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Saving Utah's Landscape, Biocontrol Of Tamarisk, Usu Extension

All Current Publications

Scientists at the Animal, Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have been working for years to determine if beetles imported from China and Kazakhstan would effectively consume tamarisk (salt cedar) in the U.S. without threatening desirable vegetation.

Saving Utah's Landscape, Purge Your Spruge, Usu Extension

All Current Publications

How do you get residents in a vast metropolitan area like Salt Lake City to understand the threat of invading and noxious weeds? The Bonneville Cooperative Weed Management Area (CWMA) focused their attention on an escaping ornamental.

Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension

All Current Publications

What began in the 1950s as a small patch of weeds near a grain elevator in Juab County, turned into a serious environmental problem that impacts the state’s wildlife, grazing and tourist industries. In the early 1990s, it was estimated that squarrose knapweed infested nearly 200,000 acres of rangeland in central Utah.

Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension

All Current Publications

Why do animals eat certain foods and live in certain locations? Your first thought might be, they’re born that way or it’s in their genes. While it’s true that every animal is born with a set of genes that helps determine how they look and what they need, genetics is only part of the story.

Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension

All Current Publications

In general, the more livestock eat, the more weight they gain or milk they produce. Thus, forage intake is key to animal performance. Agronomists manage for correct plant density and height to ensure herbivores maximize intake.

Sustainable Orchard Management System, Diane Alston

All Current Publications

Fruit production in the intermountain west is besieged with problems. To cope with these problems, fruit growers mustbe competent in financing, banking, buying, public relations, marketing, meteorology, climatology, plant science, soil science, entomology, pathology, irrigation, fertilization, chemistry, physics, mechanics, and management.

Law School Announcements 2000-2001, Law School Announcements Editors

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Review Of Genes And The Environment By R. H. Burdon, Valery E. Forbes

Valery Forbes Publications

How diverse aspects of an organism’s environment influence the structure and function of its genes is of profound importance for understanding the molecular basis of evolution as well as the causes of disease, cancer and aging. Genes and the Environment addresses these issues from a molecular biological perspective. The author covers both natural environmental influences, such as extreme temperatures and water stress, as well as humancaused environmental influences, such as exposure to toxic chemicals. The author makes an effort to compare and contrast prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems and highlights distinctions between major groups of eukaryotes e.g., plants versus animals. to …

The Effects Of Low Ph On Sunfish Assemblages In Southeast Georgia, William Boyd Tate

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

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Senior Project: A Paradox In Critical Pedagogy, Mark Allen Winters

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

High school education is currently based upon technicist pedagogy, transforming education into mere technical training for the workforce. The regimen of testing in schools standardizes experiences and fails to provide a complete view of what students know and are able to do. Students need freedom to question and to insert their own interests into what they are studying. Such freedom provides more than preparation for graduation; it provides emancipatory education. I focused on a single curricular program—Senior Project. My research questioned, "Can Senior Project provide high school students with the freedom to study topics of personal interest and the freedom …

Use Of Oak Hammocks By Neotropical Migrant Songbirds During Stopover In Coastal South Carolina, Scott Glen Somershoe

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

Many species of Neotropical migrant songbirds have been reported to be declining in the last few decades, and the loss and fragmentation of stopover habitat has been implicated as a potential cause of these population declines. To manage properly a fragmented forest landscape for migrating songbirds information is needed on how the size and the habitat of forest fragments influence their use by migrants during stopover. Therefore, I conducted censuses of Neotropical migrant birds in eight oak hammocks of varying size (0.32-3.08 ha) at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, Jasper County, South Carolina. Censuses were conducted at 0600-1030 h during …

Pegasys, Dale L. Barnard

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

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Constructing Compatibility : Managing Breastfeeding And Weaning From The Mothers' Perspective, Yvonne Louise Hauck

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Breastfeeding involves phases of initiation, continuation, and weaning. Research to date has focused upon its initiation and continuation rather than the later phases, when the child is weaned from the breast. Selective aspects relating to weaning have been explored to determine infant feeding practices such as the timing of food introduction. However, that research has focused upon developing countries where the impact of infant feeding patterns and weaning practices have a significant impact on infant growth and child health. The weaning process or final phase of breastfeeding from the mothers' perspective has not been examined within the western world. In …

Usd President's Report 2000, University Of San Diego

President's Reports (1985- )

A Worldwide Presence, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim, Mexico, Africa, Latin America, The Year in Review, 1999-2000 Giving Summary, 1999-2000 Financial Operations, Leadership Donors, Planned Giving, Board of Trustees and Executive Officers

"Waive" Goodbye To Tort Liability: A Proposal To Remove Paternalism From Product Sales Transactions, Richard C. Ausness

San Diego Law Review

This Article argues that waivers of tort liability should be permitted in connection with product sales. Currently, sellers cannot limit their liability under tort law for personal injuries caused by defective products even though such waivers are allowed, albeit reluctantly, under principles of negligence and warranty law.

