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The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi Jan 2000

The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi

The Ole Miss (1897-)

The Ole Miss Annual 2000

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Concentrations Levels Of Fluoride In Bottled Drinking Water And Filtered Water Using Home Filtration Systems., Sissy Ann Daniel Johnson Jan 2000

Concentrations Levels Of Fluoride In Bottled Drinking Water And Filtered Water Using Home Filtration Systems., Sissy Ann Daniel Johnson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Minimal and conflicting research exists on the fluoride content of bottled water and the degree of fluoride elimination using home filtration systems. A convenience sample of bottled waters (N=65) and home filtration systems (N=2) available in West Virginia was obtained. Results indicate: 1) fifty-seven of the brands tested contain fluoride below the optimal level; 2) only three brands had documented on the label, yet these total labels were fluoride levels inconsistent labeling; 3) seven have municipal water as their source; and 4) neither filtration system tested significantly reduced fluoride from the water. Conclusions include: 1) most bottled waters do not …

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An Historical Case Study: The Pregnant Minor Program At Garfield High School, 1975–1999, William E. Law Edd Jan 2000

An Historical Case Study: The Pregnant Minor Program At Garfield High School, 1975–1999, William E. Law Edd

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The researcher conducted an historical case study of the Garfield High School Pregnant Minor Program (1975–1999) which is one of three pregnant minor programs in the San Diego Unified School District. The primary purpose of this study was to provide data about the history and background of this program which may be significant to the decision makers who develop policies regarding pregnant minor programs in the district. The second purpose of the study was to provide data which may be helpful to community members, educators, policy makers, and student-parents about the issues and problems faced by students-parents which would, hopefully, …

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Helping Dairy Producers Reduce The Scc, Clell Bagley Jan 2000

Helping Dairy Producers Reduce The Scc, Clell Bagley

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Practicing veterinarians are in an excellent position to help dairy producers recognize and deal with the problem of elevated somatic cell counts (SCC). Yet they are seldom asked to assist. A high SCC is an indication of chronic, subclinical mastitis in the herd and is also an indication of significant economic losses.

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Factors Influencing Grazing Tolerance, Behave Jan 2000

Factors Influencing Grazing Tolerance, Behave

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This publication discusses the different factors that influence grazing intolerance.

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Introducing Animals To New Foods, Behave Jan 2000

Introducing Animals To New Foods, Behave

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This publication explains different ways of successfully introducing animals to new foods.

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Palatability - More Than A Matter Of Taste, Behave Jan 2000

Palatability - More Than A Matter Of Taste, Behave

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This publication explores the theory that palatability is more than a matter of taste but is an interrelationship between a food's flavor and its postingestive effects.

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Ingestion Of Toxic Plants By Herbivores, Behave Jan 2000

Ingestion Of Toxic Plants By Herbivores, Behave

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This publication goes over the different types of toxins commonly produced by and found in plants.

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Children Of Adam, Children Of God: Christian Nurture In Early Nineteenth-Century America, Margaret Bendroth Jan 2000

Children Of Adam, Children Of God: Christian Nurture In Early Nineteenth-Century America, Margaret Bendroth

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Contemporary attitudes toward children are, in many ways, social and theological products of the early nineteenth century. Like their Victorian predecessors, modern Americans sentimentalize and celebrate children, but they also entertain some fundamental doubts about their true nature. Indeed, recent anxieties about children, following a chain of bloody schoolyard shootings, have brought some old theological questions, raised in debate a century and a half ago, into sharp relief. While most American parents today do not worry whether their smiling babe is destined for an eternal lake of fire, the growing popularity of v-chips and parental-control software suggests an active suspicion …

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No-Sugar Solution, Usu Extension Jan 2000

No-Sugar Solution, Usu Extension

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Diabetes mellitus, or sugar diabetes, is recognized in many forms.

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Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension

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Biodiversity, or the variety of plant and animal species in a given location, has declined in many areas in the West. For example, woody plants, such as sagebrush and juniper now dominate many western landscapes.

