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The Failure Of Watershed Analysis Under The Northwest Forest Plan--A Case Study Of The Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Brent Foster

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

Un Concierto De Voces: Mujer, Familia Y Sociedad En Santo Domingo Colonial, Dora Dávila-Mendoza

Publications and Research

This is a study of the social actions of women in 18th Century Santo Domingo.

The Deconstruction Of Mathematics, David J. Stucki

ACMS Journal 2004

Mathematics, as an academic discipline, has stood for many years as the last bastion against a growing tide of intellectual relativism that has become all but ubiquitous. More recently, however, efforts have been made to "humanize" mathematics by advocating a social-constructivist approach to the philosophy of mathematics, both in practice and education. This paper is intended to serve as a critical response to one advocate of this approach, Reuben Hersh (What Is Mathematics, Really?, 1997), and in the process a defense of Platonism.

Fish & Wildlife News: January 1999 (Special Edition: National Wildlife Refuge System Conference)

Fish and Wildlife News

Contents:

High Altitude, High Spirits 2
Honoring a Congressman 5
Media Baron Speaks Up for Wildlife 6
“No More Roads,” Says Babbitt 6
Panelists Address Diversity Issues 9
Barry Describes the “State of the System” 13
Another Roosevelt Who Loves Refuges 15
Winning Managers Share Their Thoughts 17
Results of Breakout Sessions 22
Director Lauds a New Era 23
AD Dan Ashe Looks Back 26
Refuges Chief Coleman Looks Ahead 27

Fish & Wildlife News: January/February 1999

Fish and Wildlife News

Contents:

Anne Badgley in as Region 1 RD 2
Service Releases More Mexican Wolves 4
LE Busts Coral Smuggling Ring 5
Service Embraces Migratory Bird Initiatives 6
A New Concept in Beef 8
Interior Plans 150th Bashes Year-Round 9
Bringing the Hatchery to the Volunteers 10
Cranes Draw Crowds in New Mexico 11
Tribute to Region 1 Employees Killed on Duty 12
Team Implements Ecosystem Approach 15
Fighting Invasives in the Ohio River 16
Hollywood Comes to a Refuge 18
Rare Fish Makes a Comeback 23
Student Leaders Take D.C. by Storm 26

Plant And Breeding Bird Communities Of Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Colonies And Non-Colonized Areas In Southwest Kansas And Southeast Colorado, Stephen L. Winter

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This research was initiated to determine if plant and bird communities on black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus Ord) colonies in southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado differed from those found on associated non-colonized areas. Vegetation height and density, and the cover and frequency of numerous plant species differed between prairie dog colonies and non-colonized areas that were co-dominated by mid-height grasses and shortgrasses. A comparison of prairie dog colonies with non-colonized areas that were dominated solely by shortgrasses did not reveal a difference in vegetation height and density. The number of species that differed in cover or frequency between prairie dog …

Small Farming Systems For The Midwest And Reintegrating Agriculture And Community In The Midwest, Richard Olson, Lisa Bauer

CARI Extension and Education Materials for Sustainable Agriculture

Part I: Small Farming Systems for the Midwest Small farms are real farms. 1 John Ikerd

A time to act for family-sized farms. 7 Chuck Hassebrook

Successful systems for market gardening 13 Lynn Byczynski

Hogs, hoop houses, and holistic management: A diversified crop/livestock farm 23 Tom Frantzen

Trees and herbs: A multi-storied agricultural system for southeastern Iowa 29 Tom Wahl, Kathy Dice

Integrating quality of life, economic and environmental issues: An agroecosystem analysis of Amish farming 39 Deborah Stinner, Richard Moore, Benjamin Stinner, Fred Hitzhusen

Adding value: Pastured-poultry, direct marketing and other strategies 47 Muriel Barrett

Integrating management-intensive grazing with …

Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange And Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Of Bacteria In A Complex Food Matrix, Gregory P. Harhay, Gregory R. Siragusa

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

The rapid identification and quantification of pathogenic foodborne bacteria is a national research priority. Data collected with a new spectrochemical method suggests that resonance Raman spectroscopy can rapidly and selectively identify and quantify bacteria in foods and other complex biomatrices. This method utilizes hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDE) to resolve the spectral fingerprints of individual components in the overlapped regions of the ultraviolet resonance Raman spectra of heterogeneous samples. We illustrate this concept with HDE-induced changes in the spectra of bacteria and beef carcass wash samples. The data presented here suggest that the combination of ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy and HDE can …

