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Wittgenstein's "Language-Game"-A Tool For Cognitive Developmentalists, Elizabeth T. Carpenter

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

During the last seventeen years of his life, Ludwig Wittgenstein, in several works, set out his remarkable concept of the "language-game" -a notion of understanding language that focused attention upon the ways in which we use language in actual situations as one might focus on the ways players move pieces in a game. I propose that this concept (with slight modifications) be included among the cognitive developmentalist's tools for analysis. It is useful in describing the growth of some important communicative abilities an individual develops from infancy to fluency in the uses of expressions of the language of his culture. …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences- Whole Issue

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Affiliated Societies

Nebraska Academy Of Sciences, Inc.

Policy Committee 1976 - 1977

Table Of Contents

Editorial Board

Editor's Corner

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Frontiers Of Nebraska Geology, Thompson Mylan Stout

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

At this bicentennial time, it is appropriate to reflect not only upon geological progress, but also to consider the future.

Historically, many themes could be developed, such as has been done recently by Challinor (1971). British geology also was just beginning in 1796 when James Mackay, a Scot in the employ of the Spanish, made perhaps the earliest geological observation in what is now Nebraska. Soon after, by 1812, the Yellowstone Expedition line of forts was planned for the western frontier of the United States, along the Missouri River border; only two forts were established. One of these was Fort …

Preliminary Post-Cranial Metric Analysis Of Mammoths From The Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota, Barbara Lee Dutrow

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Salvage investigations of a Karst depression containing more than nine Late Pleistocene mammoth were conducted during approximately twenty field days in the summers of 1974 and 1975. The deposit contains a local death assemblage of a mammoth population. A post-cranial metric analysis has been conducted on the fossil elephant remains.

Sandhill Crane Dancing During The Spring Migration, James R. Gray, Thomas F. Sweeney

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The role, intensity, and frequency of Lesser Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) dances were interpreted from observations of 1,167 dance sequences from March 6, 1975, to April 15,1975. The observations were from 27 sites in Kearney and Hall Counties, Nebraska.

Nineteen variables, selected as possible determinants of dance frequency (dances/minute), were recorded on field observation forms along with a description of each dance and the approximate duration.

The 19 variables were regressed against the dance frequency of the total dances as well as 6 subgroups-courtship display, emotion or tension-release, aggression-related activity, pre-flight and pre-walk communication, and response to possible …

Review Report For Water Resources Development Missouri River South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, Volume 2 Of 3

United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

The purpose of this study is to investigate a wide range of water resources problems and opportunities all having in common some link with the Missouri River. A number of outstanding, interrelated Congressional actions affecting the river reach upstream from Sioux City have been consolidated under this investigation. Authority to combine five outstanding surveys is contained in Office, Chief of Engineers' (DCE's) first indorsement to Missouri River Division letter of 3 July 1972, subject: "Consolidation of Survey Investigations of the Metropolitan Region of Kansas City, the Platte River in Nebraska, and the Missouri River from Sioux City to Fort Peck …

Enucleation And Reconstruction Of Interferon-Producing Cells, D. C. Burke, G. Veomett

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Enucleation of L cells leads to loss of the capacity to produce interferon, showing that the cell nucleus is essential for interferon formation. However, when the cells were enucleated while interferon formation was proceeding, the cytoplasts were capable of continuing to synthesize interferon by a process shown to be protein synthesis, showing that the interferon messenger RNA leaves the nucleus after synthesis. Reconstructed cells were obtained by Sendai virus fusion of karyoplasts and cytoplasts. Such reconstructed cells were capable of producing at least as much interferon (43 interferon units/10⁴ nucleated cells) as control cells (31 interferon units/10⁴ nucleated …

Hormdne-Inducible Casein Messenger Rna In A Serum-Free Organ Culture Of Whole Mammary Gland, P. M. Terry, M. R. Banerjee, R. M. Lui

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

The whole second thoracic mammary gland of estradiol-17β + progesterone primed 3- to 4-week-old BALB/c female mice was induced to pregnancy-like lobulo-alveolar morphogenesis after 6-day cultivation in a serum-free culture medium containing a "growth promoting" hormone mixture, insulin + prolactin + growth hormone (somatotropin) + estradiol + progesterone. No radioimmunologically detectable casein was present in these glands. Subsequent cultivation for another 6 days in a "lactogenic" medium with the hormones insulin + prolactin + cortisol produced abundant milk-like secretory material in the alveolar lumen. RNA of the mammary gland after estradiol + progesterone priming or cultivation in the "growth-promoting" medium …

Absolute Doubly Differential Cross Sections For Ejection Of Secondary Electrons From Gases By Electron Impact. I. 100- And 200-Ev Electrons On Helium, M. Eugene Rudd, R. D. Dubois