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Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension

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Do you often eat at the same restaurants even if your town is loaded with places to eat? People frequent the same restaurants for a variety of reasons from the quality and type of food, to cost, to distance from home, to simply being unfamiliar with the alternatives.

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Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants, Usu Extension

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If animals can learn which plants are toxic and which are safe, then why do they eat poisonous plants and die?

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Nutrients Influence Palatability, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Nutrients Influence Palatability, Usu Extension

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Animals form preferences for foods with high levels of energy and protein especially if they release quickly during digestion.

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Proper Use Of Ammoniated Low-Quality Forages For The Wintering Of Spring-Calving Beef Cow Herds In The Intermountain West, D. R. Zobell Jan 2000

Proper Use Of Ammoniated Low-Quality Forages For The Wintering Of Spring-Calving Beef Cow Herds In The Intermountain West, D. R. Zobell

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Low‐quality forages (LQF) such as cereal straws or post‐ripe hays are often used as economical feed sources for the wintering of beef cow herds. The ammoniation of such forages increases the digestibility and crude protein (CP) enough so that these forages can be used as the basis of beef cow diets, even during late gestation and early lactation if supplemented properly.

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Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension

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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.

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Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension Jan 2000

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

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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.

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Sustainable Orchard Management System, Diane Alston Jan 2000

Sustainable Orchard Management System, Diane Alston

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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.

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A Crop Load Study On 'Nittany' Apple On Two Size-Controlling Rootstocks., Charles Douglas Raines Jan 2000

A Crop Load Study On 'Nittany' Apple On Two Size-Controlling Rootstocks., Charles Douglas Raines

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A field study was conducted on the apple cultivar ‘Nittany’ on M.9 and M.26 rootstocks. Four crop load treatments levels: an unthinned check, 7.5, 5.0, and 2.5 fruit per centimeter trunk cross-sectional area (TCSA) were imposed on replicated trees of each rootstock to determine the effects on shoot growth and fruit size. Average terminal and bourse shoot growth were greater for the M.26 rootstock than the M.9 rootstock. Crop load levels had no significant effect on shoot growth. Thinning fruit to the 2.5 fruit/cm2 TCSA level showed the most consistent results in fruit diameter, length, and weight. Fruit size as …

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Constructing Compatibility : Managing Breastfeeding And Weaning From The Mothers' Perspective, Yvonne Louise Hauck Jan 2000

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 …

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How General Practitioners And Aged Care Workers Perceive Incidences Of Elder Abuse, Paul Howrie Jan 2000

How General Practitioners And Aged Care Workers Perceive Incidences Of Elder Abuse, Paul Howrie

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

As the Australian population is expanding and ageing, there is an associated need for a focus to be placed on the Individual rights of elderly people, and for the general populus to be made more aware of areas related to our older generation. Elder abuse, as an area of concern, developed as an offshoot of investigations into child abuse and general domestic violence, and initially surfaced in the 1970s and 80s. Some sections of the medical profession were made specifically aware of the problem initially in 1975, through a letter that was sent to the British Medical Journal. However, throughout …

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The Analysis Of Polar Lipid Classes By High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Evaporative Light Scattering Detection, Thomas John Mcnabb Jan 2000

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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Nucleic Acids As Indicators Of Growth Rates And Nutritional Condition Of Calanus Finmarchicus (Copepoda: Calanoida), Melissa M. Wagner Jan 2000

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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Formation Of Advanced Glycation End Products By Glyceraldehyde And Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate With Proteins, Paula F. G. De Sa Jan 2000

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

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Induction Of Embryonic Diapause In The Calanoid Copepod Acartia Hudsonica, David Edward Avery Jan 2000

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

Open Access Dissertations

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Non-Enzymatic Glycosylation (Or Glycation) And Inhibition Of The Pig Heart Cytosolic Aspartate Aminotransferase By Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate, Catherine Fitzgerald, Timothy Swearengin, George Yeargans, David Mcwhorter, Brad Cucchetti, Norbert W. Seidler Jan 2000

