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Bard Observer, Vol. 10, No. 4 (December 15, 1999), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

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Utb-Tsc Academic Senate Minutes 1999-12-15, University Of Texas At Brownsville And Texas Southmost College. Faculty Senate.

UTB/TSC Faculty Senate Minutes

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Effect Of Smoking On The Body Mass Index-Mortality Relation: Empirical Evidence From 15 Studies, V. Hawthorne, V. Hawthorne, D. Kozarevic, N. Vojvodic, C. R. Gillis, D. Hole, C. Hart, T. Jorgensen, T. Thomsen, M. Davidson, U. Goldbourt, S. Yaari, G. Cao, R. Cooper, R. Durazo-Arvizu, Z. Li, Y. Liao, D. Mcgee, T. E. Prewitt, C. Sempos

Faculty Publications

The authors examined the impact of smoking status on the relation between body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)2) and mortality across a group of 15 diverse observational studies. The studies included a heterogeneous sample of national samples, cohort studies with mortality follow-up, and clinical trials. Consideration of the data according to natural strata resulted in the formation of 42 analytic cohorts. The authors examined survival through the end of follow-up for each study, as influenced by body mass index, age, and current smoking status at baseline, using a proportional hazards model to describe the relation between body mass index and …

Implantable Controlled Release Device To Deliver Drugs Directly To An Internal Portion Of The Body, Paul Ashton, Paul A. Pearson

Ophthalmology and Visual Science Faculty Patents

A simple and implantable sustained release drug delivery device with an inner core containing an effective amount of a low solubility agent covered by a non-bioerodible polymer coating layer that is permeable to the low solubility agent is disclosed. A method for treating a mammal to obtain a desired local or systemic physiological or pharmacological effect by surgically implanting such a sustained release drug delivery device into a mammal in need of treatment is also disclosed.

Transcriptional Silencing Elements And Their Binding Factors, Joseph Chappell, Jeffrey D. Newman, Shaohui Yin

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

The invention features an isolated gene silencing regulatory element that includes 5' TACNNTAC 3'. Vectors, transgenic plants and seeds thereof that include such a gene silencing regulatory element are also disclosed. The invention further provides methods of decreasing the transcription of a DNA sequence in a transgenic plant using the isolated gene silencing regulatory element.

New Approach To Estimating Bull Fertility, R. L. Ax, M. E. Bellin, H. M. Zhang, H. E. Hawkins

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Breeding soundness evaluations (BSE) are conducted to qualify bulls as potential satisfactory breeders. Guidelines for acceptable measures of scrotal circumference, sperm concentration, sperm motility, and the frequency of sperm with morphological abnormalities are compiled and published by the American Society for Theriogenology (Chenoweth et al., 1992). Unfortunately, according to statistics available from USDA, only 40% of eligible bulls are subjected to a BSE. In the real world, bulls with identical outcomes in terms of physical quality of semen will still vary in actual fertility whether used for natural mating or artificial insemination (A.I).

Cow Adaptability And Carcass Acceptability – Are They Compatible?, James A. Gosey

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Obviously cows have to be bred to fit their environment/resource base and their progeny have to produce desirable consumer beef. However, genetic antagonisms between traits and other management factors result in mismatches that occur between optimum cow fitness and optimum carcass fitness. Fortunately the knowledge base that can be used to manage some of these mismatches has grown in recent years. Given time, effort, and commitment, a rancher can develop an action plan to produce not a perfect fit, but a profitable compromise between "cow goals" and "carcass goals".

Opportunities To Recapture Demand For Beef, Andrew Gottschalk

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Since 1976, the total supply of red meat and poultry has increased 63%. However, all of the gains since 1976 have been the domain of the competing meats. During 1998, beef production approximated the record production of 1976. This was accomplished with approximately 28 million fewer cattle (100M) than in 1976 (128M). The entire reduction in cattle inventories is offset by an increase in average annual carcass weight. During the period 1990-1998, beef production increased 3.1 billion pounds, pork increased 3.7 billion pounds, chicken increased 9.0 billion pounds and turkey increased 660 million pounds. In total during the 1990-1998 period, …

Managing Forage Resources For Bigger Profits, Kit Pharo

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Our ranch is known as Pharo Cattle Company and is located eight miles north of Cheyenne Wells, which is on the central high plains of Eastern Colorado. This is short-grass country with very limited and unpredictable rainfall. We have a commercial cow herd, as well as a registered cow herd. Our seedstock program consists of Red Angus, Black Angus, Tarentaise, and Composites. Our Composite cattle are 50% Tarentaise, 30% Red or Black Angus and 20% Hereford.

