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The Place Of Crossbred Lambs In Australian Lamb Production, David L. Hopkins, Suzanne I. Mortimer, Jessica S. Richards

IGC Proceedings (1997-2023)

The Australian sheep industry, particularly the lamb meat sector has undergone a major change in focus, such that consumer requirements are a paramount determinant for production and processing developments. This change has been facilitated by the use of cross breeding production systems where the benefits of heterosis are captured and the implementation of a performance recording system amongst initially, breeders of terminal sires. This sector of the industry has strongly embraced genetic selection using objectively measured traits and this is one of the contributors to the superior growth rate of crossbred progeny over pure bred progeny. A crossbreeding system does …

Characterizing Feeds And Feed Availability In Sud-Kivu Province, Dr Congo, Samy B. Bacigale, Birthe K. Paul, Fabrice L. Muhimuzi, Neville Mapenzi, Michael Peters, Brigitte L. Maass

IGC Proceedings (1997-2023)

Animal husbandry in the Sud-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is gradually moving towards stall feeding, due to demographic pressure (Battistin et al. 2009) and scarcity of collectable forages (DSRP-RDC 2005). Therefore, feed is considered one of the main constraints faced by livestock production, especially in the dry season (Katunga et al. 2009; Maass et al. 2012). Unaffordable, fluctuating prices and inaccessibility of feed concentrates and the lack of improved forages adapted to marginal conditions, making them non-competitive with food crops, further exacerbate the livestock feeding situation. This study within the African Food …

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Veterans Returning From Combat: Impact On Social Reintegration, Rod Van Pelt

Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition frequently observed in soldiers and veterans.The reintegration of veterans returning from combat is a challenge that state and federal administrations, as well as civilian structures and workplaces, face routinely. Despite PTSD being a public health issue with a socioeconomic impact, non-scholarly debate is the primary source of information on the non-medical burden of PTSD. The majority of scholarly evidence focuses on PTSD primarily as a medical condition, including when addressing the problem from a socioeconomic standpoint. In fact, most of the recent scholarly evidence points to specific areas of PTSD, such …

Advertising In A World Full Of Human Trafficking: How Advertising And Human Trafficking Coincide, April M. Cherry

EKU Libraries Research Award for Undergraduates

No abstract provided.

Lutheran Pioneers. Ii - The Bavarian Settlenients Of Tile Saginaw Valley., Theodore Graebner

Synod History

The Story of Lutheran Pioneer Life in the Primeval · Forests of Michigan. Retold Mostly in the Words of the First Colonists.

Global Impacts From Improved Tropical Forages: A Meta-Analysis Revealing Overlooked Benefits And Costs, Evolving Values And New Priorities, Douglas S. White, Michael Peters, Peter Horne

IGC Proceedings (1997-2023)

The wider use and improved performance of planted tropical forages can substantially change social, economic and environmental landscapes. By reviewing impact-related studies published in the past two decades, this paper shows how evolving development priorities have influenced the types of impacts being documented. A meta-analysis was used to examine 98 studies according to: (1) breadth of reported effects, as related to development goals of social equity, economic growth and environmental sustainability; (2) extent of effects, ranging from intermediate to longer-term impacts; and (3) measurement precision (identification, description and quantification). Impacts have been assessed for fewer than half of the documented …

Exposing The Imposter: Imposter Syndrome & Legal Writing Faculty, Sara L. Ochs

Events at Dickinson Law

Legal academics often report crippling feelings of insecurity and inadequacy, symptoms of a widespread trend labeled as “imposter syndrome.” Experts have defined this phenomenon as a “deep and sometimes paralyzing belief that we have been given something we didn’t earn and don’t deserve and that at some point we’ll be exposed.” Given the evident hierarchies in legal academia, these feelings are especially prominent among legal writing faculty, and even more so among those in untenured positions. Using empirical data acquired from law professors, this presentation will analyze the prevalence and causes of imposter syndrome among legal writing faculty and will …

Gender And Yale: Where Were The Women?, Emily Stark, Patrice Collins, Claire Bowern

Yale Day of Data

Statistics on history of women scholars in Yale's English Department.

Classroom Management Techniques To Improve Efficiency, Confidence, And Positivity, Aaron K. Eubanks

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

The dynamics of the southern rural classroom are extremely diverse, and creating a classroom environment conducive to that can be tricky. Students learn best when they feel confident in the direction of the class and their ability to be successful. This session will provide a guide for teachers to follow when developing and sequencing classroom management strategies in order to improve the learning environment in the classroom. Positive communication strategies can improve the classroom environment, school culture, and also transfer to a positive home environment. The ability to build positive communication skills in students will ultimately lead to their utilization …

Re-Engage Students With “Check And Connect”, Tara Davis, Tony Feldmann

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

One of the most effective dropout prevention programs is Check & Connect. Check and Connect is for K-12 students that show signs of disengagement with school and who are at risk of dropping out. The foundation of Check & Connect (C&C) is building a trusting relationship between the student and a caring mentor. A mentor builds a strong relationship with students, systematically “Checks” on students, “Connects” with students, and partners with parents/families, functioning as a liaison between home and school and striving to build constructive family-school relationships.

