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Interest Rate And Commodity Price Impacts On Farm-Level Financials, Ann Denk Jan 2019

Interest Rate And Commodity Price Impacts On Farm-Level Financials, Ann Denk

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

The agriculture industry has been around for hundreds of years. Although farmers and ranchers work every day to put food on the tables of billions of people from all around the world, most agricultural producers require assistance to finance their operations and continue production. This research is motivated by recent changes in interest rates and the downturn in agricultural commodity prices. This study examines how farm-level financial statements are impacted by changes in interest rates and agricultural commodity market prices. A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model several stochastic variables and derive key financial calculations. This study shows how …

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Trade In Crispr/Gene-Edited Wheat: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis, Prince Fosu Jan 2019

Trade In Crispr/Gene-Edited Wheat: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis, Prince Fosu

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

Previous studies have analyzed how the adoption of genetically engineered or modified technologies have affected agricultural crops such as corn, soybeans, cotton, and barley without focusing on wheat. Also, given the negative impact of drought on wheat production, no studies have focused on the implications of drought tolerant (HB4) and CRISPR/gene-editing on wheat trade. To address these issues, this study employed the partial equilibrium analysis and analyzed the implications of drought tolerant (HB4) and CRISPR/gene-editing technology adoption on wheat trade under various scenarios. The study found that when Argentina, Australia, United States, Canada, and Russia adopt gene-editing wheat, all consuming …

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Role Of Politically Linked Agricultural Policy And Trade On The Performance Of Turkish Agriculture, Ekrem Ergun Jan 2019

Role Of Politically Linked Agricultural Policy And Trade On The Performance Of Turkish Agriculture, Ekrem Ergun

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

The Republic of Turkey has seen a rise in its gross domestic products (GDP), a fall in the share of agriculture percentage of GDP and a contributive role of politically connected development plans that introduce agricultural policies and trade as regional trade agreements (RTAs). It is necessary to gauge the contribution of policy and trade changes to the performance of the Turkish agriculture sector. The primary objective of this thesis is to estimate the performance of the Turkish agriculture sector between 1961 and 2016 using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The secondary objective is to evaluate the impact of politically connected …

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Process Benefits Of Using Biomass Pellets In A Biorefinery, Ramsharan Pandey Jan 2019

Process Benefits Of Using Biomass Pellets In A Biorefinery, Ramsharan Pandey

Agribusiness and Biosystems Engineering

Pelleted biomass can help simplify biomass supply systems and reduce downstream processing costs that are vital for the development of commercial biorefineries. This study is based on comparison of process benefits and economic factors of using loose and pelleted biomass over a range of low to high pretreatment severity and hydrolysis enzyme loadings. Use of pelleted biomass provides flexibility either to reduce pretreatment severity, enzyme loadings, hydrolysis time, or combinations of these. Either enzyme loadings can be reduced by 80% or hydrolysis times reduced by 58% with the use of pelleted biomass. A comparative techno-economic analysis using each form of …

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Reconciling Just Preservation, Shelley M. Alexander Jan 2019

Reconciling Just Preservation, Shelley M. Alexander

Animal Sentience

Treves et al.’s target article can play an important role in reconciling the needs of future generations and non-human animals in conservation. Human capacities are adequate for interpreting and defining many non-human animal needs. Worldviews are more complex, however, and conservation science, like the target article itself, suffers from a lack of diversity and inclusiveness. This may pose practical impediments to realizing just preservation.

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To Preserve Or To Conserve?, Liv Baker Jan 2019

To Preserve Or To Conserve?, Liv Baker

Animal Sentience

Treves et al. propose the notion of trusteeship to help meet our responsibility to nature and individual animals, their homes, cultures, and societies. This proposal is grounded in a real-world framework that reveals how conservation has become distorted by anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism, and ethical hypocrisy.

