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Tv Violence And Kids: Solutions Begin At Home, Says Ole Miss Professor, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Juvenile crime is down. So are teen pregnancy and teen smoking. In fact, a recent government report suggests that life is improving for America's children in almost every statistical measure of health, education and family resources.

Sub-Lethal Effects Of Hypoxia/Hypercapnia On Callinectes Sapidus In The York River Estuary, Virginia, Sandra R. Hypes

Theses and Dissertations

This research examined effects of hypoxic environments on blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus in an estuarine environment. Hypoxic conditions were treated as a multiple stressor involving low dissolved oxygen (D.O.), increased carbon dioxide (hypercapnia), and low pH concurrently. The objectives were to: 1) identify hypoxiahypercapnia by monitoring D.O. and pH as an indicator of hypercapnia in shallow regions of the York River, 2) measure blue crab abundance, and 3) describe blue crab responses to hypoxiahypercapnia via field work at Taskinas Creek and lab measurements of respiration. Ambient D.O. and pH were positively correlated in the Taskinas Creek and York River sites …

Ole Miss Biology Students To Explore Cutting-Edge Dna Fingerprinting In New Lab, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- It can make or break a murder investigation. It can decide a paternity suit. It can help save an endangered species, isolate a deadly bacterium or design a better strain of rice.

Population Dynamics Of The Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon Obesulus) On Ellen Brook Reserve, Craig Pentland

Theses : Honours

The small, enclosed section of Ellen Brook Reserve provided the unique opportunity to observe a population of southern-brown bandicoots (lsoodon obesulus) in the absence of exotic predators. The reserves small-enclosed size enabled it possible to trap the whole area (excluding the ephemeral swamps) and so emigration and immigration could be excluded. This enabled good population size estimates, and inferences on the loss of individuals due to mortality could be more strongly argued for. An understanding of the population structure, dynamics, size and density, and body condition of I. obesulus in Ellen Brook Reserve, will provide important information, for …

Culture As Commodity: The Home As Spectacle In Popular Culture, Jillian E. Benn

Theses : Honours

This study proposes to examine representations of the home in the media. The media play a significant role in the culture of Australians, who are obsessed with the suburban home and its cultural and social meanings. The place of the home within popular thought and culture and the subsequent ideologies and meanings associated with the home are questioned in this dissertation. The major theme to emerge is that the contemporary suburban home is a spectacle. This project interprets, evaluates and contributes to current theories and debates surrounding the concept of suburbia. It is an original contribution to the perception of …

Suck My Dick: G.I. Jane, Demi Moore And The Action Heroine, Matthew Mckeown

Theses : Honours

The content of my thesis sits at the tail end of about three decades of feminist criticism that has examined women's place in film texts. During which, theoretical work has been done studying the types of roles given to women, how they are constructed visually and narratively across different genres. This thesis then sets out to examine the action genre and the room it makes for the central female protagonist. How does this genre, largely ignored by critics and academics and inherently masculine and dominated by males, allow for a central female heroine? What room is there for any femininity, …

Lost Opportunity?: An Evaluation Of The Senate's Report On Disaster Management, Julian Anthony Yates

Theses : Honours

The inability of the Australian federal governments to dominate the Senate has enhanced the Senate’s ability to review and make recommendations on public policy issues. In 1994, the Senate Standing Committee on Industry, Science, Technology, Transport, Communications and Infrastructure reviewed and made recommendations on Australia’s emergency management arrangements. Australian emergency management has developed in a complex environment where it has been heavily influenced by incremental development from its civil defence origins in the Second World War and by factors including international developments, federalism and the hazards impacting on Australia. The Senate Committee’s review was a unique opportunity for a high …

Moral Dilemmas And Cases Of Conscience : Trollope's Morality In The Warden And The Last Chronicle Of Barset, Hannah Louise Rogers

Theses : Honours

This thesis offers an exploration of Trollope's morality in The Warden and The Last Chronicle of Barset. Existing critical work which explores Trollope's morality often argues either for or against Trollope's moral relativism. This thesis argues, instead, that Trollope's morality unifies aspects of both theoretical perspectives. It reconciles the polarisation of Trollope's moral absolutism and moral relativism, taking the middle-ground. In doing so, it makes evident the contradictions and extremes in existing Trollopian criticism.

