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The Communicator, May, 2002, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published in May, 2002.

A Study Of The Relationships Among Secondary Traumatic Stress, Coping, And Years Of Service In Firefighter/Emergency Medical Service Personnel, Lynne S. Sanders

Faculty Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine relationships among stress, coping, and years of service in rescue personnel. One hundred sixteen voluntary subjects employed in Fire/EMS service in a small southern city participated in the study. Subjects completed a demographic questionnaire, The Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS), and The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS).

The incidence of symptomatic stress for the sample was 19.8 percent, higher than the general population but comparable to rates found in other studies of rescue workers. Calls involving children were rated as most disturbing by the subjects. There was no relationship found between years …

Campus Connection, May 2002, Vol. 3 No. 8, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

Living And Learning At Sea -- Can It Be? Five Years Of Grads -- Distinguished Keynote Speaker For Commencement 2002 -- Behind The Scenes In Alumni Relations -- CSUMB's Business Program Is Growing Fast -- Cypress Mural Unveiling -- Associate Director Names For Service Learning Institute -- Forum On Global Affairs -- Join Up For Wag N' Walk! -- Spread The Word -- State Names DeAnna Macias Region's Outstanding Alum -- Our Scientists Of The Future -- New Employees -- Promotions & Transfers -- Employment Milestones -- CalPERS Long-Term Care Enrollment -- New Assignment -- New Grant Promises Better Health …

Mutagenesis Induced By The Tumor Microenvironment: Implications Of Increased Dna Damage And Diminished Dna Repair, Jianling Yuan

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Tumors are characterized by microenvironmental heterogeneity, with regions of hypoxia, low pH, and nutrient deprivation. It has been proposed that such conditions may be an important factor contributing to cancer genetic instability. Using a chromosomally based lambda phage shuttle vector as a mutation reporter, we show that growth of cells in hypoxia and/or at low pH results in elevated mutation frequencies in two different reporter genes. To elucidate the mechanism of the tumor microenvironment-induced genetic instability, we first measured the production of DNA damage upon hypoxia and re-oxygenation in culture. We found that under such conditions, the intracellular level of …

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 78, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Prospectus, May 1, 2002, Ashley Adams, Kevin Ducey, Adam Soebbing

Prospectus 2002

No abstract provided.

The Probe, Issue 222 – May/June 2002

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Forging a New Partnership for the Public TrUSt: Wildlife Professionals & the Nuisance Wildlife Control Industry -- Lynn Braband
What is the risk of rabies from rodents?
10th Wildlife Damage Management Conference: April 6-9, 2003, Clarion Resort on the Lake, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Book Review: Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts: The Science of Wildlife Damage Management by Michael Conover.
CDC Emerging Zoonotic Concern in the Form of a Parasitic Roundworm -- Justin Harrington
Colorado's Boulder County has approved a new grasslands management plan that includes a provision to feed unwanted prairie dogs to blackfooted ferrets and raptors.
A bill being drafted in …

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter March 2002, Tarble Arts Center

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Infant Feeding Styles: Barriers And Opportunities For Good Nutrition In India, Patrice L. Engle

Psychology and Child Development

India has the lion’s share of malnourished children in the world. Poverty and social exclusion contribute to this rate of malnutrition, but care practices also play a role.Breastfeeding is rarely exclusive, sanitation tends to be limited, complementary feeding often begins late, and the quantities are small. In the past, government programs have focused on the supply of food rather than caring practices. A research agenda will include both operational research on the nutrition programs, and formative and intervention research to improve caring practices, particularly those around infant and young child feeding.

Effect Of Nutrient Deletion From Lactation Diets On Feed Consumption And Weight Change Of Sows Intended To Be Culled And On Litter Performance During Lactation And Subsequent Nursery Phase, G.W. Libal

South Dakota Swine Research Report, 2001

Sows that are destined to be culled from the herd need only produce milk to support adequate litter growth during the last lactation and need not maintain nutrient stores to support subsequent reproduction processes. Most reduction in lactation performance has been associated with nutrient deficiencies during the gestation period, not nutrient deficiences during lactation. Supplemental sources of trace minerals, vitamins, and calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) add cost to the lactation diet. If lactation performance is not affected by nutrient reduction, considerable feed savings could be realized for sows to be culled. Pig performance after weaning is also of concern. …

Effect Of Added Lysine To Starter Diets Containing Primarily Zein Protein And Formulated To Provide .14% Tryptophan, M.S. Carlson, G.W. Libal, C.R. Hamilton

South Dakota Swine Research Report, 2001

Corn gluten meal (CGM) is a by-product of the wet milling corn. It is the residue that remains after the bran, germ and starch have been removed and may contain either 41 or 60% crude protein. There is a temptation to use CGM as an alternative to soybean meal (SBM) when the cost of SBM is high. The 60% protein CGM contains a greater quantity of protein and more threonine, sulfur amino acids, and other neutral amino acids than 44% protein SBM. However, SBM contains greater amounts of lysine and tryptophan. Previous studies with growing and finishing swine indicated that …

