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Estimates Of Genetic Parameters And Genetic Change For Reproduction, Weight, And Wool Characteristics Of Columbia Sheep, Kathryn J. Hanford, L. Dale Van Vleck, G. D. Snowder Dec 2002

Estimates Of Genetic Parameters And Genetic Change For Reproduction, Weight, And Wool Characteristics Of Columbia Sheep, Kathryn J. Hanford, L. Dale Van Vleck, G. D. Snowder

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Genetic parameters from both single-trait and bivariate analyses for prolificacy, weight and wool traits were estimated using REML with animal models for Columbia sheep from data collected from 1950 to 1998 at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station (USSES), Dubois, ID. Breeding values from both single-trait and seven-trait analyses calculated using the parameters estimated from the single-trait and bivariate analyses were compared with respect to genetic trends. Number of observations were 31,401 for litter size at birth and litter size at weaning, 24,741 for birth weight, 23,903 for weaning weight, 29,572 for fleece weight and fleece grade, and 2,449 for staple …

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Genetic Parameters For Weight, Weight Adjusted For Body Condition Score, Height, And Body Condition Score In Beef Cows, Jesus Arango, Larry V. Cundiff, L. Dale Van Vleck Dec 2002

Genetic Parameters For Weight, Weight Adjusted For Body Condition Score, Height, And Body Condition Score In Beef Cows, Jesus Arango, Larry V. Cundiff, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Weight (CW, n = 61,798), weight adjusted for condition score (WA), hip height (CH, n = 56,494), and condition score (CS, n = 61,434) of cows (2 through 8 yr of age) produced by crosses of 22 sire breeds with Angus and Hereford dams in the first four cycles of the Germplasm Evaluation (GPE) Program at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center were used to estimate genetic parameters with REML. The model included sire breed, dam breed, age in years, season of measurement (1 to 4) and their interactions, and year of birth and pregnancy-lactation code (PL) as fixed effects …

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Estimates Of Parameters Between Direct And Maternal Genetic Effects For Weaning Weight And Direct Genetic Effects For Carcass Traits In Crossbred Cattle, R. K. Splan, Larry V. Cundiff, M. E. Dikeman, L. Dale Van Vleck Dec 2002

Estimates Of Parameters Between Direct And Maternal Genetic Effects For Weaning Weight And Direct Genetic Effects For Carcass Traits In Crossbred Cattle, R. K. Splan, Larry V. Cundiff, M. E. Dikeman, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Estimates of heritabilities and genetic correlations were obtained for weaning weight records of 23,681 crossbred steers and heifers and carcass records from 4,094 crossbred steers using animal models. Carcass traits included hot carcass weight; retail product percentage; fat percentage; bone percentage; ribeye area; adjusted fat thickness; marbling score, Warner- Bratzler shear force and kidney, pelvic and heart fat percentage. Weaning weight was modeled with fixed effects of age of dam, sex, breed combination, and birth year, with calendar birth day as a covariate and random direct and maternal genetic and maternal permanent environmental effects. The models for carcass traits included …

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Koons, Donaldson Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu Dec 2002

Koons, Donaldson Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Donaldson Koons was born in Korea on August 23, 1917 to Presbyterian missionary parents. He moved to the United States at the age of 17 and enrolled at the College of Wooster, in Ohio. He got his masters and Ph.D. in Geology at Columbia before enlisting in the military in 1943. Upon his return to the States he taught at Columbia and West Virginia University. He moved to Colby College in 1947, where he stayed until his retirement. He was appointed to the Maine Water Improvement Commission by Ken Curtis in 1967, and has been active in Maine environmental protection …

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The Daily Egyptian, December 11, 2002, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 2002

The Daily Egyptian, December 11, 2002, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2002

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December 11, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina Dec 2002

December 11, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Townsend, Clinton Blake "Bill" Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu Dec 2002

Townsend, Clinton Blake "Bill" Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Clinton Blake “Bill” Townsend was born in New York City on August 12, 1927. Bill grew up in New York City and summered in Annisquam, Massachusetts and Thetford, Vermont. He attended St. Bernard's School in New York until the eighth grade, and then Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. He served in the Navy before entering Harvard, where he graduated in 1950. He then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1953. He worked briefly in New York and Hartford after graduation. In 1957 he moved to Maine and began practicing law in Skowhegan. Soon after coming to Maine he became involved …

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Documents From The December 11, 2002 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students Dec 2002

Documents From The December 11, 2002 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

ASUM Senate Documents, 1919-2007

Documents from the December 11, 2002 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM), including an agenda and meeting minutes with associated exhibit documents.