The thesis places Trollopian morality within the historical and socio-cultural context of Victorianism. It focuses on the Victorian consciousness of change, securing a definition …

How Do Family Members Perceive, Understand And Explain The Experience Of Homework? : A Case Study Of Four Families, Cathryn Voak

Theses : Honours

The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine family member perceptions and experiences of homework. More broadly, it seeks to illuminate the nature and social function of homework practices in families and in so doing, highlights the complex relationship between schools and family life. The study involved four families and their experiences of homework. The families were selected on the basis that the parents came from a range of socio-economic backgrounds which may impact upon their children's attitudes and experiences of homework and schooling. The approach adopted to investigate this phenomenon is that of case study. Specifically, this case …

Environmental Impact Assessment In The European Community: Shaping International Norms, William Murray Tabb

Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Analyzing C-Span In The Basic Communication Course, Jim Schnell

Basic Communication Course Annual

Use of C-SPAN in the basic communication course as data for analysis is described. Specific focus is on Persian Gulf War presentations made August 2, 1990 - January 16, 1991 by President George Bush. Analysis of these presentations exemplifies how similar analysis can be done of other public speakers. An explanation of how to procure C-SPAN videotapes is provided.

Glycolytic Inhibition In Pre-Rigor Muscle: An Alternative Method To Improve Beef Tenderness, Chris R. Calkins, Nancy Jerez, Jesus Velazco

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Flank muscle (FM) and loin eye muscle (LEM) were marinated with solutions of different glycolytic inhibitors to test their effect on tenderness, pH and color. The increase of pH was more evident in LEM than in FM. The improvement in tenderness was higher in FM. In LEM, the most desirable result (cherry-red color and more tender) was observed with sodium citrate. Flank muscle became more tender and had better color (cherry red) than the control with oxamic acid, iodoacetate, glucose and sodium acetate. Most of the compounds caused different responses between muscles. Potential inhibitors must be tested further to prove …

Feedlot Marketing/Sorting Systems To Reduce Carcass Discounts, Rob Cooper, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Todd Milton, Dillon Feuz

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

A project involving 4,348 cattle and five commercial feedlots in Nebraska was conducted to evaluate marketing/ sorting systems to reduce overweight and overfat carcasses . At reimplant time, cattle were weighed and fat depth estimated either by ultrasound or by manual rib palpation. Cattle heavier and/or fatter than a predetermined weight and fat depth were identified for early sale. The system of sorting did not reduce carcass discounts. Reimplant fat depth was poorly correlated to carcass fat depth. At reimplant time (~90 days prior to slaughter), we were unable to consistently identify cattle which would become Yield Grade 4 carcasses.

Corn And Sorghum Distillers Grains For Finishing Cattle, Ki Fanning, Todd Milton, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Mark Klemesrud

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

To evaluate corn and sorghum distillers grains in corn-based finishing diets, 60 crossbred, yearling steers were individually fed one of three finishing diets: dry-rolled corn, corn distillers grain or sorghum distillers grain for 127 days. Distillers grains were fed at 30 percent of the dietary dry matter, replacing dry-rolled corn. Distillers grains increased the final weight, daily gain, feed efficiency, hot carcass weight, fat thickness and yield grade compared with the control. Sorghum distillers grains increased dry matter intake and fat thickness compared with corn distillers grains.

Fat Addition And Restricted Feeding Of Corn Gluten Feed Diets For Cattle Exposed To Environmental Stress, Jill Heemstra, Terry L. Mader, Tony Scott, John Gaughan

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

One winter and one summer trial were conducted comparing dry rolled corn (DRC) to DRC + corn gluten feed (CGF) finishing diets. No performance differences among winter study treatment groups were found. In the 106- day summer trial, DRC or CGF (40 percent DM)-based diets were fed as high-energy, 8 percent roughage diets either ad libitum (HE), restricted to approximately 90 percent of HE (RE) or fed as moderate energy, 20 percent roughage diets (HR). Feeding CGF diets or lowering metabolizable energy (ME) intake through RE or HR diet regimes did not improve feed to gain ratios or appear to …

Steer Performance Within Summer Grazing Systems, D. J. Jordon, Galen E. Erickson, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Don C. Adams, Todd Milton, Rob Cooper

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

A growing/finishing trial in 1996-97 evaluated summer grazing systems and subsequent finishing performance. Steers were wintered on cornstalks and assigned to one of three summer grazing systems: 1) Sequential removal of cattle from bromegrass, 2) Bromegrass/warm season grass, or 3) Sandhills range. Steers on the sequential bromegrass treatment gained fastest in the summer, but had a higher slaughter breakeven. Sequential bromegrass, steers were on grass where cost of grain was fixed, for fewer days; therefore, breakeven was increased. Steers on the bromegrass/ warm-season treatment had the lowest slaughter breakevens due to more total weight gain on forage. Slaughter breakevens were …

