Public Employment Relations Board Performance Plan, FY2015

Agency Performance Plan, Public Employment Relations Board

Issue review : Federal Budget Control Act of 2011.

This issue review provides an overview and update on the sequester provision of the Federal Budget Control Act of 2011.

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.

Le Traité d'Utrecht réclamé par la France ou Coup d'oeil sur le systême maritime de Napoléon Bonaparte et analyse du rapport de son ministre des relations extérieures ([Reprod.]) / communiqué au Sénat de France dans sa séance du 10 mars 1812

Comprend : Dépêche de Lord Whitworth, ambassadeur d'Angleterre en France, au cabinet britannique (Lord Hawkesbury) ; Déclaration adressée au ministre des Etats-Unis, ainsi qu'aux autres ministres et agens de puissances neutres, près le Gouvernement britannique ; Décret de Berlin, en notre camp impérial de Berlin ; Ordre du Conseil britannique ; Ordre du Conseil britannique ; Décret de Milan, en notre palais royal de Milan ; Ordre du Conseil britannique ; Ordre du Conseil britannique ; Rapport adressé à l'Empereur Napoléon par son ministre des relations extérieures / et communiqué au Sénat françois, dans la séance du 10 mars 1812 ; Déclaration du Gouvernement britannique ; Extrait du Traité de navigation et de commerce ; Extrait du Traité maritime conclu entre la Russie et l'Angleterre ; Déclaration de S. M. l'Impératrice de toutes les Russies aux Cours de Londres, de Versailles, et de Madrid ; Extrait de la déclaration de S. M. l'Empereur de toutes les Russies, publiée à St. Petersbourg

Independent relations of left ventricular structure with the 24-h urinary excretion of sodium and aldosterone

Objective: Previous studies reported on the association of left ventricular mass index (LVMI) with urinary sodium or with circulating or urinary aldosterone.We investigated the independent associations of LVMI with the urinary excretion of both sodium and aldosterone. Design and method: We randomly recruited 317 untreated subjects from a White population (45.1%women; mean age 48.2 years).Measurements included echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) properties, the 24 h urinary excretion of sodium and aldosterone, plasma renin activity (PRA), and proximal (RNaprox) and distal (RNadist) renal sodium reabsorption, assessed fromthe endogenous lithium clearance. Inmultivariable-adjusted models,we expressed changes in LVMI per 1 SD increase in the explanatory variables, while accounting for sex, age, systolic blood pressure and the waist-to-hip ratio. Results: LVMI increased independentlywith the urinary excretion of both sodium (+2.48 g/m2; P=0.005) and aldosterone (+2.63 g/m2; P=0.004). Higher sodium excretion was associated with increased mean wall thickness (MWT: +0.126 mm, P=0.054), but with no change in LV end-diastolic diameter (LVID: +0.12mm, P=0.64). In contrast, higher aldosterone excretion was associated with higher LVID (+0.54 mm; P=0.017), but with no change in MWT (+0.070mm; P=0.28).Higher RNadistwas associatedwith lower relativewall thickness (−0.81×10−2, P=0.017), because of opposite trends in LVID(+0.33 mm; P=0.13) and MWT (−0.130mm; P=0.040). LVMI was not associated with PRA or RNaprox. Conclusions: LVMI independently increased with both urinary sodium and aldosterone excretion. IncreasedMWT explained the association of LVMI with urinary sodium and increased LVID the association of LVMI with urinary aldosterone.

Development of Stage-Discharge Relations for Ungaged Bridge Waterways in Western Iowa, TR-567, 2010

Stage-discharge relations constitute a viable, alternative technique for estimating accurately flow for ungaged sites. In this research, we have utilized pressure transducers and Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry techniques to develop stage-discharge relations at eleven sites in the Hungry Canyon Area (HCA) of southwestern Iowa under different hydrologic conditions. We have employed these data to calibrate and verify an established hydrologic model and then we have used this model to provide a stage discharge relation for different hydrologic conditions (i.e. rating curves). The benefits of the project are numerous including that the discharge data will be used for a number of purposes, including operational decision making in the HCA about the design of water-control and conveyance structures, input for hydraulic and hydrologic models, and calculation of sediment and other water quality constituents transport and “loads”, and for decision making. This project has also pointed out the difficulties in measuring flows in ungaged streams with ice jams, steep banks, erodible beds, and floating debris.

Faire et défaire le voisinage : les fêtes de quartier comme reflet de relations sociales et culturelles

Ce livre traque un objet jusqu'ici resté dans l'ombre de l'histoire, le voisinage en milieu urbain. Dans les villes de l'Europe en voie d'industrialisation et d'urbanisation massive, du XVIIIe au XXe siècle, comment approcher les cohabitations quotidiennes ? De la contrainte à l'accommodement, de la sociabilité choisie à la promiscuité subie, des crispations construites aux frontières érigées, de la dénonciation au crime, l'histoire, l'anthropologie et l'urbanisme sont mobilisées pour cette étude novatrice.