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The Impact Of Humor On Energy, Tension, Task Choices, And Attributions: Exploring Hypotheses From Toughness Theory, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Hypotheses derived from toughness theory suggest that nonaggressive humor should lead to increased feelings of energy without influencing tension, to preferences for studying materials that require more effort and energy, and to ratings of mundane laboratory activities as more challenging but not more threatening. Eighty-one college-age men and women were randomly assigned to watch a 12-minute video of Bill Cosby's humor or to watch a nonhumorous control video that analyzed the Cosby comedy routine. The humor condition resulted in significant increases in feelings of energy but not in feelings of tension. The other hypotheses were also confirmed except that performance …

Water Current, Volume 27, No. 6, December 1995

Water Current Newsletter

Buffer Strips Trap Contaminants
From the Director: Lack of Call of Proposals Sign of Politics at Work
Riparian Buffer Strips Prevent Pollution
Might Missouri Conference Topic
Manure Application Studied
Research Brief: A Multivariate Index Methodology for Landfill Site Characterization Using Geophysics and Geostatistics
Nebraska Water News
Guide for Sealing Wells Available from UNL
Symposium Focuses on Integrated Approach
Booklet Helps Find Water Information
Speaker Compares Public, Technical Views
Drijber Gets Into Microbial Communities
Dishrags Breeding Ground for Bacteria
Seminar Series to Present Views on Platte River Management

The Probe, Issue 160 – November 1995

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

A Christian Minister Explains Why He Can Morally Trap God's Little Creatures Stephen Vantassel, Special Coorespondent, The PROBE
Coloradans Uneasily Coexist with Bears
Girl's Death Blamed on Rabid Bat
Abstracts of Recent Research Presented at TWS Conference
Translocation or Euthanasia: What Should We Do? Scott R. Craven, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
E = 1/2 MV2: Why Birds and Aircraft Should Not Occupy the Same Space at the Same Time. Richard A. Dolbeer and C. P. Dwyer, USD A-Animal Damage Control, Sandusky, OH.
Sandhill Crane Production on Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. Gary L. Ivey, Malheur National …

A Vision For 2020: Communities Of Learning For Food Systems Education In Nebraska, Nn21 Project Team

Nebraska Network 21: Publications

What do we want Nebraska's communities, educational institutions, and programs of study to look like in the year 2020? What is the ideal vision of food systems and food systems education in Nebraska for the twenty-first century? In 1994, with the support of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and with leadership from the University of Nebraska, we initiated a process in Nebraska to discover our individual and collective dreams and aspirations for the future.

Over 800 Nebraskans attended workshops in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Grand Island, Norfolk, Omaha, and Lincoln. Business people, educators, producers, and students--people of diverse ages, ethnicity, and …

Water Current, Volume 27, No. 5, October 1995

Water Current Newsletter

Third Festival of Color Attracts Thousands of Visitors
SEER Satellite Program Off to Promising Start
Nitrate Contamination Links South Korea, Nebraska
Federal Conjunctive Use, Kansas vs. Nebraska?
Nebraska Water News?
Money Down the River
Demo Project Receives IANR Team Award
Symposium to Address Aquifer Connection
Shock Chlorination Topic of NebGuide
Water on the Web
Poll Shows Water Top Natural Resources Concern

Serendipidae Evenhuis, 1994 (Insecta: Diptera) And Serendipidae Brooks And Barriga, 1995 (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda): Proposed Removal Of Homonymy, Daniel R. Brooks, Neal L. Evenhuis

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications

Homonymy between names in the family group may result from similarity, but not identity of the names of their type genera. Such a case involves Serendipa Evenhuis, 1994 and Serendip Brooks and Barriga, 1995. Evenhuis (1994) proposed Serendipa to replace Paratendipes Hong and Wang, 1990 and the Paratendipedidae Hong and Wang, 1990, which had been proposed for P. laiyangensis, a fossil dipteran from Upper Jurassic deposits in China. Evenhuis (1994) reported that Paratendipes Hong and Wang, 1990 was preoccupied by Paratendipes Kieffer, 1911, necessitating the change. Consequently, Paratendipedidae Hong and Wang, 1990 became Serendipidae Evenhuis, 1994.

