Academic literature on the topic 'Chevalier College'

El-Taif, M.R.A. 2021. Sensitivity of Wheat Genotypes to Newly Introduced Selective Herbicides. Arab Journal of Plant Protection, 39(1): 55-60. Field experiments were conducted during the 2017-2018 growing season at the Research Station of the Field Crops Department, College of Agriculture, Tikrit University. The main aim of the study was to assess the sensitivity of six wheat genotypes to the newly introduced herbicides. The wheat genotypes evaluated were: Aba 95, Abu Ghraib-3, Research 22, Para 99, Sham 6 and Rasheed. The three herbicides applied according to the dosage recommended by the manufacturer as follows: (1) Konicor 80EC 750 ml/ha + Spotlight 75WD 20 ml/ha; (2) Plus 4.5% 500 ml/ha; and (3) Chevalier WG 15 300 g/ha, in addition to an untreated control. The experimental design followed was three replications. The herbicide treatments were randomly distributed. The Chevalier herbicide treatment showed the best results with lowest density of weeds 30 days after applying the pesticide (0.4 weeds/m2 ), highest number of wheat tillers (464.7/m2 ) and spikes (453.5/m2 ), the number of grains/spike (26.3) and the 1000 kernels weight (39.6 g), with a total yield of 4.7 tons/ha. Keywords: Sensitivity of wheat varieties, herbicides.

I begin with some local history. the first modern foreign language proposed for inclusion in Yale College was French. In 1778, the chevalier de la Luzerne, French minister plenipotentiary to the American colonies during the Revolutionary Wars, offered “to found a professorship at New-Haven College, the object of which was to be to teach the French language, and the history of France.” This was a moment of relative enlightenment at Yale—during the presidency of Ezra Stiles, a remarkable polymath, a great Hebraist who was also an astronomer and experimental scientist, and indeed taught all the subjects in the curriculum, and who welcomed the proposed addition of French. But enlightenment did not stretch so far. “The trustees of this college refused the generous offer, alleging that such an establishment would tend to introduce popery into the state” (Nancrède 10). Despite student demand, the trustees did not relent until 1825: French and then German became required subjects of study (though no professorship in French existed until the 1860s).

This paper investigates whether sentimental bettors affect the point-spread-formation process in the college football wagering market, as well as whether this market is efficient. Following Avery and Chevalier (1999), this study focuses solely on sources of sentiment that have natural analogues in the stock market, such as predictions of so-called experts, momentum in teams’ performances, teams that are highly visible, and teams with high fan avidity. Sentiment relating to expert picks, even though the picks are uninformative, nonetheless is related to intraweek changes in spreads. Also, bettors’ sentiment for recent performance against the spread, for teams in major conferences, and for teams with high fan avidity appears to be related to spreads moving during the week. However, betting strategies designed to exploit any anticipated sentimental betting are marginally profitable at best, suggesting that rational arbitrageurs serve to correct most biases in spreads.The authors express thanks to Bruno Deschamps, Michael Hertzel, Michael Lemmon, J. Spencer Martin, Federico Nardari, Rodney Paul, and Mukunthan Santhanakrishnan for careful feedback and thoughtful suggestions. The authors are also grateful for comments from seminar participants at the UC Riverside Conference on Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets, at the Financial Management Association meetings in Toronto, at Arizona State University, and at Montana State University. Greg Durham expresses a special thanks to Jim Harmon for providing historical data related to the Harmon Forecast. (The authors are responsible for any outstanding errors in this paper.)

On July 2016, Ana Tostões interviewed João Luís Carrilho da Graça, one of the main Portuguese contemporary architects, in order to discuss the riverside projects that he has been developing for the future of Lisbon. João Luís Carrilho da Graça was born in 1952, Portalegre, and studied architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Art (1977). He was assistant lecturer at the Lisbon School of Fine Art (1977-1992), full professor at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (2001-2010) and the University of Évora (2005-2013). He coordinated the departments of Architecture in both institutions until 2010, and was responsible for the creation of the PhD in Architecture at the latter institution, which he also directed (2011-2013). He was professor at the University of Navarra (2005, 2007, 2010, 2014) and at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning of Cornell University, New York (2015). Since 2014, he has been full professor at the School of Architecture, University of Lisbon. He is the principle of the architectural office João Luís Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos with an extensive work built. He was nominated and selected for the Mies van der Rohe European Prize in Architecture (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) and received several awards, such as the AICA (1992), the Secil (1994), the FAD (1999), the Valmor (1998), the Pessoa (2008), the Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic (1999), the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Republic (2010) and the Medal of the Académie d’Architecture of France (2012). In 2013, he received an Honorary Doctorate degree from the School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon and in 2015 the Royal Institute of British Architects International Fellowship.

