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System And Process For Treating Waste Water, Annel K. Greene Dec 2002

System And Process For Treating Waste Water, Annel K. Greene

Clemson Patents

The present invention is generally directed to a process and system for treating animal waste. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a process and system for treating animal waste effluent with ozone to decompose the organic material within and improve the odor of the animal waste. The process of the present invention also reduces biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, total bacterial content and coliform bacterial count of the animal waste. The process of this present invention comprises collecting an animal waste solution, containing a mixture of water and animal fecal material; contacting the waste solution with ozone …

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Globalization, Broiler Production, And Community Controversy In East Texas, Douglas H. Constance Dec 2002

Globalization, Broiler Production, And Community Controversy In East Texas, Douglas H. Constance

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The poultry industry was the first livestock commodity sector to adopt an industrial organizational model. In recent years the pouItry industry has expanded beyond national boundaries into a globalized system of production. The globalization of agriculture and food is a frequent topic of discussion for researchers interested in rural society. A common focus of these discussions is the consequences of corporate penetration on rural areas and the ways local communities respond to such corporate actions. This paper uses the case of the introduction of large-scale broiler production in East Texas combined with a sociology of agriculture and food conceptual framework …

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Passing The Cluck, Dodging Pullets: Corporate Power, Environmental Responsibility, And The Contract Poultry Grower, Joseph J. Molnar, Thomas Hoban, Gail Brant Dec 2002

Passing The Cluck, Dodging Pullets: Corporate Power, Environmental Responsibility, And The Contract Poultry Grower, Joseph J. Molnar, Thomas Hoban, Gail Brant

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Broiler production is concentrated in a few southem states where farmers are highly dependent on contract arrangements for income and livelihood. Poultry is the first animal industry to industrialize and its model of contract farming has been emulated by other animal industries. Environmental standards are becoming increasingly stringent and many farmers are faced with crossroad decisions about investments in dead bird and manure disposal facilities. Asymmetrical power relationships shift waste management responsibilities to growers in a number of ways. This paper details maneuvers poultry integrators use to avoid environmental risk and transfer it to their contract growers. Corporations "pass the …

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Lagoons, Litter, And The Law: Cafo Regulation As Social Risk Politics, Larry L. Burmeister Dec 2002

Lagoons, Litter, And The Law: Cafo Regulation As Social Risk Politics, Larry L. Burmeister

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The restructuring of the animal agriculture industry in the United States, a response to globalization dynamics within the world economy, has created a new social risk profile which did not exist in this industry prior to the adoption of factory farm technology. Analysis of the CAFO [concentrated animal feeding operation] regulation debate in Kentucky illustrates the political economy genesis of social risk politics accompanying this new technology. The politics of regulatory efforts to ameliorate such risk, an increasingly frequent occurrence in the risk society era, are examined in a recent attempt to promulgate a CAFO regulatory regime in Kentucky. This …

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Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Technical Report, 2002, Arkansas Water Resources Center Dec 2002

Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Technical Report, 2002, Arkansas Water Resources Center

Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Report

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 31, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2002

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 31, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Effectiveness Of Delayed Brush Cutting And Herbicide Treatments For Vegetation Control In A Seven-Year-Old Jack Pine Plantation In Northwestern Ontario, Canada, Azim U. Mallik, F. Wayne Bell, Yanli Gong Dec 2002

Effectiveness Of Delayed Brush Cutting And Herbicide Treatments For Vegetation Control In A Seven-Year-Old Jack Pine Plantation In Northwestern Ontario, Canada, Azim U. Mallik, F. Wayne Bell, Yanli Gong

Aspen Bibliography

Efficacy of three conifer release treatments, i) single application of glyphosate (Vision™) herbicide, ii) multiple application of glyphosate herbicide, and iii) motor-manual brush cutting for controlling competing plants, particularly trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides), pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica), green alder (Alnus viridis spp. crispa), and beaked hazel (Corylus cornuta spp. cornuta), was studied in a seven-year-old jack pine (Pinus banksiana) plantation in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The single and multiple glyphosate applications were equally effective in controlling trembling aspen and pin cherry, causing over 90% stem mortality. The brushsaw treatment caused an initial decrease followed by an increase in stem density of …

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Community Conservation Assistance, Frank Mitchell Dec 2002

Community Conservation Assistance, Frank Mitchell

PREP Reports & Publications

The Community Conservation Assistance Project had the following goal and objectives: Goal: Sustain and protect open space lands identified by communities and land trusts as critical to water quality and biodiversity through voluntary land conservation. Objectives: 1. With the SPNHF and other partners, establish a seacoast office for the Center for Land Conservation Assistance. 2. Provide education to various audiences in the seacoast region. 3. Create a library of relevant materials 4. Develop and compile publications 5. Establish with the SPNHF and other partners and participate in the first annual NH Land Conservation Conference 6. Evaluate program effectiveness 7. Coordinate …

