Books, publications, project completion reports, M.S. and Ph. D. theses : research supported by Iowa State Water Resources Research Institute under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, U.S. Public Law 88-379, U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research, 1970

This book, published jointly by the American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of American and Iowa State University presents the papers that were given at a symposium held in Ames, Iowa, on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 1965 on the general topic of plant environment and efficient water use.

Audit report on the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy for the year ended June 30, 2013

Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume XIV, 2012/2013

The "Yearbook of Private International Law" provides all about the conflict of laws developments of 2012 and 2013 in one book: Volume XIV (2012/2013) includes contributions on the proposed codification of the General Part of Private International Law in Europe, on the reform of the Chinese legal system as well as on defamation and violation of personality rights (the latter in a whole section). Furthermore, the book deals with the application of EU legislation on jurisdiction and enforcement of judgements, the recognition of judgements overturned by another judgement, and the conflict of decisions in international arbitration. Reports and court decisions from the Netherlands, Turkey, India, Finland, Croatia and Switzerland and a summary of two dissertations on the role of sovereignty and choice of courts agreements complete the book.

Aproximació del vigent Pla General Comptable a la NIC 1: presentació dels estats financers

L'objectiu principal del treball consisteix en analitzar quines són les modificacions de la Norma Internacional de Comptabilitat 1: Presentació dels estats financers, i veure com afecta als estats financers de les empreses que cotitzen a borsa i que presenten els seus comptes anuals consolidats. A la vegada, el treball inclou dos estudis empírics. El primer consisteix en analitzar si les empreses de l'Ibex 35 compleixen els requisits de la NIC 1 modificada. I el segon estudi consisteix en fer una anàlisi economica-­‐ financera d'aquestes empreses.

Issue review : impact of federal income tax changes on Iowa general fund revenue.

Iowa law allows taxpayers to deduct federal income taxes from income prior to calculating state income tax liability. Due to the federal tax deduction, changes to federal income taxes enacted by Congress directly and automatically impact Iowa's revenue stream. While this issue is present every year, the impact on the budget process has been more pronounced over the past three years as federal tax reductions enacted during the early 2000s were set to expire, were extended, and are now set to expire again. This issue review examines federal deductability and the related issue of federal conformity.

Iowa Department of Justice, Attorney General's Office Crime Victim Assistance Division, Three Year Program Reports, December 2014

Three year program reports

Report on the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy for the year ended June 30, 2014

Report on the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy for the year ended June 30, 2014

La lombalgie aiguë en médecine de premier recours [Acute low back pain in general practice medicine].

The practioner's first concern is knowing how to single out from the immense majority of situations susceptible to a favourable spontaneous evolution those patients with a bad prognostic necessitating reference to a specialist. We present in this paper the clinical steps designed to meet this challenge and a reminder of certain principles of patient diagnosis and care.

Multisensory Integration: Flexible Use of General Operations.

Research into the anatomical substrates and "principles" for integrating inputs from separate sensory surfaces has yielded divergent findings. This suggests that multisensory integration is flexible and context dependent and underlines the need for dynamically adaptive neuronal integration mechanisms. We propose that flexible multisensory integration can be explained by a combination of canonical, population-level integrative operations, such as oscillatory phase resetting and divisive normalization. These canonical operations subsume multisensory integration into a fundamental set of principles as to how the brain integrates all sorts of information, and they are being used proactively and adaptively. We illustrate this proposition by unifying recent findings from different research themes such as timing, behavioral goal, and experience-related differences in integration.

Eighty-Sixth General Assembly House Code of Ethics (House Resolution 5) Adopted 2-3-2015, February 3, 2015

Eighty-Sixth General Assembly House Code of Ethics (House Resolution 5) Adopted 2-3-2015. Every legislator and legislative employee has a duty to uphold the integrity and honor of the general assembly, to encourage respect for the law and for the general assembly, and to observe the house code of ethics. The members and employees of the house have a responsibility to conduct themselves so as to reflect credit on the general assembly, and to inspire the confidence, respect, and trust of the public. The following rules are adopted pursuant to chapter 68B of the Code, to assist the members and employees in the conduct of their activities.

Eighty-Sixth General Assembly Senate Code of Ethics (Senate Resolution 4-Adopted 2-4-2015), February 4, 2015

Eighty-Sixth General Assembly Senate Code of Ethics (Senate Resolution 4-Adopted 2-4-2015)Every legislator owes a duty to uphold the integrity and honor of the general assembly, to encourage respect for the law and for the general assembly and the members thereof, and to observe the legislative code of ethics.

Weber's law in decision making: integrating behavioral data in humans with a neurophysiological model

Recent single-cell studies in monkeys (Romo et al., 2004) show that the activity of neurons in the ventral premotor cortex covaries with the animal's decisions in a perceptual comparison task regarding the frequency of vibrotactile events. The firing rate response of these neurons was dependent only on the frequency differences between the two applied vibrations, the sign of that difference being the determining factor for correct task performance. We present a biophysically realistic neurodynamical model that can account for the most relevant characteristics of this decision-making-related neural activity. One of the nontrivial predictions of this model is that Weber's law will underlie the perceptual discrimination behavior. We confirmed this prediction in behavioral tests of vibrotactile discrimination in humans and propose a computational explanation of perceptual discrimination that accounts naturally for the emergence of Weber's law. We conclude that the neurodynamical mechanisms and computational principles underlying the decision-making processes in this perceptual discrimination task are consistent with a fluctuation-driven scenario in a multistable regime.

Increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) with age in HIV-positive men : a comparison of the D:A:D CVD risk equation and general population CVD risk equations

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to statistically model the relative increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) per year older in Data collection on Adverse events of anti-HIV Drugs (D:A:D) and to compare this with the relative increased risk of CVD per year older in general population risk equations. METHODS: We analysed three endpoints: myocardial infarction (MI), coronary heart disease (CHD: MI or invasive coronary procedure) and CVD (CHD or stroke). We fitted a number of parametric age effects, adjusting for known risk factors and antiretroviral therapy (ART) use. The best-fitting age effect was determined using the Akaike information criterion. We compared the ageing effect from D:A:D with that from the general population risk equations: the Framingham Heart Study, CUORE and ASSIGN risk scores. RESULTS: A total of 24 323 men were included in analyses. Crude MI, CHD and CVD event rates per 1000 person-years increased from 2.29, 3.11 and 3.65 in those aged 40-45 years to 6.53, 11.91 and 15.89 in those aged 60-65 years, respectively. The best-fitting models included inverse age for MI and age + age(2) for CHD and CVD. In D:A:D there was a slowly accelerating increased risk of CHD and CVD per year older, which appeared to be only modest yet was consistently raised compared with the risk in the general population. The relative risk of MI with age was not different between D:A:D and the general population. CONCLUSIONS: We found only limited evidence of accelerating increased risk of CVD with age in D:A:D compared with the general population. The absolute risk of CVD associated with HIV infection remains uncertain.

Radanohjaimen suunnittelu leveille päällystyskoneille

Radanohjaimia käytetään radan poikkisuuntaiseen paikoitukseen sekä oskillointiin ja ne ovat osa paperinvalmistuslinjojen radanhallintajärjestelmiä. Oikein suunnitellulla ja sijoitetulla radanohjaimella voidaan estää haitallisten ratasiirtymien esiintyminen, pienentää hylkymateriaalin määrää sekä parantaa rullauksen laatua. Ohjausperiaatteet sekä niihin liittyvä laitetekniikka on tunnettu jo vuosikymmenten ajan, joskin todelliset radanohjaustarpeet ja -laitteet ovat tähän asti rajoittuneet paino-, tekstiili- ja metalliteollisuudessa käytössä oleville kapeille radoille. Tämän työn tavoitteena oli selvittää 5… 12 metriä leveälle, modernissa päällystyskoneessa kulkevalle paperiradalle soveltuvat ohjausperiaatteet sekä muodostaa radan todennäköisimpiin vauriomuotoihin perustuvat suunnittelukriteerit kahdelle erityyppiselle ohjainkonstruktiolle. Yksitelainen, taivuttava radanohjain soveltuu kohteisiin, joissa ohjainta edeltää suhteellisen pitkä vapaa ratavienti. Kaksitelainen, taittava radanohjain on puolestaan sijoitettavissa huomattavasti lyhyempään ratavientiin. Radanohjauksen teoria pohjautuu pitävän telan ja radan väliseen kohtisuoran tulokulman periaatteeseen, jonka perusteella mikä tahansa yhdensuuntaisuuspoikkeama kahden telan välillä johtaa radan poikkisuuntaiseen siirtymään. Tämän periaatteen pohjalta voidaan dynaamista ohjaustilannetta approksimoida staattisin menetelmin sekä muodostaa kireysmuutoksiin ja aaltoiluun perustuvat geometrian mitoitusperiaatteet ohjaimen ympäristön ratavienneille. Nopean ohjauksen toteutus edellyttää radanohjaimen liikkeen olevan nivelen ympäri tapahtuvaa yhdistettyä translaatio- ja rotaatioliikettä. Ohjainkonstruktiot suunnitellaan siten, että teorian mukaiset optimaaliset liikeradat toteutuvat vaaditulla ohjausnopeudella. Suunnittelua ohjaavat tuotteille asetetut lujuus- ja värähtelykriteerit sekä aiheeseen liittyvät koneturvallisuusstandardit. Konstruointi suoritetaan järjestelmällisen tuotesuunnitteluprosessin vaiheiden ja menetelmien mukaisesti.

Reparar y sustituir cosas en la compraventa : evolución y últimas tendencias

International texts recognise the buyer's right to the repair or replacement if the goods do not conform with the contract, and at the same time, establish exceptions to their application and certain rules of protection for the seller (Art. 46 CISG, Art. 7.2.3 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Art.9:102 PECL and Arts. 4:202 y 4:204 (1) PEL S). This approach is a result of a compromise between civil law systems and the common law and it has been widely extended to the regulation of consumer sales over the last decade (Art. 3.3 of the Directive 1999/44/CE, Art. III.-3:302 DCFR, Art. 26 of the proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights). These norms regulate the different ways of requiring the fulfilment of a contractual obligation from a new paradigm which has little to do with a need to protect the weak consumer which governed the origins of consumer policy in the European Community. Now the idea of the consumer who shall behave economically efficiently prevails in Art. 3.3 of the Directive 1999/44/CE, a norm which is clearly influenced by the international texts and whose transposing into the national legislation of Member States has created important problems for traditional dogmas. In this sense there are still some unclear issues, such as the possibility of replacing in sales of goods of specific nature or second-hand goods, some aspects on the exercise of repair and replacement, and, even, their use as primary remedies rather than a reduction in price or a rescission of the contract. With regard to this, in England the possibility of offering the consumer free choice between these measures if the goods do not conform with the contract has been raised. This is far from the principle of pacta sunt servanda and is clearly contrary to the economic approach of the proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights. Up to now Spain has limited itself to implementing Art. 3.3 Directive 1999/44/CE into its legal system in almost literal terms and the case law on the issue has completely turned out to be insufficient. By contrast with Germany, the Spanish legislator has not extended the application of the rules of repair and replacement of Directive 1999/44/CE to nonconsumer sales, even though two draft bill proposals along these lines presented by the General Commission for Codifying (“Comisión General de Codificación”), the last one being in January, 2009