Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, June 8, 2007

Record of the Fatalities for Motor Vehicle Accidents in Iowa per week.

EPI Update, June 8, 2007

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

International update, March/April 2007

News from the Iowa International Office

"La vie et l'oeuvre"? : Recherches sur le biographique : Actes du colloque de relève organisé à l'Université de Lausanne les 8-9 novembre 2007

La réflexion sur la biographie a connu un renouvellement important ces vingt dernières années dans plusieurs disciplines. Florissant sur le marché ditorial, ce genre ancien trouve aujourd'hui des formes nouvelles, nourries de la galaxie des sciences humaines contemporaines, comme en témoigne l'ouvrage de François Dosse, Le Pari biographique (La Découverte, 2005). Genre fondateur en histoire de l'art, la biographie est pratiquée peu ou prou dans la plupart des disciplines des lettres. Bonne raison pour se pencher de manière interdisciplinaire sur le genre et sa pratique. La vogue des éloges académiques au XVIIIe siècle, et la profusion du discours biographique sur les artistes à l'orée du Romantisme ont ouvert la voie à la fameuse «méthode biographique» de Sainte-Beuve, et à sa reconversion dans les programmes d'enseignement, par le biais de Gustave Lanson et de ses émules. Inculqué à des générations d'élèves, devenu une structure invisible de l'entendement universitaire dans les disciplines littéraires, le couple « la vie et l'oeuvre » a été sévèrement reconsidéré, au XXe siècle, par les approches formalistes, structuralistes ou sociologiques. Qu'en est-il de ce genre actuellement? Comment les travaux de littéraires, d'historiens, d'historiens de l'art, de philosophes envisagent-ils les données biographiques?

Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, June 15, 2007

Record of the Fatalities for Motor Vehicle Accidents in Iowa per week.

EPI Update, June 15, 2007

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Girl Connection, June 2007

A monthly newsletter for Iowa Commission on the Status of Women

Iowa Community Empowerment Newsletter, June 2007, Vol.8, no.3

Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public Health

Emerging Biofuels: Outlook of Effects on U.S. Grain, Oilseed, and Livestock Markets, 2007

Projections of U.S. ethanol production and its impacts on planted acreage, crop prices, livestock production and prices, trade, and retail food costs are presented under the assumption that current tax credits and trade policies are maintained. The projections were made using a multi-product, multi-country deterministic partial equilibrium model. The impacts of higher oil prices, a drought combined with an ethanol mandate, and removal of land from the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) relative to baseline projections are also presented. The results indicate that expanded U.S. ethanol production will cause long-run crop prices to increase. In response to higher feed costs, livestock farmgate prices will increase enough to cover the feed cost increases. Retail meat, egg, and dairy prices will also increase. If oil prices are permanently $10-per-barrel higher than assumed in the baseline projections, U.S. ethanol will expand significantly. The magnitude of the expansion will depend on the future makeup of the U.S. automobile fleet. If sufficient demand for E-85 from flex-fuel vehicles is available, corn-based ethanol production is projected to increase to over 30 billion gallons per year with the higher oil prices. The direct effect of higher feed costs is that U.S. food prices would increase by a minimum of 1.1% over baseline levels. Results of a model of a 1988-type drought combined with a large mandate for continued ethanol production show sharply higher crop prices, a drop in livestock production, and higher food prices. Corn exports would drop significantly, and feed costs would rise. Wheat feed use would rise sharply. Taking additional land out of the CRP would lower crop prices in the short run. But because long-run corn prices are determined by ethanol prices and not by corn acreage, the long-run impacts on commodity prices and food prices of a smaller CRP are modest. Cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass and biodiesel from soybeans do not become economically viable in the Corn Belt under any of the scenarios. This is so because high energy costs that increase the prices of biodiesel and switchgrass ethanol also increase the price of cornbased ethanol. So long as producers can choose between soybeans for biodiesel, switchgrass for ethanol, and corn for ethanol, they will choose to grow corn. Cellulosic ethanol from corn stover does not enter into any scenario because of the high cost of collecting and transporting corn stover over the large distances required to supply a commercial-sized ethanol facility.

Secondary Accident Data Fusion for Assessing Long-Term Performance of Transportation Systems, 2007

Secondary accident statistics can be useful for studying the impact of traffic incident management strategies. An easy-to-implement methodology is presented for classifying secondary accidents using data fusion of a police accident database with intranet incident reports. A current method for classifying secondary accidents uses a static threshold that represents the spatial and temporal region of influence of the primary accident, such as two miles and one hour. An accident is considered secondary if it occurs upstream from the primary accident and is within the duration and queue of the primary accident. However, using the static threshold may result in both false positives and negatives because accident queues are constantly varying. The methodology presented in this report seeks to improve upon this existing method by making the threshold dynamic. An incident progression curve is used to mark the end of the queue throughout the entire incident. Four steps in the development of incident progression curves are described. Step one is the processing of intranet incident reports. Step two is the filling in of incomplete incident reports. Step three is the nonlinear regression of incident progression curves. Step four is the merging of individual incident progression curves into one master curve. To illustrate this methodology, 5,514 accidents from Missouri freeways were analyzed. The results show that secondary accidents identified by dynamic versus static thresholds can differ by more than 30%.

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and Weatherization Program Interim Study Committee, 2007

The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and Weatherization Program Interim Study Committee was created by the Legislative Council and charged to review issues involving the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and Weatherization Program including financial assistance, the application and intake processes, the community action agencies' assessment and resolution proposal, and whether to involve the Department of Human Services in the administration of the programs to enable low-income persons to access additional assistance programs through a single location.

Continuity of Government Planning Interim Study Committee, March 2007

The Legislative Council established the Continuity of Government Planning Interim Study Committee in 2006 and authorized the Committee to meet during the 2006 Legislative Interim. The Committee was given the following charge: Examine issues relating to the continued functioning of state government following a disaster, including gubernatorial succession, replacement of constitutional officers and department heads, legislative elections to fill vacancies, and continued funding of state government if the General Assembly is unable to meet and pass a budget.

Iowa Budget Report for Fiscal year 2008, January 2007

The FY 2008 budget we present to you today was built from the ground up and is the result of a budget process that focuses on priorities and results. Faced with difficult choices, we are heartened by the progress we have achieved with your cooperation and collaboration. Fulfilling our responsibility to Iowa children, together we have focused resources on cing class sizes and reversed an eight-year decline in test scores. As a result, Iowa students have reachieved four straight years of improved test scores, ranking among America’s best.

2005/2006 Iowa Hunting and Trapping Regulations, 2006-2007

This booklet is not a complete set of hunting laws. It contains basic information needed during the hunting and trapping seasons.