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Natural Fire Regime: A Guide For Sustainable Management Of The Canadian Boreal Forest, Yves Bergeron, Alain Leduc, Brian D. Harvey, Sylvie Gauthier Dec 2002

Natural Fire Regime: A Guide For Sustainable Management Of The Canadian Boreal Forest, Yves Bergeron, Alain Leduc, Brian D. Harvey, Sylvie Gauthier

Aspen Bibliography

The combination of certain features of fire disturbance, notably fire frequency, size and severity, may be used to characterize the disturbance regime in any region of the boreal forest. As some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting, conventional forest management is often considered as a disturbance that has effects similar to those of natural disturbances. Although the analogy between forest management and fire disturbance in boreal ecosystems has some merit, it is important to recognise that it also has its limitations. Short fire cycles generally described for boreal ecosystems do not appear to be universal; rather, …

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Lessons From Argentina’S Currency Board System For Indonesia, Agus Fadjar Setiawan Dec 2002

Lessons From Argentina’S Currency Board System For Indonesia, Agus Fadjar Setiawan

Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking

The purpose of this study is to attempt to draw lessons from Argentina’s Currency Board System (CBS) for Indonesia. Moreover, this study reviews Argentina’s economic performance before and after the implementation of the CBS, through an examination of some macroeconomic indicators namely real GDP growth, interest rates, money and inflation, as well as fiscal condition. The first three indicators are compared to the US, as the reserve-currency country, and Indonesia. The last indicator is compared to Indonesia only.In summary, the study found that after the adoption of the CBS the economic growth of Argentina substantially improved. The real interest rate …

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Environmental Impact Assessment Of Oil And Gas Exploration And Production In The Gulf Of Mexico, Ricardo Eliseo Valdes Cerda Dec 2002

Environmental Impact Assessment Of Oil And Gas Exploration And Production In The Gulf Of Mexico, Ricardo Eliseo Valdes Cerda

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 29, 2002, Barry Strassler Dec 2002

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 29, 2002, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2002

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Parts And Properties In Aristotle's Categories, Phil Corkum Dec 2002

Parts And Properties In Aristotle's Categories, Phil Corkum

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Call a property recurrent if it can be found in more than one subject, and nonrecurrent otherwise. The question whether Aristotle holds that there are nonrecurrent properties has spawned a lively debate among recent commentators. An assumption held in common by both sides of the debate is that a property is nonrecurrent if it is inseparable from an individual subject. In this paper, I’ll argue that this assumption is false. There are a variety of kinds of separation in Aristotle. When we focus attention on what notion of separation is relevant, we will see that the inseparability possessed by individual …

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Targeting Emotion In Early Stoicism, Scott M. Rubarth Dec 2002

Targeting Emotion In Early Stoicism, Scott M. Rubarth

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The Stoic sage is a cold, heartless being who would not grieve over the loss of a beloved companion or child. Unmoved, unemotional, uncaring, the sage is an ethical and emotional monstrosity hiding behind the pretension of the so-called virtues of detachment and austerity. That, at least, is how many who study Stoic ethics perceive the sage in regard to his/her emotional life. In this paper I will argue that this conception of the Stoic theory of emotion and passion is misleading; emotions, in fact, are central to Stoic ethics and apatheia should not be confused with the contemporary idea …

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Carneades' Pithanon And Its Relation To Epoche And Apraxia, Suzanne Obdrzalek Dec 2002

Carneades' Pithanon And Its Relation To Epoche And Apraxia, Suzanne Obdrzalek

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Though the interpretation of ancient texts is notoriously difficult, Cameades presents what one might call a worst-case scenario. In the first place, he wrote nothing. His faithful disciple Clitomachus, attempting to play Plato to Cameades' Socrates, reportedly recorded Cameades' teachings in four hundred books. Not one remains. However, Clitomachus' attempt to make a philosophy of Cameades' anti-theoretical stance was not a complete failure; Cameades had a tremendous influence on the later Academy as well as the Stoa, and his views (or lack thereof) have been handed down to us by both Sextus Empiricus and Cicero. These sources are, nonetheless, problematic. …

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Getting Back On The Horse: Drought Response In 2003, Matthew A. Diersen Dec 2002

Getting Back On The Horse: Drought Response In 2003, Matthew A. Diersen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

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Juvenile Clam Mortality Study At Three Intertidal Flats In Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire, Brian F. Beal Dec 2002

Juvenile Clam Mortality Study At Three Intertidal Flats In Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire, Brian F. Beal

