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Rumen Physiology For The Rancher, Ivan G. Rush Jan 2009

Rumen Physiology For The Rancher, Ivan G. Rush

Range Beef Cow Symposium

The ruminant animal has two unique features – it chews its cud and has four distinct compartments in the stomach. More importantly the ruminant can convert forages that are comprised by large quantities of cellulose, that is poorly digestible by non-ruminants, into high quality protein (muscle) that provides excellent eating experiences and nutrients for humans. Rumen Physiology is the study of the mechanical, physical and biochemical function of the rumen. When I first enrolled in an animal nutrition course I felt this area was unnecessary in order to feed cattle. All I wanted to learn was does the cow need …

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Two Best And Two Worst Decisions, Kory Bierle Jan 2009

Two Best And Two Worst Decisions, Kory Bierle

Range Beef Cow Symposium

My name is Kory Bierle and I am from a family ranch just east of Midland, South Dakota, on the Bad River. The name of our ranch is the Madsen Ranch. We use that name because it was my mother’s family that settled and started the place. My great-great-grandfather showed my great-grandfather where a good place for a ranch would be, and we’ve been there ever since. My house is just a few yards from where the original log house was. The gal that talked to me about participating in the Range Beef Cow Symposium this year said that, from …

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Bovine Respiratory Disease & Diagnostic Veterinary Medicine (Managing Respiratory Diseases In The Herd), Donald Montgomery Jan 2009

Bovine Respiratory Disease & Diagnostic Veterinary Medicine (Managing Respiratory Diseases In The Herd), Donald Montgomery

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Year in and year out, diseases of the respiratory system are a major cause of illness and death in cattle from 6 weeks to two years of age. Sadly, this is as true today as it was 30 years ago despite development of new and improved vaccines, new broad spectrum antibiotics, and increased fundamental knowledge as to the cause of disease. WHY? I don‟t have the answer and I doubt if anyone does. As a pathologist, I often see firsthand the devastating effects that bacteria can have in the lungs of cattle that die from respiratory disease complex or shipping …

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Angle Of Repose: Testing Erosion And Prescribed Fire In Eastern Oregon And Washington’S Blue Mountains, Lisa-Natalie Anjozian Jan 2009

Angle Of Repose: Testing Erosion And Prescribed Fire In Eastern Oregon And Washington’S Blue Mountains, Lisa-Natalie Anjozian

Joint Fire Science Program Briefs (2007-2012)

Some forest lands in the United States are overgrown with small trees and thick with fuels. Prescribed fire has been used in many forests and woodlands to reduce fuel loads and the risk of wildfi re. But forests are unique, with different soils, plants, weather, and topography. While erosion from prescribed fi re would seem to be less severe than from a wildfire, prior to this study, little data existed on erosion rates and the infl uence of prescribed fi re on erosion in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon and Washington. This study showed that hillslope erosion in the …

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Do Fence Me In: Cattle Enlisted In The Great Basin To Reverse The Cheatgrass/Wildfire Cycle, Elise Lequire Jan 2009

Do Fence Me In: Cattle Enlisted In The Great Basin To Reverse The Cheatgrass/Wildfire Cycle, Elise Lequire

Joint Fire Science Program Briefs (2007-2012)

Cheatgrass and cattle have co-existed in the Great Basin since the late 19th century, when both were introduced by settlers of the western territories. Unchecked grazing of the sagebrush-steppe community decimated the native perennial grasses in some areas and gave cheatgrass, a nonnative annual, permanent inroads into the ecosystem. Cheatgrass is generally palatable and nutritious for cattle in spring, but dries quickly in the hot, dry summers typical of the Great Basin, becoming a flashy fuel that carries fire quickly. The invasion has drastically shortened the fire return interval and led to increasingly intense and fast spreading wildfi res, which …

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Vaccination With Mycobacterium Bovis Bcg Strains Danish And Pasteur In White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) Experimentally Challenged With Mycobacterium Bovis, M. V. Palmer, T. C. Thacker, W. R. Waters Jan 2009