Field Peas Can Be Included In The Phase 2 Diet For Nursery Pigs Without Adverse Effects On Pig Performance, H.H. Stein

South Dakota Swine Research Report, 2001

Field peas are usually not included in diets for nursery pigs in the US. However, European and Canadian data suggest that field peas may be included in diets for nursery pigs without compromising pig performance (Stefanyshyn et al., 1999). So far, only little research has been conducted in the US to evaluate the effect of including field peas in diets for nursery pigs. Landblom and Poland (1996) reported decreased pig performance if 30 to 50% field peas were included in phase 1 diets for nursery pigs. However, working with extruded peas, they reported no detrimental effects of feeding 20% peas …

Effect Of Diet Complexity And The Additive Effect Of Pharmacological Levels Of Zno And Carbadox On The Performance Of Weaned Pigs, D.Y. Lee, G.W. Libal, C.R. Hamilton, D.N. Peters

South Dakota Swine Research Report, 2001

The scientific literature documents the efficacy of antibacterial feed additives for weaned pigs. More recently, Feeding therapeutic levels of supplemental zinc (Zn) from zinc oxide (ZnO) stimulated voluntary feed intake and weight gain of young pigs. Over the last decade, research demonstrated that swine diets contianing sub-therapeutic levels of various antibiotics combined with pharmacological levels of copper (Cu) resulted in better performance than when either ingredient was provided individually. In 1982, an additive improvement in performance was found when a sub-therapeutic level (55 mg/kg) of carbodox (CARB) and high level of Cu (125 mg/kg) were provided in combination in a …

Effects Of 2000 Mg/Kg Zn From Zno Or Carbadox On Performance Of Weaned Pigs As Influenced By Complexity Of Diets, G.W. Libal, T.A. Meyer

South Dakota Swine Research Report, 2001

The positive effect of pharmacological levels of zinc (Zn) from zinc oxide (ZnO), is well documented. Zinc at 3000 mg/kg has been shown to be as effective as carbadox (CARB) in the weaned pigs’ diet. Recent research has demonstrated an unexpected effect on weaned pig performance from adding 3000 mg/kg of Zn from ZnO to simple diets. Normally, pigs fed complex diets with specialty ingredients outperform pigs fed simple diets, primarily because of increased feed intake. However, performance of pigs fed simple diets with added ZnO has been equal to performance of pigs fed complex diets with or without added …

The Effect Of Including Field Peas In Diets For Growing-Finishing Pigs, H.H. Stein

South Dakota Swine Research Report, 2001

Individual pig weights were recorded at the beginning of the experiment and every two weeks thereafter. The amount of feed dumped in each feed was recorded on a daily basis and feed in the feeders was recorded each time the pigs were weighed. At slaughter, indvidual live wights, the dressed weights, fat depth, loin depth, and the lean meant percentage were measured for each pig. At the end of the experiment, feed disapearance for each pen was calculated for each period. Likewise, average daily weight gain and average gain to feed ratios were calculated for each pen.

The Effects Of Oral Antibiotic Therapy On Productivity And Immune Function Following Challenge With E. Coli And Rotavirus, C.C.L. Chase, D.J. Hurley, R.C. Thaler

South Dakota Swine Research Report, 2001

Early weaning programs have been aimed at the control and elimination of respiratory infections in the young pig. Segregation from their dams at less than 21 days, batch rearing with all-in and all-out by room, building, or site, and proper biosecurity (cleaning, disinfecting, and quarantine) are mandatory to implement early weaning programs1. Early weaning with all its components gives a tremendous economic advantage to those who use this technology. This technology however does not come without a cost. This requires necessary building sites, scheduling and a high level of management. Enteric infections such as neonatal coccidiosis and post weaning diarrhea …

Community-Level Effects Of Clearcutting And Wildfire On Shrews, Grasshoppers, And Ground-Dwelling Beetles, J. Creed Clayton

Biology

Timber harvesting is often proposed as a substitute for stand-replacing wildfire; many feel such a controlled disturbance plays a similar ecological role to the natural disturbance of fire. In order to gain more insight into the soundness of this management approach, ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera), grasshoppers, crickets, and allies (Orthoptera), and shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae) were sampled by pitfall trap in recently burned, clearcut, and undisturbed forested plots (controls) near Logan, Utah. Over 200 beetle species from 39 families were included in the study. Nine orthopteran and two shrew species were included as well. Beetle abundance was reduced after burning and clearcutting, …

Report To Congress: Operations Of Glen Canyon Dan Pursuant To The Grand Canyon Protection Act Of 1992, Water Years 1999-2001, Secretary Of The Interior

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

Section 1804(c)(2) of the Grand Canyon Protection Act (GCPA) of 1992 requires the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to: . . . transmit to the Congress and to the Governors of the Colorado River Basin States a report, separate from and in addition to the report specified in section 602(b) of the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968, on the preceding year and the projected year operations undertaken pursuant to this Act. This report responds to the above-cited reporting requirements. The report focuses on Glen Canyon Dam operations for water years 1999 through 2001, projected dam operations for water …

Peaks Island Star : May 2002, Vol. 22, Issue 5, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2002

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.

