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Farm And Home Research: Celebrating 50 Years Of Farm And Home Research, Mary Brashier, Jerry Leslie, Jaumi Reimer, Stephanie Misar

Farm and Home Research: 1999 - 2007

In this Issue:

[Page] 2- Director’s comments: International exchange of plants and people

[Page] 4- ‘Steppe by Steppe’: N.E. Hansen’s impact on agriculture

[Page] 8- ‘On the March’: Siberian native at home on the range

[Page] 10- SPA: enterprise analysis

[Page] 14- A small plant grows smaller: Faculty and students gain global perspective

[Page] 17- Potential danger in dugout . . . if water isn’t freshened by annual runoff

[Page] 18- ‘Timing is everything’. . . in grazing western wheatgrass pastures

[Page] 20- Turfgrass research is new at SDSU . . .to match state’s range in soils and climates

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Virginia Commonwealth University's Program For K-6 And 6-8 Teachers: The Interdisciplinary B.S. In Science, R. W. Farley

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has very recently revised its requirements for the K-6 Certification to include a total of 21 hours in mathematics and science as well as a three credit hour methods course in mathematics and science. This requirement includes a physical science and a biological science course, each with a laboratory component, a contemporary mathematics course with extensive student projects, collaborative work and applications, a statistics course and interdisciplinary science and mathematics course. We believe that as students complete these requirements they will meet the new State K-6 licensure requirements in all areas, with the exception of geometry. …

[Review Of] Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl Villa, And Michael J. Dear (Eds.). Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina En La., Catherine S. Ramirez

Ethnic Studies Review

Throughout the twentieth century (and now the twenty-first), the specter of a Latina/o past, present, and future has haunted the myth of Los Angeles as a sunny, bucolic paradise. At the same time it has loomed behind narratives of the city as a dystopic, urban nightmare. In the 1940s Carey McWilliams pointed to the fabrication of a "Spanish fantasy heritage" that made Los Angeles the bygone home of fair señoritas, genteel caballeros and benevolent mission padres. Meanwhile, the dominant Angeleno press invented a "zoot" (read Mexican-American) crime wave. Unlike the aristocratic, European Californias/os of lore, the Mexican/American "gangsters" of the …

Multi-User Domain Object Oriented (Moo) As A High School Procedure For Foreign Language Acquisition, James A. Backer

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Foreign language students experience added difficulty when they are isolated from native speakers and from the culture of the target language. It has been posited that MOOs (Multiuser domain Object Oriented) may help to overcome the geographical isolation of these students. MOOs are Internet-based virtual worlds in which people from all over the real world meet for synchronous textual conversations and can interact with asynchronous textual objects found there. Students who enjoy a MOO site may identify with its virtual target language community and find integrative motivation which the literature suggests is necessary for advanced language acquisition.

This study focused …

1998-1999 Faculty Senate Annual Report, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

The primary file includes the 1998-1999 Committee on Academic Responsibility Annual Report. Additional annual reports are attached.

Humanist Ethics And Political Justice: Soto, Sepúlveda, And The "Affair Of The Indies", G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

In the debate over Spanish treatment of the natives of the New World, both sides regularly invoked Aristotle on natural slaves. This paper argues that the interpretation of the Spanish Dominican Domingo de Soto displays a greater understanding of Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition of justice than that of Juan Gines de Sepúlveda, the Spanish Humanist. The paper goes on to argue that it is the humanist tradition itself that disposes Sepúlveda to misconstrue Aristotle and the tradition of political justice.

Bulletin: General Catalog Issue 1999-2000, Portland State University

Bulletin & Curriculum Change Documents

No abstract provided.

1998-99 Annual Report, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Annual Reports

For far too long, too many educational environments have been schooling environments focused on teacher- delivered and student-received information rather than learning environments focused on teacher- facilitated and student-generated knowledge. This must change. Young people are capable of extraordinary achievements and significant contributions, and it is the responsibility of educators, parents, taxpayers, policymakers and the business community to provide learning environments that make this possible. With your continuing support, IMSA will work continuously, diligently and resolutely to model and help others become such a learning environment.

Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies, Kurt E. Kinbacher

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 127-129

Rendering Legal Assistance To Similarly Situated Individuals, Bruce A. Green, Martha Matthews

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Population Weights In The International Order, Geoffrey Mcnicoll

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Population relativities play little part in the international system. A nation’s economic and military power is influenced by population size, but as one factor among many. Formal relations among states exclude population from consideration by the principle of sovereign equality. Three sources of possible change in this situation are explored, in which states would be “population-weighted” to a greater degree than before. Convergence of productivity levels around the world, expected by many, would bring the economic and population rankings of states more into line. Such convergence is occurring, but selectively and for the most part quite slowly. Anticipation of its …

Simply Connected Symplectic 4-Manifolds Withpositive Signature, Andras I. Stipsicz

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

No abstract provided.

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

No abstract provided.

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

No abstract provided.

