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Editorial Matter For Volume 3, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 3, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON LIBERAL LEARNING
We THINK We Can, We THINK We Can… -- Sam Schuman
Liberal Education: “Learning to Learn” -- Dale Knobel
That Fine Little House -- Rosalie Otero
Creating a Common Voice for Liberal Arts Education -- Charles F. Blaich and Mauri A. Ditzler
The “Little House” That Can -- John Nichols
Presidents’ Call: Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning -- Carol Schneider

LIBERAL LEARNING AT ITS BEST
Understanding Caesar’s Gallic Ethnography: A Contextual Approach to Protohistory -- Erin Osborne-Martin (Portz Award Winner)

PEDAGOGIES OF …

Editorial Matter For Volume 4, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication (Bernice Braid)
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

That Fine Little House, Rosalie Otero

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I was intrigued by Sam Schuman’s allegory about liberal arts education using Virginia Lee Burton’s story of The Little House. Sam points out that it was not the little house that changed, but its neighborhood. I would argue that not only the neighborhood changed, but what went on inside the little house. Like most people, my first house was small, and the activities that went on within our house generally centered around a young family and a new career. As the years progressed, I moved to a larger house, and the activities changed from managing teenagers to grandchildren and …

Distribution Of Eastern Woodrats In A Grassland-Woodland Mosaic: Influence Of Vegetation And Fire, Jon P. Beckmann, Glennis A. Kaufman, Donald Kaufman

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

The eastern woodrat is a characteristic, charismatic rodent in the prairie region. We assessed the distribution of eastern woodrats (Neotoma floridana) within the mosaic of interspersed grasslands and woodlands on the Konza Prairie Biological Station. In summer 1996 we recorded the placement of eastern woodrat nests in 10 areas that differed in prescribed fire regimes. Although most vegetation in our study sites (>90% of the area) was native tallgrass prairie, all of the nests (n = 122) were associated with woody-shrubby vegetation. Nests of the eastern woodrat were more common along limestone outcrops that had trees and …

Great Plains Research Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2002 - Frontmatter

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

Frontmatter

Review Of Biodiversity And Democracy: Rethinking Society And Nature By Paul M. Woods, Richard K. Baydack

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

Biodiversity and Democracy is a well-written book about the challenges of conserving biological diversity within the democratic societies of North America. Paul Woods espouses a novel and innovative viewpoint on the need to conserve biological diversity over the long haul, a concept not generally well-refined in democratic societies. Woods argues that a new paradigm-The Priority of Biodiversity Principle-needs to take precedence in decision-making. In short, Woods recommends that in public land-use decisions, the conservation of biological diversity should take priority over short-term public interest. Though exactly how decision-makers can ascertain if the Principle has been adhered to is a question …

Effect Of Flea Beetles (Aphthona Nigriscutis) On Prairie Invaded By Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia Esula) In Maintoba, Michelle Mico, Jennifer Shay

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

Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is an invasive exotic weed in Great Plains rangelands and pastures. Aphthona nigriscutis, the black dot flea beetle, was released as a biological control agent in nine heavily infested sites in south-central Manitoba (three sites in 1986, three in 1988, and three in 1990). In 1992 we evaluated beetle impact by sampling the vegetation in 25 x 25 cm quadrats. We measured cover, height, density, and biomass of leafy spurge, the cover of litter and bare ground, and the presence of other plant species both at the release point and at randomly-chosen nearby …

Extended Visions March-April 2002

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

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Hexapod Herald - Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2002

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Calendar of events

Congratulations

Welcome

Presentations

Grants

Faculty news

Graduate student news

Condolences

Publications

Travel

From the office

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American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 24, No. 1, March 2002, Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

An issue of the American Society of Parasitologists' quarterly newsletter, also called the Journal of Parasitology Newsletter.