Calf Performance Grazing Crop Residues In Combination With Rye In Fall And Winter, D. J. Jordon, Mark Blackford, Todd Milton, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Rob Cooper

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Two trials in the fall and winter of 1997-98 evaluated calf performance when grazing either rye with crop residues or crop residues alone. While not significant, calves grazing rye followed by corn residues tended to gain faster compared to calves grazing residues alone (2.26 versus 1.84 lb/d, respectively). Calves grazing corn residues only fully compensated for the weight difference at the end of winter grazing by slaughter. No differences were found in finishing performance or slaughter breakevens. In trial 2, steers grazed rye and milo or milo residue alone. Steers grazing rye/milo gained faster (P < .05). Using rye to supplement animals on milo residues resulted in steers not leaving the rye portion of the field.

Evaluation Of Revalor®-G As An Initial Implant For Yearling Steers, Terry L. Mader, Jill Heemstra, Robert Brandt Jr., Gary Sides

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Three hundred thirty-six English crossbred steers (715 lb) were used to compare effects of reimplanting with Revalor®-S (administered on day 66) after three different initial implants (administered on day zero), to single implantation with Revalor-S (administered on day zero or day 66). Over the entire study, implanted steers gained faster and more efficiently than non-implanted control steers. Steers implanted initially with Revalor-G or Synovex-S gained faster than steers implanted only once. Of the three reimplant treatments, only those initially implanted with Revalor-G had improved feed efficiency compared with single-implanted steers on a live basis. Compared to non-implanted controls, marbling score …

Performance Of Yearling Steers Fed Beet Pulp Or Chicory Pulp Rations, Ivan G. Rush, Brad Van Pelt

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Substitution of beet pulp or chicory pulp for corn silage was evaluated in a 64-day feeding trial using yearling steers. Rations contained 27.7 percent (DM) beet pulp or chicory pulp. Chicory pulp utilized in this trial is a suitable feed resource for beef cattle. Feed intake was significantly lower with chicory pulp addition. Palatability or very high water content of rations which reduced ration quality are potential reasons for decreased consumption of rations containing chicory pulp.

Dietary Management For Starting Finishing Yearling Steers On Feed, Burt Weichenthal, Ivan G. Rush, Brad Van Pelt

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Angus crossbred yearling steers were started on a finishing program with diets stepped-up in grain over 23 days or with limit-feeding of the final diet over three weeks. Limit-feeding during start-up improved overall feed efficiency, carcass dressing percentage and fat thickness, but did not affect daily gain or carcass quality and yield grades. In this small pen research trial, steers reached ad libitum intake of the final diet by limit-feeding of this diet during start-up without major problems from acidosis or related intake variation.

Women In The New Millennium: The Promises Of The Past Are Now The Problems For The Millennium, Lundy R. Langston

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article argues that the equality principle, while intended to promote gender equality, has failed to address the unique challenges and needs of women, particularly in legal and workplace contexts. Despite advancements in women's rights, structural disparities persist, with women bearing disproportionate burdens in caregiving, employment, and legal proceedings. The analysis critiques how courts and policies often ignore the biological and societal differences between men and women, leading to outcomes that perpetuate gender inequality. The article emphasizes the need for a more nuanced approach to equality that accounts for these differences and addresses systemic power imbalances.

Law Library Illuminations, Roger Williams University School Of Law Library

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

No abstract provided.

Natural Theology In An Ecological Mode, Mark Wynn

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Peter Van Inwagen, God, Knowledge & Mystery: Essays In Philosophical Theology, Frances Howard-Snyder, Daniel Howard-Snyder

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

The Earth Of Genesis 1:2: Abiotic Or Chaotic? Part Ii, Roberto Ouro

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

The Triumph Of The Irrational In Postenlightenment Theology, Paul Fisher

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

The Beginning And The End Of 'Religion' [Review] / Nicholas Lash., Gary Chartier

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

A Chiasm Of Seven Chiasms: The Structure Of The Millennial Vision, Rev 19:1-21:8, Ed Christian

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Divine Presence And Community: A Commentary On The Book Of Leviticus [Review] / Frank H. Gorman, Jr., Roy E. Gane

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Hi-O-Hi 1999, Oberlin College

Hi-O-Hi Yearbooks

No abstract provided.