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Coercion, Deception, And Other Demand-Increasing Practices In Antitrust Law, Mark R. Patterson

Faculty Scholarship

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Fat Storing Patterns Of Migrating Sharp-Shinned Hawks, David John Conrads

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Many species of birds store fat as the primary fuel for migration. Although this is well-documented in many avian families, little is known about fat-storing patterns of migrating birds of prey. Pre-migratory fattening has been recorded in falcons and presumed in buteos. However, fat-storing patterns in migrating Accipiter hawks has not been documented. This study examined the fat-storing patterns of Sharp-shinned Hawks (A. striatus) during a portion of its fall migration. During Sharp-shinned Hawk migration three possible fat-storing patterns are predicted: I) fat deposition increases, 2) fat deposition is maintained, or 3) fat deposition decreases. To determine which strategy is …

Learning To Use Reader-Response Methods In The Classroom: One Teacher’S Journey Of Change, Marijo Grimes

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study presents a teacher's view of change as the author of this report planned, implemented, and evaluated a change from traditional literature discussion methods to reader-response discussion methods. Louise Rosenblatt's transactional theory of literature provided the basis for developing the instructional plan. This investigation followed a qualitative research plan of self-study. The setting was a seventh grade heterogeneous classroom in a Midwestern school district. During the semester of implementation, the teacher kept daily field notes, collected student papers, evaluated transcripts of video recordings, and completed regular exploratory writing in an attempt to analyze and understand the teacher's role and …

Perceptions Of Businesses On Environmental Regulatory Information, Kimberly K. Gunderson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to determine the source and amount of information that a sample of businesses receive on environmental regulatory topics and from what sources they would prefer to receive this information. More specifically, the study demonstrated the discrepancy between the sources from which businesses currently receive their information and the sources from which they would prefer to receive it. The study also addressed how relevant this information was to the businesses and with which regulations the businesses were the most and least knowledgeable. The study was done by conducting a mail-back survey of 500 Iowa small …

Territorial Intellectual Property Rights In An Age Of Globalism, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

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Verification Of The End-Effect Weibull Model Of Tensile Failure, Matthew T. Sagendorf

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Self-Generated Attitude Change: Dispositional And Situational Determinants Of Discounting, Harry Matthew Wallace

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A trait-based impression formation task was used to investigate whether inconsistency discounting is one of the cognitive processes that produce self-generated attitude polarization. Three predictions were made. First, attitude polarization would increase as opportunity for thought increased. Second, inconsistency discounting would also increase as opportunity for thought increased. Third, the relationship between discounting and opportunity for thought would differ with individual differences in need for closure, need for structure, and intolerance of ambiguity. The results did not support the predictions. In contrast with the findings of previous self-generated attitude change investigations, differential opportunity for thought did not affect attitude change. …

The History And Culture Of The Turtle Mountain Band Of Chippewa, Turtle Mountain Community College, North Dakota Department Of Public Instruction

North Dakota Tribal History and Culture Series

History & Culture of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa is a guide to the Turtle Mountain nation, past and present. Elders, scholars, and other experts from the nation contributed the content of this book, which was reviewed by Turtle Mountain Community College and published by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) for use in middle and high school North Dakota Studies classes, as well as in higher education.

The Turtle Mountain nation is called Mikinaakwajiw-ininiwag in the Ojibwe language. This sovereign nation’s capital is Belcourt. The Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation shares geography with northern North Dakota, along …

Weak Bands Within Ice Stream B, West Antarctica, Christina L. Hulbe, I. M. Whillans

Geology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Kilometer-scale variations in ice velocity and surface topography are used to investigate the style of glacier deformation in the main body of Ice Stream B, West Antarctica. The pattern is very different from that reported for other glaciers. For the 250 km2 area studied on Ice Stream B, most of the observed deformation occurs within two narrow bands, in which there is large across-flow compression and slow lateral shearing. The bands underlie valleys in the ice-surface topography. Measured upward displacement of ice adjacent to the rapidly compressing bands appears to be linked to the creation of the ice stream's topography. …

The Virtuous Lawyer: Paradigm And Possibility, Robert Araujo

SMU Law Review

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Balancing The Digital Scales Of Copyright Law, Brian A. Carlson

SMU Law Review

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Why Quine Is Not A Postmodernist, Brian Leiter

SMU Law Review

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The Use Of Facilitated Communication In Child Abuse Prosecutions, James Frederick Watson

University of Richmond Law Review

Before allowing a child who has alleged that he or she has been abused to testify at trial, a judge must be satisfied that the child is competent. In other words, the judge must find that the child has the ability to "observe, record, recollect and recount as well as an understanding of the duty to tell the truth." Determining whether children with certain developmental disorders are competent to testify has recently presented the courts with some difficult issues, as evidenced by a recent case in which the Supreme Court of Kansas upheld a conviction based primarily on the apparent …

