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Pinworms And Primates: A Case Study In Coevolution, Daniel R. Brooks, David R. Glen

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Cladistic analysis of 13 species of Enterobius based on 31 morphological characters supports the notion that pinworms and primates have co-speciated. A possible exception is the relationship between Enterobius vermicularis and Homo. Enterobius vermicularis is postulated to be the sister-species of E. buckleyi + E. lerouxi + E. anthropopitheci. Thus, if co-speciation has occurred, Homo is the sister-group of Pongo + Gorilla + Pan. Examination of the possibility that E. vermicularis in Homo is the result of host-switching or that Homo has been misclassified demonstrates that the latter possibility is the more parsimonious one.

A Simulations Approach To Discerning Possible Sister-Groups Of Dioecotaenia Schmidt, 1969 (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea: Dioecotaeniidae), Daniel R. Brooks

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Apparent common architectural constraints in the structure of the bothridia of both species of Dioecotaenia permit testing of a number of models for the evolution of the scolex of Dioecotaenia from that found in other tetraphyllidean cestodes. Although presently known species of Dioecotaenia exhibit bothridialloculi in the shape of hexagons, derivation of those bothridia from an ancestor possessing a single central hexagonal bothridium with marginal loculi would not produce total bothridialloculi numbers consistent with those known. A more feasible derivation involves an ancestral form exhibiting three linear loculi. If the loculi are arranged vertically, as in species of Rhinebothrium, …

The Effect Of Flanking Context On Visual Classification: The Joint Contribution Of Interactions At Different Processing Levels, John H. Flowers, Noreen Wilcox

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Flanking characters that surround a target character may cause either facilitation of or interference with target classification, depending on experimental context. In three different experiments, the patterns of facilitative priming and interference were shown to change systematically as a function of onset asynchrony between flankers and target, illustrating differing time courses of the overlapping processes that each contributes to overall reaction time performance.

Effects Of Contextual Information On Behavior Of Calidris Sandpipers Following Alarm Calls, Daniel W. Leger, Jami L. Nelson

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Two classes of individuals-signalers and recipients -xist in all animal communication systems (Wilson 1975, Smith 1977). Signals make information available and recipients use this information when "choosing" a response (e.g., Leger and Owings 1978; Seyfarth et al. 1980a, b). Contextual information, which exists outside signals, is also usually available to recipients and may be appraised by them when selecting a response (Smith 1965, 1977). Consequently, to fully understand the responses of recipients we must identify contextual information in addition to signal-conveyed information.

Vertebrate "alarm" signals (signals emitted in the presence of potential predators) may be multi-functional and appear to vary …

The Fayum Primate Forest Revisited, Thomas M. Bown, Mary Kraus, Scott Wing, John Fleagle, Bruce H. Tiffney, Elwyn Simons, Carl F. Vondra

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

In Oligocene times, the Fayum area of northern Egypt was a subtropical to tropical lowland coastal plain with damp soils and seasonal rainfall that supported an abundance and variety of vegetation, including lianes (large vines), tall trees, and possibly mangroves, and a large and varied vertebrate fauna. The Oligocene marine strandline was close by and principal Jebel Qatrani Formation streams were probably brackish several kilometers inland due to tidal incursions. Sediments of the Jebel Qatrani Formation were deposited by several large meandering streams, associated with minor but sometimes extensive flood basin ponds. These rocks provide no evidence for the former …

Namru-3 Translations Of Parasite Literature From Russian, French, Japanese, Etc. Into English (1931-1982) T1501-T1600, United States Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Cairo, Medical Zoology Department

United States Naval Medical Research Unit 3: Publications

T1501. TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN. LEONOV, Yu. A. and KHARITONOVA, N. N. (1972). Experimental confirmation of the role of root voles in epizootiology of Omsk hemorrhagic fever. In: Transcontinental associations of migratory birds and their role in distribution of arboviruses, edited by Cherepanov, A. I. Mater. 5. Simp. Izuch. Roli Pereletn. Ptits Rasp. Arbovirus. (Novosibirsk, July 1969), pp. 355-358.

