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Forage News [2008-07], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• KFGC Field Day In Christian County
• KFGC Forage Spokesman Nominations
• KFGC Awards Nomination
• The UK Beef Bash 2008: A Different Kind of Field Day
• Certified Noxious Weed Seed Free Hay and Straw Program
• Nitrogen for Stockpiling Fescue
• Forage Seeding Rate Calculator
• Alfalfa Yield and Dollar Return From Wisconsin Green-Gold Program
• Relative Toxicity to Horses of Three Species of Blister Beetles
• Changes in U.S. Dairy Industry Since 1935
• Line Up For varieties Early for Fall Planting
• Roundup Ready Alfalfa on Track for 2009 Return
• Upcoming Events

The Evolution Of Problem Solving: An Assessment Of Preference In Concurrent Schedules Of Reinforcement, Melissa Roark

Psychology Dissertations - Archive

In personal problem-solving, an organism emits responses that have been useful in the past to alter its personal contingencies and produce a response that "solves" a problem. In verbal behavior, a human organism emits responses that have previously been useful to alter the contingencies of another human, this producing a response that "solves a problem". Additionally, in verbal behavior, an organism is controlled by its current contingencies rather than its history of reinforcement. It is suggested that personal problem-solving resembles a tandem schedule of reinforcement and that verbal behavior, which has evolved in humans, resembles multiple schedule reinforcement. This study …

Corn Distillers Dried Grains (Ddgs) For Growing-Finishing Swine, Phillip S. Miller

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Two-hundred and forty pigs growing-finishing pigs were used to evaluate the feeding value of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). Treatments consisted of 0, 5, 10 and 15% dietary DDGS inclusion. Treatments did not affect average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI) or gain:feed (G:F) during the grower 1 period (P > 0.05). During the grower 2 period ADG and ADFI linearly decreased as DDGS increased (P < 0.05). No differences among treatments were detected throughout the feeding phase finisher 1 for ADG, ADFI, and G:F (P > 0.05). During the finisher 2 feeding phase, there was a linear reduction in ADG and ADFI in response to dietary DDGS inclusion (P = 0.01). Overall, linear reductions …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 20, No. 3, July 2008

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Contents:
Congratulations
Welcome
Grants
Workshop News
Publications
Meet a Distance Student
Faculty News
Student News
From Gary’s Desk
Condolences
Travel
Blasts from the Pasts

Guidelines For Re-Establishing Grey Partridges Through Releasing, Francis Buner, N. J. Aebischer

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Reports and Other Materials

In the UK, numbers of grey partridges have declined by over 75% during the last 20 years, and in many parts of the country the species has become locally extinct. Concerns over the magnitude of the decline led the UK Government to place the species on the short list of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) for which the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust was appointed lead partner in 1996. The Grey Partridge Species Action Plan’s targets are to restore numbers from 65,000 pairs in 2005 to 90,000 pairs nationally by 2010, and to expand its 1990 range. Over the …

Nanoengineered Templates For Controlled Delivery Of Bioactive Compounds, Nalinkanth Ghone Veerabadran

Doctoral Dissertations

The significance of any drugs, therapeutic proteins, or any bioactive compounds, is based not only on their effects on diseases but also on how specifically, how readily, how controllable and how prolonged their effects on the disease without having any side effects. Thus the techniques involved in the drug encapsulation and its controlled release for a longer duration of time form one of the important processes of drug reformulation. In recent years nanoparticles have created overwhelming attention for delivering drugs by nanoencapsulation. The smaller size of nanoparticles has longer circulation time and higher cellular uptake when compared with larger size …

A Simulation Of The Neural Action Potential Under The Influence Of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Modeled In The Neuromuscular Junction, Frank Jenkins

Doctoral Dissertations

The rise of terrorism has created an interest in better ways to detect when humans are exposed to neurotoxins, especially nerve gases developed for military use, most of which are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Many current methods of detection are based on mass spectrometry, a method that is cumbersome and not particularly robust when used as an early warning method. The detection of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors would benefit from a combined model of the processes occurring in the neuromuscular junction between the presynaptic action potential and the motor end-plate action potential that includes the kinetics of acetylcholine and acetylcholinesterase in the synaptic cleft. …

07-01-2008 Swosu Announces Panorama Lineup For 2008-09, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2008

A show from Broadway, comedian Chelsea Handler, The Fab Four Beatles group and Animal Planet host Jeff Corwin highlight the 2008-09 Panorama series at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

