_FINDEX is a substance meta information system that virtually maps the data in one system. FINDEX is used internally in the German assuring quick access to different in-house information systems and making vital information available for interdisciplinary work. FINDEX offers a ‘one-stop-search’ for all available information without compromising the context of the underlying systems or touching ...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL Classification: D10 J13 R21 Keywords: Fertility HPI Credit constraints Home equity Cyclicality of births MSA Housing market This project investigates how changes in Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)-level house prices affect household fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are normal goo...

He added that "all interested persons" were urged to attend the meeting, which will be held at 4 PM i i r the House Plan Lounge. Student Council overruled an SAB decision taking Room 121 Finley away from the House Plan Council during its shortest meeting this semester Wednesday evening. The dispute between H.ouse Plan and the SAB developed ^aflier this term when SAB started holding its weekly M...

New transient suppressors using meta l oxide varistors offer improved protection of appliances and consumer electronics against overvoltages. This improvement, however, could be at t h e risk of imposing excessive duty on t h e suppressor in case of a very severe lightning s t roke near the house where these suppressors a r e installed. A simulated house wiring system was subjected to three lev...

Arsenic exposure has been associated with decreased club cell secretory protein (CC16) levels in adults. Further, both arsenic exposure and decreased levels of CC16 in childhood have been associated with decreased adult lung function. Our objective was to determine if urinary CC16 levels in children are associated with arsenic concentrations in environmental media collected from their homes. Ya...

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By the end of October 1995, the Senate and House agriculture committees had sent farm bills to their respective budget committees for reconciliation. The House Committee on Agriculture actually was unable to achieve a consensus; Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) subsequently sent his Freedom to Farm Act (FFA) to the House Budget Committee. On the Senate side, a compromise bill was approved, though ...

The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII), which is being developed by the Cloud4all project and several other R&D projects, is a framework to ensure that everyone who faces accessibility barriers due to disability, ageing, etc. can use computers, mobile devices, the Internet and all the information and services available through these media. One of the goals of the Cloud4all project is...

When handled separately from manures, dairy farm effluents (DE) are costly to manage because of their low nutrient content and large volume. In anticipation of using surface irrigation to lower the land application cost of DE, this projects investigated the impact, on DE characteristics, of different sources and storage systems. Milk house wastewaters were monitored on two farms using a 500 l m...