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The Leading Object: April 2007 Apr 2007

The Leading Object: April 2007

Leading Object

Content:
Perspectives: John C. Owens
AgLEC Receives Teaching Award
UNL OEA, KUDO Recipients Announced
Statewide Arboretum Recognized
Holling Awards RecognizeSeven
UNL Alumnus Develops Writing Hobby at Age 98
Report says IANR Pays High Dividends to State
UNL OEA, KUDO Recipients
Interest in Ag Journalism Major Increases
Veterinary Program Receives Accreditation
Dairy Store Celebrates 90th Anniversary
OEA for Office/Service Staff

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What Are We Fighting For? An Analysis Of The Sociopolitical Non-Fiction Of Herbert George Wells, Jason Edward Sloan Apr 2007

What Are We Fighting For? An Analysis Of The Sociopolitical Non-Fiction Of Herbert George Wells, Jason Edward Sloan

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The legacy of H. G. Wells’ should not be limited to that of a British fiction writer. Wells advocated universal human rights and supported the engagement of broad public policy debate, and he often commented on the British government. His country had lived through World War I, the supposed “war to end all wars.” The roaring 1920’s arrived next, offering hope after World War I’s devastation. World War II was then thrust upon Britain. Wells was incensed that a thirty-year period had elapsed and, despite numerous promises by the British government, no social reform had emerged. For more than a …

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Adult Rights As The Achilles' Heel Of The Best Interests Standard: Lessons In Family Law From Across The Pond, Margaret Ryznar Apr 2007

Adult Rights As The Achilles' Heel Of The Best Interests Standard: Lessons In Family Law From Across The Pond, Margaret Ryznar

Notre Dame Law Review

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Ard News April 2007 Apr 2007

Ard News April 2007

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

Comments from the Dean
Layman Awards
Anna Elliott Proposals
Helpful Hints - USDA Grant Proposals
ARD "Service Objectives"
New or Revised Projects January and February 2007
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants January and February 2007
Grants and Contracts Received for January and February 2007

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Ecology Of Coyotes In Urban Landscapes, Stanley D. Gehrt Apr 2007

Ecology Of Coyotes In Urban Landscapes, Stanley D. Gehrt

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

Coyotes (Canis latrans) have become common in many metropolitan areas across the United States. Recent research has focused on the urban ecology of coyotes to better our understanding of how they exist in urbanized landscapes. I summarize findings from a variety of ecological studies of coyotes in or near metropolitan areas, and focus on three areas of coyote ecology: survival rates, home range/activity, and food habits. Most studies have reported relatively high survival rates (annual S = 0.62 - 0.74), with vehicle collisions often a common cause of mortality. Size of coyote home ranges (mean home range sizes …

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Suitable And Effective Coyote Control Tools For The Urban/Suburban Setting, Alan A. Huot, David L. Bergman Apr 2007

Suitable And Effective Coyote Control Tools For The Urban/Suburban Setting, Alan A. Huot, David L. Bergman

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

Increases in the incidence of human conflict with coyotes in urban/suburban environments fuel a need for suitable coyote tools and methods to reduce these conflicts. Traditional tools, such as foothold traps and snares, face continued problems of acceptability in urban/suburban situations because of public anxiety about the risks to non-targets as well as other animal welfare concerns. We review the major categories of methods and tools used to prevent or reduce urban coyote-human conflicts, including exclusion (fencing), environmental and habitat modification, capture devices (traps, snares, and related devices), and shooting. We briefly discuss future technologies current under development: fertility control, …

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Joint Force Quarterly 45 (2nd Quarter, April 2007), National Defense University Press Apr 2007

Joint Force Quarterly 45 (2nd Quarter, April 2007), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

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The Future Nuclear Landscape, Paul I. Bernstein, John P. Caves Jr., John F. Reichart Apr 2007

The Future Nuclear Landscape, Paul I. Bernstein, John P. Caves Jr., John F. Reichart

WMD Occasional Papers

In important ways, the world is at a nuclear crossroads. The complex and dynamic nuclear landscape presents us with challenges along at least four axes: regional nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, great power nuclear relations, and the security implications of increased interest in nuclear energy. These problems are interrelated in ways that the national security community does not fully understand. Strategy and policy frameworks do not address them in sufficiently integrated fashion. New conceptual thinking is required to develop a more unified understanding of and approach to managing the risks and opportunities posed by these 21st-century nuclear challenges.

