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''A Prairie Childhood" By Edith Abbott An Excerpt From The Children's Champion, A Biography Of Grace Abbott, John Sorensen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Grace Abbott (1878-1939) is, perhaps, the greatest champion of children's rights in American history. She was a woman of intriguing contradictions: a life-long Republican Party member and a life-long liberal activist; a native of the Nebraska frontier who spent much of her life in the poorest immigrant quarters of urban Chicago; an unmarried woman who was nicknamed "the mother of America's forty-three million children."

Grace Abbott was a public figure who was both much adored and bitterly, sometimes vehemently, attacked. She was a born and bred pioneer: the first woman nominated for a Presidential cabinet post {secretary of labor for …

Butterflies Of The North Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada, David L. Threatful

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

An annotated list of 106 species of butterflies known to occur in the north Okanagan area of British Columbia, Canada is presented. Information is provided on flight phenology, elevation and habitat for each species. Field work over the past 100 years shows that this is one of the premiere areas in Canada for butterfly species diversity. More than one third of all known Canadian butterflies have been found in this small area.

Migrations Of Grassland Communities And Grazing Philosophies In The Great Plains: A Review And Implications For Management, Joe C. Truett

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

Ecologists commonly separate Great Plains grasslands communities into types based on grass height: shortgrass prairie, mixed-grass prairie, and tallgrass prairie. Grass height correlates directly with precipitation and thus lessens with distance westward and with drought. Grass height correlates inversely with grazing intensity and thus shortgrasses expand eastward when grazing pressures are great and shrink westward when grazing pressures relax. Evidence about past distributions of shortgrasses, coupled with the prehistoric and historic abundances of large grazers and the black-tailed prairie dog (a shortgrass indicator), suggest a far-eastward occurrence of shortgrass prairie in the late Pleistocene (despite a relatively wet climate), a …

Range And Population Size Of The American Burying Beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae) In The Dissected Hills Of South-Central Nebraska, Mark Peyton

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

The American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus Olivier) is the only insect found in Nebraska currently on the federal endangered species list. I conducted surveys in 1995, 1996, and 1998 to determine range and population size of the American burying beetle in south-central Nebraska, A total of 826 individuals were captured during these three years, A Sequential Bayes Algorithm was used to estimate population size based on mark and recapture data. Results from this study and other studies identify the range of this population in south-central Nebraska as an approximately 4,500 km2 area located south of the Platte River in …

Fish Community Persistence In Eastern North And South Dakota Rivers, Jeffrey Shearer, Charles Berry, Jr.

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

Over the past 25 years, the James River in North and South Dakota has experienced records in minimum and maximum discharge. Our objectives were to compare: (1) the fish community in the main river after dry (1988-90) and wet (1993-2000) years, and (2) the fish community of both the main river and tributaries between dry (1975) and wet (1998-2000) years. In South Dakota in the main river, there were 10 families and 29 species after several dry years and 11 families and 35 species after several wet years. Percichthyidae was the additional family after the wet years. Basinwide, there were …

Constructing The Cooper Model Of Folsom Bison Kills On The Southern Plains, Leland Bement

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

The Cooper model postulates that a dichotomy exists in the size and seasonality of bison kill sites from the Folsom age (10,800- 10,200 years ago). This dichotomy is a result of changing settlement and subsistence patterns, from population aggregation in the late summer and early fall for large-scale kills, to a dispersed pattern with small bison kills during all other seasons. Attendant to the change in human population aggregation and number of bison harvested are changes in bison butchering techniques, choice of camp location, and ritual activity. It is postulated that ritual activity of an aggregated group is manifest in …

Sustainability And Historical Land-Use Change In The Great Plains: The Case Of Eastern Colorado, William J. Parton, Myron Gutmann, William Travis

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

The Great Plains is one focus of the debate in the United States over appropriate land use and sustainability. Within the Plains region, eastern Colorado represents a case study that permits researchers and policymakers to focus on important relationships between agricultural land use, population change, and the sustainability of agriculture, environment, and communities. Colorado Front Range urban areas experienced large increases in population from 1950 to 2000 that resulted in a 35% reduction in total farmland. In the urban fringe region, farmland declined rapidly since 1978 and harvested irrigated cropland declined by 16% since 1990. Rural population in eastern Colorado …

Red River Water Management Consortium, University Of North Dakota. Energy And Environmental Research Center

EERC Brochures and Fact Sheets

Brochure describing the Red River Water Management Consortium, developed by the Energy & Environmental Research Center and other area stakeholders. Outlines the program's current members and ongoing activities. [This item is an outdated or superseded version and retained for historical purposes only. It may no longer reflect current information, policies, or practices.]

