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Outlook On Groundwater: Middle School / Junior High, Heidi Andre, Roger Beane

K-12 Curriculum Supplements

Table of Contents:

--- Forward
--- Activity 1: What Goes Up Must Come Down . . . And Around (Water Cycle)
--- Activity 2: Where Has All the Water Gone? (Percolation)
--- Activity 3: Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (Groundwater)
--- Activity 4: Biting The Hand That Feeds Us (Consumer Groundwater Use)
--- Activity 5: You Can't Fool Mother Nature (Pesticide Contamination)
--- Activity 6: Nitrate Nightmare (Nitrate Contamination)
--- Activity 7: Culprits In The Cupboard (Landfill Contamination)
--- Activity 8: Rub-A-Dub-Dub (Water Budgeting)
--- Activity 9: Here Comes The Judge (Groundwater Laws)
--- Activity 10: Energy Savings (Conservation …

Outlook On Groundwater: Senior High, Bernard Hermanson, Joyce Meyers

K-12 Curriculum Supplements

Table of Contents:

--- Forward
--- Activity 1: Beam Me Up, Soddy
--- Activity 2: The Quiet Pump
--- Activity 3: Buried Treasurer
--- Activity 4: Personally Perceived Million
--- Activity 5: (kon-tam-i-na'-shon)
--- Activity 6: Home - A Hazardous Waste Site?
--- Activity 7: D. B. Smirch (or Clean Up Your Aquifer)
--- Activity 8: It All Comes Out With the Wash
--- Activity 9: It's A Dirty Strain
--- Activity 10: Rate Your Water
--- Activity 11: Contamination Rummy
--- Activity 12: Whodunit?
--- Activity 13: Old Home Place (Modern Pioneers)
--- Activity 14: Agricultural Energy Management
--- …

An Industry Perspective On The Benefits Of And Regulation Of Genetically Engineered Plants, Nicholas M. Frey

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

The seed industry has routinely incorporated new technology into its research and development programs. Plant generic engineering is the most recent technology to be utilized for seed product development efforts. New sources of herbicide, insect, and disease resistance are being incorporated into crop plants using cellular and molecular biology techniques.

New regulatory guidelines have been developed which require regulatory approval before genetically engineered plants can be reseed in the field and ultimately marketed. The impact of these regulations on product development is unclear. Hopefully a dialogue will develop among industry, government agencies, and the public such that reasonable and appropriate …

Ab Initio Investigation Of Several Low-Lying States Of All-Trans Octatetraene, Robert J. Cave, Ernest R. Davidson

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

The results of ab initio calculations that examine vertical and nonvertical transitions to several low-lying states of all-trans-octatetraene are presented. It is found that the lowest vertical excitation is to a valence π → π* ¹B_u state, and the nominally doubly excited 2¹A_g state occurs approximately 0.4 eV higher at the geometry of the ground state. Using estimated excited-state equilibrium geometries, we find that the 2¹A_g state is indeed the lowest singlet excited state, having a 0-0 tarnsition energy of 4.15 eV. The 0-0 transition energy for the 1¹B_u state is calculated to be 4.56 eV. The present results …

Impact Of Biotechnology On Agriculture Productivity, Roger A. Kleese

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Biotechnology is a diverse array of technologies which today are in various stages of evolution and development. To understand them and the potential application of these technologies to agriculture, it is helpful to consider them in a historical perspective. In addition, it is important to understand the interdependence of biotechnologies on traditional, well developed technologies. The commercial development of biotechnology is more difficult than imagined even as recently as five years ago. Also, the problems being addressed generally demand a much better understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the plant and animal systems under study. Nonetheless, there is a …

Economic Changes From The Use Of Biotechnology In Production Agriculture, Loren W. Tauer

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

The potential economic impact of biotechnology in production agriculture is discussed. There are challenges and difficulties in completing economic research when little production information is available on biotechnologies. I argue that little impact differences exist between cost-reducing versus output-increasing technological change. Rapid technological change results in low average returns in agriculture but continuous early innovators earn higher returns. Various plant and animal technologies are presented and discussed.

