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Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, July/August 1997

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletter (1993–2000)

Contents:

Economic, Environmental and Sociological Effects of Whole-farm Production Systems in Eastern Nebraska: Alternative Production Systems and Quality of Life

SARE Announces Two Grant Opportunities

A Woman's Place on the Farm

Nebraska Resources Ideal for Aquaculture

Glickman Announces National Commission on Small Farms

Diverse Strategies for Diverse Crops

Native Vegetation Handbook For The Shire Of Brookton, Rod Safstrom

Native vegetation handbook series

This Handbook is one of a series covering the agricultural region of Western Australia. The Handbook aims to assist the development of sustainable farming systems which combine agricultural production and nature conservation. Information is provided on the natural resources of the Shire of Brookton, including the existing vegetation, drainage systems and soils. Problems in managing these resources are described and community initiatives to tackle the problems are summarised. It is hoped this Handbook will contribute to the long term viability of the agricultural landscape and the conservation of native vegetation within the Shire.

Northern Iowa Today, V81n1, Summer 1997, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
--The qualities of an educated person UNI examines how it prepares students for a lifetime of learning and change.
--The qualities of an educated person UNI examines how it prepares students for a lifetime of learning and change.
--Math is humanities. An understanding of mathematics is I central to the study of art and literature.
--Faculty profile: Thomas Lindsay Studying the great thinkers gives his life an internal unity, whether he's writing, teaching or playing baseball.
--Alumni profile: Nancy Powell The U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh enjoys her ringside seat to history.
--Portfolio: The 1997 Annual Juried Student …

The Probe, Issue 178 - July 1997

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Contents:
Michigan Bear Referendum
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Brown Tree Snakes to Continue to Plague Guam
ADC on the Web (extracted from postings to the WDAMAGE Bulletin Board)
Teens Arrested for Animal Rights Activity
Sportsmen Protest 'Alliance for Animals' Meeting
Study Looks At Coyote Effects on Pronghorn
Legislative Updates: Arizona, California, Colorado, Wisconsin
Fund for Animals Seeks USFWS Grant
Diverse Wildlife Problems in Texas

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Summer 1997

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

Summer Workshop Series Complete

Reminder -- NESEN at 1997 NATS

Update Your 1997-98 NESEN Membership

NESEN Membership Hits 400 Members

NASA Regional Educator Resource Center

Change of CSD Home Page Address

Two New Maps Available from CSD

1997-98 STEDII

NESEN to Develop "Pod" Concept

The Bartak Depression -- Meteorite or Meteorwrong?

News From Brian and Derek

School of Natural Resource Sciences

CD-ROMs available from the NESEN Lending Library

Neutron Resonance Spectroscopy Of 107ag, And 109ag, L Y. Lowie, J D. Bowman, Bret E. Crawford, P P J. Delheij, T Haseyama, J N. Knudsen, A Masaike, Y Matsuda, G E. Mitchell, S I. Penttila, H Postma, N R. Roberson, S J. Seestrom, E I. Sharapov, Sharon L. Stephenson, Y-F Yen, V W. Yuan

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Parity violation has been observed in a number of previously unreported neutron resonances in silver. Analysis of these parity violation data requires improved neutron resonance spectroscopy. The neutron total cross section for natural silver was measured for E_n=10–800 eV with the time-of-flight method at the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center. The neutron capture reaction was studied with both a natural silver target and a highly enriched sample (98.29%) of ¹⁰⁷Ag. A total of 38 previously unreported resonances were observed. The combination of the two measurements allowed assignment of the newly observed resonances to ¹⁰⁷Ag or to …

Monte Carlo Study Of The Square-Lattice Annealed Ising Model On Percolating Clusters, P. D. Scholten, Miron Kaufman

Physics Faculty Publications

Simulations of an Ising q-state Pods model which is equivalent to the Ising model on annealed percolation clusters are used to determine the phase diagram of the model in two dimensions. Three topologically different phase diagrams are obtained: (i) for q=2, there are two critical Ising lines meeting at T=0 at the four-state Potts critical point; (ii) for 24, the Ising:critical line intersects a Line of first-order transitions at a critical end point.

Activation In The Comptel Double-Scattering Gamma-Ray Telescope, D Morris, Mark L. Mcconnell, James M. Ryan, R Diehl, U Oberlack, V Schonfelder, M Varendorff, G Weidenspointer, H Deboer, K Bennett

Space Science Center

Abstract-The COMPTEL gamma-ray telescope has been operating in low Earth orbit for six years, since the launch of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory in April 1991. Comparisons of data for different orbits and epochs show evidence of activation on time scales from minutes (27Mg, q,2=9.5 min) to years C2Na, q&.58 yr). The activation is correlated with both the orbital altitude and solar cosmic-ray modulation. Because it requires coincident measurements in two different detectors, COMPTEL is most susceptible to instrumental background events in which two or more photons are produced simultaneously.