Chlorophyll Dispersal By Eddy-Eddy Interactions In The Gulf Of Mexico, M. Toner, A. D. Kirwan, A. C. Poje, L. H. Kantha, Frank E. Muller-Karger, C. K. R. T. Jones

Marine Science Faculty Publications

A Lagrangian analysis of the transport and dispersal of plumes observed in satellite‐derived ocean color images was conducted using a data‐assimilating model of the Gulf of Mexico. The interaction between pervasive cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies in the Gulf generated advective paths that connect remote shelf regions. These paths aligned remarkably well with the plume events recorded with the chlorophyll‐a ocean color product from SeaWiFS. Two such events were studied. In one event material was transported in a thin strip between the northern wall of the Loop Current and an adjacent cyclone, connecting the eastern Campheche shelf (off the Yucatan Peninsula) …

The "Necessary" History Of Property And Liberty, Richard A. Epstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Mapping Of Porcine Ests Obtained From The Anterior Pituitary, G. R. Bertani, R. K. Johnson, A. Robic, Daniel Pomp

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

We report the physical mapping of porcine expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from anterior pituitary clones isolated by differential display PCR in a study using lines selected for reproduction. These ESTs were mapped using a somatic cell hybrid panel (SCHP) and a radiation hybrid panel (IMpRH) as follows (SCHP position, nearest marker on the RH map): SPARCL1 (8q23–q27, SSP1); ATF4 (5p11–p15, AC02); MEF2C [2(1/2q21)– (1/2q22), SW2134]; FTH1 (2p14–p17, SWR783); FRAP1 (6q22–q23, SW1355); PBP (14, SW2508); LOC92004 [13q23-(1/2q41), CP]; and PGRMC1 [Xq22, SW1943]. All RH assignments were at LOD score >6.0 except for PGRMC1 at LOD score 5.4. ESTs TCP1 [12p11-(2/3p13)], SF3B1 …

Extended Visions March-April 2003

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

No abstract provided.

Phyllodistomum Funduli N. Sp. (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) From Fundulus Sciadicus Cope From Cedar Creek In Western Nebraska, Jaclyn Helt, John J. Janvoy Jr., John Ubelaker

John J. Janovy, Jr. Publications

Phyllodistomum funduli n. sp. is described from the urinary bladder and ureters of the Plains topminnow, Fundulus sciadicus, from Cedar Creek in Keith County, Nebraska (41°11.18'N, 101°21.77'W). Phyllodistomum funduli differs from most other Phyllodistomum species reported in possessing an oral sucker that is larger than the acetabulum. Currently, 7 other species of Phyllodistomum have been reported to possess this trait. A comparison of P. funduli with these 7 other species indicates that P. funduli is a distinct species, lacking notches, posterior body folds, caudal projections, or cephalic glands found in some congeners. There is no published report on parasites …

Truth In Timbre: Morrison's Extension Of Slave Narrative Song In Beloved, Peter J. Capuano

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In her 1987 novel Beloved, Toni Morrison acknowledges and even borrows from Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative, but she also makes a resolute break from its rhetorical and political objectives. Historical differences between the audiences of Douglass and Morrison account for a large part of their contrasting styles, particularly in their treatment of slave song. Since Douglass composed his Narrative as a fugitive slave in the early 1840s, he was aware of his principally white audience and also of his precarious task of presenting an attack not on white America, but on the institution of slavery itself. Douglass's judicious …

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter, No. 10, April 2003, István Eszterhás

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter

Contents: New Possibility for Organizing the International Pseudokarst Symposium -- American Regional Pseudokarst Symposium -- Address-List of Some Explorers of the Pseudokarst -- Found New Root Structures in an Structural Cave -- The First Root Stalagmites in Romania -- Short Information -- An Unusual Pseudokarst Cave

Patrick Vinton Kirch. On The Road Of The Winds: An Archaeological History Of The Pacific Islands Before European Contact, George Von-Der-Muhll

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Federal Funding Of Human Embryo Stem Cell Research: Advocating A Broader Approach, Jason R. Braswell

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Note, as one may surmise from the title, advocates a broader approach to federal funding of human embryo stem cell research. It begins with a look at the science of embryo stem cells and examines the medical promise that stem cell technology holds. It also briefly addresses the controversy that surrounds embryo stem cells. The Note then looks at why federal funding is so important to embryo stem cell research and how federal funding for embryo stem cell research is currently handled. Examination of current federal funding methodology leads to several concerns which are addressed, including property rights, flight …