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (Snp) Discovery And Linkage Mapping Of Bovine Cytokine Genes, William M. Grosse, Steven M. Kappes, William W. Laegreid, John W. Keele, Carol G. Chitko-Mckown, Michael P. Heaton

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Polymorphic markers at bovine gene loci facilitate the integration of cattle genetic maps with those of humans and mice. To this end, 31 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers were developed for seven bovine chemokine genes. Loci were amplified from bovine genomic DNA by the polymerase chain reaction, and candidate amplicons were sequenced to determine their identity. Amplified loci from 24 founding parents and select progeny from a beef cattle reference population were sequenced and analyzed for SNPs. SNP haplotype alleles were determined by examining segregation patterns and used to establish the locus position on the bovine linkage map. Loci for …

Coushatta, 1999, Bonham High School

All City of Bonham-Fannin County Collection Yearbooks

This yearbook covers the 1998-1999 academic year at Bonham High School. It contains photographs of students and faculty members, student organizations, athletic teams, and school events. Also included are advertisements for local businesses.

Flea News 57 (January 1999), Robert E. Lewis

Flea News

Mailing list changes

Miscellanea: The following article concerning plague in prairie dogs in Texas is taken from the July-August issue of the Technical Information Bulletin of the Armed Forces Pest Management Board.

Siphonaptera literature

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 21, No. 4, December 31, 1999, 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.

“There Is Nothing More Divine Than These, Except Man”: Thomas Moffett And Insect Sociality, Monique Bourque

Quidditas

When Thoomas Moffett wrote in the Theater of Insects that "there is nothing more divine than these, except Man," he asked his readers some pointed questions about insects, and made some blunt statements:

where is Nature more to be seen than in the smallest matters, where she is entirely all? for in great bodies the workmanship is easie, the matter being ductile; but in these that are so small and despicable, and almost nothing, what care? how great is the effect of it? how unspeakable is the perfection? ... Do you require Prudence? regard the Ant; Do you desire Justice? …

1999 Platte River Basin Ecosystem Symposium Proceedings

Water Current Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Between Monster And Machine: Rethinking The Judicial Function, Lee Anne Fennell

Articles

No abstract provided.

Property Rights Claims Of Indigenous Populations: The View From The Common Law, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

No abstract provided.

The (Limited) Role Of Regulatory Harmonization In International Goods And Services Markets, Alan O. Sykes

Articles

With the conclusion of the Uruguay Round and its agreements relating to technical barriers, much attention has been devoted to the possibility of harmonizing international regulatory policies to reduce the impediments to commerce that result from regulatory heterogeneity. This paper argues that, as a normative matter, harmonization is inferior to a legal system that tolerates regulatory differences subject to legal constraints, and that relies on mutual recognition where appropriate (the exception to this claim being matters of technical compatibility between products). Related, as a positive matter, harmonization will often lack any political constituency and thus instances of true harmonization will …

Positivism, Formalism, Realism, Brian Leiter

Articles

In Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence, Anthony Sebok traces the historical and philosophical relationship between legal positivism and the dominant schools of American jurisprudence: Formalism, Realism, Legal Process, and Fundamental Rights. Sebok argues that formalism followed from the central tenets of Classical Positivism, and that both schools of thought were discredited-through misunderstandings-during the Realist period. Positivism's essential tenets were reasserted by Legal Process scholars, though soon thereafter misappropriated by politically conservative theorists. In the concluding chapters of the book, Sebok argues that the recent theory known as "Soft" Positivism or "Incorporationism" holds out the possibility of redeeming the liberal political …

Branches, Katie Mcnamara

The Angle

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"'Give it back to me!' she cried trying to reach the small, tattered toy in his hand."

Full Issue, No Author

The Angle

No abstract provided.

Mapping Of The Sdha Locus To Bovine Chromosome 20, T. S. Sonstegard, S. M. Kappes

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Source/description

Primer sequences

PCR and PCR-RFLP conditions

Polymorphism

Linkage analysis and chromosomal location

Acknowledgements

References

Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, entomologist and systematic biologist, published nearly 4,000 papers, some of them only a few lines long. Cockerell’s special interest in bees led him to describe and name specimens from the United States, the West Indies, Honduras, the Philippines, Africa, and Asia. He published at least 5,500 names for species and varieties of bees and almost 150 names for genera and subgenera. It has been estimated that this represented over a quarter of all known species of bees during his lifetime. Above all, however, Cockerell was a general systematist. In addition to extensive studies of bees and …

Unm Health Sciences Center Data Book 1998-99, University Of New Mexico - Health Sciences Center

Health Sciences Center Databook (1990-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

