Audit report on the Xenia Rural Water District for the year ended December 31, 2014

Audit report on the Xenia Rural Water District for the year ended December 31, 2014

Report on a special investigation of the band program of the Monticello Community School District for the period January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2013

Report on a special investigation of the band program of the Monticello Community School District for the period January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2013

Report on a special investigation of the Shenandoah Community School District for the period July 1, 2012 through September 30, 2014

Report on a special investigation of the Shenandoah Community School District for the period July 1, 2012 through September 30, 2014

Report on a special investigation of the West Des Moines Community School District - Western Hills Elementary School for the period May 22, 2012 through March 31, 2015

Report on a special investigation of the West Des Moines Community School District - Western Hills Elementary School for the period May 22, 2012 through March 31, 2015

Addendum to a report on a review of the Sixth Judicial District Department of Correctional Services for the period July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2014

Addendum to a report on a review of the Sixth Judicial District Department of Correctional Services for the period July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2014

Membrane lipid composition affects plant heat sensing and modulates Ca ( 2+) -dependent heat shock response.

Understanding how plants sense and respond to heat stress is central to improve crop tolerance and productivity. Recent findings in Physcomitrella patensdemonstrated that the controlled passage of calcium ions across the plasma membrane regulates the heat shock response (HSR). To investigate the effect of membrane lipid composition on the plant HSR, we acclimated P. patens to a slightly elevated yet physiological growth temperature and analysed the signature of calcium influx under a mild heat shock. Compared to tissues grown at 22°C, tissues grown at 32°C had significantly higher overall membrane lipid saturation level and, when submitted to a short heat shock at 35°C, displayed a noticeably reduced calcium influx and a consequent reduced heat shock gene expression. These results show that temperature differences, rather than the absolute temperature, determine the extent of the plant HSR and indicate that membrane lipid composition regulates the calcium-dependent heat-signaling pathway.

Reaudit report on the North Cedar Community School District for the period July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013

Reaudit report on the North Cedar Community School District for the period July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013

Combined report on the eighth Judicial District Departments of Correctional Services for the year ended June 30, 2014

Combined report on the eighth Judicial District Departments of Correctional Services for the year ended June 30, 2014

Report on the Iowa Judicial Branch – County Clerks of District Courts, a part of the State of Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2014

Report on the Iowa Judicial Branch – County Clerks of District Courts, a part of the State of Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2014

Report on a special investigation of the Nutrition Department of the Northeast Hamilton Community School District for the period August 1, 2013 through June 4, 2014

Report on a special investigation of the Nutrition Department of the Northeast Hamilton Community School District for the period August 1, 2013 through June 4, 2014

A Thermokinetic approach to radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale

Radiative heat exchange at the nanoscale presents a challenge for several areas due to its scope and nature. Here, we provide a thermokinetic description of microscale radiative energy transfer including phonon-photon coupling manifested through a non-Debye relaxation behavior. We show that a lognormal-like distribution of modes of relaxation accounts for this non-Debye relaxation behavior leading to the thermal conductance. We also discuss the validity of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The general expression for the thermal conductance we obtain fits existing experimental results with remarkable accuracy. Accordingly, our approach offers an overall explanation of radiative energy transfer through micrometric gaps regardless of geometrical configurations and distances.

Energy balance measurements over a banana orchard in the Semiarid region in the Northeast of Brazil

The objective of this work was to evaluate the reliability of eddy covariance measurements, analyzing the energy balance components, evapotranspiration and energy balance closure in dry and wet growing seasons, in a banana orchard. The experiment was carried out at a farm located within the irrigation district of Quixeré, in the Lower Jaguaribe basin, in Ceará state, Brazil. An eddy covariance system was used to measure the turbulent flux. An automatic weather station was installed in a grass field to obtain the reference evapotranspiration (ET0) from the combined FAO-Penman-Monteith method. Wind speed and vapor pressure deficit are the most important variables on the evaporative process in both growing seasons. In the dry season, the heat fluxes have a similar order of magnitude, and during the wet season the latent heat flux is the largest. The eddy covariance system had acceptable reliability in measuring heat flux, with actual evapotranspiration results comparing well with those obtained by using the water balance method. The energy balance closure had good results for the study area, with mean values of 0.93 and 0.86 for the dry and wet growing seasons respectively.

05036-013 Joint Drainage District 1-10 Fnial Report

Install new tile system to eliminate the use of 20 agricultural drainage wells (ADW) that have been ruled by EPA to be "vunerable to spills from manure lagoons, direct discharges from septic tanks and accidental releases of materails used in farming". The project includes a tile system that will provide an outlet for all the tile connected to the ADWs and close all 20 ADWs in the drainage district. The pipe ranges in size from 42" to 8" in diameter and approximately 48,000 lineal feet to be installed.

Audit report on Clarke Community School District in Osceola, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on Clarke Community School District in Osceola, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015