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Evaluating New Protein Sources For Development Of A Deer Repellent Product, Bruce A. Kimball, Kelly R. Perry

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Several protein sources were tested as deer repellents with captive deer. Black-tailed deer were offered Western redcedar seedlings treated with corn gluten meal, feather meal, poultry blood, hydrolyzed casein, or a control (latex sticker used for treatment proteins). After 37 days, feather meal and hydrolyzed casein provided equivalent protection against browse damage (only 23% of seedlings significantly browsed). Poultry blood provided less browse protection (44% browsed), while browse damage to seedlings treated with corn gluten meal (73% browsed) was not statistically different than the control (100% browsed). Based on the efficacy of feather meal and its low material cost, this …

Physiological Stress Response Of Captive White-Tailed Deer To Video Collars, Remington Moll, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Jeff Beringer, Joel Sartwell, Rami Woods, Kurt C. Vercauteren

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Animal-borne video and environmental data collection systems (AVEDs) are an advanced form of biotelemetry that combines video with other sensors. As a proxy for physiological stress, we assessed fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) excretion in 7 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fitted with AVED dummy collars; 9 additional deer served as controls. We collected fecal samples over 3 2-week periods: pretreatment, treatment, and post-treatment periods. There were no differences in FGMs across time periods (F_2,218 = 1.94, P = 0.147) and no difference between FGMs of control and treatment individuals (F_1,14 = 0.72, P = 0.411). Fecal glucocorticoid …

Animal Source Foods And Adolescent Nutrition, Abbey J. Canon

International Journal of Global Health and Health Disparities

Due to a variety of production, processing, or preservation limitations, or because of household economic, cultural or religious factors, many children, especially those in developing countries, do not consume an adequate amount of animal source foods (ASF). While little to no animal products are consumed in many developing countries, they are nonetheless essential to a healthy diet, especially for a growing child. The majority of low income households in developing countries base their diets on cereal grains or starchy tubers. These typical diets pose many threats to the nutritional health of children. Grains and starches lack many essential micronutrients, and …

Parents Should Not Be Legally Liable For Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children, Jay Gordon

Michigan Law Review First Impressions

Should a parent who takes advantage of a personal belief exemption to avoid vaccinating a child be held liable if that child infects other people? No, because there are valid medical reasons for choosing this exemption and tracing direct transmission of these illnesses from an unvaccinated child to another person is virtually impossible.

Uab Magazine - Fall 2009, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

UAB Magazine

No abstract provided.

Hospice Africa Uganda: End-Of-Project Evaluation Of Palliative Care Services, Annette Bongiovanni, Mary Alexis Greenan

HIV and AIDS

Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU) is a nongovernmental organization that provides palliative care services to people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) and cancer. Based in Kampala, HAU aims to scale-up palliative care within and beyond the nation’s borders. From 2005–08, HAU sought to achieve the following objectives: 1) Increase coverage and scope of palliative care services available to PHA and their families; 2) Train health workers and other HIV/AIDS care providers to integrate pain management, symptom control, and end-of-life care into their existing HIV/AIDS support programs; 3) Build the capacity of families, communities, and community-based organizations in palliative care provision; 4) Integrate …

The Effects Of Documentation On Young Children's Memory, Bethany Karen Benson Fleck

Doctoral Dissertations

A central part of the Reggio Emila approach to early childhood education is the teaching method of "documentation." In documentation, educators extensively observe, record, and display young children's work through its progression. Educational and developmental literatures offer speculative claims and a theoretical basis supporting the facilitative effects of documentation on young children's memory. The current study is the first to empirically investigate the effects that documentation has on episodic and semantic memory. Sixty-six four and a half to 6-year-old children experienced a novel learning event. Two days later the children were reminded of the event and its content information using …

Modeling Congenital Disorders Of Glycosylation In Caenorhabditis Elegans: Genetic Influences And Structural Consequences Of N-Linked Glycosylation, Weston Booth Struwe

Doctoral Dissertations

The attachment of oligosaccharides to the amide nitrogen of asparagine side chains in proteins is a fundamental process occurring in all metazoans. This process, known as N-glycosylation, is complex and is achieved by the precise interactions of various cellular components. The initial stage of N-glycosylation occurs in the endolasmic reticulum and is preserved among eukaryotes. Glycans are further developed in the Golgi and the structural complexity depends greatly on the animal species, tissue and developmental stage. Oligosaccharides are unique biomolecules because unlike DNA or proteins, no primary sequence exists nor is its' synthesis template driven. A major goal of glycobiologist …

Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone In Agnathans, Scott Ira Kavanaugh

Doctoral Dissertations

Hagfish and lampreys are the only two representatives of Agnathans among extant vertebrates. The regulatory hypothalamic neurohormone, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), regulates reproduction in all vertebrates through the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Most vertebrates have at least two forms of GnRH in the brain. In hagfish the primary amino acid structure of GnRH has not been identified as yet, however, indirect methods have shown an immunoreactive GnRH or a GnRH-like peptide in the brain of hagfish. In addition concentrations of brain immunoreactive-GnRH have been correlated with reproductive stages in the Atlantic hagfish ( Myxine glutinosa). Therefore the objective of the first study was …

Microbiology, Steelman Library, B Mcconchie Dr.