Nebline, October 1995

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The Nebraska Department Of Communication Studies Story: There Are Happy Endings That Go Beyond Football And A Good Crop Year, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The following essay discusses the proposed targeting of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Communication Studies for total elimination. The essay describes the department’s demographics, the university’s budget crisis, and the department’s status at its time of peril. The essay reveals how the department learned of the proposal to eliminate it, how the department reacted to the proposed cut, how the administration established an appeals process to the proposed cuts, what explanation and criteria were used to target the department, how the department responded to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affair’s (VCAA) criteria for targeting the department, how the VCAA …

Summer Field Report, June-July 1995, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

This was an interesting summer, with a few rarities, further information on species that are restricted or rare in NE in summer and a couple of additional observations, which involve a little speculation on my part.

Perhaps the best of the rarities was a Neotropic Cormorant at Valentine NWR, while the apparent presence of a Black Rail population at Crescent L NWR is intriguing. Unexpected also were 2 Pacific Loons at L. McConaughy.

Isolated populations or just plain rare summer birds in NE provided interest, with updates on Mississippi Kite at Ogallala, Red-shouldered Hawk at Fontenelle Forest, Acadian Flycatcher at …

Nebraska Bird Review (September 1995) 63(3), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Summer Field Report, June-July 1995 .................... 70

Observers for Summer Report 82 Whooping Crane Sightings During Spring Migration, 1995.................... 82

Notes on Bird sightings in Nebraska .................... 84

Wintering Bald Eagle Survey in Central Nebraska, 1994-95 .................... 84

First Nesting Records for Mississippi Kite in Nebraska .................... 88

Cattle Egrets Nesting in Keith County.................... 89

Nebraska Waterfowl Stamp and Neal R. Anderson .................... 90

Nebraska Ornithologists' Union 1995 Annual Meeting .................... 91

Nebline, September 1995

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Bathycranium : Synonymised With Syntormon, Distinction Between Parasyntormon And Syntormon Discussed And S. Bicolorellus And S. Luteicornis (Diptera : Dolichopodidae) Redescribed, M. C. D. Speight, R. M. Blackith, R. E. Blackith

Insecta Mundi

It is demonstrated that there is no valid basis on which to sustain the monotypic genus Bathycranium Strobl and concluded that Bathycranium should be recognised as a junior synonym of Syntormon Loew (new status). The species Syntormon bicolorellus Zetterstedt (new combination) falls into a natural grouping of Syntormon species with downcurved facial hairs in females. This species and S. luteicornis Parent are redescribed. Distinctions between Syntormonand Parasyntormon are discussed.

Relationship Among Adolescent Reports Of Social Anxiety, Anxiety, And Depressive Symptoms, Heidi M. Inderbitzen, Debra A. Hope

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The present study examines the relationship among self-reported symptoms of social anxiety, anxiety, and depression in the context of Clark and Watson’s tripartite theory of anxiety and depression for a sample of adolescents. Four hundred and twenty-eight 10th-grade students completed three measures: the Social Anxiety Scale for Children–Revised, the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale, and the Children’s Depression Inventory. Results suggest that symptoms of social anxiety are distinct from symptoms of depression and unspecified anxiety. In addition, results indicate that in comparison to males, adolescent females report higher levels of social anxiety, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Conceptual and methodological implications …

