Executive Order Number Nine, November 7, 2008

This Executive Order directs IFA to administer the allocation of additional tax-exempt bonding authority provided by the Disaster Relief Act, develop administrative rules to implement the allocation of this additional tax-exempt bonding authority, track the allocation of the additional tax-exempt bonding authority to ensure compliance with all applicable federal law, and provide all necessary reports to the IRS.

Executive Order Number Ten, December 22, 2008

This Executive Order aids the Governor to meet his Constitutional obligation to balance the state budget, announcing that he would order a 1.5 percent across-the-board reduction in state expenditures for the current fiscal year.

IRELAND AND LATIN AMERICA: A CULTURAL HISTORY

According to Declan Kiberd, “postcolonial writing does not begin only when the occupier withdraws: rather it is initiated at that very moment when a native writer formulates a text committed to cultural resistance.” The Irish in Latin America – a continent emerging from indigenous cultures, colonisation, and migrations – may be regarded as colonised in Ireland and as colonisers in their new home. They are a counterexample to the standard pattern of identities in the major English-speaking destinations of the Irish Diaspora. Using literary sources, the press, correspondence, music, sports, and other cultural representations, in this thesis I search the attitudes and shared values signifying identities among the immigrants and their families. Their fragmentary and wide-ranging cultures provide a rich context to study the protean process of adaptation to, or rejection of, the new countries. Evolving from oppressed to oppressors, the Irish in Latin America swiftly became ingleses. Subsequently, in order to join the local middle classes they became vaqueros, llaneros, huasos, and gauchos so they could show signs of their effective integration to the native culture, as seen by the Latin American elites. Eventually, some Irish groups separated from the English mainstream culture and shaped their own community negotiating among Irishness, Englishness, and local identities in Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Cuba, and other places in the region. These identities were not only unmoored in the emigrants’ minds but also manoeuvred by the political needs of community and religious leaders. After reviewing the major steps and patterns of Irish migration to Latin America, the thesis analyses texts from selected works, offers a version of how the settlers became Latin Americans or not, and elucidates the processes by which a new Irish-Latin American hybrid was created.

Executive Order Number Eleven, February 17, 2009

This Executive Order creates a task force on dependent care.

Study of the mayfly order Ephemeroptera (Insecta) in Brazil: a scienciometric review

Study of the mayfly order Ephemeroptera (Insecta) in Brazil: a scienciometric review. Despite an increase in the number of studies in recent years of the aquatic insect order Ephemeroptera (the mayflies) much still remains to be learnt. In order to identify the current state of knowledge of this group in Brazil, we performed a scienciometric analysis with the purpose of identifying the strong and weak points of Brazilian research into the group. Our research used the "Institute for Scientific Information - ISI" database and was based on the abstracts, titles and keywords of manuscripts published between 1992 and 2011. We selected the papers with the combination of the words "Ephemeroptera" and "Brazil*" based on a search in February 2012. We analyzed 92 articles, and noted a lack of studies in some Brazilian states, no specific studies about some families, and an absence of phylogenetic studies. To improve ecological studies, it is necessary to fine-tune taxonomic resolution. Moreover, there is a lack of studies investigating the environmental variables which influence the distribution of mayflies. Despite these gaps, if the rate of publication with mayflies proceeds at the same pace, we anticipate that many of these knowledge gaps will be closed.

Executive Order Number Twelve, April 14, 2009

This Executive Order made the creation of the Iowa Accountability and Transparency Board and the report of the State of Iowa's efforts to implement the AARA

Executive Order Number Thirteen, May 26, 2009

This Executive Order expects the State government expense reimbursements will be properly accounted for.

Religious Slaughter in Europe

Halal and Shechita slaughter were assessed in 135 European abattoirs. Shechita is carried out without stunning in all abattoirs, while 65% of cattle abattoirs, 50% small ruminants and 50% poultry abattoirs use preslaughter stunning for Halal Slaughter.

The discourse on political pluralism in early eighteenth-century England : a conceptual study with special reference to terminology of religious origin

Doctoral dissertation, University of Jyväskylä

A Variant of Higher-Order Anti-Unification

We present a rule-based Huet’s style anti-unification algorithm for simply-typed lambda-terms in ɳ long β normal form, which computes a least general higher-order pattern generalization. For a pair of arbitrary terms of the same type, such a generalization always exists and is unique modulo α equivalence and variable renaming. The algorithm computes it in cubic time within linear space. It has been implemented and the code is freely available

Executive Order Number Fourteen, June 22, 2009

This Executive Order expects the State government to facilitate the effective and efficient delivery of services to constituents, governments ought to partner and and coordinate with non-profit community organizations.

Executive Order Number Fifteen, July 15, 2009

This Executive Order expects the State government to help more than 5,800 offenders released to Iowa communities each year, affecting public safety, public health, economic and community well-being and family relationships. Offenders re-entry initiatives involve collaborative partnerships amongst corrections, other agencies and the community.

Executive Order Number Sixteen, August 20, 2009

This Executive Order expects the State government to envision an economic future for the State of Iowa in which its citizens will leak the nation toward the clean, safe, unlimited, efficient job producing prosperity-inducing and environmentally friendly energies of the 21st Century (sometimes referred to as a "Green Economy').

Executive Order Number Seventeen, September 25, 2009

This Executive Order expects the State of Iowa executive agencies and Regent Institutions own, purchase, build and lease property, including office space, worth billions of dollars for educational, correctional, recreational, conservation, transportation, communication, public health, workforce and related public functions and the placement of state offices in historic central business districts "downtown" can strengthen and revitalize Iowa's cities and towns.

Executive Order Number Eighteen, September 25, 2009

The state Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) reduced its Fiscal Year 2009 net General Fund revenue estimate at the December 12, 2008, meeting by 1.6 percent from $6.151 billion to $6.052 billion.