Bottomland hardwoods are among the most diverse and productive forest ecosystems in southeastern United States critically important for provision of timber non-timber ecosystem services. Red oaks, dominant species this group forests, high ecological economic value. Stem profile models essential accurately estimating merchantable volume oak trees, which is also closely indicative total tree biom...

Cu2ZnSnS4 is a promising, versatile and inexpensive quaternary semiconductor with suitable optoelectronic properties for solar energy conversion. In this work, we report the synthesis of CZTS nanocrystals (NCs) using low-cost homemade hot-injection method. Oleylamine was used as both binder stabilizer NCs during growth process. Detailed investigation influence sulphur concentration reaction tem...

ABSTRACT In some semidetached binary systems, the donor star may transfer mass to companion at a very high rate. We propose that, sufficiently mass-transfer rates such that accretion disc around becomes geometrically thick (or advection-dominated) near outer radius, large fraction of transferred be lost through Lagrangian (L2) point, as result excessive energy generated by viscous heating canno...

0 In This Issue Family Involvement ............................................. 1 Program Showcase: Family, Peers, School, and Communtiy .............................................. 1 A National Survey of School/CommunityBased Organization Partnerships ................... 1 Peer Group Influence and Academic Aspirations Across Cultural/Ethnic Groups .. 3 Developing Immigrant Parents’ Computer...

As a unique type of community-based organisation (CBO), local sporting clubs are typically run by volunteers who regularly carry out the playing, coaching and administrative roles that keep them functioning. Through a case study involving a New Zealand hockey association, this article examines the extent to which sporting clubs use Internet applications by examining their use of email (for comm...

In keeping with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) definition of CE (“. . .a rigorous evaluation of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for . . . a set of patients”) and the experience of several nations, the authors reviewed CE as applied to medical devices and drugs, surgical interventions, and diagnostic tests. Their examination focuse...

On May 15th of this year, I provided you with preliminary findings from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study of issues related to submarine programs now under review by the Congress. In that earlier letter, I addressed the near-term savings that would result from a decision not to fund completion of the third Seawolf submarine. After briefly reviewing those savings, the accompanying atta...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have completed an estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. The amendment discussed in this letter (hereafter called “the reconciliation proposal”) is the one that was made public on March 18, 2010, as ...

On May 15th of this year, I provided you with preliminary findings from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study of issues related to submarine programs now under review by the Congress. In that earlier letter, I addressed the near-term savings that would result from a decision not to fund completion of the third Seawolf submarine. After briefly reviewing those savings, the accompanying atta...

The Congress is currently considering various approaches for instituting major changes in the nation’s system of health insurance. Some of those proposals would significantly expand the federal government’s role in that system, thus raising the question of how such changes might be reflected in the federal budget. This brief describes the approach that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will...