Water Current, Volume 27, No. 4, August 1995

Water Current Newsletter

Tour Stresses New Technology
From the Director: Water Center Supports Groundwater Guardian
Dvorak Brings Expertise in Physical, Chemical Treatment Processes to UNL
Nebraska Water News
Festival of Color to Stress Water Quality
Missouri River Again On Endangered List
CNPP&ID Honored
Crypto Video Out
ARDC to Open House with Symposium
No New Surface Water Rights: Legislature Puts Moratorium on Water Appropriations
Issues and Alternatives, Two Publications Analyze Federal Water Legislation

Review Of Skeletal Biology In The Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health And Subsistence By Douglas W. Owsley And Richard L. Jantz, Luann Wandsnider

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This volume reports the results of studies on skeletal remains throughout the Great Plains from early to recent times. Skeletons from the W. H. Over Museum Collection in South Dakota, excavated by Over, William Bass, and W. R. Hurt, form the volume's analytic core, with other collections providing necessary context. Portions of the Over skeletal collection have been reported on previously. When the collection was mandated for reburial in 1985, however, Owsley and Jantz arranged for comprehensive osteological analysis by numerous specialists, resulting in this volume.

Thirty-two chapters by 39 authors are offered on the topics of Great Plains disease …

Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Apache Mothers and Daughters is the narrative saga of four generations of Chiricahua Apache mothers and daughters. Against a poignant background of Chiricahua raiding and warfare, imprisonment, relocation, reservation confinement, and forced acculturation, this intensely personal history of four remarkable women's lives unfolds. The book's strength lies in its masterful weaving of solid ethnohistoric research with the oral history provided by Narcissus Duffy Gayton (and other informants) about herself, her mother Christine Kozine, her grandmother Beshad-e, and her great grandmother Dilth-cleyhen.

Repellency Of Mongoose Feces And Urine To Rats (Rattus Spp.), Mark E. Tobin, Ann E. Koehler, Robert T. Sugihara, Michael E. Burwash

National Wildlife Research Center Repellents Conference 1995

Chemical repellents derived from predators might offer more effective and longer lasting protection from vertebrate depredations than current damage control measures. Thus, we conducted laboratory and field studies to evaluate the repellency of mongoose feces and urine to black rats (Rattus rattus) and Polynesian rats (R. exulans ) . We exposed captive wild rats to water, butyric acid, mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) feces, or mongoose urine in a 150- x 60- x 120-cm partitioned arena and recorded their behavior with a video camera. None of the test substances had any apparent effect (P> 0.05) on behavior …

Review Of Apache Mothers And Daughters: Four Generations Of A Family By Ruth Mcdonald Boyer And Narcissus Duffy Gayton, Beth Ritter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Apache Mothers and Daughters is the narrative saga of four generations of Chiricahua Apache mothers and daughters. Against a poignant background of Chiricahua raiding and warfare, imprisonment, relocation, reservation confinement, and forced acculturation, this intensely personal history of four remarkable women's lives unfolds. The book's strength lies in its masterful weaving of solid ethnohistoric research with the oral history provided by Narcissus Duffy Gayton (and other informants) about herself, her mother Christine Kozine, her grandmother Beshad-e, and her great grandmother Dilth-c1eyhen.

What Kind Of Woman Would Work In Meatpacking, Anyway? World War Ii And The Road To Fair Employment, Deborah Fink

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

World War II accelerated the movement of rural and small town Iowa women into manufacturing industry. Scholars have debated the significance of World War II for gender relations, but the recent consensus is that only focused studies of particular localities can address the complexity of the changes effected by the War. This study looks at Iowa women in meatpacking plants. Assessing the economic background, their prior efforts to enter packing plants, and the resistance they met in the plants makes their limited gains understandable. Women of rural and small town wage earning households had always been workers, usually in the …

Nebline, August 1995

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1995 Lancaster County Fair Edition

Preface- Licensure Testing: Purposes, Procedures, And Practices, James C. Impara

Licensure Testing: Purposes, Procedures, and Practices

This book represents a unique effort for the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements and the Buros-Nebraska Series on Measurement and Testing. All of the previous books in this series have been associated with a symposium sponsored by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements and the University of Nebraska. This book is "free standing" in that it is an independent effort intended to fulfill a perceived need for a book, but without preceding the book with a symposium. There are few books devoted solely to the topic of licensure testing, but each state and the federal government is involved in this …