Vaccination With Mycobacterium Bovis Bcg Strains Danish And Pasteur In White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) Experimentally Challenged With Mycobacterium Bovis, M. V. Palmer, T. C. Thacker, W. R. Waters

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

Wildlife reservoirs of Mycobacterium bovis represent serious obstacles to the eradication of tuberculosis in domestic livestock and the cause for many faltering bovine tuberculosis eradication programs. One approach in dealing with wildlife reservoirs of disease is to interrupt inter-species and intraspecies transmission through vaccination of deer or cattle. To evaluate the efficacy of BCG vaccination in white-tailed deer, 35 deer were assigned to one of three groups; one s.c. dose of 107 CFU of M. bovis BCG Pasteur (n = 12); 1 s.c. dose of 107 CFU of M. bovis BCG Danish (n = 11); or unvaccinated deer …

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Habitat And Bird Communities At Small Airports In The Midwestern Usa, Travis L. Devault, Jacob Kubel, Olin E. Rhodes Jr., Richard Dolbeer Jan 2009

Habitat And Bird Communities At Small Airports In The Midwestern Usa, Travis L. Devault, Jacob Kubel, Olin E. Rhodes Jr., Richard Dolbeer

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

Despite a substantial amount of information available on bird and other wildlife strikes at large international airports, relatively few researchers have considered bird hazards at smaller general aviation (GA) airports and airfields. However, small airports often are located in rural areas, and the potential for wildlife strikes may be significant, especially because airworthiness standards related to bird strikes are much less stringent for GA aircraft compared to commercial aircraft. In this study, we conducted habitat assessments (onsite land-cover evaluations and Geographic Information System analyses) and seasonal bird surveys (walking transects) over a period of 1 year at 10 small airports …

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An Overview Of The International Beaver Ecology And Management Workshop, Jimmy Taylor Ii, David Bergman, Dale L. Nolte Jan 2009

An Overview Of The International Beaver Ecology And Management Workshop, Jimmy Taylor Ii, David Bergman, Dale L. Nolte

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

On 9–12 October 2007, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services (WS) hosted the International Beaver Ecology and Management Workshop in Chandler, Arizona. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the Multi-City Sub-Regional Operations Group (SROG), Tres Rios Ecosystem Restoration and Flood Control Project and WS. The SROG management is comprised of representatives from the cities of Phoenix, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, and Tempe. The workshop emphasized the management of beaver, their ecology, the part they play as a keystone species, and the issues they cause as an invasive species outside of the United States. The …

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Winter Grazing System And Supplementation During Late Gestation Influence Performance Of Beef Cows And Steer Progeny, Daniel Larson, J. L. Martin, Don C. Adams, Richard N. Funston Jan 2009

Winter Grazing System And Supplementation During Late Gestation Influence Performance Of Beef Cows And Steer Progeny, Daniel Larson, J. L. Martin, Don C. Adams, Richard N. Funston

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

A 2 × 2 factorial study evaluated effects of cow wintering system and last trimester CP supplementation on performance of beef cows and steer progeny over a 3-yr period. Pregnant composite cows (Red Angus × Simmental) grazed winter range (WR; n = 4/yr) or corn residue (CR; n = 4/yr) during winter and within grazing treatment received 0.45 kg/d (DM) 28% CP cubes (PS; n = 4/yr) or no supplement (NS; n = 4/yr). Offspring steer calves entered the feedlot 14 d postweaning and were slaughtered 222 d later. Precalving BW was greater (P = 0.02) for PS than NS …

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Activity Levels Under The Hand Formula: A Comment On Gilo And Guttel, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2009

Activity Levels Under The Hand Formula: A Comment On Gilo And Guttel, Richard A. Epstein

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Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 10, 2009, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya Jan 2009

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 10, 2009, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

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Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 11, 2009, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya Jan 2009

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 11, 2009, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

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Characterization Of 24 Microsatellite Loci In Delta Smelt, Hypomesus Transpacificus, And Their Cross-Species Amplification In Two Other Smelt Species Of The Osmeridae Family, Kathleen M. Fisch, Jessica Lynn Petersen, Melinda R. Baerwald, John K. Pedroia, Bernie May Jan 2009

