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Testing Of A Portion Of Site 41wn104 In Advance Of Proposed Improvements To Jackson Nature Park, Stockdale, Wilson County, Texas, Antonia L. Figueroa

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

On July 25, 2006 the Center for Archaeological Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio conducted archaeological testing on portions of 41WN104 located in the Jackson Nature Park in Wilson County, Texas. The archaeological work, performed for the Office of the Wilson County Judge, was conducted on portions of 41WN104 that will be impacted by park improvements. The proposed improvements for the Jackson Nature Park will consist of the construction of a pavilion, a headquarters building and the addition of a septic tank. The three planned facilities will be connected with water and utilities lines. The construction of …

The Cattle Industry's Guidelines For The Care And Handling Of Cattle

Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance Program

Cattlemen have long recognized the need to properly care for livestock. Sound animal husbandry practices, based on decades of practical experience and research, are known to impact the wellbeing of cattle, individual animal health and herd productivity. Cattle are produced in very diverse environments and geographic locations in the United States. There is not one specific set of production practices that can be recommended for all cattle producers. Personal experience, training and professional judgment can serve as a valuable resource for providing proper animal care.

Reproductive Delay In The Female Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus Inauris), Beth Pettitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Cape ground squirrel, Xerus inauris, is a highly social cooperative breeder that forms groups containing multiple breeding females. While the distribution of reproduction among group members is fairly even (i.e. exhibits low reproductive skew), previous studies of Cape ground squirrels suggest the reproductive development of sub-adult females is inhibited by the presence of adult breeding female group mates. As reproductive delay is known to be influenced by a number of different parameters, my goal was to determine if other factors affected the timing of sexual maturity, and if so, which factors are the most influential. In this study, I …

Monitoring A Potentially Stressful Situation In Captive Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla) Through Analysis Of Behavior And Urinary Cortisol, Douglas Skurski

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The concept of quantifying animal welfare has received much discussion, in various industries such as agriculture, laboratory, and zoological facilities. Behavioral, physical, and physiological indicators of welfare have previously been used to assess animal welfare; each having advantages and disadvantages, ranging from the practicality of data collection, to the validity of the data and how it is interpreted. Concurrent assessment of multiple measures is a more robust way to examine animal welfare, which utilizes the advantages of each measure, and provides additional information on which to base conclusions and animal care management decisions. This study used measures of behavior and …

When Your Income Drops, Liz Gorham

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

Income loss is traumatic, whether it’s your entire family income or a second income and no matter how it happens—a bad year in your business or farm/ranch operation, company layoffs, downsizing, divorce, illness, or death. Take heart; there are immediate and positive steps to take. You can get back on top. Right now you need to cut back on spending and develop a spending plan to help you pay your bills. If your income will be affected for more than a month, adjust your spending habits to maintain control of family finances over an extended period of time. Financial affairs …

Dairy Digest 2006, South Dakota State University Dairy Club

Dairy Digest

No abstract provided.

Cold Stress And Newborn Calves, Lanette Butler, Russ Daly, Cody Wright

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Calf survival in northern climates can be a challenge. Death losses after birth may be due to one or more of several factors including infectious agents, dystocia, genetic abnormalities, and environmental stress.2 Cow nutrition also influences calf survivability2,3,7 as well as the timing and type of colostrum intake.8 These factors, whether singular events or in combination, dramatically impact calf survival.

Using Ddgs In Mixed Lamb Diets, Jeff Held

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Dried Distiller Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a palatable feed ingredient for growing/finishing lamb diets, serving as the supplemental protein source. This co-product from the ethanol production industry has a crude protein content of approximately 30% and its physical form is a meal. With the growth of the ethanol industry in the Midwest there is greater local access to DDGS. This has prompted more sheep producers to explore the use of this feed ingredient to lower production costs in lamb finishing enterprises. Sheep research feeding trials have been conducted at SDSU to provide information requested by producers.

