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Ec327 Goals For Business Operations And Family Life Part Iiia Identifying Goals For The Retailer, Paul H. Gessaman

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Campaign Circular 327: Goals for Business Operations and Family Life Part IIIa Identifying Goals for the Retailer. It includes worksheets to help you determine what your goals should be and how to achieve them.

The Probe, Issue 65 - August 1986

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE
National Animal Damage Control Association
AUGUST, 1986
New NADCA Officers
African Lions in Idaho
Toxic Collars
2,4 D
ADC
Increased Tiger Population
“The Steel Trap in North America”
Rodent Plague in New Mexico
Letters to Ye Ed
Novel European Rabbit Control
Cleaning up After the Birds
Rabies
Iguana
Treasurer’s Report
Predator Control Program
Coyotes vs. Salmon

Natural And Experimental Infection With An Attaching And Effacing Strain Of Escherichia Coli In Calvest, Rodney A. Moxley, David H. Francis

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Gnotobiotic calves were inoculated with an 05:K4:H^-, urease-positive strain of Escherichia coli isolated from a 2-day-old calf with diarrhea. The calves developed elevated temperatures and passed loose mucoid feces, with or without blood. The E. coli strain was negative for heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins but produced high levels of Shiga-like toxin. Bacteria attached diffusely to the epithelium of the large intestine and multifocally to the epithelium of the ileum. The duodenum and jejunum were not affected. At the sites of bacterial attachment, microvilli were effaced, enterocytes were degenerate, and necrosis and exfoliation had occurred. These results confirm a …

An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Cooperatives Serving Our Community Instructional Unit As Perceived By Nebraska Vocational Agriculture Instructors, Timothy P. Davis

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Purpose. The primary purpose of this study was to assess the perceptions of Nebraska vocational agriculture instructors with regard to the Cooperatives--Serving Our Community instructional unit. Method. A mailed questionnaire procedure was used to obtain information from 108 of the possible 127 Nebraska vocational agriculture instructors. A total of 78 observations were valid. The dependent variables were instructors' perceptions of instructional unit quality, value, and in-service training. Independent variables included Nebraska Vocational Agriculture Association districts, years of experience as a vocational agriculture instructor, total number of students enrolled in local vocational agriculture programs, instructional unit use-rate and participation mode at …

Production Of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-Associated Retrovirus In Human And Nonhuman Cells Transfected With An Infectious Molecular Clone, Akio Adachi, Howard E. Gendelman, Scott Koenig, Thomas Folks, Ronald Willey, Arnold Rabson, Malcom A. Martin

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

We constructed an infectious molecular clone of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-associated retrovirus. Upon transfection, this clone directed the production of infectious virus particles in a wide variety of cells in addition to human T4 cells. The progeny, infectious virions, were synthesized in mouse, mink, monkey, and several human non-T cell lines, indicating the absence of any intracellular obstacle to viral RNA or protein production or assembly. During the course of these studies, a human colon carcinoma cell line, exquisitely sensitive to DNA transfection, was identified.

Wpa News 13 (1986), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (July 1986), number 13

Published by the World Pheasant Association

The Incidence Of Cryptosporidial Infections In Nebraska Dairy Calves, Douglas Lee Varner

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Within the last decade a new etiologic agent has been identified as a possible cause of diarrhea in humans and domestic animals—that being the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and distribution of Cryptosporidium in the state of Nebraska, to determine if Cryptosporidium occurs more frequently in association with other enteropathogens and to determine about the relation of scouring in the calves to infection with Cryptosporidium. A total of 620 fecal samples from 334 dairy calves from 71 herds in Nebraska were examined for cyptosporidial oocysts using the Sheather’s sugar flotation …

Economies Of Scale And The New Technology Of Daily Newspapers: A Survivor Analysis, Seth W. Norton, Will Norton Jr.

