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Silvopasture Water And Fencing Systems For Cattle, Sid Brantly Feb 2005

Silvopasture Water And Fencing Systems For Cattle, Sid Brantly

Agroforestry Notes (USDA-NAC)

Silvopasture is an agroforestry system that combines grazing livestock with growing trees for a timber product. Creating small, fenced paddocks and rotating cattle builds in "recovery periods" for the forage and protects the soil and trees. In a silvopastoral system, grazing recovery periods can only be achieved when well-designed livestock water supplies and cross fences are used. Fortunately, technological advances in livestock water system design and fence materials have helped to create a feasible working environment where rotating livestock from one silvopasture paddock to another can be both convenient and affordable. However, some special considerations must be given to water …

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Opinion: Avian Brains And A New Understanding Of Vertebrate Brain Evolution, Gerald E. Hough, The Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium Feb 2005

Opinion: Avian Brains And A New Understanding Of Vertebrate Brain Evolution, Gerald E. Hough, The Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium

College of Science & Mathematics Departmental Research

We believe that names have a powerful influence on the experiments we do and the way in which we think. For this reason, and in the light of new evidence about the function and evolution of the vertebrate brain, an international consortium of neuroscientists has reconsidered the traditional, 100-year-old terminology that is used to describe the avian cerebrum. Our current understanding of the avian brain — in particular the neocortex-like cognitive functions of the avian pallium — requires a new terminology that better reflects these functions and the homologies between avian and mammalian brains.

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Radioactive Neighbor: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Radioactivist Campaign (Trac) Feb 2005

Radioactive Neighbor: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Radioactivist Campaign (Trac)

The RadioActivist Campaign

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) reports releases of radioactive and toxic materials into its surroundings. LLNL also monitors its environment for radioactive and toxic materials, with results published in an annual Environmental Report. LLNL’s radiological monitoring focuses on two radionuclides “often associated with LLNL operations”: hydrogen-3 (called tritium) and plutonium. Other radioactive by-products of nuclear fission and nuclear activation are not included in LLNL’s routine monitoring. Thus, neighbors of LLNL have to largely rely on LLNL to report its own sources of radioactivity (such as pipes, stacks, effluent, etc.). Livermore residents also have to rely on LLNL to report …

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Hybrid Xerogel Films As Novel Coatings For Antifouling And Fouling Release, Ying Tang, John A. Finlay, Gregory L. Kowalke, Anne E. Meyer, Frank V. Bright, Maureen E. Callow, James A. Callow, Dean E. Wendt, Michael R. Detty Feb 2005

Hybrid Xerogel Films As Novel Coatings For Antifouling And Fouling Release, Ying Tang, John A. Finlay, Gregory L. Kowalke, Anne E. Meyer, Frank V. Bright, Maureen E. Callow, James A. Callow, Dean E. Wendt, Michael R. Detty

Biological Sciences

Hybrid sol-gel-derived xerogel films prepared from 45/55 (mol ratio) n-propyltrimethoxysilane (C3-TMOS)/tetramethylorthosilane (TMOS), 2/98 (mol ratio) bis[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]-ethylenediamine (enTMOS)/tetraethylorthosilane (TEOS), 50/50 (mol ratio) n-octyltriethoxysilane (C8-TEOS)/TMOS, and 50/50 (mol ratio) 3,3,3-trifluoropropyltrimethoxysilane (TFP-TMOS)/TMOS were found to inhibit settlement of zoospores of the marine fouling alga Ulva (syn. Enteromorpha) relative to settlement on acid-washed glass and give greater release of settled zoospores relative to glass upon exposure to pressure from a water jet. The more hydrophobic 50/50 C8-TEOS/TMOS xerogel films had the lowest critical surface tension by comprehensive contact angle analysis and gave significantly greater release of 8-day Ulva sporeling biomass after exposure to …

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Peaks Island Star : February 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 2, Service Agencies Of The Island Feb 2005

Peaks Island Star : February 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 2, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2005

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

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Reflection And Cognitive Strategy Instruction: Modeling Active Learning For Pre-Service Teachers, Barbara C. Palmer, C. Glennon Rowell, Mary Alice Brooks Feb 2005

Reflection And Cognitive Strategy Instruction: Modeling Active Learning For Pre-Service Teachers, Barbara C. Palmer, C. Glennon Rowell, Mary Alice Brooks

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading methodology courses, like other courses in college, are often one-dimensional when it comes to instructional delivery systems. Too often, "teacher talk" that elicits far too little reflection prevails. This practice can be changed with activities calling for students to construct knowledge from their experiences, thus following basic tenets of constructivism. The purpose of this article is to discuss how pre-service teachers can be taught to think beyond strategies in methodology and reflect upon language itself Three instructional strategies - semantic feature analysis, fictitious writing systems activities, and nonsense story analysis - are examples of ways college professors can get …