Since our ranch provides our only source of income, our ranching practices must be both sustainable and profitable. Recently I've heard a lot of …

Sharing The Range – What Diseases Do Wild Ruminants And Beef Cattle Share?, Elizabeth S. Williams

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Our western rangelands support a wide variety of species including ruminants that are exquisitely suited to make use of these renewable resources. Domestic ruminants utilizing these rangelands include cattle, domestic sheep, and less frequently, at least in the northern Great Plains and intermountain west, domestic goats. Wild ruminants, in numbers, variety, and quality not found anywhere else in North America, include mule deer, pronghorn, and elk. White-tailed deer frequent the riparian areas, moose are found in low numbers in forest lands, bighorn sheep inhabit rough breaks and the higher altitudes, and free-ranging bison are found around the national parks in …

Vaccines And Dewormers – Do We Need Them All?, Dale M. Grotelueschen

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Consumers are the ultimate beneficiaries of improved animal health. Costs and potential benefits from use of vaccines and dewormers affect returns to individual producers or operations as well as the beef industry as a whole. Vaccines that positively influence average daily gain, improve carcass quality, lower costs of production and improve efficiency, and that reduce treatments, decreasing reliance on antibiotics, and that decrease treatment costs contribute to success of the beef industry.

Consideration for use by individual operations often involves shorter time perspectives, especially if cattle are marketed or if products administered affect only production systems on the premises. When …

Lifetime Effects Of Respiratory And Liver Disease On Cattle, Bill Epperson

Range Beef Cow Symposium

In cattle, the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts are the main systems affected with disease. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) contributes the majority of illness and death loss in the feedlot segment. Historically, 15-45% of feedlot cattle have been affected with BRD, with 1-5% of total cattle placed dying of BRD (Kelly 1986). Respiratory disease, alone, accounts for 44.1% of deaths in beef feedlot cattle (Vogel 1994). Apart from death loss, the Texas Ranch to Rail Program has suggested that clinical disease (most of which is BRD), even if treated successfully, results in treatment cost ($37.90/affected), decreased average daily gain (0.21 lb/d, …

Development Of Multibred Genetic Evaluation, Jerry Lipsey

Range Beef Cow Symposium

There are several important reasons the beef industry needed to develop multibreed genetic evaluation capabilities:

• Multibreed analyses procedures do a better job of evaluating breeding values of individuals with two or more breeds in their pedigree.

• This new technology provides information that more closely matches the potential genetics in current and future beef production systems.

• U.S. Beef Producers want to alternate breeds to take advantage of crossbreeding and biological type complementarity.

• The beef industry wants to utilize composite seedstock that benefit from seedstock production heterosis and provide heterosis in commercial production systems.

• The long term …

Can Cow Adaptability And Carcass Acceptability Both Be Achieved?, R. D. Green, T. G. Field, N. S. Hammett, B. M. Ripley, S. P. Doyle

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Over the past couple of decades, the beef cattle industry has become a confusing place to exist. Messages have been conveyed to producers at a fast and furious pace. This would not be a problem if these messages were consistent and if they were compatible with each other, yet this is far from the real situation. Daryl Tatum has been known to occasionally coin the term to describe confusion as “someone being lost in his/her own fog”. Unfortunately, this verbage very accurately describes the beef cattle production environment of the 1990s.

Enhancing Management Decisions – History Of The Decision Evaluator For The Cattle Industry, Barry Dunn, T. G. Jenkins, C. B. Williams

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Ranch management is the decision making process of resource allocation for a business enterprise that manages natural resources, animals and capitol to meet goals of profitability and sustainability. While this brief sentence captures the essence of ranch management, simplicity is hardly one of ranch decision-making's characteristics. The diagram in Figure 1 has been used to describe the challenge of ranch management as a web of information and complex interrelationships that influence the viability of a beef cattle enterprise. While even this diagram simplifies the complexities faced by ranchers as they grapple with decisions, it does add sensitivity and understanding.

