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Structural Changes And Neighborhood Homicide Trends In St. Louis, Missouri, 1980 - 2000: A Multi-Level And Spatial Analysis, Robert Jason Fornango Dec 2007

Structural Changes And Neighborhood Homicide Trends In St. Louis, Missouri, 1980 - 2000: A Multi-Level And Spatial Analysis, Robert Jason Fornango

Dissertations

Social scientists have long observed strong correlations between social structure and violent crime rates at the neighborhood level. Yet little is known about the relationship between changes in social structure and violent crime trends. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of crime trends has received little attention in the literature. The dissertation explores the trajectories and spatial dynamics of neighborhood homicide rates and social structure in St. Louis, Missouri between 1980 and 2000. Multilevel growth curve models are used to describe the nature of, and variation in, census tract homicide trajectories as functions of structural characteristics and changes in those features. Exploratory …

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Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11, Darren Johnson Dec 2007

Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11, Darren Johnson

Southampton Announcements and News

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Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11 | This Week At Stony Brook Southampton/In The News, Darren Johnson Dec 2007

Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11 | This Week At Stony Brook Southampton/In The News, Darren Johnson

Southampton Announcements and News

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Perceptions Of Dyspnea, Physical Activity, And Functional Status In Obese Women, Donna Althea Jewell Dec 2007

Perceptions Of Dyspnea, Physical Activity, And Functional Status In Obese Women, Donna Althea Jewell

Dissertations

PURPOSE: King's Theory of Goal Attainment guided this study exploring the physical sensation of dyspnea that obese women feel and how it affects their functioning. BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE: Obesity prevalence has doubled since 1980. Current research is investigating how to reduce prevalence and examining obesity's impact on the respiratory system. Little research was found that investigated the impact obesity has on routine activities because of dyspena and function and whether physical activity has a mitigating effect. METHODS: A comparative descriptive research design was used. A survey of dyspnea felt during routine activities was created; IRB approval to survey community-dwelling women …

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Basketball Marketing V. Fx Digital Media Inc Dec 2007

Basketball Marketing V. Fx Digital Media Inc

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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School Commitment And Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role Of Race And Ethnicity, Tamela Mcnulty Eitle, David James Eitle Dec 2007

School Commitment And Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role Of Race And Ethnicity, Tamela Mcnulty Eitle, David James Eitle

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Research indicates that lower levels of school commitment may be one potential outcome of policy initiatives such as high-stakes testing and exit exams. Such outcomes may lead these policy initiatives to have unintended consequences for students, particularly racial or ethnic minority students. This study examines whether race of ethnicity moderate the relationship between school commitment and alcohol use or binge drinking among a sample of Florida public middle and high-school students who were surveyed as part of the 2002 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey. Low school commitment was found to be associated with a greater likelihood of alcohol use in …

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Ceas E-News 12.11.2007, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences Dec 2007

Ceas E-News 12.11.2007, College Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences News

Winners of 2007 Spring AutoCAD Contest honored in fall lecture class

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How On Earth Can We Live Together? In Search Of The Common Sense, N.A. Dec 2007

How On Earth Can We Live Together? In Search Of The Common Sense, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Beginning on June 26, 2008 the Tällberg Forum will gather leaders and thinkers from seventy nations for four days of conversations and workshops related to the opportunities and chal- lenges of global interdependence. Tällberg conversations have increasingly focused on the sys- tems problems emerging from the growing imbalance between nature and human activity. Can we design, govern and manage the sustainable interaction between natural systems and the systems of human activity? Can we negotiate among ourselves the resolution of the planetary crisis? Can we find better ways to integrate the work of governments and institutions with the actions of other …

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State Income Tax Deduction For Dietary Supplements And Certain Foods. Statute. Dec 2007

State Income Tax Deduction For Dietary Supplements And Certain Foods. Statute.