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Integrated Fisheries Management Report Western Rock Lobster Resource., Department Of Fisheries Feb 2005

Integrated Fisheries Management Report Western Rock Lobster Resource., Department Of Fisheries

Fisheries Management Papers

This report is the first in a series of Integrated Fisheries Management (IFM) reports required under the 2004 Government Policy on IFM. Under this policy, the Executive Director of Fisheries is required to approve a sustainability report for each fishery, which includes a clear statement on the harvest level. The sustainable harvest level is that total catch, or catch range, that is to be allocated among the various user groups identified for that particular fishery. These IFM reports will assist in the process of allocating explicit shares in the use of Western Australia’s fish resources. They do not establish the …

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Functional Specialization Of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Cytosolic Thioredoxin H1 In The Response To Alkylation-Induced Dna Damage, Nandita Sarkar, Stephane Lemaire, Danxia Wu-Scharf, Emmanuelle Issakidis-Bourguet, Heriberto D. Cerutti Feb 2005

Functional Specialization Of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Cytosolic Thioredoxin H1 In The Response To Alkylation-Induced Dna Damage, Nandita Sarkar, Stephane Lemaire, Danxia Wu-Scharf, Emmanuelle Issakidis-Bourguet, Heriberto D. Cerutti

Center for Plant Science Innovation: Faculty Publications

DNA damage occurs as a by-product of intrinsic cellular processes, like DNA replication, or as a consequence of exposure to genotoxic agents. Organisms have evolved multiple mechanisms to avoid, tolerate, or repair DNA lesions. To gain insight into these processes, we have isolated mutants hypersensitive to DNA damaging agents in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. One mutant, Ble-1, showed decreased survival when it was treated with methyl methanesulfonate (MMS), bleomycin, or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) but behaved like the wild type when it was exposed to UVC irradiation. Ble-1 carries an extensive chromosomal deletion that includes …

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Minimising The Cost Of Future Stock Monitoring, And Assessment Of The Potential For Increased Yields, From The Oceanic Snapper, Pagrus Auratus, Stock Off Shark Bay, Michael J. Moran, Peter Stephenson, Daniel J. Gaughan, Nadia E. Tapp, Jenny Moore Feb 2005

Minimising The Cost Of Future Stock Monitoring, And Assessment Of The Potential For Increased Yields, From The Oceanic Snapper, Pagrus Auratus, Stock Off Shark Bay, Michael J. Moran, Peter Stephenson, Daniel J. Gaughan, Nadia E. Tapp, Jenny Moore

Fisheries Research Reports

The investment in this project has resulted in a substantially more extensive set of age composition data than would have otherwise been possible. This in turn has underpinned stock assessment modeling that has provided the basis for determining that the commercial fishery for snapper in Shark Bay needed a substantial decrease the total allowable catch. The modeling was able to determine that the stock was at a low size following a period of low recruitment during the late 1990s. The suspected low recruitment, evident once the age date were collated, and anticipated negative effects on the stock were both quantitatively …

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Conflicts Of Interest In Medical Ethics, Eugene F. Diamond Feb 2005

Conflicts Of Interest In Medical Ethics, Eugene F. Diamond

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Concluding Communique On The "Ethics Of Biomedical Research For A Christian Vision", Ninth General Assembly Of The Pontifical Academy Of Life, 26 February, 2003, Catholic Medical Association Feb 2005

Concluding Communique On The "Ethics Of Biomedical Research For A Christian Vision", Ninth General Assembly Of The Pontifical Academy Of Life, 26 February, 2003, Catholic Medical Association

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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2005, Board Of Regents Feb 2005

2005, Board Of Regents

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Agricultural Research Division News - February 2005 Feb 2005

Agricultural Research Division News - February 2005

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

Comments from the Dean - Darrell W. Nelson; New Additions to the ARD Web Site; Recommendations for Controlling Biological, Chemical and Radiological Materials at Land Grant Universities; How to Have a Successful Visit to a Funding Agency; Crop Variety Release Committee Assignments; 118th ARD Annual Report; Endeavors; Fall 2004 Graduate Census; New or Revised Projects —December 2004; Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants — December 2004; Grants and Contracts Received for December 2004

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Psc 550.01: Political Theory Seminar - Approaches To Political Theory, Ramona Grey Feb 2005

Psc 550.01: Political Theory Seminar - Approaches To Political Theory, Ramona Grey

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

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University Magazine Winter 2004, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations Feb 2005

University Magazine Winter 2004, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations