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Daily Eastern News: December 11, 2002, Eastern Illinois University Dec 2002

Daily Eastern News: December 11, 2002, Eastern Illinois University

December

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Prospectus, December 11, 2002, Jesse Woodrum, Blane Mcclellan, Jarrod Finn, Thomas Duggan, Joshua Groce, Jason Weiss, Jordan Holmes Dec 2002

Prospectus, December 11, 2002, Jesse Woodrum, Blane Mcclellan, Jarrod Finn, Thomas Duggan, Joshua Groce, Jason Weiss, Jordan Holmes

Prospectus 2002

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Banner News, Lara Yungclas, Mitchell Keegan, Kristen Sampson, Darin Longman, Jenn Yungclas, Jason Mortvedt, Chris Barrett, Ben Carstens, Robbie Maass, Adam Sisson, Teresa Mccane, Ryan Makovsky Dec 2002

Banner News, Lara Yungclas, Mitchell Keegan, Kristen Sampson, Darin Longman, Jenn Yungclas, Jason Mortvedt, Chris Barrett, Ben Carstens, Robbie Maass, Adam Sisson, Teresa Mccane, Ryan Makovsky

Banner News

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The Morphology Of Nine Radio-Selected Faint Galaxies From Deep Hubble Space Telescope Imaging, Nathan D. Roche, James D. Lowenthal, David C. Koo Dec 2002

The Morphology Of Nine Radio-Selected Faint Galaxies From Deep Hubble Space Telescope Imaging, Nathan D. Roche, James D. Lowenthal, David C. Koo

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 we perform deep I-band imaging of nine radio-selected [F(8.5 GHz) ≥ 14 μJy] faint galaxies from the Roche, Lowenthal & Koo (2002) sample. Two are also observed in V using HST STIS. Six of the galaxies have known redshifts, in the range 0.4 < z < 1.0. Radial intensity profiles indicate that seven are disc galaxies and two are bulge-dominated. Four of the six with redshifts have a high optical surface brightness in comparison with previous studies of disc galaxies at similar redshifts (e.g. Lilly et al. 1998). The HST imaging reveals that two of the nine galaxies are in close interacting pairs and another five show morphological evidence of recent interactions - two are very asymmetric (A ∼ 0.4) and three have large, luminous rings resembling the collisional starburst rings in the Cartwheel galaxy. For the two ring galaxies with redshifts, we measure ring radii of 7.05 and 10.0 h kpc, which suggest post-collision ages 0.1-0.2 Gyr. One has a fainter inner ring, like the original Cartwheel. The remaining two appear to be late-type barred galaxies and relatively undisturbed. Our HST imaging confirms the high incidence of interactions and dynamical disturbance in faint radio-selected galaxies, as reported by Windhorst et al. and Serjeant et al., for example. In the great majority of these galaxies the high radio luminosities are probably the result of interaction-triggered starbursts. However, one interacting galaxy is a very radio-luminous giant elliptical, with red V - I colours, a normal surface brightness and no evidence of star-forming regions, so its radio source is probably an obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN). The mixture of observed morphologies suggests that enhanced radio luminosities often persist to a late stage of interaction, i.e. at least ∼0.2 Gyr after the perigalactic encounter. asym 50 -1

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National Security Vs. Individual Civil Liberties Key Debate For Troubled U.S., Say Law Experts, University Of Dayton Dec 2002

National Security Vs. Individual Civil Liberties Key Debate For Troubled U.S., Say Law Experts, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that according to University of Dayton law experts, the balance of national security and individual civil liberties is shifting.

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Motion-Jpeg2000 And Wavelet-Based Coding In Video And Image Processing - Masters Thesis, December 2002, Wei Yu Dec 2002

Motion-Jpeg2000 And Wavelet-Based Coding In Video And Image Processing - Masters Thesis, December 2002, Wei Yu

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

In this thesis we have studied the potential of Motion JPEG 2000 for video processing and compared its performance with current widely used video coding standards, Motion JPEG, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Four key aspects are compared among them, which are compression efficiency, error resilience, perceptual video quality, and computation complexity. Our experiments show that Motion JPEG 2000 provides high compression performance, strong error resilience, good perceptual video quality, and acceptable computation complexity for real-time video processing. Together with a rich set of features inherited from JPEG 2000, such as resolution and quality scalability, and flexibility for editing, Motion JPEG 2000 …

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Nominations Sought For Outstanding Student Leader, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Dec 2002

Nominations Sought For Outstanding Student Leader, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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University Of Montana Events Thursday, December 12, Through Wednesday, December 19, 2002, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Dec 2002

University Of Montana Events Thursday, December 12, Through Wednesday, December 19, 2002, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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The Lumberjack, December 11, 2002 Dec 2002

The Lumberjack, December 11, 2002

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

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Faculty Senate Minutes December 2002, Uno Faculty Senate Dec 2002

Faculty Senate Minutes December 2002, Uno Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official minutes of the Faculty Senate Meetings at the University of Nebraska - Omaha (UNO) for Academic year 2002-2003. The Faculty Senate supports faculty governance and believes that shared governance is essential to creating productive and rewarding environment for faculty and students. The Faculty Senate is a representative body of members elected by the faculty of the various academic departments and units of UNO. The Faculty Senate features representation from each academic college, Criss Library , and Omaha-base University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) colleges.