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

The economics of the newspaper industry occupies a special place in industrial organization. Unlike the vast majority of enterprises, this business is intimately linked to the protection of freedom of expression. Constitutional democracies generally have monitored it with special care. In the United States the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 provides some antitrust immunity for segments of the industry. Ignoring a captive regulation (pro-producer, wealth-maximizing) rationale for the act, we may presume that the United States Congress deems daily newspaper viability as an objective superior to the conventional reasons for antitrust. The received logic rests on the notion that newspapers …

The Probe, Issue 64 - June/July 1986

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE
National Animal Damage Control Association
JUNE - JULY, 1986
Fund for Animals
Bird Problems
Animal Rightists
Rat Control
Rabies Update
The Eastern Coyote
Letters to Ye Ed
ADC to USDA
Historic Predation
Pittman-Robertson Act
The Fur Market
Grizzly Bear
Fish Skin Fashions
Endangered Species vs. Livestock Industry
Wild Horse & Burrow Advisory Board

A Longitudinal Study Of Mesiodistal Crown Diameters In Human Primary And Permanent Dentitions, Randall S. Asher

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

Dental practitioners treating children are often faced with the question of when to initiate orthodontic treatment. Preventive and interceptive orthodontics encourage treatment of young patients to guide developing malocclusions into functional and aesthetic harmony. Success in early orthodontic treatment depends on accurate diagnosis. Dimensional growth of the arches anterior to the first permanent molar is essentially complete by the age of eight, years of age. 24 Therefore, two important factors in dentition alignment may be the arch length anterior to the first permanent molars and the mesiodistal crown diameter (MDCD) of the permanent teeth in the arch.

The purpose of …

Restriction Endonuclease Activity Induced By Pbcv-1 Virus Infection Of A Chlorella-Like Green Alga, Yuannan Xia, Dwight Burbank, Lothar Uher

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

An enzyme was isolated from a eucaryotic, Chlorella-like green alga infected with the virus PBCV-1 which exhibits type I1 restriction endonuclease activity. The enzyme recognized the sequence GATC and cleaved DNA 5' to the G. Methylation of deoxyadenosine in the GATC sequence inhibited enzyme activity. In vitro the enzyme cleaved host Chlorella nuclear DNA but not viral DNA because host DNA contains GATC and PBCV-1 DNA contains GmATC sequences. PBCV-1 DNA is probably methylated in vivo by the PBCV-1-induced methyltransferase described elsewhere (Y. Xia and J. L. Van Etten, Mol. Cell. Biol. 6:144-1445). Restriction endonuclease activity was first detected …

The Probe, Issue 63 - May 1986

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE
National Animal Damage Control Association
MAY, 1986
Defacing Mother Nature
M-44s
Cleaing Traps
Personnel Changes
Predator Losses
USFWS and the International Association of Fish and WIldlife Agaencies
Annual Deer Harvest
Animal Rights Activists
The Wildlife Management Institute
Logo for ADC
Squirrel Attacks
The Black-footed Ferret
Wild Horses
Letters to Ye Ed
Relocating Red Wolves
State Plans Battle Against Rats

Dna Methyltransferase Induced By Pbcv-1 Virus Infection Of A Chlorella-Like Green Alga, Yuannan Xia, James L. Van Etten

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

A DNA methyltransferase was isolated from a eucaryotic, Chlorella-like green alga infected with the virus PBCV-1. The enzyme recognized the sequence GATC and methylated deoxyadenosine solely in GATC sequences. Host DNA, which contains GATC sequences, but not PBCV-1 DNA, which contains GmATC sequences, was a good substrate for the enzyme in vitro. The DNA methyltransferase activity was first detected about 1 h after viral infection; PBCV-1 DNA synthesis and host DNA degradation also began at about this time. The appearance of the DNA methyltransferase activity required de novo protein synthesis, and the enzyme was probably virus encoded. Methylation of …

Personality Type Differences Of Licensed Nurses And Implications For Continuing Education, Sally L. Cole

