ziyād b. ‘ubayd, as one of the four arab ingenious figures, had a very impressive role in consolidation of the foundations of umayyads’ rule. as the son of ‘ubayd, the anatolian salve of ḥārith b. kalda thaqafī, and sumayya, his infamous slave girl, he was put in mu‘āwiya service after his adoption by abū sufyān in 44/664 and a year later was appointed as the governor of baṣra. ziyād’s manageri...

In the wake of controversy over allegations of espionage by Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear scientist at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the department ordered that polygraph tests be given to scientists working in similar positions. Soon thereafter, at the request of Congress, the department asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a thorough study of polygraph tes...

This exchange represents a follow-up to an article on the effects of state high school exit examinations that previously appeared in this journal (Warren, Grodsky, & Kalogrides 2009). That 2009 was article featured prominently in a report by the National Research Council (NRC) that evaluated the efficacy of test-based accountability systems. Hanushek (2012) was highly critical of the NRC’s inte...

Abstract The immensity of the corpus and diversity genres Classical New Persian in Judeo-Persian garb is remarkable, comprising a wide-ranging multitude from translations Tanakh rabbinic works to chronicles, lexicographies, religious poetry, medieval Hebrew poems, large non-Jewish literature transcribed script. Yet, literary corpora remain incompletely catalogued as well unsatisfactorily studie...

In addition to decreasing feeding costs, improving the efficiency of utilization of N directly addresses the general concern regarding the environmental footprint of animal production. Excretion of N, especially urinary, may become a potential source of water and air pollution, the latter as N2O, a green-house gas, or as small particulate aerosols having a negative effect on air quality [smog; ...

THERE is a wealth of information available on alternative feeding programs for broilers, layers and turkeys, the basis of which has always been the various National Research Council (NRC) publications. The most recent such publication is Nutrient Requirements of Poultry, Ninth Revised Edition, released in 1994, and so unfortunately this information is now 17 years old, which is a considerable t...