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Avian Use Of Ripening Sunflower Fields, Dionn Schaaf, George M. Linz, William J. Bleier, H. Jeffrey Homan

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

In the United States, more than 90% of cultivated sunflower is raised in the northern Great Plains. Cattail marshes in this area provide nesting and roosting sites for red-winged blackbirds, yellow-headed blackbirds, and common grackles. North Dakota's breeding blackbird population was estimated at more than 2.3 million pairs in 1990. Sunflower has become an important part of blackbirds' diet from July-October . In 1999 and 2000, research was conducted on the use of avicide-treated (DRC- 1339, 3-chloro-p-toluidine hydrochloride) rice baits for managing blackbird damage in problem areas. DRC- 1339 was chosen for this purpose because of its high …

It's Happening At State: January 17, 2001

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

Lady Eagles & Eagles Vs. Eastern Kentucky, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The official game program from the January 16, 2001 basketball game between Morehead State University and Eastern Kentucky University.

Ekupdate, January 16, 2001, Eastern Kentucky University, Public Relations

EKU Update

No abstract provided.

Process For Immobilizing Waste Using Bagasse (Us Patent 6174275), Michael A. Janusa

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Board Of Trustees Minutes, January 16, 2001, Eastern Washington University

Board of Trustees Minutes

No abstract provided.

Eng 2205-002: Introduction To Literary Studies, Gregg A. Hecimovich

Spring 2001

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002-024: Composition And Literature, Gregg Hecimovich

Spring 2001

No abstract provided.

Tectorna: Modular Assembly Units For The Construction Of Rna Nano-Objects, Neocles B. Leontis, Luc Jaeger, Eric Westhof

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Structural information on complex biological RNA molecules can be exploited to design tectoRNAs or artificial modular RNA units that can self-assemble through tertiary interactions thereby forming nanoscale RNA objects. The selective interactions of hairpin tetraloops with their receptors can be used to mediate tectoRNA assembly. Here we report on the modulation of the specificity and the strength of tectoRNA assembly tin the nanomolar to micromolar range) by variation of the length of the RNA subunits, the nature of their interacting motifs and the degree of flexibility of linker regions incorporated into the molecules. The association is also dependent on the …

Eng 5005-001: Puzzling The Victorians, Gregg A. Hecimovich

Spring 2001

No abstract provided.

Fortnightly - January 15, 2001

Fortnightly

No abstract provided.

Semiclassical Application Of The Mo”Ller Operators In Reactive Scattering, Sophya Garashchuk, John C. Light

Faculty Publications

Mo\ller operators in the formulation of reaction probabilities in terms of wave packet correlation functions allow us to define the wave packets in the interaction region rather than in the asymptotic region of the potential surface. We combine Mo\ller operators with the semiclassical propagator of Herman and Kluk. This does not involve further approximations and can be used with any initial value representation (IVR) semiclassical propagator. Time propagation in asymptotic regions of the potential due to Mo\ller operators reduces the oscillations of the propagator integrand and improves convergence of the results with respect to the number of trajectories. The effectiveness …

Coyote Responses To Changing Jackrabbit Abundance Affect Sheep Predation, L. Charles Stoddart, Richard E. Griffiths, Frederick F. Knowlton

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Domestic sheep ranchers generally perceive abundances of natural prey and coyotes (Canis latrans) as important factors affecting coyote predation rates on sheep. To determine the effect of a changing natural prey base on coyote predation rates, we estimated coyote density and predation rates on ewes and lambs during part of 1 cycle of black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) abundance on a 2,300 km² area of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in south-central Idaho from 1979–1985. We used 100, 1.6-km scat collection lines and 80, 1.6-km flushing transects to assess coyote and jackrabbit densities, respectively. Ewe and …

Quasistationary Stabilization Of The Decay Of A Weakly-Bound Level And Its Breakdown In A Strong Laser Field, N. L. Manakov, M. V. Frolov, Bogdan Borca, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

Although it was pointed out about 10 years ago that an atomic decay rate might decrease as the intensity of a high-frequency laser field increases, there still does not exist any complete understanding of either the physical origin of this interesting nonlinear phenomenon or its dependence on the atomic and field parameters. Essentially, the problem consists in that the phenomenon requires a major modification of the standard picture of photoeffect in a strong laser field. In Reference #1 the origin of this stabilization is related to a particular distortion of an atomic potential by an intense monochromatic high-frequency field. This …

Anisotropy-Induced Polarization Effects In Harmonic Generation By An Absorptive Medium, Bogdan Borca, D. B. Milosević, Anthony F. Starace, A. V. Flegel, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov

Anthony F. Starace Publications

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) has become a main topic of intense laser-atom physics. Both to understand the HHG process better and to enhance its use in applications, many studies have focused on the control of HHG. Among the most recent are those concerned with the polarization characteristics of the harmonics. Other studies have focused on the use of a strong static electric field to control the intensities and plateau structure of HHG. In this paper we present results of a general formulation of the problem of HHG in the case when the generating medium is anisotropic. Our specific results are …

Mustang Daily, January 12, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Volume 36- Issue 13- Friday, January 12, 2001, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

Chimes: January 12, 2001, Calvin College

Chimes

Rifkin explains new economic world by Nathan VanderKlippe

Violent game addicts Calvin students by Christian Bell

Fieldhouse sports new hours by Beth Heinen

Dykstra memorial scholarship awarded by Christian Bell

Calvin environmentalists attempt to lure Nader by Nathan VanderKlippe

The idolization of athletes by Nathan Bierma

Studying abroad provides framework for life by Michael P. Wright

Policy changes need student input by Christian Bell

Men's basketball captures decisive weekend victory by Ross Weener

High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic And Capillary Electrophoretic Enantioseparation Of Plant Growth Regulators And Related Indole Compounds Using Macrocyclic Antibiotics As Chiral Selectors, F. Hui, K. H. Ekborg-Ott, Daniel W. Armstrong

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Enantioseparation of plant growth regulators, such as 3-(3-indolyl)-butyric acid, abscisic acid and structurally related molecules including a variety of substituted tryptophan compounds, has been achieved by HPLC and/or CE. The covalently bonded macrocyclic antibiotics, teicoplanin, ristocetin A and vancomycin, were used as chiral stationary phases (CSPs) in HPLC. Most of the racemates were baseline resolved in the reversed-phase mode (EtOH-H2O) using the teicoplanin CSP. The chiral recognition mechanism is discussed in regard to the structure of the analytes. In CE, the three aforementioned macrocyclic antibiotics were used as chiral additives in a phosphate run buffer. The effect of pH and …

Lady Eagles & Eagles Vs. Austin Peay / Lady Eagles & Eagles Vs. Tennessee State, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The official game program from the January 11 and 13, 2001 basketball games between Morehead State University and Austin Peay University and Tennessee State University.

Fabricating And Imaging Carbon-Fiber Immobilized Enzyme Ultramicroelectrodes With Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, David O. Wipf, Fuyun Ge, Robert C. Tenent

Publications

The scanning electrochemical microscope (SECM) is used to image the activity of enzymes immobilized on the surfaces of disk-shaped carbon-fiber electrodes. SECM was used to map the concentration of enzymatically produced hydroquinone or hydrogen peroxide at the surface of a 33-mm diameter disk-shaped carbon-fiber electrode modified by an immobilized glucose-oxidase layer. Sub-monolayer coverage of the enzyme at the electrode surface could be detected with micrometer resolution. The SECM was also employed as a surface modification tool to produce microscopic regions of enzyme activity by using a variety of methods. One method is a gold-masking process in which microscopic gold patterns …

January 10, 2001 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, January 10, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

The Guardian, January 10, 2001, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

High Schools And The First Amendment: The Eighth Circuit Leaves Students' Rights At The Schoolhouse Gate, Lynn S. Brackman

Missouri Law Review

Teenagers straddle that fine line between childhood and adulthood, at times putting both feet on one side of the line, only to jump to the other side on another day. As parents, lawmakers, and scholars struggle to figure out just how much adult responsibility teens should be allowed, teens continue to push for new freedoms. All this maneuvering often results in conflict, especially in secondary schools, where the struggle is perhaps the most pronounced. One focus of the conflict occurring in schools has been whether the First Amendment covers students once they enter the educational setting. In order to teach …

It's Happening At State: January 10, 2001

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

Daily Eastern News: January 09, 2001, Eastern Illinois University

January

No abstract provided.

Beyond Campaign Finance: The First Amendment Implications Of Nixon V. Shrink Missouri Goverment Pac, Christina E. Wells

Missouri Law Review

Part I of this Essay discusses legal background, focusing first on the Court's decision in Buckley and then on the Shrink litigation. Part II itemizes Shrink's flaws, ultimately concludng that those flaws cannot be attributed solely to Buckley. Finally, Part III examines the Court's standards of scrutiny in First Amendment cases and argues that Shrink results at least in part from flaws found in those standards.

Openline Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 7, January 9, 2001, Illinois State University, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

Monthly newsletter of the Civil Service Council.

Ccu Newsletter, January 8, 2001, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

A newsletter for faculty, staff and friends of Coastal Carolina University. Volume 11, Number 1