Sontrac-A Low Background, Large Area Solar Neutron Spectrometer, C B. Wunderer, D Holslin, John R. Macri, Mark L. Mcconnell, James M. Ryan

Space Science Center

SONTRAC will measure 20-250 MeV neutrons from solar flares using scintillator fibers viewed by CCD cameras to track neutron-proton scatters. SONTRAC can also be used to track gamma rays above 20 MeV. Veto shields are used to reject all charged particles. Gamma-ray and neutron events have very different track densities, allowing discrimination between the two. Double neutron-proton scatters allow unambiguous determination of the incident neutron energy and direction. Therefore, SONTRAC is capable of rejecting almost all background except neutrons from the solar direction. SONTRAC would have detected the June 15, 1991 flare with 42σ for 20-100 MeV neutrons, having an …

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin - Summer/Fall 1997

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Academic Tros: How To Prevail In The Court Of Public Opinion, Michael A. Mogill

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Primary And Secondary Education Recent Developments In The Law

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Metastable States In Classical And Quantum Systems, Mark Makela, Samantha Parmley, Roger Yu

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

The classical vibrational metastable states in a one-dimensional two-mass system are investigated experimentally and theoretically via the transmission of a coherent wave packet propagating through the system. The Fourier transform of the vibrational signal recorded in between the masses reveals resonant excitations by the coherent wave packet. The time-resolved spectrum indicates that the lifetime of a metastable state of higher frequency is longer than that of lower frequency, which is in contrast with the quantum mechanical double-barrier system. This study, which is easily accessible to physics majors, also demonstrates quantum resonant tunneling in a very simple classical way.

Impulse, Kelly Bradbury, Kate Gundvaldson, Jennifer Widman

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

Features:
[Page 2] Vision's project alleviates College's space crunch
[Page 4] Gifts bring Crothers addition closer to reality
[Page 6] Meet the Economic Development Task Force
[Page 9] Symposium attendees 'blown away' by quality presentations
[Page 10] College of Engineering takes part in fuel cell research
[Page 11] SOS team publishes physics research in Russian journal
[Page 12] Andrawis involve Medary third graders in ASA project
[Page 13] Electrical engineers facing shortage
[Page 14] Engineering students take hea11 from Brookings Hospital donation
[Page 15] Faculty, students honored by technical society
[Page 16] CAP Center helps relieve anxiety
[Page 17] Crazy …

Review Of The Turn To The Native: Studies In Criticism And Culture By Arnold Krupat, Ward Churchill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the final essay of his most recent book, The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture, self-styled "ethnocritic" Arnold Krupat wonders aloud whether, through his interpretive activities, he hasn't become a "leftist colonizer" of the very sort critiqued so scathingly by Tunisian revolutionary theorist Albert Memmi more than three decades ago (p. 126). This worthy query, seemingly posed mainly as a rhetorical device allowing its author to absolve himself of the charge-he shortly concludes that simply by being "someone who reads and writes about Native American literature" he has made himself "useful without vanity" and is …

Missouri V. Jenkins: Yet Another Complicated Chapter In The Desegregation Saga, James Anthony Ben

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Probe, Issue 178 - July 1997

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

CONTENTS:
Michigan Bear Referendum
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
Brown Tree Snakes Plague Guam
ADC on the Web (extracted from postings to the WDAMAGE Bulletin Board)
Teens Arrested for Animal Rights Activity
Study Looks At Coyote Effects on Pronghorn
Sportsmen Protest 'Alliance for Animals' Meeting
Legislative Update
Fund for Animals Seeks USFWS Grant
Diverse Wildlife Problems in Texas

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Center Newsletter, Volume 4-3, Summer 1997

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

CCWHC Newsletter on the World Wide Web
Five-Year Review of the CCWHC
Centre for Coastal Health Moves to Nanaimo
Newcastle Disease in Cormorants, California, USA-May 1997
Chronic Wasting Disease of Wild Deer
Salmonellosis in Herons, Gannet
Probable Newcastle Disease in a cormorant
Neoplasm in Eiders
Birthing Death in a Harbour Porpoise
Low Prevalence of Neoplasia in St. Lawrence River Eels
Mortality at a Bird Feeder
Suspected Teflton Toxicosis in Songbirds
Suspected Avitrol Poisoning of Non-target Species
Forensic (medico-legal) Examinations
Mortality of Porpoises in British Columbia
Predator Attacks in British Columbia
Spring Botulism

