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Overcoming Fear: The Effect Of Anxiolytic Medication Administration On Interval Timing Distracters, Chance Christensen

Research on the Hill (Salt Lake City)

Affective disorders such as depression, phobias, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder impair the ability to time in the seconds-to-minutes range, i.e., interval timing. According to the Relative Time-Sharing (RTS) model, presentation of task-irrelevant distracters during a timing task results in a delay in responding suggesting a failure to maintain subjective time in working memory, possibly due to attentional and working memory resources being diverted away from timing. Given that some anxiolytic medications have beneficial effects on attention and working memory, e.g., decreasing emotional response to negative events, we hypothesized that they would result in a decreased effect of distracters on …

The Utah Statesman, January 28, 2014, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, January 23, 2014, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, January 21, 2014, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, January 14, 2014, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper for Utah State University in Logan.

A Semi-Automated Single Day Image Differencing Technique To Identify Animals In Aerial Imagery, Pat Terletzky, Robert Douglas Ramsey

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Our research presents a proof-of-concept that explores a new and innovative method to identify large animals in aerial imagery with single day image differencing. We acquired two aerial images of eight fenced pastures and conducted a principal component analysis of each image. We then subtracted the first principal component of the two pasture images followed by heuristic thresholding to generate polygons. The number of polygons represented the number of potential cattle (Bos taurus) and horses (Equus caballus) in the pasture. The process was considered semi-automated because we were not able to automate the identification of spatial …

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, January 9, 2014, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

School of Veterinary Medicine

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change

School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• New Course

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Art and Design

• Dual List Change

Department of Economic and Finance

• Title Change

Department of Management

• New Course
• Title Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change

Department of Management Information Systems

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Psychology

• New Course

College of Engineering

• University Studies Request

Department of Languages, Philosophy and …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, January 9, 2014, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

School of Veterinary Medicine

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change

School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• New Course

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Art and Design

• New Course

Department of Economic and Finance

• Title Change

Department of Management

• New Course
• Title Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change

Department of Management Information Systems

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Psychology

• New Course

College of Engineering

• University Studies Request

Department of History

• University Studies Request …

Warming, Soil Moisture, And Loss Of Snow Increase Bromus Tectorum’S Population Growth Rate, Aldo Compagnoni, Peter B. Adler

Green Canyon Environmental Research Area, Logan Utah

Climate change threatens to exacerbate the impacts of invasive species. In temperate ecosystems, direct effects of warming may be compounded by dramatic reductions in winter snow cover. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is arguably the most destructive biological invader in basins of the North American Intermountain West, and warming could increase its performance through direct effects on demographic rates or through indirect effects mediated by loss of snow. We conducted a two-year experimental manipulation of temperature and snow pack to test whether 1) warming increases cheatgrass population growth rate and 2) reduced snow cover contributes to cheatgrass’ positive response to …

The Utah Statesman, January 7, 2014, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Utah State Magazine, Winter 2014, Utah State University

Utah State Magazine

The quarterly magazine for friends and alumni of Utah State University.

Measured And Modeled Soil Moisture Compared With Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probe Estimates In A Mixed Forest, Ling Lv, Trenton E. Franz, David A. Robinson, Scott B. Jones

T.W. "Doc" Daniel Experimental Forest

Soil moisture is a key variable in most environmental processes, and the cosmic-ray neutron probe (CRNP) fills a niche for intermediate-scale soil moisture measurements. In this study, the CRNP estimated soil moisture was compared with a soil moisture measurement network including 108 time domain transmissometry (TDT) probes. We also used a Hydrus-1D numerical model of measured soil moisture at targeted locations by inversely fitting soil hydraulic parameters used to simulate soil moisture in the near surface (0.03 and 0.05 m) during the growing seasons of 2011 and 2012. Both simulated and TDT-measured soil moisture were used in constructing the depth-weighted …

Prologemena To An Future Rhetoric Of Shadows, Shades And Silhouettes, Gene Washington

English Faculty Publications

In this essay, following the implications of "prolegomena" (Greek: "to say before"), i describe what a rhetoric constructed of textual shadows (the word "shadow" in a text) would look like. Specifically, what would be the various motives and rhetorical intentions, for a writer (of all genres) to employ the word "shadow" or a member of its semantic "family."

Preparatory Assays For Development Of A Mouse Model For Adenovirus D1327, Spencer Skidmore

Biology Posters

No abstract provided.

Diurnal Arousal In Learning And Memory, Jacob Blotter, Mona Buhusi

Biology Posters

The brain’s ability to learn and remember is a topic of extensive debate and research. Mammals share many similarities, including the way in which information from the outside world is processed and stored. Mammalian circadian rhythms have long been thought to be essentially involved with these processes. This experiment is designed to explore the brain’s ability to process and store information at different times of the day. Changes in or the absence of circadian neurotransmitters lead to serious impairments correlated with sleep and wakefulness [1]. Orexin, one neurochemical that will be examined in this experiment, helps mediate arousal and has …

Effects Of Corticosterone And Acth On The Unken Reflex In Rough- Skinned Newts (Taricha Granulosa), Sydney Greenfield

Biology Posters

No abstract provided.

Genome Editing Of Bombyx Mori (Silkworm) With The Cas9/Crispr System For Potential Host Of Synthetic Spider Silk Gene, Ryan Pack, Lijin Xia, Xiaoli Zhang

Biology Posters

No abstract provided.

