Iowa Public Library Statistics, July 2007-June 2008

The 2007-2008 (FY08) edition of Iowa Public Library Statistics includes information on income, expenditures, collections, circulation, and other measures, including staff. Each section is arranged by size code, then alphabetically by city. The totals and percentiles for each size code grouping are given immediately following the alphabetical listings. Totals and medians for all reporting libraries are given at the end of each section. There are 543 libraries included in this publication; 522 submitted a report. The table of size codes (page 6) lists the libraries alphabetically. The following table lists the size code designations, the population range in each size code, the number of libraries reporting in each size code, and the total population of the reporting libraries in each sizecode. The total population served by the 543 libraries is 2,248,279. Population data is used to determine per capita figures throughout the publication.

Isla Lobos de Tierra: Evaluación de invertebrados en bancos naturales, 2010

Las tallas de Transennella pannosa fluctuaron entre 10 y 34 mm de altura valvar, con media en 27,2 mm; predominaron ejemplares maduros (55,56%) y en evacuación (27,78%); se distribuyó entre 6°25’46,6’’S y 6°27’24,8’’S, en concentraciones de 4478 ind.m-2, la biomasa estimada fue 1566,7 t y la población 248,4 millones de ejemplares. La talla de Pollicipes elegans varió entre 6 y 40 mm de longitud carina rostral, media 26,2 mm; los juveniles (Lcr<17 mm) fueron el 11,63% y los adultos (Lcr≥17 mm) el 88,37%; predominaron ejemplares maduros (72,09%). La talla de Argopecten purpuratus varió entre 9 y 82 mm de altura valvar, media de 56,7 mm; los juveniles (<25 mm) fueron el 0,41% y los adultos comerciales (≥65 mm) el 15,27%; predominaron los desovantes (73,62%); se distribuyó entre 6°21’54,8’’S y 6°25’33,6’’S con concentraciones absolutas de 1 a 121 ejem.m-2 en profundidades de 6,2 a 24,9 m. Las tallas de Octopus mimus fluctuaron entre 100 y 200 mm de longitud del manto; en hembras predominó madurez total y post-fresa, ambos con 40%.

Mélanges sur l'histoire du Limousin.

Contient : Titre et préface d'un « De vita rebusque virorum illustrium Lemovicensium libri sex, auctore Stephano Baluzio Tutellensi, » de la main de Baluze ; Notices sur divers abbés de Saint-Sernin de Toulouse, d'origine limousine ; « Catalogus virorum illustrium Lemovicensium, » recueil des courtes notices biographiques, disposées sous forme de tableaux ; « Assiette du restablissement et création du siège royal de Tulle, qui avoit esté supprimé à la requeste des habitans de Brive » (1553) ; original

Efeito da omissão de N, NI, Mo, Co e S sobre os teores de N e S em feijoeiro

Foi avaliado o efeito da omissão de N, Ni, Mo, Co e S sobre os teores de N e S em feijoeiros (Phaseolus vulgaris ) inoculados e não inoculados com Rhizobium, em casa de vegetação. O experimento foi realizado em um esquema fatorial com dois tipos de solo (Neossolo Flúvico), dois níveis de inoculação (com e sem), combinados com seis adubações: (a) Completo (N, P, K, Ni, Mo, Co e S); (b) sem N; (c) sem Ni; (d) sem Co; (e) sem Mo; (f) sem S. O delineamento experimental foi inteiramente casualizado com três repetições. Foram fornecidos 126 mg kg-1 de N (parcelados no plantio, aos 10 e 25 dias da emergência - DAE), 248 mg kg-1 de P, 117 de K e 48 de S, aplicados no solo, e 10, 250 e 10 mg L-1 de Ni, Mo e Co, respectivamente, aplicados via foliar aos nove DAE. A colheita foi efetuada aos 35 DAE, separando-se a folha indicadora das demais. A adubação nitrogenada aumentou o crescimento das plantas, indicando serem os solos deficientes em N, bem como reduziu os teores foliares de N e S. A omissão dos demais nutrientes não alterou o crescimento das plantas nem o teor de N foliar, mas a omissão de S reduziu, como esperado, o teor de S foliar.

La mission de "la Cybèle" en Extrême-Orient, 1817-1818 / Journal de voyage du capitaine A. de Kergariou ; publié et annoté par Pierre de Joinville,...

Collection : Société de l'histoire des colonies françaises ; 3

Annales de l'abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (555-1743), et pièces annexes jusqu'en 1753. I Années 555-1695.