Scwds Briefs: Volume 18, Number 1 (April 2002) -- Special Cwd Issue

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

SPECIAL CWD ISSUE

• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• TSEs of Domestic Animals and Humans
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• Chronic Wasting Disease 101
• CWD Epidemiology
• CWD Diagnosis
• CWD Surveillance, Doing the Numbers
• CWD Management
• CWD in Captive Cervids
• CWD in Wild Deer and Elk
• Public Health Concerns About CWD

Proceedings Of The 27th Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (April 6-8, 2000, Fort Walton Beach Florida), John S. Russin, Stephen R. Koenning, Raymond W. Schneider, Peggy S. King

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Contents

Southern United States Soybean Disease Loss Estimate for 1999. Compiled by SR Koenning

Treasury report. Peggy S King

Invited presentation

Bean Pod Mottle: A Soybean Disease on the Rise in the New Millennium. SA Ghabrial

Contributed papers

Response of Selected Mid-South Soybean Varieties to the Reniform Nematode. GW Lawrence, KS McLean, and SM Baird

Field Response of Soybean Cultivars to the Reniform Nematode Rotylenchulus reniformis. PS King, DB Weaver, and R Rodriguez-Kabana

Approaches to Race Determination in Soybean Cyst Nematode. AJ Palmateer, ME Schmidt, SR Stetina, and JS Russin

Nematological Survey of Selected Soybean and Cotton Fields in …

Pyruvate,Orthophosphate Dikinase In Leaves And Chloroplasts Of C3 Plants Undergoes Light-/Dark- Induced Reversible Phosphorylation, Chris J. Chastain, Jason P. Fries, Julie A. Vogel, Christa L. Randklev, Adam P. Vossen, Sharon K. Dittmer, Erin E. Watkins, Lucas J. Fiedler, Sarah A. Wacker, Katherine Meinhover, Gautam Sarath, Raymond Chollet

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Pyruvate,orthophosphate (Pi) dikinase (PPDK) is best recognized as a chloroplastic C₄ cycle enzyme. As one of the key regulatory foci for controlling flux through this photosynthetic pathway, it is strictly and reversibly regulated by light. This light/dark modulation is mediated by reversible phosphorylation of a conserved threonine residue in the active-site domain by the PPDK regulatory protein (RP), a bifunctional protein kinase/phosphatase. PPDK is also present in C₃ plants, although it has no known photosynthetic function. Nevertheless, in this report we show that C₃ PPDK in leaves of several angiosperms and in isolated intact spinach (Spinacia …

Spatial Description And Analysis Of Grasshopper Abundances In Colorado Rangeland, Kerri Skinner, R. Dennis Child, Thomas O. Holtzer

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

Although rangeland grasshopper populations have been studied for more than 120 years, little is known of the spatial patterns in grasshopper numbers between outbreak cycles. This information is necessary to understand how grasshopper outbreaks develop and to correctly design research, monitoring, and modeling projects. We used exploratory data analysis and geostatistics to identify the spatial patterns in grasshopper numbers for 1993 through 1997 in Colorado. The same family of models (spherical) provided the best fit to the sample data for all years, which implies that similar processes influenced grasshopper densities over these years. The parameters of the models differed among …

Review Of The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations And Commentaries Edited By Curt D. Meine And Richard L. Knight, Thomas R. Dunlap

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

A book of quotations is always suspect, and one on Leopold doubly so. The form suggests hagiography, which Leopold scholarship does not need, or the desire to make accessible an important but obscure body of thought, which is not the case with Leopold. Even more alarming, the editors have arranged Leopold's ideas into categories, although one of his great strengths was his willingness to think across intellectual boundaries. Dipping into the collection, however, allays all fears. This volume gives the general reader a good, well-organized look at Leopold's ideas. Scholars get a lot more: a wealth of quotations for lectures …

Habitat Conservation For Birds In The Mississippi Headwaters/Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem, Rolf Koford, Heidi Stallman

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

Land management agencies need to plan and prioritize their activities to best use limited resources. To implement ecosystem management, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has defined watershed-based planning units, such as the Mississippi Headwaters/Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem. To identify important habitats for migratory birds in this ecosystem, we ranked habitats according to their importance for breeding birds of conservation concern, using rankings of the birds' conservation priority within this ecosystem. Grasslands and wetlands were the highest ranked habitats because 12 (46%) and 9 (25%), respectively, of the species breeding in these habitats had "Partners in Flight" scores greater than 19 …

Identical Its-1 And Its-2 Sequences Suggest Spiculopteragia Asymmetrica And Spiculopteragia Quadrispiculata (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae) Constitute Morphologically Distinct Variants Of A Single Species (Research Notes), Mónica Santín-Durán, Concepción De La Fuente, José M. Alunda, Benjamin M. Rosenthal, Eric P. Hoberg

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Sequences of ITS-1 and ITS-2 rDNA for adult males of Spiculopteragia asymmetrica,/i> and Spiculopteragia quadrispiculata in red deer (Cervus elaphus) were determined. They were found to be identical, suggesting that S. asymmetrica and S. quadrispiculata represent a single species and do not refute the concept of dimorphic species in the Spiculopteragia.