Chevalley T, Strong DD, Mohan S, Baylink DJ, Linkhart TA. Evidence for a role for insulin-like growth factor binding proteins in glucocorticoid inhibition of normal human osteoblast-like cell proliferation. Eur J Endocrinol 1996;134:591–601. ISSN 0804–4643 Glucocorticoids (GCs) inhibit bone formation in vivo and inhibit osteoblast proliferation and collagen synthesis in vitro. These effects may be mediated by alterations in the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system. In the present study of normal human osteoblast-like (HOB) cells, we tested the hypothesis that dexamethasone (Dex) inhibits IGF anabolic activity in bone by altering expression of IGF binding proteins (IGFBPs), particularly by decreasing expression of IGFBP-5 and IGFBP-3 (which enhance IGF activity) and increasing expression of IGFBP-4 (which inhibits IGF actions). Dexamethasone treatment caused a dose-dependent inhibition of HOB cell proliferation (69 ± 4% of control at 10−8 mol/l Dex) in seven separate experiments. Dexamethasone decreased IGFBP-5 mRNA levels to 20–30% of control (10−8 and 10−7 mol/l for 24 h). In six of six HOB preparations, 10−8 mol/l Dex decreased IGFBP-5 mRNA levels (35 ± 7% of control) and this effect was time dependent. Dexamethasone also decreased IGFBP-3 mRNA levels (74 ± 9% of control in three HOB preparations). Dexamethasone decreased secretion of 29–31-kD IGFBP-5 and 38–42-kD IGFBP-3 proteins, determined by Western ligand blot and IGFBP-5 immunoblot, and induced a dose-dependent decrease in IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-5 secretion determined by specific radioimmunoassays. The effects of Dex on IGFBP-4 mRNA and on secretion of 25-kD IGFBP-4 levels were inconsistent between different cell preparations. Results suggest that GC inhibition of IGFBP-5 and IGFBP-3 production could decrease IGF activities and contribute to GC inhibition of bone formation. Thomas A. Linkhart, Mineral Metabolism (151), Pettis VA Hospital, 11201 Benton Street, Loma Linda, CA 92357, USA

Information in the hands of public administrations plays a fundamental role in developing democracies and carrying out daily tasks—not only the public administrations’ tasks, but also those of the general public and companies (European Commission, 1998). New information and communications technologies (ICT) are vastly increasing the range of information in the hands of the general public and considerably diversifying both quantitatively and, above all, qualitatively the tools for conveying this, with the Internet being the means chosen by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Member States to provide the general public with access to the information held by the administration (OECD, 2003). Nowadays, public administrations create, collect, develop and disseminate large amounts of information: business and economic information, environmental information, agricultural information, social information, legal information, scientific information, political information and social information. Access to information is the first step towards developing e-governments and is something that has grown most in recent years, not only from the viewpoint of supply but also of demand. At present, most people using e-government do so to obtain information from public administrations. Throughout history, information has not always had the same relevance or legal acknowledgement in the West. Bureaucratic public administrations had no need to listen to the general public nor notify citizens of their actions. Hence, one of the bureaucratic administration’s features was withholding the secret that it had legitimized, since this was considered the way to maintain the traditional system of privileges within the bureaucratic institution—by making control and responsibility for information difficult, and also by allowing the public administration to free itself of exogenous obstacles (Arteche, 1984; Gentot, 1994). In most European countries, except the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland), secrets were the dominant principle. For instance, it was not until 1978 that France passed a law concerning access to public sector information; in 1990, Italy did likewise. Crises in the bureaucratic model of public administration have brought with them the existence of new models. Receptivity, focusing on the client and quality management, have been some responses to the crisis of this model in the 1980s and 1990s, since the advent of the post-bureaucratic paradigm ( Mendieta, 1996; Behn, 1995). The process of modernizing Public administrations has meant that those governed have come to be considered clients of these administrative services (Brugué, Amorós, & Gomà, 1994). Citizens, considered as clients, now enjoy a revitalized status as seen from public administrations, which provides citizens with a wide range of rights and powers in order to carry out their needs, including obtaining information from the administration (Chevalier, 1988). This process has coincided over the years with the rules regulating access to public-sector information being extended in countries of the West. But the evolution does not stop here. Societies that are pluralist, complex and interdependent require new models of public administration that allow the possibility of responding and solving present challenges and risks (Kooiman, 1993; OECD, 2001b). Internet administration represents a model of public administration based on collaboration between the administration and the general public. It has brought about a model of administration that was once hierarchical to become one based on a network in which many links have been built between the different nodes or main active participants, all of whom represent interests that must be included in the scope of general interest due to the interdependence existing between them (Arena, 1996). The way the administration is governed online requires, first and foremost, information to be transparent, with the aim of guaranteeing and facilitating the participation of all those involved (European Commission, 2001). It is essential that all those involved in the online process are able to participate with as much information as possible available. Information is an indispensable resource for decision-making processes. The strategic participants taking part in these will consider the information as an element upon which they may base their participation online. Information becomes a resource of power that each participant may establish, based on other resources he or she has available, and this will influence their strategies in the Internet. This allows us to see that the networks distributing information may be asymmetrical, which leads to proposing a need to adopt a means to confront this asymmetrical information. In this task, ICT can be of great help with the necessary intervention of law. Public-sector information has an important role in relation with citizens’ rights and business. Public administration also needs information to achieve its goals.