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

Tibet Under Chinese Rule, Dina Buck

Human Rights & Human Welfare

The struggle between Tibet and China has been a long and intractable one. How China chooses to deal with Tibet, commonly referred to as the “Tibet Question,” is a point of controversy both within China and for the international community at large. The two main points of concern are Tibet’s quest for self-determination and Tibetan quality of life under Chinese rule. While Tibet’s struggle for self-determination can be linked with the questionable treatment Tibetans face under the Chinese government (hereafter referred to as Beijing), the two issues are not exactly the same.

University Of North Dakota Division Of Sports Medicine: Historical Perpective, University Of North Dakota

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2009

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Submission Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Dedication to Mitch Pruitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Editor’s Introduction (Ada Long) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

FORUM ON “SOCIAL CLASS AND HONORS” …

Editorial Matter

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Front Cover

EDITORIAL POLICY

DEADLINES

JOURNAL EDITORS

EDITORIAL BOARD

CONTENTS

CALL FOR PAPERS

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council - Volume 10, No. 2 - Complete Issue, Kate Briggs

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors in the Electronic Age George Mariz 17

Postmodern Prometheans: Academic Libraries, Information Technologies, and the Cut-and-Paste Aesthetic Emily Walshe 23

Immigrant Song: A Cautionary Note about Technology and Honors Richard Badenhausen 29

Digital Deliberations Stephen A. Yoder 35

It’s the Pedagogy, Stupid Richard Ira Scott and Donna Bowman 41

Building a Better Honors Learning Community through Technology Melissa L. Johnson 45

Action, Connection, Communication: The Honors Classroom in the Digital Age Frances A. Kelleher and Susan Swartzlander 49

Implementing Wikis in Honors Courses Philip L. Frana 53

Using Flickr to Connect a Multi-Campus Honors Community Laura A. Guertin and …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council - Volume 10, No. 2 - Editorial Matter

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors in the Electronic Age George Mariz 17

Postmodern Prometheans: Academic Libraries, Information Technologies, and the Cut-and-Paste Aesthetic Emily Walshe 23

Immigrant Song: A Cautionary Note about Technology and Honors Richard Badenhausen 29

Digital Deliberations Stephen A. Yoder 35

It’s the Pedagogy, Stupid Richard Ira Scott and Donna Bowman 41

Building a Better Honors Learning Community through Technology Melissa L. Johnson 45

Action, Connection, Communication: The Honors Classroom in the Digital Age Frances A. Kelleher and Susan Swartzlander 49

Implementing Wikis in Honors Courses Philip L. Frana 53

Using Flickr to Connect a Multi-Campus Honors Community Laura A. Guertin and …

Book Review: The Ordinary Genius: A Life Of Arnold Platt By Ken Hoeppner, Sterling Evans

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Arnold Platt, the Canadian plant breeder, farmer, and farmers’ union president in the mid-twentieth century, was probably not a very likable person due to his abrasive and pushy personality. But Ken Hoeppner’s book about his life and works shows clearly that Platt should be recognized as one of the most important figures in the agricultural history of western Canada and perhaps the entire Great Plains region. I am sometimes skeptical of anyone taking on biography, but Hoeppner’s is a model in resurrecting someone not well known outside the world of Canadian horticulture and agricultural politics. This well-conceived, carefully researched, and …

Book Review: Crisis & Opportunity: Sustainability In American Agriculture By John E. Ikerd, Paul B. Thompson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Although Ikerd’s philosophy is quite perceptive in its instincts, one could enumerate many internal contradictions in execution. In fact, the primary value of Crisis & Opportunity may be that it is a collection of speeches that encouraged and emboldened small farmers and advocates of alternative agriculture throughout the Midwest. As such, it documents the perceptions, values, and myths, inconsistent as they might be, that animated and motivated a group of rural Midwesterners not unjustly laboring under the self-image of an oppressed and victimized minority during a critical period in the formation of the sustainable agriculture movement.

Freedom To Live, Freedom To Die: Health Disparities In El Salvador, Shaina Elizabeth Rose

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

Nurses [Sic] Knowledge Of Mass Casuality Emergency Situations, Disasters And Related Laws Regulating Nursing Practice In Michigan And Ohio, Ashley Elizabeth Sandmann

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

A survey was conducted among 51 emergency department nurses in both Michigan and Ohio from 2008 to 2009. A comparative design was used to analyze the surveyed data. The purpose of the study was to describe and compare the knowledge level of emergency department nurses with regards to disaster nursing, emergency preparedness, and correlating related nursing laws in their respective states of licensure. Results showed that there is no significant correlation between knowledge level of emergency and disaster preparedness and related laws to the state in which a nurse is licensed, but nurses in Michigan reported having more instruction in …

Possibilities Of A Third Epidemiological Occurrence, Sue A. Bentley

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibilities of a third epidemiological occurrence. An epidemiological occurrence is where large segments of population and culture have been adversely affected either by disease or through manmade causes of disease. According to World Health Organization an epidemic is an outbreak of a disease that attacks many people at the same time and may spread through more than one community. An endemic outbreak is a disease that exists permanently in a region or within a population. A pandemic is an epidemic that spreads throughout the world.

