The duty of a steward to his lord : represented under several plain and distinct articles; wherein may be seen the indirect practices of several stewards, tending to lessen, and the several methods likely to improve their lords estates. To which is added an appendix shewing the way to plenty, proposed to the farmers; wherein are laid down general rules and directions for the management and improvement of a farm. Both design'd originally for the use of the several stewards and tenants of his grace the Duke of Buckingham, and now improv'd and publish'd for the general use and interest of all the nobility and gentry throughout England /

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Angelo's pic nic, or, Table talk : including numerous recollections of public characters, who have figured in some part or another of the stage of life for the last fifty years : forming an endless variety of talent, amusement, and interest, calculated to please every person fond of biographical sketches and anecdotes /

Title-page vignette and colored frontispiece by George Cruikshank.

Federal debt and interest costs.

Item 1005-C

The effect of OPEC oil pricing on output, prices, and exchange rates in the United States and other industrial countries /

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Eligibility and participation rates of older Americans in employment and training programs /

Bibliography: p. 24-25.

Statistical methodology for a comparison of the individual characteristics and death rates of disabled-worker beneficiaries in 1972 and 1985 /

"September 1992."

The impact of the WIN 2 program on welfare costs and recipient rates /

Bibliography: leaves 11-12.

Railroad mileage pay and piece rates in other industries : a report /

February 1961--Cover.

To lower interest rates on farm mortgages : hearing before a subcommittee ... Seventy-fourth Congress, second session on S. 4090, a bill to amend the farm credit act of 1935, to provide lower interest rates on federal land bank loans, and for other purposes; S. 4157 ... April 29, 1936.

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Relationships among the three major lineages of the Acari (Arthropoda : Arachnida) inferred from small subunit rRNA: Paraphyly of the parasitiformes with respect to the opilioacariformes and relative rates of nucleotide substitution

We inferred phylogeny among the three major lineages of the Acari ( mites) from the small subunit rRNA gene. Our phylogeny indicates that the Opilioacariformes is the sister-group to the Ixodida+Holothyrida, not the Ixodida+Mesostigmata+Holothyrida, as previously thought. Support for this relationship increased when sites with the highest rates of nucleotide substitution, and thus the greatest potential for saturation with nucleotide substitutions, were removed. Indeed, the increase in support ( and resolution) was despite a 70% reduction in the number of parsimony-informative sites from 408 to 115. This shows that rather than 'noisy' sites having no impact on resolution of deep branches, 'noisy' sites have the potential to obscure phylogenetic relationships. The arrangement, Ixodida+Holothyrida+Opilioacariformes, however, may be an artefact of long-branch attraction since relative-rate tests showed that the Mesostigmata have significantly faster rates of nucleotide substitution than other parasitiform mites. Thus, the fast rates of nucleotide substitution of the Mesostigmata might have caused the Mesostigmata to be attracted to the outgroup in our trees. We tested the hypothesis that the high rate of nucleotide substitution in some mites was related to their short generation times. The Acari species that have high nucleotide substitution rates usually have short generation times; these mites also tend to be more active and thus have higher metabolic rates than other mites. Therefore, more than one factor may affect the rate of nucleotide substitution in these mites.

Global assessment of coral bleaching and required rates of adaptation under climate change

Elevated ocean temperatures can cause coral bleaching, the loss of colour from reef-building corals because of a breakdown of the symbiosis with the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Recent studies have warned that global climate change could increase the frequency of coral bleaching and threaten the long-term viability of coral reefs. These assertions are based on projecting the coarse output from atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (GCMs) to the local conditions around representative coral reefs. Here, we conduct the first comprehensive global assessment of coral bleaching under climate change by adapting the NOAA Coral Reef Watch bleaching prediction method to the output of a low- and high-climate sensitivity GCM. First, we develop and test algorithms for predicting mass coral bleaching with GCM-resolution sea surface temperatures for thousands of coral reefs, using a global coral reef map and 1985-2002 bleaching prediction data. We then use the algorithms to determine the frequency of coral bleaching and required thermal adaptation by corals and their endosymbionts under two different emissions scenarios. The results indicate that bleaching could become an annual or biannual event for the vast majority of the world's coral reefs in the next 30-50 years without an increase in thermal tolerance of 0.2-1.0 degrees C per decade. The geographic variability in required thermal adaptation found in each model and emissions scenario suggests that coral reefs in some regions, like Micronesia and western Polynesia, may be particularly vulnerable to climate change. Advances in modelling and monitoring will refine the forecast for individual reefs, but this assessment concludes that the global prognosis is unlikely to change without an accelerated effort to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.