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Using Genetic Analyses To Identify Predators, C. L. Williams, J. J. Johnston

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

Coyote and dog depredation account for much of the economic losses to livestock in the United States (National Agricultural Statistical Service, 2000, 2001). However, depredation by other species (such as members of reintroduced wolf populations) can be more socially and politically contentious. Predators are often elusive and attacks on livestock are not often witnessed but the species of predator causing stock losses can sometimes be ascertained from evidence near the carcass (such as scat or hair), the attack pattern, or size and spacing of bite wounds. However, these species assignments can be subjective and may be influenced by the experience …

Non-Lethal Alternatives For Predation Management, John A. Shivik

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

The ethical milieu in which wildlife biologists and livestock producers work continues to change as the concepts of environmentalism and animal rights and welfare have become introduced and normalized (Singer, 1975). The American public, including livestock producers, are mired within a typically human psychological quagmire of having a high demand for benefit, but a low tolerance for cost — that is, economic forces. Americans tend to demand a cheap, reliable food supply, while simultaneously demanding the existence of animals that, through predation activities, drive up production costs. Ironically, members of the urban public who may find fault with food and …

Direct, Spillover, And Intangible Benefits Of Predation Management, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Mike J. Bodenchuk

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

Predation management is a controversial and often misunderstood reality of livestock management. Few on either side of the argument would believe that some sort of management is not necessary to limit livestock losses. Opposition to the lethal removal of predators characterizes most debates. While most of the opposition reflects a moral opinion about the manner in which people relate to the natural world, opponents of lethal control often argue that control is not economically justified.

Simple economic justification would require that benefits of predation management outweigh the costs. If the only goal of predation management were to be economically efficient, …

Status And Management Of Coyote Depredations In The Eastern United States, John M. Houben

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

The populations of coyotes (Canis latrans) have increased dramatically in the eastern United States since the early 1900s (Hilton, 1978; Chambers, 1987; Hill et al., 1987; Witmer and Hayden 1992). The expansion of the coyote range into eastern North America has been summarized by Parker (1995) and characterized as two distinct geographical events: 1) the northern front moving across southern Ontario and the Great Lakes region and 2) the southern front colonizing the southeastern United States from Arkansas and Louisiana. These two fronts expanded throughout the northeastern and southeastern United States during the 1960s and 1970s, finally converging …

Selective Targeting Of Alpha Coyotes To Stop Sheep Depredation, M. M. Jaeger

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

Research to find more effective and socially acceptable solutions of managing coyote (Canis latrans) depredation has been ongoing for many years. The primary objective is to develop strategies that effectively reduce losses, not simply reduce coyote numbers. An important step in solving such conflicts is to clearly define the problem. In this case, it is important to know which coyotes are most likely to kill sheep and when and where their depredation is greatest. For a control strategy to be effective, it must be appropriate to these three defining characteristics. The hardest of these questions to resolve has been determining …

Economic Impact Of Sheep Predation In The United States, Keithly Jones

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

Though accounting for less than 1 percent of U.S. livestock industry receipts, sheep and goat operations are still important to the economies of several states in the Southern Plains, Mountain States and Pacific regions. Revenues from sales of lambs and culled ewes amount to more than three-fourths of the total receipts in the sheep industry. However, nearly 4 percent of the animals in the sheep industry are lost each year. Most of this loss is from predation. Predators include coyotes, domestic dogs, big cats, foxes and bears, and eagles. Predator losses are concentrated in the Southern Plains, Pacific States and …

Coyote In The Edwards Plateau Of Texas — An Update, Gary Nunley

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

In the early 1900s, organized predator control was initiated to remove coyotes and wolves from the sheep- and goat-producing areas of Texas. Operations were begun in the Edwards Plateau, the largest area of sheep concentration. The Edwards Plateau and, to a lesser extent, portions of other adjoining ecological areas presently account for 18% (1.2 million head) of the sheep and lambs and 85% (1.2 million head) of the goats in the United States (Texas Agriculture Statistics Service, 2004). These numbers are down in both actual numbers and as a percent of the national flocks. It is important that the industries …

Predation And Livestock Production: Perspective And Overview, Maurice Shelton

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

1. Predation is a more serious problem for the livestock industry than most people realize unless they are somehow involved. This problem is almost certain to increase due to the dispersal of feral or wild hogs throughout the country and the expanding range of the reintroduced grey wolf.