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This research was undertaken with the specific intent to develop a personality profile of licensed nurses (RN's and LPN's) which would provide a basis for recommendations of techniques to be utilized in continuing education programs for nurses. The instrument selected to measure the psychological type preference, and thus create the personality profile, was the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Carl Jung's theory pertaining to personality, known as type theory, states that individuals perceive and respond to information differently according to their psychological type preference which is measured by the MBTI. There was considerable correlation between the findings of this study and …

Use Of Galactose-Fermenting Streptococcus Thermophilus In The Manufacture Of Swiss, Mozzarella, And Short-Method Cheddar Cheese, Robert W. Hutkins, S.M. Halambeck, H.A. Morris

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Galactose-fermenting (galactose-posirive) strains of Streptococcus tbermopbilus, alone and combined with galactosepositive and galactose-negative strains of Lactobacillus bulgaricus, were used as starter cultures in the manufacture of Swiss and Mozzarella cheese and were paired with Streptococcus lactis (also galactose-positive) in short-method Cheddar cheese manufacture. Experimental Swiss cheese made with the galactosepositive Streptococcus tbermopbilus starter alone contained a large amount of galactose (ca. 26 to 28 /amol/g of curd) 28 h after hooping compared with control Swiss (< 2/amol/g) made with a nongalactose fermenting strain of Streptococcus tbermopbilus and a galactosepositive strain of Lactobacillus bulgaricus. Mozzarella and short-method Cheddar made with only galactose-positive Streptococcus tbermopbilus also contained …

Restriction Endonuclease Activity Induced By Pbcv-1 Virus Infection Of A Chlorella-Like Green Alga, Yuannan Xia, Dwight Burbank, Lothar Uher, Dietrmar Rabussay, James L. Van Etten

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

An enzyme was isolated from a eucaryotic, Chlorella-lie green alga infected with the virus PBCV-1 which exhibits type II restriction endonuclease activity. The enzyme recognized the sequence GATC and cleaved DNA 5' to the G. Methylation of deoxyadenosine in the GATC sequence inhibited enzyme activity. In vitro the enzyme cleaved host Chlorella nuclear DNA but not viral DNA because host DNA contains GATC and PBCV-1 DNA contains G^mATC sequences. PBCV-1 DNA is probably methylated in vivo by the PBCV-1-induced methyltransferase described elsewhere (Y. Xia and J. L. Van Etten, Mol. Cell. Biol. 6:1440-1445). Restriction endonuclease activity was …

Dod6420.1-R, Organization And Functions Of The Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (Afmic), April 1986, U.S. Department Of Defense, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This is the charter for a national-level medical intelligence agency. Specifically, the AFMC was a joint agency of the Military Departments … under the management of the Secretary of the Army…” This directive spells out the mission, functions, responsibilities, and management of the center. An Interdepartmental Advisory Panel (IAP) made recommendations to the Secretary of the Army concerning the director and officers serving at the AFMIC.

The directive contains a lengthy list of acronyms and detailed definitions.

The directive discusses close cooperation with Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia through a Quadripartite Medical Intelligence Committee (QMIC) headquartered in Washington, DC. …

Acuta Enews April 1986, Vol. 15, No. 4

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

President's Message

Party Line

Telecom Department Compensation: 1985

System 86 Cutover at Cornell

Selling

Egg Parasitism Of Scirpophaga Incertulas Walker (Lepidoptera:Pyralidae) By Hymenopterous Parasitoids In Irri Rice Fields, H. S. Kim, E. A. Heinrichs, P. Mylvaganam

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

We surveyed the IRRI farm to determine the extent of parasitization of yellow stemborer egg masses. The egg masses were randomly collected at weekly intervals from July to October 1984 from rice fields, 15-20 days after transplanting, and brought to the laboratory for collection of emerging parasites. Three species of hymenopterous parasitoids—Tetrasticus schoenobii, Telenomus rowani, and Trichogramma japonicum—were found from 700 egg masses.

