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Forage News [2010-09], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Lexington Welcomes National Hay Association
• Barren County to Host State Forage Field Day
• Know Your Hay Quality
• Mob Grazing or Ultra High Density Stocking
• New Items on Forage Website
• Grazing Graduates
• Who says "Cats" can't Attend U.K. Grazing School
• It's not too late for N on Grasses
• Choose the Best Forage Variety for Fall Planting
• Potential for High Nitrates

South/North Exchange Of 2009 - The Challenges Of Climate Change Regulation For Governments On The Political Left: A Comparison Of Brazilian And United States Promises And Actions, Colin Crawford, Solange Teles Da Silva, Kevin Morris

Pace International Law Review Online Companion

No abstract provided.

Insterstitial Exclusivities After Association For Molecular Pathology, Mary Mitchell, Dana A. Remus

Michigan Law Review First Impressions

The high profile cases Bilski v. Kappos and Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office have renewed public debate about the proper scope of patentable subject matter. The subject matter inquiry has traditionally been treated as a threshold inquiry in patent law, serving a gate-keeping function by defining the types of inventions that are eligible for patent protection. The Patent Office and courts have approached the subject matter inquiry both by determining whether an invention falls into a statutory category-processes, machines, manufactures, or compositions of matter-as well as by determining whether an invention falls into a …

"What Do I Do About This Word, 'Unavoidable'?": Resolving Textual Ambiguity In The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, Jason Lafond

Michigan Law Review First Impressions

The quote in the title of this Essay comes from Justice Breyer, expressing his frustration with the language of section 22(b)(1) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Justice Breyer made this comment during the October 12, 2010, oral argument in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, Inc., a case about the availability of state tort claims based on vaccine design defects. The question before the Court was whether that section expressly preempts such claims against vaccine manufacturers "if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions …

Sagp/Ssips 2010 Program, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Subscription And Organization Information [September 2010]

Nebraska Bird Review

The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $15 in the United States, $18 in Canada, and $30 in all other countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $4 each, postpaid, in the United States, $5 in Canada, and $8 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Anita Breckbill, NOU Librarian, c/o Music Library, WMB 30, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0101.

Memberships in the NOU (on a calendar-year basis only): Active Household …

My Life In Biology: Paul A. Johnsgard, Paul A. Johnsgard

Nebraska Bird Review

An autobiographical article by ornithologist Paul A. Johnsgard that spans his early years in North Dakota, undergraduate and graduate studies, his arrival and professional years at the University of Nebraska, his writings and writing influences, artwork, teaching and Cedar Point Biological Station, hunting and photography, conservation, religious beliefs, and numerous writing projects underway.

A Review Of Modern Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus) Nesting Records And Breeding Status In Nebraska, Joel G. Jorgensen, Stephen K. Wilson, John J. Dinan, Sarah E. Rehme, Sonya E. Steckler, Melissa J. Panella

Nebraska Bird Review

The recovery of the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in North America during the 20th century is a conservation success story. Once threatened with extinction, the species now is common throughout much of its range (Buehler 2000). Federal and state laws such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531-1544) that were used to protect Bald Eagles and important habitats used by eagles are considered key actions that fostered the species' recovery. In 2007, the Bald Eagle was formally removed from the federal list of threatened and endangered species (50 CFR Part 17). The following year, the Bald …

Summer Field Report, June–July 2010, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

This summer was marked by continuing high water tables along the Missouri River and good water levels in the eastern Rainwater Basin. As a result, American and Least Bitterns, King Rail, Common Moorhen, and several American Coot nests in Sarpy Co were reported. However, Great and Snowy Egrets were scarce, and Black-necked Stilts were absent from the eastern Rainwater Basin after several good breeding years there.

First breeding records for the state are always exciting; Lesser Goldfinch finally took the plunge this year in Banner Co. Also encouraging were increased reports of Black-billed Cuckoo (9) and both Black-billed Magpie and …

Nebraska Bird Review (September 2010) 78(3), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Summer Field Report, June–July 2010 ... 86

My Life in Biology: Paul A. Johnsgard ... 103

A Review of Modern Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Nesting Records and Breeding Status in Nebraska ... 121

Subscription and Organization Information ... 127

The Effectiveness Of Vertebrate Passage And Prevention Structures: A Study Of Boeckman Road In Wilsonville, Catherine E. De Rivera, Leslie L. Bliss-Ketchum

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

One of the most obvious impacts roads have on the natural world is direct mortality to individual animals that attempt to cross roads. A less obvious but likely more important impact of roads on many species is habitat fragmentation. The ability for individuals to travel between subpopulations is the key to genetic diversity as well as ultimately the survival of the species. Considering these impacts and management goals to increase habitat connectivity, increased attention has been given to creating road design that reduces wildlife collisions. Most studies, however, have been in other countries or regions and most focus on connectivity …

