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Wpa News 39 (1993), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1993), number 39

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Nebline, February 1993

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Home Extension News

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) News

Home Extension Club News

The Cloverline: 4-H News & Events

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Ard News February 1993

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
COMMENTS FROM THE DEAN
106TH ANNUAL REPORT FOR ARD
FORM FOR RECORDING ALLOCATION OF PROGRAM RESOURCES
NEW OR REVISED PROJECTS
GRANTS & CONTRACTS RECEIVED DECEMBER 1992 AND JANUARY 1993
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR FEDERAL GRANTS
ESCOP RESEARCH INITIATIVES
DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL "BASIC" RESEARCH FUNDS BY PROGRAM AREA
COMPARISON OF INVESTMENTS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
PROGRAM SIZE AND FY 1991 RESEARCH EXPENDITURES OF SELECTED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
COMPARISON OF SAES FUNDING SOURCES FY 1991
SAES LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COURSE
COMPARISON OF PROGRAM SIZE – FY 1991

Review Of Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 By Deborah Fink, Betsy Downey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Agrarian Women begins with a paradox. "Agrarian ideology-the celebration of farming and farmers as the heart of American society"-pervaded the rural households where the author grew up. "Yet it meshed poorly with the lives of many rural women we knew" (p. xv). Using published and unpublished letters, diaries, fiction, public records, historical studies, and interviews, anthropologist Deborah Fink explores the ways in which the agrarian ideal failed the women of Boone County, Nebraska.

Review Of Homes In Alberta: Building, Trends, And Design 1870-1967 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, Peter Caron

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

I must admit right off that I was preparing for reviewing a dry piece of work. I believe that most readers including myself will be pleasantly surprised if not more accurately impressed with the obvious mountain of research and effort that was needed to compile this publication. The presentation of the information is very well done indeed. It is entertaining in the early chapters on Settlement and the Modern House, and continues to be so throughout. The consistent use of quotes from architects, newspapers, builders, and planners from the eras being discussed definitely give a great deal of insight into …

In Whose Backyard?: Concern About Sitting A Nuclear Waste Facility, Robert D. Benford, Helen A. Moore, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Proponents of hazardous and nuclear waste depositories label opponents to local siting of such facilities "NIMBYs" (Not In My Backyard). This study assesses the extent to which the NIMBY label and the strategies of industry proponents to reduce opposition function on a reasonable set of assumptions. Using survey data and multiple regression techniques, the levels of concern of residents living in the county selected as the site of a low level radioactive wane disposal facility (imminent threat condition) are compared with a statewide sample (hypothetical threat condition). Consistent with proponents' theoretical assumptions, the levels of concern are greater for respondents …

The Iconography Of Plants Collected On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Linda Rossi, Alfred E. Schuyler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

FrederickPursh 's Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814) is considered to be the standard flora of the nineteenth century. Additional floras of this period were developed by Nuttall, Elliott, and Torrey and Gray. We know that Meriwether Lewis collected some herbarium specimens that contributed to Pursh's Flora during the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Pursh's Flora was the first to include plants of the Pacific Northwest. A number of the specimens Lewis collected are in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Those who use the Herbarium know and appreciate the contribution of Lewis to botany. Twenty-four of the illustration …

A Sign-To-Speech Translation System, Koka Veera Raghava Rao

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis describes sign-to-speech translation using neural networks. Sign language translation is an interesting but difficult problem for which neural network techniques seem promising because of their ability to adjust to the user's hand movements, which is not possible to do by most other techniques. However, even using neural networks and artificial sign languages, the translation is hard, and the best-known system, that of Fels & Hinton (1993), is capable of translating only 66 root words and 203 words including their conjugations. This research improves their results to 790 root signs and 2718 words including their conjugations while preserving a …

Long-Term Consequences Of Childhood Physical Abuse, Robin Malinosky-Rummell, David J. Hansen