Distillers Grains For Dairy Cattle, D. J. Schingoethe, K. F. Kalscheur, A. D. Garcia

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Feeding distillers grains is nothing new; such products have been fed to cattle for more than a century. What is new, however, are the many ethanol plants now in the upper Midwest and the increased interest in feeding their co-product, distillers grains. This report is an overview of the nutritional value of distillers grains and gives some guidelines for feeding.

Acute Interstitial Pneumonia (Aip)* In Range Cattle, Cooperative Extension Service

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

AIP is an acute respiratory disease of range cattle that occurs following movement from poor pasture to lush pasture/forage. Yearlings are less susceptible than mature cows, and calves are almost never affected. It appears that sheep (and horses) are not susceptible or are much less susceptible to AIP. The disease occurs within 10 days of movement to improved forage. Pastures of any sort (grass or legume) as well as annual crops (corn, sudan grass, etc.) can support AIP. AIP also can be seen when animals preferentially graze lush growth in lowland meadows or water discharge areas, even if the remainder …

Mcs: Strategies For Individuals, Linda L. Nussbaumer

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

There are several strategies that can be adopted so that you can return to normal health as soon as possible if you have MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

2006 South Dakota Beef Report, Department Of Animal And Range Sciences, South Dakota State University, Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State University, Cooperative Extension Service, South Dakota State University

South Dakota Beef Report, 2006

This is the 2006 South Dakota Beef Report. The articles published in this report summarize many of the beef cattle research activities conducted at South Dakota State University during 2006. The articles in this report have many levels of application. Some information has immediate application for your farm, ranch, or agribusiness. The articles include information on nutrition, feed management, reproductive management, health, growth and development, and economics of the cattle and beef industry in South Dakota.

Renal Dysfunction, Cardiovascular Risk, And The Response To Ace Inhibition In Patients After Myocardial Infarction, Powell Oliapuram Jose

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Background: Proteinuria is a known cardiovascular risk factor in hypertensive or diabetic patients as well as the general population. Worsening renal function (WRF) has been shown to influence outcomes in the heart failure population. The prognostic value of these markers for renal dysfunction in patients after myocardial infarction is unclear. Methods: The Survival and Ventricular Enlargement trial (SAVE) randomized 2231 patients with left ventricular dysfunction between 3-16 days (average 11 days) post-MI to receive captopril or placebo; those with a serum creatinine above 2.5mg/dl were excluded from SAVE. WRF was defined as an increase in creatinine greater-than 0.3mg/dl measured from …

Physical-Biological Interactions And Their Effect On Phytoplankton Blooms In Fjords And Near-Coastal Waters, Lars Erik Holmedal, Torbjørn Utnes

Journal of Marine Research

A one-dimensional flow model which accounts for turbulence and stratification in the upper ocean has been applied in conjunction with a one-dimensional production-advection-diffusion model to predict the initial evolution of the phytoplankton biomass concentration under given biological and physical conditions. Here the stratification is caused by the salinity which is modeled by a one-dimensional diffusion equation; the density is related to the salinity by a linear relation (state equation). The resulting one-dimensional model has been applied to investigate how local physical conditions affect the initiation of phytoplankton blooms in nutrition rich waters characterized by wind driven currents and salinity stratification. …

Differential Fates Of Emiliania Huxleyi-Derived Fatty Acids And Alkenones In Coastal Marine Sediments: Effects Of The Benthic Crustacean Palaemonetes Pugio, Haibing Ding, Ming-Yi Sun

Journal of Marine Research

In order to examine how benthic crustaceans affect the fates of phytoplankton-derived lipid biomarkers (fatty acids and alkenones) in coastal marine sediments, we incubated Emiliania huxleyi cells in microcosms (pre-sieved sediment cores with and without the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio ) over six weeks. Crustacean, transport of surface sediments, and distributions of algal lipids were followed during incubations. Crustacean activities enhanced degradation of algal fatty acids (2–4× faster) but had a small impact on algal alkenone degradation (<1.4×) compared to the controls. During the first few days of incubations, alkenone concentrations were enriched while algal fatty acid concentrations were depleted in suspended particles in the overlying water of cores, indicating that P. pugio selectively grazed algal material from sediments and preferentially assimilated fatty acids over alkenones through digestion. Unlike algal fatty acids, alkenones …