The Probe, Issue # 156 -- July 1995

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

An Update on the ADC Brown Tree Snake Control Program, by Tim J. Ohasi, USDA-APHIS-ADC, 3375 Koapaka St., Suite H-420, Honolulu, HI 96819
Deer Contraception Proves to Be Costly Failure
Kangaroos Off the Threatened Species List
Animal Rights Protesters Target AT&T Gopher Experiments
Vampire Bats Plague Mexican Ranchers
Do Mixed Gender Teams Complicate Fieldwork?, by Robert H. Giles, Jr., Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321
Bird Strike-USA Committee Meeting
Trapping Weasels
Errata from June PROBE
Video Review - "Removing Raccoons From Chimneys"

Nebline, July 1995

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Training Sociologists: Professional Socialization And The Emergence Of Career Aspirations, Bruce Keith, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The individual and departmental factors affecting graduate students' professional socialization were studied by employing data from 309 PhD students in 16 graduate programs in sociology. Using Rosenbaum's tournament model of opportunity structures and aspects of Tinto's model of social psychological integration, this study examines students' access to initial funding, resources in the department, indicators of prior ability, current professional activities, mentoring processes, and social psychological factors for their effects on socialization into the academic profession. Access to initial funding and to mentoring have substantial effects on PhD students' professional socialization, but prove to be less than rational processes in the …

Water Current, Volume 27, No. 3, June 1995

Water Current Newsletter

Researchers Seek to Clean Up Hazardous Legacy of Bomb Production
From the Director: Annual Water Resources Tour Promises On-Site Education
Deep Soil Probing
Nebraska Water News
UNL Faculty Receive USGS Grants
Niobrara Study Out
Bookmarks Produced
Publication on BMPs for Wheat Available
Task Force Issues Recommendations
Festivals Effective
More and More Producers Recycle Pesticide Containers
Water Tour to Explore Central Nebraska

Pathways Through Adolescence: An Overview, Lisa J. Crockett, Ann C. Crouter

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Given the connection between adolescent behavior and future well-being, it is important to understand the choices that adolescents make and how patterns of behavior evolve and are maintained during this period. The premise of this volume is that we can describe the behavior patterns young people develop in adolescence, and piece together the decisions that shape their paths through adolescence and into adulthood. Moreover, we can begin to identify the dynamic processes that affect adolescents7 life choices, the emergence of behavior patterns, and the development of lifestyles. This volume seeks to address three questions. How can developmental pathways in adolescence …

Developmental Paths In Adolescence: Commentary, Lisa J. Crockett

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Much remains to be done to illuminate the processes shaping adolescents' developmental paths. Influences affecting adolescents' day-to-day behavior, as well as their decisions at specific turning points, need to be elucidated. The reciprocal influences operating between adolescent and environment, and the fact that selection processes (both passive and active) are likely to increase the correlation between individual and environmental characteristics, further complicate the task of disentangling causal processes. Furthermore, understanding adolescents' developmental pathways requires more than identifying the dynamic processes in operation at key turning points and in the settings the person enters subsequently. It requires examining the chain of …

Nebline, June 1995

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Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 1994-95, Bruce Johnson

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

Agricultural land values in Nebraska rose an average of 2.8 percent during the year ending February I, I995. While this represented the eighth straight year of value advances, it was the smallest annual percentage change of that period. Relative stability in agricultural real estate values during I994 was prevalent across the state with only, slight percentage changes in either direction recorded across the various types of land and location.

Despite a poor livestock economy, non tillable grazing land had the largest percentage gain during the I2-month period (4.9 percent). In contrast, gravity irrigated cropland rose only I percent for the …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 7, No. 17, May 26, 1995

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

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