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Volume 4-3, Summer 1997

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

CCWHC Newsletter on the World Wide Web
Five-Year Review of the CCWHC
Centre for Coastal Health moves to Nanaimo
Newcastle Disease in Cormorants, California, USA - May 1997
Chronic Wasting Disease of Wild Deer
Salmonellosis in Herons, Gannet
Probable Newcastle Disease in a Cormorant
Neoplasm in Eiders
Birthing Death in a Harbour Porpoise
Low Prevalence of Neoplasia in St. Lawrence River Eels
Mortality at a Bird Feeder
Strychnine Poisoning of a Peregrine Falcon
Suspected Teflon Toxicosis in Songbirds
Suspected Avitrol Poisoning of Non-target Species
Forensic (Medico-legal) Examinations
Mortality of Porpoises in British Columbia
Predator Attacks in British Columbia
Spring Botulism

Newscope - Summer 1997

Newscope

No abstract provided.

Portfolio Performance Evaluation Of Institutional Investors: An Empirical Investigation Of Selection Ability Via The Levels Of Institutional Ownership, Risks, Firm Size, And R&D Expenditures, Jawook Baek

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) To evaluate how the portfolio performance of institutional investors differs from the market index portfolio, first, as a whole, and second, as several different institutional ownership portfolios. (2) To investigate the relationship between the institutions' superior stock selection ability and firm quality attributes such as beta, volatility, firm size, and R&D expenditures. Most previous academic work has focused on institutional investment behaviors, finding the relationship between institutional ownership and firm quality attributes, based on only mutual funds. (3) To develop a decision model for future institutional investors' portfolio performance based on the …

Failure Case Studies And Ethics In Engineering Mechanics Courses, Norbert J. Delatte

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Often, engineering students do not study engineering failures or discuss ethics until they take upper division undergraduate courses or graduate level courses. One drawback to this approach is that problems analyzed in introductory courses are often contrived, uninteresting, and bear little relation to the problems encountered in engineering practice. At the point when educators need to grab the student's interest in engineering most, they should show the excitement and relevance of the profession. Another is that the students encounter the issues of ethics, responsibility, and accountability that are often highlighted by a failure, late in their engineering education. As a …

Microanalytical Investigations Of Gold-Bearing Rocks From The An Najadi Region In Saudi Arabia, Nazrul I. Khandaker, M. Ahmed, M. M. Hariri, M. A. Garwan, K. R. Khan, M. M. Al-Ohali

Publications and Research

The Proton Induced X-ray Emission technique with a scanning microbeam (micro-PIXE) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) were employed to study gold-bearing rocks from the An Najadi and adjacent regions situated within the exposed northeastern part of the Arabian Shield. These microanalytical investigations, together with routine petrological and ore microscopic studies, demonstrated the presence of important partitioning of major minerals and trace elements in several samples. These measurements also revealed microstructural features including brecciation within quartz grains and metal concentrations within these fracture-controlled micro-conduits. Results showed promise in terms of using distinctive geochemical signatures for ore body recognition. Of particular interest …

Estimation Of Arthropods Available To Birds: Effect Of Trapping Technique, Prey Distribution, And Bird Diet, Brigitte Poulin

Journal of Field Ornithology

No abstract provided.

Application Of Active Noise Control To Reduce Cabin Noise In Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft, Jeroen Hendrik Dolmans

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The application of active noise control to reduce cabin noise in single engine, general aviation aircraft is investigated through the use of the 'filtered x' least mean square algorithm and a simple acoustic feedforward method to generate a reference signal is tested. The system is designed to utilize one reference signal and up to two feedback signals and two audio speakers. The feedforward system consists of a microphone placed in close proximity to the front windshield and isolated from the cabin noise. Cabin noise and reference signals are recorded during flight in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a Piper Cherokee 140 …

On-Line File Caching, Neal E. Young

Computer Science Technical Reports

Consider the following file caching problem: in response to a sequence of requests for files, where each file has a specified size and retrieval cost, maintain a cache of files of total size at most some specified k so as to minimize the total retrieval cost. Specifically, when a requested file is not in the cache, bring it into the cache, pay the retrieval cost, and choose files to remove from the cache so that the total size of files in the cache is at most k. This problem generalizes previous paging and caching problems by allowing objects of arbitrary …

Fixpunktsemantik Logischer Programme, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Clear As Crude: Defending Oil And Gas Royalty Litigation, William F. Carr, Paul R. Owen

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Library Tech Notes, The Unlv Libraries Technology Committee

Library TechNotes

A newsletter containing a variety of sections including:

Tuma's Wondrous Web World

Congratulations! The Index is Done!

PC Mechanic

Technology Booklist

Technical Services Web Team Resources Now Online

Nevada Newspaper List on the Internet

Intranet NEW Section and Intranet Index

News Flash! Library Web Site has Index!

More Electronic Indexes Available

Mail Server Installation And Integration, Tim Lewis

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.