Contract Formation And Interpretation, Avery W. Katz

Faculty Scholarship

Much research in law and economics, following Coase's insight that the effects of a legal rule depend on the ability of those whom it governs to bargain around it, has undertaken to explain how substantive entitlements such as property rights influence the bargaining process. Perhaps more important than any substantive rights or duties in this regard, however, is the extensive body of contract doctrine that governs the procedural mechanics of exchange. The formal rules of contract formation, by attaching consequences to the various acts and omissions that bargainers can choose from in a negotiation, affect the parties' incentives to make …

Director Compensation And The Management-Captured Board - The History Of A Symptom And A Cure, Charles M. Elson

SMU Law Review

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Reflections On Executive Compensation And A Modest Proposal For (Further) Reform, Mark J. Lowenstein

SMU Law Review

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Is There A Right To Physician-Assisted Suicide, J. David Bleich

Articles

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Economically Targeted Investments: A Critical Analysis, Edward A. Zelinsky

Articles

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The Constitution's Pragmatic Balance Of Power Between Church And State, Marci A. Hamilton

Articles

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Computer Science Concepts In Copyright Cases: The Path To A Coherent Law, Marci A. Hamilton, Ted Sabety

Articles

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Patenting Medical Procedures: A Search For A Compromise Between Ethics And Economics, Beata Gocyk-Farber

Cardozo Law Review

When doctor Samuel Pallin, an Arizona ophthalmologist, brought an infringement suit for his patent covering the "stitchless" incision in cataract surgery, he probably did not expect that he would provoke one of the most emotional patent debates in history. Physicians across the country expressed condemnation of medical process patents, calling such patents "horrendous" and warning that Dr. Pallin's victory may have "profoundly devastating and mind-boggling consequences" for medical science. The resonance in the medical community was so strong that the American Medical Association House of Delegates passed a resolution "vigorously" condemning the patenting of medical and surgical procedures and promising …

Combining Ability Of Resistance To The Sorghum Shootfly, Atherigona Soccata And Stemborer Chilo Partellus In Grain Sorghum, Sorghum Bicolor, A. A. Elbadawi, A. M. Nour, R. S. Pathak

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Combining ability of resistance to the sorghum shootfly, Atherigona soccata and spotted stemborer, Chilo partellus in grain sorghum was analysed on a seven-parents diallel in a field trial at the ICIPE Mbita Point Field Station, western Kenya during the 1990 long rainy season. Lines with best performance for each of the four measured resistance parameters were also found to be the best general combiners. Resistance to leaf damage and number of holes/metre were controlled by additive gene effects whereas resistance to deadheart and stem tunnelling were controlled by additive and non-additive gene effects. Parents IS-1044, IS-12308 and IS-2269 with their …

Les Inhibiteurs Des Facteurs Humoraux Chez Les Criquets Migrateurs, Schistocerca Gregaria Et Locusta Migratoria: Perspectives D'Utilisation Dans La Lutte Biologique, D. Dakouo, S. Essuman, S. K. Raina, M. Bréhélin, Latifa Drif

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Haemolymph from the locusts Schistocercagregaria and Locustamigratoria contains humoral factors such as lectin and phenoloxidase system. In vitro studies demonstrated that phenoloxidase system can be activated by LPS, laminarin, Malamoeba locustae cysts, trypsin and methanol. Haemolymph showed agglutination activity for mammalian erythrocytes and protozoa (M. locustae, Leishmania major and Trypanosoma brucei). A purified lectin was isolated fromhaemolymphby affinity chromatography. Analysis by SDS-PAGE gave a single band at 80 kD while on native PAGE, it gave a single band at 650 kD. Inhibitors of the two humoral factors were investigated. Lectin activity was inhibited by nitrophenyl a D-galactopyranoside in both cases …

Progeny Production And Sex Ratios Of Field Populations Of The Parasitoids Cotesia Flavipes And Cotesia Sesamiae Reared From Gramineous Stemborers In Coastal Kenya, Charles O. Omwega, William A. Overholt

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Progeny production and sex ratios of the parasitoids Cotesia sesamiae (Cameron) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and its exotic congener Cotesia flavipes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) emerging from three species of field-collected stemborers were compared. There were no significant differences in numbers of progeny of the two parasitoids from the African stemborers, Chilo orichalcociliellus (Strand) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and Sesamia calamistis Hampson (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Cotesia flavipes produced more progeny than C. sesamiae on large larvae of its coevolved Asian host, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe). No significant differences in the number of parasitoid progeny were observed for different-sized Ch. orichakocilidltis or S. calamistis larvae. These data suggest …

Host Location And Acceptance By Cotesia Flavipes Cameron And C. Sesamiae (Cameron) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Parasitoids Of African Gramineous Stemborers: Role Of Frass And Other Host Cues, Adele J. Ngi-Song, William A. Overholt