T1503. TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN. GASANOV, A. A. (1963). The infection of Rhipicephalus bursa (Can. et Fanz., 1877) with Babesia ovis in the Nakhichevan Region of the ASSR. Izv. Akad. Nauk Azerb. SSR, s. Biol. Med. Nauk, (4):117-123.

T1504. TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN. TSAPRUN, …

The Involvement Of Nebraska Vocational Education Secondary School Advisory Councils In The Preparation Of The Local Plan For Vocational Education, Roy D. Dillon

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

With passage of the 1976 Vocational Education Amendments, PL 94-482, local schools were required to establish an advisory council or councils to enable lay persons to have input into decisions regarding the local secondary vocational education program. This policy was established on the rationale that local citizens have a right and responsibility to assist in the decisions concerning which clientele groups will be served by the local school, and what knowledges these persons should receive.

The State Advisory Council for Vocational Education, in an effort to fulfill one of its responsibilities, asked that a statewide status study be conducted to …

Searching For A Liberty Interest: The Prisoner's Right To Due Process: Connecticut Board Of Pardons V. Dumschat, 101 S. Ct. 2460 (1981), David Detar Newbert

Nebraska Law Review

In order to facilitate an understanding of the current state of prisoners' protected rights, this Note first discusses the historical development of those rights. It then examines the Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat opinion in light of the previous decisions of the United States Supreme Court regarding prisoners' due process rights. Finally, this Note discusses Dumschat's role in the Court's continued narrowing of the threshold criteria required for prisoners to establish liberty interests worthy of constitutional protection.

I. Introduction

II. Historical Rights of Prisoners

III. The Dumschat Decision … A. Lower Court Opinions … B. Supreme Court Decision …

Insurance Policy Conditions And The Nebraska Contribute To The Loss Statute: A Primer And A Partial Critique, Robert Works

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. What Defenses Are Subject to the Contribute to the Loss Standard? ... A. Pre-Inception Failures of Condition Are Immune … B. Post-Casualty Failures of Condition Are Immune ... C. Post-Inception, Pre-Loss Failures of Coverage Clause Conditions Are Immune ... 1. The Implied Exception for Coverage Clause Defenses ... 2. Determining the Scope of the Coverage Clause Exception ... a. Method 1: Ask Which Conditions Function to Define Coverage and Thus Are Beyond the Reach of the Statute ... b. Method 2: Ask Which Conditions Carry the Potential for Evils Addressed by the Statute and Thus Should Be …

Indexes To Volume 61

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of The Nebraska Career Information System, Donnalee Heather Van Zante

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

The specific objectives of this study were to compare the extent of knowledge possessed by students in Nebraska Career Information System (NCIS) schools and those in non-NCIS schools with regard to: (1) work factors as well as a knowledge of the interests and abilities which relate to these factors; (2) postsecondary school entrance and financial requirements, schools which provide training for specified occupations, together with knowledge of employment opportunities available in those occupations; (3) knowledge of working conditions, including work settings, wage scales, and the salary necessary for a beginning wage. Additional objectives were to compare the extent to which …

Identification Of Factors Influencing Student Choices Of Secondary Vocational Educational Teaching As A Career, Josee Lee Forell

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

The purpose of this study was to identify factors influentia1 in student choices of secondary vocational teaching as a career. The population for the study consisted of students entering vocational teacher education programs in public postsecondary institutions in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Vocational areas included agriculture, business education, health occupations, home economics, industrial education (including industrial arts) and marketing and distributive education. Questions investigated included the degree of influence of particular persons, preparationa1 experiences, and intrinsic and extrinsic vocational teaching-related factors on student decisions to enter vocational teacher education. Questions relating to the time at which students made the …

The Probe, Issue 17 - November 1981

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE National Animal Damage Control Association November, 1981
It is now time to pay your dues.
Bats roosting in an attic can provide a free and easy way to keep a house warm in winter.
THE NO ANTIDOTE 1080
ORCHARD MOUSE CONTROL
The highly publicized "Adopt-a-Horse" program of the FRIENDS UF ANIMALS that was foisted on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is undergoing reevaluation.
NADCA ANNUAL MEETING
ASTM SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ON PUBLIC LANDS
Cats won't chase birds at the bird feeder if you feed the birds lemon-scented bird seed.
The killing of the three-year old by …

Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report, July 1980–June 1981, R. R. Burchett

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

This annual report presents and interprets the information obtained by the Conservation and Survey Division (Nebraska Geological Survey) during contract year July 1, 1980, to June 30, 1981, under contract NRC-04-76-3l5 with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The information pertains to the geology, structure, tectonics, and seismicity of eastern Nebraska with emphasis on central Otoe County. Some of the information presented here results from a combination of studies begun in earlier years but the greater part results from studies begun during the contract year.