2. Because predator species do not respect property or political boundaries, it is important that control efforts be conducted on a national, state or regional basis. At present, these efforts are carried out by the USDA-APHIS Wildlife Service Programs in cooperation with state agencies and livestock producers. Possibly some type of zoning …

Coyote Predation Management: An Economic Analysis Of Increased Antelope Recruitment And Cattle Production In South Central Wyoming, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Rod J. Merrell

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

In 1999, a project was implemented for the protection of antelope fawns in two areas of Carbon County, Wyoming. The project was funded by the Wyoming Animal Damage Management Board (ADMB) for the benefit of two antelope areas that were having trouble rebounding to their normal population levels after the severe winters of 1991 and 1992. While the Wyoming ADMB project’s main focus was on enhancing pronghorn antelope fawn recruitment, the benefits of coyote population management could have “spillover” benefits to cow/calf producers in the coyote removal areas.

With the decline of the value of coyote fur in the late …

Mechanisms And Dynamics Of The Metastable Decay In Ar-2(+), J. Fedor, K. Gluch, R. Parajuli, S. Matt-Leubner, Olof E. Echt, P. Scheier, T. D. Mark

Physics & Astronomy

A detailed experimental as well as theoretical investigation of the properties of the metastable dissociation Ar-2(+)-->Ar++Ar is presented. The mass-analyzed ion kinetic energy (MIKE) scan technique has been performed using a three sector field mass spectrometer. The possible mechanisms of the metastability of Ar-2(+) have been examined and the observed decay process is assigned to the II(1/2)(u)-->I(1/2)(g) bound to continuum radiative transition, in agreement with earlier work. The calculation of the theoretical shape of the kinetic energy release distribution of fragment ions allowed us to construct the theoretical MIKE peak and compare it with the raw experimental data. …

Minutes Board Of Directors Meeting: October 15, 2004, The Davinci Institute

Minutes and Agendas

A meeting of the Board of Directors of The daVinci Institute was held Friday, October 15, 2004, at the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education (OSRHE) conference room.

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2004-10-15, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

Volume 4, Issue 2, St. Norbert College

Assessment News (campus only)

Assessment News was a newsletter out of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness from 2002 to 2013. Almost all are archived here as open access, but some are designated campus only.

The Courier, Volume 38, Issue 3, October 15, 2004, The Courier, College Of Dupage

The Courier

Stories:

College Prepares For Constructions

College Will Not Receive Flu Vaccine

Campus Pines Infected

College Trends Equal Halloween Costumes

“Three Days of Rain” Opens

Chaparrals Cricket Club Wins Championship

People:

Sadie Flucas

David Mayhew

Natya Dance Theater

Joan Fliege

Price Hudson

Caitlin Hoffman/p>

Reporter - October 15th 2004, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Oct 15, 2004, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Spectral Quality Metrics For Terrain Classification, John P. Kerekes, Sue May Hsu

Presentations and other scholarship

Current image quality approaches are designed to assess the utility of single band images by trained image analysts. While analysts today are certainly involved in the exploitation of spectral imagery, automated tools are generally used as aids in the analysis and offer hope in the future of significantly reducing the analysis timeline and analyst work load. Thus, there is a recognized need for spectral image quality metrics that include the effects of automated algorithms. Previously, we have reported on candidate approaches for spectral quality metrics in the context of unresolved object detection. We have continued these efforts through the use …

Teaching Criminal Law, John Kip Cornwell

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

2004-2005 Common Data, Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

2004-2005 issue of the Common Data.