Benthic Macroinvertebrate Habitat Associations Of The Channelized Middle Missouri River, James B. Barnum, Roger W. Bachmann

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Benthic macroinvertebrates associated with navigation structures (dikes, dike pools, revetted banks) and abandoned channels on the Missouri River at the Iowa-Nebraska border were sampled in June, August, and October 1983 to determine the invertebrate community structure of these habitats. Invertebrate densities were greatest in the abandoned channel habitat (to over 13,000/m²), while diversities were greatest in the dike and revetment habitats. Greater habitat diversity contributed to greater organism diversity in the dike and revetment habitats while sediment homogeneity and stability presumably contributed to greater organism densities in the abandoned channel habitat. Dike pools had turbulent eddy currents, which …

Recompact Iowa Soil Materials Before Using As Liners For Waste Containment, G. J. Kluitenberg, R. Horton, M. L. Thompson, J. F. Mcbride

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Soil materials are often used in hazardous-waste disposal facilities to provide a physical barrier to leachate movement. Both existing soils and recompacted soil materials have been used in barrier construction. Solute transport experiments and measurements of saturated hydraulic conductivity were used to characterize the solute transport properties of three Iowa soil materials. Experiments were carried out by using undisturbed soil samples as well as recompacted samples. The experimental results show that recompaction greatly altered the solute transport properties of the three soil materials. It is concluded that recompaction is necessary for any of these materials to satisfy Environmental Protection Agency …

Wetland Characteristics Of Avian Cholera Outbreaks And Surface Water Transfer In The Nebraska Rainwater Basin Area, Brian J. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Avian Cholera (Pateurella multocida) has infected and killed thousands of migrating waterfowl each year since 1975 in Nebraska’s rainwater basin area. Disease outbreaks in migrating waterfowl populations just prior to the nesting season are of concern to biologists. Feedlots and itner-wetland basin surface water transfer mechanisms of the avian cholera causative agent, P. multocida, were investigated using remote sensing techniques. Wetland basin characteristics (classification type, adjacent landuse, basin landuse, and basin densities) were also investigated for relationships to 1981 avian cholera outbreaks. No surface drainage relationships were found that would permit the transfer of P. multocida from one wetland basin …

Resource Sharing: A Study Of Florida's Shared-Used Library Collections, Susan Anderson

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Designed to provide library service for two or more different groups of library users in one library facility, shared-use or joint-use libraries are a unique aspect of library resources sharing. Thirteen examples of shared-use library collections in shared or joint-use library facilities in Florida were examined in this investigation. Special focus was placed on the perceptions of librarians who work in these libraries in order to determine how well the libraries meet the information needs on users and how successful the libraries are in conserving financial resources as a result of combined collections. A design of a special resource collections …

Roles Of A 67-Kda Polypeptide In Reversal Of Protein Synthesis Inhibition In Heme-Deficient Reticulocyte Lysate, Bansidhar Datta, Debopam Chakrabarti, Ananda L. Roy, Naba K. Gupta

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

During heme deficiency in reticulocyte lysates, the heme-regulated protein synthesis inhibitor, HRI, phosphorylates the a subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) and thus inhibits protein synthesis. Two factors, eIF-2 and a reticulocyte-lysate supernatant factor that we term RF, reverse this inhibition. We now report the following. (i) An active eIF-2 preparation contained, in addition to the three subunits (α,β, and γ), a 67-kDa polypeptide. Pretreatment of eIF-2 with polyclonal antibodies against either isolated a subunit or 67-kDa polypeptide almost completely inhibited the reversal activity. Upon further fractionation, three-subunit eIF-2 and the 67-kDa polypeptide were resolved. Neither the …

University Of Texas At Tyler Catalog, 1988-1990, University Of Texas At Tyler

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Production Effects Of Biotechnology In The Dairy Industry: An Exploratory Study, Kenneth L. Schurter

Theses

Genetically engineered products are being produced at an economical level. products is bovine sornatotropin. One of these Injections of bovine sornatotropin increase milk yield in dairy cattle. This increase in production per cow is consistent with the thirty year trend of fewer dairy farms, fewer cows, and more milk per cow.

Starting in the 1950's in the mechanical era, farmers went from horses to tractors. In the chemical era, herbicides and fertilizers started being used. Now in the 1980's the technical era is coming in to existence . Through all of these era's there was controversy. Each of these era's …

Hydrogeology Of The Hillsboro Landfill, Hillsboro, North Dakota, Jeffrey D. Maletzke

Theses and Dissertations

Landfills are the primary means for land disposal of solid wastes, and as such, they represent potential sources of groundwater contamination. This potential for contamination is exemplified by the Hillsboro landfill, which was emplaced above the Hillsboro aquifer, within permeable surface materials, and under shallow water-table conditions. Burial of refuse in trenches 15-feet (4.57 m) deep ensure that at least portions of the refuse are below the water table, which varied from 5.4 to 13.2 feet (1.7 to 4.0 m) below the surface. Concern over these factors led to the present study.