The scope of the studies is summarized as follows:

1. Rock outcrops in Otoe County were …

Fifth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop: Proceedings -- Frontmatter And Contents

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

WORKSHOP CHAIRPERSONS
Ron J. Johnson — Extension Wildlife Specialist, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Robert M. Timm - - Extension Vertebrate Pest Specialist, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

POSTER SESSION CHAIRPERSON
Ronald M. Case — Professor, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

PANEL AND SESSION CHAIRPERSONS
William D. Fitzwater — Director, bioLOGIC Consultants, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Roger E. Gold — Coordinator, Environmental Programs, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Walter E. Howard — Professor and Ecologist, Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, University of California, Davis …

Pyrotechnics For Bird Control, Geral L. Long

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

It is a little disputed fact that each year birds cause damage through crop depredation, roosting activities, and bird/aircraft strike damage with occasionally associated loss of life . Stephen (1961) cites an article by Elkins (1957) which said ducks cause millions of dollars of loss to barley, oats, and wheat crops in Canadian prairies. Damage to ripening cereal grain crops in the western United States is one of the most widespread bird problems (DeGrazio 1964). Zajanc (1962) reports these losses are estimated at $15 million annually in three western states alone where blackbirds feed in fields of rice, corn, small …

Bird-Vectored Diseases, P.M. Gough, J.W. Beyer

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Although property damage and losses can be inflicted by wild birds throughout the entire year, avian-vectored diseases of livestock are primarily a winter phenomenon in the Great Plains states. Reasons for this include the following: (1) During the winter season the birds congregate in flocks of sufficient size to be of epidemiologic significance. (2) There is a high degree of interaction between birds and livestock only when limited food induces the birds to forage among confined animals and when adverse weather forces the birds to seek shelter in housing units for livestock. (3) Colder temperatures increase the time of survival …

Tranquilizer Use In Wildlife Damage Control, Jerry Hoilien, David Oates

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Acceptable handling of problem or nuisance animals has been a concern of the general public and many local, state, and federal agencies. In the past, handling of these animals involved physical restraining techniques. These techniques exposed not only the "restrainer" but the "restrainee" to potential physical damage. Equipment utilizing Sucostrin as the immobilizing agent was developed to minimize these hazards.

Keynote Address - Wildlife Damage Control And The Cooperative Extension Services, James E. Miller

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Since the establishment of the Extension Service within the United States Department of Agriculture in 1914, in accordance with the mandate of the Smith-Lever Act, Extension personnel have recognized the need and responsibility to provide educational programs to assist clientele both rural and urban. These programs from the "grass roots" level to the Federal level are based on the "long established premise that assisting people with factual, effective and practical educational programs to help them solve problems, evaluate alternatives and make objective decisions, would provide these people with information that would enable them to help themselves. Wildlife damage control was …

Coyote Management: A Rationale For Population Reduction, Dale A. Wade

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Historic and anecdotal information on coyote depredation and population control is presented, with case histories from specific areas. Population reduction methods, their application and their limitations are described. Situations in which coyote population management is desirable and some of the restrictions imposed by laws and regulations are discussed.

Commercial Exhibitors & Workshop Participants -- Fifth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

A total of 10 firms and 120 people registered. They came from 30 states, the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces.

Repellents For Deer And Rabbits, Edward K. Boggess

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Rabbit and deer damage to newly planted trees is a serious problem in many areas of western Kansas and throughout much of the Great Plains. This problem is particularly serious in the establishment of new windbreak and shelterbelt plantings.