Vytis, Volume 85, Issue 1 (January 1999), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

A Comparison Of Wildlife Control And Cattle Vaccination As Methods For The Control Of Bovine Tuberculosis, R. R. Kao, M. G. Roberts

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

The Australian brushtail possum is the major source of infection for new cases of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in New Zealand. Using hypothetical values for the cost of putative cattle and possum Tb vaccines, the relative efforts required to eradicate Tb in cattle using possum culling, possum vaccination or cattle vaccination are compared. For realistic assumed costs for 1080 poison bait, possum culling is found to be a cost-effective strategy compared to cattle vaccination if the required control area is below 13 ha per cattle herd, while possum vaccination is cost-effective for control areas of less than 3 ha per …

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 1999 - 2001, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

1999-00, Eastern Michigan University, Program Improvements, Eastern Michigan University

Business and Finance

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Winter 1999

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

Everything is Connected to Everything Else - Dave Gosselin, NESEN Director

Encouraging Girls in the Sciences

1999 Summer Workshops - Join us in July!

"Why Did the Chicken Change the Climate ... ?" July 7-8th

"Virtual Nebraska-A New View" July 12-13th

"The 'Dirt' on Soil" July 14-15th

Students and Teachers Exchanging Data, Information and Ideas (STEDII)

NESEN Lending Library

The POSSE's on the Trail

EarthComm Reunion - March 19th & 20th

Earth Science on the Internet

Journey to Planet Earth to Premier on PBS

Now Available from the Earth Science Information Center

Preservation Eastern Newsletter, February 1999, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

No abstract provided.

Preservation Eastern Newsletter, October 1999, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

No abstract provided.

Isolates Of Uromyces Appendiculatus With Specific Virulence To Landraces Of Phaseolus Vulgaris Of Andean Origin, Craig M. Sandlin, James R. Steadman, Carlos M. Araya, Dermot P. Coyne

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Five isolates of the bean rust fungus Uromyces appendiculatus were shown to be specifically virulent on bean genotypes of Andean origin. This specificity was demonstrated by the virulence of five pairs of isolates on a differential set of 30 Phaseolus vulgaris landraces. Each isolate pair was from a different country in the Americas and consisted of one Andean-specific isolate and one nonspecific isolate. Of the differential P. vulgaris landraces, 15 were of Middle American origin and 15 were of Andean origin. The Andean-specific rust isolates were highly virulent on Andean landraces but not on landraces of Middle American origin. …

Institute Brief: Recreation In The Community, Maria Paiewonsky, Susan Tufts

The Institute Brief Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Recommendations from community recreation providers on how to include youth with disabilities in recreation programs.

What Is A Human Right? Universals And The Challenge Of Cultural Relativism, Paul Dubinsky, Jeremy Waldron, Tracy Higgins, Michel Rosenfeld, Ruti Teitel

Faculty Articles

Panel discussion at the program celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The three-day program from December 10-12, 1998 was hosted by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, together with thirteen area law schools and the Union Internationale des Avocats.

White Privilege And Affirmative Action, Sylvia A. Law

Faculty Articles

As we approach the new century, the Nation is at a critical juncture with respect to race relations and the law. For the past two decades “affirmative action” has been the central mechanism through which we have promoted racial integration, and, at the same time, a central issue of controversy. Since 1996, many authoritative voices challenge the legitimacy of affirmative efforts to achieve racial integration. The Supreme Court has struck down many affirmative action programs. The Court has not upheld any affirmative action program since 1989, when, by a 5-4 decision, it approved a narrowly targeted Congressional program to encourage …

Converting Nature : People, Environment, And Production In The Antebellum Mississippi Delta / By Albert Glover Way, Albert Glover Way

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Concert Of Action By Substantial Assistance: Whatever Happened To Unconscious Aiding And Abetting?, E. Dana Neacsu

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Anne E. Mullin, Keith Rhodes, Ellen Davis, Jean R. Trounstine

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Reviews

Anne E. Mullin. Teaching Writing Creatively. (David Starkey, Ed., 1998).

Keith Rhodes. Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Coherence. (Mark Lawrence McPhail, 1996).

Ellen Davis. Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. (Jane Hirshfield, Ed., 1994).

Jean R. Trounstine. Educational Drama and Language Arts: What Research Shows. (Betty Jane Wagner, 1998).

Searching For The Structural Vision Of City Of Boerne V. Flores: Vertical And Horizontal Tensions In The New Constitutional Architecture, Thomas W. Beimers

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

During the Rehnquist Court, America has witnessed accelerating federal judicial activism on behalf of States' rights, and a judicial branch that increasingly views itself as final arbiter of the proper allocation of power between the federal and State governments. Apologists for this trend identify it closely with perceived structural checks embedded in the Constitution, which are designed to ensure greater participatory access in self-governance. Despite this laudable goal, federalism-based precedents appear to conflict with civil rights legislation, such as the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Age Discrimination In Employment Act.

This article attempts to reconcile this apparent conflict by …