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Pricing of Herbicide-Tolerant Soybean Seeds : A Market-Structure Approach
(AgBioForum, 2009)
This article investigates the effects of supply-side factors on the pricing of soybean seeds in the United States. We discuss recent trends that have shaped the US soybean seed market. Using an econometric model, we also ...
Linear Continuum Mechanics for Quantum Many-Body Systems
(American Physical Society, 2009)
We develop the continuum mechanics of quantum many-body systems in the linear response regime. The basic variable of the theory is the displacement field, for which we derive a closed equation of motion under the assumption ...
Density-Functional Theory for Strongly Interacting Electrons
(American Physical Society, 2009)
We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density-functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems. The idea is to start from the limit of zero kinetic energy and ...
International Patent Behavior of Nine Major Agricultural Biotechnology Firms
(AgBioForum, 2006)
This paper examines the international patent behavior of nine major firms for seven patent authorities: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Patent Office (EPO), Japan, and South Africa. The patent sample is based ...
Mueller Matrix Decomposition of Diffuse Reflectance Imaging in Skeletal Muscle
(The Optical Society of America, 2009-05)
Propagation of polarized light in skeletal muscle is significantly affected by anisotropic muscle structures. To completely characterize muscle polarization properties, we acquired the whole Mueller matrix images of the ...
(Mis-) Measuring the Relative Pay of Public School Teachers
(Education Finance and Policy, 2006)
Statistics on the relative pay of public school teachers are routinely cited by plaintiffs in school finance (“adequacy”) lawsuits. However, comparisons of pay and
benefits for public school teachers to those of professional ...
An exploratory survey of reference source instruction in LIS courses
(Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2006)
We surveyed 40 reference instructors at 28 North American ALA-accredited programs of library and information studies about instructional methods they used in teaching about reference sources in print and electronic formats. ...
Nutritional Skewing of Conceptus Sex in Sheep: Effects of a Maternal Diet Enriched in Rumen-Protected Polyunsaturated Fatty acids (PUFA)
(Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2008)
Evolutionary theory suggests that in polygynous mammalian species females in better body condition should produce more sons than daughters. Few controlled studies have however tested this hypothesis and controversy exists ...
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Stocks of Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property
(AgBioForum, 2005)
A subset of patents owned by six large agricultural biotechnology companies is analyzed from the new Initiatives for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (IFAFS) Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database. ...
Assessing the Performance of GM Maize Amongst Smallholders in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(AgBioForum, 2009)
This study uses data for the 2006/07 maize production season, for the Hlabisa, Dumbe, and Simdlangentsha districts in Kwa- Zulu-Natal, South Africa, to investigate the relative efficiencies of conventional, insect-resistant ...
The Measurement of the Light Deflection from Jupiter: Experimental Results
(arXiv, 2003)
We have determined the relativistic light deflection of the quasar J0842+1835 as Jupiter passed within 3.7' on 2002 September 8, by measuring the time delay using the VLBA and Effelsberg radio telescopes at 8.4 GHz. At ...
How to read a reading of a written poem
(2005-03)
Relating Biophysical Properties Across Scales
(2007)
A distinguishing feature of a multicellular living system is that it operates at various scales, from the intracellular to organismal. Genes and molecules set up the conditions for the physical processes to act, in particular ...
Generation of fast propagating combustion and shock waves with copper oxide/aluminum nanothermite composites
(American Institute of Physics, 2007)
Nanothermite composites containing metallic fuel and inorganic oxidizer are gaining importance due to their outstanding combustion characteristics. In this paper, the combustion behaviors of copper oxide/aluminum nanothermites ...
Agarose-stabilized gold nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic detection of DNA nucleosides
(American Institute of Physics, 2006)
We present surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) studies of DNA nucleosides using biologically benign agarose-stabilized gold nanoparticles (AAuNP). We compare the SERS activity of nucleosides with AAuNP to that of ...
Relations between librarians and romance readers: A Missouri survey.
(Public Libaries, 2006)
Romance novels have traditionally been derided in academic literature and while recent LIS literature has been supportive of romance, previous articles indicated considerable disdain for the genre. Criticism raised in the ...
Can Technology Transfer Help Public-Sector Researchers Do More with Less? The Case of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Private funding for agricultural research now exceeds that of the public sector. Other changes have included policies to make greater use of technology transfer mechanisms, such as patents and licensing and Cooperative ...
Progress in Measurements of the Gravitational Bending of Radio Waves Using the VLBA
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)
We have used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 43, 23, and 15 GHz to measure the solar gravitational deflection of radio waves among four radio sources during an 18 day period in 2005 October. Using phase- referenced ...