M. Eugene Rudd Publications

We have measured absolute values of the cross sections for ejection of electrons from helium gas by 100- and 200-eV electrons. These cross sections were measured for emission angles from 10° to 150° and for electron energies from 3 eV to a value equal to the primary energy minus the ionization potential. The measurements were made using a static-gas target and an electrostatic analyzer. The resulting cross sections agree reasonably well with those of Opal, Peterson, and Beaty near 90°, but show the need for an adjustment of their angular distributions. Comparison with Born-approximation calculations of Manson et al. at …

Kinetics Of The Alkaline Tetramer Dimer Dissociation In Liganded Human Hemoglobin: A Laser Light-Scattering Stopped-Flow Study, D. P. Flamig, L. J. Parkhurst

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

The first-order dissociation of tetrameric HbCO to the dimer has been studied over the pH range 10.30-11.57 in a light-scattering stopped-flow apparatus using argon-ion laser excitation. The first-order dissociation rate constant varies from 0.25 sec^-1 to 24.0 sec^-1 over this pH interval. A semilogarithmic plot of k versus pH has a slope of 2.56 at pH 11.07, the midpoint. The pH dependence of the dissociation of the tetramer is consistent with progressive titration of α₁-α₂ and β₁-β₂ salt bridges. At pH 10.66, the dissociation rates of HbO₂, HbCO, methemoglobin, and …

Proceedings Of Perdix I: Hungarian Partridge Workshop, The Wildlife Society, Central Mountains And Plains Section, The Wildlife Society, North Dakota Chapter, North Dakota Game And Fish Department

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Conference Proceedings

Perdix I has succeeded in its major objective of bringing Hungarian partridge research and management people together in one place for introduction to one another and for a mutually beneficial exchange of information. A major communications bridge has been gapped by the informalization that occurs with the development of face-to-face relationships, a realization of how similar everyone's technical problems are, and an expression of concern regarding the need to develop work plans and guidelines to help direct future research and management by avoiding unnecessary duplication that often occurs with poor communications. As regards communications, it is refreshing to know that …

The Sheppard Mandate Today: A Trial Judge's Perspective, Eric E. Younger

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Dealing with Publicity Cases … A. A Rarity of Cases … B. Lack of Judicial Power … C. The Confusing Sheppard Mandate

III. Use of Gag Orders … A. Impact of Sheppard … B. ABA Due Process Proposal … C. The Nebraska Press Case

IV. Conclusion and Suggestions

Rule 10b-5: Scienter Displaces The Flexible Duty Standard: Ernst & Ernst V. Hochfelder, 425 U.S. 185 (1976), Larry V. Albers

Nebraska Law Review

Judicial creation of a private cause of action under rule l0b-5, which was promulgated pursuant to section 10(b)3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, gave rise to a number of perplexing issues. One of the most formidable was whether proof of scienter was a necessary element for recovery. Lacking congressional direction, courts were free to fashion the state of mind standard flexibly, by pursuing what is recognized as the broad policy of section 10(b)—the prevention of fraud on the public by persons connected with the purchase or sale of securities. Predictably, the standards adopted within the United States courts …

The Disqualification Dilemma: Dr 5-105(D) Of The Code Of Professional Responsibility, Marlene Miller Haskell

Nebraska Law Review

A controversy is brewing between the American Bar Association Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the Legal Ethics Committee of the District of Columbia Bar Association over the proper interpretation to be given to the new version of DR 5-105(D) of the Code of Professional Responsibility. The broad language of the amendment has potential application to lawyers all over the country. This article provides a brief background on the disqualification issues involved in DR 5-105(D), examines the two different opinions, and then offers some comments on the debate over the proper interpretation of the new rule.

The Securities Act Of Nebraska: An Overview, Larry V. Albers

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. “Securities” and “Offer for Sale” under the Act … A. Security … B. Offer or Sale

III. Fraud

IV. Registration of Broker-Dealers, Investment Advisers, and Agents under the Act

V. Securities and Transactions Exempt from Registration … A. Exempt Securities … B. Exempt Transactions

VI. Registration … A. Notification … B. Qualification … C. Coordination

VII. Sanctions and Relief under the Act

VIII. Conclusion

The Prairie Naturalist Vol. 8, Nos. 3 And 4 September-December 1976

The Prairie Naturalist

SPRING MORTALITY OF INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS IN SOUTHERN MANITOBA ▪ J. R. Serie and R. E. Jones