University Publications

A message from the president||One for the books||RIT rocs!||RIT at 175||Brick city festival/alumni weekend/family weekend||Report on giving||On campus||Letters||RIT works!||FYI||Alumni activities

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Mechanisms For The Environmental Regulation Of Gene Expression: Ecological Aspects Of Animal Development, Scott F. Gilbert Feb 2005

Mechanisms For The Environmental Regulation Of Gene Expression: Ecological Aspects Of Animal Development, Scott F. Gilbert

Biology Faculty Works

The environment can play a significant role in the production of phenotypes. However, the developmental mechanisms by which the environmental agents effect normal development are Just becoming known. At least three paths have been found through which the environment can modify gene activity. The first is the neuroendocrine route. Here, the nervous system monitors the environment and transfers signals to the endocrine system. The endocrine hormones can then alter gene expression. The second route involves environmental factors that change the methylation pattern of genes, thereby altering their transcriptional capabilities. The third route involves the direct induction of gene expression in …

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Uis Commission On Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 43, February 2005, Jan Paul G. Van Der Pas Feb 2005

Uis Commission On Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 43, February 2005, Jan Paul G. Van Der Pas

Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) Commission on Volcanic Caves

Contents: Chairman & editorial address -- New/Important Addresses -- New email for Herman de Swart -- Rwanda 2004 Speleological Project -- Ubuvumo Minyove -- Abstracts of the 2004 NSS Convention -- IXth International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology -- Letter from Giuseppe -- Pseudokarst-Proceedings of the 8th Int. Symposium -- Just received: Proceedings of 6th International Symposium "Glaciar Caves and Karst in Polar Regions" -- More about Mowich Cave -- Is it hot, or is it not? -- La Gomera-Canary Islands -- Email announcing expedition to Easter Island -- Christmas greetings sent by the Commission on Glacier Caves -- Mission Statement -- …

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Filibuster Vs. Supermajority Rule: From Polarization To A Consensus- And Moderation-Forcing Mechanism For Judicial Confirmations, Brent Wible Feb 2005

Filibuster Vs. Supermajority Rule: From Polarization To A Consensus- And Moderation-Forcing Mechanism For Judicial Confirmations, Brent Wible

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

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Febf2005, Robert Kelly Feb 2005

Febf2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From February 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

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University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension Connect, February 2005 Feb 2005

University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension Connect, February 2005

Connect (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension)

Inside this issue:

Pg. 3 Economic perks
Pg. 5 Meth problems
Pg. 7 Irrigation management

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Knowledge Design In Rule-Based System Architecture For C Tutorial / V Thavachelvi Velautham, Velautham V Thavachelvi Feb 2005

Knowledge Design In Rule-Based System Architecture For C Tutorial / V Thavachelvi Velautham, Velautham V Thavachelvi

Student Works (2000-2009)

C Tutorial4u is a standalone system developed in Visual Basic 6.0 which is able to provide guidance to the students who are pursuing C programming subject in their higher learning institutes. It is designed based on rule-based system architecture in order to provide a flexible knowledge base foundation within C programming. The knowledge base structure is essential to the successful execution of rules underlying the basic modules or processes involved in the system. CTutorial4u's functionalities divided into two categories that are 'User Module' and 'Admin Module'. User Module has 'Lecture notes', 'Tutorial session' and 'Quiz session'. The Admin Module has …

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Nitrogen Deposition Onto The United States And Western Europe: A Synthesis Of Observations And Models., Elisabeth A. Holland, Rob Braswell, James Sulzman, Jean-Francois Lamarque Feb 2005

Nitrogen Deposition Onto The United States And Western Europe: A Synthesis Of Observations And Models., Elisabeth A. Holland, Rob Braswell, James Sulzman, Jean-Francois Lamarque

Earth Sciences

The documented acceleration of NH3 and NOx (NO + NO2) emissions over the last 150 years has accelerated N deposition, compromising air and water quality and altering the functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems worldwide. To construct continental-scale N budgets, we produced maps of N deposition fluxes from site-network observations for the United States and Western Europe. Increases in the rates of N cycling for these two regions of the world are large, and they have undergone profound modification of biospheric–atmospheric N exchanges, and ecosystem function. The maps are necessarily restricted to the network measured quantities …

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The Effects Of Fire Suppression On Bachman’S Sparrows In Upland Pine Forests Of Eastern Texas, Richard N. Conner, Clifford E. Shackelford, Richard R. Schaefer, Daniel Saenz Feb 2005

The Effects Of Fire Suppression On Bachman’S Sparrows In Upland Pine Forests Of Eastern Texas, Richard N. Conner, Clifford E. Shackelford, Richard R. Schaefer, Daniel Saenz