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Just Reductionism: In Defense Of Holistic Conservation, Bradley J. Bergstrom Jan 2019

Just Reductionism: In Defense Of Holistic Conservation, Bradley J. Bergstrom

Animal Sentience

Treves et al. (2019) argue that individual organisms should be protected by the courts. This already happens in many countries for rare and endangered species and for symbolically important species (e.g., raptors, songbirds, and bats in the U.S.), and through the international treaty for whales. But protection of these individuals stems from a focus on preserving their populations, whereas hunting of individuals is still a culturally accepted practice. Killing of individuals should be limited to valid reasons (e.g., eating the meat) and covered by fair-chase and humane-killing laws (which is not always the case). But “futurity” will not inherit present-day …

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Human Interests, Helen Tiffin Jan 2019

Human Interests, Helen Tiffin

Animal Sentience

Treves et al.’s proposal is welcome, but it will have to face at least four challenges: the interconnectedness of the human and the nonhuman portions of the biosphere, conflicts of interest, human overpopulation, and capitalism itself.

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The Intrinsic Value Of Nature, Joanna E. Lambert Jan 2019

The Intrinsic Value Of Nature, Joanna E. Lambert

Animal Sentience

Treves et al. explain the need to preserve the rights of nonhuman species, human youth, and future generations. Although conservation biology has claimed to have an intrinsic valuation ethic since its inception in the 1980s, many aspects of the field have taken a decidedly anthropocentric and instrumentalist trajectory. This has important consequences for conservation-related policy and practice at all scales: local, regional, and global.

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Telomere Length And Senescence In A Long-Lived Fish (Ictiobus Cyprinellus), Derek Sauer Jan 2019

Telomere Length And Senescence In A Long-Lived Fish (Ictiobus Cyprinellus), Derek Sauer

Biological Sciences

The pattern of shorter telomere lengths in older individuals has been observed across many vertebrates, but has not been well-documented in bony fishes. Bony fish (i.e., Class Osteichthyes) represent the most speciose and oldest group of vertebrates, and understanding their telomere dynamics can fill gaps in our understanding of the process and evolution of aging in vertebrates. In this study we quantified telomere length, immune function, and stress in bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyrpinellus), a long-lived bony fish in the family Catostomidae, to characterize variation in telomeres and condition. We found that length of telomeres extracted from red blood cells was …

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Punishment Without Process: Victim Impact Proceedings For Dead Defendants, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe Jan 2019

Punishment Without Process: Victim Impact Proceedings For Dead Defendants, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

After Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in jail, two judges allowed his accusers to speak in court. This article argues that the proceedings were inappropriate because the criminal case ends when the defendant dies. If the conviction and appeal are not final, there is no finding of guilt, and the defendant is still presumed innocent. Allowing accusers to speak at this time violates the principle of due process and threatens to undermine faith in judges and the criminal justice system in general. While courts are at times legally required to hear from victims of crimes, they were not allowed to do …

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Tribute To Professor Lewis R. Katz: Beloved Mentor, Global Visionary, Entrepreneur, Gerald Korngold Jan 2019

Tribute To Professor Lewis R. Katz: Beloved Mentor, Global Visionary, Entrepreneur, Gerald Korngold

Articles & Chapters

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An Alternative Path To Rule Of Law: Thailand's Twenty-First Century Administrative Courts, Frank W. Munger, Peerawich Thoviriyavej, Vorapitchaya Rabiablok Jan 2019

An Alternative Path To Rule Of Law: Thailand's Twenty-First Century Administrative Courts, Frank W. Munger, Peerawich Thoviriyavej, Vorapitchaya Rabiablok

Articles & Chapters

New courts in Asia’s rapidly developing states offer an opportunity to understand how a court system takes root in a society. This article presents a case study of the development of administrative court structure, functions, and practice in Thailand: Southeast Asia’s newest system of administrative courts. The study examines why courts made sense to those who established them and how the courts’ authority is being utilized. For relatively powerless and resource-poor litigants, barriers to litigation may be many, but when these barriers are overcome, administrative courts exercise extraordinary influence, even when they fail to render a decision fully vindicating a …

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The Design Of Virtual Reality Based Data Visualization And User Interface Design In A Semi-Automated Cyber-Security Research Application, Santipab Tipparach Jan 2019

The Design Of Virtual Reality Based Data Visualization And User Interface Design In A Semi-Automated Cyber-Security Research Application, Santipab Tipparach

