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Ec88-220 1987-1988 Dairy Report

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 88-220 is the dairy report 1987-1988.

Ec88-1511 Field Crop Insect Management Guide For Nebraska Alfalfa, Soybeans, Wheat, Range And Pasture, F. P. Baxendale, S. D. Danielson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 88-1511 is about filed crop insect management guide for Nebraska alfalfa, soybeans, wheat, range and pasture.

Annual Report: 1988

Cherry County (Nebraska) Extension: Historical Documents

Includes:

News Clippings

Water Quality in the Home

Horse Packet

Clothing and Textiles

4-H News

Cherry P.I.T.

Homemaker Reflections

Adoption Of Newly-Mated Queens: A Mechanism For Proliferation And Perpetuation Of Polygynous Red Imported Fire Ants, B. Michael Glancey, Clifford S. Lofgren

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

The polygynous form of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren was first reported from Mississippi in 1973; however, the source of the numerous fertile queens in polygynous colonies has remained an enigma. In 1987, 400 queens from a mating flight were marked with a durable paint and released in an area heavily populated with the polygynous form. None were recaptured after one week, but 9 months later, 4 clearly-marked queens were found in a nest 65 meters from their release point. This finding clearly points to adoption. About 5 weeks later, 37 of 107 fertile queens collected from …

Diets Of Darkling Beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Within A Shrub-Steppe Ecosystem, L. E. Rogers, N. E. Woodley, J. K. Sheldon, P. A. Beedlow

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

The diets of 13 species of darkling beetles inhabiting shrub-steppe communities of southcentral Washington were analyzed. Forty-seven vascular plant species, including 7 grasses, 34 forbs, and 6 shrubs, were fed upon. Cluster analysis was used to determine the extent of overlap in food habits among beetle species. The beetle species were separated into five food preference groups. Partitioning of food resources may act to refine niche space of these beetles.

Ec88-219 1988 Nebraska Swine Report, Steven M. Neal, Rodger K. Johnson, Roger J. Kittok, Colleen Kelly, Greg Bussler, Franklin Eldridge, Julie Farver-Koenig, Dwane Zimmerman, Donald G. Levis, J.J. Ford, R. K. Christenson, Murray Danielson, J.B. Morgan, Chris R. Calkins, Roger W. Mandigo, M. .. Brumm, David P. Shelton, Larry Bitney, Duane E. Reese, E.R. Peo Jr., J.D. Hancock, A. J. Lewis, William Ahlschwede, Daniel A. Burosh

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This 1988 Nebraska Swine Report was prepared by the staff in Animal Science and cooperating departments for use in the Extension and Teaching programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Authors from the following areas contributed to this publication: Swine Nutrition, swine diseases, pathology, economics, engineering, swine breeding, meats, agronomy, and diagnostic laboratory. It covers the following areas: breeding, disease control, feeding, nutrition, economics, housing and meats.

Public And Private Self-Consciousness And Social Phobia, Debra A. Hope, Richard G. Heimberg

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The relationship between public and private self-consciousness and self-report questionnaires, clinician ratings, and various measures derived from an individualized simulation of an anxiety-provoking situation was examined in a sample of men and women seeking treatment for social phobia. As predicted, public, not private, self-consciousness was generally related to self-report and naive observer ratings of anxiety and to behavioral disruption during the simulation. The predicted relationship between public self-consciousness and how accurately subjects evaluated their performance in the anxiety-provoking situation was marginally supported. Hypotheses regarding the relationship between private self-consciousness and self-reported anxiety during an anxiety-provoking situation, and between private self-consciousness …

Relationship Between Herd Management Practices In The Midwest On Milk And Fat Yield, Jeffrey F. Keown

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

A dairy management survey was conducted in fall 1985 and spring 1986 in the nine-state area served by the Midstates Dairy Records Processing Center in Ames, IA. The questionnaire, consisting of 57 questions with 254 possible choices, was used to survey dairy producers on DHI testing in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. The questions covered housing pactices, milking equipment and practices, feeding regimens, calf rearing and feeding, feed additives, various management categories, and artificial insemination usage. The survey responses were merged with the 1985 year end rolling herd production averages from the processing …

Taxonomy, Systematics, And Ecology Of Helminth Parasites Of The Ringed Seal, Phoca Hispida Schreber, In Alaskan Waters, Ann Marie Adams

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

The genus Orthosplaochnus Odhner, 1905 (Trematoda: Campulidae) was revised, with eight species recognized. Odhneriella Skriabin, 1915 was placed in synonymy with Orthosplanchnus, and Hadwenius was shown to be valid. Orthosplanchnus rossicus (Skriabin, 1915) (syn. Odhneriella rossica) was redescribed.

