New Releases by Paul Clark

Depicts the supply-management practices--including planning, production, and distribution--at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the world''s leader in the genetically engineered hybrid crop seed industry. Set in the context of a supply-management planning meeting, it reveals conflicting considerations in setting policies for production (what, how much, and where to plant) and distribution. These considerations include costs, customer service, the vicissitudes of farm production, market uncertainties, and corporate culture. Since the issues are viewed from three independent perspectives--planning, production, and distribution--the case lends itself to role playing. The principal focus for discussion is to determine what bears on the key issues--the size of the safety stock inventory and the level of overseas products--and to specify the information that would be needed to arrive at a decision. Also permits consideration of the forces that could change supply management at Pioneer in years to come. Teaching Purpose: 1) To consider the challenges in managing the production, inventory, and distribution functions in a large, complex agribusiness firm. 2) To demonstrate the role of inventory management in supply management, and its relationship with production, marketing, and customer service.

This unique book demonstrates the wide variety of phones used from the 20th century to the present day. The marvelous range of styles evoke memories of past and future.

False-positive and false-negative values were calculated for five different designs of the trend test and it was demonstrated that a design suggested by Portier and Hoel in 1984 for a different problem produced the lowest false-positive and false-negative rates when applied to historical spontaneous tumor rate data for Fischer Rats.

Includes a section on life skills.

Effects of grazing by cattle in winter and mowing of hay in late summer on the nesting ecology of ducks in southeastern Oregon were studied from March through August of 1974 and 1975. A 650 ha study area was divided into 3 units and 3 patterns of management designed to produce differing amounts of residual cover were employed; management of each unit was changed between 1974 and 1975. The 3 patterns of management were: (1)unrestricted mowing and grazing prior to the waterfowl nesting season,(2) partial mowing but no grazing prior to the nesting season, and (3)neither mowing nor grazing prior to the nesting season. A total of 333 duck nests were found on the study area during 1974 and 1975. Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), cinnamon teal (Anas cyanoptera) and gadwalls (Anas strepera) were the most common nesting species, constituting 91 percent of the nests studied. The remaining 9 percent were nests of shovelers (Anas clypeata), American wigeon (Anas americana), green-winged teal (Ana.