Computer Science

Virtual Reality is currently an affordable and consumer ready technology used by many in the games and interactive media industry, however unlike the user interface standards in mobile, PCs, and Macs, VR UI design can vary in complexity and usability. VR has many times been linked in films, TV shows, and animation as a method for navigating through cyberspace. It has been portrayed to be involved in the process of hacking a computer on some network. This study will look at approaches to developing a UI system using cyber-security research applications as a basis for designing a framework. Throughout, this …

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A Petri Net Based Simulation For Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Puneet Mehta Jan 2019

A Petri Net Based Simulation For Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Puneet Mehta

Computer Science

Nowadays more and more Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being mass produced and are being used for a lot of activities like exploring never before explored areas of the world, recreational work, rescue missions etc. In today’s world violence and attacks have increased and to have personnel in such extreme places will always result in loss of life. To help reduce the loss of lives in situations like this we can use these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to sweep the affected areas and also attack identified targets. The objective of my study is to create a simulation where multiple UAVs can …

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Mobile Diabetes Application, Anusha Myneedi Jan 2019

Mobile Diabetes Application, Anusha Myneedi

Computer Science

In recent years, Diabetes is becoming a serious health challenge. The prevalence of diabetes has increased with accompanying increases in body weight and diminished physical activity and with increased automation. Effective blood glucose control is essential to maintain good health. However, to monitor blood glucose levels regularly one should go to healthcare center and it’s not possible because of all manner of real time interfaces. To ease this process in this paper, we propose an interactive self-management mobile application where you can monitor Blood Glucose and Blood Pressure values and check all your health-related activities regularly. MobiDiaBTs keeps track of …

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An Interactive System For Cow Herd Performance, Naqib Hossain Jan 2019

An Interactive System For Cow Herd Performance, Naqib Hossain

Computer Science

This paper explores the application-development phases for the Cow Herd Appraisal of Performance System (CHAPS). In 1985, North Dakota State University’s Dickinson Research Extension Center and the North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association (NDBCIA) developed CHAPS as a management tool for cow producers. This was phase 1 development for the CHAPS application. CHAPS was initially built as a Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) program. In phase 2, CHAPS was converted from MS-DOS to a desktop application. The desktop application was named CHAPS 2000. The desktop application lacks modern features, produces error-prone reports, etc. In 2013, North Dakota State University’s Dickinson …

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Basic Cybersecurity Awareness Through Gaming, Vikas Krishnarao Kulkarni Jan 2019

Basic Cybersecurity Awareness Through Gaming, Vikas Krishnarao Kulkarni

Computer Science

The goal of this paper is to bring the basic awareness of cybersecurity among students so that they do not become a victim of cybercrime. Studies show that cybersecurity serious games support multiple well-established perspectives of learning and have the potential to motivate individuals to learn by keeping them in a state of flow. Educators use the Bloom’s revised taxonomy, as it provides an effective method for the students who are learning a topic. Bloom's revised taxonomy identifies six cognitive levels, starting from basic steps in learning to the more advances steps. This paper includes developing a game called DodgeTheThreats …

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Design Of A Game For Cybersecurity Awareness, Jagjot Bhardwaj Jan 2019

Design Of A Game For Cybersecurity Awareness, Jagjot Bhardwaj

Computer Science

The primary objective of this paper is to use the Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy educational objectives in creating a game called Cyber Air-Strike for learning basic concepts of cybersecurity. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy is used to design the course material as it makes the learning process easy and effective. This taxonomy divides the course material into increasing levels of complexity starting from basic to advanced. A comprehensive literature was reviewed to understand the research domain and identify the gap in previous research. Cyber Air-Strike aims to target amateur computer users. They will acquire knowledge about the basic concepts of cybersecurity, the most …

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Understanding The Equine Distal Limb, Mattia Gunkelman Jan 2019