Inconsistencies in the diagnosis of the Anophryocephalus Baylis, 1922 (Cestoda: Tetrabothriidae) were discussed, along with the basis for generis revision. The taxonomic histories of certain genera of nematodes (e.g., Contracaecum Railliet and Henry, 1912; Dipetalonema Diesing; 1861; and Pseudoterranova Mosgovoi, 1950) were given to explain their present status.

The helminth-fauna of the ringed seal in the North Pacific was compared …

Roles Of A 67-Kda Polypeptide In Reversal Of Protein Synthesis Inhibition In Heme-Deficient Reticulocyte Lysate, Bansidhar Datta, Debopam Chakrabarti, Ananda L. Roy, Naba K. Gupta

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

During heme deficiency in reticulocyte lysates, the heme-regulated protein synthesis inhibitor, HRI, phosphorylates the a subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) and thus inhibits protein synthesis. Two factors, eIF-2 and a reticulocyte-lysate supernatant factor that we term RF, reverse this inhibition. We now report the following. (i) An active eIF-2 preparation contained, in addition to the three subunits (α,β, and γ), a 67-kDa polypeptide. Pretreatment of eIF-2 with polyclonal antibodies against either isolated a subunit or 67-kDa polypeptide almost completely inhibited the reversal activity. Upon further fractionation, three-subunit eIF-2 and the 67-kDa polypeptide were resolved. Neither the …

Current Trends In Employment Dismissal Law: The Plaintiff's Perspective, Paul H. Tobias

Nebraska Law Review

I. Employment-At-Will Doctrine—Historical Background

II. Exceptions to At-Will Doctrine ... A. Special Purpose Legislation ... B. Tort Remedies ... C. Movement for Change

III. Recent Developments

The Michigan Experience With Employment-At-Will, Jack Stieber, Mark D. Baines

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Application of Wood's Rule in Michigan

III. Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield

IV. Post-Toussaint Cases ... A. Status of At-Will Policy Statements ... B. Mental Distress Damages for Breach of Implied Contract ... C. Standards for Voluntary Arbitration ... D. Extension of Toussaint to Non-Discharge Cases

V. Public Policy Cases

VI. Statistical Summary of Cases

VII. Avoiding and Defending against Wrongful Discharge Suits

VIII. Limitations of Litigation

IX. Proposed Legislation

Individual Employment Rights And The Standard Economic Objection: Theory And Empiricism, Steven L. Willborn

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Price Theory, Minimal Terms, and the Standard Objection … A. The Price Theory Model of the Labor Market ... B. Minimal Terms and the Standard Objection ... C. An Aside on Waivable Terms

III. Justifications for Minimal Terms within the Price Theory Model ... A. Efficiency Justifications ... 1. Collective Terms ... 2. Imperfect Information ... 3. External Costs ... 4. Summary of Efficiency Justifications ... B. Distributional Justifications

IV. Conclusion

Inverse Condemnation And Compensatory Relief For Temporary Regulatory Takings: First English Evangelical Lutheran Church V. Los Angeles County, 107 S. Ct. 2378 (1987), Joseph C. Vitek

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Background Cases

III. Facts of First English Church

IV. Analysis ... A. Ripeness for Review ... B. The Just Compensation Requirement ... 1. Physical Occupation, Regulatory, and Temporary Takings ... 2. Nature and Scope of the Constitutional Proscription ... 3. Critique of the Invalidation Remedy ... C. Implications for Land Use Planning

V. Conclusion

Improved Selective Medium For The Isolation Of Treponema Hyodysenteriae, Robert A. Kunkle, J. M. Kinyon

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

An agar medium with improved selection for Treponema hyodysenteriae was developed. Cultures of T. hyodysenteriae and T. innocens, feces from 11 clinically normal pigs, and colonic contents from 6 pigs with gross lesions consistent with swine dysentery were diluted in phosphate-buffered saline and plated on Trypticase soy agar (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.) with 5% citrated bovine blood (TSA), TSA with 400 ,ug of spectinomycin per ml (TSA-S400), TSA-S400 with 25 ,ug each of colistin and vancomycin per ml, and TSA with 5% pig feces extract and five antimicrobial agents (spiramycin, rifampin, vancomycin, colistin, and spectinomycin) (BJ). Viable numbers …

