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The Evolution Of Food Preferences In Coccinellidae, José Adriano Giorgi, Natalia J. Vandenberg, Joseph V. Mchugh, Juanita A. Forrester, S. Adam Ślipiński, Kelly B. Miller, Lori R. Shapiro, Michael F. Whiting

USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Despite the familiarity and economic significance of Coccinellidae, the family has thus far escaped analysis by rigorous phylogenetic methods. As a result, the internal classification remains unstable and there is no framework with which to interpret evolutionary events within the family. Coccinellids exhibit a wide range of preferred food types spanning kingdoms, and trophic levels. To provide an evolutionary perspective on coccinellid feeding preferences, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of 62 taxa based on the ribosomal nuclear genes 18S and 28S. The entire dataset consists of 3957 aligned nucleotide sites, 787 of which are parsimony informative. Bayesian and parsimony analyses …

The Search For Irishness (Chapter One Of Buffoonery In Irish Drama: Staging Twentieth-Century Post-Colonial Stereotypes), Kathleen A. Heininge

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "A striking feature in Irish culture since at least the late 19th century is an impulse to define what constitutes "Irish," seemingly to establish the qualifications of those who claim to be Irish. It is an impulse that manifests itself in literature as diverse as George Bernard Shaw's play, john Buff's Other Island, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, or Seamus Heaney's Station Island. The same impulse is at work in the public lives of figures like Oscar Wilde, who while exiled created a fascinating persona for himself; Patrick O'Brian, who refashioned himself as …

The Gallery 2009, Dan Craig, Amy Leach, Max Diehl, Jane Gandenberger, Julia Wolfrom, Nicole Boerner, Ryan Cherchio, Melissa Coltri, Rebecca Fiedler, Tamara Griner, Michael Longo, Annie Reale, Thuy Vo

The Gallery

This is a digital copy of the print content produced by the Gallery 2009 team. It consists of four books. Book 1 contains Introduction, Reel Art, and Gallery Members. Book 2 contains 3D Artwork: Ceramics, Metal Work, and Sculpture. Book 3 contains Graphic Design, Illustration, and Painting. Book 4 contains Photography and Printmaking.

The final product also included a Viewfinder with accompanying reels, and time-based media such as animation. This content is not included.

Files for individual books may be viewed on the detailed metadata page by clicking on the title.

All For One & One For All: Understanding Servant Leadership, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

What’s a Leader to Do?

Here are some guidelines to help you balance the tension between the individual and the group.

1. Pray for God to give you wisdom from thoughts others have to share as well as your own thoughts.

2. Take each situation as a process that is unfolding, and remain open to consider the needs of the organization and the needs of the individual as these come to be understood.

3. See in every complicated leadership situation the opportunity to explore your own humility by sharing leadership with followers.

4. Recognize that in every complicated leadership situation, …

Green Roots 2009 Annual Report, Lawrence University

Green Roots

With guiding principles in place, the committee conducted a comprehensive review of university operations in the eight major areas; Water, Food, Buildings, Curriculum, Energy, Waste and Recycling, and Transportation. Within each of these areas the committee worked to identify and prioritize opportunities. What follows is a summary of our findings and future recommendations. Note that the committee does not intend to take credit for all of what follows. Rather, in our efforts to coordinate sustainability efforts and to publicize those, we present all activities of which we are aware in each of the focus areas. In many instances Green Roots …

2009 Scholar's Day Program, State University Of New York At Cortland

Transformations

Scholars' Day was established in 1997 and is a day-long conference devoted to showcasing the wide array of scholarship, research and creative activities occurring on campus. In 2012, a new emphasis on student research lead to a name change to Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference. This event focuses on student research, which is defined as an original investigation or creative activity through the primary efforts of a student or group of students. The work should show problem-solving skills and demonstrate new conceptual outcomes.

Annual Reports Of The Selectmen And Other Town Officers Of The Town Of Alstead, N.H. For The Year Ended December 31, 2008., Alstead Town Representatives

Alstead, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Abundance And Distribution Of Two Species Of Squilla (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae) In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Jennifer L. Wortham

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Stomatopods (mantis shrimps) are predatory benthic crustaceans. Mantis shrimp in the genus Squilla are frequent bycatch animals unintentionally collected in conjunction with the shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Their carcasses are discarded instead of being retained for human consumption, fish meal, or other protein-based food products. The size, depth, salinity, and temperature distributions of these species, as well as their abundance based on gender, were examined to gain biological information that would be necessary if a fishery were to develop in the GOM. I collected samples (n = 2,854) of Squilla empusa and Squilla chydaea in the …