Subsurface conditions were investigated by electrical, earth-resistivity surveying. …

Arkansas' Timber Resource: Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow, Richard A. Kluender, R. L. Willett

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Demand for forest products continues to rise. Arkansas provides about 4% of the U.S. total forest production and about 12% of the south central region production. Questions exist about the ability of current forest resources to completely meet anticipated future demand. In 1985, the U.S. Forest Service and the Arkansas Timber Study Committee began to analyze the existing forest base to determine whether future demand could be met from the current forest, or if not, what management changes were needed to help meet future demand. In 1985, Arkansas forests covered approximately 48% of the total land area of the state. …

The Stroke Data Bank: Design, Methods, And Baseline Characteristics, Mary A. Foulkes, Philip A. Wolf, Thomas R. Price, J. P. Mohr, Daniel B. Hier

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Initiated the Stroke Data Bank, which is a Multicenter Project to Prospectively Collect Data on the Clinical Course and Sequelae of Stroke. Additional Objectives Were to Provide Information that Would Enable a Standard Diagnostic Clinical Evaluation, to Identify Prognostic Factors, and to Provide Planning Data for Future Studies. a Brief Description of the Structure and Methods Precede the Baseline Characterization of 1,805 Patients Enrolled in the Stroke Data Bank between July 1983 and June 1986. Two Thirds of These Patients Were Admitted within 24 Hours after Stroke Onset. Medical History, …

Carbon Dioxide Emissions And Fossil Fuel Consumption A Canadian Perspective, John Peter Doucet

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The potential climate change due to increased loading of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has emerged as one of the most significant environmental threats of the late twentieth century. An analysis of a variety of feasible energy demand scenarios for Canada indicates that if we continue to consume the same types and proportions of fuels as we do today, the expected demand for energy in the year 2005 would yield carbon dioxide emissions up to 52.5 per cent greater than that of 1985. On the other hand, if Canada were to alter the types and quantities of fuels required to …

River Discharge Study, Laughlin, Nevada: Colorado River Model And Diffusion Study, B. Dennis Hugh, David L. Stringfield, Jill C. Bicknell, Robert A. Ryder, Clark County Sanitation District, Nevada

Publications (WR)

A water quality modeling study of the Mohave Reach of the Lower Colorado River (from Davis Dam to the Nevada/California Stateline) was conducted to evaluate potential water quality impacts resulting from a proposed Laughlin, Nevada wastewater effluent discharge. The study included four major components: (1) review of the current regulatory framework; (2) a field data collection program to document existing water quality conditions in winter, summer, and fall; (3) development and verification of far-field and near-field (mixing zone) water quality models; and (4) application of the models to project future river quality conditions for several treatment-discharge alternatives as well as …

Limnological Monitoring Data For Lake Mead During 1987: Technical Report No. 20, Larry J. Paulson

Publications (WR)

Limnological monitoring was conducted in Las Vegas Bay and Boulder Basin from April to December of 1987. The purpose of the monitoring was to (i) document possible changes in water quality resulting from decreased phosphorus loading in Las Vegas Wash, and (ii) establish a data base for evaluating the adequacy of water quality standards.

Changes In The Morphometry Of Las Vegas Wash And The Impact On Water Quality, Richard A. Roline, James J. Sartoris, U.S. Bureau Of Reclamation

Publications (WR)

Las Vegas Wash, a natural wash east of Las Vegas, Nevada, carries stormwater, groundwater drainage, and sewage effluent from two sewage treatment plants to Lake Mead. Over 80 percent of the normal discharge of approximately 3.4 m³/s (120 ft³/s) consists of effluent from the City of Las Vegas and Clark County sewage treatment plants. Beginning in the 1950s, a large wetland area developed along the wash that supported waterfowl populations and contributed to some water quality transformations. Heavy rains and subsequent flooding in the area in 1983 and 1984 resulted in erosion and channelization that greatly …

Ion-Association Complexes Of Thallium And Mercury With Rhodamine 6g In Aqueous Solution, Nasrein El-Masri

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The present study involves the determination of traces of thallium and mercury in aqueous solution by forming ion-association complexes of these metals with rhodamine 6G (R6G) in the presence of iodide. Thallium(lll) and mercury(Il) are able to quench the fluorescence of R6G in the presence of iodide by forming ion—association complexes, and the degree of quenching correlates with the thallium(III) or mercury(II) concentrations . By using this method, the minimum amount of thallium- (III) that can be determined in aqueous solutions is approximately 4.00 X 10-6m, while the minimum amount of mercury(II) is approximately 3.00 X 10-6m. Thallium(I) cannot be …

Great Salt Lake Interisland Diking: Water Quality Considerations, Executive Summary, Utah Water Research Laboratory, J. P. Riley, J. I. Blandamer, W. J. Doucette, R. R. Dupont, A. W. Grover, J. Herrick, J. M. Ihnat, J. E. Mclean, M. W. Nath, S. R. Rushforth, J. L. Sims, R. C. Sims, W. A. Wurtsbaugh

Reports

No abstract provided.