Nutria (Myocaster Coypus) In Louisiana, John Baroch, Mark Hafner, Tommy L. Brown, Jeff J. Mach, Richard M. Poché

Other Publications in Wildlife Management

Biology and Natural History of the Nutria, With Special Reference to Nutria in Louisiana
The nutria or coypu (Myocastor coypus) is a rodent native to South America that has been introduced almost worldwide since the early 1900’s, originally with the intent of fur farming in many cases. The nutria is a large (over 6 kg), semi-aquatic rodent with a voracious appetite and high reproductive potential. Nutria became established in the Louisiana wetlands in the 1930’s. The habitat proved to be ideal and populations exploded, reaching an estimated 20 million animals in less than 20 years. Trapping of nutria …

Cropwatch No. 2002-3, March 29, 2002, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Updates………….22

Controlling downy brome………….24

Grazing weedy pastures………….24

Winter annuals in no-till………….25

New herbicides………….25

Climate change & wheat………….26

Waste collection sites………….26

Farmer input needed………….27

Ag land values up………….28

Valuing manure………….29

Check alfalfa condition………….29

Valuing biosolids………….30

Research project profile………….30

Report Of Animal Bones From Tjarnargata 3c, Reykjavík, Iceland, Sophia Perdikaris, Colin Amundsen, Thomas H. Mcgovern

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Executive Summary

During rescue excavations in downtown Reykjavík in 1999 nearly 100 kg of well-preserved animal bone was recovered in investigations at Tjarnargata 3 C by Fornleifastofnun Islands (FSÍ) directed by Mjöll Snaesdóttir. This bone collection (or archaeofauna) was largely sieved (4 mm and 1 mm mesh wet screen) and represents one of the largest archaeofauna recovered from Iceland to date. Analysis was carried out at City University of New York’s Northern Science & Education Center’s two zooarchaeology laboratories at Brooklyn College and Hunter College in 2000-01. The analyzed bone materials were returned for long term curation at the National …

Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery 2002 Annual Report

Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery: Annual Reports

Wolves (Canis lupus) in the Northern Rocky Mountain states (Idaho, Montana and Wyoming) continue to increase in distribution and numbers (Figures 1, 5). Estimates of wolf numbers at the end of 2002 were 284 wolves in the Central Idaho Recovery Area, 271 in the Greater Yellowstone Recovery Area, and 108 in the Northwest Montana Recovery Area for a total of 663 (Figure 1, Table 4a). By state boundaries, there were an estimated 263 wolves in the state of Idaho, 217 in Wyoming and 183 in Montana (Table 4b). Of approximately 80 groups of two or more wolves, 43 …

The Shca Protein Is A Molecular Chaperone That Assists In The Secretion Of The Hoppsya Effector From The Type Iii (Hrp) Protein Secretion System Of Pseudomonas Syringae, Karin V. Van Dijk, Vincent C. Tam, Angela R. Records, Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja, James R. Alfano

Center for Plant Science Innovation: Faculty Publications

Pseudomonas syringae uses a type III protein secretion system encoded by the Hrp pathogenicity island (Pai) to translocate effector proteins into plant cells. One of these effector proteins is HopPsyA. A small open reading frame (ORF), named shcA, precedes the hopPsyA gene in the Hrp Pai of P. s. syringae 61. The predicted amino acid sequence of shcA shares general characteristics with chaperones used in type III protein secretion systems of animal pathogens. A functionally non-polar deletion of shcA in P. s. syringae 61 resulted in the loss of detectable HopPsyA in supernatant fractions, consistent with ShcA acting as a …

Emergence Of A New Cucurbit-Infecting Begomovirus Species Capable Of Forming Viable Reassortants With Related Viruses In The Squash Leaf Curl Virus Cluster, J. K. Brown, A. M. Idris, C. Alteri, Drake C. Stenger

