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Part Iv: Practice-Improving Teaching And Learning

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

We come now to the practice of teaching improvement, the bread-and-butter of most faculty development programs. The articles in this section describe programs that range in purpose from training foreign teaching assistants to offering Supplemental Instruction without benefit of a "Supplemental Budget."

It's Working: A Training Program For Foreign Teaching Assistants, Rosslyn M. Smith, C. Len Ainsworth

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

National Awareness

Program Description

Goals

Admission

Pre-Screening

Testing

Curriculum

Materials Used

Administration and Staff

Results and Follow-Up

In Summary

References

Notes

Regulating Union Representation Election Campaign Tactics: A Comparative Study Of Private And Public Sector Approaches, Douglas E. Ray, Jennifer Gallagher, Nancy A. Butler

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Union Organizers and the Employer's Property

III. Regulating Employer Campaign Speech and Tactics ... A. Employer Threats ... B. Employer Promises and Grants of Benefits ... C. "Captive Audience" Meetings

IV. Regulating Union Campaign Tactics

V. Regulating Misrepresentation

VI. Conclusion

Reforming The Tort Of Defamation: An Accommodation Of The Competing Interests Within The Current Constitutional Framework, Paul A. Lebel

Nebraska Law Review

I. The Constitutional Framework: An Updated Primer on New York Times v. Sullivan and Its Progeny ... A. The Sullivan Rules ... B. The Gertz Rules ... C. The Miscellaneous Procedural Rules

II. Two Substantive Reform Proposals ... A. An Immunity for Speech about Government ... B. An Expansion of the Emotional Harm Component of the Defamation Claim

III. Two Remedial Reform Proposals ... A. A Series of Options That Can Be Exercised to Reduce Exposure to Monetary Damages ... B. A Restriction on the Availability of Punitive Damages

IV. Conclusion

Testing Sociobiological Hypotheses Ethnographically, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Satisfactory tests of sociobiological theory using data on humans suffer from many problems, many of which are cogently argued by Kitcher. Other obstacles derive from the fact that cultural anthropology itself is undergoing a paradigm shift, in which people are no longer considered to be influenced by the normative environment with a high degree of predictability. Information about human behavior guided by this new set of assumptions is far more likely to yield the type of data necessary to test sociobiological ideas. Once the construct of culture is abandoned (or at least not assumed to have much power for predicting …

Contemporary Groups For Genetic Evaluations, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Contemporary groups are used to remove biases from genetic evaluations due to differential effects such as management associated with the grouping. Numerous groups, however, can result in small numbers of records per subclass with associated loss of effective number of daughters for sire evaluation and increased prediction error variance. Thus, in practice, mean square error, bias squared plus prediction error variance, may be more meaningful than bias alone or prediction error variance. Considering contemporary groups as fixed removes bias due to association between effects corresponding to contemporary groups and sires. If contemporary groups are considered random, then effective number of …

Acuta Enews January 1987, Vol. 16, No. 1

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Potpourri

Party Line

You, Too, Can Avoid Those Frightening Pitfalls during implementation of a New Phone System

Mule Helps Maintain Phone Line In Canyon

Leihigh constructs voice/data net

Development Deal Brings AT&E's Wristwatch Pager Closer

Letter to the Editor

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 8 (1987), Laurel Horton, Sally Jeter Garoutte, Cuesta Benberry, Bryding Adams Henley, Annette Gero, Jan Murphy, Colleen Hall-Patton, Merikay Waldvogel, Jane Przybysz, Virginia Gunn, Ruth Roberson, Barbara Brackman, Joanna Smith

Uncoverings Journal

Foreword: Dedication to Sally Jeter Garoutte (1925-1989) by Cuesta Benberry

Preface by Laurel Horton

Research Papers

Alabama Gunboat Quilts by Bryding Adams Henley

Australian Patriotic Quilts by Annette Gero

Design Influences on an Unnamed Regional Pattern by Jan Murphy

Quilt Patterns in the Frank C. Brown Collection by Laurel Horton

Innovation Among Southern California Quiltmakers by Colleen Hall-Patton

Southern Linsey Quilts of the Nineteenth Century by Merikay Waldvogel

Competing Cultural Values at the Great American Quilt Festival by Jane Przybysz

Yo-Yo or Bed-of-Roses Quilts: Nineteenth Century Origins by Virginia Gunn

Special Presentations

The North Carolina Quilt Project: Organization and Orchestration …

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln College Of Agriculture: The First Century -- Cover & Flaps, Elvin F. Frolik, Ralston J. Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham

Includes:

A Message from the Vice Chancellor by Roy C. Arnold, Vice Chancellor IANR, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

About the authors

Cover design by Jack Brodie.

