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Plants Used For Gynecological Disorders By Tribals Of Mayurbhanj District, Orissa, India, Kambaska Kumar Behera

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

The present paper reports with 24 plant species belonging to 22 families, mostly used for various Gynecological disorders by the tribal people of Mayurbhanj district, Orissa. The tribal population of the region primarily depends upon these plants for curing of various Gynecological disorders. They are enumerated with binomial, family, vernacular name by different tribes, parts used and ethnomedicinal uses by different tribes. Further studies on chemical and pharmacological actions are suggested to validate the claims.

Farm And Home Research: 57-2, Lance Nixon, Marianne Stein

Farm and Home Research: 1999 - 2007

Contents: [Page] 3- Director’s comments [Page] 4- Applying basic research on the farm [Page] 6- Fifty years on the Northeast Farm [Page] 8- SDSU picked for national study: obesity prevention [Page] 10- Sizing odor’s footprint [Page] 12- Stealth biter [Page] 16- ‘Good News’ for wheat growers [Page] 20- 118th Annual Report

Effect Of Bacillus Thuringiensis Cry3bb1 Protein On The Feeding Behavior And Longevity Of Adult Western Corn Rootworms (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Timothy M. Nowatski, Xugou Zhou, Lance J. Meinke, Ty Vaughn, Blair Siegfried

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The first transgenic corn hybrids expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Cry3Bb1 protein to control corn rootworm (Diabrotica spp.) larvae were registered for commercial use in 2003. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of Cry3Bb1 protein in combination with a cucurbitacin bait on adult feeding and longevity of both organophosphate-resistant and -susceptible western corn rootworms, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). In choice and no-choice tests, possible repellency to the Bt protein was quantified by comparing beetle consumption of cellulose disks treated with three concentrations of Bt in combination with a feeding stimulant (Invite EC) to disks treated …

Empirical Analysis Of Cost And Returns To Commercial Table Egg Production In Lagos State., G. O. Evbuomwan

Economic and Financial Review

The paper seek to establish that commercial table egg production in Lagos State is profitable. This was based on the fact that there was an increase in the per capita income of the populace and also increase in the awareness of the health implication of intake of protein from eggs.

A Time-To-First Spike Cmos Image Sensor With Coarse Temporal Sampling, Qiang Luo, John G. Harris, Zhiliang J. Chen

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Conventional voltage-based CMOS image sensors inherently have a dynamic range of about 60 dB. To extend the dynamic range, a two-degree of freedom time-based CMOS image sensor is proposed. Instead of reading analog voltages off chip, a time representation is used to record when the photodetector voltage passes a timing-varying threshold. The time measurements are combined with the reference voltage waveform to reconstruct the image. Experimental results on a prototype 32 x 32-pixel array CMOS image sensor verify that the two-degree of freedom sampling technique is feasible for ultra-wide dynamic range imaging. A measured 115 dB dynamic range at 30 …

The Winter Season, Richard L. Knight, W. Robert Peeples, Phillip D. Casteel, Richard P. Lewis

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Report On The Photo-Identification Of Blue Whales Off Isla De Chiloé, Chile From 2004 To 2006, Elsa Cabrera, Carole A. Carlson, Bárbara Galletti Vernazzani, Robert L. Brownell Jr.

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Photo identification of individual blue whales during summer and autumn off the northwestern Isla de Chiloé, southern Chile, were collected from marine surveys conducted from 2004 to 2006. Re-sightings of individual whales both within and between years may provide evidence of residency and site fidelity by blue whales in the area. These records further document the importance of the northwestern Isla de Chiloé as a feeding area for blue whales. These records also highlight the necessity of further comparisons with photographic catalogues from other areas in southern Chile, off the northwestern coast of South America and the Pacific coast of …

A Preliminary Biological Assessment Of Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex, North Dakota, Murray K. Laubhan, Robert A. Gleason, Gregory A. Knutsen, Rachel A. Laubhan, N. H. Euliss Jr.