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA—1976 ▪ R. N. Randall

MOSSES OF THE GREAT PLAINS: INTRODUCTION AND CATALOGUE ▪ S. P. Churchill

NOTES

Fulvous Tree Duck in North Dakota ▪ L. A. Jones

Unusual Mortality of a Saw-whet Owl ▪ H. A. Kantrud

Cardinal and Mockingbird in Jamestown, North Dakota ▪ D. H. and J. E. Johnson

BOOK REVIEWS

Essence of Wilderness ▪ K. T. Killingbeck

The Changing America ▪ L. M. Kirsch

A Government Bird Book ▪ J. F. Cassel

Wildflowers ofthe Rockies …

Experimental Use Of Av-Alarm For Repelling Quelea From Rice In Somalia, Larry C. Holcomb

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

The Av-Alarm is a device for producing loud intermittent sounds which are sometimes effective in repelling pest birds or mammals. (Av-Alarm is manufactured by Av-Alarm Corp, P.O. Box 2488, Santa Maria, California 93454.) The sound is intended to irritate or cause anxiety in animals, perhaps by interfering with normal sound communication sufficiently to repel them from the area. Boudreau(1972) and Stewart (1974) report factors relating to alarm stimuli in bird control. Stewart (1974), HcCracken (1972) and Palmer (1976) reported the use of Av-Alarm in repelling pests under several different situations. However, Jeffrey Jackson (pers. comm.) has reported the use of …

Bird Problems And Food Storage And Processing Facilities, Robert M. Russell, Robert Yeager, Fred Baur, James R. Dupre

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

For the bird control problems in the food industry I think we have a good pair to work with us. We have Bob Yeager, a pest control authority. Fred Baur is from Procter and Gamble, a great company with a long record of association with the pest control industry. Third, we have with us Jim Dupre, whose experience is with the Food and Drug Administration. And with all the government controls we've learned to expect from the government in the last few years, I think it's good for us to know that we have had a long and good record …

Methiocarb As A Bird Repellent For Mature Sweet Corn, Allan R. Stickley Jr., Charles R. Ingram

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Sweet corn in Ohio is an important high-value truck crop (74,000 acres in 1974--Ohio Crop Rep. Serv., 1975) that is especially vulnerable to blackbird damage. For this reason, a chemical treatment that would repel birds from sweet corn would be advantageous. A candidate chemical for this use is methiocarb [3,5-dimethyl-4-(Methylthio)-phenyl methylcarbamate = Mesurol (product of Chemagro, Division of Mobay Chemical Corporation)]. In addition to insecticidal, acaricidal, and molluscieidal properties (Hermann and Kolbe, 1971:286), Schafer and Brunton (1971) established in cage tests that methiocarb was a promising bird repellent because low concentrations (<0.16%) would repel birds from treated rice seed. The chemical apparently reinforces a bad taste by producing a conditioned aver- sion to its intoxicating effects (Rogers, 1974). When applied to corn seed prior to planting, methiocarb treatments reduced blackbird damage to sprouts (Hermann and Kolbe, 1971; Stickley and Guarino, 1972; Ingram, et al., 1974; Linehan, et al., 1975; Stickley and Ingram, 1975). However, Mitchell, et al. (1975) did not show significant protection, and Linehan, et al, (1975) showed some phytotoxicity in cold, wet growing conditions. Methiocarb treatments also have shown indications of efficacy when applied to mature grain crops [rice at 10.0 and 3.2 lb (active material) per acre (DeHaven, et al., 1971), sorghum at 2.0 lb (active material) per acre (Mott, et al., 1974), and sorghum at 1.6 lb (active material) per acre (Mott and Lewis, 1975)]. Because of these results, we conducted a screening experiment in 1975 to determine the feasibility of methiocarb treatments for repelling blackbirds from ripening sweet corn.

Preliminary Laboratory And Field Trials Of Curb, A Possible Avian Repellent, Ken Ewing, A. Charles Crabb, Lee R. Martin, Roger Moitoso

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Grape growers in California lose between three and four million dollars annually from damage caused principally by two bird species: Linnets (carpodacus mexicanus) and Starlings (sturnus vulgaris) (DeHaven, 1974; Crase, et al., 1975),. Few effective tools exist for the growers to use in reducing crop losses from bird damage; and current bio-political trends may preclude the use of toxicants to control local depredating bird populations, especially Linnets. The use of chemical repellents is a possible alternative. Testing of the chemical repellent methiocarb [3,5-dimethyl-4-(methylthio) phenol methylcarbamate] to protect California wine grapes has been conducted by Denver Wildlife Research Center personnel (Guarino, …

The Need For Practical And Objective Test Protocols For Bird Damage Control Chemicals, E. W. Schafer Jr.

