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Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (September 1971) 39(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Status of the Common Loon in Nebraska: A Summer Occurrence in Lancaster County................. 42

1971 (Forty-sixth Spring Migration and Occurrence Report................. 45

Some Interesting Summer Bird Records for Lancaster County in 1970 .................58

Activities of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in the Kearney, Nebraska Area .................60

Notes................. 62

In Memoriam .................64

Cross-Fertilization In Melilotus Alba, Herman J. Gorz, Francis A. Haskins

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Two simply inherited characters, o-hydroxycinnamic acid (o-HCA) content and β-glucosidase activity, were used as genetic marker s in studying the frequency of cross-fertilization in Melilotus alba Desr. Based on the o-HCA marker, the effective cross-fertilization averaged 58% for two harvest years in a biennial population and 67% in a 1-year study with an annual population. Use of the β-glucosidase marker provided a cross-pollination estimate of 72% in the biennial population. The extent of natural crossing in sweetclover appears to be sufficient to restore normal vigor in the production of varieties synthesized from selected inbred lines.

Application Of The Method Of Lattice Statics To Vacancies In Aluminum, Larry Boyer, John R. Hardy

John R. Hardy Papers

In this paper the method of lattice statics is applied to the calculation of the atomic displacements about a vacancy in aluminum using a fifth-neighbor force-constant model for the dynamical matrix and the vacancy-host lattice interaction. The strain-field interaction energy between two vacancies is similarly calculated. The main object of this work is to demonstrate the important modifications of earlier results, obtained for a first- and second-neighbor force-constant model, when one uses the fifth-neighbor model designed to give a significantly better fit to the measured phonon dispersion curves. In particular it is demonstrated that the displacements about the vacancy continue …

Estimation Of Heritability Of Threshold Characters, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Many traits of dairy cattle such as disease resistance and type breakdown scores may have an underlying distribution of values which are approximately normal but must be measured on a yes or no basis. Theory from literature suggests that heritability estimated from such binomial data is only z²/p(1-p) as large as heritability if it could be measured on the normal scale where z is the ordinate on the normal distribution at the threshold point corresponding to a fraction p of the population having the character. Data were generated from a pseudo-normal distribution to test this theory for estimates …

Trees And Shrubs For Noise Abatement, David I. Cook, David F. Haverbeke

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The study, Trees and Shrubs for Noise Abatement, was a joint effort by the University of Nebraska and the U.S. Forest Service. The principal objective was to determine effective means for reducing traffic noise levels by the use of trees and shrubs, wherever intrusive noise is a problem.

Water Resources News, Volume 3, No. 6, Summer Issue 1971

Water Current Newsletter

Summer Institutes A Success
Dr. William Garner Named Research Specialist for EPA
Title II Program for FY 1973
American Water Resources Association
Soil Erosion Contributes to Water Pollution
UCLA to Grant Doctor of the Environmental Studies
Multiple Objectives Opposed by OMB
It's in the Bag, or Bottle, or Carton
National Environmental Laboratory Act
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Gets New Ecology Facility
Conference Roundup

Place Discrimination In Rail Shipments Of Wheat From Great Plains Origins, Dale G. Anderson, Brian L. Mariska

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to determine whether shipments of wheat by railroad from Nebraska and other Great Plains States are discriminated against relative to shipments from other wheat producing states and regions. Primary objectives were: 1. To develop a technique for measuring place discrimination. 2. To employ the technique in testing empirical data for evidence of discrimination. 3. To analyze the results and explore implications for geographically- separated wheat shippers. Ratios of railroad revenue/out-of-pocket costs for the years 1958 and 1966 were used to compare the relative cost burden borne by wheat shipments in geographically-separated hauls. Resulting ratios …

Place Discrimination In Rail Shipments Of Wheat From Great Plains Origins, Dale G. Anderson, Brian L. Mariska

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The purpose of this study was to determine whether shipments of wheat by railroad from Nebraska and other Great Plains States are discriminated against relative to shipments from other wheat producing states and regions. Primary objectives were: (1) To develop a technique for measuring place discrimination (2) To employ the technique in testing empirical data for evidence of discrimination (3) To analyze the results and explore implications for geographically-separated wheat shippers.