The Sdsu Collegian September 2005- May 2006 Index, Lisa Lindell

Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications

This index provides subject access to the South Dakota State University Collegian. Included are all articles written by the newspaper staff as well as wire-service news stories. Excluded are brief announcements and notices. This index covers September 2005 to May 2006. Although this is a computer-assisted index, subject headings are not automatically assigned from key words in headlines. Whenever the headline words do not accurately reflect the content of the article, appropriate subject headings are assigned. Names of the editor, columnists, and staff writers on the opinion page are included in subject headings. Excluded are names of those writing letters …

Gender Differences In Carbohydrate Metabolism And Carbohydrate Loading, J. A. Wismann, D. Willoughby

Pharmacy

No abstract provided.

The People's Agent: Executive Branch Secrecy And Accountability In An Age Of Terrorism, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor

Faculty Scholarship

The increase in government secrecy is an important and troubling policy trend. Although the trend predates the 2000 presidential election, the movement towards government secrecy has accelerated dramatically in the Bush Administration. The case for open government is usually based on political principles embraced by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. This article seeks to bolster these arguments by applying “agency theory” to the question of how much secrecy is too much. While agency theory is most often used to analyze private sector economic relationships, commentators have also applied it to the analysis of methods for holding legislators and Executive …

Enhancing Human Security: U.S. Policies And Their Health Impact On Women In Sub-Saharan Africa, Tamera Fillinger

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Boise State University 2006-2007: Undergraduate Catalog, Boise State University

University Catalogs

No abstract provided.

2006 Women Making History Booklet, Women's History Center, Boise State University

Women Making History

By walking history's pathways, we learn to step forward with confidence. The legacy of how others shaped society sparks our own longings to contribute. Everyone needs role models—footsteps enough like our own to inspire us.

Annual Report (2006): Learn About Our Pledge To You, Lehigh Valley Health Network

LVHN Annual & Statistical Reports

No abstract provided.

Division Of Research And Economic Development Annual Report For Fy2006, Uri Division Of Research And Economic Development

Reports (Research and Economic Development)

Annual report for the Division of Research and Economic Development of the University of Rhode Island for the year 2005-2006.

Includes statistics of project proposals, expenditures, URI Foundation Awards, previous annual report summaries and awards received by individual academic and administrative departments.

Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome In Adult Patients With Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections Due To Enterococci, Katharine Bar, Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Richard P. Wenzel, Gonzalo M. L. Bearman, Michael B. Edmond

Internal Medicine Publications

Background Enterococci are the third leading cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection (BSI). Vancomycin resistant enterococci are common and provide treatment challenges; however questions remain about VRE's pathogenicity and its direct clinical impact. This study analyzed the inflammatory response of Enterococcal BSI, contrasting infections from vancomycin-resistant and vancomycin-susceptible isolates.

Methods We performed a historical cohort study on 50 adults with enterococcal BSI to evaluate the associated systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and mortality. We examined SIRS scores 2 days prior through 14 days after the first positive blood culture. Vancomycin resistant (n = 17) and susceptible infections (n = 33) were …

Brain Health: Mending The Mind After Age 50, Susan Hardwicke

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Increase understanding of brain function and its potential to improve with age.

2. Describe an application of neuroscience, cognitive training, and nutrition for solving a problem associated with aging.

3. Evaluate neural plasticity with aging.

Town Of Nottingham 2005 Town Report., Nottingham Town Representatives

Nottingham, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Arbeitspflicht In Postwar Vienna: Punishing Nazis Vs. Expediting Reconstruction, 1945-48, Matthew P. Berg

History

No abstract provided.

Review Of Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man And Animal, Trans. Kevin Attell., Anat Pick

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal, trans. Kevin Attell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 120 pp. ISBN 0804747377.

Royal Caribbean (Alternate), Royal Caribbean International

The Marilyn B. Feingold Menu Collection

No abstract provided.

Royal Caribbean (Lunch Alternate), Royal Caribbean International

The Marilyn B. Feingold Menu Collection

No abstract provided.