Check & Connect is empirically supported through rigorous research and has shown to …

International R D & E Investment: Revitalising The Skill Base In Grassland Research And Practice, Ralph Von Kaufmann

IGC Proceedings (1997-2023)

Grasslands make up about 40.5% of the world’s land surface, and almost everywhere they make vital contributions to food supplies, livelihoods, watersheds, conservation of biodiversity and to ameliorating climate change through carbon sequestration. However, grasslands are under-represented in discussions on food security and livelihoods. Despite large investments in building human capacity, improving production systems and in research, grasslands are continuing to degrade and there is no let-up in sight for the consequent strife, famines and conflicts among the pastoral and other communities that depend on them. This review of grassland issues identified many critical skills that are lacking but it …

Feeding The World In 2050: Trade-Offs, Synergies And Tough Choices For The Livestock Sector, Jimmy Smith, Shirley Tarawali, Delia Grace, Keith Sones

IGC Proceedings (1997-2023)

Feeding the World in 2050 is a major challenge at the forefront of the global development agenda. The importance of agriculture in addressing this challenge has re-emerged in recent years as food security issues are considered in a more holistic manner. The role of livestock as part of the solution is, however, often not considered. This article presents a brief overview of the global food security challenge, and considers the increased focus on holistic food systems. It contends that animal agriculture is relevant to this complex, multifaceted and dynamic global challenge. However, if livestock-based solutions are to become a reality …

Proceedings - Enabling Excellence Through Equity Conference 2019, Pranit Anand, Kylie Austin, Jacinta Mcnamara, Jenna Thorn, Kimberley Twist

Enabling Excellence through Equity conference 2019

Proceedings of the Enabling Excellence through Equity EPHEA & NAEEA conference, University of Wollongong, 24-27 November 2019, 103p. [Conference information, programme and abstracts]

Gender Differences Are Disappearing: Attitudes On Sex Trafficking Tactics And Rape Victimization

Symposium of Student Scholars

Commercial sexual exploitation by force, fraud, and coercion are tactics used by sex traffickers. Although sex trafficking is an ongoing, pervasive problem, there is no known research on gender differences regarding knowledge and attitudes about sex trafficking tactics and the perception of these women and girls as victims of rape. Thus, the purpose of this study was to compare male and female college students' knowledge and attitudes regarding sex trafficking tactics and their beliefs about whether these individuals are rape victims. Consistent with rape myth acceptance research on gender (Russell & Hand, 2017), we hypothesized that there may be gender …

Full Abstract Volume For Student Presentations And Classroom Sessions

La Frontera - The Border

No abstract provided.

Fdi Inflows And Educational Attainment: Evidence From China, Yi Duan, Lei Li

Faculty Research Day

This study investigates the impact of FDI on education attainment through labor market conditions in China using micro data. China has attracted a substantial amount of FDI in the past years and has made education advancement its priority. However, attracting FDI can have unintended consequences to depress educational attainment and human capital formation.

Sport, Representation And Culture In The Modern World, 1920-2020, Steven A. Riess

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

Cultural historians study the change of human civilization over time. They focus on people’s beliefs, rituals, ideas, identity, social norms, institutions, and materials, with particular attention to the meanings of that culture’s elements (Hutton 1981). Cultural historians before World War II focused on high culture, but thereafter, because of the influence of cultural anthropology, they began to study popular culture, that include every day experiences and artifacts that express mass values and attitudes. Since the late 1960s, scholars have studied sport’s interaction with high and low culture, and also sport as an independent element of culture with s symbolic acts, …

Female Students As Online Learners: A Case Study In Navigating Academic Success, Noreen Powers

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

This qualitative study investigated and described the relationship between the various challenges women face in a distance learning program and their other life events using a feminist and phenomenological approach. The primary purpose of this case study was to examine the narratives of three women to determine how adult women students in an online program navigate through the challenges they encounter as they move through this educational venue. This study addresses the following questions: (1) What are the challenges to online learning for these adult female students? (2) How do these adult female online students negotiate their challenges? (3) How …

Understanding Supremacist Thought In The U.S.: Confronting The Cultural Underpinnings Of Hierarchical Thought, Timothy R. Libretti

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

This paper finally wants to suggest that the ideologies that sustain class society may be best understood as sharing much with what we might call supremacist thought more generally, which I identify as a powerful tendency in U.S. history and culture. Recognizing the continuities among white supremacist thought, patriarchal ideology, and the capitalist class ideologies, I argue, offers important insights into how class society works and, perhaps more importantly, a possibility for creating a shared understanding or bridge between the white working class and working-class people of color, as well as women. The vice-president of the confederacy argued that the …