An Evaluation Of Potential Occupational Exposure To Asbestiform Amphiboles Near A Former Vermiculite Mine, Julie F. Hart, Terry M. Spear, Tony J. Ward, Caitlan E. Baldwin, Marissa N. Salo, Mohamed I. Elashheb

Public and Community Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Amphibole asbestos (AA) has been detected on the surface of tree bark in forests neighboring an abandoned vermiculite mine near Libby, Montana. In the present study, simulations were performed to assess potential AA exposure associated with United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (FS) occupational activities. Bark samples were collected prior, and personal breathing zone (PBZ) and Tyvek clothing wipe samples were collected during and immediately after trials that simulated FS activities. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses revealed AA bark concentrations up to 15 million structures per square centimeter (s/cm2). AA was detected in 25% of the PBZ TEM samples. …

Jesus In America, Claudia Gould

All USU Press Publications

Claudia Gould draws on fieldwork she conducted, as an anthropologist, in North Carolina, where she earlier spent large parts of her childhood, among a net of paternal relations. From that ethnography and from lifelong observation, she crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist Christian belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them pull us into the complicated, variable core of religious experience among southern American Christians. Jesus in America, a perceptive work rich with cultural insight, is a singular addition to the growing genre of ethnographic fiction.

Observations And Recommendations (Biennial Report), Pine Island Pond, Manchester, New Hampshire Department Of Enviromental Services

Manchester Research Group

Biennial report of observations and recommendations based on chemical and biological data collected from Pine Island Pond in Manchester, N.H.

Observations And Recommendations (Biennial Report), Nutts Pond, Manchester, New Hampshire Department Of Enviromental Services

Manchester Research Group

Biennial report of observations and recommendations based on chemical and biological data collected from Nutts Pond in Manchester, N.H.

Observations And Recommendations (Biennial Report), Stevens Pond, Manchester, New Hampshire Department Of Enviromental Services

Manchester Research Group

Biennial report of observations and recommendations based on chemical and biological data collected from Stevens Pond in Manchester, N.H.

Sustainable Food Systems: Perspectives On Transportation Policy, Kameshwari Pothukuchi, Richard Wallace

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Research Publications

Global agri-food and transportation systems have dramatically expanded food production and distribution worldwide. This integration, however, also adversely affects human health. The negative effects arise from unequal access to healthy food, unequal access to transportation for agri-food workers, increasing geospatial and economic concentration in the agri-food industry, and an emerging competition between food and fuel. Because the health of individuals is inextricably tied to the health of communities, regions, and ecological systems, health and transportation professionals need to act to both mitigate current disparities and enhance the future viability and sustainability of these systems. This paper offers numerous, specific recommendations …

The Long-Lasting Effects Of International Study Abroad Programs On College Graduates, Mary Katharine Rousopoulos

Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) Theses

Do the short-term effects of international study abroad programs (ISAPs) during the college undergraduate years continue post college? To determine whether ISAP participants perceive these benefits as long lasting, six college graduates from a small, mid-western, faith-based university were interviewed about their experience studying abroad. With the chance to share perceptions of their changed understanding or actions, the interviews focused on the following areas: career choice, personal values and behavior changes, relationships, spiritual growth, and intellectual knowledge. Results indicate that college graduates do perceive a number of lasting changes related to their time studying abroad.

Properties Of Community, Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo M. Peñalver

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Theories of property presuppose conceptions of community, and of the individual's relationship to community. In contrast to the dominant theories of community at work within most Anglo-American property theorizing, which view community obligations as fundamentally instrumental and contractual, we propose in this paper a theory that views the relationship between the individual and community as constitutive and substantive. Human beings' dependence on others to flourish imposes on political communities and their individual members a shared obligation to foster and contribute to the creation and maintenance of those structures necessary for that flourishing. This obligation in turn qualifies individual rights of …

Volleyball - 2009, Eastern Kentucky University Sports

Volleyball

The sports media guide for the 2009 volleyball season.

The Effect Of Text And Graphic Search Goals On Web Advertisement Viewing, Brian Ashbaugh

Theses

Advertising has become an integral part of the Internet's capacity to generate revenue, drive traffic to websites, and to increase brand recognition. This study examined how text and graphic search goals influence how many times and how long people look at graphic and text advertisements. Twenty-four participants were eye tracked while they searched for text or graphic information on six websites. Results show that when people searched for text information they increased the amount of time and the number of times that they viewed text advertisements. When people searched for graphical information, they increased the amount of time and number …

Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter 2009

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.

