Soil survey of the Los Angeles area, California /

"Advance sheets - Field operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1904."

Soil survey of the Ukiah area, California /

"Advance sheets--field operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1914."

Soil survey of the Shasta Valley area, California /

Done jointly by the Bureau of Soils and the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station.

Soil survey of the Willits area, California /

"Advance sheets--Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1918."

Soil survey of the lower Salinas Valley, California /

"Reprinted from the Report on field operations of the Bureau of Soils for 1901."--Cover.

What makes ISAF s/tick: An investigation of the politics of coalition burden-sharing

This paper is interested in conceptualising the often raised issue of over- and under-contributing in coalition operations; that of how and why members of complex coalitions2 may be punching above and below their weight, respectively. To this end, the first section presents a parsimonious baseline assumption regarding what variables may fundamentally inform coalition burden-sharing, to subsequently discuss how much each of these are found to play a role in the Afghanistan context. The second section elaborates on this by assessing the perception and the interpretation of threats by coalition member countries, related to Afghanistan, as this pertains to prioritising other variables within the scheme outlined in the previous section. The third and fourth sections then proceed to examine and further enrich the existing literature on coalition burden-sharing, and provide further insights regarding the operations of the International Security Assistance Force–Afghanistan, and regarding ISAF member-country decisionmaking; the objective here is to generate further refined assumptions, that can permit a preliminary assessment of the phenomenon of uneven burden-sharing in ISAF, complementing the initial baseline expectations.

The politics of establishing catchment management agencies in South Africa: the case of the Breede-Overberg Catchment Management Agency

We reflect on the politics of establishing catchment management agencies in South Africa with a specific focus on the Breede-Overberg Catchment Management Agency (BOCMA), which was recently replaced by the Breede-Gouritz Catchment Management Agency (BGCMA). We do so by applying the framework of adaptive comanagement and its institutional prescriptions: collaboration, experimentation, and a bioregional approach. We start by introducing the history of this catchment management agency (CMA) and then describe the establishment of CMAs in South Africa in general and that of BOCMA in particular. We follow the framework for rule types and types of river basin organizations set out by the editors of this special feature with reference to adaptive comanagement where applicable. We then discuss the politics and strategies involved in the introduction of the CMA concept to the National Water Act and the latest developments around these institutions in South Africa. This is followed by reflections on what can be surmised about BOCMA’s democratic functioning and performance to date. We conclude by reflecting on the future of operations of the new BGCMA and CMAs in South Africa in general. While our research shows that BOCMA’s establishment process has featured several elements of adaptive comanagement and its institutional prescriptions, it remains to be seen to what extent it is possible to continue implementing this concept when further developing and operationalizing the BGCMA and the country’s other CMAs.

A review of the South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank

Members of the General Assembly asked the Legislative Audit Council to review the operations of the South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank, a state agency that awards grants and loans to local and state agencies primarily for large transportation construction projects. The primary audit objectives were to review compliance with state law and policies regarding: The awarding of grants and loans for transportation construction projects ; The use of project revenues and whether funds dedicated to specific projects have been comingled with funds dedicated to other projects ;• Proper accounting and reporting procedures ; The process for repayment of revenue bonds ; Hiring of consultants, attorneys, and bond credit rating agencies ; Ethics.

Intervenciones críticas en la poesía última (Prácticas de articulación y agendas complementarias)

Indagaremos algunas dominantes en la intervención crítica sobre el género poético en lengua española de las últimas décadas, proponiendo alternativas diferentes a las convencionales operaciones de recorte y exclusión de grupos y tendencias, a los que nos tiene acostumbrada la crítica mayoritaria, desde antologías y suplementos literarios, preocupada por rotular, oponer y disgregar, diseñando mapas de polaridades irreconciliables y nombres propios consagrados como oráculos, sin nexo con sus coetáneos, asimilados como adversarios, y potenciando rivalidades personales, o comportamientos públicos de los actores por encima de sus escrituras. Para superar estas reductivas miradas se hace necesario ensayar propuestas de articulación: suturar fisuras imaginarias para integrar praxis materiales; imaginar políticas de intercambio textual e ideológico; admitir un trazado de zonas de confluencia permeables; asumir que los poetas vehiculizan identidades móviles y receptivas, a favor de un diálogo inter-local mutuamente enriquecedor.