Understanding The Equine Distal Limb, Mattia Gunkelman

Animal Sciences

Studies examining health of the distal limb and lameness conditions are important for education and future research. It is hypothesized that changes to the external hoof would result in alterations to blood flow throughout the distal limb and changes to digital cushion thickness. To investigate these things, the following experiments (exp) were conducted. Exp 1: MRI images of the equine distal limb. All images had identified abnormalities to internal structures, and a lameness score assigned. Digital cushion thickness was measured, however no relationship of thickness and lameness was observed (P≥0.12). Exp 2: Trimming and shoeing is a routine procedure for …

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Energy And Mineral Supplementation Strategies For Beef Cattle Grazing The Northern Great Plains, Kacie Lynn Mccarthy Jan 2019

Energy And Mineral Supplementation Strategies For Beef Cattle Grazing The Northern Great Plains, Kacie Lynn Mccarthy

Animal Sciences

Four experiments were conducted to evaluate different technologies and supplementation strategies that may impact beef cattle production in the Northern Great Plains. Our overarching hypothesis was that we can enhance beef cattle performance and production through strategic supplementation of energy and minerals. In experiment 1, steers were fitted with transmission beacons on collars to determine effects of preweaning creep feeder attendance influences on post-weaning performance, feeding behavior, and carcass characteristics. Calves that visited creep feeders more frequently spent more time eating and ate more meals during the first 28 d of the finishing period. In experiment 2, we utilized electronic …

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Soysomes And Other Functional Biomaterials From Sucrose Soyate Derivatives, Ruvimbo Pearl Wright Jan 2019

Soysomes And Other Functional Biomaterials From Sucrose Soyate Derivatives, Ruvimbo Pearl Wright

Coatings and Polymeric Materials

Biomaterials serve as interventional tools in medicine to treat, improve or replace diseased tissues, organs or function of the body. Although several polymeric biomaterials already exist, they often present challenges, at material level, such as non-biodegradability, degradation into acidic by-products or tissue incompatibility, or at functional level such as failure to sustain prolonged release of therapeutic payload for a desired period. Research has been focused on investigating new polymeric candidates to address these problems of current systems. The use of renewable resources to generate smart polymers for biomedical and pharmaceutical purposes presents a new and exciting avenue for biomaterials. As …

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Functional Colloids From Amphiphilic Polymer Assemblies And Peptides/Polypeptides, Oksana Zholobko Jan 2019

Functional Colloids From Amphiphilic Polymer Assemblies And Peptides/Polypeptides, Oksana Zholobko

Coatings and Polymeric Materials

The use of responsive polymers, where even minor changes in one of the macromolecular characteristics triggered by the external stimuli can cause drastic changes in the material function or performance, is widely studying area of research. Formation of the thermodynamically stable polymer-peptide colloids, such as mixed micellar assemblies or polymer-enzyme conjugates, loading capacity of the colloids, and cargo activity all depend on the macromolecular interactions within the peptide/polypeptide-polymer system. The goal of this work is to investigate interactions between range of new polymers and various cargo molecules and determine whether those interactions affect the physicochemical properties of the resulted colloids. …

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Epoxidized Sucrose Soyate And Derivatives As Bioderived Crosslinkers In Various Thermosets, Samantha Danielle Silbert Jan 2019

Epoxidized Sucrose Soyate And Derivatives As Bioderived Crosslinkers In Various Thermosets, Samantha Danielle Silbert

Coatings and Polymeric Materials

Throughout the world, alternatives to petrochemically-derived materials are being sought. Aside from petrochemical feedstocks with precarious futures, materials that are derived from renewable resources such as crops are attractive. Epoxidized sucrose soyate is a material made from soybean oil and sucrose. Its rigid sucrose core, flexible aliphatic chains, and many modifiable epoxy sites make it an attractive candidate to replace petrochemically derived materials in a multitude of thermosets. This dissertation encompasses studies of ESS and its derivatives for the development of thermosets in a variety of processes. Namely, ESS-derived polycarbamates for use in ambient-curing polyurethane coatings produced via carbamate-dialdehyde crosslinking, …

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Using Music To Promote Language, Literacy, & Social Interaction In Children With Hearing Loss, Ashley G. Flagge Jan 2019

Using Music To Promote Language, Literacy, & Social Interaction In Children With Hearing Loss, Ashley G. Flagge

V&B Presentations

No abstract provided.

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