Executive Order Number Thirty-Five, January 2004

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck

Executive Order Number Thirty-Six, June 2004

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck

Executive Order Number Thirty-Seven, October 2004

Excecutive order signed by Governor Thomas Vilsck

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

Archaeospicularia, new radiolarian order; a new step for the classification of the Lower Paleozoic Radiolaria.

A new radiolarian order - Archaeospicularia - is proposed for some Lower Paleozoic radiolarians previously considered to belong to Spumellaria and to Collodaria. It is characterized by a globular shell made of several spicules which can be free, interlocked, or fused to formed a latticed wall. The present paper gives the definition of this order and proposes a first classification. It is supposed that the Archaeospicularia represents the oldest radiolarian group and that in the Lower Paleozoic it gave rise to the orders Entactinaria, Albaillellaria, and probably Spumellaria by the reduction of the number of initial spicules. The origin of this order and its relationships with other groups of organisms with siliceous skeletons are also briefly discussed. (C) 2000 Academie des sciences / Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.

The impact of labour market status on second and higher-order births. A comparative study of Denmark, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom

This paper investigates the effects of women‘s labour force participation on fertility, as well as the effects of the combined labour force participation of both members of a couple. It specifically focuses on such dimensions as unemployment, earnings, temporary contracts and part-time jobs, and it shows that their effects differ in accordance with national institutions and labour market regulations. Event-history methods and a longitudinal sample of the European Community Household Panel are used in the analyses, concerning the years 1993-2000. The results show that labour market insecurity of one or both members of a couple has a particularly strong impact in reducing birth rates in the Southern European countries studied. The more conventional model of men’s employment combined with housewifery has a positive impact on second or higher order births in United Kingdom, Spain and Italy, while in Denmark the effect is the opposite. These differences are consistent with different national models of combining parental responsibilities and participation by gender across the life course.

FY 2005 Revolving Fund Purchase Order Report

Report written by Iowa DOT to Auditor Office about revolving fund purchase order.

Profile order and time-dependent artifacts in contrast-enhanced coronary MR angiography at 3T: origin and prevention.

To enhance the clinical value of coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), high-relaxivity contrast agents have recently been used at 3T. Here we examine a uniform bilateral shadowing artifact observed along the coronary arteries in MRA images collected using such a contrast agent. Simulations were performed to characterize this artifact, including its origin, to determine how best to mitigate this effect, and to optimize a data acquisition/injection scheme. An intraluminal contrast agent concentration model was used to simulate various acquisition strategies with two profile orders for a slow-infusion of a high-relaxivity contrast agent. Filtering effects from temporally variable weighting in k-space are prominent when a centric, radial (CR) profile order is applied during contrast infusion, resulting in decreased signal enhancement and underestimation of vessel width, while both pre- and postinfusion steady-state acquisitions result in overestimation of the vessel width. Acquisition during the brief postinfusion steady-state produces the greatest signal enhancement and minimizes k-space filtering artifacts.

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.