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

This report represents an initial biological assessment of wetland conditions on Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), Slade NWR, and Florence Lake NWR that was conducted as part of the pre-planning phase for development of a Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP). According to the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act (NWRSIA), decisions guiding NWR management should be based on the best available scientific information. Therefore, this report attempts to integrate relevant information from many different scientific disciplines (e.g., geology, hydrology, biology) to assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in identifying ecological constraints and opportunities imposed by the land …

Missouri S&T Magazine Summer 2006, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

No abstract provided.

Generativity And Successful Parenting: An Analysis Of Young Adult Outcomes, Bill E. Peterson

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Generativity scores were assessed in parents and correlated with offspring outcomes. The offspring were participants in a longitudinal study spanning their first and senior years of college. Generativity of parents was positively related to offspring agreeableness and conscientiousness. Parental generativity was also related to offspring scores on future time orientation and positive affect. In addition, generative parents seemed to model their political interests to offspring, and that modeling was related to children’s higher scores on generativity and greater interest in politics. Parental generativity was also related to offspring religiosity. Most of these relationships remained significant after controlling for offspring scores …

An Experimental Approach To Modeling The Strength Of Canine Teeth, Patricia W. Freeman, Cliff A. Lemen

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The strength of canine teeth in several carnivores is found through direct fracture experiments. The average forces required to break the canines of adult animals are coyote 1170 N, red fox 533 N, bobcat 737 N and raccoon 512 N. Stresses created in teeth at the breaking load are predicted by finite-element analysis and beam theory. The ultimate tensile stress sustainable in these teeth is 338 MPa in adult animals. The large pulp cavity in the canines of young animals significantly weakens the bases of their teeth (by about 25%), but as the animal ages the pulp cavity decreases and …

A Framework For Analysing The Microbiological Commons, Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom

Librarian Publications

In an earlier article, “Ideas, artifacts and facilities: information as a common-pool resource”, we examined the role of collective action in building robust knowledge commons and in circumventing trends of enclosure and privatisation of the intellectual public domain. Our analysis suggested that collective action and new institutional design play as large a part in shaping the collection, distribution, and preservation of scholarly information as do legal restrictions and market forces. The microbiological commons extends well beyond the boundaries of e-prints and other full-text research documents that are the focus of the open access movement. It includes the contents of scientific …

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Summer 2006), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Summer 2006 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Opening Remarks
• PCOM Updates and Kudos
• Osteopathic Philosophy at the Forefront of “New Medicine”
• Making the Professional Grade
• Annual Fund Supports Teaching Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine to the Next Generation
• Galen S. Young, Sr., DO ’35, Remembered
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• My Turn
• Andrew Taylor Still Legacy Society
• PCOM Events

Methane Production In A 100-L Upflow Bioreactor By Anaerobic Digestion Of Farm Waste, Abhijeet P. Borole, K. Thomas Klasson, Whitney Ridenour, Justin Holland, Khursheed Karim, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Manure Waste from Dairy Farms Has Been Used for Methane Production for Decades, However, Problems Such as Digester Failure Are Routine. the Problem Has Been Investigated in Small Scale (1-2 L) Digesters in the Laboratory; However, Very Little Scale-Up to Intermediate Scales Are Available. We Report Production of Methane in a 100-L Digester and the Results of an Investigation into the Effect of Partial Mixing Induced by Gas Upflow/recirculation in the Digester. the Digester Was Operated for a Period of About 70 D (With 16-D Hydraulic Retention Time) with and Without the Mixing Induced by Gas Recirculation through an Internal …

Alternatives, Adoption, And Administrative Hearings: Keys To Performing Environmental Reviews For Yucca Mountain, Tyson R. Smith

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

2006 Judges' Edition Bench Memorandum: Eighteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Erin Flanagan

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Narcissuses, Medusas, Ophelias… Water Imagery And Femininity In The Texts By Two Decadent Women Writers, Viola Parente-Capkova

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

My concern is the way in which women writers whose work can be characterized as Decadent and/or Symbolist used the figures of Narcissus, Medusa and Ophelia, as well as the imagery of femininity and water. When analyzing this aspect of their work, I am looking at the ways in which these writers created and co-created the Decadent imagery, what strategies they adopted in their representations of woman and the construction of female subjectivity.