Participatory Lawyering & The Ivory Tower: Conducting A Forensic Law Audit In The Aftermath Of Virginia Tech, Susan P. Stuart

Law Faculty Publications

The tragic events at Virginia Tech in 2007 sent a cold wind blowing through the halls of higher education institutions: a Virginia Tech student, who had fallen through the cracks of the school's mental health services and disciplinary procedures, armed himself with firearms and murdered thirty-two students and a professor before committing suicide. In the wake of that massacre, several states and individual interest groups issued reports on campus readiness for similar catastrophes. A consistent theme throughout those reports emphasized the necessity for individual institutions to review their procedures to deal with campus violence.

This Article focuses on that institutional …

Annual Report For 2008-2009 The City Of Rochester, Nh., Rochester Town Representatives

Rochester, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Traditional Culture: A Step Forward For Protection In Indonesia, Peter A. Jaszi

Traditional Knowledge and Culture

Traditional Culture: A Step Forward for Protection in Indonesia is the culmination of research conducted as part of a group of scholars, journalists, and observers of the arts who made multiple trips to Central Java and Bali to look at the practice of certain “traditional” arts. These arts—Javanese wayang kulit, gamelan music, and batik, and Balinese dance, gamelan music, and ikat—have, like most Indonesian arts, historically operated without Intellectual Property (IP) regulation. Professor Jazsi met with artists, performers, and creators to discuss their concerns regarding the current state of their arts, and to explore possibilities for attribution and compensation for …

Fueling Small Explosions Of Conversation: A Reading Curriculum For Fourth Grade, Rebecca Blake Eisenberg

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The purpose of this fourth-grade reading curriculum is to teach students to become active readers who can articulate and communicate their thoughts about reading. By communicating about text, readers construct meaning and develop a rich understanding and appreciation of their reading. The curriculum uses the reading workshop framework (Atwell, 1998; Calkins, 2001; Rief, 1992) and the literature circle structure (Daniels, 2002). Process- and content-based mini-lessons provide explicit instruction for literature circle discussions. Comprehension strategy mini-lessons are provided to complement the literature circle instruction and provide support for students as needed.

2009 Symposium Brochure

Programs

No abstract provided.

Investigation Into Pedestrian Exposure To Near-Vehicle Exhaust Emissions, Neil A. Buzzard, Nigel N. Clark, Steven E. Guffey

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Background

Inhalation of diesel particulate matter (DPM) is known to have a negative impact on human health. Consequently, there are regulations and standards that limit the maximum concentrations to which persons may be exposed and the maximum concentrations allowed in the ambient air. However, these standards consider steady exposure over large spatial and time scales. Due to the nature of many vehicle exhaust systems, pedestrians in close proximity to a vehicle's tailpipe may experience events where diesel particulate matter concentrations are high enough to cause acute health effects for brief periods of time.

Methods

In order to quantify these exposure …

Civil Rights In The Cyber World, Danielle Keats Citron

JD Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Environmental Service Learning On Empowerment For Responsible Environmental Behaviors In College Students, Derek W. Rosenberger

Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) Theses

The purpose of this study was to empirically test whether service learning pedagogy utilized in a general education science course is able to promote locus of control (LOC) for responsible environmental behavior (REB) and intent to act (ITA) upon REB. To measure this, two instruments, the Environmental Action Internal Control Inventory, developed by Smith-Sebasto and Fortner (1994) to test for LOC for REB, and Hsu’s (1997) ITA construct, developed to test for ITA upon REB were administered to two sections of a general education science course for non-science majors utilizing a nonequivalent pretest posttest control group design. This study shows …

Climate Change And The World’S “Sacred Sea”—Lake Baikal, Siberia, Marianne V. Moore, Stephanie E. Hampton, Lyubov R. Izmest'eva, Eugene A. Silow, Ekaterina V. Peshkova, Boris K. Pavlov

Biological Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Lake Baikal—the world's largest, oldest, and most biotically diverse lake—is responding strongly to climate change, according to recent analyses of water temperature and ice cover. By the end of this century, the climate of the Baikal region will be warmer and wetter, particularly in winter. As the climate changes, ice cover and transparency, water temperature, wind dynamics and mixing, and nutrient levels are the key abiotic variables that will shift, thus eliciting many biotic responses. Among the abiotic variables, changes in ice cover will quite likely alter food-web structure and function most because of the diverse ways in which ice …

Town Of Harrisville, Cheshire County, In The State Of New Hanpshire, Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31, 2008., Harrisville Town Representatives

Harrisville, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report For The Town Of Hebron, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2008., Hebron Town Representatives

Hebron, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.