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Nitrapyrin (N-Serve) With Anhydrous Ammonia At/Near Corn Planting, John H. Grove

Agronomy Notes

Higher prices for energy are driving corn fertilizer nitrogen (N) prices higher as well. This increases interest in alternative management practices and products that optimize corn’s N nutrition, but maintain grower profit. Alternatives permitting fertilizer N rate reductions include: a) changes in N application timing and placement; b) using alternative sources of N (ex. poultry litter) to meet part of corn’s N need; and c) using fertilizer N additives that improve N use efficiency by inhibiting one or more N loss processes in the soil N cycle (biological N transformations).

Population Briefs, Vol. 12, No. 3, Population Council

Population Briefs

IN THIS ISSUE: Council study clarifies states of vulnerable populations after Pakistan earthquake | Partner-delivered therapy viable in resource-poor areas | Illuminating the status of Mayan girls in Guatemala | CDB-2914 may be an effective fibroid treatment

The Absolute Prohibition Of Torture And Ill-Treatment, David Weissbrodt

Articles

The President, the Secretary of State, and other U.S. government officials have repeatedly assured the world that the United States does not engage in "torture." Whenever they try to issue such statements, the critical listener must ask such questions as "What do they mean by torture?" Have they so narrowly defined "torture" as to ask the listener to overlook the mounting evidence of extremely brutal treatment which U.S. personnel have perpetrated against detainees in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Iraq, and other secret detention facilities? Many detainees held by the U.S. have been subjected to illtreatment that would, under international definitions and jurisprudence, …

A Law And Economics Perspective On Terrorism, Francesco Parisi, Nuno Garoupa, Jonathan Klick

Articles

This paper reviews the existing law and economics literature on crime, noting where various models might apply to the terror context. Specifically, it focuses on two strands of the literature, deterrence and incapacitation. It considers anti-terror measures enacted by different countries, highlighting how the details of the laws correspond to the insights from economic models of crime. In conclusion, the paper proposes an efficient sorting mechanism in which individuals will be provided with incentives to reveal their type to law enforcement authorities.

Biblical Biopolitics: Judicial Process, Religious Rhetoric, Terri Schiavo And Beyond, Joshua E. Perry

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Genetically Modified Organisms In Food: A Model Of Labeling And Monitoring With Positive Implications For International Trade, Debra M. Strauss

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Tendencies Of The Jewel Wasp, Nasonia Vitripennis, Jessica M. Nicholson

Honors Capstones

Two main areas of focus were examined in three experiments: the effects of mating status on male activity and the effects of crowding on female activity in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. The first experiment dealt with wing dispersal among lone versus crowded females. Competition appeared to make the females more likely to wing-disperse than when the female was alone. The second experiment dealt with the locomotor activity of lone versus crowded females. Competition appeared to cause females to be more active when with another female than when alone. The final experiment dealt with the locomotor activity of mated versus …

Graduate Bulletin 2006-2007, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2006-2007

Politics Of Environmentalism And Ecological Knowledge At The Intersection Of Local And Global Processes, Katja Neves-Graça

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This article scrutinizes the intersection of globalized and localized environmentalism in Lajes do Pico, Azores, Portugal, at the historical juncture when whale-watching superseded whale hunting in this village. In so doing, the article explains how localized environmentalism—including the ecological knowledges and practices of local inhabitants —was reproduced, learned, and transformed within the context of globalized environmental concerns, and vice versa. Using ethnographic materials I collected in Lajes do Pico between 1998 and 2000, I suggest that, rather than constituting two clearly distinct types of knowledge, through comparison and dialogical articulation local and scientific knowledge are typically locked in a process …

Measuring The Costs And Benefits Of Conservation To Local Communities, Jim Igoe

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Evolutionary Universal Aesthetics In Ecological Rationality, Mimi E. Lam, Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

We contend that individual reactions to universal aesthetics were critical in adapting human brain structure and evolutionary cognition. Emotional responses to aesthetics and reflexive judgments by prehistoric people may have evolved an ecological rationality with intimate pragmatics of survival. In North American Pacific Northwest ecosystems, complex indigenous societies flourished for millennia, developing strategies that allowed them to co-adapt with locally varying, productive landscapes. They evolved ‘societal phenotypes’ based on cultural belief systems fostering ecosystem balance. Their detailed contemplation and experience of natural phenomena, including other organisms’ behaviors, were formalized as traditional ecological knowledge. For example, pre-contact Pacific Northwest societies co-evolved …

Growth Pressures On Sensitive Natural Areas, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Studies

This report examines projected growth and its threat to remaining sensitive natural areas in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ 17-county central region.