The Ladies Of The Water: Iemanjá, Oxum, Oiá And A Living Faith, Cláudia Cerqueira Do Rosario

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The orishas Iemanjá , Oxum and Oiá are related to the forces of salt and fresh waters, and to the storms, and are objects of living worship not only in Brazil but also in parts of Africa - where they came from - and Americas. Based on their archetypal representations, this paper will be a reflection on the archetypes of the relationship woman/water and its symbolic implications, both in “sacred” and “profane” ways, still alive in contemporary culture.

Deterring Roper's Juveniles: Using A Law And Economics Approach To Show That The Logic Of Roper Implies That Juveniles Require The Death Penalty More Than Adults, Moin A. Yahya

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

In Roper v. Simmons, the United States Supreme Court declared the death penalty for juveniles unconstitutional. It relied on three reasons, one of which concerns this article, namely the theory that juveniles are less culpable and deterrable than adults. The Court relied on the American Medical Association's amicus brief, which purported to scientifically show that juveniles had less developed brains than adults. The Court characterized juveniles as being risk-lovers who highly prefer the present over the future, who love gains no matter how risky, who do not care for losses, and who cannot engage in proper cost-benefit analysis. This is …

'We Were Not Ladies': Gender, Class, And A Women’S Auxiliary’S Battle For Mining Unionism, Caroline Waldron Merithew

History Faculty Publications

“We Were Not Ladies” uses the 1930s dual union fight between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Miners to challenge the historiography on women’s auxiliaries in the United States. While most labor and women’s historians have focused on the traditional and supporting roles that non-wage-earning women played in male unions, I show a more radical side to working-class housewives’ activism. Through the Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners, coal miners’ daughters and wives recognized that conventional gender roles could neither gain them political and economic power in their communities, nor could these roles encompass their evolving political …

Allowing Girls To Hold Up Half The Sky: Combining Norm Promotion And Economic Incentives To Combat Daughter Discrimination In China, Lesley Wexler

Chicago Journal of International Law

In the 1990s and 2000s, the People's Republic of China ("PRC") has undertaken a sustained effort to reform the family planning program. These reforms include: (1) rectification, which combats coercion in enforcement and misappropriation of funds; (2) normalization, which focuses on sex selective abortions and the distorted sex ratio; and (3) incentivization, which provides monetary and other benefits for those in compliance with birth goals. Yet these reforms have not been accompanied by strong enforcement mechanisms or a decline in the sex birth ratio. Thus, this Article aims to develop some supplemental proposals to help ameliorate daughter discrimination.

Reproductive Behavior Of The Yellow-Crowned Parrot (Amazona Ochrocephala) In Western Panama, Angélica M. Rodríguez Castillo, Jessica R. Eberhard

Faculty Publications

We studied the breeding biology of the Panamanian subspecies of the Yellow-crowned Parrot, Amazona ochrocephala panamensis, during 1997-1999 in the province of Chiriquí, Panama, to provide basic information regarding the breeding behavior and reproductive success of these parrots in their natural habitat. We recorded parrot behaviors throughout the reproductive period, monitored nest success, and characterized occupied and non-occupied tree cavities. All breeding attempts involved a male-female pair. Clutch size ranged from 2 to 4 eggs, which were incubated only by the female, beginning when the first egg was laid. Incubation averaged 25 days and the eggs hatched asynchronously. During the …

Water Quality And The Landscape: Long-Term Monitoring Of Rapidly Developing Suburban Watersheds, New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center (Nh Wrrc)

NH Water Resources Research Center Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Rar Especies Advantage Against Herbivory Among Epiphyte Peperomia Spp. (Piperaceae), June 2006, Nichole Tiernan

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Herbivory is often a greater problem for tropical plants than for temperate plants. With higher herbivore pressures, tropical plants have more defense mechanisms than temperate plants. This drives host specialization and helps to explain why the tropics are so diverse. One premise that attempts to explain how the tropics can be so diverse is the rare species advantage. Two theories that help to explain the rare species advantage are those of density dependence and frequency dependence. The purpose of this study is to see if there is density or frequency dependent herbivory in species of the epiphytic genus Peperomia. By …

