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Mentoring, Paradigmatic Change, And Institutional Structure: Charles E. Bessey And The Origins Of The Seminarium Botanicum At The University Of Nebraska, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The Seminarium Botanicum was a student scientific club that originated at the University of Nebraska during the closing years of the nineteenth century under the supportive eye of botanist Charles E. Bessey. The “Sem. Bot.” (as the club was known popularly) provided a mainspring for the paradigmatic development of the American school of plant ecology (Tobey, 1981). Based on archival materials at Harvard University, the State Historical Society of Nebraska, and the universities of Nebraska and Wyoming, this paper identifies the interpersonal dynamics and institutional matrix by means of which the “Sem. Bot.” became a catalyst for intellectual inquiry. The …

Sex, Lies, And Goffman: Embodiment And Fabrication In The Age Of Aids, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The frequently inexorable fatality, pansexual communicability, and lengthy period of asymptomatic latency of HIV combine to form biological realities and ecological dangers that are individually and socially problematic at very deep levels. How can we think sociologically about the AIDS epidemic? Talcott Parsons’ concept of “sick role,”2 a venerable and productive staple of medical sociology, gives us little to work with here, precisely as sexually active, HIV-positive but undiagnosed and asymptomatic persons do not see themselves as “sick.” Nor, importantly, do others, including: sexual intimates, friends, family members, employers, and health professionals. The interpersonal face of HIV is often trusted, …

A Comparison Of Adaptive Strategies And Patterns Of Victimization Among Homeless Adolescents And Adults, Les B. Whitbeck, Ronald L. Simons

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

One hundred and fifty-six homeless adolescents and 319 homeless adults interviewed directly on the streets and in shelters were compared for backgrounds of abuse, adaptations to life on the streets, and rates of criminal victimization when on the streets. Homeless adolescents were more likely to be from abusive family backgrounds, more likely to rely on deviant survival strategies, and more likely to be criminally victimized. A social learning model of adaptation and victimization on the streets was hypothesized. Although the model was supported for both homeless adults and adolescents, it was more strongly supported for adolescents than adults, and for …

Telomere Processing In Euplotes, Joris Robert Vermeesch, Dewight Williams, Carolyn M. Price

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

In Euplotes crassus millions of telomeres are synthesized during the sexual phase of the life cycle. Since these newly synthesized telomeres are longer than normal macronuclear telomeres, they must be trimmed to the mature size. We have examined the timing and mechanism of this trimming step. We have shown that a sudden decrease in telomere length takes place at a specific time during macronuclear development. The decrease in telomere length is not caused by incomplete replication of the most terminal DNA sequences; rather it is the result of an active processing event that occurs independently of DNA replication. The developmentally …

Journal Of Actuarial Practice, Volume 1, No. 2, 1993, Colin Ramsay , Editor

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

ARTICLES

Ethical Issues, Helps, and Challenges: Perceptions of U.S. Actuaries • Therese M. Vaughan, Robert W. Cooper, and Garry L. Frank

Managing the Relative Volumes of Participating and Nonparticipating Business in a Mutual Life Company • Robert G. Chadburn

A Critique of Defined Contribution Plans Using a Simulation Approach • David M. Knox

Discussion • Michael Sze & David M. Knox's Reply

The Definition of Insurance: Implications for a Health Insurance Demand Model • Mark J. Browne

Discussion • Charles S. Fuhrer & Mark J. Browne's Reply

On the Equivalence of the Loss Ratio and Pure Premium Methods of Determining …

Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"W elcome to Dodge City, the biggest, wildest, wickedest little city on the continent," was the exuberant greeting given out-of-town visitors to Dodge's Fourth ofJuly celebration in 1883. The assessment projected was a selfcongratulatory one shared and frequently envied by the rest of the United States. Dodge was enjoying the peak of its cattle-town fame and prosperity as the quintessential frontier boom town, unrestrained by convention, the "very embodiment of waywardness and wantonness." Few communities seemed more at odds with the national social values and mores that later generations would label Victorian. As a mecca for free-spending cowboys it was …

The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Water is power. Water is strength. Water is health. In the Rocky Mountains, it is the most valuable of all assets. Nothing else compares with it, nothing else can compare with it. With it, we can produce trees and forests. With it we can make fertile fields on the desert plains, and make the unsightly and uninviting plateau attractive for agriculture and home-building.¹

Categories And Terrains Of Exclusion: Constructing The "Indian Woman" In The Early Settlement Era In Western Canada, Sarah Carter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1884 Mary E. Inderwick wrote to her Ontario family from the ranch near Pincher Creek, Alberta, where she had lived with her new husband for six months. ¹ The letter provides a perspective on the stratifications of race, gender, and class that were forming as the Euro-Canadian enclave grew in the district of Alberta. Mary Inderwick lamented that it was a lonely life, as she was twenty-two miles from any other women, and she even offered to help some of the men near them to "get their shacks done up if only they will go east and marry some …