Today, more than …

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Biomedical Applications Of Polypeptide Multilayer Nanofilms And Microcapsules, Jai Simha S. Rudra Apr 2007

Biomedical Applications Of Polypeptide Multilayer Nanofilms And Microcapsules, Jai Simha S. Rudra

Doctoral Dissertations

The past few years have witnessed considerable growth in synthetic polymer chemistry and physics, biomaterials science, and nano-scale engineering. Research on polypeptide multilayer films, coatings, and microcapsules is located at the intersection of these areas and are promising materials for applications in medicine, biotechnology, environmental science. Most envisioned applications of polypeptide multilayers have a biomedical bent. This dissertation on polypeptide multilayer film applications covers key points of polypeptides as materials, means of polymer production, film preparation, film characterization methods, and key points of current research in basic science. Both commercial and designed peptides have been used to fabricate films for …

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Namaste 2007 Apr 2007

Namaste 2007

Namaste: A Student Human Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

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American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 29, No. 1, Spring 2007, Scott Lyell Gardner Apr 2007

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 29, No. 1, Spring 2007, Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

An issue of the American Society of Parasitologists' quarterly newsletter, also called the Journal of Parasitology Newsletter.

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Tcl Letter Volume 7 Issue 1, Touro College Libraries Apr 2007

Tcl Letter Volume 7 Issue 1, Touro College Libraries

Yearbooks and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Food Science & Technology Alumni News, Spring 2007 Apr 2007

Food Science & Technology Alumni News, Spring 2007

Department of Food Science and Technology: Public Access Records

CONTENTS:
A message from the Department Head...
FPC Workshop Overview
Whole Foods Conference News¬
Graduates of the B.S. Program
Graduates of the M.S. Program
Graduates of the Ph.D. Program
New M.S. Graduate Students
Help Us Find New Students
Let us Know where you are now!
Development of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Food Science Extension Program
2006 Japan Trade Mission
New Staff
New Faculty
2007: The 90th Anniversary of the Dairy Store
Products Available at the Dairy Store
Research Grants
Printed Microarray Core Facility
New Aflatoxin Test at FPC Laboratory Servic¬es
Conferences and Workshops

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Interfaces, Volume 9, Issue 1 - Spring 2007 Apr 2007

Interfaces, Volume 9, Issue 1 - Spring 2007

INTERFACES: Newsletter of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience

CONTENTS
From the Director
Facility Focus: Crystallography
Recent Achievements of Center Researchers
Catalysts For Carbon Monoxide Conversion
NCMN Welcomes Li Tan
Research Spotlight: Christian Binek
LNK Chemsolutions Receives Funding

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Novel Metabolism In Chlamydomonas Through The Lens Of Genomics, Arthur R. Grossman, Martin Croft, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Sebeeha S. Merchant, Matthew C. Posewitz, Simon Prochnik, Martin H. Spalding Apr 2007

Novel Metabolism In Chlamydomonas Through The Lens Of Genomics, Arthur R. Grossman, Martin Croft, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Sebeeha S. Merchant, Matthew C. Posewitz, Simon Prochnik, Martin H. Spalding

Vadim Gladyshev Publications

Chlamydomonas has traditionally been exploited as an organism that is associated with sophisticated physiological, genetic and molecular analyses, all of which have been used to elucidate several biological processes, especially photosynthesis and flagella function and assembly. Recently, the genomics of Chlamydomonas has been combined with other technologies to unveil new aspects of metabolism, including inorganic carbon utilization, anaerobic fermentation, the suite and functions of selenoproteins, and the regulation of vitamin biosynthesis. These initial fi ndings represent the first glimpse through a genomic window onto the highly complex metabolisms that characterize a unicellular, photosynthetic eukaryote that has maintained both plant-like and …

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Assessing The Impact Of Urban Coyote On People And Pets In Austin, Travis County, Texas, Randy O. Farrar Apr 2007

Assessing The Impact Of Urban Coyote On People And Pets In Austin, Travis County, Texas, Randy O. Farrar