Initiatives

Allows medical expense deductions on state income tax returns for costs of dietary supplements and food for special dietary needs. Dietary supplements include tablets, capsules, powder, and measured doses of liquid that contain vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, or dietary substances, but do not include conventional food products. Foods for special dietary needs are those consumed due to a medical condition, for supplementing the diet, or as the sole item of the diet. Medical condition includes disease, pregnancy, lactation, infancy, food allergy, overweight and underweight. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state …

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Staff Senate Minutes, 2007 December 11, Clemson University Dec 2007

Staff Senate Minutes, 2007 December 11, Clemson University

Staff Senate Minutes

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 11, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2007

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 11, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Tylwalk V. Prudential Ins Co Dec 2007

Tylwalk V. Prudential Ins Co

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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Wang V. Atty Gen Usa Dec 2007

Wang V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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Budiman V. Atty Gen Usa Dec 2007

Budiman V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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Usa V. Watson Dec 2007

Usa V. Watson

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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Unh Mathematician Nominated For Grammy Award, Michelle Gregoire Dec 2007

Unh Mathematician Nominated For Grammy Award, Michelle Gregoire

Media Relations

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Leadership Competencies In Today's Complex Healthcare Environment, Judy Moseley Dec 2007

Leadership Competencies In Today's Complex Healthcare Environment, Judy Moseley

Theses and Graduate Projects

The increasingly diverse, multicultural population in the United States is offering significant challenges to nurses to provide culturally competent care. If the provision of the best possible care for all patients is the goal, nurse leaders must have the expertise and skill to lead staff through the complex problems of organizations. Nurses must possess the ability to generate solutions consistent with the organization's mission and with sensitivity to the needs of a diverse patient population. Through the interconnected processes of teaching and practice, an innovative Master of Arts in Nursing program that emphasizes transcultural nursing practice experience for leaders was …

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The Impacts Of The U.S. Corn/Ethanol Policy On The U.S. Cattle Industry, Andrew Gottschalk Dec 2007

The Impacts Of The U.S. Corn/Ethanol Policy On The U.S. Cattle Industry, Andrew Gottschalk

Range Beef Cow Symposium

The oil shock in the early 1970’s initiated government support for the ethanol industry. Initially, Federal support was primarily in the form of fuel tax exemptions that gave gasoline blenders incentives to blend ethanol with their gasoline blends. As world oil prices began to rise in 2002, governmental support for ethanol began to rise, as did popular demand and industry production. Simultaneously, fear grew amongst gasoline blenders regarding any liability for MTBE pollution. A growing number of studies have detected MTBE in ground water throughout the country. Even low levels of MTBE can make drinking water supplies undrinkable due to …

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Small Wind Systems For The Ranch, Home And Business, Antony B. Frank Dec 2007

Small Wind Systems For The Ranch, Home And Business, Antony B. Frank

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Small wind electric turbines intended to serve a ranch, home or business – given the right combination of a good wind resource, favorable utility policies, incentives and relatively high electric costs – are an economically feasible option for many in our region.

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Improving Human Health With Beef Products, Marilynn Schnepf Dec 2007

Improving Human Health With Beef Products, Marilynn Schnepf

Range Beef Cow Symposium

The optimum diet for humans has been the subject of much debate ever since it was discovered in the nineteenth century that certain nutrients in food were essential for human health. Nutrition science is a relatively young science with new information being presented about the role that foods and the nutrients they contain play in human health. The connection between the foods we eat and overall health is becoming more evident. The role that meat and specifically beef plays in our diets continues to be a topic of interest among the public as well as nutrition researchers. The purpose of …

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Country Natural Beef….”An Idea To Be Constantly Examined”, Doc Hatfield, Connie Hatfield Dec 2007

Country Natural Beef….”An Idea To Be Constantly Examined”, Doc Hatfield, Connie Hatfield

Range Beef Cow Symposium

That “idea” is now imbedded in a cooperative with over 100 family ranch’s plus a number of prospective member ranches who together own more than 100,000 mother cows and operate on well over 4 million acres of rangeland. The cooperative which started marketing in 1986 with 35 head per week will in fiscal year 2007 market over 50,000 head of cattle as boxed beef primals, hamburger and hot dogs.

