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SemenSolver spreadsheet
J. Adamchick; K. R. Briggs; D. V. Nydam (2024-09-10)
mproved reproductive technologies and management have enabled dairy herds to produce more female calves than they need. One emerging strategy is to select a subset of superior animals to produce the next generation of herd replacements while breeding the others for off-farm value (often to beef semen). It is complex to anticipate how today’s breeding choices will impact herd inventory three years from now and it is costly to wind up with too few replacements to keep the dairy herd full with the most productive cows.
We created the SemenSolver spreadsheet as a tool to guide week-by-week semen choices, customized for a specific farm, to capitalize on crossbred beef markets while maintaining the replacement supply to support herd size and performance.
Renegotiating Commercial Loans: Getting a Discounted Payoff is Possible But Complicated
Flynn, Sean; Ghent, Andra; Tchistyi, Alexei (2024-09-10)
In times of crisis, some hotel owners find themselves overwhelmed by debt and face a difficult dilemma—either keep putting more of their money into their troubled assets or stop paying their mortgages and lose their hotels to foreclosure. This is an undesirable outcome for both borrowers and lenders. Borrowers lose their investments in the foreclosed property as well as their reputation. On the other hand, lenders recover substantially less than the property’s market value due to various costs and expenses associated with foreclosure.
Whose Authority?
Daniels, Laura E.; Magagnosc, Jacqueline K.; Parker, Elizabeth (2024-07)
Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is a core value of our institution, therefore this work is integral to everything we do. How does one build this commitment into daily work in a sustainable way? With our current library leadership heavily invested in these values, we as metadata practitioners are trying to integrate, in a sustainable and equitable way, our work within the broader organizational ecosystem.
"It isn't part of our language"
Folsom, Steven; Daniels, Laura E. (ALA Editions, 2024)
In spring 2021 Steven Folsom approached Laura Daniels with a question: how might we address the fact that our catalog records use the subject “Iroquois Indians” when the people described by that term call themselves Haudenosaunee? This question, and the ensuing discussion about the issues of accurate representation as well as retrieval, led to an investigation that has resulted in at least one subject heading change proposal to the Library of Congress, a deepened appreciation for the complexity and the importance of direct communication around terminology in controlled vocabularies, and ongoing questions around what is and what should be considered an authoritative source. This case study outlines the process through which the authors sought guidance and received feedback from members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Indigenous scholars. Provided is an account of challenges encountered (both with communication and with accurate representation of words and names), decisions made, and unresolved questions and concerns related to the representation of the Haudenosaunee and Indigenous people more broadly in controlled vocabularies such as Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Fall Bulletin 2024
Southeast Asia Program (Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2024-09-09)
The Southeast Asia Program Bulletin is a bi-annual publication covering Cornell faculty and student research, SEAP outreach activities, as well as SEAP news and updates.