Taking The Lead: Faculty Development As Institutional Change Agent, Kenneth J. Zahorski

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article looks at the nature, role, and functions of faculty development from a particular philosophical perspective, exploring ways in which faculty development professionals might step beyond their traditional institutional role as facilitators to become even more powerful change agents. More specifically, the author (1) identifies areas where change agent strategies may be used, (2) provides some concrete examples of faculty development serving as an effective institutional change agent, and (3) identifies the conditions needed for faculty developers to become successful change agents.

Preparation Of Functionalized Polymers Utilizing A Soluble Highly Reactive Form Of Calcium, Reuben D. Rieke

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

Calcium-substituted polymeric reagents are provided. These reagents can be prepared via the oxidative addition of a soluble highly reactive calcium species to organic and inorganic polymers containing alkyl, aryl, or alkylaryl pendent groups substituted with halide atoms, cyanide molecules, 1,3-dienes, or any conjugated poly unsaturated system. Preferably, the polymer is a cross linked p-bromopolystyrene, p-chloropolystyrene, p-fluoropolystyrene, or chloromethylated polystyrene. Preferably, the soluble highly reactive calcium species is prepared from the reduction of Ca(II) salts with an alkali metal arene, such as lithium biphenylide. These calcium-substituted polymeric reagents react with a variety of electrophiles to yield functionalized polymers. Reaction with Cu(I) …

Detection Of Serum Antibody Responses In Cattle With Natural Or Experimental Neospora Infections, Patricia Conrad, Karen Sverlow, Mark Anderson, Joan Rowe, Robert Bondurant, Gwen Tuter, Richard Breitmeyer, California Department Of Food And Agriculture, Animal Health Branch, Mark Thurmond, Alex Ardans, J. P. Dubey, Gerarld Duhamel, Bradd Barr

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Parasite-specific antibody responses were detected using an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test in cattle that were naturally or experimentally infected with Neospora parasites. The test was developed using Neospora tachyzoites isolated from an aborted bovine fetus and grown in bovine cell cultures (isolate BPA1). In all cases, infections were confirmed by the identification of Neospora tachyzoites and/or bradyzoite cysts in fetal or calf tissues using an immunoperoxidase test procedure. Fifty-five naturally infected cows that aborted Neospora-infected fetuses had titers of 320-5,120 at the time of abortion. The titer of 6 cows that were serologically monitored over a prolonged period decreased …

Book Review: The Baculovirus Expression System: A Laboratory Guide (1992) King, L. A. & Possee, R. D., David D. Dunigan

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

The power of molecular biology is unleashed with the ability to clone and sequence genes, and then express these genes in heterologous systems. This sets the stage for the full analysis of proteins that are otherwise difficult to isolate and/or purify, especially when present at very low copy number per cell or when isolated from relatively precious materials. Overexpression of protein is now possible in a number of systems including prokaryotes (e.g., E. coli) and various eukaryotes (yeast, insects, and plants). The issue then becomes, which system (1) most closely reflects the homologous expression with respect to posttranslational modifications, …

Handbook Of Field Methods For Monitoring Landbirds, C. John Ralph, Geoffrey R. Geupel, Peter Pyle, Thomas E. Martin, David F. Desante

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

This handbook is a compilation of methods that can be used to assay population size, demographics, and status of many species of birds occurring in a wide variety of habitats. The handbook will prove useful to field biologists, managers, and scientists anywhere in the New World from the arctic through the tropics. The methods include four types of censuses for determining population size and trends, mist-netting and nest searches to determine demographic parameters, and other methods that will be useful in operating a monitoring station, including habitat and weather observations, and suggestions for training personnel and possibilities for detailed studies. …

Spiculopteragia Spiculoptera And S. Asymmetrica (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) From Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus) In Texas, Lora G. Rickard, Eric P. Hoberg, Nancy M. Allen, Gary L. Zimmerman, Thomas M. Craig

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Specimens of Spiculopteragia spiculoptera and S. asymmetrica were recovered from the abomasa of five of ten naturally infected red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Texas (USA). Female specimens of Spiculopteragia were present in all five animals. Male specimens of S. spiculoptera and S. asymmetrica were present in one of five and three of five red deer, respectively. Spiculopteragia spiculoptera has not previously been recognized in the United States and the present report constitutes the first records of Spiculopteragia spp. in red deer from North America. It is likely that species of Spiculopteragia have been introduced to North America with …

Charles Eric "Chuck" Dawson, 1922-1993 [In Memoriam], Robin M. Overstreet, Stuart G. Poss

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Obituary of Charles Eric "Chuck" Dawson, 1922-1993, American marine ichthyologist.