1988 Nebraska Swine Report

Nebraska Swine Reports

1988 Nebraska Swine Report

Technological Change And Child Behavior Among The !Kung, Patricia Draper, Elizabeth Cashdan

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

How does change in one part of a social system affect other parts? This is the central question that must be answered in order to understand the process through which culture changes. This paper is about a small piece of the problem. It investigates how changes in subsistence economy affect child behavior and the relations between parents and children among !Kung Bushmen of Western Botswana. We will show that the adoption of a sedentary life style and a new technology of food production is associated with changes in the social interactions between parents and children and between children and their …

Leadership And Nonverbal Behaviors Of Hispanic Females Across School Equity Environments, Helen A. Moore, Natalie K. Porter

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Nonverbal behaviors of Hispanic elementary school students and their peers were examined in a small-group cooperative task with a total of 202 subjects. Thirty-five randomly selected groups were videotaped in ten desegregated schools, each group was gender-homogeneous, with three Hispanic and three Anglo students. Analysis of the videotapes revealed that Hispanic females used less vertical and horizontal space than Anglo females, and were also less likely to verbally interrupt or physically intrude on other group members They had similar rates of handling the group resource cards and were given similar leadership scores by multi-ethnic trained observers. Among males, Hispanics are …

A Water-Quality Assessment Using Aquatic Macroinvertebrates From Streams Of The Long Pine Creek Watershed In Brown County, Nebraska, Terry R. Maret

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The macro invertebrate communities of Long Pine and Bone creeks were assessed between July, 1979, and October, 1982, as part of a water-quality monitoring program of the Long Pine watershed. At least 125 and 90 taxa were collected from Long Pine and Bone creeks, respectively. Data were summarized for the six collection sites by density, taxonomic composition, and species diversity. A biotic index, modified for Nebraska waters, was used to describe the biological integrity of streams sampled. The findings are discussed in relation to observed water-quality degradation and land-use practices. Analysis showed a slight trend of impaired water quality from …

Habitat Utilization By An Introduced Fish, Gambusia Affinis, In Nebraska (Actinopterygii: Poeciliidae), John D. Lynch

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Mosquito-fish (Gambusia affinis) were introduced into Nebraska in 1972, and by 1987 had become well-established in two major rivers (Platte and Republican). In Nebraska, these fishes occupy lentic habitats (mostly sandpits and marshes into which they were usually introduced). but they also are abundant in lotic habitats (mostly in major rivers), where they primarily occur in shallow waters having low currents, habitats they invaded following escape from "cultivation." In these lotic microhabitats, they have the potential to achieve high population densities and to severely exploit such resources as become available

Purification Of Maturation-Promoting Factor, An Intracellular Regulator Of Early Mitotic Events, Manfred J. Lohka, Marianne K. Hayes, James L. Maller

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Maturation-promoting factor causes germinal vesicle breakdown when injected into Xenopus oocytes and can induce metaphase in a cell-free system. The cell-free assay was used to monitor maturation-promoting factor during its purification from unfertilized Xenopus eggs. Ammonium sulfate precipitation and six chromatographic procedures resulted in a preparation purified >3000-fold that could induce germinal vesicle breakdown within 2 hr when injected into cycloheximide- treated oocytes. Proteins of 45 kDa and 32 kDa were correlated with fractions of highest activity in both assays. These fractions contained a protein kinase activity able to phosphorylate the endogenous 45-kDa protein, as well as histone Hi, phosphatase …

Can We Guarantee The Safety Of Genetically Engineered Organisms In The Environment?, Kathleen H. Keeler, Frances E. Sharples

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Can we guarantee the safety of genetically engineered organisms in the environment? To anticipate my remarks, the answer to the title question is “No, we cannot guarantee the safety of genetically engineered organisms released into the environment.” Indeed, it is a tenet of the scientific method that nothing can be proved, only disproved. Thus, we can never show that a release will be safe. We could only show that it would be unsafe, if that were the case. However, if the question is posed differently, for example, can we safely release genetically engineered organisms into the environment?, the answer is …

Genetic Differentiation And Biochemical Polymorphism Among Trichomonads, Steven A. Nadler, B. M. Honigberg

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Isoenzyme electrophoresis was used to study levels of genetic differentiation among strains and clones of Trichomonasg allinae, Trichomonasv aginalis, Tritrichomonafso etus, Tetratrichomonags allinarum, and Pentatrichomonas hominis. Strain variation was found within T. gallinae, T. vaginalis, and T. foetus, however, levels of enzyme polymorphism were greater in T. gallinae than in T. vaginalis or T. foetus. Isoenzyme genotypes were not a stable property of T. gallinae clones cultivated in vitro. Retrospective studies of T. gallinae SG and JB6 clones revealed that mutation occurred during in vitro cultivation. Heterozygotes of hexokinase- 1 and phosphoglucomutase displayed 2 …