Annales très abrégées jusque vers le milieu du XVII e siècle, et plus développées ensuite. — On y a inséré un certain nombre de gravures et de pièces imprimées, parmi lesquelles : Épitaphe de Matthieu Molé, avec son portrait gravé par Robert Nanteuil, 1656, exemplaire sur vélin, placard grand in-folio (fol. 36) ; — Épitaphe de Pompone II de Bellièvre, avec son portrait en pied, gravé par J. Lenfant, 1657, placard grand in-folio (fol. 74) ; — Factums (fol. 43, etc.) ; — « Mausolée fait pour le service de la Reine dans l'église... de Saint-Germain-des-Prez..., 15 septembre 1683 », planches gravées (fol. 139 et 140) ; — Mandements impr. du cardinal de Furstemberg, abbé de Saint-Germain-des-???Prés, et autres (fol. 156, etc.) ; — Prospectus de l'édition de la Divina Bibliotheca de saint Jérôme, par les PP. Jean MARTIANAY et Antoine POUGET, 1693, in-8°, impr. (fol. 181) ; — « Lettre de M r PINSON, advocat en Parlement, adressée à M r Chassebras, escuyer, seigneur de Cramailles, du 1 er may 1692 », sur plusieurs religieux de l'abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in-4°, impr. (fol. 191) ; — Planches gravées d'archéologie (fol. 247 et 248). — On remarque, en outre : Plans manuscrits de l'église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, en 1644, « année de son rétablissement » (fol. 66), et en décembre 1656 (fol. 67), — et Plan des modifications introduites dans l'édifice entre ces deux dates (fol. 68) ; — Déclaration orig. de Robert « Audrenas » et d'« Anne Marcellin », sa femme, concernant une relique de saint Benoît, 1657 (fol. 70), — et Pièces, manuscrites et impr., concernant diverses reliques transférées à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (fol. 249) ; — « Livre des fondations faictes à l'abbaye de Sainct-Germain-des-Prez », 1613-1713 (fol. 229) ; — « Extraict du Registre des choses notables arrivées dans le monastère de Saint-Germain-des-Prez, à Paris », 1683, sur la mort de Louis-César de Bourbon, comte du Vexin, abbé de Saint-Germaindes-Prés (fol. 233). — Table des matières (fol. 253).

Soil compaction and eucalyptus growth in response to forwarder traffic intensity and load

During timber exploitation in forest stands harvesting machines pass repeatedly along the same track and can cause soil compaction, which leads to soil erosion and restricted tree root growth. The level of soil compaction depends on the number of passes and weight of the wood load. This paper aimed to evaluate soil compaction and eucalyptus growth as affected by the number of passes and wood load of a forwarder. The study was carried out in Santa Maria de Itabira county, Minas Gerais State - Brazil, on a seven-year-old eucalyptus stand planted on an Oxisol. The trees were felled by chainsaw and manually removed. Plots of 144 m² (four rows 12 m long in a 3 x 2 m spacing) were then marked off for the conduction of two trials. The first tested the traffic intensity of a forwarder which weighed 11,900 kg and carried 12 m³ wood (density of 480 kg m-3) and passed 2, 4, and 8 times along the same track. In the second trial, the forwarder carried loads of 4, 8, and 12 m³ of wood, and the machine was driven four times along the same track. In each plot, the passes affected four rows. Eucalyptus was planted in 30 x 30 x 30 cm holes on the compacted tracks. The soil in the area is clayey (470 clay and 440 g kg-1 sand content) and at depths of 0-5 cm and 5-10 cm, respectively, soil organic carbon was 406 and 272 g kg-1 and the moisture content during the trial 248 and 249 g kg-1. These layers were assessed for soil bulk density and water-stable aggregates. The infiltration rate was measured by a cylinder infiltrometer. After 441 days the measurements were repeated, with additional analyses of: soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, N-NH4+, N-NO3-, porosity, and penetration resistance. Tree height, stem diameter, and stem dry matter were measured. Forwarder traffic increased soil compaction, resistance to penetration and microporosity while it reduced the geometric mean diameter, total porosity, macroporosity and infiltration rate. Stem dry matter yield and tree height were not affected by soil compaction. Two passes of the forwarder were enough to cause the disturbances at the highest levels. The compaction effects were still persistent 441 days after forwarder traffic.

Forensic intelligence for medicine anti-counterfeiting

Medicine counterfeiting is a crime that has increased in recent years and now involves the whole world. Health and economic repercussions have led pharmaceutical industries and agencies to develop many measures to protect genuine medicines and differentiate them from counterfeits. Detecting counterfeit is chemically relatively simple for the specialists, but much more information can be gained from the analyses in a forensic intelligence perspective. Analytical data can feed criminal investigation and law enforcement by detecting and understanding the criminal phenomenon. Profiling seizures using chemical and packaging data constitutes a strong way to detect organised production and industrialised forms of criminality, and is the focus of this paper. Thirty-three seizures of a commonly counterfeited type of capsule have been studied. The results of the packaging and chemical analyses were gathered within an organised database. Strong linkage was found between the seizures at the different production steps, indicating the presence of a main counterfeit network dominating the market. The interpretation of the links with circumstantial data provided information about the production and the distribution of counterfeits coming from this network. This forensic intelligence perspective has the potential to be generalised to other types of products. This may be the only reliable approach to help the understanding of the organised crime phenomenon behind counterfeiting and to enable efficient strategic and operational decision making in an attempt to dismantle counterfeit network.