Sheep Updates 2008 - Part 3, L. J. E. Karlsson, J. C. Greeff, L. Slocombe, K. Jones, N. Underwood, Fred Wilkinson, W. D. Hoffman, W. A. Mckiernan, V. H. Oddy, M. J. Mcphee, B. L. Mcintyre, P. F. Parnell, R. A. Clark, J. Timms, G. Griffith, C. Mulholland, P. Hyland, Danielle England, Fiona Jones, John Lucey, Martin Staines, Richard Morris, Megan Abrahams, Caroline Peek, Dennis Van Gool, Daniel Gardiner, Kari-Lee Falconer, Sandra Prosser, Mario D'Antuono, John Young, Andrew Thompson, Chris Oldham, Brown Besier, Angus Campbell, Ralph Behrendt

Sheep Updates

This session covers fiveteen papers from different authors:

CONTROLLING FLY STRIKE

1. Breeding for Blowfly Resistance - Indicatoe Traits, LJE Karlsson, JC Greeff, L Slocombe, Department of Agriculture & Food, Western Australia

2.A practical method to select for breech strike resistance in non-pedigreed Merino flocks, LJE Karlsson, JC Greeff, L Slocombe, K. Jones, N. Underwood, Department of Agriculture & Food, Western Australia

3. Twice a year shearing - no mulesing, Fred Wilkinson, Producer, Brookton WA

BEEF

4. Commercial testing of a new tool for prediction of fatness in beef cattle, WD Hoffman^A, WA McKiernan^A, VH Oddy …

Earth Jurisprudence: The Moral Value Of Nature, Judith E. Koons

Faculty Scholarship

As planetary environmental crises advance toward us like an enormous oil spill, the call of Earth Jurisprudence has arisen, suggesting that a shift is necessary in the way that we think about law, governance, and nature. A predicate to rethinking law, however, is to reconsider the moral status of nature. This article posits that, to preserve a healthy planet for future generations of human beings - and for Earth itself - it is necessary to recognize Earth as the center of the moral community. As an ethical endeavor, the article turns the question of the moral status of nature through …

Otterbein Towers Summer 2008, Otterbein Towers

Towers Magazine

150 Years of Choral Traditions; Features: 150 Years of Choral Traditions; A Fraternal Centennial; Commencement; Alumni Weekend; Regulars: College News: Otterbein Breaks Ground on Equine Facility; Students Help Rescued Horses; Fredrik Marsh Named Guggenheim Fellow; Faculty and Staff Dumpster Dive for Charity; MBA Director Introduces John McCain; Spotlight on Faculty: Marsha Robinson; Professor Provides His Own DNA for Class; Business Class Gets Firsthand Experience with Charities; Peggy McMains Receives Support Staff Award; Retired Professor Still Very Active at the College; Bread and Roses Winners Named; ClassNotes; Milestones; Investing in Otterbein; Alumni Notes, etc.

Watershed Health And Mechanical Fuel Reduction In The Walker Flats, Andrew Erdmann

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

The mechanical fuel reduction project being implemented in the Walker Flats area is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of La Jicarita Enterprise Community (LJEC), the National Forest Service (USFS), the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF), New Mexico State University (NMSU), the University of New Mexico (UNM), and numerous other Federal, state, local, non-profit, and educational agencies (LJEC, 2005). Each of these agencies is involved in several aspects of this project ranging from research, to developing the prescription, to monitoring the impacts and effectiveness of the project. The collective efforts of these agencies to develop and monitor …

The Daily Egyptian, July 01, 2008, Daily Egyptian Staff

July 2008

No abstract provided.

A Law Library Journal Centennial Timeline: Highlights From One Hundred Years Of Llj History, Frank G. Houdek

Publications

Professor Houdek provides a time line highlighting events, actions, and individuals that have played prominent roles in the nearly hundred-year history of Law Library Journal.

Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering (Mstc) As A Data Mining Tool For Environmental Applications, Forrest M. Hoffman, William W. Hargrove, Richard T. Mills, Salil Mahajan, David J. Erickson, Robert J. Oglesby

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The authors have applied multivariate cluster analysis to a variety of environmental science domains, including ecological regionalization; environmental monitoring network design; analysis of satellite-, airborne-, and ground-based remote sensing, and climate model-model and model-measurement intercomparison. The clustering methodology employs a k-means statistical clustering algorithm that has been implemented in a highly scalable, parallel high performance computing (HPC) application. Because of its efficiency and use of HPC platforms, the clustering code may be applied as a data mining tool to analyze and compare very large data sets of high dimensionality, such as very long or high frequency/resolution time series measurements or …

The Great Rivers Modeling Framework And Decision Support System, B. Eckman, C. Barford, P. West