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What Makes An Animal Choose A Forage, Elizabeth A. Burritt, Frederick D. Provenza Dec 2002

What Makes An Animal Choose A Forage, Elizabeth A. Burritt, Frederick D. Provenza

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Consider the following scenarios: To cut the costs of ranching a researcher explores feeding cattle ammoniated straw in winter. Some of the cows maintain themselves on the diet while others lose weight, produce less milk and fail to conceive. A producer in Missouri plants a pasture rich in legumes and high in crude protein, yet his cattle prefer moldy hay and endophyte infected tall fescue to the legumes. Why do animals behave this way? Animals are thought to prefer foods that are palatable but what is palatability? We define palatability as the interrelationship between a food's flavor and postingestive feedback …

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Book Review: The Betrayal Of America: How The Supreme Court Undermined The Constitution And Chose Our President (2001), And Supreme Injustice: How The High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (2001), Donald E. Wilkes Jr. Dec 2002

Book Review: The Betrayal Of America: How The Supreme Court Undermined The Constitution And Chose Our President (2001), And Supreme Injustice: How The High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (2001), Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

Popular Media

Book Review of THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICA: HOW THE SUPREME COURT UNDERMINED THE CONSTITUTION AND CHOSE OUR PRESIDENT, by Vincent Bugliosi (Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2001), and SUPREME INJUSTICE: HOW THE HIGH COURT HIJACKED ELECTION 2000, by Alan Dershowitz (Oxford University Press, 2001).

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The Tower, 12/11/2002 Dec 2002

The Tower, 12/11/2002

University Newspapers

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Housing Finance, Ishrat Husain Dr. Dec 2002

Housing Finance, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

I would like to dwell on the rationale for the Central bank of the country to organize a Conference on Housing Finance and bring together all the various stakeholders involved in the housing and construction industry. First, the broad-based financial system reforms which involve restructuring of the financial institutions, liberalization of financial markets, introduction of financial engineering and new products and services, improvement in the quality of assets, provisioning of bad loans, mergers and acquisitions and a new model of non-bank financial companies have led to a partial cleansing up of the system. Although there is much to be achieved, …

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The Knight Volume 13: Issue 4, Nova Southeastern University Dec 2002

The Knight Volume 13: Issue 4, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Psychology Alum Develops Therapy For Astronauts, Tobie Baker Dec 2002

Psychology Alum Develops Therapy For Astronauts, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - A University of Mississippi alumnus with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute is examining the psychological effects astronauts could encounter if and when a voyage takes them all the way to Mars.

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Mcnair Program Accepting Applications From Prospective Doctoral Students, Deborah Purnell Dec 2002

Mcnair Program Accepting Applications From Prospective Doctoral Students, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. – Applications are being accepted for a doctoral degree preparation program aimed at disadvantaged students.

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Three Students Charged In Racial Graffiti Incident, Staff Report Dec 2002

Three Students Charged In Racial Graffiti Incident, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Three University of Mississippi freshmen have been charged with five violations of the student code of conduct in connection with an incident in November in which racial and other graffiti was found on two floors of a men's residence hall.

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U.S. Lawsuit Threatens To Further Delay Opening Border To Mexican Trucks, Ladb Staff Dec 2002

U.S. Lawsuit Threatens To Further Delay Opening Border To Mexican Trucks, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Panel Proposes To Modernize Gambling Law; Casino Provisions In Limbo, Ladb Staff Dec 2002

Panel Proposes To Modernize Gambling Law; Casino Provisions In Limbo, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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A New Twist To Regional Economic Development, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel Dec 2002

A New Twist To Regional Economic Development, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel

Cornhusker Economics

Regional collaboration has always sounded like a good idea. The challenge was that it was hard to implement. From a business perspective, it was easier and more cost effective to make adjustments to your own business plan without asking for added input from other regional businesses, agencies and institutions. When times are good, you have the luxury of working independently. However, when you are faced with a general downturn in the economy and increased global competition, as many of the business sectors are today, you look hard for other ways of increasing efficiency. Some methods that could be explored may …

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Cd Training Program Teaches U.S. Businesses How To Detect And Prevent Fraud, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa), Association Of Certified Fraud Examiners Dec 2002

Cd Training Program Teaches U.S. Businesses How To Detect And Prevent Fraud, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa), Association Of Certified Fraud Examiners

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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