A Review On Cyberloafing, Sungdoo Kim

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

As technology permeates every aspect of our lives, employees are increasingly using technology for personal purposes during office hours. The largest proportion of non-work-related activities at work is spent using technologies on activities such as responding to emails on a personal email account, checking friends’ Facebook updates, reading sports or news, and paying bills online. While practitioners have been wrestling with cyberloafing prevalent in the workplace, research on the matter has grown exponentially over the last decade. Despite the growing empirical evidence, lacking is an integrated understanding of the phenomenon. In order for this area of inquiry to develop into …

November Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda

Using Storytelling And Robot Theater To Develop Computational Thinking, Denise Szecsei

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

The University of Iowa’s Robot Theater Project teaches computational thinking and promotes STEM education in the context of the performing arts. Students write scripts and program robots to give live performances on stage; over the past 5 years we have taught 122 students to program robots, and our robots have performed in front of several thousand students, teachers, and parents. In this experience report, we introduce the project, describe the framework used to coordinate the behavior of multiple robots in a scene, and discuss the challenges with live performances involving robot actors from different manufacturers. We also describe an initiative …

Dating, Friendship, Courtship: Developing Healthy Relationships (Women Only), Reggie Jenkins

Black Issues Conference

"Dating, Friendship, Courtship: Developing Healthy Relationships" is a powerpoint presentation that is designed for young adult women. It defines the difference between courtship, dating, and friendship. It goes into detail regarding what dating really entails and what questions to ask when going out on dates. It also explains how dating and friendships are really about self-discovery. It explains what personalities to avoid while dating and steps to take toward self-empowerment. The purpose of this presentation is an attempt to prevent future trauma and abuse within the Black community. Its also an attempt to empower young ladies by providing a thorough …

Social Dimensions In Sustainability Evaluation Of Deteriorating Reinforced Concrete Bridges, Zhujun Wang, Weiliang Jin, Wu Kexian, Dan M. Frangopol

International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures

Structural sustainability requires that structural engineering activities should find ways to design and maintain structures that perform as required during their life-cycle considering intergenerational needs. Massive attention has been paid to the economic and environmental evaluation of structures. However, being a completely different discipline from structural engineering, the social dimensions associated with structures were rarely considered in previous studies due to the difficulty in determination and quantification, unavoidable subjectivity and controversy, as well as the lack of historical data. This paper identifies the social impacts induced by engineering activities associated with the deterioration of reinforced concrete structures, and proposes corresponding …

Schedules, Sienna Craig, John Kopper

Women on the Faculty: A Dartmouth Centennial

These are the conference schedule handouts.

Event Banners, Dennis Grady

Women on the Faculty: A Dartmouth Centennial

These are the posters and banners used to announce the event.

Speaker Biographies, Sienna Craig, John Kopper

Women on the Faculty: A Dartmouth Centennial

This document contains the biographies of all of the event speakers.

Making Love: Love Magic In Medieval Romances, Dalicia Raymond

Shared Knowledge Conference

This study considers the functions of love magic and the authorial discomfort with which it is treated in high and late medieval romances from continental and insular Europe. I theorize three functions of love magic-to induce love, to disrupt love, and to maintain or facilitate love. I assert that although magic and adulterous courtly love in medieval romances are accepted by medieval authors, the use of love-inducing magic is presented with an authorial discomfort that requires either an implicit condemnation or an explicit divine endorsement due to the violation of free will. I examine this discomfort in a variety of …

Variable Use Of Mucho And Muncho In Traditional New Mexican Spanish, Mark Cisneros

Shared Knowledge Conference

Archaisms like muncho, vide, and truje are often retained for longer periods of time in remote, isolated varieties, are associated with uneducated speakers, and considered non-standard forms (Wilson 2015; Bills & Vigil 2008). As these isolated varieties experience increased contact with mainstream varieties, archaisms tend to be replaced by modern forms. Nevertheless, before they disappear, archaisms coexist alongside their modern counterparts, resulting in a period of linguistic variation. This study investigates the use of muncho and its modern counterpart mucho in Traditional New Mexican Spanish (TNMS). Examples (1) and (2) are instances of archaic forms of mucho produced in TNMS: …

Sex-Specific Survival And Tumor Mutational Burden In Early Stage Melanoma, Matthew Schwartz, Li Luo, Sara Niedbalski, Arshi Arora, Ronglai Shen, Marianne Berwick

Shared Knowledge Conference

Introduction Tumor mutational burden (TMB) is a promising biomarker of clinical response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic cancers, and melanoma-specific survival. There are also significant gender-specific differences in TMB with men having consistently higher TMB than women. This relationship is provocative given the well-documented female melanoma survival advantage, and has not been investigated in early-stage primary tumors naïve to treatment. Approach Here we present preliminary findings on sex, survival, and tumor mutational burden from Stages II and III primary melanoma tumors, none of which have received immunotherapy using the MSK IMPACT™ next generation sequencing assay. Our team evaluated survival …