Characterization Of 24 Microsatellite Loci In Delta Smelt, Hypomesus Transpacificus, And Their Cross-Species Amplification In Two Other Smelt Species Of The Osmeridae Family, Kathleen M. Fisch, Jessica Lynn Petersen, Melinda R. Baerwald, John K. Pedroia, Bernie May

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

We characterized 24 polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci for delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) endemic to the San Francisco Bay Estuary, California, USA. Screening of samples (n = 30) yielded two to 26 alleles per locus with observed levels of heterozygosity ranging from 0.17 to 1.0. Only one locus deviated from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, suggesting these individuals originate from a single panmictic population. Linkage disequilibrium was found in two pairs of loci after excluding the locus out of Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. Twenty-two primer pairs cross-amplified in wakasagi smelt (Hypomesus nipponensis), and 15 primer pairs cross-amplified in longfin smelt ( …

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Connectedness In Targhee And Suffolk Flocks Participating In The United States National Sheep Improvement Program, L. A. Kuehn, R. M. Lewis, D. R. Notter Jan 2009

Connectedness In Targhee And Suffolk Flocks Participating In The United States National Sheep Improvement Program, L. A. Kuehn, R. M. Lewis, D. R. Notter

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Connectedness among animals in separate flocks reduces the risk of biased comparisons when selecting across flocks on EBV. The objective in this study was to assess levels of connectedness in the genetic evaluation of weaning weight among Targhee and Suffolk flocks participating in the US National Sheep Improvement Program (NSIP). Among flocks currently participating in the NSIP, a total of 25,404 weaning weight and 35,794 pedigree records were available for 16 Targhee flocks, and 14,017 weaning weight and 18,311 pedigree records were available for 24 Suffolk flocks. Connectedness was measured by using 2 different methods. First, numbers of progeny with …

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The Perils Of Religious Passion: A Response To Professor Samuel Calhoun, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2009

The Perils Of Religious Passion: A Response To Professor Samuel Calhoun, Geoffrey R. Stone

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Two Ways To Think About The Punishment Of Corporations, Albert W. Alschuler Jan 2009

Two Ways To Think About The Punishment Of Corporations, Albert W. Alschuler

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Corporate Philanthropy And The Market For Altruism, M. Todd Henderson, Anup Malani Jan 2009

Corporate Philanthropy And The Market For Altruism, M. Todd Henderson, Anup Malani

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Academics and businesspeople have long debated the merits of corporate philanthropy. It is our contention that this debate is too narrowly focused on the role of corporations. There is a robust market for philanthropic works--which we call the market for altruism--in which nonprofit organizations, the government, and for-profit corporations compete to do good works. In this Essay, we describe this market and the role corporations play in satisfying the demand for altruism. We conclude that corporations should only engage in philanthropy when they have a comparative advantage over nonprofits and the government. Moreover, the government must avoid discriminating--particularly when setting …

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Odds And Ends: An Epstein-Inspired Look At Luck, Lee Anne Fennell Jan 2009

Odds And Ends: An Epstein-Inspired Look At Luck, Lee Anne Fennell

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The Pto's Future: Reform Or Abolition?, Jonathan Masur Jan 2009

The Pto's Future: Reform Or Abolition?, Jonathan Masur

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Richard Epstein And Discrimination Law, Richard H. Mcadams Jan 2009

Richard Epstein And Discrimination Law, Richard H. Mcadams

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Should Greenhouse Gas Permits Be Allocated On A Per Capita Basis?, Eric A. Posner, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2009

Should Greenhouse Gas Permits Be Allocated On A Per Capita Basis?, Eric A. Posner, Cass R. Sunstein

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Many people believe that the problem of climate change would be best handled by an international agreement that includes a system of "cap-andtrade. "Such a system would impose a global cap on greenhouse gas emissions and allocate tradable emissions permits. This proposal raises a crucial but insufficiently explored question: How should such permits be allocated? It is tempting to suggest that in principle, a cap-and-trade system should allocate permits on a per capita basis, with the idea that each person should begin with the same entitlement, regardless of place of birth. This idea, pressed by many analysts and by the …