Non-Enzymatic Glycosylation (Or Glycation) And Inhibition Of The Pig Heart Cytosolic Aspartate Aminotransferase By Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate, Catherine Fitzgerald, Timothy Swearengin, George Yeargans, David Mcwhorter, Brad Cucchetti, Norbert W. Seidler

Faculty and Staff Publications

Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (Glyc3P), a glycolytic intermediate, non-enzymatically glycosylated (or glycated) and inhibited the pig heart cytoplasmic aspartate aminotransferase (cAAT). Glyc3P (5.0 mM) decreased cAAT activity by 47% after 1 min at 23 degrees C. cAAT activity remained unchanged after a 24h incubation with either glucose 6-phosphate (5.0 mM) or ribose 5-phosphate (5.0 mM). Increasing the incubation pH from 6.4 to 7.8 or the incubation temperature from 23 degrees C to 50 degrees C enhanced Glyc3P's inhibitory effect on cAAT activity. Glyc3P (250-500 microM) decreased the thermal stability of cAAT as evidenced by lowering the Tm or temperature that caused a …

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The Decline In Rural Hospitals: The Effect Of Investor-Owned Hospitals., Angela Marie Foley Jan 2000

The Decline In Rural Hospitals: The Effect Of Investor-Owned Hospitals., Angela Marie Foley

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Rural health care deserves special attention because rural areas have high poverty rates, a high proportion of elderly residents, and high-risk job conditions. However, the number of rural hospitals, often a rural areasí main source of health care, is decreasing. Literature has shown that one of the main factors in hospital closure is ownership, specifically for-profit. This study examines trends in rural hospitals and other factors, including for-profit ownership, that may affect the declining number of rural hospitals. Data are drawn from annual hospital data from 1974 to 1995. A moving time series analysis is used to present the trends …

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The Effectiveness Of Nutrition Education On Nutrition Knowledge Of Female College Athletes., Joanne Chieppa Jan 2000

The Effectiveness Of Nutrition Education On Nutrition Knowledge Of Female College Athletes., Joanne Chieppa

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Subjects were 43 female athletes who participated on three different teams. Interventions were one-page two-sided nutrition newsletters. A consent form, information sheet and 20- question pre-test were given the first day of practice, after which subjects received newsletters every month for three months. Athletes were given a post-test three weeks after they had received the third newsletter. Pre and post-test scores were compared using t-tests. Results showed that nutrition education in the form of newsletters had a significant effect on knowledge. No significant differences were found among teams, by competition status or nutrition course status, i.e. whether individuals had taken, …

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Background Concentrations Of Trace Elements In Three West Virginia Soils: Mlra-126., April Dawn Slagle Jan 2000

Background Concentrations Of Trace Elements In Three West Virginia Soils: Mlra-126., April Dawn Slagle

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Background quantities of trace elements were surveyed in Major Land Resource Area 126, the Central Appalachian Plateau in northwestern West Virginia. Three pedons each of Upshur, Vandalia, (both Typic Hapludalfs) and Gilpin (Typic Hapludult) soils were described and sampled in Doddridge, Mason and Clay counties. Twelve trace elements were extracted from soil samples by the EPA 3051 and hydrofluoric acid methods. The data from both procedures showed that except for Ca and Mg, the HF method extracted greater quantities of trace elements than EPA Method 3051. Significant differences were found for all trace elements except Cd, Cr, and Pb. Calcium, …

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Continuing Education In Dental Hygiene: Assessment Of Content And Competencies., Jill L. Self Jan 2000

Continuing Education In Dental Hygiene: Assessment Of Content And Competencies., Jill L. Self

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Although forty-six of the fifty states (92%) currently require continuing dental education (CDE) course attendance to maintain licensure in dental hygiene, a wide range of continuing education requirements exists. The purpose of this study was to survey registered dental hygienists regarding their perceptions and experiences of continuing education and the existence and extent of competency assessments conducted at continuing education courses attended. A 28 question survey was mailed to licensed dental hygienists residing in West Virginia (n=780) and Colorado (n=1130). Although continuing education continues to be a viable method of gaining knowledge and enhancing skills, CDE course assessment of competencies …

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