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1998 December, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

MSU Clip Sheet Archives

MSU Clip Sheet newsletters published in December of 1998.

Ard News December 1998

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

SEASON'S GREETINGS
"Pioneering the Future" Database
CSREES Appropriation for FY 1999
Recognition of Junior Faculty for Excellence in Research
ARD Ranking Among Agricultural Experiment Stations
Success of ARD Faculty in USDA Competitive Grant Programs
Internal Search for Director of CRCRD
Royalties and the ARD Faculty
CRIS Enhancement Project
Professional Workers Directory in Agriculture
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants
New or Revised Projects
Grants and Contracts Received October and November, 1998

1998 December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for December of 1998.

The Illinois State Community, Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1998, Illinois State University

The Illinois State Community (1992-1999)

News for the Central illinois Area from Illinois State University.

Observations On The Relationship Between The Common Raven And The Peregrine Falcon, Allan J. Trently

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Dec. 1998, Ifc, Procedure On Envt & Social Review, Ifc

IFC E&S Performance Standards

No abstract provided.

Wood Duck Population And Habitat Investigations, Robert J. Gates, R. Gray Anderson, Robert J. Kawula, Andrew T. Selle, Edward H. Zwicker

Final Reports Archive

No abstract provided.

Pages, Volume 6, No. 2, December 1998, Frank Oldfield, Keith Alverson

PAGES

Contents: Paleodata; Editorial, Greenland, CD-Rom, PDC China, WDC-A, IMAGES, PALICLAS, PKDB -- Program News; Late Holocene Sea-Level and Climate Change, Spain, PAGES-CLIVAR, PEP III --Workshop Reports; ISOMAP, Tibetan Ice Sheets, AT-ELDP, EU Study Course, Volcanoes, PEP II, SEA Dendro -- Last Page; Darwin on Dust at Sea; Calendar

Faculty & Staff News - December 1998-January 1999, Prairie View A&M University

Faculty & Staff News

No abstract provided.

Law And The Creative Mind, Susanna L. Blumenthal

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Turning Tides: Analysis Of Pre-Modern Symbolic Objects, Tamara Robertson

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

A Portable, Object-Oriented Library For Neural Network Simulation, Martin P. Franz

Masters Theses

A portable, object-oriented library for simulation of general Multi-layer Feedforward Neural Networks (MLFNs) is described. Unlike all-encompassing neural network simulation environments, the library was designed to allow convenient use in existing programs and in applications where training and testing data are generated using separate, often complex simulations.

The library' s design goals include modularity, portability, efficiency, correctness, compactness, and type-safety. To demonstrate how these objectives are met, competing architectural choices are presented, along with the criteria used for determining the strategy actually implemented. Sample applications using the library are presented, showing how the library' s class files are used in …

A Constitutional Challenge To Encryption Export Regulations: Software Is Speechless, Yvonne C. Ocrant

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Experiments To Maximize Growth In Captive Florida Pompano (Trachinotus Carolinus), Brian J. Hicks

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) are highly prized food and sport fish indigenous to coastal areas of the southeastern United States. A commercially valuable fishery has historically existed in the Gulf of Mexico and on the South Atlantic seaboard. Efforts to economically culture Florida pompano in a captive environment were only partially successful. Four experiments were performed to explore the physical and environmental requirements of Florida pompano and other closely related species in the Family (Carangidae):

Experiment #1- Semi-natural spawning was induced with newly developed hormonal implants. to initiate and sustain semi-natural spawning in captive Florida pompano. Fish collected from the …

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Do Recorded Case Studies Have A Bias?, Barbara Payton

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Differential Reinforcement Of Narrow-Band Response Duration At Sub-Second Duration Levels In Laboratory Rats, Susan Little

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Parasitism Of Greenbugs (Homoptera: Aphididae) By Lysiphlebus Testaceipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) In Grain Sorghum: Implications For Augmentative Biological Control, Odair A. Fernandes, Robert J. Wright, Z. B. Mayo

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Field cage studies were conducted to describe the relationship between the percentage of Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson) parasitism (as measured by aphid mummies) and densities of greenbug, Schizaphis graminum Rondani, on grain sorghum, Sorghum bicolor L. In 1993 and 1994, a biotype E-susceptible grain sorghum hybrid was grown in field cages and L. testaceipes adults were released after each plant was infested with 20 biotype E greenbugs. The release rates were 0, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 wasps per plant in 1993, and 0, 0.16, 0.33, and 0.5 wasps per plant in 1994. Greenbugs and mummies were counted 1-2 times a week …

Two New Nymphalidae From Western North Carolina: New Subspecies Of Speyeria Aphrodite And Phyciodes Batesii, Ronald R. Gatrelle

