Targeted Small Business Link, September 2010, Vol. 3, no. 3

Small Business News from the Iowa Department of Economic Development

Targeted Small Business Link, June 2010, Vol. 3, no. 2

Targeted Small Business News from the Iowa Department of Economic Development

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, October 22, 2010

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities

Proposed Improvement of the Iowa State Capitol Grounds, An Address before the Iowa Chapter American Institute of Architects at the State Historical Buiding, Des Moines, Iowa, October 22, 1913.

Concerning improvements to the State Capitol Grounds including placement of the Allison memorial and Soldiers and Sailor's momuments; removal of heating plant and relieving the state of coal, ashes, gas and smoke; provision of office space to the Adjutant General; an eventual executive mansion; provision of office buildings; and for a Supreme Court building where together with its library auxiliaries will have perpetual growth and constant accessbility; and propose restoration of natural scenic value of the capitol site.

Secure and Prepared Newsletter, November 18, 2010, Vol. 6, no. 22

A bi-weekly newsletter for those involved in the fields of homeland security and/or emergency management

EPI Update, October 22, 2010

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

A link between eumelanism and calcium physiology in the barn owl.

In many animals, melanin-based coloration is strongly heritable and is largely insensitive to the environment and body condition. According to the handicap principle, such a trait may not reveal individual quality because the production of different melanin-based colorations often entails similar costs. However, a recent study showed that the production of eumelanin pigments requires relatively large amounts of calcium, potentially implying that melanin-based coloration is associated with physiological processes requiring calcium. If this is the case, eumelanism may be traded-off against other metabolic processes that require the same elements. We used a correlative approach to examine, for the first time, this proposition in the barn owl, a species in which individuals vary in the amount, size, and blackness of eumelanic spots. For this purpose, we measured calcium concentration in the left humerus of 85 dead owls. Results showed that the humeri of heavily spotted individuals had a higher concentration of calcium. This suggests either that plumage spottiness signals the ability to absorb calcium from the diet for both eumelanin production and storage in bones, or that lightly spotted individuals use more calcium for metabolic processes at the expense of calcium storage in bones. Our study supports the idea that eumelanin-based coloration is associated with a number of physiological processes requiring calcium.

El control de la Carta Social Europea por actores no estatales: el protocolo de 22 de junio 1995 para las reclamaciones colectivas

El texto analiza los motivos por los que el Protocolo de 1995 sobre reclamaciones colectivas no sea un medio de supervisión alternativo a los informes estatales del artículo 21 de la Carta Social Europea, sino más bien una herramienta de uso marginal.

Targeted Small Business Link, January 2011 Vol. 4, no. 1

Targeted Small Business news from the Iowa Department of Economic Development

Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner Newsletter, January 22, 2009, no. 5

The official newsletter of the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner.

Targeted Small Business Link, Spring 2011, Vol. 4, no. 2

Targeted Small Business News from the Iowa Department of Economic Development, Spring 2011, Volume 4, Number 2