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This article reviews the literature on the long-term consequences of childhood physical abuse. Empirical research is discussed within 7 topic areas: aggressive and violent behavior, nonviolent criminal behavior, substance abuse, self-injurious and suicidal behavior, emotional problems, interpersonal problems, and academic and vocational difficulties. The studies reviewed involve primarily adult populations, although pertinent findings from literature on children and adolescents are briefly summarized. Some variables that affect the relation between physical abuse and long-term consequences are examined. These moderator variables include maltreatment characteristics, individual factors, family factors, and environmental factors. The article ends with suggestions for future research on long-term consequences …

The Future Of Agricultural Research, Roger Beachy, Susanne L. Huttner, Anne K. Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

We enthusiastically support Philip H. Abelson’s call for substantially increased funding for basic agricultural research (Editorial, 28 Aug., p. 1187). However, he neglects the government’s critical role as gatekeeper; some federal regulatory policies are serious impediments to progress in the agricultural sciences. A subsequent editorial by Charles Arntzen, “Regulation of transgenic plants’ (4 Sept., p 1327), points out that research on genetically engineered plants is now subject to delays and extensive assessments that result from perceptions of public concern and not from scientific evidence of risk. when government’s research and regulatory policies conflict, the public loses twice-their investment in the …

Beef Facilities And Management At U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, W. Gordon Hays, Gary S. Ross

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

The Cattle Operations Unit functions as a support service to the research scientists and maintains the animal populations necessary for our livestock research. Indirectly, this also involves responsible land management and herd health procedures. All the facilities and procedures employed in maintaining the extensive cattle herd are determined by research needs. Consequently, while providing a function sometimes indirectly related to research, the operations unit is necessary to provide adequate feedstuffs and healthy animals for research studies.

Characterizing Stress In Feeder Cattle, G. Leroy Hahn, John A. Nienaber

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

During the period August 6 to 10, 1992, a heat wave moved through central and eastern Nebraska. Maximum air temperatures were in the 90 to 95°F range, generally not considered to be extreme during the summer season. However, during this particular episode, the accompanying humidity was higher than normal (50 to 70% during the hottest portions of the day), with light to moderate winds except on August 8 when the wind was fairly strong. The relatively cool preceding summer weather had not adequately conditioned livestock to high levels of heat stress. As a result, several hundred feedlot cattle died in …

Gene Mapping In Cattle, Craig W. Beattie, Roger T. Stone, Michael D. Bishop, Sara L. F. Sunden, John W. Keele, Steven M. Kappes

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Over the last decade, progress in molecular biologic techniques has brought the mapping of genes within the human and mouse genomes to a point where information on the location of groups of genes and additional anonymous, but unique, bits of DNA (markers) within their respective genomes can be brought to bear in developing a bovine genomic map. This is possible because of the conservation of genes, particularly those concerned with regulating important functions, between species into syntenic (single chromosome) groups.

Investment in the development of a bovine map is important for several reasons. While continued selection of desirable traits by …

Beef Research Program Progress Report (1993) No. 4 (Part 1): Table Of Contents

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

ROMAN L. HRUSKA U.S. MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER, D.B. Laster .... v

General Interest

Beef facilities and management at U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: W. Gordon Hays and Gary S. Ross .... 1

Genetics and Breeding

Cycle V of the germplasm evaluation (GPE) program in beef cattle: Larry V. Cundiff, Keith E. Gregory, and Robert M. Koch .... 3

Contributions of ovum cytoplasm and uterine environment and postnatal environment to maternal effects in beef cattle: Keith E. Gregory, and Ralph R. Maurer .... 6

Germplasm utilization in beef cattle: Keith E. Gregory, Larry V. Cundiff, Robert M. Koch, and Donald …

Isolation Of Pasteurella Spp. From Sick And Healthy Feedlot Calves Using Four Different Sampling Techniques, Keith A. Gilmore, D. Dee Griffin, Louis J. Perino

