Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Annual Report FY2012

Iowa Law Enforcement Academy provided 383 training opportunities for law enforcement, jailers, and telecommunicators for a total of 3584 individuals receiving training. The Academy remains committed to bringing cutting edge programming to law enforcement, jailers, and telecommunicators across Iowa, as evidenced by partnerships with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Secret Service, the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center, Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety, and many others. The Academy is looking forward to growing its presence within the law enforcement community as the “go to” resource by also serving as a bulletin board for training around the state.

Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Annual Report FY2013

Iowa Law Enforcement Academy provided 383 training opportunities for law enforcement, jailers, and telecommunicators for a total of 3584 individuals receiving training. The Academy remains committed to bringing cutting edge programming to law enforcement, jailers, and telecommunicators across Iowa, as evidenced by partnerships with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Secret Service, the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center, Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety, and many others. The Academy is looking forward to growing its presence within the law enforcement community as the “go to” resource by also serving as a bulletin board for training around the state.

L'àmbit temàtic de la saviesa en l'obra de Ramon Llull : Exemples extrets del Llibre de meravelles, del Romanç d'Evast e Blaquerna i del Llibre de virtuts e de pecats

Estudi de l'àmbit temàtic de la saviesa en l'obra de Ramon Llull, tot analitzant els exemples dedicats a aquest concepte.

Enhancing centralized enforcement of EU law : Pandora's toolbox ?

State compliance with EU Law is crucial to the very existence of the Union. Traditionally, it has been secured through a combination of strong "private" and of weak "centralized" enforcement. However, this arrangement is no longer perceived to be sufficient. By endowing the Union with new tools vis-à-vis its Member States - penalties, conditionality, and the like - current reforms try to complement symbolic sanctioning with real "consequences". The goal is to reinforce the authority of EU Law. In this article, we question whether the new toolbox is fit for the purpose, or whether it risks to produce adverse effects which might even go as far as upsetting the Union's constitutional template.

Tiller size/density compensation in grazed Tifton 85 bermudagrass swards

The objective of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of the tiller size/density compensation mechanism in Tifton 85 bermudagrass swards grazed by sheep under continuous stocking. Treatments corresponded to four sward steady state conditions (5, 10, 15, and 20 cm of sward surface height), maintained by sheep grazing. The experimental design was a complete randomized block with four replicates. Pasture responses evaluated include: tiller population density, tiller mass, leaf mass and leaf area per tiller, and herbage mass. Tiller volume, leaf area index, tiller leaf/stem ratio, and tiller leaf area/volume ratio were calculated and simple regression analyses between tiller population density and tiller mass were performed. Measurements were made in December, 1998, and January, April, and July, 1999. The swards showed a tiller size/density compensation mechanism in which high tiller population densities were associated with small tillers and vice-versa, except in July, 1999. Regression analyses revealed that linear coefficients were steeper than the theoretical expectation of -3/2. Increments in herbage mass were attributable to increases in tiller mass in December and January. Leaf area/volume ratio values of Tifton 85 tillers were much lower than those commonly found for temperate grass species.

Archaeological and archaeomagnetic dating at a site from the ager Tarraconensis (Tarragona, Spain): El Vila-sec Roman pottery

A very accurate archaeological dating of a Roman site in NE Spain (El Vila-sec) was made based on the typology of pottery artifacts. Three different phases were identifi ed with activity ranging from the mid- 1st century BC to the early-3rd century AD. Analyses of bricks from kilns at El Vila-sec produced data on their stored archaeomagnetic vector. These data were compared with the secular variation curve for the Iberian Peninsula and the SCHA.DIF.3K regional archaeomagnetic model. Both, the reference curve and the model, produced probability distributions for the final period of use for two kilns from the second archaeological phase that were not used during the third phase. At a 95% con fidence level, both time distributions cover a wide chronological range including the presumed archaeological age. Both the Iberian secular variation curve and the SCHA.DIF.3K regional model proved to be suitable models for dating the site, although on their own they do not produce a single unambiguous solution. This archaeomagnetic approach could also be applied to neighbouring archaeological sites that have an imprecise archaeological age.

Issue review : school aid law changes.

This issue review examines law changes made during the past three legislative sessions, 2006 through 2008, that directly impact the Iowa School Aid Formula.

Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Annual Report FY2014

Iowa Law Enforcement Academy provided 383 training opportunities for law enforcement, jailers, and telecommunicators for a total of 3584 individuals receiving training. The Academy remains committed to bringing cutting edge programming to law enforcement, jailers, and telecommunicators across Iowa, as evidenced by partnerships with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Secret Service, the Midwest Counterdrug Training Center, Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety, and many others. The Academy is looking forward to growing its presence within the law enforcement community as the “go to” resource by also serving as a bulletin board for training around the state.