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The health of the world’s freshwater ecosystems is fundamental to the health of people,plants and animals around the world. The sustainable use of the world’s freshwaterresources is recognized as one of the most urgent challenges facing society today. Anestimated 1.3 billion people currently lack access to safe drinking water, an issue the UnitedNations specifically includes in its recently published Millennium Development Goals(http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/). To address the scale and urgency of this challenge,IBM is collaborating with The Nature Conservancy and the Center for Sustainability andthe Environment (SAGE) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to develop an innovativedecision support tool and modeling framework …

Evolvable Biological Interfaces: An Outline Of The New Computing System, Igor Balaž, Dragutin T. Mihailović

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In this paper, we represent architecture of a new individual-based model of evolvable biological interfaces. The model is based on three parts: mutable coding sequence, individual agents produced by the coding sequence and external environment represented by various virtual substances. Agents are able to recognize external substances and to perform transformations on them. However, unlike general computational scheme currently used in evolutionary computation which is based on predefined list of actions, where each action have predefined fitness value defined strictly within current problem, the recognition and corresponding transformation in this model are organized in completely different way. Here we merged …

On The Role Of Pre And Post-Processing In Environmental Data Mining, Karina Gibert, Joaquín Izquierdo, Geoffrey Holmes, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Joaquim Comas, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The quality of discovered knowledge is highly depending on data quality. Unfortunately real data use to contain noise, uncertainty, errors, redundancies or even irrelevant information. The more complex is the reality to be analyzed, the higher the risk of getting low quality data. Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) offers a global framework to prepare data in the right form to perform correct analyses. On the other hand, the quality of decisions taken upon KDD results, depend not only on the quality of the results themselves, but on the capacity of the system to communicate those results in an understandable form. …

Integration Of In-Situ And Remote Sensing Data For Water Risk Management, Bernhard H. C. Sputh, Oliver Faust, Lasse H. Pettersson, Torill Hamre, Damiano Vitulli, Alastair R. Allen, Tim Spracklen

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The combination of environmental measurements from different sensor equipment improveswater quality monitoring and associated risk management. The merging of in-situ andremote sensing data is a prerequisite to efficient monitoring of coastal and marine environments,because of their complementary nature and application areas. Both sensor types can monitorthe same phenomena, but remote sensing delivers the overall picture and in-situ measuring provideslocalised, high resolution measurements, over a wide range of parameters. The WARMER(WAter RiskManagement in EuRope) system combines remote sensing satellite data with in-situmeasurements for water quality risk management applications and delivers products to end-usersthrough a web GIS (Geographic Information System) portal. This …

Web-System For Air Quality Assessment Of The City Area Based On The Mathematical Modeling Data, A. Titov, D. Belikov, E. Gordov, A. Starchenko

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The limitations of the widespread methods of air pollution level estimation allow producing quite rough air quality estimations for the areas not covered by observation stations. Application of the computational models to this purpose requires usage of the meteorological observations, atmospheric emissions of industrial enterprises, measurements of the concentration of the atmospheric pollutants as well as the numerical modelling of the gaseous substance transformation and transport processes. High accuracy of estimation and forecast of air quality for such models are achieved with the use of information on pollutant emission from sources within the city and distribution of the meteorological parameters …

Participatory Approaches In Developing A Model To Assist Water Resource Management In A Catchment In The Solomon Islands, Terence Chan, B. Powell, S. Hoverman, H. Ross

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper describes the practical application of a participatory approach used in developing a model for assisting water resource management in the Kongulai catchment in the Solomon Islands. In collaboration with local water resource managers, the Kongulai was selected as the study site as it provides up to 60% of the water for Honiara, the capital. Management of this resource is complex, with potentially competing uses for the water and the catchment, including drinking, domestic, agricultural and industrial uses, as well as multiple threats from contamination, changing land-use and variable hydrology. Additional system considerations come from the multifaceted socio-economic and …

Two Interacting Environmental Interfaces: Bifurcation In Coupled Asymmetric Logistic Maps, Dragutin T. Mihailović

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The field of environmental sciences is abundant with various interfaces and it is the right place for application of new fundamental approaches leading towards better understanding of environmental phenomena. For example, following definition of environmental interface by Mihailovic and Balaž [2007], such interface can be placed between natural or artificially built surfaces and atmosphere. In this case, visible radiation provides almost all of the energy received on the environmental interface. Since all the energy transfer processes occurs in the finite time interval the energy balance equation for this environmental interface can be written in terms of finite differences of ground …

