SAFFIRE SAFFLOWER

1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1079-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.-H. MÜNDEL ◽  
H. C. HUANG ◽  
L. D. BURCH ◽  
F. KIEHN
Keyword(s):  
Carthamus Tinctorius ◽  
Early Maturity ◽  
Cultivar Description ◽  
Head Rot ◽  
High Level ◽  
Seed Yields ◽  
The U.S

Saffire is the first Canadian cultivar of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.). It has early maturity, with seed yields exceeding those of the U.S. cultivar S-208 by 10% and equal to those of the Montana-bred cultivar Hartman, and has a high level of resistance to sclerotinia head rot. The shiny whitish seed pericarp and low oil levels make Saffire suitable mainly for the birdseed market. Saffire is adapted to the drier southern regions of the prairie provinces.Key words: Carthamus tinctorius L., safflower, cultivar description

MAPLE RIDGE SOYBEAN

1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. VOLDENG ◽  
J. F. SEITZER ◽  
R. I. HAMILTON
Keyword(s):  
Glycine Max ◽  
Soybean Cultivar ◽  
Early Maturity ◽  
Glycine Max L ◽  
Cultivar Description ◽  
Seed Yields

Maple Ridge is a soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) cultivar of early maturity, later than Maple Presto but earlier than Maple Amber. Seed yields are generally equal to those of Maple Amber and about 20% greater than those of Maple Presto.Key words: Glycine max (L.) Merr., soybean, cultivar description

AC Prairie Gold proso millet

1992 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 843-844
Author(s):  
F.A. Kiehn
Keyword(s):  
Panicum Miliaceum ◽  
Early Maturity ◽  
Proso Millet ◽  
Cultivar Description ◽  
Seed Yields

AC Prairie Gold is a cultivar of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.). It has early maturity with seed yields 12% greater than Crown, a registered forage cultivar. The large, smooth, shiny, yellow-gold colored seed is suitable for the birdfeed market.Key words: Proso millet, cultivar description, birdfeed

scholarly journals Business Exit During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Non-Traditional Measures in Historical Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (025) ◽  
pp. 1-59
Author(s):  
Leland D. Crane ◽  
◽  
Ryan A. Decker ◽  
Aaron Flaaen ◽  
Adrian Hamins-Puertolas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Firms ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
First Year ◽  
Tracking Data ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
High Level ◽  
Official Data ◽  
The U.S

Lags in official data releases have forced economists and policymakers to leverage "alternative" or "non-traditional" data to measure business exit resulting from the COVID- 19 pandemic. We first review official data on business exit in recent decades to place the alternative measures of exit within historical context. For the U.S., business exit is countercyclical and fairly common, with about 7.5 percent of firms exiting annually in recent years. Both the high level and the cyclicality of exit are driven by very small firms and establishments. We then explore a range of alternative measures of business exit, including novel measures based on paycheck issuance and phone-tracking data, which indicate exit was elevated in certain sectors during the first year of the pandemic. The evidence is mixed, however; many industries have likely seen lower-than-usual exit rates, and exiting businesses do not appear to represent a large share of U.S. employment. Actual exit is likely to have been lower than widespread expectations from early in the pandemic. Moreover, businesses have recently exhibited notable optimism about their survival prospects.

The Winter Sport Tourism Product

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Simon Hudson ◽  
Louise Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Sport Tourism ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Winter Sport ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
Ski Areas ◽  
High Level ◽  
International Visitors ◽  
The U.S

Winter sport activities. As mentioned in Chapter 1, the focus of this book is on the winter sports of skiing and snowboarding, and as previously noted, there are approximately 120 million ski and snowboarders worldwide, with nearly a third of those coming from Western Europe. Figure 2.1 shows the distribution of skiers and boarders by region of origin. The share of international visitors is less than one sixth of partici- pants, with the international flow of skiers and boarders primarily restricted to Europe. Overseas visitors in the U.S., for example, represented just 3.8 per cent of total skier visits in 2012/13. Although some countries have very few ski areas, they are still, like the Netherlands and the U.K., significant outbound markets, sending around one million skiers and boarders each to the mountains every winter. France, Germany, Japan and the U.S. have the biggest domestic ski and snowboard markets, each numbering between 11.5 and 13 million people. In terms of inbound visits, Austria leads the way, with over 34 million, followed by France with 15 million and Switzerland with 13.8 million. Meanwhile, countries with a high level of participation rates amongst domestic populations include Switzerland (37%), Austria (36%), Norway (25%), and Finland (24%). Interestingly, only 4.3 per cent of the population in the U.S. takes to the mountains each winter. Table 2.1 lists the countries that receive over one million skier visits, along with participation rates as a percentage of their population.

Adopting Identification Standards in the Medical Device Supply Chain

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousef Abdulsalam ◽  
Dari Alhuwail ◽  
Eugene S. Schneller
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Device Identification ◽  
Medical Device Manufacturers ◽  
High Level ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently mandated that medical device manufacturers adopt Unique Device Identification (UDI) standards on their medical devices. The benefits that UDI brings to hospitals and patients is relatively obvious, including inventory transparency, product safety, product equivalency, business intelligence. However, adoption by manufacturers, who face the mandate, has been slow in part because the benefit to them is not as readily perceived. This study focuses on the incentives, barriers, and benefits that medical device manufacturers perceive in UDI adoption. This study seeks to understand which adoption pressures are driving manufacturers to act, and attempts to gauge the benefits to manufacturers from UDI adoption. Through survey methods, the evidence suggests that medical device manufacturers implement UDI largely as a response to the coercive and normative pressures they face. There continues to be a high level of uncertainty regarding the return on investment for the medical device manufacturers, particularly from the late adopters.

