During the 2011 Oregon Legislative session, seven bills were debated that addressed policy affecting small farms. This paper seeks to understand the environment surrounding these bills: what is the political structure for determining small farm policy? To answer this question seven policymakers were interviewed and two legislative hearings were observed....
Osteochondrosis (OC) is a major source of lameness in horses, involving abnormal maturation of cartilage during the first year of life. Previous studies have shown that cartilage canals may be associated with early OC lesions with accumulation of large numbers of small rounded chondrocytes surrounding the canals. Altered expression of...
We consider wide bandwidth electromagnetic pulse interrogation problems for the determination of dielectric response parameters in complex dispersive materials. We couple Maxwell’s equations with an auxiliary ODE modeling dielectric polarization. A problem of particular interest is to identify parameters in a standard polarization model (e.g., Debye or Lorentz) using time-domain...