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Same-Sex Marriage And The Establishment Clause, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2009

Same-Sex Marriage And The Establishment Clause, Geoffrey R. Stone

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Let Us Never Blame A Contract Breaker, Richard A. Posner Jan 2009

Let Us Never Blame A Contract Breaker, Richard A. Posner

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Holmes famously proposed a "no fault" theory of contract law: a contract is an option to perform or pay, and a "breach" is therefore not a wrongful act, but merely triggers the duty to pay liquidated or other damages. I elaborate the Holmesian theory, arguing that fault terminology in contract law, such as "good faith," should be given pragmatic economic interpretations, rather than be conceived of in moral terms. I further argue that contract doctrines should normally be alterable only on the basis of empirical investigations.

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The Disintegration Of Intellectual Property - A Classical Liberal Response To A Premature Obituary, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2009

The Disintegration Of Intellectual Property - A Classical Liberal Response To A Premature Obituary, Richard A. Epstein

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This Article plays off the title of Thomas Grey's well-known article, The Disintegration of Property, which argued in part that the ceaseless consensual fragmentation and recombination of property rights revealed some inner incoherence of the underlying private property institutions. I take the opposite position and treat this supposed disintegration of private property as evidence of its robust nature, not only for land but for all forms of intellectual property. Low transaction costs facilitate the creation of efficient regimes of property rights. I use this framework to critique modern intellectual property rights cases that limit the use of injunctive relief in …

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Property Rights, State Of Nature Theory, And Environmental Protection, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2009

Property Rights, State Of Nature Theory, And Environmental Protection, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

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Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Eaton, New Hampshire 2008., Eaton Town Representatives Jan 2009

Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Eaton, New Hampshire 2008., Eaton Town Representatives

Eaton, NH Annual Reports

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

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An Interview With Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability And Ecopedagogy, Salma Monani Jan 2009

An Interview With Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability And Ecopedagogy, Salma Monani

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

This interview with Julian Agyeman, a key originator of the concept of just sustainability, engages Agyeman in discussion of how just sustainability evolved, and how its theoretical and practical dimensions relate to the principles of ecopedagogy.

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Discoveries Jan 2009

Discoveries

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Note To Athletes, Nfl, And Nba: Dog Fighting Is A Crime, Not A Sport, Phyllis G. Coleman Jan 2009

Note To Athletes, Nfl, And Nba: Dog Fighting Is A Crime, Not A Sport, Phyllis G. Coleman

Faculty Scholarship

Phyllis Coleman, Note to Athletes, NFL, and NBA: Dog Fighting is a Crime, Not a Sport, 3 Journal of Animal Law & Ethics 85 (2009). Americans were finally forced to face the issue of animal abuse and professional athletes when investigators discovered 66 pit bulls, in addition to dog fighting equipment, at a home owned by "pro football's most electrifying quarterback." Although Michael Vick insisted he did not live in the house, and initially denied knowledge of any such activity on his Virginia property, stories of his involvement continued to swirl around the Atlanta Falcons' franchise player. On July …

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Global Change And Eutrophication Of Coastal Waters, N N. Rabalais, R. Eugene Turner, R J. Diaz, D Justic, N N. Rabalais Jan 2009

Global Change And Eutrophication Of Coastal Waters, N N. Rabalais, R. Eugene Turner, R J. Diaz, D Justic, N N. Rabalais

Faculty Publications

The cumulative effects of global change, including climate change, increased population, and more intense industrialization and agri-business, will likely continue and intensify the course of eutrophication in estuarine and coastal waters. As a result, the symptoms of eutrophication, such as noxious and harmful algal blooms, reduced water quality, loss of habitat and natural resources, and severity of hypoxia (oxygen depletion) and its extent in estuaries and coastal waters will increase. Global climate changes will likely result in higher water temperatures, stronger stratification, and increased inflows of freshwater and nutrients to coastal waters in many areas of the globe. Both past …

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