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

The City of Austin acquires citizen reports of coyote (Canis latrans) observations or complaints through a toll-free non-emergency 311 telephone call system. The observed coyote behavior or activity reported by constituents is categorized into one of eight behavioral categories that correlate with observed changes in coyote behavior indicating an increasing risk to human safety. The categorical data is used to formulate indices of coyote behavior for accessing and monitoring the relative risk of urban coyotes to human safety over time. Behavioral indices with respect to established management zones are used to prioritize and target areas for preventing or …

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Controlling Coyotes In An Urban Environment – Effective Evaluation Of Requests By The General Public For Control Services, Tim J. Julien Apr 2007

Controlling Coyotes In An Urban Environment – Effective Evaluation Of Requests By The General Public For Control Services, Tim J. Julien

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

(Canis latrans) in urban/suburban environments continues to increase countrywide. These incidents have created a need for a systematic means of evaluating the perceived need for control to determine first if control is necessary and would it be effective in solving the problem. Generally we have found the public is uninformed and surprised by their first sighting or encounter with coyotes. We have taken an approach that allows us to evaluate the clients concerns and enable us to make recommendations to them on possible control methods that might be effective, practical, and economically feasible for any given situation. Most …

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Operational Challenges Of Solving Urban Coyote Problems In Southern California, Dennis L. Orthmeyer, Terrance A. Cox, John W. Turman, Joe R. Bennett Apr 2007

Operational Challenges Of Solving Urban Coyote Problems In Southern California, Dennis L. Orthmeyer, Terrance A. Cox, John W. Turman, Joe R. Bennett

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

We present challenges, methodologies, and solutions related to mitigating urban coyote (Canis latrans) problems in southern California. The physical environment, the diverse urban structure (green belts and parks) with its abundant food resources which support high coyote densities, combined with the human component (behavior, urbanization, politics) create operational challenges. The increasing disconnect between humans and wildlife, coyote emigration/immigration into the increasing rural/urban interface, and coyote life cycles that occur exclusively in urban environments, all contribute to the increase in coyote-human conflicts. California’s southern counties’ human population has expanded 13% over the period from 1990-2000 and is projected to …

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Bad Dogs: Why Do Coyotes And Other Canids Become Unruly?, Robert H. Schmidt, Robert M. Timm Apr 2007

Bad Dogs: Why Do Coyotes And Other Canids Become Unruly?, Robert H. Schmidt, Robert M. Timm

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

We summarize the behavior of several species of canids (coyotes, dingoes, and gray wolves) in relation to their habituation to humans and to human food sources. Striking parallels exist between coyotes and other wild canids in terms of the inclination of individual animals to act aggressively toward humans and even attack, once they have come to associate humans with food. We describe the stages of coyotes’ behavioral adaptation to suburban ecosystems, listing 7 steps toward increasing habituation, which can be used as action thresholds for invoking active coyote management or removal efforts. We consider the hypothesis that coyotes may regard …

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A History Of Urban Coyote Problems, Robert M. Timm, Rex O. Baker Apr 2007

A History Of Urban Coyote Problems, Robert M. Timm, Rex O. Baker

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

We summarize previously published information on coyote attacks on humans in North America. This problem has developed primarily in urban and suburban areas of southern California since the early 1970s, and the frequency of attacks and other human safety incidents is increasing. Similar attacks are now known from at least 18 states in addition to California and from 4 Canadian provinces, with the majority of attacks occurring since the early 1990s. We review early explorers’ and settlers’ accounts of coyotes in the Los Angeles area, as well as development of coyote control programs during the 20th century. We also describe …

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Missing Cats, Stray Coyotes: One Citizen’S Perspective, Judith C. Webster Apr 2007

Missing Cats, Stray Coyotes: One Citizen’S Perspective, Judith C. Webster

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

The author explores the issue of urban coyotes and coyote management from a cat owner’s perspective, with specific examples from Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Following a personal encounter with two coyotes in July 2005 that led to the death of a cat, the author has delved into the history of Vancouver’s “Co-existing with Coyotes”, a government-funded program run by a nonprofit ecological society. The policy’s roots in conservation biology, the environmental movement, and the human dimensions branch of wildlife management are documented. The author contends that “Co-existing with Coyotes” puts people and pets at greater risk of attack by its inadequate …