PREP Reports & Publications

Soft-shell clams, Mya arenaria L., represent an important recreational fishery along the New Hampshire coast. Intertidal flats in the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary are among the most heavily harvested. As recently as the fall of 1998, the sandy flats in this area supported more than 900 clammers, who, on weekends, easily harvested their 9.5-liter limit (Varney, 1999). Recently, however, quantitative benthic surveys have suggested that the abundance of adult clams (> 50 mm shell length, SL) has dwindled on the three estuarine flats (Brown’s Flat, Common Island, and Middle Ground). Clammers support this contention and many have been disappointed at the relative …

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The Weekly Challenger, December 26, 2002, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Dec 2002

The Weekly Challenger, December 26, 2002, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 26, 2002, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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12/25/2002 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2002

12/25/2002 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/25/2002. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

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Pub Citizen Health V. Secretary Of Labor Dec 2002

Pub Citizen Health V. Secretary Of Labor

2002 Decisions

Agency

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Identifying The Burdens And Opportunities For Tribes And Communities In Federal Facility Cleanup Activities: Environmental Remediation Technology Assessment Matrix For Tribal And Community Decision-Makers, International Institute For Indigenous Resource Management, Inc. (Iiirm), Mervyn L. Tano, Jeanne M. Rubin, Kacey C. Denham Dec 2002

Identifying The Burdens And Opportunities For Tribes And Communities In Federal Facility Cleanup Activities: Environmental Remediation Technology Assessment Matrix For Tribal And Community Decision-Makers, International Institute For Indigenous Resource Management, Inc. (Iiirm), Mervyn L. Tano, Jeanne M. Rubin, Kacey C. Denham

International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, Inc. (IIIRM)

The cleanup of this country’s federal facilities can affect a wide range of tribal and community interests and concerns. The technologies now in use, or being proposed by the Department of Energy, Department of Defense and other federal agencies can affect tribal treaty protected fishing, hunting and other rights, affect air and water quality thereby requiring the tribe to bear the burden of increased environmental regulation. The International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management developed a tribal and community decision-maker’s Environmental Remediation Technology Assessment Matrix that will permit tribes and communities to array technical information about environmental remediation technologies against a …

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 23, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2002

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 23, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

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Sociologist Investigates Roadside Memorials As A Way To Grieve Dec 2002

Sociologist Investigates Roadside Memorials As A Way To Grieve

News Releases

News release announces that Art Jipson conducted 40 interviews in August and September with family members who are maintaining roadside memorials.

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 22, 2002, Barry Strassler Dec 2002

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 22, 2002, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2002

No abstract provided.

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 21, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2002

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 21, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Mwp Newsletter: Extended News Items, 2002, University Of Mississippi. Department Of English Dec 2002

Mwp Newsletter: Extended News Items, 2002, University Of Mississippi. Department Of English

MWP News and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Volume 40, Number 17: December 20, 2002, University Of North Dakota Dec 2002

Volume 40, Number 17: December 20, 2002, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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The Third Side Of The Coin, Tamara Wells-Banar Dec 2002

The Third Side Of The Coin, Tamara Wells-Banar

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Third Side of the Coin is a manuscript of poetry exploring ironic distances, both physical and metaphysical, both slight and significant. It opens with a quote from Agha Shahid Ali who asked, "What then is separation's geography?" The poems in this collection describe the geography of separation between individuals, cultures, ideas, man and nature and the physical and metaphysical realms. As the author travels deserts, oceans, and outer space, she seeks proofs of existence and questions natural laws deemed irrefutable. This questioning is reflected in the book's title, which, on one hand, represents a state of geometric impossibility. And …

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Signs Following, James Allan Moye Dec 2002

Signs Following, James Allan Moye

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Jacob Hawke, a documentary photographer, returns to his long forsaken West Virginia hometown roots to document the activities of a Christian serpent handling church, of which his father is pastor. Jacob, a non-believer, is caught in an emotional vortex consisting of his hatred for his father (whom he abandoned after his mother was killed in a serpent-handling incident) and his growing attraction to Minnie, an enigmatic member of the Signs Following Church. Jacob is slowly lured by the strength of faith demonstrated by the community and must come to terms with his relationship with his father and make a crucial …

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Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection As An Agent Of Knowledge Acquisition And Attitudinal Change In Female High School Biology Students, Rebecca Maloney Dec 2002

Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection As An Agent Of Knowledge Acquisition And Attitudinal Change In Female High School Biology Students, Rebecca Maloney

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

One way to determine if all students can learn through the use of computers is to introduce a lesson taught completely via computers and compare the results with those gained when the same lesson is taught in a traditional manner. This study attempted to determine if a virtual fetal pig dissection can be used as a viable alternative for an actual dissection for females enrolled in high school biology classes by comparing the knowledge acquisition and attitudinal change between the experimental (virtual dissection) and control (actual dissection) groups. Two hundred and twenty four students enrolled in biology classes in a …

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