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Ancient Way In A New Land: Benedictine Education In The Great Plains, Marielle Frigge O.S.B.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the first half of the sixth century, an Italian monk, Benedict of Nursia, provided a framework for Christian monastic life. In the last half of the nineteenth century, his descendants arrived in the Great Plains, part of the westward movement of Christian missionaries in North America. What could this ancient way of life offer to a new land of Native tribes and immigrant farmers, traders, and soldiers? And what might this new land contribute to the shaping of a uniquely American form of monastic life?

These Benedictine men and women brought with them centuries of experience as learners and …

Fairy Castle Or Steamer Trunk? Creating Place In O. E. Rølvaag’S Giants In The Earth, Diane D. Quantic

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

What happens when humans move beyond the boundaries of civilization? Does the very act transform them? How do they define themselves in apparently empty space? Throughout the nineteenth century, thousands of Americans headed west to the frontier, the borderland between civilization and wilderness. Most went willingly, confident or desperately hopeful that they would have the freedom to create a place of their own and, in the process, recreate themselves. Before they set out for the frontier, they imagined it a garden, based on the myths of plenty and entitlement that were described in boosters’ letters, newspaper accounts, railroad brochures, and …

Invasion Dynamics And Biological Control Prospects For Sericea Lespedeza In Kansas, Thomas Eddy, Jeff Davidson, Brian Obermeyer

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Sericea lespedeza [Lespedeza cuneata (Dum.-Cours.) G. Don], an exotic, drought-hardy perennial legume was first introduced into the United States from Japan. It was planted from the 1930s through the 1950s as a forage crop, for healing erosion scars on farmlands, establishing cover on mine spoils, and as cover for wildlife. The species range was unintentionally increased in the 1980s when seeds harvested from infested rangelands were planted on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres. Sericea lespedeza has spread to extensive areas of native prairie and other lands not under cultivation in the more humid regions of the Great Plains in …

Age Group Differences In Recall Of Relevant And Irrelevant Words, Daniel Jose' Padilla

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

Many studies have shown that older adults tend to perform more poorly on memory tasks, when compared to younger people. Conversely, studies have also indicated that there may be ways to combat this decline in age related memory performance by using memory aid techniques. In addition to memory aid techniques, word familiarity may be used to increase memory performance because working memory for familiar words benefits from the availability of long-term phonological memory representations, which act to "clean up" the decaying memory traces of items in the list retrieval stage. This memory study compared word recall performance of younger and …

A Study Of The Pre-Modern Korean Novels Held At The University Of California, Berkeley, Yong-Su Jeong

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

0517 Crime Classification Guide, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Volume 9-2, Fall 2003

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Type E Botulism in Fish-Eating Birds on Lake Huron and Lake Erie 1998-2003
Chronic Wasting Disease in free-ranging cervids in western Canada
Esophageal Lesions in Crows
Surplus killing of roseate terns and common terns by a mink
West Nile Virus infection in Québec Raptors : 2003 season
Mortality in Great Black-Backed Gulls near Presqu'ile
Type E Botulism Update
West Nile Virus Update
Adenovirus Encephalitis in a Wild Fox
Newcastle Disease Virus in Double-crested Cormorants in Alberta and Saskatchewan in 2003
West Nile Virus in Sage Grouse
The Research Group for Arctic Parasitology (RGAP), November 2003
Death of a Grizzly Bear …

The Price Of Education: What Local Control Is Costing American Children., Debra L. Ireland

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Wealth and property are not equally distributed in America, and these inequities are exacerbated by the American school system. The current school system is community-centered, meaning children living in poorer districts do not have access to the same level of education as children living in wealthier districts. The comment discusses the impact that budgeting decisions have on community perceptions and expectations, as well as how community favoritism plays a role in the education financing equation. Finally, the author proposes eliminating what is essentially an “educational caste system,” and discusses how to change the attitudes of society and alter the ways …

Mind Your Own Business: The Trouble With Justice In Plato's Republic, John Patrick Coby

Government: Faculty Publications

The Republic’s paradoxical definition of justice—minding one’s own business—comes mainly from Socrates’ examination of the arts. The definition applies well to artisans who specialize in single trades, but poorly to warriors who meddle in everyone’s affairs. Are the warriors then unjust? Rather than conclude that they are, the paper maintains that justice is conditioned by class and that the justice practiced by warriors (self-sacrificing and homogenizing) differs from the justice practiced by workers (self-serving and differentiating). But because the formal definition never changes, despite the awkwardness of fit, the paper further suggests that something is askew with justice, with its …

An Online Lab Manual For Neurophysiology, Richard F. Olivo

Neuroscience: Faculty Publications

A combination of student interest, a grant for computers, and a suggestion from a colleague led me to convert the printed lab manual for my neurophysiology course into an online version. The web-based version incorporates videos of procedures, color photos, diagrams, links to articles, and other supplementary materials. This paper discusses designing for the web, retaining compatibility with print, layering information, making videos in digital format, and sharing self-published resources. The labs themselves (appendix) are traditional “wet” experiments with crayfish that have been used in many neurobiology courses.