Giving The Honey Bear A New Home, Brianna Rhoads

Biology Posters

No abstract provided.

Interactions Between Megaherbivores And Microherbivores: Elephant Browsing Reduces Host Plant Quality For Caterpillars, H. Hrabar, Johan T. Du Toit

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Direct effects of herbivory, and indirect effects through induced responses to herbivory, can both influence the susceptibility of plants to subsequent attacks by herbivores. There has, however, been very little research (if any) to investigate how the large-scale effects of browsing by megaherbivores (>1000 kg body mass) on woody plants might influence the subsequent use of those plants by phytophagous insects. We conducted a field study in Kruger National Park, South Africa, to investigate whether browsing by elephants (Loxodonta africana) on mopane trees (Colophospermum mopane) had any influence on the subsequent selection of those trees by ovipositing mopane moths …

General Catalog 2013-2014 (Spring 2014), Utah State University

University Catalogs

This catalog contains information on the Academic Departments and Programs as well as Course Descriptions for the above school year at Utah State University. To avoid large file downloads, the Academic Departments and Programs information is located in this file. The Course Description information is located in the secondary file.

Quaking Aspen In The Residential-Wildland Interface: Elk Herbivory Hinders Forest Conservation, Paul C. Rogers, Allison Jones, James C. Catlin, James Shuler, Arthur Morris, Michael R. Kuhns

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forests are experiencing numerous impediments across North America. In the West, recent drought, fire suppression, insects, diseases, climate trends, inappropriate management, and ungulate herbivory are impacting these high biodiversity forests. Additionally, ecological tension zones are sometimes created where the above factors intermingle with jurisdictional boundaries. The public-private land interface may result in stress to natural areas where game species find refuge and plentiful forage at the expense of ecosystem function. We examined putative herbivore impacts to aspen forests at Wolf Creek Ranch (WCR), a large residential landscape in northern Utah. Forty-three ha-1 monitoring plots were …

Importance Of Grass-Legume Choices On Cattle Grazing Behavior, Performance And Meat Characteristics, B. Maughan, F. D. Provenza, R. Tansawat, C. Maughan, S. Martini, R. Ward, A. Clemensen, X. Song, D. Cornforth, J. J. Villalba

Behavioral Education for Human, Animal, Vegetation, and Ecosystem Management (BEHAVE)

No abstract provided.

Inner Architecture: Novel, Gene Washington

English Faculty Publications

The events of a life are arranged in ways that are not chronological. Rather they correspond to an inner architecture. Italo Calvino. This novel explores the "inner architecture" of three persons, their inner lives,, the way they relate to each other and their environment and history.

Cultivate Fall/Winter 2014, Utah State University

Cultivate Magazine

No abstract provided.

Cultivate Spring/Summer 2014, Utah State University

Cultivate Magazine

No abstract provided.

Sin Taxes And Sindustry: Revenue, Paternalism, And Political Interest, Adam J. Hoffer, William F. Shughart Ii, Michael D. Thomas

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Revenue shortfalls associated with the Great Recession and the slow recovery that followed have placed the budgets of many U.S. state and local governments under heavy stress. In the past several years, lingering economic troubles have eroded governmental tax bases while voters have remained strongly resistant to proposals for cutting public spending or raising taxes on income, property, or other broad bases. This has left many states searching for new revenue sources. Particularly attractive targets for "revenue enhancement" are goods that policymakes deem to be "sinful" or misguided because they are bad for the user or generate negative externalities or …

Recollections Of My Career, My Colleagues, And My Retirement, Henry Reeves

Henry Milton Reeves Collection

Finding Aid for this collection can be found here:

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv48889/.

Volume 68 Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2014)

Utah Science

2 Growing Risk for Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease is more than just forgetfulness. It robs people of their abilities to think, remember, reason and control their behavior. A combination of genetic and environmental factors contributes to the disease’s development, but the process may begin decades before symptoms appear. Researchers are working to discover what those factors might be and how people might decrease their risk of developing the disease.

8 Measuring Quality in Baby Steps Each day thousands of children in Utah spend part of their day in the care of someone other than their parents. The quality of daycare affects …

Voices Of Usu: An Anthology Of Student Essays, 2014, Utah State University Department Of English

Voices of USU

This collection of student writing represents the voices of over 2,000 students who enroll each academic year in Utah State University’s second-year composition course, Intermediate Writing: Research Writing in a Persuasive Mode. Voices of USU celebrates excellence in writing by providing undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds and disciplines the opportunity to have their work published.

Pcr Based Fetal Sex Determination In Bovine Circulating Maternal Plasma, E. Barkat, M. Labram, L. Rickords

Biology Posters

PCR-based fetal sex determination by use of fetal DNA in maternal plasma in bovine is a novel scientific method that has some cost advantages in the animal production industry. In this study, our objective was to determine fetal sex in pregnant cows and establish the lower boundary at which Y-chromosome specific fetal DNA could be detected in the circulating maternal plasma using Bov97M primers. In this experiment, our results showed that 10 pg was the limit in which the Y-chromosome specific DNA was detectable in the circulating maternal plasma. Future experiments will be conducted to determine the earliest gestational age …