The role of delegated examining units : hiring new employees in a decentralized civil service : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

"August 1999"--P. [1]

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management in retrospect : achievements and challenges after two decades : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

"December 2001."

Managing federal recruitment : issues, insights, and illustrations : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

Includes bibliographical references.

The probationary period : a critical assessment opportunity : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

Mode of access: Internet.

Navigating the probationary period after van Wersch and McCormick : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

Includes bibliographical references.

Accomplishing our mission : results of the merit principles survey 2005 : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

Includes bibliographical references.

The federal government : a model employer or a work in progress? : perspectives from 25 years of the Merit Principles Survey : a report to the President and the Congress of the United States /

"September 2008"

In the Circuit Court of the United States. The County of San Mateo vs. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Argument of

Mode of access: Internet.

Decisions of the United States Merit Systems Protection Board

Decisions in actions brought before the U. S. Civil Service Commission, as well as in cases initiated before the U. S. Merit Systems Protection Board under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

Vol. 1 transcript of record. Supreme court of the United States. No. 492. October term, 1916. Oregon & California Railroad Company et al., petitioners, vs. the United States. On writ of certiorari to the United States circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit. Petition for cetiorari filed October 20, 1916. Certiorari granted November 6, 1916. (25,313).

Mode of access: Internet.

Port and Terminal Charges at United States Ports

Mode of access: Internet.

Substandard wages. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on education and labor, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, pursuant to S. Con.

v.1.Hearings, Nov.17-18 1944.

Iberian and Latin American Music Scholarship on the Ascent: Reflections from the United States

In the early twentieth century, musicology was established as an academic discipline in the United States. Nonetheless, with the exception of Iberian medieval and Renaissance repertories, U.S. scholars largely overlooked the music of the Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking world. Why should this have been the case, especially in light of Spain’s strong historical presence in the United States? This autobiographical essay examines this question by tracing the career of an individual musicologist, the Hispanist musicologist Carol A. Hess. Evaluated here are disciplinary shifts in U.S. musicology —methodological, philosophical, and ideological— over the past thirty years. These transformations have combined to make this repertory a viable field of study today. Musicologists in the United States can now make their careers by specializing in Iberian and Latin American music, as well as the music of the Hispanic diaspora. They research topics ranging from the avant-garde composer Llorenç Barber to the rapper Nach Scratch or the popular bandleader Xavier Cugat and his U.S. audiences of the 1940s, while others also pursue the time-tested areas of medieval and Renaissance music. Iberian and Latin American music is regularly offered in postsecondary institutions while instructors now have a variety of textbooks and other pedagogical resources from which to choose. All add up to a disciplinary freedom that would have been unthinkable only a few decades ago.

Adaptation of an apple sooty blotch and flyspeck warning system for the Upper Midwest United States

A warning system for sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) of apple, developed in the southeastern United States, uses cumulative hours of leaf wetness duration (LWD) to predict the timing of the first appearance of signs. In the Upper Midwest United States, however, this warning system has resulted in sporadic disease control failures. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the warning system`s algorithm could be modified to provide more reliable assessment of SBFS risk. Hourly LWD, rainfall, relative humidity (RH), and temperature data were collected from orchards in Iowa, North Carolina, and Wisconsin in 2005 and 2006. Timing of the first appearance of SBFS signs was determined by weekly scouting. Preliminary analysis using scatterplots and boxplots suggested that Cumulative hours of RH >= 97% could be a useful predictor of SBFS appearance. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was used to compare the predictive performance of cumulative LWD and cumulative hours of RH >= 97%. Cumulative hours of RH >= 97% was a more conservative and accurate predictor than cumulative LWD for 15 site years in the Upper Midwest, but not for four site years in North Carolina. Performance of the SBFS warning system in the Upper Midwest and climatically similar regions may be improved if cumulative hours of RH >= 97% were substituted for cumulative LWD to predict the first appearance of SBFS.

Overwintering of Sclerotium rolfsii and S-rolfsii var. delphinii in different latitudes of the United States

Previously known only from the southern United States, hosta petiole rot recently appeared in the northern United States. Sclerotium rolfsii var. delphinii is believed to be the predominant petiole rot pathogen in the northern United States, whereas S. rolfsii is most prevalent in the southern United States. In order to test the hypothesis that different tolerance to climate extremes affects the geographic distribution of these fungi, the survival of S. rolfsii and S. rolfsii var. delphinii in the northern and southeastern United States was investigated. At each of four locations, nylon screen bags containing sclerotia were placed on the surface of bare soil and at 20-cm depth. Sclerotia were recovered six times from November 2005 to July 2006 in North Dakota and Iowa, and from December 2005 to August 2006 in North Carolina and Georgia. Survival was estimated by quantifying percentage of sclerotium survival on carrot agar. Sclerotia of S. rolfsii var. delphinii survived until at least late July in all four states. In contrast, no S. rolfsii sclerotia survived until June in North Dakota or Iowa, whereas 18.5% survived until August in North Carolina and 10.3% survived in Georgia. The results suggest that inability to tolerate low temperature extremes limits the northern range of S. rolfsii.