Panel Discussion: Ecology And Management Of Prairie Dogs, James L. Stubbendieck

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Questions and answers: Monte G. Garrett, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, Greg L. Schenbeck

Efficacy And Costs Of Four Rodenticides For Controlling Columbian Ground Squirrels In Western Montana, Steven W. Albert, C. Raymond Record

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Efficacy and costs of four rodenticides for the control of Columbian ground squirrels were compared in western Montana. Reductions in surface ground squirrel activity and costs per 100 burrows treated for the various treatments were: 1080 oat groats 99.6%-$3.11, gas cartridges 72.2%-$26.57, strychnine oats 64.2%-$3.06, zinc phosphide cabbage 60.9%-$8.48, zinc phosphide oats 41.3%-$3.15, and strychnine cabbage 14.4%-$9.58. Surface deaths associated with 1080 amounted to 2.35 ground squirrels per 100 burrows treated. Above ground death rates for the remaining treatments were negligible or nonexistent for both target and non-target species. One white-footed deer mouse was found dead on the strychnine cabbage …

Criteria For Pesticide Registration, John R. Beck, William B. Jackson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Satisfactory criteria for registration of vertebrate pesticides, other than for commensal rodents, are largely lacking. Even those that are available have not made their way fully through the bureaucratic processes of EPA. Recognizing the difficulty of standardizing pesticide registration, EPA in 1973 requested that the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) consider establishing a committee on pesticides for the purpose of writing consensus standards, guidelines, and practice statements. The resulting committee of more than 400 biological scientists and chemists from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies has prepared standards on many phylogenetic areas.

Urban Vertebrate Pest Management: A Practical Approach, Patricia A. Chamberlain, Milton Caroline, William A. Wright

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Urban vertebrate pest management is influenced by a variety of factors. Public perceptions of wildlife limit control specialists in their methods of operation. Population density, costs of operation and timing of control are considered. Suggestions are made for operational mode, methods, baits, traps and disposal. Two new trapping concepts are described and experimental data on attractants are given. Computer-summarized data on urban wild life conflicts from one state (Texas) show that most complaints can be handled by extension methods supplemented with direct control by the public and wild life damage control specialists.

U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Coyote Control Research, Guy Connolly

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

This paper reviews recent research by the Denver Wildlife Research Center, Section of Predator Management Research, on chemical and lethal coyote control methods. Steel trap modifications, aerial shooting, den hunting, the M-44 (spring-loaded sodium cyanide ejector), toxic and nontoxic baits, the toxic collar, other livestock-borne toxicants, development of new toxicants, and aversive conditioning with lithium chloride are discussed. No new, lethal coyote control method has been implemented into practical use over the past decade, but toxic baits and den hunting were lost or banned from use in the Federal-Cooperative Animal Damage Control Program. One new technique, the toxic collar, may …

Status Of The Environmental Protection Agency's Review Of Rodenticides, William C. Dickinson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

The EPA is currently conducting RPAR reviews on two widely used rodenticides, strychnine and Compound 1080. In addition, Registration Standards have been developed for the rodenticides warfarin and Fumarin®. The Zinc Phosphide Standard is currently under development. The author briefly explains the factors the Agency has been taking into account in reaching final resolution on these chemicals as well as outlining EPA's re-registration and RPAR programs.

Prairie Dog Dispersal In Wind Cave National Park: Possibilities For Control, Monte G. Garrett, William L. Franklin

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

A study was conducted in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, to collect basic information on black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) dispersal and to test alternative control techniques. Dispersal occurred during a limited time period in late spring, involved both male and female prairie dogs, and resulted in relatively short movements and poor survivorship. The use of artificial visual barriers to inhibit colony expansion was effective but difficult to apply. The use of diethylstilbestrol as a temporary anti-fertility agent was shown to be an easy and effective method to reduce prairie dog reproduction and decrease colony expansion.

Animal Damage Control - Now And In The Future, James F. Gillett

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak to you today on behalf of the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service. I believe animal damage control is an element of a comprehensive wild life management program. It deals with population dynamics, mortality factors, and other management considerations. It is one of a variety of challenges faced by all wildlife managers regardless of whether they are dealing with big game, waterfowl, or even endangered species. Some question the role of, or need for, intensive management of wildlife populations in favor of a "let nature take its course" approach. …