Spin Trapping Pharmaceutical Compositions And Methods For Use Thereof, John M. Carney, Robert A. Floyd

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Patents

Spin trapping compositions in general have now been discovered to be effective in treating a variety of disorders, including disorders such as those arising from ischemia, infection, inflammation, exposure to radiation or cytotoxic compounds, not just of the central and peripheral nervous systems but of peripheral organ disease having a wide variety of etiologies. In the preferred embodiment, the compositions for treating tissue damage from ischemia contain PBN, or active derivatives thereof, in a suitable pharmaceutical carrier for intravenous, oral, topical, or nasal/pulmonary administration. Other preferred spin-trapping agents include 5,5-dimethyl pyrroline N-oxide, (DMPO), α-(4-pyridyl-1-oxide)-N-tert-butylnitrone, (POBN), and (TEMPO) spin-trapping derivatives thereof. …

The Grizzly, December 14, 1999, Stephanie Restine, Kelly Tessena, Cory Braiterman, Diane Johnson, Fran Shaughnessy

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

A Miracle of Science: Missing Link to Graduation and Real World Reappears for UC Bio Majors • Debate and Discussion Hailed a Success by College Dems • Final Exam Schedule • Winners From the Holiday Decorating Contest • Men's Basketball Wins 3 Straight • First Win for Women's Basketball Team

The Bg News December 14, 1999, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 14, 1999. Volume 84-Issue 75.

Faculty Newsnotes 1999 No. 324, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

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Ada News - 12/13/1999, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Monitor Newsletter December 13, 1999, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, December 12, 1999, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Humanities - Leona Hughes; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters - Fred Laswell; Outstanding Senior - Jessica Pawelkop; King O'Neal Scholars - Cecili Evon Thompson, Rose Mary Shabo, and Eric Michael Lortie; Distinguished Service Award - Kelli R. McCormack-Brown; Town and Gown Community Service Award - John C. Ruckdeschel; Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award - Autar K. Kaw; Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award - Gäetan Brulotte

Biochemical And Biophysical Analysis Of The Intracellular Lipid Binding Proteins Of Adipocytes, Melanie A. Simpson, Vince J. Licata, Natalie Ribarik Coe, David A. Bernlohr

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Adipocytes express two lipid-binding proteins; the major one termed the adipocyte lipid-binding protein or aP2 (ALBP/aP2) and a minor one referred to as the keratinocyte lipid-binding protein (KLBP). In order to evaluate the potential physiological roles for these proteins, their biochemical and biophysical properties have been analyzed and compared. ALBP/aP2 and KLBP exhibit similar binding affinities for most long-chain fatty acids; however, ALBP/aP2 exhibits a two to three-fold increased affi nity for myristic, palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids, the predominant fatty acids of adipocytes. As measured by guanidinium hydrochloride denaturation, the stability of ALBP/aP2 is nearly 3 kcal/mol greater than …

Fall Commencement Program, December 11, 1999, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

South Dakota State University Graduation Exercises, December 11, 1999, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State University

Commencement Programs

Please be advised that the individuals listed in the program do not serve as an official confirmation of having met the graduation requirements. The 1999 Fall Graduation Exercises will commence with introductions by University President Peggy Gordon Elliott. Serving as honorary marshals are Dr. James O. Pederson, Dean of General Registration Emeritus, and Dr. Duane E. Sander, Dean Emeritus of Electrical Engineering. The graduation address, titled "Graduation is Commencement," will be delivered by Dr. Herbert E. Cheever, Jr., Dean of the College of Arts and Science. Dr. Carol J. Peterson, Vice President for Academic Affairs, will acknowledge student and faculty …

Eagles Vs. Asbury / Lady Eagles Vs. Unc Asheville / Lady Eagles Vs. Marshall, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The official game program from the December 11, 19 and 21, 1999 basketball games between Morehead State University and Asbury College, the University of North Carolina Asheville and Marshall University.

Fayetteville State University 10th Winter Commencement 1999, Fayetteville State University

Graduation Exhibit

Program for Fayetteville State University 10th Winter Commencement December 11 1999

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Joel A. Smith III, President of Bank of America East

The Echo: December 10, 1999, Taylor University

1999-2000 (Volume 87)

Reminder! – Correction – Missing nativity figures recovered – Collymore’s health continues to improve – Taylor tradition ends: 1999 marks final ‘Christmas with Jay’ – Oral Interpretation Christmas production: ‘…And a child shall lead them’ – Parking ticket problems – Reader signs Messiah’s praise – On the threshold of a new millennium, Taylor’s past, present and future reflect its rich history – Taylor leaps into new millennium with solid foundation – Taylor student speak out – Guest columnist: Partnering with Papa – Guest columnist: What in the world? Money and materialism – Letters to the editor – Guest columnist: Taylor’s …

Jones V. School Dist. Phila.

1999 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper, December 10, 1999, George Fox University Archives

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper

Student Newspaper of George Fox University.