A working partnership with Beef Northwest Feeders in Boardman, OR and ABFoods (formerly Washington Beef) at Toppenish WA allows individual ranchers to maintain ownership and control of our cattle as boxed …

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Colorado Homestead Ranches – Our Success Story: How Do We Sell Branded Beef Direct To The Consumer, Robbie Baird Levalley, Dawn D. Thilmany, Dale Dexter, Jim Ayer, Susan Ayer, Karl And Joetta Burns, Jess, Lynda, Calvin, Tracy, And Chad Campbell, Steve And Wendy Kossler, Mark, Hank, And Robbie Levalley, Mark And Jody Roeber, Norm And Susan Smith Dec 2007

Colorado Homestead Ranches – Our Success Story: How Do We Sell Branded Beef Direct To The Consumer, Robbie Baird Levalley, Dawn D. Thilmany, Dale Dexter, Jim Ayer, Susan Ayer, Karl And Joetta Burns, Jess, Lynda, Calvin, Tracy, And Chad Campbell, Steve And Wendy Kossler, Mark, Hank, And Robbie Levalley, Mark And Jody Roeber, Norm And Susan Smith

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Colorado Homestead Ranches (CHR) markets natural beef, pork and lamb direct to Western Slope consumers. CHR is a partnership of six ranches that own their own USDA packing plant, a wildgame processing facility, and two storefronts. CHR markets direct to consumers via retail and farmers markets, restaurants, and wholesale distributors. CHR produces and markets value added sausage, jerky, meat sticks, and ready to cook entrees. The current strategic position of CHR is marketing of a niche, differentiated line of beef products, targeted at consumers who want a consistent quality product, raised on Colorado ranches, with natural production practices.

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Using Byproduct Feeds In Cow/Calf Programs, Ivan G. Rush Dec 2007

Using Byproduct Feeds In Cow/Calf Programs, Ivan G. Rush

Range Beef Cow Symposium

The topic of byproduct feeds can be a very long list from well known oil seed meals to corn byproducts from the distilling industry to potato waste to orange peels. In addition, people feed chocolate candy, Keebler’s cookies and the list can go on and on. This paper will focus primarily on byproducts from the alcohol and oil industry. Even though byproducts from the oil industry, such as cottonseed meal and soybean meal, have been available for many years, the tremendous growth into the bio-fuels industry has increased the quantity of byproducts available for cattle feed. Historically, we have looked …

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Cow Condition And Reproductive Performance, Julie Walker, George Perry Dec 2007

Cow Condition And Reproductive Performance, Julie Walker, George Perry

Range Beef Cow Symposium

It has been understood for decades that reproductive performance is the most important factor affecting production efficiency of a cow-calf enterprise. To maintain a yearly calving interval (one calf every 365 days), a cow must re-breed in 80 to 85 days after calving. With the nutrient priority of beef cattle being body maintenance, growth, lactation, fetal growth, breeding, and body reserve according to Short et al. (1990) indicates that reproduction is low on the list. Body condition score at parturition has been implicated as the single most important factor affecting postpartum interval to estrus and pregnancy in multiparous cows.