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Bovine respiratory disease is the most common disease complex of feedlot cattle. The peak incidence of the disease occurs within the first few weeks of arrival at the feedlot. Bovine respiratory disease is attributed to a complex interaction between bacteria, viruses, environment, stress, and managerial practices. Pasteurella hemolytica, and to a lesser extent Pasteurella multocida, are considered to be the most common bacterial isolates from cases of bovine respiratory disease. The purpose of this study was threefold: 1) compare the ability of four different sampling techniques to isolate Pasteurella spp. from the respiratory tract of calves, 2) compare …

Beef Cattle Salmonellosis: A Study Of Oral Salmonella Typhimurium And Topical Salmonella Newport Inoculations, Ed K. Daniels, Neal E. Woollen, James S. Dickson, E. Travis Littledike

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Cattle are frequently infected with salmonellae by fecaloral transmission or by being fed contaminated animal protein byproducts (40% are reported contaminated in the U.S.). Bothcould propagate salmonellosis in feedlots. Research indicates that stress can induce shedding of salmonellae by asymptomatic carriers. Stress factors associated withsalmonellosis include: transportation, starvation, changes in ration, overcrowding, age, pregnancy, parturition, exertion, anesthesia, surgery, intercurrentdisease, and oral treatment withantibioticsand anthelmintics. In this study, we have attempted to correlate dosage of S. typhimurium inoculumwithdisease, persistence of infection, and environmental contamination. The persistence and spread of S. newport placed on the skin of cattle was also studied.

Development Of A Sensitive Antibody Detection Method To Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (Bvdv) Infection, Jimmy Kwang, E. Travis Littledike

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a RNA virus and a prototype member of the pestivirus genus in the genetic family Flaviviridae. Due to the rapid growth of BVDV molecular biology in the last 4 yr, our understanding of the genomic organization of BVDV has greatly increased, and a protein encoding map of the BVDV genome has been established. According to this map, it is generally accepted that a glycoprotein, identified as gp116, is the precursor which gives rise to gp62 and gp53 proteins through a proteolytic process. Further protein break down of gp62 yields glycoproteins gp48 and gp25. The …

Transmission Of Bovine Leukosis Virus, Louis J. Perino, E. Travis Littledike, Larry V. Cundiff, Catherine E. Dewey

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Bovine leukosis virus is an exogenous retrovirus (Retroviridae, Oncovirinae) that infects lymphocytes of cattle. Infection with bovine leukosis virus and the concomitant antibody response are lifelong. Infection can result in several outcomes, including production of antibodies against bovine leukosis virus without other evidence of infection, inversion of the T:B lymphocyte ratio, persistent lymphocytosis, and clinical lymphosarcoma. The prevalence of an infection in a population of animals is the proportion of the group infected at any given time. Surveys have shown the prevalence of bovine leukosis virus infection in cattle populations ranging from 0 to nearly 100%. This wide range of …

What Happens If Roe Is Overruled? Extraterritorial Regulation Of Abortion By The States, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Since 1973, states have effectively been prohibited from regulating most abortions. As every lawyer, law student, and almost every other American adult knows, the United States Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that a woman has a constitutional right to have an abortion. It is also common knowledge that in recent years the Supreme Court has been slowly restricting, or refusing to extend, that right.

The future of Roe v. Wade is uncertain, particularly after the Supreme Court's most recent abortion decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The actual restrictions on abortion upheld in Casey are less important than the …

1. Curriculum-Based Measurement, Stanley L. Deno

Curriculum-Based Measurement

In the history of Greek mythology there is a character named Sisyphus who, for sins committed during his lifetime, is condemned to spend eternity pushing a boulder up a hill. No matter how hard Sisyphus tries as he nears the top of the hill, the boulder rolls back down. Sisyphus cannot escape from this continued cycle of effort and failure. Sometimes, when I think about the experiences of many children attempting to learn basic skills in the public schools, I think of the myth of Sisyphus. Too often, it seems to me, no matter how hard they try, they do …