Sandspur, Vol 111, No 07, October 15, 2004, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Orienting The Free Spikes, Jakayla Robbins

Combinatorics Seminar

The free spikes are rather notorious in matroid theory for being rather illbehaved, that is to say that the free spikes often show up as counterexamples. In this talk we introduce the class of matroids known as the free spikes and the concept of oriented matroids. We will enumerate the orientaitons of the free spikes and show that once again the free spikes are ill-behaved.

Observation And Properties Of The X(3872) Decaying To J/Ψπ+Π- In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.96 Tev, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

Gregory Snow Publications

We report the observation of the X(3872) in the J/ψπ⁺π^- channel, with J/ψ decaying to μ⁺μ^-, in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV. Using approximately 230 pb^-1 of data collected with the Run II D0 detector, we observe 522 ± 100 X(3872) candidates. The mass difference between the X(3872) state and the J=J/ψ is measured to be 774.9 ± 3.1(stat) ± 3.0(syst) MeV/c². We have investigated the production and decay characteristics of the X(3872) and find them to be …

Seasonal And Spatial Distribution Of Phytoplankton In The Waters Off Nuclear Power Plants, North Of Taiwan, Wen-Tseng Lo, Jiuan-Jiuan Hwang, Pei-Kai Hsu, Hung-Yen Hsieh, Yueh-Yuan Tu, Tien-Hsi Fang, Jiang-Shiou Hwang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Species composition of phytoplankton was monitored seasonally in the waters off the First and Second Nuclear Power plants (NPP1 and NPP2), north of Taiwan during 2001-2002. In total, 290 phytoplankton samples were collected and 265 taxa of phytoplankton were recorded. Chaetoceros compressus, Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima, Skeletonema costatum, Thalassionema nitzschioides, and Lauderia annulata were the top five dominant species. Together they comprised 75% of the total phytoplankton cells. The species number and abundance of phytoplankton showed distinct seasonal, annual, and spatial changes, higher abundance in 2002 than 2001 and highest in August in both years and lowest in March in 2001 and …

Spartan Daily, October 14, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 33

Unh Launches Outreach Scholars Program, Denise Hart

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Negotiated Written Feedback Within Formative Assessment On Fourth Grade Students' Motivation And Goal Orientations, Craig Alan Waddell

Dissertations

This research was a field-based investigation into the impact of written feedback on students' perceptions, motivation, and academic performance. Seventy-nine fourth grade students, from five elementary classrooms participated in two studies. Study 1 (n=15) was an ABAB-type, reversal design, intended to provide support for a cause-and-effect relationship between feedback scores (i.e., a rubric-based evaluation of teacher's written feedback) and feedback effectiveness (i.e., a survey-based measure of students' views on the value of written feedback). Study 2 (n=64) was a quasi-experimental study intended to demonstrate: a) the relationship between feedback scores and feedback effectiveness, b) an association between feedback effectiveness and …

Low Marine Sulphate And Protracted Oxygenation Of The Proterozoic Biosphere, Linda C. Kah, Timothy W. Lyons, Tracy D. Frank

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Progressive oxygenation of the Earth’s early biosphere is thought to have resulted in increased sulphide oxidation during continental weathering, leading to a corresponding increase in marine sulphate concentration. Accurate reconstruction of marine sulphate reservoir size is therefore important for interpreting the oxygenation history of early Earth environments. Few data, however, specifically constrain how sulphate concentrations may have changed during the Proterozoic era (2.5–0.54 Gyr ago). Prior to 2.2 Gyr ago, when oxygen began to accumulate in the Earth’s atmosphere, sulphate concentrations are inferred to have been <200 >μM, on the basis of limited isotopic variability preserved in sedimentary sulphides4 and experimental …

Utb/Tsc Board Of Trustees - Minutes - 2004-10-14, University Of Texas At Brownsville And Texas Southmost College. Vice President For Administration And Partnership Affairs.

UTB/TSC Archives - UTB/TSC Board of Trustees Meetings 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

October 14, 2004, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, October 14-15, 2004

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on October 14-15, 2004.