National Endowment Of The Arts V. Finley: The Propriety Of Viewpoint In Arts Funding Still Unknown, Melissa S. Vignovic

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

Molecular Cloning And Characterization Of The Ehrlichia Chaffeensis Variable-Length Pcr Target: An Antigen-Expressing Gene That Exhibits Interstrain Variation, John W. Sumner, James E. Childs, Christopher D. Paddock

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

A clone expressing an immunoreactive protein with an apparent molecular mass of 44 kDa was selected from an Ehrlichia chaffeensis Arkansas genomic library by probing with anti-E. chaffeensis hyperimmune mouse ascitic fluid. Nucleotide sequencing revealed an open reading frame (ORF) capable of encoding a 198-aminoacid polypeptide. The ORF contained four imperfect, direct, tandem 90-bp repeats. The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences did not show close homologies to entries in the molecular databases. PCR with primers whose sequences matched the sequences flanking the ORF was performed with DNA samples extracted from cell cultures infected with nine different isolates of E. …

Report Of The Poplar Working Group, Steve Strauss

United States Department of Energy: Publications

Poplars consist of all species of the genus Populus, including cottonwoods, aspens, and the many interspecies hybrids in common use (Dickmann and Stuart 1983). Our working group focused on the fungal pathogens, arthropod herbivores, and weed competitors of Populus in the United States. However, bacterial and viral diseases of Populus are significant in Europe, and genetic engineering approaches toward their control or management are being studied. The key aspects of poplar biology important to understanding the use of pest resistance genes are described below.

Baleen Whales: Conservation Issues And The Status Of The Most Endangered Populations, Phillip Clapham, Sharon Young, Robert L. Brownell Jr.

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Most species of baleen whales were subject to intensive overexploitation by commercial whaling in this and previous centuries, and many populations were reduced to small fractions of their original sizes. Here, we review the status of baleen whale stocks, with an emphasis on those that are known or thought to be critically endangered. Current data suggest that, of the various threats potentially affecting baleen whales, only entanglement in fishing gear and ship strikes may be significant at the population level, and then only in those populations which are already at critically low abundance. The impact of some problems (vessel harassment, …

Hunting And Social Behaviour Of Leopard Seals (Hydrurga Leptonyx) At Seal Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Lisa M. Hiruki, Michael K. Schwartz, Peter L. Boveng

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

The hunting behavior of leopard seals Hydrurga leptonyx was monitored opportunistically at Seal Island, South Shetland Islands, during the austral summers from 1986/87 to 1994/95. Leopard seals used several methods to catch Antarctic fur seal pups Arctocephalus gazella and chinstrap penguins Pygoscelis antarctica, and individuals showed different hunting styles and hunting success. One to two leopard seals per year were responsible for an average of 60% of observed captures of fur seal pups. Leopard seals preyed on penguins throughout the summer, but preyed on fur seal pups only between late December and mid-February. Hunting behavior differed significantly between different …

Sensitivity Of Fish Embryos To Weathered Crude Oil: Part Ii. Increased Mortality Of Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus Gorbuscha) Embryos Incubating Downstream From Weathered Exxon Valdez Crude Oil, Ron A. Heintz, Jeffrey W. Short, Stanley D. Rice

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

We incubated pink salmon embryos under three exposure conditions, direct contact with oil-coated gravel, effluent from oil-coated gravel, and direct contact with gravel coated with very weathered oil (VWO). Embryo mortalities and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) accumulation in embryo tissues during the direct-contact and effluent exposure experiments were not significantly different, indicating that PAH accumulation was mediated by aqueous transport. Mortality rates for embryos exposed initially to a total PAH concentration (TPAH) of 1.0 ppb were significantly higher than controls when the PAH were derived from VWO. The same aqueous TPAH concentration failed to increase mortality rates when the PAH …

Bacterial Toxins: Friends Or Foes?, Clare K. Schmitt, Karen C. Meysick, Alison D. O'Brien

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Many emerging and reemerging bacterial pathogens synthesize toxins that serve as primary virulence factors. We highlight seven bacterial toxins produced by well-established or newly emergent pathogenic microbes. These toxins, which affect eukaryotic cells by a variety of means, include Staphylococcus aureus α-toxin, Shiga toxin, cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1, Escherichia coli heat-stable toxin, botulinum and tetanus neurotoxins, and S. aureus toxic-shock syndrome toxin. For each, we discuss the information available on its synthesis and structure, mode of action, and contribution to virulence. We also review the role certain toxins have played in unraveling signal pathways in eukaryotic cells and summarize …