Preserving Natural Science Collections: Chronicle Of Our Environmental Heritage, W. Donald Duckworth, Hugh H. Genoways, Carolyn L. Rose

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

This report recommends action in the areas outlined below. Strategies for implementation of each recommendation are presented in chapter three, "Meeting the Challenge: Recommendations and Strategies."

Stewardship of collections

Public awareness

Staffing, education, and training

Technology transfer

Conservation research

Guidelines and standards of practice

Community Adjustment Of Young Adults With Mental Retardation: A Developmental Perspective, Richard F. Ittenbach, Sheryl A. Larson, Amy N. Spiegel, Brian H. Abery, Robert W. Prouty

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The community adjustment of young adults with mental retardation remains a crucial issue for all human service providers. No longer does adjustment imply simply the physical integration of persons with disabilities into community settings. Rather, it refers to the adjustment and integration of the whole person into community life. Whether one describes community adjustment as a process, an outcome, a philosophy, or a multidimensional concept (Bachrach, 1981), community adjustment has become synonymous with the term quality-of-life, a quality that depends in large part on one’s happiness and success in socially sanctioned, age-appropriate tasks.

The High-Resolution, Three-Dimensional Solution Structure Of Human Interleukin-4 Determined By Multidimensional Heteronuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Robert Powers, Daniel S. Garrett, Carl J. March, Eric A. Frieden, Angela M. Gronenborn, G. Marius Clore

Robert Powers Publications

The high-resolution three-dimensional solution structure of recombinant human interleukin-4 (IL-4), a protein of ~15 kDa which plays a key role in the regulation of B and T lymphocytes, has been determined using three- and four-dimensional heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy. The structure is based on a total of 2973 experimental NMR restraints, comprising 2515 approximate interproton distance restraints, 102 distance restraints for 51 backbone hydrogen bonds, and 356 torsion angle restraints. A total of 30 structures was calculated by means of hybrid distance geometry-simulated annealing, and the atomic rms distribution about the mean coordinate positions for residues 8-129 is 0.44 ± 0.03 …

Relationships Between The Precision Of High-Resolution Protein Nmr Structures, Solution-Order Parameters, And Crystallographic B Factors, Robert Powers, G. Marius Clore, Daniel S. Garrett, Angela M. Gronenborn

Robert Powers Publications

One of the principal motivations for studying proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance stems from the desire to describe the solution structure of these molecules as compared to the generally perceived static picture obtained by X-ray crystallography. Indeed, it is one of the unique features of NMR spectroscopy that in addition to structural data, dynamic properties can be probed and characterized by measuring relaxation parameters. Furthermore, any mobility of the protein in solution will necessarily modulate the measured NMR parameters and should influence the resulting structure. It has been argued that regions of a protein that are highly mobile would be …

Automating Idaho's Libraries, Mary K. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The history of library automation in Idaho is iilustrative of the course of library automation throughout the United States. Idaho's effort to automate its libraries is the story of cooperative ventures designed to help libraries work together to further their own interests. The role of LSCA, the Idaho State Library, the geogaphy, and other unique characteristics of the state, as well as the role of WLN, are examined.

Effects Of Predator Odors On Feeding In The Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia Rufa), Gisela Epple, J. Russell Mason, Dale L. Nolte, Dan L. Campbell

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Consumption of food by Aplodontia rufa from bowls scented with control odors, secretion from anal glands of minks (Mustela vison), or urine from minks, bobcats (Felis rufus), and coyotes (Canis latrans) was studied. In two-choice control tests, subjects indiscriminately consumed apple from unscented bowls and from bowls scented with urine from an unfamiliar herbivore (Cavia porcellus), or with butyric acid. During two-choice tests offering apple from bowls scented with secretion from anal glands of minks and from bowls scented with butyric acid, significantly less apple was consumed from bowls containing mink scent. …

High-Level Expression Of A Heterologous Protein In The Milk Of Transgenic Swine Using The Cdna Encoding Human Protein C, William H. Velander, John L. Johnson, Raymond L. Page, Christopher G. Russell, Anuradha Subramanian, Tracy D. Wilkins, Francis C. Gwazdauskas, Christoph Pittius, William N. Drohan

William H. Velander Publications

Transgenic pigs were generated that produced human protein C in their milk at up to 1 g/liter. The gene construct was a fusion gene consisting of the cDNA for human protein C inserted into the first exon of the mouse whey acidic protein gene. These results demonstrate that the mouse whey acidic protein gene contains regulatory elements that can direct cDNA expression at high levels in the pig mammary gland. Recombinant human protein C that was produced at about 380 pg/ml per hr in transgenic pig milk possessed anticoagulant activity that was equivalent to that of protein C derived from …