Growth Pressures On Sensitive Natural Areas Part I, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Studies

Report

Annual Report, Public Services Department, 2005-2006, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the academic year 2005-2006 for public services activities at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Revisiting The Legal Link Between Genetics And Crime, Deborah W. Denno

Faculty Scholarship

Unwarranted constraints on the admissibility of genetics evidence in death penalty cases can undercut some defendants' efforts to fight their executions. For example, genetics evidence can help validate some traditionally accepted mitigating factors (such as certain psychiatric or behavioral disorders) that can otherwise be difficult for defendants to prove. By imposing unreasonable limitations on genetics arguments, the criminal justice system may be undermining the very principles and progressive thinking the cap on genetics evidence was originally intended to achieve. Part II of this article briefly reviews the facts and legal arguments in Mobley v. State. Part III addresses the primary …

Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute

Research and Training Center - Focal Point

This issue of Focal Point discusses how social support can be harnessed to improve children's mental health. Articles in this issue define and recommend various methods of establishing and improving social support among families, mentors, and peers. Types of support examined include family–to–family support, wraparound, peer support, and natural support.

Rna Viral Community In Human Feces: Prevalence Of Plant Pathogenic Viruses, Tao Zhang, Mya Breitbart, Wah Heng Lee, Jin-Quan Run, Chia Lin Wei, Shirlena Wee Ling Soh, Martin Hibberd, Edison Liu, Forest Rohwer, Yijun Ruan

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The human gut is known to be a reservoir of a wide variety of microbes, including viruses. Many RNA viruses are known to be associated with gastroenteritis; however, the enteric RNA viral community present in healthy humans has not been described. Here, we present a comparative metagenomic analysis of the RNA viruses found in three fecal samples from two healthy human individuals. For this study, uncultured viruses were concentrated by tangential flow filtration, and viral RNA was extracted and cloned into shotgun viral cDNA libraries for sequencing analysis. The vast majority of the 36,769 viral sequences obtained were similar to …

Fastgroupii: A Web-Based Bioinformatics Platform For Analyses Of Large 16s Rdna Libraries, Yanan Yu, Mya Breitbart, Pat Mcnairnie, Forest Rohwer

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Background: High-throughput sequencing makes it possible to rapidly obtain thousands of 16S rDNA sequences from environmental samples. Bioinformatic tools for the analyses of large 16S rDNA sequence databases are needed to comprehensively describe and compare these datasets.

Results: FastGroupII is a web-based bioinformatics platform to dereplicate large 16S rDNA libraries. FastGroupII provides users with the option of four different dereplication methods, performs rarefaction analysis, and automatically calculates the Shannon-Wiener Index and Chao1. FastGroupII was tested on a set of 16S rDNA sequences from coral-associated Bacteria. The different grouping algorithms produced similar, but not identical, results. This suggests that 16S …

Hurricanes, Submarine Groundwater Discharge, And Florida's Red Tides, Chuanmin Hu, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Peter W. Swarzenski

Marine Science Faculty Publications

A Karenia brevis Harmful Algal Bloom affected coastal waters shallower than 50 m off west-central Florida from January 2005 through January 2006, showing a sustained anomaly of ∼1 mg chlorophyll m⁻³ over an area of up to 67,500 km². Red tides occur in the same area (approximately 26–29°N, 82–83°W) almost every year, but the intense 2005 bloom led to a widespread hypoxic zone (dissolved oxygen <2 mg L⁻¹) that caused mortalities of benthic communities, fish, turtles, birds, and marine mammals. Runoff alone provided insufficient nitrogen to support this bloom. We pose the hypothesis that submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) …

Covers, Ornitología Neotropical

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

Covers, Ornitología Neotropical

Ornitología Neotropical

No abstract provided.

List Of Authors, Studies In Avian Biology

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Foreword: Putting Studies Of North American Goshawks In Context, Robert E. Kenward

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Demography Of Northern Goshawks In Northern Arizona, 1991-1996, Richard T. Reynolds, Suzanne M. Joy

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Northern Goshawk Ecology: An Assessment Of Current Knowledge And Information Needs For Conservation And Management, John R. Squires, Patricia L. Kennedy

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Ecology And Habitat Of Breeding Northern Goshawks In The Inland Pacific Northwest: A Summary Of Research In The 1990s, Stephen Destefano, Michael T. Mcgrath, Sonya K. Daw, Steven M. Desimone

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Prey And Weather Factors Associate With Temporal Variation In Northern Goshawk Reproduction In The Sierra Nevada, California, John J. Keane, Michael L. Morrison, D. Michael Fry

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Occupancy, Productivity, Turnover, And Dispersal Of Northern Goshawks In Portions Of The Northeastern Great Basin, Marc J. Bechard, Graham D. Fairhurst, Gregory S. Kaltenecker

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Ecology Of The Northern Goshawk In The New York-New Jersey Highlands, Thomas Bosakowski, Dwight G. Smith

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Goshawks In Canada: Population Responses To Harvesting And The Appropriateness Of Using Standard Bird Monitoring Techniques To Assess Their Status, Frank I. Doyle

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.