An Integrated Multimedia Model And Multicriteria Analysis Approach To Managing Sewage Sludge Application On Agricultural Soils: Framework And Methodology, Ana Passuello, Marta Schuhmacher, Vikas Kumar, M. Nadal, J. L. Domingo

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Sludge application to agricultural soils is a managing practice of increasing use, because of its benefits to soil and crops. The Council Directive 86/278/CEE regulates concentrations of heavy metals for sludge application, but has no restrictions related to organic compounds contamination. The Decision Support System (DSS) presented here, integrates a multimedia risk model of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to human and ecosystem (P), a model concern to areas’ vulnerability to nitrogen (N), and also an economical model (E), to indicate the best decision management for sludge application on agricultural soils. The three dimensional representation of the model allows a simple …

Large-Scale Modelling Of P-Inputs From Point And Diffuse Sources In German River Basins, Björn Tetzlaff, Frank Wendland

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Mean annual P-inputs from diffuse and point sources in large river basins can be quantified with the MEPhos model. Its emission approach is described, which distinguishes between both eight different input pathways (municipal waste water treatment plants, industrial plants, combined sewer overflows, rainwater sewers, artificial drainage, erosion, wash-off, groundwater-borne runoff) and various types of critical source areas named phosphotopes.Then, the results of a model application to two large-scale river basins are presented and discussed. The river basins (ca. 12,500 km²) each show contrasting natural conditions, land use patterns as well as population and industry densities. Total P-emissions from each river …

Promoting Access To And Reuse Of Modelling Projects - A Picture Book Approach, Ralf Seppelt

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Use and misuse of simulation models, model documentation, model comparisons and model integration are topics that never vanished from discussion on modelling and simulation. Especially under the frame of collaborative modelling these issues again gain importance. This contribution to the discussion does not offer another technological approach for this task. Here, the focus is put on documenting and assessing models and by this supporting the part of (re-) application of models. Using the metaphor of a collapsible picture book with which modellers, practitioners, stakeholders and other can access regions, models and modelling questions. The approach is suitable for scientific groups, …

Mogire: A Model For Integratedwater Management, Arnaud Reynaud, Delphine Leenhardt

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In a context of water scarcity where competition for water allocation is increasing, modelers areoften asked to move from specific water use models (either agricultural, industrial or residential)toward more integrated frameworks including an explicit representation off water users relationships.This is the main objective of MoGIRE (“Mod`ele pour la Gestion Int´egr´ee de la Ressourceen Eau”) which is a model developed by an interdisciplinary team for integrated water managementat the river basin level. MoGIRE includes a nodal representation of the water network andallows to optimize water use under several possible scenarios (agronomic, climatic or economic).Agricultural, urban and environmentalwater uses are represented in …

Massacre At Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy. By Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., And Glen M. Leonard, Brian Q. Cannon

BYU Studies

Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Usability Assessment Of An Integrated Land Use Model In Portugal, Cárin Alves, Lúcio Do Rosário, Jasper Van Vliet, Hedwig Van Delden

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Regardless the possibilities of computer based tools for spatial planning, previous works have argued that planners have never fully used them. Some of the reasons that influence the acceptance and effective use of a new technology are the usability and the user’s perception of its relevance to improve their tasks. This research aims to assess the usability and usefulness of a planning support tool by planning organizations in Portugal. The tool has proven to be easy to use and very useful to users; however, some technical improvements were suggested in order to improve it.

Understanding Riverine Wetland-Catchment Processes Using Remote Sensing Data And Modelling, Ann Van Griensven, Yunqing Xuan, D. Haguma, W. Niyonzima

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Many wetlands are dependent on river basin processes, and at the same time, scientists have recognised the important role of wetlands in the river basin: they are important zones for groundwater recharge, they temper high flows and are therefore very important to limit flooding. By purifying the water, wetlands also play a very important role for water quality. However, the underlying processes are often not very well known or are poorly quantified. This is especially true for many wetland rich basins in Africa that are poorly gauged or even ungauged. In this study we analyse to what extend remote sensing …

Optimizing Biogas Production: An Application To An Italian Farming District, Giulia Fiorese, Giorgio Guariso, A. Polimeni

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Biogas can be extracted from animal manure through anaerobic digestion (AD) and can afterwards be used to produce energy. Moreover, this process reduces completely methane emissions and stabilizes the manure before its agronomic use. AD plants can be built in a wide range of capacities: as capacity increases, economies of scale in capital equipment are realized, but transportation costs increase as manure and the digested substrates must be conveyed over longer distances. It is thus a key issue to assess the tradeoffs between biomass’ transportation and plants’ capacity. We propose a method to evaluate the AD plants’ convenience on a …