Acuta Enews December 1992, Vol. 21, No. 12

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Regulatory update

President's column

Dual routing protects Duke

Talking clock "tells" time

Seminar ratings

Director's column

Nebline, December 1992

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Ag Update: Agricultural News & Events

Home Extension News

On-the-Grow: Horticulture News & Recommendations

The Cloverline: 4-H News and Events

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) News

Extension Calendar

and other extension news

Water Current, Volume 24, December 1992

Water Current Newsletter

Seminar Series to Feature Global Perspective
Report from the Director
Argentina, Brazil Toured by Group from Nebraska
Czech Water Specialists Enumerate Contamination Problems
UNL Environmental Specialists Impressed by Hungarians
Foreign Influences on Nebraska Water Law
Trade, Environment, and Development, Tied Together in U.S. Trade Policy
Slovakian Grad Student Studies Aquaculture Here; Wants to Establish Fish Farm in Czechoslovakia
EARTH with Nebraska Connections Trains Agriculturists
La Mancha Plateau Aquifer Stressed by Intensive Irrigation
Hungarian Research Says Their Nitrogen Fertilizer Use Down
What's New?
Irrigation Association Centennial Spawns State Water-History Chronicle
Director of International Drought Information Center Receives Award
Dates to Use

Ard News December 1992

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

SEASONS GREETINGS
ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES
ARDC INTEGRATED FARM
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION SYSTEM
REPRESENTATION ON REGIONAL COMMITTEES
ARD ADMINISTERED GRANT AND AWARDS PROGRAMS
ARD ADVISORY COUNCIL UPDATE
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR FEDERAL GRANTS
NEW OR REVISED PROJECTS
GRANTS & CONTRACTS RECEIVED OCTOBER & NOVEMBER, 1992

The Probe, Issue 128 - December 1992

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Contents:

Reflections On An Onerous Deed
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
Coyote Urine Translocated by Flora
PETA Indictments Expected Soon
Plague Claims Bobcat Hunter
Colorado Voters Ban Spring Hunt; Arizonans Defeat Trapping Ban
Charter Member Says Good-Bye
Probe Should Be Advocate for ADC Activities
Bill Fitzwater III
Next Issue Jan/Feb
NADCA Renewals and Donations
New Logo Chosen for NADCA!

Nebraska Bird Review (December 1992) 60(4), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Corrections in Vol. 60 No.3, P. 78 1992…………………….152

Whooping Crane Sightings in Nebraska, Fall 1992…………………….152

International Migratory Bird Day, May 8, 1993 …………………….153

Nebraska Ornithologists' Union Annual Meeting, May 14-16, 1993…………………….153

Bird Items and Their Use in Some Omaha Indian Artifacts …………………….154

Sighting of a Canyon Wren in Knox County, Nebraska …………………….163

Notes on Bird Sightings…………………….166

Book Review…………………….168

Index to Volume 60 …………………….170

Book Review Of Gladys Black's "Iowa Birdlife" From Nebraska Bird Review December 1992, Hazel Scheiber

Nebraska Bird Review

This book is a compilation of 100 of the articles that were published in the Des Moines Register from 1982 to 1992. The profits from the sale of the book will support Conservancy projects to protect and preserve the Iowa bird habitats described in the book.

The author's locale is Pleasantville, a small town southeast of Des Moines in the area around Lake Red Rock, which is between Pella and Knoxville. She has made bird observations every day for 35 years. Through her articles, talks, and field trips, she has done more than anyone else in Iowa to bring the …

Loss Of Infectivity By Progeny Virus From Alpha Interferon- Treated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Infected T Cells Is Associated With Defective Assembly Of Envelope Gp120, Brian D. Hanson, Peter L. Nara, Radha K. Maheshwari, Girmel S. Sidhu, John G. Bernbaum, David Hoekzema, Monte S. Meltzer, Howard Gendelman

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) DNA, RNA, or p24 antigen and reverse transcriptase activity in T-cell cultures treated with 500 IU of recombinant alpha interferon (rIFNα) per ml were comparable to those in control cultures. Radioimmunoprecipitation analysis of proteins in lysates of IFN-treated T cells documented a marked accumulation of HlV proteins. Localization of gp120 by immunofluorescence showed a diffuse pattern in IFN-treated cells quite distinct from the ring pattern in untreated control cells. That large quantities of a120 in aberrant cell compartments might affect HlV morphogenesis was confirmed in infectivity studies: virions from IFN-treated cells were 100- to …