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Determination Of Antioxidant And Total Phenolic Content Of Pueraria Lobata And Evaluation Of Novel Food Products Containing Kudzu, Sandra Lynn Blalock Burney May 2010

Determination Of Antioxidant And Total Phenolic Content Of Pueraria Lobata And Evaluation Of Novel Food Products Containing Kudzu, Sandra Lynn Blalock Burney

Theses and Dissertations

Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) is an edible vine from the legume family native to China but growing prolifically throughout the southeastern United States. Legumes are abundant in the beneficial compounds phytoestrogens, specifically isoflavones. This research analyzed Mississippi-grown kudzu roots, leaves, and flowers for antioxidant activity and total phenolic content and evaluated consumer acceptability of food products containing kudzu. Results indicated kudzu flowers, roots, and leaves contained phenolic compounds and the antioxidant activity amounts in flowers, roots, and leaves were 77.9%, 75.7%, and 56.5%, respectively. The dip products that were developed and evaluated were mayonnaise- and sour cream-based dips that contained either …

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Early-Season Management Of Twospotted Spider Mite On Cotton And Impacts Of Infestation Timing On Cotton Yield Loss, John Frederick Smith May 2010

Early-Season Management Of Twospotted Spider Mite On Cotton And Impacts Of Infestation Timing On Cotton Yield Loss, John Frederick Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Historically, most twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, infestations occurred during the late season near maturity, but since 2005, infestations of cotton have become more common throughout the entire season. Several factors may have contributed to the increasing frequency of mites in seedling cotton, one of which is a shift in production practices from furrow applied aldicarb to neonicotinoid seed treatments for thrips control. Another factor that may impact T. urticae densities in seedling cotton is a shift from pre-plant tillage to conservation tillage or no-till cropping systems. Although the literature confirms that T. urticae can cause extensive cotton yield …

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Effects Of Management And Hydrology On Vegetation, Winter Waterbird Use, And Water Quality On Wetlands Reserve Program Lands, Mississippi, Kathryn Sarah Fleming May 2010

Effects Of Management And Hydrology On Vegetation, Winter Waterbird Use, And Water Quality On Wetlands Reserve Program Lands, Mississippi, Kathryn Sarah Fleming

Theses and Dissertations

No evaluations of plant and wildlife communities in Wetlands Reserve Program wetlands have been conducted in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Therefore, I evaluated active and passive moist-soil management (MTYPE) and early and late draw-down on plant communities, waterbird use, and water quality on 18 WRP lands, Mississippi, 2007-2009. Active-early sites had greater waterfowl Vegetative Forage Quality (VFQI), percentage occurrence of grass, plant diversity, and structural composition than passively managed sites (P < 0.10). I modeled variation in densities of wintering waterbirds; the best model included VFQI*MTYPE and decreased % woody vegetation (wi ≥ 0.79). Additionally, waterbird densities varied positively with active-late management (R2 ≤ 0.27), as did duck species richness with flooded area (R2 = 0.66). I compared water quality parameters among managed wetlands and drainage ditches but did not detect differences due to variability. Therefore, wetland restoration on WRP lands should focus on active management and maximizing wetland area.

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An Exploration And Comparison Of Multicultural Awareness And Knowledge Between Undergraduates And Counseling Graduate Students, Phyllis Joanna Benjamin May 2010

An Exploration And Comparison Of Multicultural Awareness And Knowledge Between Undergraduates And Counseling Graduate Students, Phyllis Joanna Benjamin

Theses and Dissertations

In this study, the researcher examined the levels of cultural awareness and knowledge among graduate students enrolled in a counseling program at Mississippi State University. A secondary purpose was to assess differences in the level of cultural awareness between Caucasian and African American graduate students enrolled in this counseling program. The study continued the work of Cottrell (2004) who examined undergraduate student’s levels of cultural awareness and knowledge using the Culture Shock Inventory (CSI). Archival data from his study included a sample of 665 undergraduate students. The sample was extended to include 200 graduate students in a counseling program at …

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Injury And Damage By Threecornered Alfalfa Hopper, Spissistilus Festinus (Say), In Group Iv Soybean, Ishakh Pulakkatu-Thodi May 2010

Injury And Damage By Threecornered Alfalfa Hopper, Spissistilus Festinus (Say), In Group Iv Soybean, Ishakh Pulakkatu-Thodi

