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March 2012

Feeder design affected payback. The Cinch Net paid for itself in less than 1 month; Tombstone and Ring, 2 months; Hayhut and Tombstone Saver, 4 months; Hay Sleigh, 5 months; Waste Less, 8 months; Cone, 9 months; and Covered Cradle, 19 month. Although the Cinch Net paid for itself in the shortest amount of me, it is only guaranteed for three years. All other feeders claim to last indefinitely, h...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

10 January 2012

In the early 1960s, Anthony Edwards and Luca Cavalli-Sforza made an effort to apply R.A. Fisher’s maximum likelihood (ML) method to estimate genealogical trees of human populations using gene frequency data. They used the Yule branching process to describe the probabilities of the trees and branching times and the Brownian motion process to model the drift of gene frequencies (after a suitable ...

Contents Digest January 2012

Welding Journal - January 2012

For more than 30 years, body-in-white development has been dominated by the need to achieve weight reduction while improving crash worthiness (Refs. 1, 2). Weight reduction is considered a primary key to improvements in fuel economy. One area of considerable development has been through materials substitution. Thirty years ago, automotive structural elements were made almost exclusively from re...