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

The registration and reregistration process for vertebrate pesticides is difficult at best and is becoming more complicated and time consuming each year, particularly for bird-damage control chemicals. Although much of the information that is required for U.S. registrations (such as toxicology, general chemistry, and analytical methodology) is beyond our purview at this seminar, there are some areas where research and management personnel can have a favorable impact on present and future requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). I am speaking in particular of the methodology used to determine the laboratory and field efficacy of bird damage control chemicals. Because …

Agricultural Experiment Station News November 1976

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE ACTING DIRECTOR'S DESK
GREETINGS FROM THE FROLIKS
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – October 1976
BULLETINS PRINTED

Water Current, Volume 8, No. 6, November/December 1976

Water Current Newsletter

From the Desk of the Director
Deadline for Submitting Annual Allotment Proposals
Matching Grants Submitted to OWRT
FAO Fellow from India
Staff Appointee from Poland
Rural Water Conference
Water Research in Nebraska
Ogallala Study Approved
Interior Signs Water Marketing Agreement with Montana
Discount Rate Set at 6 3/8%
Research Review: A Mechanism for Saving Energy and Water

Communication Skills Needed By Persons In Business Organizations, Vincent Disalvo, David C. Larsen, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Whether we like it or not, this is the age of subject matter relevancy and educational accountability. In order for instruction to be interesting, meaningful, and practical for students, it must be essentially a microcosm of that segment of the “real world” students will be entering upon graduation. The objective of competency- or performance-based models of education suggests that educators should be held accountable for what they teach. However, before teachers can be held accountable they need to know what skills and abilities their students will require in order to be successful in their career objectives.

In addition to the …

The Strategy That Gave Independence To The U.S., Thomas Nelson Winter

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

We celebrate this year our nation's "birthday," but 1976 is also the bicentennial of what General Washington, a master of understatement, as well as, as we shall see, a master of strategy, called an "unhappy predicament." The commander-in-chief's solution to the predicament was the strategy that won the war, and put the United States on the way towards being a real country. This solution was the thoroughgoing adoption of Fabian strategy. Looking into what this was, and how Washington made it work, permits a better appreciation of Washington's real stature in military history.

The Arbovirus Surveillance And Control Program In Ohio, 1975 – 76, M. A. Parsons

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

In 1975 Ohio experienced the largest epidemic of mosquito-borne encephalitis in its history. Four hundred and sixty-eight human cases (416 St. Louis [SLE] and 52 California [CE] occurred with 30 fatalities; one death was due to CE. The entire United States was hard hit (Illinois, 475; Indiana, 297; Mississippi, 210; Michigan, 20; Tennessee, 91; 30 others, 550 ) with 1816 SLE, 160 CE, 133, Western, and 3 Eastern encephalitis cases causing 150 fatalities. The cycle of mosquito-borne encephalitis in nature progresses as follows: A mosquito infected with virus feeds on a non-infected animal, such as a bird in the case …

Pod Faculty Development Conference, October 17-19, 1976 -- Airlie House, Karen Hardiman, Glenn R. Erickson, Bette Lasere Erickson

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

The idea for this booklet came from the Lilly Endowment Incorporated's Faculty Development Conference in Indianapolis earlier this year. Before that conference, we each received a booklet which included the program schedule, a list of participants and single paragraph bios, and a one-page description of each program represented at the conference. I was fascinated by the diversity of "faculty development" programs, and by the varied backgrounds and interests of their staffs. We decided, therefore, to put together a similar booklet for participants in this POD Conference as a part of our "Information Fair." This booklet includes all of the program …

Agricultural Experiment Station News October 1976

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS - September 1976
BULLETINS PRINTED

Characterization Of Biological Types Of Cattle Iii. Carcass Composition, Quality And Palatability, R. M. Koch, M. E. Dikeman, D. M. Allen, M. May, J. D. Crouse, D. R. Campion

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Composition and quality characteristics of 1,121 steer carcasses obtained after mating Hereford and Angus cows to Hereford, Angus, Jersey, South Devon, Limousin, Charolais and Simmental sires were compared at a (1) constant age, (2) constant weight, and (3) constant percentage of fat in the longissimus muscle. Taste panel evaluation was made on a subsample of 496 carcasses. Growth rate of retail product, fat trim and bone differed significantly among sire breed groups. Breed group differences in relative proportions of retail product, fat trim and bone were largest when compared at a constant carcass weight and smallest when compared at equal …

Electron Transmission Studies Of The Negative Ion States Of Substituted Benzenes In The Gas Phase, Kenneth D. Jordan, J.A. Michejda, Paul Burrow

Paul Burrow Publications

Temporary negative ions of benzene, aniline, phenol, anisole, fluoro-, chloro-, and bromobenzene, formed in the gas phase by capture of electrons into the low-lying π* orbitals, are studied by means of electron transmission spectroscopy. The electron affinities are determined and their relative values are interpreted in terms of resonance and inductive effects.