We introduced a method to calculate percent parasitism as based on parasite biology and behaviour. Among the three species, the combination of T. rowani and T. japonicum was the highest multiparasitization of yellow stem borer egg …

Tropism Of Sheep Lentiviruses For Monocytes: Susceptibility To Infection And Virus Gene Expression Increase During Maturation Of Monocytes To Macrophages, Howard E. Gendelman, Opendra Narayan, Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf, Peter G. E. Kennedy, Zahra Ghotbi, J. E. Clements, Jeff Stanley, Gholam Pezeshkpour

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Visna lentiviruses have a natural tropism for cells of the macrophage lineage of sheep and goats, but virus replication in these cells in vivo is restricted so that only small quantities of virus are produced. One restricting factor suggested in previous studies is that virus replication is dependent on the maturity of the cells: the more mature the cell, the less restrictive the replication of the virus. Since monocytes in peripheral blood are precursors of macrophages, we investigated the effect of cell maturation on virus replication under limited control conditions in vitro by inoculating blood leukocytes with virus and retarding …

Pest Bird Control With The Avicide Bcf 7000-Sun Oil Refinery Project, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Charles W. Areson

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

The Sun Refinery at Tulsa presented a new and special type of problem that I had never faced before. The refinery is just across the Arkansas River from downtown Tulsa. Many species of protected birds roost and nest within the confines of the refinery proper and in the surrounding river bank areas to the north, urban and manufacturing area to the east and southeast, rail yards to the south, and hills to the south and southwest. According to Sidney Cabbiness, Environmental Egineer for Sun, the following birds and other animals are known to make this area their home or feeding …

Secondary Toxicity Of Coyotes Killed By 1080 Single-Dose Baits, Richard J. Burns, Guy E. Connolly, Iwao Okuno

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

Carcasses and viscera of coyotes poisoned by Compound 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) in single-dose tallow baits (SDBs) were fed to 3 coyotes, 3 domestic dogs, 4 striped skunks, and 15 black-billed magpies to determine if these species would be poisoned secondarily. Test subjects received no food other than tissues from poisoned coyotes for periods of 14 to 35 days. Total amounts of contaminated coyote tissues consumed by dogs, coyotes, skunks, and magpies, respectively, averaged 67, 152, 117, and 371% of body weight. Except for one skunk that refused to eat, no mortalities occurred and no evidence of poisoning was seen.

The …

An Integrated Pest Management Approach To Roof Rat Control In Oceanfront Riprap, Ventura County, California, Daniel P. Claffey, Minoo B. Madon, Randall T. Smith

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

During the summer months of 1979, public agencies in Ventura County received complaints which pointed to a rodent infestation of campground areas along the north coastal strip. Investigations revealed a widespread infestation of oceanfront riprap by roof rats (Rattus rattus). Visual surveillance, trapping, baiting and population-estimating techniques and results are described and discussed. Implementation of integrated pest management practices resulted in the reduction of rat populations to a no-complaint level and provided a framework for a long-term maintenance program.

Bird Problems In California Pistachio Production, A. Charles Crabb, Terrell P. Salmon, Rex E. Marsh

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

In 1984 studies were initiated to identify the bird species causing damage to pistachio nuts, quantify the losses, and explore possible methods for alleviating bird losses. The first year's field observations were made to identify and determine the level of activity of the various depredating bird species in the orchard. Field samples of nuts were collected to assess the levels of damage occurring in representative orchards. A mail survey of all commercial pistachio growers in California was conducted to determine which bird species growers believed were the cause of nut losses, the extent of damage they have experienced and what, …

Evaluating A Pop-Up Scarecrow Coupled With A Propane Exploder For Reducing Blackbird Damage To Ripening Sunflower, John L. Cummings, C. Edward Knittle, Joseph L. Guarino