Exemplar, Winter 2009, Eastern Michigan University

Alumni News: Eastern Magazine

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Breeding Major Food Staples Edited By Manjit S. Kang And P.M. Priyadarshan, Paul Scott

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book will be primarily of interest to plant breeders and people interested in global food security. As Virmani and Ilyas-Ahmed point out in their chapter on rice breeding, in order to meet the global demand, we will need to produce as much food in the next 50 years as we have produced in the 10,000 years since agriculture began. Plant breeding is clearly part of the solution to this problem. Breeding Major Food Staples is a guide to the improvement of the crops humanity depends on most to meet its nutritional needs. Its strength is its global perspective, which …

The Plant Ionome Coming Into Focus, Lorraine Williams, David Salt

Cyber Center Publications

92 elements have been identified on earth and 17 of these are known to be essential to all plants. The essential elements required in relatively large amounts (>0.1% of dry mass) are called macronutrients and include C, H, O, N, S, P, Ca, K, Mg. Those required in much smaller amounts (<0.01% of dry mass) are referred to as micronutrients or trace elements and include Ni, Mo, Cu, Zn, Mn, B, Fe, and Cl. Plant growth and development depends on a balanced supply of these essential elements and thus the plant has a range of homeostatic mechanisms operating to ensure that this is maintained. Beneficial elements which promote growth and may be essential to some taxa, include Na, Co, Al, Se and Si. Elements such as the heavy metal Cd and the metalloid As have no demonstrated biological function in plants, but are nevertheless taken up and cause severe toxicity in most plant species. The concept for this special issue is the plant ionome, a word coined to encompass all these elements and allow focussed discussion and investigations on the mechanisms that co-ordinately regulate these elements in response to genetic and environmental factors reviewed in Salt et al., 2008).

Incompatible Theories: Natural Law And Substantive Due Process, Mattei Ion Radu

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Compensatory Evolution Of Gene Regulation In Response To Stress By Escherichia Coli Lacking Rpos, Daniel M. Stoebel, Karsten Hokamp, Michael S. Last, Charles J. Dorman

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

The RpoS sigma factor protein of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase is the master transcriptional regulator of physiological responses to a variety of stresses. This stress response comes at the expense of scavenging for scarce resources, causing a trade-off between stress tolerance and nutrient acquisition. This trade-off favors non-functional rpoS alleles in nutrient-poor environments. We used experimental evolution to explore how natural selection modifies the regulatory network of strains lacking RpoS when they evolve in an osmotically stressful environment. We found that strains lacking RpoS adapt less variably, in terms of both fitness increase and changes in patterns of transcription, than …

Wolves In The Crosshairs: A Scientific Case Against The Final Rule Of The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Removing Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wolves From The Endangered Species List, Valerie Bittner Esq.

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

Beyond Collapse: Reclaiming Rationality And Scientific Method From The Global Disorder, Mcmurtry

Societies Without Borders

This analysis explains why the currently instituted value-sets of “rationality” and “scientific method” select for unforeseen consequences of economic, social and ecological system collapse. Laying bare the era's unifying paradigm of “rational choice” across theory (e.g., game theory, contractarianism, prisoner's dilemma) and practice (global business, geostrategic analysis, armed war and mass-media sport), the analysis exposes the systematic disconnection of rationality and its lead vector of scientific method from the needs and capacities of life-systems. Only if rational and scientific standards are grounded in life-enabling purpose and means consistent with it, the argument shows, can they be made coherent with life …

Making All The Children Above Average: Ethical And Regulatory Concerns For Pediatricians In Pediatric Enhancement Research, Jessica W. Berg, Maxwell J. Mehlman, Daniel B. Rubin, Eric Kodish

Faculty Publications

Building on the knowledge generated by the long history of disease-oriented research, the next few decades will witness an explosion of biomedical enhancements to make people faster, stronger, smarter, less forgetful, happier, prettier, and live longer. Growing interest in pediatric enhancements is likely to stimulate the conduct of enhancement research involving children. However, guidelines for the protection of human subjects were developed for investigations of therapeutic modalities. To date, virtually no attention has been paid to whether these rules would be appropriate for investigations to establish the safety and efficacy of technologies intended for enhancement rather than therapeutic uses and, …

Population Briefs, Vol. 15, No. 2, Population Council

Population Briefs

IN THIS ISSUE: Empowering married young women in India and improving their sexual and reproductive health | Enhancing promotion of the female condom | Identifying the “bridging population” in Pakistan | Analysis examines availability and use of data for development