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln College Of Agriculture: The First Century -- Part 1. Frontmatter, Elvin F. Frolik, Ralston J. Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham

Preface

Acknowledgments

Exordium

Table of Contents

Part I. University Administrators: Board of Regents, Chancellors, & Presidents

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln College Of Agriculture: The First Century Part Iv. Shelter, Bodily Sustenance, And Coffee Breaks, Elvin F. Frolik, Ralston J. Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham

Chapter 1. University Facilities on or Near the Campus .......... 125

Chapter 2. Social Fraternities, Boarding Clubs, Cafes and Facilities in Private Homes .......... 131

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln College Of Agriculture: The First Century Part Iii. Development Of The College/Ianr, Elvin F. Frolik, Ralston J. Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham

Chapter 1. Organization and Reorganization . . . . . . . 95

At the College of Agriculture/IANR Level . . . . . . . 95

At the Departmental Level - Agricultural Biochemistry . . . . . . . 102

At a Program Level - Natural Resources . . . . . . . 105

Chapter 2. A Century of Campus Growth . . . . . . . 106

Table 1. East Campus Buildings . . . . . . . 117

Table 2. Land Acquisition-East Campus and Environs . . . . . . . 123

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln College Of Agriculture: The First Century Part Vi. Research/Extension Centers And Farms, Elvin F. Frolik, Ralston J. Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham

Chapter l. UN Field Laboratory at Mead/UN Agricultural Research and Development Center ........... 287

Chapter 2. Northeast Station/UN Northeast Research and Extension Center ........... 303

Chapter 3. North Platte Station/UN West Central Research and Extension Center .... 309

Chapter 4. Panhandle Station/UN Panhandle Research and Extension Center ........ 317

Section 1. Main Station ........ 317

Section 2. Northwest Agricultural Laboratory, Alliance ........ 325

Section 3. High Plains, Agricultural Laboratory, Sidney ........ 327

Chapter 5. South Central Station, UN South Central Research and Extension Center ........ 329

Chapter 6. UN Southeast Research and Extension Center, Lincoln ........ 332

Chapter 7. Fort …

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln College Of Agriculture: The First Century Part Xi. Closely Related Organizations, Elvin F. Frolik, Ralston J. Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham

Chapter 1. Organized Agriculture and the Agricultural Societies . . . . . . . . 423

Chapter 2. Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement . . . . . . . . 427

Chapter 3. Ceres Club . . . . . . . . 428

Chapter 4. Great Plains Agricultural Council . . . . . . . . 429

Chapter 5. College of Agriculture Advisory Council . . . . . . . . 430

Chapter 6. Agricultural Builders of Nebraska, Inc. . . . . . . . . 432

Chapter 7. The Ag 40 Group . …

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln College Of Agriculture: The First Century Part V. Departments, Quasi-Departments, And Liaison With Administrative Units Outside Of The College/Ianr, Elvin F. Frolik, Ralston J. Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agriculture: The First Century by Elvin F. Frolik and Ralston J. Graham

Chapter 1. Agricultural Biochemistry ............ 136

Chapter 2. Agricultural Communictions ............ 141

Chapter 3. Agricultural Economics ............ 148

Chapter 4. Agricultural Education ............ 157

Chapter 5. Agricultural Engineering ............ 161

Chapter 6. Agronomy ............ 168

Chapter 7. Animal Science ............ 188

Chapter 8. Chemurgy ............ 202

Chapter 9. Dairy Science ............ 205

Chapter 10. Entomology ............ 216

Chapter 11. Food Science and Technology ............ 222

Chapter 12. Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife ............ 227