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Structural Studies Examining The Substrate Specificity Profiles Of Pc-Plcbc Protein Variants, Aaron P. Benfield, Nina Goodey, Lauren T. Phillips, Stephen F. Martin Apr 2007

Structural Studies Examining The Substrate Specificity Profiles Of Pc-Plcbc Protein Variants, Aaron P. Benfield, Nina Goodey, Lauren T. Phillips, Stephen F. Martin

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The phosphatidylcholine preferring phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus (PC-PLCBc) catalyzes the hydrolysis of phospholipids in the following order of preference: phosphatidylcholine (PC) > phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) > phosphatidylserine (PS). In previous work, mutagenic, kinetic, and crystallographic experiments suggested that varying the amino acids at the 4th, 56th, and 66th positions had a significant influence upon the substrate specificity profile of PC-PLCBc. Here, we report the crystal structures of the native form of several PC-PLCBc variants that exhibited altered substrate specificities for PC, PE, and PS at maximum resolutions of 1.90-2.05 Å. Comparing the structures of these variants to the structure of the wild-type …

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A Case Study Of Pediatric Diarrhea At Murchison District Hospital In Port Shepstone, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, T. Smith Apr 2007

A Case Study Of Pediatric Diarrhea At Murchison District Hospital In Port Shepstone, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, T. Smith

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study investigates pediatric diarrhea in children under 5 years old at Murchison District Hospital in Port Shepstone, South Africa. Hospital Child Pip data was used to determine the number of admissions to the hospital for pediatric diarrhea and its mortality rate. Characteristics of deceased patients including age, malnutrition, and HIV status, were then synthesized with information on patients’ access to clean water and improved sanitation obtained through 20 interviews of mothers of patients as well as caregivers’ infant feeding practices and hygiene practices, such as handwashing with soap. Treatment and prevention of diarrhea was also explored. Murchison’s management of …

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Spring 2007, Nsu Oceanographic Center Apr 2007

Spring 2007, Nsu Oceanographic Center

Currents

No abstract provided.

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Stalked Crinoid Locomotion, And Its Ecological And Evolutionary Implications, Tomasz K. Baumiller, Charles G. Messing Apr 2007

Stalked Crinoid Locomotion, And Its Ecological And Evolutionary Implications, Tomasz K. Baumiller, Charles G. Messing

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

In the past two decades, much direct evidence has been gathered on active crawling by stalked crinoids, a group generally thought to be sessile. Detailed descriptions of crawling mechanics of isocrinids in aquaria revealed only exceedingly slow movements (~0.1 mm sec-1). Crawling at such speeds severely restricted the range of roles that this behavior could play in stalked crinoid biology and, consequently, in its potential impact on their ecology and evolutionary history. Here, we provide evidence collected in situ by submersible near Grand Bahama Island at a depth of 420 m for a different mode of crawling in …

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Rit Dividends Spring 2007 Apr 2007

Rit Dividends Spring 2007

RIT Digital Archives

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Civil Liberties In Wartime: The Debate Concerning Torture, Amy Jerrett, Joseph Fornieri Apr 2007

Civil Liberties In Wartime: The Debate Concerning Torture, Amy Jerrett, Joseph Fornieri

RIT Digital Archives

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Authentic Dialogue In Organizations A Dangerous Idea: Viewing The Art Of Authentic Dialogue Through The Science Of Evolutionary Psychology, Melinda Spohn Apr 2007

Authentic Dialogue In Organizations A Dangerous Idea: Viewing The Art Of Authentic Dialogue Through The Science Of Evolutionary Psychology, Melinda Spohn

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Whether verbal or displayed through body and facial expression, communication is the foundation of what it means to be human. When an infant, driven by its biological propensity for language utters its first words, it marks the start of a transformation toward human interaction. Embedded within this interaction are human emotions that elicit an array of behaviors, some more favorable than others. It is at this juncture the art of authentic dialogue, and its use in organizations, is examined.

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Accounting Footnotes, Spring 2007, Department Of Accounting Apr 2007

Accounting Footnotes, Spring 2007, Department Of Accounting

Accounting Footnotes

Newsletter of the Illinois State University Department of Accounting

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News From Hope College, Volume 38.4: April, 2007, Hope College Apr 2007

News From Hope College, Volume 38.4: April, 2007, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

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