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

We studied the effects of 8 years of fire suppression on shrub-level vegetation, Bachman’s Sparrows (Aimophila aestivalis), and selected forest bird species between 1995 and 2003 in eastern Texas. Woody shrub-level vegetation between ground level and 3 m above the ground, measured using a leaf area index, increased significantly in all sites (n = 20) previously managed for Red-cockaded Woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) in both longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and loblolly- (P. taeda) shortleaf (P. echinata) pine habitats. Woody shrub-level vegetation between ground level and 3 m also increased significantly in one-half of control sites (n = 20). During the 8 …

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Texas Birds And The Blizzard Of 1886, Stanley D. Casto Feb 2005

Texas Birds And The Blizzard Of 1886, Stanley D. Casto

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

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Carrion Consumption By A Great Blue Heron (Aves: Ardeinae), Christopher M. Ritzi, Clare M. Ritzi Feb 2005

Carrion Consumption By A Great Blue Heron (Aves: Ardeinae), Christopher M. Ritzi, Clare M. Ritzi

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

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The Texas Caver, Volume 50, No. 1, February 2005, Diana Tomchick Feb 2005

The Texas Caver, Volume 50, No. 1, February 2005, Diana Tomchick

The Texas Caver

Contents: Secretary's Message - Word from the Chair - 2005 TSA Officers, Committees, and Projects - Official TSS List of Longest/Deepest Caves in Texas -Texas Cavers Directory -Texas Caving Resources - Texas Grottos

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Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 2004-2005, Bruce B. Johnson, Aaron C. Raymond Feb 2005

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 2004-2005, Bruce B. Johnson, Aaron C. Raymond

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

During a period of record-level farm incomes, Nebraska farmland values rose an average of 11.9 % for the year ending February 1, 2005, the largest annual percentage increase of the past 16 years. The increase followed the sizable advances of the previous year, in contrast to several recent years of fairly stable to moderate value increases. While increases were reported by UNL survey respondents across the entire state, there was considerable variability in magnitude of percentage gains. Largest gains were recorded in southeast and eastern Nebraska, with changes of 18.8 % and 13.5 % respectively. Much smaller annual gains were …

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Extended Visions, January/February 2005 Feb 2005

Extended Visions, January/February 2005

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

Contents:
ARDC FEATURE – Forestry
Woody Florals Applied Research Jump-Starts Producer Enterprises
Consider the Natural Resource for Your College Education!!!
Four Decades of Windbreak Research at the ARDC
The People Behind the Research
Woody Florals Applied Research Jump-Starts Producer Enterprises
Assisting the Community
Calendar of Events
Caryl Carstensen Retires
Director's Comments
Welcome 2005!
Get Your Green Thumb Ready!
Magnet School Updates
National FFA Convention
Mark Your Calendar for These 4-H Events
4-H Leaders Training and Banquet
Market Beef Weigh-In Dates
Quality Assurance Training
Record Turnout at Soybean Day
Upcoming Ag-Related Education Opportunities
Nebraska No-Till Conference
Nitrogen Management Training
NSFGPP Annual …

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Stochastic Dietary Restriction Using A Markov-Chain Feeding Protocol Elicits Complex, Life History Response In Medflies, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Hans-Georg Müller, Jane-Ling Wang, Ying Zhang, Lawrence G. Harshman Feb 2005

Stochastic Dietary Restriction Using A Markov-Chain Feeding Protocol Elicits Complex, Life History Response In Medflies, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Hans-Georg Müller, Jane-Ling Wang, Ying Zhang, Lawrence G. Harshman

Lawrence G. Harshman Publications

Lifespan in individually housed medflies (virgins of both sexes) and daily reproduction for females were studied following one of 12 dietary restriction (DR) treatments in which the availability of high-quality food (yeast–sugar mixture) for each fly was based on a Markov chain feeding scheme – a stochastic dietary regime which specifies that the future dietary state depends only on the present dietary state and not on the path by which the present state was achieved. The stochastic treatments consisted of a combination of one of four values of a ‘discovery’ parameter and one of three values of a ‘persistence’ parameter. …

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Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Proposed Endangered Status For The Salt Creek Tiger Beetle (Cicindela Nevadica Lincolniana) Feb 2005

Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Proposed Endangered Status For The Salt Creek Tiger Beetle (Cicindela Nevadica Lincolniana)

Endangered Species Bulletin

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to list the Salt Creek tiger beetle (Cicindela nevadica lincolniana) as endangered under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The Salt Creek tiger beetle, a member of the family Cicindelidae, is endemic to the saline wetlands of eastern Nebraska and associated streams in the northern third of Lancaster County and southern margin of Saunders County in Nebraska, where it is found in barren salt flat and saline stream edge habitats. Of six known populations in 1991, three are now extirpated and the remaining …

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