Chapter 13. 4-H & Youth Development ............ 230

Chapter 14. Home Economics-Department, School, College ............ 236

Chapter 15. Horticulture and Forestry ............ 250

Chapter 16. Plant Pathology …

Lamberton, Robert. Homer The Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Readings And The Growth Of The Epic Tradition. Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1986. (Review), Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This book is excellent both for classicists and Spenserians, for the latter not only because Homer is the (direct or indirect) source for many episodes in The Faerie Queene but because the modes of understanding epic which Lamberton explores are crucial to the comprehension of Spenserian allegory. The work continues the tradition of examination of classical myth and allegory begun by Felix Buffiere, Jerome Carcopino, Franz Cumont, and Jean Pepin. Beginning with the early Neo-Pythagorian allegorists, it proceeds to cover Homeric commentary in 'apostolic' and 'post-apostolic' times: that of Philo, Numenius, Clement and Origen in Jewish-Christian tradition; and that of …

Ec87-880 Improving The Climate For Business Expansion And Retention - Guides For Communities, Duane A. Olsen, Robert F. Blair

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 87-880 is about improving the climate for business expansion and retention.

A Review Of Perlinella Banks (Plecoptera: Perlidae), Boris C. Kondratieff, Ralph F. Kirchner, Kenneth W. Stewart

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

The Nearctic stonefly genus Perlinella Banks is reviewed; three valid species are recognized. Perlinella drymo (Newman) and Perlinella ephyre (Newman) are widespread east of the Rocky Mountains, whereas Perlin ella zwicki, n. sp. (P. jumipennis of Zwick 1971), is restricted to the southeastern Coastal Plain. Perlinella jumipennis (Walsh) is replaced as a synonym of Perlinella ephyre. Keys for adults and nymphs are provided, and the nymph of P. zwicki is described for the first time. Male drumming calls of Perlin della drymo and Perlinella ephyre are described.

A Hydrogeologic Study Of The Local Groundwater Flow System At Osmond, Ne, Jonathan Alix

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Short Communications: Localization Of Oviductal Sperm-Storage Tubules In The American Kestrel (Falco Sparverius), Murray R. Bakst, David M. Bird

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Sperm-storage tubules (SST) are discrete tubular invaginations of the bird's oviduct epithelium located in the anterior end of the vaginal folds, a region generally referred to as the uterovaginal junction (UVJ). [We prefer to refer to the UVJ sperm-storage sites collectively as the SST (originally used by Mero and Ogasawara 1970) because SST accurately describes their function and structure.] Of the 27 recognized orders of birds, SST have been identified histologically only in selected species of Charadriiformes and Procellariformes (Hatch 1983), Galliformes (Fujii and Tamura 1963), Anseriformes (Pal 1977), and Passeriformes (Bray et al. 1975). Whether SST are structures common …

[Balancing Judicial Propriety And Access To Knowledge Of New Law Developments], Ellen A. Peters

Nebraska Law Review

Remarks on the extent to which a judge may consult with experts, especially with legal scholars, without violating the canons of judicial ethics.

Home On The Range: The Vitality Of The Open Fields Doctrine Under The Nebraska Constitution: State V. Havlat, 222 Neb. 554, 385 N.W.2d 436 (1986), John M. Ryan

Nebraska Law Review

This note focuses on one battle in Nebraska’s “war on drugs,” a battle wherein state constitutional guarantees against unreasonable searches and seizures were effectively emasculated by a majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court. Through its holding in State v. Havlat, the court refused to legitimize privacy expectations in Nebraska's "open fields" and has left law enforcement and litigants uncertain as to when, if ever, state constitutional guarantees will rise above the federal floor. The court's decision in Havlat fails on both substantive and methodological grounds. To analyze the Havlat decision, it is necessary to examine the substantive rationale in …

Comprehensive Review: Self-Study - Recommendations 1987, Southeast Research & Extension Center

Southeast Research and Extension Center: Reports and Administration

Foreword
    Introduction ....................................................... 1
    What Makes a Comprehensive Review Most Effective ................... 4
    Members of the Review Team ......................................... 5
    Review Schedule .................................................... 6

Southeast Nebraska Information ......................................... 10

Southeast Research and Extension Center
    History of the Organization ....................................... 11
    Organizational Structure of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln .... 12
    Organizational Structure of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources .. 13
    Internal Relationships of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources ..... 14
    Staff of Southeast Research and Extension Center and the Southeast
           Extension District ....... 15

Southeast Research and Extension Center Programs ....................... 17
    Cooperative Extension Service ..................................... 18 …

Chapter 37 Drought Policy: Toward A Plan Of Action, Donald A. Wilhite, William E. Easterling Iii

National Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

From the preceding discussions it is clear that in most cases, governments and international organizations have been unable to respond effectively to drought. This inability to respond was recognized by workshop participants as a serious problem of global dimensions that can only be solved through interdisciplinary studies and cooperation between scientists and policy makers.

