Executive Order Number Thirty-Eight, October 2004

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck

Executive Order Number Thirty Nine, January 2005

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck

Executive Order Number Forty, March 2005

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck

Musik bei der Arbeit: Top oder Flop?

Ob sich Musikhören am Arbeitsplatz positiv oder negativ auf die Mitarbeitenden und auf die Arbeit auswirkt, hängt von einer komplexen Kombination von Faktoren ab. Nämlich von der Musik, von der Art der Arbeitstätigkeit, vom Individuum und seiner Persönlichkeit und vom generellen Arbeitskontext.

I-35 Corridor Trade Study - Final Executive Summary, 2005

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Departments of Transportation in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota combined their efforts to conduct a study of Interstate Highway 35 (I-35) from Laredo, Texas to Duluth, Minnesota. The purpose of the study was to assess the need for improved local, intrastate, interstate, and international service on I-35 and to clearly define a general feasible improvement plan to address those needs

Turnover of plant lineages shapes herbivore phylogenetic beta diversity along ecological gradients.

Understanding drivers of biodiversity patterns is of prime importance in this era of severe environmental crisis. More diverse plant communities have been postulated to represent a larger functional trait-space, more likely to sustain a diverse assembly of herbivore species. Here, we expand this hypothesis to integrate environmental, functional and phylogenetic variation of plant communities as factors explaining the diversity of lepidopteran assemblages along elevation gradients in the Swiss Western Alps. According to expectations, we found that the association between butterflies and their host plants is highly phylogenetically structured. Multiple regression analyses showed the combined effect of climate, functional traits and phylogenetic diversity in structuring butterfly communities. Furthermore, we provide the first evidence that plant phylogenetic beta diversity is the major driver explaining butterfly phylogenetic beta diversity. Along ecological gradients, the bottom up control of herbivore diversity is thus driven by phylogenetically structured turnover of plant traits as well as environmental variables.

The Toarcian in the Subbetic basin (southern Spain): Bio-events (ammonite and calcareous nannofossils) and carbon-isotope stratigraphy

A detailed carbon-isotope stratigraphic study for the uppermost Pliensbachian lowermost Aalenian interval in the Median Subbetic palaeogeographic domain (External zones of the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain) has been carried out. During the Early Jurassic, the Median Subbetic, which represents a typical basin of the Hispanic Corridor connecting the Tethys and the Eastern Pacific, was located in the westernmost Tethys. The analyzed sections encompass the entire Toarcian stage as represented in the southern Iberian palaeomargin. Rocks are mainly rhythmic sequences of grey marls and marly limestones containing a rich ammonite fauna, nannofossils, and benthic foraminifers-all these provide an accurate biostratigraphic control. The lower and upper Toarcian boundaries are well represented in some of these sections and therefore represent optimal sites to link the carbon-isotope curves to ammonite zones, and to nannofossil events. delta C-13 values of bulk carbonates from the different localities of the Subbetic basin have similar variations from the uppermost Pliensbachian to the lowermost Aalenian, suggesting changes in the original DIC carbon isotope composition along the Hispanic corridor. The transition from Pliensbachian to Toarcian is marked by increasing delta C-13 values from similar to 12 to 2.0 parts per thousand, interrupted in the Serpentinum Zone by a negative shift concomitant with the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (T-OAE), with the major ammonite extinction event of the Toarcian, and an important turnover of calcareous nannoplankton. The negative shift observed in the Serpentinum Zone confirms the global perturbation of the carbon cycling documented along the Tethys and the palaeo-Pacific in organic material and in marine carbonates. However, the amplitude of the negative excursion (similar to - 1.5 parts per thousand) is not compatible with an isotopic homogeneous seawater DIC and/or CO2 atmospheric reservoirs. The interval from the middle to the top of the Toarcian delta C-13 shows relatively constant values, minor ammonite turnovers, and is associated with increasing diversity of calcareous nannoplankton. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Executive Order Number Forty-Six, January 2006

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck. Ensures Iowa's kids have a quality early childhood experience by giving child care workers the opportunity to organize. Directs the Department of Human Services to meet with authorized representatives of unregistered Child Care providers (and others not covered by Executive Order 45 )in the State of Iowa.

Executive Order Number Forty-Two, July 2005

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck. Grants voting rights to disqualified electors who have discharged their sentence, probation or parole.

Executive Order Number Forty-Three, July 2005

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck. Directs the Department of Human Services to meet with organizations and associations in order to improve delivery and quality of home and community-based care services for Iowa’s elderly and disabled.

Executive Order Number Forty-Four, September 2005

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck. Directs the Department of Human Services to comply with all directives from the federal government arising from Hurricane Katrina insofar as those directives concern public welfare programs administered by DHS, declares that any evacuee shall be deemed a resident of the State of Iowa for purposes of obtaining eligibility for the food stamp, family investment and Medicaid programs, and DHS should process applications in an expedited and flexible manner.

Executive Order Number Forty-Five, January 2006

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck. Ensures Iowa's kids have a quality early childhood experience by giving child care workers the opportunity to organize. Directs the Department of Human Services to meet with authorized representatives of Registered Child Care providers in the State of Iowa.

Executive Order Number Eleven, February 1968

Executive Orders from Governor Hughes. Establish the Department of Social Services.

Executive Order Number Forty-Seven, February 2006

Creates the Keep Iowa Clean and Beautiful Task Force to assess conditions and activities of litter control in Iowa.