Great Salt Lake Interisland Diking: Water Quality Considerations, John I. Blandamer, William J. Doucette, Ryan R. Dupont, Anthony W. Grover, James Herrick, Jean M. Ihnat, Joan E. Mclean, Michael W. Nath, Samuel R. Rushforth, Judith L. Sims, Ronald C. Sims, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Reports

No abstract provided.

Preparation, Crystal Structure, And Physical Properties Of A Pyrogallol-Bridged Vanadium(Iii) Complex, Seunghee Lee, Koji Nakanishi, Michael Y. Chiang, Richard B. Frankel, K. Spartalian

Physics

The structure, n.m.r. spectrum, and magnetic properties of the vanadium(III) dimer [(acac)₄V₂{µ-OC₆H₃(OH)₂}₂] formed from [VO(acac)₂] and an excess of pyrogallol are described.

The Probe, Issue 78 - December 1987

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE
National Animal Damage Control Association
DECEMBER, 1987
3rd Wildlife Damage Control Conference
EPA
Audubon Magazine
Black Bears
APHIS Activity Report
Gray Squirrels
Letters to Ye Ed
Steel-jaw Traps
The American Veterinary Medical Assoc. Executive Beard revised its position statement on traps
Guard Dogs
Coyote Control by Air
Personnel

Influence Of Dna On The Rate Of Porphyrin Metallation, Robert F. Pasternack, E. J. Gibbs, R. Santucci, Stephanie A. Schaertel , '86, Panayiotis A. Ellinas , '87, Stanley C. Mah , '87

Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Works

Poly(dG–dC)₂ and poly(dA–dT)₂ have marked influences on the rate of insertion of copper(II) into cationic porphyrins reflecting the interaction mode of the porphyrin with the nucleic acid.

A Proposed C Language Binding For The Graphical Kernel System 3-D, M. G. Bolten, C. Y. Ho

Computer Science Technical Reports

This thesis introduces a proposed C language binding definition for the International standards Organization's draft international standard of the Graphical Kernel System-JD. This work augments the earlier C language binding of the two-dimensional version of the Graphical Kernel System commonly known as GKS. The proposed function interface will provide a basis for, if not a final, C language binding for the three-dimensional version of the Graphical Kernel System.

Time Delayed Protein Complementation, Diana L. Lakusta

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The time delayed complementation of plant proteins was tested in weanling Sprague-Dawley male rats by measuring growth rates as well as plasma and tissue free amino acids. Diets of pinto beans with rice, corn or wheat were pair-fed in combination or alternating 4 times a day at 6 and 11 am, and 4 and 9 pm for 4 weeks. Plasma, liver and muscle samples were obtained 2 hours postprandial, a time determined most suitable for sacrifice, and analyzed for free amino acids via ion-exchange chromatography. There were no significant differences in growth of rats fed combination or alternating diets.during week …

River Discharge Study, Laughlin, Nevada: Field Survey Data, 1987, B. Dennis Hugh, David L. Stringfield, Jill C. Bicknell, Robert A. Ryder, Clark County Sanitation District, Nevada

Publications (WR)

A report of the first field data collection effort for the Laughlin River Discharge Study, conducted by Kennedy/Jenks/ChiIton in February, 1987, on the Mohave Reach of the Colorado River. This report also serves to transmit the laboratory analysis reports for all of the analyses performed and summary tables of the results. This report is organized as follows: 1. Field Conditions and Methodology 2. Summary of Sampling and Analysis Results 3. Deviations from the Proposed Sampling Program 4. Recommendations for Future Sampling 5. Attachments: A. Climatological Data B. Davis Dam Average Hourly Releases C. Laboratory Analysis Reports

Efficient Parallel Algorithms For String Editing And Related Problems, Alberto Apostolico, Mikhail J. Atallah, Lawrence L. Larmore, Scott Mcfaddin

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.