Theory Minimalism, Stanley Fish

San Diego Law Review

We must begin with a sense of what theory is, and I shall derive mine from a question Herbert Wechsler often put to his students. "Ask yourself," he would say, "'Would I reach the same result if the substantive interests were otherwise?"" The challenge of the question is to the student who has determined where the right lies in a disputed matter, and who now must demonstrate that, even if every circumstantial particular of the case were varied-if the plaintiff were a woman instead of a man, if the object of hate speech was a descendant of someone who came …

Cultivating The Genetic Commons: Imperfect Patent Protection And The Network Model Of Innovation, Jonathan M. Barnett

San Diego Law Review

This Article enters this debate and argues the following position. Assuming that antitrust authorities persist in certain strategies to impede patent consolidation, the recent introduction of patent rights for certain biotechnological innovations is likely to encourage private investment in the genetic commons and reduce (or, at least, not enhance) the accessibility costs that could stunt technological advance. To reach this conclusion, this Article shows that the two leading theories of patent protection, the "incentive" theory7 and the "prospect" theory,8 do not explain private industry's willingness to sink significant investment capital into highly uncertain biopharmaceutical projects. These theories offer insufficient explanations …

Delgamuukw And The Protection Of Aboriginal Land Interests, Gordon Christie

All Faculty Publications

To determine the extent to which Aboriginal title-holders enjoy control over Aboriginal title lands, it is necessary to explore fiduciary doctrine, for the application of this doctrine to the question of legislative infringement determines the limits within which Aboriginal title-holders can expect to see their interests respected. In Delgamuukw the Supreme Court of Canada adopted and applied an understanding of the Crown-Aboriginal fiduciary relationship it developed in Gladstone. In so doing the Supreme Court set out the power of Canadian governments to control the uses to which Aboriginal title lands can be put. Ironically, since Aboriginal title is characterized by …

A Review Essay: Limits Of Gaylaw, Dale Carpenter

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Part of Professor William Eskridge's mission in Gaylaw (Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. Eskridge, Jr., Harvard University Press, 1999) is to describe the historical development of the complex legal and, to some extent the cultural, landscape for gays. (pp. 17-137) Though not much of Eskridge's presentation of the history of American law's treatment of gays draws from original research, its synthesis of the available secondary sources is a useful contribution and will likely become a staple of classes treating the subject.

The larger part of Gaylaw is the book's greatest challenge and the place where …

The Analysis Of Polar Lipid Classes By High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Evaporative Light Scattering Detection, Thomas John Mcnabb

Open Access Dissertations

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Nekton Utilization Of Tidally Restricted, Restoring, And Reference New England Salt Marshes, Kenneth Bryan Raposa

Open Access Dissertations

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Nucleic Acids As Indicators Of Growth Rates And Nutritional Condition Of Calanus Finmarchicus (Copepoda: Calanoida), Melissa M. Wagner

Open Access Dissertations

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Interaction Of Neurotransmitters On The Proboscis Muscles Of The North American Channeled Whelk Busycon Canaliculatum, Timothy John Fort

Open Access Dissertations

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Hedging Effectiveness, Market Efficiency And Forecasting In The Shrimp Futures Market, Josue Martinez-Garmendia

Open Access Dissertations

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Whose Story Is It, Anyway, Janet L. Massa

Open Access Dissertations

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Formation Of Advanced Glycation End Products By Glyceraldehyde And Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate With Proteins, Paula F. G. De Sa

Open Access Dissertations

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Induction Of Embryonic Diapause In The Calanoid Copepod Acartia Hudsonica, David Edward Avery

Open Access Dissertations

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Charitable Contributions And The Personal Income Tax: Evaluating The Canadian Credit, David G. Duff

All Faculty Publications

The last fifteen years have witnessed significant changes in the way that charitable contributions by individuals are treated under the Canadian Income Tax Act. The most significant of these changes involves the conversion in 1988 of what had previously been a deduction for charitable contributions whereby the value of the tax benefit depends on the donor?s level of income, into a tax credit under which the value of this benefit depends on the total amount of charitable contributions claimed in the particular taxation year. As a result of this amendment, Canada has become the only developed country that recognizes charitable …

Proclamation-Based Principles Of Parenting And Supportive Scholarship, Craig H. Hart, Lloyd D. Newell, Lisa L. Sine

Faculty Publications

How parents view the nature of a child and their own role as parents has great influence over the life of that child. Many perspectives about the nature of children have arisen in the course of Western Civilization that have shaped childrearing practices for centuries, including the increasingly accepted scholarly view that parents matter relatively little in children’s lives. (2) This chapter emphasizes inspired, eternal principles that are supported by empirical and conceptual scholarship, which suggests that optimal parenting does indeed matter in children’s lives.

The Relationships Of Organizational Personality Variables With Worker Socio-Communicative Orientation, Communication Apprehension, Immediacy, And Job Satisfaction., Heather Teresa Smith

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examined the organizational personality types of "upward mobile," "ambivalent," and "indifferent" with reference to their relationships with worker sociocommunicative orientation, communication apprehension, immediacy, and job satisfaction. The study examined self-report data from the measures of organizational personality scales, job satisfaction, communication apprehension, immediacy, and assertiveness/responsiveness. The study found that each of the three personality variables have unique relationships (some linear, some non-linear) with communication apprehension, immediacy, assertiveness, responsiveness, and job satisfaction.