Processes For The Allocation, Reallocation And Governance Of Resource Access In Connection With A Framework For The Future Management Of Fisheries In Western Australia, Government Of Western Australia Department Of Fisheries

Fisheries Management Papers

This paper outlines the issues associated with developing a framework to deal explicitly with the allocation, reallocation and the governance of access to the fisheries resources of Western Australia.

Rebuilding A Sense Of Place, Lnara Scott

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

What does it mean to have a "sense of place"? The great advocates of wilderness each had their special places: Aldo Leopold had his "sand county shack," Thoreau had Walden Woods, John Muir had the Sierra's and Yosemite. For these important figures, a sense of place developed through a deep connection with a particular location over time. The land they lived on became a dear friend, a part of their community. Leopold's land ethic is based on this very concept: "All ethics ... rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community" (Leopold, 1966, p.239) …

News Briefs, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section contains multiple brief news items related to conservation, environment or outdoor education.

Construction D’Un Écosystème Salubre Pour La Communauté, Robert P. Maloney C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Transport Of The Herbicide Atrazine On Suspended Sediments During A Spring Storm Event In Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Michael Anderson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines the transport of atrazine, an herbicide used in Kentucky to control grassy and broad-leaf weeds in corn fields, on suspended sediments. Atrazine is a known carcinogen and endocrine disruptor and has been shown to be toxic at low environmental concentrations. Atrazine has the capacity to adsorb to soil particles, which in karst areas such as those found in south central Kentucky can be transported directly into the groundwater. Suspended sediments and water were collected from a well at the Hawkins River in Mammoth Cave National Park during a spring storm and tested for atrazine. Atrazine was found …

Evaluation Of The Persistence Of Grazing Alfalfa Varieties, Maria Stiles

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The use of alfalfa (Medicago scitiva L.) for grazing is becoming more common. Alfalfa is the most widely planted legume, and is one of the most nutritional forage crops available. It is proposed that alfalfa was cultivated 4000 to 5000 years ago and produces the most protein per acre of any forage crop. Live weight gains for beef cattle grazing alfalfa average 230 to 360 kg ha-1. There is no cheaper way to harvest and utilize alfalfa than for the animal to harvest it directly. Most of the commercially available alfalfa varieties, however, were developed for hay production and thus …

Threshold Evolution In Exotic Populations Of A Polyphenic Beetle, Armin P. Moczek, John Hunt, Douglas J. Emlen, Leigh W. Simmons

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Polyphenic development is thought to play an important role in the evolution of phenotypic diversity and morphological novelties, yet the evolution of polyphenisms has rarely been documented in natural populations. Here we compare the morphologies of male dung beetles (Onthophagus taurus; Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from populations introduced to Australia and the eastern United States. Males in this species express two alternative morphologies in response to larval feeding conditions. Males encountering favourable conditions grow larger than a threshold body size and develop a pair of horns on their heads, whereas males that encounter poor conditions do not reach this threshold size and …

The Fitness Consequences Of Interspecific Eavesdropping Between Plants, Richard Karban, John L. Maron

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Although many ecologists have discounted the possibility of communication between plants, recent work demonstrates that wild tobacco plants with experimentally clipped sagebrush neighbors suffer less leaf herbivory than tobacco controls with unclipped neighbors. In this report, we examine the fitness consequences of resistance induced by eavesdropping. Annual tobacco plants with clipped sagebrush neighbors produced more flowers and seed-bearing capsules than plants with unclipped neighbors although these performance measures varied considerably over the five years of the study. Tobacco plants with clipped neighbors also suffered more frost damage than controls in one year. There was no indication that eavesdropping was more …

The Indigenous Worship Voice, Kelly Ballard

Doctor of Ministry

No abstract provided.

Pragmatism And Conscience: A Religious Perspective On Competing Values In Embryo Experimentation, Moira M. Mcqueen, J. Leo Walsh

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Ministerial Policy Guidelines No.16: Shark Bay Snapper Managed Fishery In Western Australia, Department Of Fisheries Wa

Fisheries Administrative Guidelines

The commercial fishing of pink snapper (Pagrus auratus) in the Shark Bay region has been regulated in one form or another since the mid-1980's. In the present day, commercial fishing for pink snapper in the waters around Shark Bay is principally regulated by the Shark Bay Snapper Management Plan 1994 (which includes subsequent amendments) which is taken to have been made under, and is in force under, the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (the Act).