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Biotechnology and Agriculture : A Skeptical Perspective
(AgBioForum, 1999)
A combination of population and income growth will more than double the demand for food and other agricultural commodities over the next half century. Advances in crop productivity during the twentieth century have largely ...
Composition, vigor, and proteome of mature soybean seeds developed under high temperature
(Crop Society of America, 1999)
The effects of high temperature treatment on soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seed composition, vigor, and proteome were investigated using mature dry seeds harvested from plants grown in environment-controlled chambers. ...
A catalog of Nearby Poor Clusters of Galaxies
(American Astronomical Society, 1999)
A catalog of 732 optically selected, nearby poor clusters of galaxies covering the entire sky north of [3¡ declination is presented. The poor clusters, called WBL clusters, were identified as concentrations of
three or ...
Massive Cooling Flow Clusters Inhabit Crowded Environments
(American Astronomical Society, 1999)
With the availability of large-scale redshift survey data, it is now becoming possible to explore correlations between large-scale structure and the properties and morphologies of galaxy clusters. We investigate the spatial ...
Weak Gravitational Lensing and Cluster Mass Estimates
(American Astronomical Society, 1999)
Hierarchical theories of structure formation predict that clusters of galaxies should be embedded in a weblike structure, with filaments emanating from them to large distances. The amount of mass contained within such ...
Mass and Metallicity of Five X-Ray-bright Galaxy Groups
(American Astronomical Society, 1999)
We present ASCA X-ray observations of a sample of Ðve groups selected from a cross-correlation of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey with the White et al. optical catalog of groups. These X-rayÈbright groups significantly increase ...
The X-Ray Luminosity Function of Nearby Rich and Poor Clusters of Galaxies:A Cosmological Probe
(American Astronomical Society, 1999)
In this Letter, we present a new determination of the local (z · 0.09) X-ray luminosity function (XLF) using a large, statistical sample of 294 Abell clusters and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Despite the optical selection of ...
The changing agricultural research environment : what does it mean for public-private innovation?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Agricultural research has experienced increased industry spending and public-private collaborations. Private incentives for public goods research are limited. Public-private ventures can foster socially beneficial research. ...
Partnerships between public and private : the experience of the Cooperative Research Center for Plant Science in Australia
(AgBioForum, 1999)
We discuss an innovative scheme, the Cooperative Research Centers Program, established by the Australian government in 1991, which has a major objective of delivering research output of direct benefit to Australian industries. ...
Public/private alliances
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The traditional research paradigm represents discoveries flowing linearly from basic science conducted in public institutions to applied research and commercialization undertaken largely by private industry. This ...
Public science, biotechnology, and the industrial organization of agrofood systems
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Concentration in the agricultural biotechnology sector and general patterns of restructuring raise important policy questions regarding public investments in research and extension. We argue that the most valuable contributions ...
Exploring the public's role in agricultural biotechnology research
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The potential for market failure resulting from under-investment in research is onejustification for public agricultural research. This justification seems less germane given recent developments regarding intellectual ...
Are research alliances between private firms and land grant universities compatible with the original purpose?
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Increased collaboration between private firms and State Agricultural Experiment Stations (SAES) raises fears that the independence, objectivity, and credibility of SAES and their scientists may be compromised. Likewise, ...
The agricultural knowledge system : appropriate roles and interactions for the public and private sectors
(AgBioForum, 1999)
For over one hundred years, Land Grant Universities (LGUs) have pushed the frontiers of knowledge; have translated new knowledge into practice for the benefit of farmers, agribusiness and consumers; and have prepared the ...
Balancing basic, genetic enhancement and cultivar development research in an evolving US plant germplasm system
(AgBioForum, 1999)
The structure of the United States (U.S.) public-private plant genetic research system is being transformed by the emergence of practical biotechnology protocols for creating transgenic plants; and by strengthened intellectual ...
Missouri Crop-Share Leasing Patterns
(University Extension, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999-07)
This guide focuses on one specific rental agreement, the crop-share lease. This guide uses producer survey information to determine how tenants and landowners share the costs of production under 50-50 and 2/3-1/3 lease ...
Designing a Farm Résumé
(University Extension, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999-05)
A farm resume is much like a resume for employment in that it highlights your qualifications to do a job. A farm resume can help tenants to be creative in selling their services. Young farmers, in particular, can benefit ...
Beginning to Inform the Theory of the Cooperative Firm: Emergence of the New Generation Cooperative
(Association for Business Administration Studies, 1999-04)
The objective of this paper is threefold: 1) to introduce the recent emergence of a nontraditional form of collective action in rural United States, 2) to explore the path-dependent institutional environment from which ...
Public and Private Collaboration on Plant Biotechnology in China
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Public private collaboration in plant biotechnology is unusual in China because the private sector plays a very small role in the Chinese agricultural input industry. There are few public private collaborations and also ...
An Analysis of a Relatively Rare Case of Continental Blocking
(Jon Wiley and Sons, 1999-01)
A planetary and synoptic-scale analysis of a relatively rare continental blocking event that occurred over North America during the spring of 1980 are undertaken to determine whether or not this event was different from ...