Intervenciones críticas en la poesía última (Prácticas de articulación y agendas complementarias)

Indagaremos algunas dominantes en la intervención crítica sobre el género poético en lengua española de las últimas décadas, proponiendo alternativas diferentes a las convencionales operaciones de recorte y exclusión de grupos y tendencias, a los que nos tiene acostumbrada la crítica mayoritaria, desde antologías y suplementos literarios, preocupada por rotular, oponer y disgregar, diseñando mapas de polaridades irreconciliables y nombres propios consagrados como oráculos, sin nexo con sus coetáneos, asimilados como adversarios, y potenciando rivalidades personales, o comportamientos públicos de los actores por encima de sus escrituras. Para superar estas reductivas miradas se hace necesario ensayar propuestas de articulación: suturar fisuras imaginarias para integrar praxis materiales; imaginar políticas de intercambio textual e ideológico; admitir un trazado de zonas de confluencia permeables; asumir que los poetas vehiculizan identidades móviles y receptivas, a favor de un diálogo inter-local mutuamente enriquecedor.

Intervenciones críticas en la poesía última (Prácticas de articulación y agendas complementarias)

Indagaremos algunas dominantes en la intervención crítica sobre el género poético en lengua española de las últimas décadas, proponiendo alternativas diferentes a las convencionales operaciones de recorte y exclusión de grupos y tendencias, a los que nos tiene acostumbrada la crítica mayoritaria, desde antologías y suplementos literarios, preocupada por rotular, oponer y disgregar, diseñando mapas de polaridades irreconciliables y nombres propios consagrados como oráculos, sin nexo con sus coetáneos, asimilados como adversarios, y potenciando rivalidades personales, o comportamientos públicos de los actores por encima de sus escrituras. Para superar estas reductivas miradas se hace necesario ensayar propuestas de articulación: suturar fisuras imaginarias para integrar praxis materiales; imaginar políticas de intercambio textual e ideológico; admitir un trazado de zonas de confluencia permeables; asumir que los poetas vehiculizan identidades móviles y receptivas, a favor de un diálogo inter-local mutuamente enriquecedor.

The Impact of the Restaurant Critic

Restaurant critiques have an effect on the sales volume of restaurants following the publication of the critique in the target markets’ media. The author discusses data from restaurant operations in the greater Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area which have had their operations publicly critiqued, and also addresses the credibility of critics.

Five generations of peace operations: from the "thin blue line" to "painting a country blue"

This article combines both international practice and analytical contributions into a systematic and synthetic presentation of the evolution of peace operations from their modern inception in 1948 to the present. It seeks to serve a didactic purpose in proposing a basic structure for Brazilian scholars' burgeoning debate on peace operations and intervention, rather than a definitive characterization of blue helmet practice. Peace operations' progression is traced through five analytical "generations," each adding a crucial factor distinguishing it from its predecessors. Each generation is placed in relation to changes in the nature of conflict and in the interpretation of the foundational principles of peace operations, and links to broader theoretical issues in International Relations are made explicit at each stage.

Assessment of the soil compaction of two ultisols caused by logging operations

The impact of wood loads on bulk density and preconsolidation pressure and of harvester and forwarder traffic on rut depth, bulk density and preconsolidation pressure of two Ultisols were examined in this study. Our objective was to quantify the threshold beyond which significant soil compaction and rutting would occur. This study was carried out in the county of Eunápolis, state of Bahia, Brazil, (16 º 23 ' 17 '' S and 39 º 10 ' 06 '' W; altitude 80 m asl) in two Ultisols (PAd2 and PAd3) with different texture classes, in experimental areas with eucalypt plantation. The study involved measurements at the wood load site and machine driving at specific locations in the forest during logging operations. The treatments consisted of one harvester pass and, 8, 16 and 40 passes of a fully loaded forwarder. Thresholds were established based on the rut depth and percentage of preconsolidation pressure values in the region of additional soil compaction defined in the bearing capacity model. The percentage of soil samples with values of preconsolidation pressure in the region of additional soil compaction indicated a greater susceptibility of PAd3 than of PAd2 to soil compaction. The threshold levels established here based on preconsolidation pressure and rut depth indicated that no more than eight forwarder passes should be allowed in loading operations in order to minimize soil compaction.

Report on a review of the operations of certain departments of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for the period July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2012

Report on a review of the operations of certain departments of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for the period July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2012