Community Composition Of Frugivorous Butterflies In A Neotropical Land Mosaic, June 2006, Emily Heim

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

It is important to consider land transformation and its effects on species abundance, richness, and diversity. Frugivorous Nymphalid butterflies, baited using fruit-traps, were used to assess trends in diversity for a mosaic of three habitat types (forest, edge, and pasture) in a premontane wet Costa Rican landscape. Results showed more species in the pasture habitat, but a higher richness, evenness, and diversity in the forest habitat. Integration of conservation areas in the expanding array of human-impacted landscapes is necessary to best maintain regional biodiversity in the long term.

Foraging Behavior And Diet Preference Of Dasyprocta Punctata, June 2006, Lauren Eberhart

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This study analyzed the foraging behaviors and diet preference of the agouties (Dasyprocta punctata) in Monteverde, Costa Rica. The Optimal Foraging Theory explains animal behaviors in terms of maximum efficiency; animals forage in a manner that is optimal to their fitness (Alcock 2005). D. punctata was expected to choose the fruit over seed because fruits would provide more energy for the time spent foraging and, therefore, maximize foraging efficiency. Also, D. punctata have been found to eat fruit when the supply is abundant (Smythe 1978). Syzygium malaccense was used to test whether entire fruits were preferred over naked seeds. A …

Hummingbirds And Pollen Flow In A Neotropical Agricultural Mosaic, June 2006, Amy Strieter

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Land transformation in the Tropics leads to greater landscape and forest fragmentation, creating land use mosaics. Some species adjust to new habitats while others go extinct. Adaptability is more complicated, however, when a species is involved in a mutualistic relationship. If host plants are spatially isolated, their pollinators may or may not be able to continue linking that subpopulation to the metapopulation; the pollinator population in turn may suffer due to decreased food supply, habitat, etc. This study examines hummingbird responses to a tropical agricultural/forest mosaic and tracks artificial pollen flow between feeders in different habitats. Hummingbird presence was monitored …

Permaculture Garden Design For The Cloud Forest School-The Centro De Educación Creativa, June 2006, Lauren Fifield

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This is a proposal for the creation of a permaculture garden at the Cloud Forest School- Centro de Educación Creativa (CFS-CEC), in Monteverde, Costa Rica. This garden will be used for food production, but will also be used for educational purposes. Permaculture gardens teach students how to live with nature. They are able to produce food for themselves in a way that uses the least amount of land as possible, thus leaving this land for forest species. The garden provides various teaching tools such as native species, gap area, gardening techniques, mimicry complexes as well attracts various species. It will …

Testing The Unified Neutral Theory Using The Epiphylls Of Geonoma Spp. (Arecaceae) As Model Communities, June 2006, Caroline Farrior

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This experiment tests the predictions of the Unified Neutral Theory of Ecology (Hubbell 2001) using epiphylls on leaves of the palm tree Geonoma spp. Arecaceae) as local communities. The metacommunity is defined as the collection of leaves of one palm tree. The UNT assumes all species to be competitively equivalent and population sizes to remain constant overtime. It also asserts that community drift is strong and that for diversity to exist there must be factors that slow its progress. The UNT predicts that increases in connectivity of the metacommunity, community area, population size of local and metacommunities, as well as …

Sequestration And Release Of Nutrients From Mist By Epiphytic Mosses And Orchids, June 2006, Lauren Bennett

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Epiphytes sequester required nutrients and moisture from mist; the remaining moisture is then released as throughfall for other organisms. I proposed that there were differences between types of cloud forest epiphytes in the amounts of nutrients that they sequester. Using mist collectors filled with three different types of epiphytes (mosses, orchids without pseudobulbs Pleurothallis ruscifolia, and orchids with pseudobulbs Encyclia pseudopygmaea) and a control (empty) mist collector, I compared concentration of mist that passed through the control collector and three epiphyte groups throughfall of volume, nitrate concentration, phosphate concentration and pH level. I found no significant difference in the volume, …