The Evolution Of Warning Signals As Reliable Indicators Of Prey Defense, Thomas N. Sherratt, Christopher D. Beatty

Biology

It is widely argued that defended prey have tended to evolve conspicuous traits because predators more readily learn to avoid defended prey when they are conspicuous. However, a rival theory proposes that defended prey have evolved such characters because it allows them to be distinguished from undefended prey. Here we investigated how the attributes of defended (unprofitable) and undefended (profitable) computer-generated prey species tended to evolve when they were subject to selection by foraging humans. When cryptic forms of defended and undefended species were similar in appearance but their conspicuous forms were not, defended prey became conspicuous while undefended prey …

Illinois State University Salaries Fy2004, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Salaries

Includes four sections: civil service, continuing academic employee, non-tenure track faculty, and non-continuing administrative/professional monthly salaries.

Use Of Computer Spreadsheets And Paper-Based Workbooks To Teach Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning, Charles A. Shapiro, R. L. Deloughery, Richard K. Koelsch, M. K. Kucera, Charles S. Wortmann

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

The objective of this program was to provide producers and ag advisors the skills needed to apply for and maintain the non-engineering components of a Nebraska permit to operate a livestock waste control facility. This includes a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP). Eighty six producers and advisors participated in an intensive three-session hands-on class with a total of nine contact hours at four sites in eastern Nebraska in the spring of 2002. The workshop included lecture and participant use of spreadsheet tools to assist with performing the necessary calculations. With an average of 68 % responses per session, 58% rated …

2003-2005 Otterbein College Master Of Business Administration Course Bulletin, Otterbein University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Speleo Spiel, No. 338, September-October 2003, Geoff Wise

Speleo Spiel

Contents: Regular Bits -- Trip Reports -- Other Exciting Stuff

The Voice, Fall 2003: Volume 49, Issue 1, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Lilly Grant Helps Launch Gen 100: Kingdom, Identity, and Calling; Dordt Is Awarded a $2 Million Lilly Grant; Looking Behind the College Rankings; New Year Brings New Records; Social Work Grads Make Their Mark; Lilly Grant Expands Youth Ministry Program; Graduate Program Draws Students from Across the Country; Perkins Returns to Campus; First Students Earn Nursing Degrees; Farm Safety Camp Held at Ag Stewardship Center; Dordt Lacrosse Team Earns District Sportsmanship Award; Dordt College Ranks High in U. S. News Listings; Ongelooflijk - An Incredible Experience; Princeton Review Gives Dordt College a Nod; The Campus Health Center Is Open …

The Daily Egyptian, October 01, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff

October 2003

No abstract provided.

Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

From research on preventing skin cancer to molecular level studies of Alzheimer’s disease, health-related research has emerged as a new area of excellence at Boise State University. Starting on Page 28, this issue of FOCUS looks at ideas being generated in Boise State labs with potential to impact human health. Professors and students are collaborating with regional medical centers, conducting joint projects with universities in Idaho and around the country, and winning multidisciplinary grants from top-tier funding agencies.

Tattoos And The First Amendment - Art Should Be Protected As Art: The South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds The State's Ban On Tattooing, Bebby G. Frederick

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sovereignty Or The Precautionary Principle: Which Will Save Our Fish, Thomas A. Telesca

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Cutbank 60

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Murder, Curtis Smith

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Taxonomy, Gary Joseph Cohen

CutBank

No abstract provided.

We Wait For The Trolly Which In Chicago Is Free, Daneen Wardrop

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Who Pays For Progress?: Accident Law In Florida, 1845-1886, James L. Hunt

Articles

No abstract provided.

Molecular Characterization Of Brucella Abortus Chromosome Ii Recombination, Georgios Tsoktouridis, Christian A. Merz, Simon P. Manning, Renée Giovagnoli-Kurtz, Leanne E. Williams, Cesar V. Mujer, Sue Hagius, Philip Elzer, Rajendra J. Redkar, Guy Patra, Vito G. Delvecchio

Faculty Publications

Large-scale genomic rearrangements including inversions, deletions, and duplications are significant in bacterial evolution. The recently completed Brucella melitensis 16M and Brucella suis 1330 genomes have facilitated the investigation of such events in the Brucella spp. Suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) was employed in identifying genomic differences between B. melitensis 16M and Brucella abortus 2308. Analysis of 45 SSH clones revealed several deletions on chromosomes of B. abortus and B. melitensis that encoded proteins of various metabolic pathways. A 640-kb inversion on chromosome II of B. abortus has been reported previously (S. Michaux Charachon, G. Bourg, E. Jumas Bilak, P. Guigue Talet, …

Some Modest Suggestions For Improving Implementation Of The National Environmental Policy Act, Dinah Bear

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Public Goods Provision: Lessons From The Tellico Dam Controversy, Louis P. Cain, Brooks A. Kaiser

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Why Absolute Liability Under Rylands V. Fletcher Is Absolutely Wrong!, Frank C. Woodside Iii, Mark L. Silbersack, Travis L. Fliehman, Douglas J. Feichtner

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sometimes Promising Is Not So Promising: The Breakdown Of The Family Resemblance Test, Cori R. Haper

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.