Green Iii Mar 2001

Keeping Promises: An Examination Of Charter Schools' Vulnerability To Claims For Educational Liability, Julie F. Mead, Preston C. Green Iii

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Interval Computations As A Particular Case Of A General Scheme Involving Classes Of Probability Distributions, Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, Harry Schulte Mar 2001

Interval Computations As A Particular Case Of A General Scheme Involving Classes Of Probability Distributions, Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, Harry Schulte

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Traditionally, in science and engineering, measurement uncertainty is characterized by a probability distribution; however, we don't know this probability distribution exactly, so we must consider classes of probability distributions. Interval computations deal with a very specific type of such classes: classes of all distributions which are located on a given interval. We show that in general, we need all convex classes of probability distributions.

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1st Order, 2nd Order, What Next? Do We Really Need Third-Order Descriptions: A View From A Realistic (Granular) Viewpoint, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen Mar 2001

1st Order, 2nd Order, What Next? Do We Really Need Third-Order Descriptions: A View From A Realistic (Granular) Viewpoint, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

To describe experts' uncertainty in a knowledge-based system, we usually use numbers from the interval [0,1] (subjective probabilities, degrees of certainty, etc.). The most direct way to get these numbers is to ask the expert; however, the expert may not be 100\% certain what exactly number describes his uncertainty; so, we end up with a second-order uncertainty - a degree of certainty describing to what extent a given number d adequately describes the expert's uncertainty about a given statement A. At first glance, it looks like we should not stop at this second order: the expert is probably as uncertain …

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Ndls Update 03/2001, Notre Dame Law School Mar 2001

Ndls Update 03/2001, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

No abstract provided.

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March 2001, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate Mar 2001

March 2001, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the March 2001 meeting of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate.

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Contrasting Treatments Of Recall Bias In Two Epidemiological Settings, Daniel Barry Mar 2001

Contrasting Treatments Of Recall Bias In Two Epidemiological Settings, Daniel Barry

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The author contrasts the treatment of recall bias in the literature on induced abortions and breast cancer, and on environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer.

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Table Of Contents Volume 12, Number 1/2, Spring 2001, Risk Editorial Board Mar 2001

Table Of Contents Volume 12, Number 1/2, Spring 2001, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)

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Over A Decade Of Comparative Risk Analysis: A Review Of The Human Health Rankings, David M. Konisky Mar 2001

Over A Decade Of Comparative Risk Analysis: A Review Of The Human Health Rankings, David M. Konisky

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The author reviews a method for undertaking a cross-project comparison of comparative risk analyses to understand which environmental problem areas have been cited most as often posing the severest risks.

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3rd Annual Computer & Technology Law Institute, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law Mar 2001

3rd Annual Computer & Technology Law Institute, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Materials from the 3rd Annual Computer & Technology Law Institute held by UK/CLE in March 2001.

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Measurement Of The Angular Distribution Of Electrons From W→Eν Decays Observed In Pp̅ Collisions At √S =1.8 Tev, B. Abbott, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration Mar 2001

Measurement Of The Angular Distribution Of Electrons From W→Eν Decays Observed In Pp̅ Collisions At √S =1.8 Tev, B. Abbott, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

Gregory Snow Publications

We present the first measurement of the electron angular distribution parameter α2 in W→eν events produced in proton-antiproton collisions as a function of the W boson transverse momentum. Our analysis is based on data collected using the DØ detector during the 1994–1995 Fermilab Tevatron run. We compare our results with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD, which predicts an angular distribution of (1 ± α1cos θ*+ α2 cos2 θ*), where θ* is the polar angle of the electron in the Collins-Soper frame. In the presence of QCD corrections, the parameters a1 and a2 become functions of …

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