Sensitivity To Ingested Sulfites, Steve L. Taylor, Julie A. Nordlee

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Sulfiting agents, including sodium and potassium bisulfite, sodium and potassium metabisulfite, sodium sulfite, and sulfur dioxide, have enjoyed widespread use as food and drug ingredients. The oral ingestion of these sulfiting agents is now known to trigger asthma in a small subset of the asthmatic population. The best evidence suggests that perhaps 150,000 to 200,000 individuals in the United States may be sulfite sensitive. Although the mechanism of sulfite-induced asthma remains unknown, several possibilities have been considered, including inhalation of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) while swallowing, an IgE-mediated reaction, and a deficiency of sulfite oxidase leading to impaired sulfite …

Effects Of Gender, Ethnicity, And School Equity On Students' Leadership Behaviors In A Group Game, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Leadership skills and the perception of leadership by students and classroom teachers are examined in 10 desegregated elementary schools. The 10 schools were first divided into "high-equity" and "low-equity" schools based on the extent to which they met "integrative" educational criteria, such as multicultural curricula, multiethnic staff, minority parent involvement, and other factors. A random sample of 202 Hispanic and Anglo students participated in a cooperative group task in gender-segregated groups composed of 3 students from each ethnic group. Results indicate that trained observers found gender differences in nonverbal and verbal leadership behaviors among students across the schools, including higher …

Key To Acanthocephala Reported In Waterfowl, Malcolm Edwin Mcdonald,

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

This is the third part of a continuing series on helminths reported in waterfowl (McDonald 1974, 1981). Coots and moorhens (in Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes) are included with the Anatidae of Anseriformes. The goal of these studies is complete coverage of waterfowl helminths of the world, although the original incentive-inadequate knowledge of the parasites of North American waterfowl- is less true now. World coverage is desirable because the world distribution of the family, tribes, and even many species of waterfowl often results in world distribution of parasites. The format of this key follows that of the others in the series: …

Labor Law As The Century Turns: A Changing Of The Guard, Clyde W. Summers

Nebraska Law Review

Labor legislation in the United States and other countries has been rooted in a basic premise that individual workers lack the bargaining power in the labor market necessary to protect their own interests and to obtain socially acceptable terms of employment. When there is such economic inequality, the function of the law is to protect the weaker party. The continuing question is how we shall protect employees from socially unacceptable treatment by market forces where they lack the bargaining power to protect themselves. This question has two parts. First, who shall act as guard to protect their interests? Second, what …

Defense Perspective On Individual Employment Rights, Thomas H. Barnard, Martin S. List

Nebraska Law Review

This article explores certain developments in the area of individual employees' rights. Some of these developments have not yet fully matured to "doctrines" or discrete principles of law. Rather, some of these developments are still mere judicial hints of things which are, perhaps, still to come. In a number of instances these hints are gleaned from the language of courts which, while rejecting a claim, set forth standards under which such a claim could be established. Moreover, these developments are discussed not so much to present an encyclopedic detailing of the current status of the law in the areas of …

Private Employer Drug Testing: Invading At-Will Employees' Privacy—Is It A Tort In Nebraska?, Gregory D. Barton

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Invasion of Privacy Tort ... A. Appropriation ... B. False Light Publicity ... C. Disclosure of Private Matters ... D. Intrusion Upon Seclusion or Solitude

III. The Current Law of Intrusion ... A. The Intrusion Element ... B. The "Highly Offensive" Element

IV. Violation of Public Policy: An Alternative to Intrusion

V. Avoiding Liability for Intrusion … A. Employer Defenses to Private, At-Will Employee Intrusion Claims ... B. Employee Waivers

VI. Conclusion

Performing "Competency To Be Executed" Evaluations: A Psycholegal Analysis For Preventing The Execution Of The Insane, Mark A. Small

Nebraska Law Review

The Supreme Court's decision in Ford v. Wainwright held that the eighth amendment prohibits execution of the insane. As a result, prisoners awaiting execution now have a constitutional right not to be executed if they are found incompetent. By constitutionalizing what had been largely a common law or statutory right, the Court also instructed states to establish procedures to insure that execution of the insane did not in fact occur. Historically, those procedures that governed the determination of competency to suffer execution centered around "competency to be executed examinations" performed by mental health professionals. Many of these procedures failed to …