The Texas Caver, Volume 56, No. 3, July-September 2010, Mark Alman

The Texas Caver

Contents: Lemons Ranch, Bad Air, and Discovery and Exploration of the Lost Pit - Muzquiz! - Bustamante First Room Map— - Ranchers, Rattlers and Recharge - Ozona Caving— - Texas Caver Buys Bender’s Cave— - Kickapoo Caverns State Park Grand Opening Trip Report Bats, Birds and Biking: Kickapoo Cavern State Park Now Open After Years of Limited Access. Park Hosts Grand Opening and Trail Dedication - TPWD Restricting Cave Access on Agency Owned Lands to Protect Bats-White Nose Syndrome is No. 1 threat to bats.- A Quick Reference for White–Nose Syndrome (WNS) Containment and 25 Decontamination Procedures for Cave Activity …

Php & Mysql Simple Project Management Application, Vedat Shaqiri

Theses and Dissertations

Starting building an application is not that easy at all, especially when people are not experienced enough with the tools needed to cook it. This thesis contains a brief introduction to an PHP & MySQL application. Just as said some lines before, when you get into a thing that you might not be familiar with, difficulties appear, at this time patience and dedication come in to play realizing and making it become true. PHP and MySQL offer a great opportunity building dynamic web sites and application. It is not PHP that makes a web site or an application to become …

Brand Equity In Low Involvement Products, Berat Thaqi

Theses and Dissertations

This study is done in the field of branding, and the aim is to understand the relationship between low-involvement products and brand equity which is “the positive or negative association the consumers make with the product in they way they feel, think and act”. Second objective of this study is to analyze how low-involvement products can create a distinct brand identity which is the heart or brand’s essence.

This explanatory study is a case study which uses a deductive approach combined with quantitative and qualitative data. After doing a literature review, two questionnaires were developed in order to measure respectively …

The Intersection Of Law, Theology, And Human Trafficking In The Narrative Of Joseph: Linking The Past To The Present, Julie Waters

Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 2nd (2010)

This paper seeks to connect the biblical narrative of Joseph, a story of slavery and redemption, to modern day human trafficking through the lenses of current and pragmatic legal and theological implications. The two-fold purpose of the paper is to use Joseph as a case study to better understand US anti-human trafficking laws and then provide victims of human trafficking with biblical hope that can be gleaned through a theological understanding of the narrative of Joseph. To fully understand Joseph’s role as a slave and the interplay of modern day implications, the paper first examines the institution of slavery in …

Handling The Perceptual Politics Of Identity In Great Expectations, Peter J. Capuano

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Historicizing hands in the context of contemporary discourse allows us to evaluate how this particular part of the body became a site where scientists and novelists alike could re-imagine “progress” and transformation. In the world of Great Expectations, those who fail to adapt and change never truly make any progress, and Dickens has some fun with this idea as he concludes the novel. While people like Pumblechook conspicuously offer “the same fat five fingers” in the text’s beginning and its end, Joe, over the same course of time, develops not only his laboring hand but his writing one as …

Kittens! Inspired By Kittens! Undergraduate Theorists Inspired By Youtube, Diane Downer Anderson, Mark Christopher Lewis , '10, Sarah Elizabeth Peterson , '09, Samantha Nicole Griggs , '11, Gina Grubb , '10, Nicole Valerie Singer , '10, Simone Alanna Fried , '10, Elizabeth Evans Krone , '09, Leigh Michelle Elko , '10, Jasmine Narang , '09

Educational Studies Faculty Works

A professor and students in an undergraduate honors research seminar were inspired to playfully link old and contemporary literacy theories to a 2.0 media artifact, the popular YouTube video Kittens! Inspired by Kittens! (KIbK) starring 6 year-old Maddie. In this article KIbK is theorized drawing on frames of school-based reading instruction, social identities, identity formation in communities of practice, Bakhtin’s theory of intertextuality, and Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction. The authors found that KIbK was a powerful touchstone and Vygotskian tool for their project of linking theory to practice. They found that pre-digital literacy theories designed for paper texts were …

Serenity, Kelsey Floyd

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

A Simple Apparatus For Measuring Cell Settling Velocity, Zhaowei Wang, Joanne M. Belovich

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Accurate cell settling velocity determination is critical for perfusion culture using a gravity settler for cell retention. We have developed a simple apparatus (a 'settling column') for measuring settling velocity and have validated the procedure with 15-μm polystyrene particles with known physical properties. The measured settling velocity of the polystyrene particles is within 4% of the value obtained using the traditional Stokes' law approach. The settling velocities of three hybridoma cell lines were measured, resulting in up to twofold variation among cell lines, and the values decreased as the cell culture aged. The settling velocities of the nonviable cells were …

Comparing Narratives Of Personal And Preferred Partner Characteristics In Online Dating Advertisements, Elizabeth M. Morgan, Tamara C. Richards, Emily M. Vanness

Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study explored online personal ads of 294 heterosexual and homosexual men and women in the United States through a qualitative analysis and comparison of participant-generated “personal” and “preferred partner” narratives. Nine characteristics were identified and combined into three overarching categories: physical, lifestyle, and personality characteristics. These three personal and preferred partner characteristics were examined for difference by gender, sexual orientation, age and desired relationship type of the advertisers. Main effects emerged for all four predictors, most notably for age and desired relationship type. Additionally, this study explored the possibility that personal and preferred partner narratives contained similar constellations of …

Down The Drain: How North Carolina Municipalities Lost Immunity For Storm Drains In Jennings V. Fayetteville, Trent Mccotter

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

What Is The Best Antiplatelet Agent For Prevention Of Recurrent Stroke In Pakistani Patients? Do Combinations Offer Significant Advantages In The South Asian Context?, Maria Khan, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal

Department of Medicine

No abstract provided.

Creche Herald Vol. 14, No. 3, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Fall 2010 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

The Effect Of Calcified Plaque On Stress Within A Fibrous Thin Cap Atheroma In An Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Using Finite Element Analysis (Fea), Ellerie Nagy

Master's Theses

Atherosclerosis causes hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US alone every year. Fibrous cap rupture is one of the leading causes of these fatalities. Thin cap atheromas are commonly regarded as vulnerable plaque, however the effect of calcium upon a thin fibrous cap with lipid pool is poorly understood. Some studies have shown that calcium adds to stability of the lesion, while others have proven otherwise. An article by Li et al. 2007 suggests location is the key factor. By varying the percentage of calcium and lipid within a defined region, the stress on the cap was estimated using …

Dietary Protein Intake, Body Composition And Self-Reported Physical Functioning In U.S. Adults, Kerri Beth Parker

Master's Theses

Sarcopenia is a growing health problem in this country as more Americans are living well into old age. It has been thought that a higher protein intake may be related to greater lean muscle mass as well as greater muscular strength and physical functioning. The purpose of this research was to examine protein intake and its relationship to lean body mass and physical functioning in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults.

This research used cross-sectional data from the NHANES 2003-2004 to examine the relationship between protein intake, as an average from two 24h recalls, and dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) …

Return To The Joseph Smith Family Farm, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Donald L. Enders, Larry C. Porter

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

The Chlorella Variabilis Nc64a Genome Reveals Adaptation To Photosymbiosis, Coevolution With Viruses, And Cryptic Sex, Guillaume Blanc, Garry Duncan, Irina Agarkova, Mark Borodovsky, James Gurnon, Alan Kuo, Erika Lindquist, Susan Lucas, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Juergen Polle, Asaf Salamov, Astrid Terry, Takashi Yamada, David D. Dunigan, Igor V. Grigoriev, Jean-Michel Claverie, James L. Van Etten

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Chlorella variabilis NC64A, a unicellular photosynthetic green alga (Trebouxiophyceae), is an intracellular photobiont of Paramecium bursaria and a model system for studying virus/algal interactions. We sequenced its 46-Mb nuclear genome, revealing an expansion of protein families that could have participated in adaptation to symbiosis. NC64A exhibits variations in GC content across its genome that correlate with global expression level, average intron size, and codon usage bias. Although Chlorella species have been assumed to be asexual and nonmotile, the NC64A genome encodes all the known meiosis-specific proteins and a subset of proteins found in flagella. We hypothesize that Chlorella might have …

Daily Eastern News: September 01, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

September

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Prospectus, September 1, 2010, Janelle O'Dea, Chuck Shepherd, Patrick Wood, Julio Mcneal, Kelley Heaney, Morgan Bernier

Prospectus 2010

MAYBE MONEY DOES GROW ON TREES: A GUIDE TO YOUR FINANCIAL AID PAPERWORK PROCESS; Colleges say new health law may imperil student policies; Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird; Passion Pit Finally Makes it to the C-U, Finally!; Campus wants greater attire awareness; Older adults' use social networks growing fast, study finds; How to save public television: The PBS Channel; Pricy conditions for new book editions; Bicycle safety a growing concern in Illinois; Dogs and other pets welcome at Florida dorm; Prospectus Pick: Murder By Death; Understanding Islam

The Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Ul20 Protein And The Amino Terminus Of Glycoprotein K (Gk) Physically Interact With Gb, Vladimir N. Chouljenko, Arun V. Iyer, Sona Chowdhury, Joohyun Kim, Konstantin G. Kousoulas

Faculty Publications

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) glycoprotein K (gK) and the UL20 protein (UL20p) are strictly required for virus-induced cell fusion, and mutations within either the gK or UL20 gene cause extensive cell fusion (syncytium formation). We have shown that gK forms a functional protein complex with UL20p, which is required for all gK and UL20p-associated functions in the HSV-1 life cycle. Recently, we showed that the amino-terminal 82 amino acids (aa) of gK (gKa) were required for the expression of the syncytial phenotype of the mutant virus gBΔ28 lacking the carboxyl-terminal 28 amino acids of gB (V. N. Chouljenko, …