Curriculum-Based Measurement- Complete Work, Jane Close Conoley, Jack J. Kramer

Curriculum-Based Measurement

This volume in the Buros-Nebraska Series on Measurement and Testing provides current information on the development and implementation of curriculum-based measurement. As the title of the volume suggests, effective measurement of children's classroom achievement is not a new problem. Curriculum-based measurement provides an interesting and useful alternative to traditional strategies for assessing academic performance. This volume continues the tradition of including papers given at the annual Buros-Nebraska Symposium on Testing and Measurement as well as additional contributions selected especially for this book. Each of our authors has made significant contributions to the research that has been produced in the area …

Ec93-220-A 1993 Dairy Report

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 93-220-A: This circular is a compilation of articles regarding the Dairy Industry published in 1993. Some of the articles in this circular include “Effect of Intrauterine Infusions of Blood Serum and Colostrum on Conception Rate in Repeat Breeder Dairy Cows,” “Replacing Forage Fiber with Soyhulls,” “Corrective Mating,” “Mastitis Research,” and many more.

Nf93-125 Arts And Crafts Can Be Hazardous, Shirley Niemeyer, Wendy Rich

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Some craft materials contain toxic or harmful chemicals, yet products often lack adequate information about ingredients or precautions of which the user should be aware. Artists may lack training in safety procedures for chemical use, even though they are using chemicals.

G93-1159 Feedlot Lameness, Dee Griffin, Louis Perino, Don Hudson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses the causes, treatment and prevention of lameness in feedlot cattle.

Lameness in feedlot cattle is a serious economic problem. There are many causes for lameness. It is important that the problem be diagnosed correctly and treated quickly to minimize economic losses.

Nf93-123 Dating: The Benefits And Risks, George P. Rowe

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The purpose of this NebFact is to examine the benefits and risks of dating in the United States.

G93-1177 Feeding And Managing Holstein Steers, Rick J. Grant, Rick Stock, Terry L. Mader

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide discusses feeding and management practices to maximize feedlot performance, carcass quality, and profitability of Holstein steers. Holstein Steers vs Conventional Breeds Holstein steers usually are placed in the feedlot either as light-weight (250 to 350 pounds) calves or as feeders (600 to 800 pounds). The growth of Holstein feeder steers is generally more consistent than for conventional beef breeds.

G93-1170 Bacteria In Milk Sources And Control, Gerald R. Bodman, Duane N. Rice

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Bacterial contamination reduces the quality of milk and can cause serious health problems. This NebGuide discusses common causes of contamination as well as prevention.

Bacteria are single-cell organisms that multiply by dividing to form two cells (a process known as mitosis). Under optimum conditions, many bacteria can double in number each 20 minutes. That means one bacterium can result in up to 16,000,000 bacteria in just eight hours. They are microscopic in size, i.e., an individual bacterium cannot be seen without the aid of a microscope. They are so small that a single drop of water from a cow's udder …

Schoolwide Social Skills Training: Providing Preventive Services To Students At-Risk, Robert N. Jones, Susan M. Sheridan, Wayne R. Binns

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

This paper reports a schoolwide social skills assessment and training model including a two-gate student identification procedure (i.e., in-class social skills training for all students and small group intensive training for at-risk target students). The model is directed at reducing future serious problems by addressing identified difficulties early (i.e., through secondary prevention procedures). Specific model objectives are to (a) utilize a comprehensive, multigate procedure to identify students at risk; (b) implement schoolwide training procedures to teach a number of important prosocial skills identified by teachers; (c) treat a subgroup of target subjects considered at highest risk for developing pervasive social …

Ec93-2309-B Nutritional And Ingredient Labeling Summary Fda/Usda Regulations 1993 : A Guide For Food Processors, Steve L. Taylor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 93-2309-B isa guide for Food processors and a summary of Nutritional and ingredient labeling from FDA/USDA regulations.

Ec93-447 Documents For Decision Making: Living Wills And Medical Durable Powers Of Attorney, Georgia L. Stevens

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Every person has a unique belief system including personal values based on family traditions, life experience, spiritual and religious beliefs, and knowledge. Medical decisions that we make for ourselves are based on those beliefs and values that matter most to us. Most of us are aware of the court battles that have raged over "right to die" cases.

This publication helps a person understand the meaning of the living will and medical durable powers of attorney.