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Cucurbit leaf curl virus (CuLCV), a whitefly-transmitted geminivirus previously partially characterized from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, was identified as a distinct bipartite begomovirus species. This virus has near sequence identity with the previously partially characterized Cucurbit leaf crumple virus from California. Experimental and natural host range studies indicated that CuLCV has a relatively broad host range within the family Cucurbitaceae and also infects bean and tobacco. The genome of an Arizona isolate, designated CuLCV-AZ, was cloned and completely sequenced. Cloned CuLCV-AZ DNA A and B components were infectious by biolistic inoculation to pumpkin and progeny virus was …

Size Of Beef Cows: Early Ideas, New Developments, Jesus Arango, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Optimum size for beef cattle is debated among researchers, cattle breeders and producers. Cattle vary widely in body size but optimal size depends on the production system. Selection has placed emphasis on growth, favoring leaner and faster growing cattle. This trend has led to an increase immature size of cattle that may not necessarily be advantageous. Many research results have indicated that there is not a direct relationship between size and efficiency in beef production if each biological type of cattle is managed according to its nutrient requirements and management practices within the beef industry in the world, however, a …

Phylogenetic Relationships, Strain Diversity And Biogeography Of Tritimoviruses, Frank Rabenstein, Dallas L. Seifers, Jorg Schubert, Roy C. French, Drake C. Stenger

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

North American and Eurasian isolates of Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV; genus Tritimovirus) and Oat necrotic mottle virus (ONMV; genus Rymovirus) were examined. Nine WSMV isolates differentially infected oat, barley, inbred maize line SDp2 and sorghum line KS56. The WSMV isolates clustered into groups based on phylogenetic analyses of the capsid protein (CP) cistron and flanking regions. WSMV isolates from the United States (US) and Turkey were closely related, suggesting recent movement between continents. Although more divergent, WSMV from Iran (WSMV-I) also shared a most recent common ancestor with the US and Turkish isolates. Another group of WSMV …

Observations On Possible Myrmecophily In Stephanucha Pilipennis Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) In Western Nebraska, M. J. Paulsen

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

Little has been published on the life history of the five currently recognized species of Stephanucha Burmeister. Skelley (1991) published the most thorough treatment to date for S. thoracica Casey (recently synonymized with S. areata (F.) by Harpootlian 2001). Skelley located larvae in the mounds of the pocket gopher, Geomys pinetus Rafnesque, in Florida and was the first to describe an immature stage for the genus. Published accounts of Stephanucha species biology are consistent with respect to spring emergence, presence in sandy habitats, and a potential lack of adult feeding or liquid feeding (Lago et ul. 1979; Skelley 1991). Skelley …

A New Urgency About Anthrax: Recent Efforts To Prevent The Proliferation Of Biological Weapons In The Former Soviet Union, Jack M. Beard

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The threat of biological weapons, once an obscure topic to most Americans, achieved new prominence and urgency in the United States with the anthrax letter attacks that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A number of infections traced to a handful of anthrax-laced letters focused unprecedented attention in America on the danger of biological weapons (BW). Coupled with continuing reports of attempts by terrorists to acquire weapons of mass destruction, this has made efforts to prevent BW proliferation a high priority for the U.S. government.

Notwithstanding the new prominence of the BW threat, the U.S. government recently withdrew …

Fish & Wildlife News: March/April/May 2002

Fish and Wildlife News

Contents:

Centennial Commission 2
Refuge System Centennial 3
New Service Uniform 5
Citizen Centered Conservation 7
United States and Russia 9
Emma Moton 10
Fisheries Program Overview 12
Fisheries Outreach Initiative 14
Creation of the Fisheries Program 15
Former Fisheries Chief Thoesen 21
Fish Genetics 30
Native Trout Tell Story of Past 31

Thermodynamics And Bioenergetics, Yaşar Demirel, Stanley I. Sandler

Papers in Thermal Mechanics

Bioenergetics is concerned with the energy conservation and conversion processes in a living cell, particularly in the inner membrane of the mitochondrion. This review summarizes the role of thermodynamics in understanding the coupling between the chemical reactions and the transport of substances in bioenergetics. Thermodynamics has the advantages of identifying possible pathways, providing a measure of the efficiency of energy conversion, and of the coupling between various processes without requiring a detailed knowledge of the underlying mechanisms. In the last five decades, various new approaches in thermodynamics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and network thermodynamics have been developed to understand the transport and …