'Asking Directions’ And Pedestrian Wayfinding, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This paper reports a study of the social ecology and systemic aspects of "asking for directions" in an urban area. Interviews were conducted with 100 randomly selected pedestrians at spatially stratified locations representing a variety of urban environments in Lincoln, Nebraska. The interviewer, posing as a "lost" pedestrian, asked respondents to give directions to local landmarks and then unobtrusively recorded their responses on a concealed tape recorder. Respondents generally provided accurate, distance-conserving directions with low levels of spatial complexity. Responses were friendly and often tailored to the unique environmental attributes characterizing each location. An outline of the process whereby a …

Natural Enemies Of Rice Leaf Folder Cnaphalocrocis Medinalis (Guenée) —A Critical Review, R. C. Joshi, E. P. Cadapan, Elvis A. Heinrichs

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

A chronological review of the biological control agents of rice leaf folder, Cnaphafalocrocis medinalis Guenée, including the stage of host attacked in different countries, their activity and suggestions for future.

The rice leaf folder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Guenée, which was a pest of minor importance till the last decade, recently has assumed major importance in many rice ecosystem of Asia, the South Pacific Islands, Hawaii and Australia (Hirao, 1982). Increasingly frequent outbreaks of this pest (Table I) in recent years have been attributed to the introduction of modern rice technologies, namely: Continuous and overlapping cropping (Rajamma and Das, 1969); introduction of …

Interdependence: An Alternative Conceptualization, Bart Victor, Richard S. Blackburn

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Conceptualizations of interdependence offered by Thompson (1967) and McCann and Ferry (1979) fail to satisfy basic requirements for empirical or practical investigations of complex organizations. An alternative conceptualization based on interdependence theory (Kelley & Thibaut, 1978; Thibaut & Kelley, 1959) is presented here and used to explain the causes of interunit conflict and the effective- ness of coordination strategy. Hypotheses are presented, and future research is proposed.

A Synthetic Approach To The Study Of Animal Intelligence, Alan Kamil

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Psychologists have been studying animal learning for about a century. This century of experimental and theoretical work has produced some remarkable successes, particularly in understanding basic conditioning processes. However, these successes are limited in two major ways. First, they have been confined to a narrow domain. Recent research from a variety of settings has demonstrated that animals have mental abilities far beyond what they were given credit for just a few years ago. We must dramatically expand the range of phenomena addressed by the study of animal learning. Second, there has been an almost complete failure to place animal learning …

Helminth Remains From Prehistoric Indian Coprolites On The Colorado Plateau, Karl J. Reinhard, Richard H. Hevly, Glenn A. Anderson

Karl Reinhard Publications

Examination of coprolites excavated from archaeological sites in the Americas demonstrates excellent preservation of helminth eggs and, in some cases, larvae. To gain an understanding of helminth parasitism in prehistory on the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, 319 coprolites from 5 archaeological sites were analyzed. Helminth eggs and larvae were recovered after the coprolites were rehydrated, screened, and sedimented. At a sixth site, soils excavated from 5 rooms used as latrine areas were processed with palynological techniques. The results indicate that all but 1 of the prehistoric populations examined were infected with intestinal worms. The helminths implicated …

Psychological Manipulation In The Courtroom, Victor Gold

Nebraska Law Review

I. The Techniques of Covert Advocacy ... A. Techniques to Induce the Use of Extra-Legal Basis for Decisionmaking ... 1. Courtroom Style as an Extra-Legal Basis for Decisionmaking ... 2. Bias as an Extra-Legal Basis for Decisionmaking ... B. Techniques to Induce Illogical Evaluation of Evidence ... 1. Meaning Manipulators ... 2. Weight Manipulators

II. Implications of Covert Advocacy for the Jury System and the Adversary Process ... A. Roles of the Jury and the Adversary Process ... B. Covert Advocacy and Jury Independence

III. Controlling Covert Advocacy ... A. The Dangers of Controls ... B. Judicial Control of Covert …