Calculation Of Point-Defect Energies And Displacements In Alkali Halides Using The Lattice-Statics Method, Arnold Karo, John R. Hardy

John R. Hardy Papers

The method of lattice statics, in the zero-order approximation, is used to evaluate the Schottky-pair formation energies and the displacement fields about positive- and negative-ion vacancies for all alkali halide crystals with rock-salt structures. The deformation-dipole model, used extensively in earlier work on the lattice dynamics of these crystals, is employed to describe the host lattice. Long-range Coulomb interactions are included explicitly, and short-range repulsive interactions are described by a simple Born-Mayer potential. Comparison is made with earlier Mott-Littleton-type calculations and very satisfactory agreement is found. Comparison with available experimental values is somewhat less satisfactory, particularly regarding the lithium salts; …

A Revision Of The Feather Mite Genus Brephosceles (Proctophyllodidae: Alloptinae), Paul C. Peterson

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A systematic revision is presented for the genus Brephosceles. Data on external morphology, zoogeography, and host-parasite relationships are included. Thirteen named and thirty new species are recognized and described. The new species and the type hosts are: Brephosceles afribycis, from Afribyx lateralis (Charadriidae); B. anhimae, from Anhima cornuta (Anhimidae); B. belonopteri, from Belonopterus chilensis cayennensis (Charadriidae); B. bilobatus, from Puffinus puffinus (Procellariidae); B. chilensis, from Belonopterus chilensis lampronotus (Charadriidae); B. collaracus, from Charadrius collaris (Charadriidae); B. constrictus, from Charadrius bicinctus (Charadriidae); B. diomedei, from Diomedea chrysostoma (Diomedeidae); B. discidicus, from Cygnus bewickii (Anatidae); B. disjunctus, from Pterodroma leucoptera hypoleuca (Procellariidae); …

Water Resources News, Volume 3, No. 4, April 1971

Water Current Newsletter

Deadlines for Filing Research Proposals for FY 1973
Federal Conference on Public Involvement
Department of Natural Resources to Eliminate Duplication and Rivalry
Hydrologic Information Storage and Retrieval System
Drinking Water Bills Introduced
Congressional Committee Assignments
Administration Reorganization Affects Corps' Functions

Length And Velocity Formulas In Approximate Oscillator-Strength Calculations, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

The matrix element for electric dipole transitions is correctly given by the length formula in the Hartree-Fock, configuration-interaction, and related approximations, which involve the diagonalization of an approximate, but nonlocal, Hamiltonian.

Guidebook To The Late Pliocene And Early Pleistocene Of Nebraska, T. M. Stout, H. M. Degraw, L. G. Tanner, K. O. Stanley, William J. Wayne, J. B. Swinehart

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

The interesting geographic and even strategic position of Nebraska between regions of mountain and interior glaciation during the Quaternary was emphasized by A. L. Lugn, Professor Emeritus of Geology at the University of Nebraska, more than thirty years ago. The earlier studies are summarized in two principal works by Lugn (1935; 1939a; see Selected References), to whom this guidebook is dedicated, much has been learned since and much remains to be recorded concerning the Tertiary and Pleistocene of Nebraska. In this centennial year, commemorating the beginning of a second century of geological instruction at the University of Nebraska, it seems …

Type Appraisal: Ii. Variation In Type Traits Due To Sires, Herds, And Years, H. D. Norman, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Variance components were estimated from type appraisal data to determine the importance of year, herd, sire, and herd x sire effects upon 49 body, udder, and management traits. Estimates were based on over 16,000 appraisals on daughters of Holstein artificial insemination sires. The variation explained by these effects never exceeded 34% of the total variance. Year effects were almost nonexistent (-2 to 3%). Herd effects were small for all traits except feeding speed, body weight, intensity and persistency of edema, and ketosis, and never exceeded 25%.

Most appraisal traits had low heritabilities. The estimate for milking speed was .23 while …

Type Appraisal: I. Effects Of Age And Stage-Of-Lactation On Type Ratings, H. D. Norman

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Dairy cattle type appraisal data were examined to determine whether body and udder conformation and management ratings were affected by age and period of lactation at appraisal. Data were collected from 1961 to 1968 from 188 herds having over 23,000 Holstein type appraisals. The body and udder traits were scored by scheduled appraisers, and the management traits were coded by each dairyman. Some of the 35 original traits were composed of more than one descriptive characteristic and, as a result, 49 renamed traits were derived from these.

A model was selected that considered years and herds as well as cow …

Type Appraisal: Iii. Relationships Of First Lactation Production And Type Traits With Lifetime Performance, H. D. Norman, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Phenotypic and genetic correlations were estimated between 48 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk production to determine the importance of appraisal traits in a breeding program from 5,024 records from the New York type appraisal program. Most phenotypic correlations among the type traits were near zero. Depth of udder was the appraisal trait having the highest correlation with first lactation milk (.27) and fat (.23). Multiple correlations of all appraisal traits with first lactation milk and fat were .44 and .40.