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

Two new subspecies are described from Macon County, North Carolina, United States. Speyeria aphrodite cullasaja is characterized by dorsal melanism, especially in females, by usually lacking the dorsal FW basal spots in cell Cu1 and Cu2, and by a narrowed buff marginal band on the ventral HW (sometimes absent in females). Phyciodes batesii maconensis males are characterized by wholly yellow ventral hind wings devoid of any dark marginal dusting or whitish crescents; and females occasionally possessing, lightly dusted, brown margins and rarely having a silvered marginal ventral HW spot. PPhyciodes batesii maconensis larvae are gregarious Aster feeders. Females are …

Endemicity And Regiona[L] Biodiversity In Nebraska's Breedin[G] Avifauna, Paul A. Johnsgard

Nebraska Bird Review

I estimate that 215 bird species currently breed or have previously bred in Nebraska. This number compares with a total of 330 species that breed or have bred in the Great Plains region south of Canada, as I defined that region in my book on the breeding birds of the Great Plains (Johnsgard, 1979).

Grasslands or potential grasslands make up about 81 percent of the Great Plains' vegetation, and probably represented about 96 percent of Nebraska's original vegetation. Only in the Sandhills region is that vegetation type still essentially intact; the tall-grass prairie of eastern Nebraska is Virtually gone. In …

Nebraska Bird Review (December 1998) 66(4), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

In Memorium: Harvey L. Gunderson … 114

Parasitic Jaeger at Lake McConaughy … 114

Endemicity and Regional Biodiversity in Nebraska's Breeding Avifauna … 115

Fall Field Report: Introduction … 121

Fall Field Report: Species Accounts … 123

1997 (Ninth) Report of the NOU Records Committee … 147

Bird Banding Notes … 159

Index for Volume 66 … 160

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 30, No.4 December 1998

The Prairie Naturalist

FISH COMMUNITY AND WATER QUALITY CHANGES IN THE BIG SIOUX RIVER ▪ D. Dieterman, and C. R. Berry, Jr.

EFFECTS OF PARASITOIDS AND COMPETITION ON CLUTCH SIZE OF A GALLING MIDGE ▪ D. J. Kinateder and S. J. Stein

RESPONSE OF BREEDING SEASON BLUE-WINGED TEAL TO DECOY TRAPPING ▪ P. R. Garrettson

COMPARISON OF POINT-COUNT AND WADE-FLUSH METHODS FOR COUNTING DUCKS ▪ G. M. Linz, C. P McMurl, H. J. Homan, and D. L. Bergman

Reviewers 1998

Author Index - Volume 30

Subject Index - Volume 30

Announcements

Classification Of In-Flight Fatigue Cracks In Aircraft Structures Using Acoustic Emission And Neural Networks, Christopher Lee Rovik

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The research encompassed within this paper deals with the analysis and classification of fatigue cracks in aircraft structures. The particular structure that was examined was the vertical tail section of a Cessna T-303 Crusader aircraft. The analysis was performed using the nondestructive evaluation technique known as acoustic emission (AE), as well as the artificial intelligence of neural networks. Data were taken in a controlled laboratory environment as well as in a flying testbed aboard the aircraft.

The first part of the research involved the analysis of a typical aircraft structure in a controlled laboratory environment. This support structure was fabricated …

"And The Band Played On...", David A. Nash

Oral Health Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Studies Of Sulfur Containing Compounds, Francisco Rodriguez

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Up to this point in time, complex mixtures of tertiary sulfonium ions have been separated or analyzed employing conventional methods like HPLC or NMR procedures. In this thesis the researcher presents a new approach, the use of Capillary Zone Electrophoresis (CZE) for the analysis of these types of ions as well as the closely related thiophenium ions. CZE offers an unprecedented advantage in that separations can be employed for speciation or quantitation of complex mixtures by using the appropriate standards or specific detectors. For the study, model sulfonium and thiophenium ions were used to determine the feasibility of the separation …

A Compilation Of Published Records Of The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker In Texas: Voucher Specimens Versus Sight Records, Clifford E. Shackelford

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

I reviewed all published reports of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), including specimen and sight records from Texas. A total of 25 published records and two U. S. Biological Survey unpublished reports revealed three specimen records and 44 sight records. Also, a sound voucher of the "double-knock" of a presumed Ivory-bill in Texas appears on an album of bird songs. This compilation reveals additional reports not published in Oberholser (1974), which is considered to be the main source of historical data for Texas. The intent of this paper, many decades later, is not to determine the validity of each sight …

Avian Diversity In El Salvador, Oliver Komar

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.

The Quetzal And Its Conservation In The Mexican Southeast, Maria De Lourdes Avila Hernandez

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Breeding Biology Of The Monk Parakeet, Jessica R. Eberhard

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Landscape And Fine Scale Habitat Associations Of The Loggerhead Shrike, Heidi L. Michaels, Jack F. Cully Jr.

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Advantages Of Coloniality In Female Boat-Tailed Grackles, William Post

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.