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Why Did We Change To June Calving?, Paul D. Redd Dec 2007

Why Did We Change To June Calving?, Paul D. Redd

Range Beef Cow Symposium

We finally admitted we were violating our own principles, for 50 years we have said:
We believe it makes good cow sense to:
1- Use yearling bulls
2- Sell the old bull
3- Buy only top end performance bulls
4- Buy the best bulls you can find.
5- Take advantage of hybrid vigor
6- Don’t buy fat bulls
7- Make Mother Nature your partner. Build a cow herd adapted to work efficiently in your country (your environment). Keep those good producing cows that wean a good calf every year. Cull the cows that don’t pull their weight.
8- Select four …

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Production Systems, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Will Griffin, Aaron Stalker, Dan Adams, Darrell Mark Dec 2007

Production Systems, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Will Griffin, Aaron Stalker, Dan Adams, Darrell Mark

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Expansion of the ethanol industry is having a major impact on all of agriculture including the cattle industry — the largest impact of any development we have seen in the past 40 years. Cattle feeding has enjoyed relatively inexpensive corn and therefore greater amounts of weight have been put on cattle in feedlots rather than outside of feedlots. Calf-feeding has developed to the point where up to one third of fed cattle might be considered calf-feds. Increased corn production in 2007 is keeping corn prices at moderate levels — higher than the last 40 years but less than the prices …

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Benefits Of Weaning Calves At Younger Than Traditional Ages, Trey Patterson Dec 2007

Benefits Of Weaning Calves At Younger Than Traditional Ages, Trey Patterson

Range Beef Cow Symposium

The term “Early Weaning” tends to be used rather loosely in the Beef Industry, and producers can find many articles claiming benefits of early weaning. A few questions arise. How early is early weaning? Is there economic benefit to weaning early? We will address these questions in this paper.

At the Range Beef Cow Symposium XIV, Whittier (1995) categorized early weaning as 1) weaning before the start of the breeding season (birth to 90 days) or 2) weaning during the breeding season (90 to 160 days). Weaning calves before the start of the breeding season has shown to improve reproductive …

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Successful Ai And Synchronization Secrets: It’S In The Details, G. Cliff Lamb Dec 2007

Successful Ai And Synchronization Secrets: It’S In The Details, G. Cliff Lamb

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Estrous synchronization and artificial insemination (AI) are reproductive management tools that have been available to beef producers for over 30 years. Synchronization of the estrous cycle has the potential to shorten the calving season, increase calf uniformity, and enhance the possibilities for utilizing AI. Artificial insemination allows producers the opportunity to infuse superior genetics into their operations at costs far below the cost of purchasing a herd sire of similar standards. These tools remain the most important and widely applicable reproductive biotechnologies available for beef cattle operations (Seidel, 1995). However, beef producers have been slow to utilize or adopt these …

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Heifer Development – Then And Now, Richard N. Funston, Jeremy Martin, Andy Roberts Dec 2007

Heifer Development – Then And Now, Richard N. Funston, Jeremy Martin, Andy Roberts

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Studies in numerous species provide evidence that diet during development can partially control physiological changes necessary for puberty (Frisch, 1984). Energy balance or plane of nutrition influences reproductive performance in heifers and cows (Short and Adams, 1988; Butler and Smith, 1989; Swanson, 1989; Randel, 1990; Robinson, 1990). Numerous studies have reported inverse correlations between post-weaning growth rate and age at puberty (Wiltbank et al., 1966, 1969, 1985; Short and Bellows, 1971; Arije and Wiltbank, 1971; Ferrell, 1982), and pregnancy rates in heifers were shown to be dependent upon the number displaying estrus prior to or early in the breeding season …

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Nutrition During Gestation And Fetal Programming, K. A. Vonnahme Dec 2007

Nutrition During Gestation And Fetal Programming, K. A. Vonnahme

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Historically, considerable efforts have been made to understand how nutrition impacts health and productivity during the postnatal period. While maternal nutrition during pregnancy plays an essential role in proper fetal and placental development, less is known about how maternal nutrition impacts the health and productivity of the offspring. Indeed, the prenatal growth trajectory is sensitive to the direct and indirect effects of maternal dietary intake from the earliest stages of embryonic life when the nutrient requirements for conceptus growth are negligible (Robinson et al., 1977). Not only is neonatal health compromised, but the subsequent health may be “programmed” as offspring …

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