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

A combination Purivox® Double-John carousel propane exploder and CO2 pop-up scarecrow operated in synchrony was evaluated in five ripening sunflower fields in 1981 and 1982, respectively, near Devils Lake and Westhope, North Dakota. In each field, this treatment was evaluated in an alternating off-on sequence of 5-day intervals for a period of 20 days. In 1981, devices were deployed at one unit per 8 to 10 acres and in 1982 at one unit per 4 to 6 acres. The degree of effectiveness for reducing bird damage in three of five fields that met selection criteria ranged from 71 to 87% …

Batproofing Structures With Birdnetting Checkvalves, Stephen C. Frantz

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

Denial of re-entry (batproofing) through structural modification is widely accepted as the most effective and ecologically sound method for eliminating commensal bats from structures. Such methods are clearly superior to lethal measures which have only questionable efficacy and may exacerbate bat/human interactions. However, since bats are able to enter small and obscure openings, conventional batproofing of all such openings is often not practical or economical. Further since this work must usually be done after bats have already begun roosting in a structure, the difficulty of high ladder work at night to seal exit holes can be discouraging to homeowners as …

Salmon Poisoning Disease: Research On A Potential Method Of Lethal Control For Coyotes, Jeffrey S. Green, Brad R. Leamaster, William J. Foreyt, Roger A. Woodruff

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

Salmon poisoning disease (SPD) was tested as a potential method of lethal control for coyotes (Canis latrans). Fresh fish containing the agents for SPD was fed to 72 captive adult coyotes. Coho (Oncorhunchus kisutch) and steel head salmon (Salmo gairdneri) from Oregon hatcheries were the principal species of fish used. Coyotes that ate the fish developed observable signs of SPD in a mean of 8 days. The overall rate of mortality was 50%, and death occurred in a mean of 20 days from consuming fish. Coyotes that died from SPD lost a mean of …

Wildlife Damage In Conservation Tillage Agriculture: A New Challenge, Ron J. Johnson

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

Conservation-tillage farming systems have changed agriculture and brought new challenges to the wildlife damage field. Associated minor problems may result from the presence of rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis) or badgers (Taxidea taxus), but sprout-pulling damage by birds has not been reported. Rodents dig and consume newly planted corn. At least 14 small mammal species have been captured in notillage cornfields, some species throughout fields and others primarily at edges. Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) generally have been the most abundant, comprising 71 to 93% of total captures. Small mammal populations in no-tillage fields are generally no …

A Review Of Brodifacoum Efficacy In The U.S. And Worldwide, Dale E. Kaudeinen, Michael Rampaud

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

It was just over 10 years ago with the paper by Hadler and Shadbolt (1975) that a series of novel anticoagulants, which included brodifacoum, was announced. Today, after a decade of brodifacoum study and experience, the value of this compound in vertebrate pest management, particularly in rodent control, can scarcely be questioned. In order to most effectively build upon this experience, a thorough review of the literature for the period of 1975 to 1985 was undertaken to also include much unpublished information available to the authors.

Undoubtedly to a greater extent than any other new vertebrate pesticide, brodifacoum has been …

The Effectiveness Of Strychinie Laced Alfalfa On Pocket Gopher Activity In Diamond Valley, Nevada, Steven R. Lewis, John O'Brien

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 12th (1986)

The Townsend pocket gopher, (Thomomys townsendi), poses a serious economic threat to alfalfa production in Diamond Valley, Nevada. Many control methods have been practiced with only limited or seasonal success. Application of strychnine-treated alfalfa hay has been an effective control method; however, the relationship between strychnine concentration and pocket gopher kill has not been examined. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of three concentrations (0.5%, 1.0% and 1.7%) of strychnine-treated alfalfa hay baits. The three strychnine levels and untreated control were replicated three times on twelve 0.8-ha (2.0-ac) plots. Plots were located on a 6-year-old stand …