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Naive females of Cotesia flavipes Cameron and Cotesia sesamiae (Cameron) were attracted, in a T-tube olfactometer, to volatile kairomones from frass produced by Chilo partellus (Swinhoe), Chilo orichalcociliellus Strand, Sesamia calamistis Hampson, and Busseola fusca (Fuller) fed on maize (Zea mays L.), sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.)], and napier grass (Pen. nisetum purpureum Schumach). In dual-choice tests, C. flavipes and C. sesamiae were generally unable to discriminate between volatiles from frass produced by any of the four different stemborer species fed on maize stalk. When larvae of C. partellus and S. calamistis were washed in distilled water, their acceptance by both …

Neem Seed Extract Spray Applications As Low-Cost Inputs For Management Of The Flower Thrips In The Cowpea Crop, R. C. Saxena, E. L. Kidiavai

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In field trials conducted at the Experiment Station and in a farmer's field at Mbita near the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya, applications of 2% or 3% neem seed extract (NSE) @ 200 l/ha with a knapsack sprayer at 38, 47 and 51 days after emergence (DE) of the cowpea crop or 5%, 10% or 20% NSE sprayed @ 10 l/ha with an ultra-low-volume applicator at 31, 39 and 49 DE often significantly reduced the number of larvae of the flower thrips, Megalurothrips sjostedti (Trybom), in cowpea flowers recorded 2 days after each treatment. Also fewer adults occurred in flowers …

Changes Over Twelve Years In Populations Of Glossina Pallidipes And Glossina Longipennis (Diptera: Glossinidae) Subject To Varying Trapping Pressure At Nguruman, South-West Kenya, R. Brightwell, R. D. Dransfield, P. Stevenson, B. Williams

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Long term changes in the size of populations of the tsetse Glossina pallidipes Austen and G. longipennis Corti Were monitored over a 12 year period at Nguruman in south-western Kenya. Tsetse populations were subject to droughts of varying intensity and, from 1987, to trapping, initially by a research organization, and later by a community-based development project. Populations were mainly sampled using odour-baited biconical traps, with data from other monitoring traps corrected accordingly. Mark-release-recapture studies were carried out to relate trap catches to absolute population size, and to quantify movement between subpopulations. Trypanosomiasis incidence rates in a herd of local cattle …

The Impact Of Ixodiphagus Hookeri, A Tick Parasitoid, On Amblyomma Variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae) In A Field Trial In Kenya, E. N. Mwangi, S. M. Hassan, G. P. Kaaya, S. Essuman

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In an experiment to investigate the effect of the tick parasitoid, Ixodiphagus hookeri, on tick numbers on cattle, 150 000 parasitoids were released over a period of 1 year in a field where ten cattle infested with multiple tick species were kept. Amblyomma variegatum was reduced from 44 to two ticks per animal while Rhipicephalus appendiculatus increased over the time of parasitoid release. During the time of release 51% of the nymphs of A. variegatum collected from the animals were parasitized. The recovery of the parasitoids after the releases were stopped was only 9%. The total numbers of A. variegatum …

Haemolymph Pigment Composition As A Chemometric Indicator Of Phase In The Desert Locust, Schistocerca Gregaria, Hassane Mahamat, Ahmed Hassanali, David Munyinyi

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The blue biliverdin pigment in the haemolymph of Schisfocerca gregria Forskâl(Orthoptera: Acrididae) was shown to be associated with all the stages and ages of the solitary-reared (solitarious) insects, irrespective of their origin or diet. The pigment was absent or present in very small quantities in the crowd-reared (gregarious) insects. The ratio of absorbance at 460 run and 680 run, the former representing the A,max for the carotenoid pigment and the latter for the biliverdin, provides a clearcut index for partitioning the phases. The mean value of the index for the gregarious group fell in the range 3.69 to 4.78. That …

Utilisation Of Wild Gramineous Plants For Management Of Cereal Stemborers In Africa, Z. R. Khan, P. Chiliswa, K. Ampong-Nyarko, L. E. Smart, A. Polaszek, J. Wandera, M. A. Mulaa

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Field trials in Kenya demonstrated that the forage grass, Sorghum vulgäre sudanense (Sudan grass) attracted greater oviposition by stemborers than cultivated maize, resulting in significant increase in maize yield. On the other hand, the non-host forage plant, Melinis minutiflora (molasses grass), when inter-cropped with maize, repelled gravid stemborer females from ovipositing on maize, resulting in significant reduction in stemborer infestation. Using these trap- and repellent gramineous plants, a novel pest management approach based on a 'push-pull' or stimulo-deterrent diversionary strategy is being developed where stemborers are repelled from the food crop and are simultaneously attracted to a discard or trap …