Understanding Wavelet Analysis And Filters For Engineering Applications, Chethan Bangalore Parameswariah

Doctoral Dissertations

Wavelets are signal-processing tools that have been of interest due to their characteristics and properties. Clear understanding of wavelets and their properties are a key to successful applications. Many theoretical and application-oriented papers have been written. Yet the choice of a right wavelet for a given application is an ongoing quest that has not been satisfactorily answered. This research has successfully identified certain issues, and an effort has been made to provide an understanding of wavelets by studying the wavelet filters in terms of their pole-zero and magnitude-phase characteristics. The magnitude characteristics of these filters have flat responses in both …

Hollins Columns (2003 Apr 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Greenhouse a go-go for English
• Cocke steps a stage for Trojan ad
• Moody food is good, really, we swear
• New 'Gone Wild' video: Pearl Girls Gone Wild
• Arrests shock campus
• Ulabulastan exists, don't be silly, silly
• Squirrel gains fame
• Crocodile Hunter to get rid of spiders
• Doughboy dies at 71
• Lifetime network movies are the bestest
• Richard Dillard's Buffy dream comes true
• Horoscopes
• Near death experience changes life
• Think your family had the worst car? Think again. No one can beat the ghettoblasting "Ghettoblaster"

The Voice, Spring 2003: Volume 48, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Much of The College Writer Is Written at Dordt; Just Be Who You Are; "The Writer In and From Community"; Band Students Learn by Doing; Campus Capsules; Blackboard Expands Classroom Doors; Bakker Earns Vander Stelt Essay Award; The Purchase of the Kuhl Farm Doubles the Campus; Who Was Harry Kuhl? A Non-Traditional Student Answers: Why Am I Here?; Art Commissions for Campus Center Are Now Complete; Faculty News; Sikkema to Participate in Oxford Seminar; Schaap Edits New Book; Sports Updates; Hulst to Speak at Friends of Dordt Spring Banquet; Matching Challenge Fund Sparks Increase in Annual Fund; Development Notes; Alum …

Voter Education: The Key To Election Reform Success Lessons From Florida, Susan A. Macmanus

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Over a dozen national task forces and commissions have analyzed the 2000 presidential election and concluded that electoral system reforms are imperative not just in Florida, but nationwide. Among the common recommendations are elimination of punch card ballots, enhancement of registration procedures and outreach, provision of more accurate voter lists, clear delineation of appeals processes, establishment of voter rights and responsibilities, clarification of recount rules and procedures, securing of accessible polling places, better facilitation of voting and proper counting of absentee ballots, and ensuring provisional ballots available at each precinct. For these reforms to be most effective, the reports say, …

Newscope - Spring 2003

Newscope

No abstract provided.

Spring 2003, John M. Pfau Library

Peacock – John M. Pfau Library Newsletter

Content:

• Federal Documents at Pfau Library by Jill Vassilakos-Long
• The Music Listening Facility is back in the Library! by Lisa Bartle
• Library Instruction Goes Online! by Barbara Quarton
• CSUSB Library Trivia
• Library Goings On

Advocate 2003 Volume 20 Number 1, Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs, Usd School Of Law

Advocate

No abstract provided.

An Unusually Colored Red-Backed Salamander (Plethodon Cinerus) From Northern Virginia, Joseph C. Mitchell, Thomas K. Pauley, C. Todd Georgel

Virginia Journal of Science

We describe an orange-pink, patternless, translucent morph of the Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus) found in northern Virginia on 27 September 2001. This is the first description of this unusual phenotype in this terrestrial salamander.

Necrology: Patrick F. Scanlon, Virginia Journal Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Dr. Patrick F. Scanlon, Professor of fisheries and wildlife sciences, died on Wednesday, March 4, 2003.

Vol. 04 No. 1 Religious Educator, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Rehabilitating Nature: A Comparative Review Of Legal Mechanisms That Encourage Wetland Restoration Efforts, Royal C. Gardner

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Problems And Opportunities For Progressive Comprehensive Land Use Planning In Richland County, South Carolina After Mcclanahan V. Richland County Council, David J. Harmon

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

South Carolina Release Prevention, Reporting And Liability: A Primer On The Legal Requirements Imposed To Avoid And, If Necessary, To Respond To Environmental Accidents, Mark E. Freeze, Rolf R. Von Oppenfeld, Eric L. Hiser

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.