Agricultural Economics Mike Woods, PhD—Professor and Head Regents Professors: B. Wade Brorsen, PhD; Damona G. Doye, PhD; Francis M. Epplin, PhD; Shida R. Henneberry, PhD; Phil Kenkel, PhD; Jayson L. Lusk, PhD Professors: Brian Adam, PhD; Chanjin Chung, PhD; Cynda R. Clary, PhD; Cheryl S. DeVuyst, PhD; Eric DeVuyst, PhD; David Henneberry, PhD; Rodney Holcomb, PhD; Notie H. Lansford, PhD; Ross O....

[1] More than 100 years ago it was predicted that the distribution of first digits of real world observations would not be uniform, but instead follow a trend where measurements with lower first digit (1,2,...) occur more frequently than those with higher first digits (...,8,9). This result has long been known but regarded largely as a mathematical curiosity and received little attention in the...

The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) dates back to 1869 when the university was designated as Tennessee’s federal land-grant institution. Under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act, the university was enabled for the first time to offer instruction in agriculture. Later, federal legislation provided resources for agricultural research and extension programming for d...

Giuseppe Longo, a well-known mathematician and computer scientist, is a former professor of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Computing, at the Unniversity of Pisa (Italy) and, since 1990, Directeur de Recherches at CNRS and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Professor Longo has extensively published in many areas including logic and computability, type theory, category theory and their a...