Correlations with lifetime variables were calculated from 2,068 records meeting time qualifications. Of the first lactation variables, milk …

Track Theory And Radiation Quality, Robert Katz

Robert Katz Publications

Radiation detection and damage data from several physical, chemical, and biological systems have been analyzed by a unified track theory, in which observed effects are attributed to the interaction of secondary electrons with the medium. Gamma-ray dose-response curves are combined with calculations of the spatial dose distribution about an ion's path to yield dose-response curves (survival curves) for heavy ion bombardment, through appropriately defined parameters. Perplexing phenomena associated with high LET radiation are sorted out according to track regime (grain-count or track-width), inactivation mode (gamma-kill or ion-kill), structural complexity (elementary, cellular, multicellular), and end-point. The central problem in assigning a …

Second-Order Pulsations In Polytropes, Norman R. Simon

Norman R. Simon Papers

A theory due to Eddington is employed to calculate second-order corrections to the usual linear, quasi-adiabatic pulsational amplitudes. Such corrections are necessary in order to evaluate the pulsational stability of stars in thermal imbalance (dS₀/dt ≠ 0). The second-order quantities are calculated, and their properties discussed, for a wide variety of polytropic models. Subsequently, a number of these models are tested for pulsational stability, and the conclusions drawn in an earlier, more preliminary work are re-evaluated on the basis of the results. In particular, it is found that stars in pre-main-sequence contraction are probably stable against …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (March 1971) 39(1)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Treasurer's Report ....................2

Pileated Woodpecker in Otoe County ....................3

1970 Christmas Count ....................4

Winter Meeting ....................9

1970 Nebraska Nesting Survey ....................10

Notes ....................15

In Memoriam ....................16

A Study Of Primary Productivity In A Nebraska Interstate 80 Lake, Gilbert Adrian, Carl Throckmorton, Bob Mcdonald

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

The primary productivity of a small gravel pit lake in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska was studied for a 2-year period. Daily production rates were estimated from near weekly samples, with calculations done by computer. Emphasis was placed on production under ice during winter conditions. Annual production was estimated and is compared with several other lakes in North America.

Ec71-844 The What, Why And Who Of Rural Zoning, Paul Gessaman, Douglas Duey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 71-844 discusses the what, why and who of rural zoning.

Ec71-853 Balance Sheet

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 71-853 is a balance sheet.

Ec71-955 Sugar Cookery, Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 71-955 is about different ways various ways to cook sugar to create certain types of candy.

Ec71-848 Revised Your Income Statement, Philip Henderson, Thomas L. Frey

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 71-848R is about your income statement, including preparation and interpretation.

Ec71-1513 Insect Control Guide For Alfalfa And Clover, R. E. Roselle, L. W. Andersen, D. L. Keith

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 71-1513: Insect Control Guide for Alfalfa and Clover

Angular And Energy Distribution Of Cross Sections For Electron Production By 50-300-Kev-Proton Impacts On N2, O2, Ne, And Ar, J. B. Crooks, M. Eugene Rudd

M. Eugene Rudd Publications

Cross sections differential in angle and ejection energy for electron production by proton impact on nitrogen, oxygen, neon, and argon have been measured using electrostatic analysis and counting of individual electrons. The range of proton energies was 50-300 keV, the angles ranged from 10° to 160°, and the electron energies were measured from 1.5 to 1057 eV. Integrations over angle and/or electron energy yielded singly differential and total electron production cross sections. Our total cross sections for oxygen fall halfway between previous data of deHeer et al. and Hooper et al., but our argon cross sections agree better with deHeer …

Ec71-220 1970 Dairy Report

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 71-220: 1970 Dairy report; housing the dairy calf including low and high air temperature, humidity, air movement, pen requirement, and grouping calves. Comparisons of urea ratios, dairy beef, cow’s teats information, some practical feeding plans for calf, manure handling system for dairy farms. Information of cause, signs and diagnosis of respiratory infection in claves, sires selection, feed additive, and how to improve grain feeding.

Ec71-847 Revised Your Balance Sheet, Thomas L. Frey, Philip Henderson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 71-847 Revised is about your balance sheet, including preparation and interpretation.

The Magic World Of Clothes : Extension Circular 4-30-71, Gerda Petersen

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

The Magic World of Clothes Learning Experiences Choosing and Using a Pattern Page Size and Figure Type 3—4—5 Laying and Cutting the Pattern 7 Transferring Pattern Markings 7—8 Choosing Fabric Fabric for the Pattern 4-5—6 Interfacing 6 Stitching Stay Stitching 8 Baste Stitch ing 9 Darts 9 Seam Finishes 9 Facing Armholes and Necklines 10 Collars 12 Buttons and Buttonholes 13 Plackets Neckline Placket in a Slash 10 Lapped Zipper Closing and Facing at Neckline 11—12 Continuous Bound Placket for a Skirt 15—16 t Sleeves Raglan and Kimono 14 Smooth Cap Set-in 14-15 Skirt Waist Band and Fasteners 15-16-17 Hems …

4-H Entomology Manual : Extension Circular 16-01-71, Robert E. Roselle

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

This 4-H circular is the manual for the entomology club. It discusses the collection and examination of a variety of bugs.