Leadership

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Joshua P. Starr
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Teacher Pay ◽  
Local School ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
School Superintendent ◽  
High Level ◽  
The U.S

In the conclusion to her 2014 book The Teacher Wars, the journalist Dana Goldstein offers 11 recommendations for increasing the professional status of teachers in the U.S. Her suggestions — such as increasing teacher pay, supporting professional learning communities, and encouraging teachers to observe each other in the classroom — offer excellent starting points for high-level policy debates, says Joshua P. Starr. From the perspective of a local school superintendent, however, each of these ideas needs some refinement.

Lessons Learned Siting and Successfully Processing U.S. DOE Radioactive Wastes Using a High Throughput Vitrification Process

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Prince ◽  
Bradley W. Bowan
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Volume Reduction ◽  
Waste Form ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
Hanford Site ◽  
High Level ◽  
Low Activity ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Ceramic Melter

This paper describes actual experience applying a technology to achieve volume reduction while producing a stable waste form for low and intermediate level liquid (L/ILW) wastes, and the L/ILW fraction produced from pre-processing of high level wastes. The chief process addressed will be vitrification. The joule-heated ceramic melter vitrification process has been used successfully on a number of waste streams produced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This paper will address lessons learned in achieving dramatic improvements in process throughput, based on actual pilot and full-scale waste processing experience. Since 1991, Duratek, Inc., and its long-term research partner, the Vitreous State Laboratory of The Catholic University of America, have worked to continuously improve joule heated ceramic melter vitrification technology in support of waste stabilization and disposition in the United States. From 1993 to 1998, under contact to the DOE, the team designed, built, and operated a joule-heated melter (the DuraMelterTM) to process liquid mixed (hazardous/low activity) waste material at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. This melter produced 1,000,000 kilograms of vitrified waste, achieving a volume reduction of approximately 70 percent and ultimately producing a waste form that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delisted for its hazardous classification. The team built upon its SRS M Area experience to produce state-of-the-art melter technology that will be used at the DOE’s Hanford site in Richland, Washington. Since 1998, the DuraMelterTM has been the reference vitrification technology for processing both the high level waste (HLW) and low activity waste (LAW) fractions of liquid HLW waste from the U.S. DOE’s Hanford site. Process innovations have doubled the throughput and enhanced the ability to handle problem constituents in LAW. This paper provides lessons learned from the operation and testing of two facilities that provide the technology for a vitrification system that will be used in the stabilization of the low level fraction of Hanford’s high level tank wastes.

scholarly journals Reveal 8-Hour Test System for Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Raw Ground Beef, Raw Beef Cubes, and Iceberg Lettuce Rinse: Collaborative Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B Bird ◽  
Rebecca J Hoerner ◽  
Lawrence Restaino ◽  
G Anderson ◽  
W Birbari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Ground Beef ◽  
Culture Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Test System ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Inspection Service ◽  
High Level ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Five different food types were analyzed by the Reveal for E. coli O157:H7 8-Hour Test System (Reveal 8) and either the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM) culture method or the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) culture method for the presence of E. coli O157:H7. A total of 27 laboratories representing academia and private industry in the United States and Canada participated. Food types were inoculated with E. coli O157:H7 at 2 different levels: a high level where predominantly positive results were expected, and a low level where fractional recovery was anticipated. During this study, 1110 samples and controls were analyzed by both the Reveal 8 and by BAM or FSIS by each of the collaborators (2220 samples in total). For each set of samples, 740 were artificially inoculated with E. coli O157:H7, and 370 were uninoculated controls. The Reveal 8 detected 528 presumptive positives of which 487 were confirmed positive by the BAM culture method. In comparison, BAM and FSIS detected 489 of the 740 artificially contaminated samples as positive. In an additional in-house study performed only on chilled and frozen raw ground beef, 240 artificially inoculated samples were analyzed by both the Reveal 8 and by FSIS. The Reveal 8 detected and confirmed 104 samples as positive compared to 79 confirmed positive by FSIS.

RCAT Legacy soybean

2000 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Ablett ◽  
B. T. Stirling ◽  
J. D. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Glycine Max ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Soybean Cultivar ◽  
Yield Potential ◽  
Maturity Group ◽  
Lodging Resistance ◽  
Early Maturity ◽  
Excellent Yield ◽  
Glycine Max L ◽  
Cultivar Description

RCAT Legacy is an early Maturity Group II soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] cultivar with excellent yield potential and good lodging resistance. It was developed by Ridgetown College, University of Guelph and is widely adapted to Ontario. Key words: Soybean, cultivar description, Glycine max

Job Satisfaction among State Executives in the U.S.

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred W. Grupp ◽  
Allan R. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
State Government ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
High Level ◽  
The U.S

“A recent survey of high-level, appointed executives in ten states reveals that they are very satisfied with their jobs. They rank their current occupation nearer to ‘ideal’ than did previously surveyed federal or business executives, and they prefer working for state government to employment with the federal government or in private business.”

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