Theses and Dissertations

Threecornered alfalfa hopper, Spissistilus festinus (Say), is a pest of soybean during vegetative and reproductive stages. The primary damage from this pest is girdling of the main stem during vegetative stages and girdling of the petioles during reproductive stages. Previous research determined that yield losses are greater during reproductive stages than vegetative stages. I hypothesized that some reproductive stages are more vulnerable to damage than other stages. I used field cages infested with different pest densities at five reproductive stages of group IV soybean. A greenhouse study compared the injury and damage caused by the adults and nymphs. The field …

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Making Milking Modern: Agriculture Science And The American Dairy, 1890-1940, Micah Aaron Rueber May 2010

Making Milking Modern: Agriculture Science And The American Dairy, 1890-1940, Micah Aaron Rueber

Theses and Dissertations

In the late nineteenth century most dairy farmers went about their work in much same manner as had their predecessors centuries earlier. However, by 1940 most farmers practiced recognizably modern dairying techniques. Use of mechanical milking machines was widespread and growing, farmers compounded rations by combining feeds that blended precise proportions of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins, and breeders, eager to maximize the influence of productive bloodlines, evaluated their animals with the use of scientific scorecards and employed intense breeding plans that relied on various forms of inbreeding in order to fix the desirable aspects of prized cattle. Yet the …

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Exceptionally Well-Preserved Quaternary Fossils From Sawmill Sink Blue Hole, Abaco, The Bahamas, Nancy Ann Albury May 2010

Exceptionally Well-Preserved Quaternary Fossils From Sawmill Sink Blue Hole, Abaco, The Bahamas, Nancy Ann Albury

Theses and Dissertations

A diverse assemblage of exquisitely-preserved fossil animals and plants were collected from Sawmill Sink blue hole in Abaco, Bahamas. More than 40 species have been identified including extinct tortoise, an extant crocodile, and birds that no longer live in The Bahamas. This study addresses the mechanisms that preserve fossils in blue holes and discusses paleoecological implications from faunal diversity and sediment composition. Blue holes are waterilled caves with surface openings that may trap animals and surface-driven vegetation. In Sawmill Sink the talus cone within the halocline acts as a substrate on which organics collect that drive microbe ecology. Their byproducts, …

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A Novel Approach To Grass-Legume Management, Juan Kevin Quamina Solomon May 2010

A Novel Approach To Grass-Legume Management, Juan Kevin Quamina Solomon

Theses and Dissertations

A 2-yr grazing study quantified pasture and animal responses of four forage systems (FS) grazed at two stocking rates (SR; 3 or 6 animals ha-1). Using „Marshall? annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) and „Durana? white clover (Trifolium repens L.), FS treatments included spatially separated grass and legumes within the same paddock (SS), monoculture grass (MG), monoculture legume (ML), and a binary grass and legume mixture (MIX). Annual herbage mass (HM) was similar among FS at high SR (1900 kg ha-1), but at low SR, grass plots had greater HM (2900 vs. 2000 kg ha-1) than plots of legume monocultures. Animals …

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A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Liberalized Diets And Therapeutic Diets In Long-Term-Care Residents, Connie Ray Black May 2010

A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Liberalized Diets And Therapeutic Diets In Long-Term-Care Residents, Connie Ray Black

Theses and Dissertations

The population of elderly people in the United States is predicted to increase in large numbers within the next few decades. Many of them will be admitted to long-term-care centers in the waning years of their lives. Health care professionals will need to be prepared for this influx of the elderly into these institutions and for their demands of improved quality of life in these centers. Unplanned weight loss has become one of the major predictors of mortality in long-term-care residents. The purpose of the study was to compare the use of liberalized diets with the traditional therapeutic diets long …

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4-H Fun With Foods, Level 1 -Complete Book, Georgia C. Lauritzen, Darlene Christensen, Susan Haws, Naomi Weeks, Debra Proctor, Ronda Olsen May 2010

4-H Fun With Foods, Level 1 -Complete Book, Georgia C. Lauritzen, Darlene Christensen, Susan Haws, Naomi Weeks, Debra Proctor, Ronda Olsen

All Current Publications

This publication is a complete guide to the basics of Level 1 cooking, includes recipes, instructions, and food safety tips.

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Diabetes Facts, Carolyn Washburn May 2010

Diabetes Facts, Carolyn Washburn

All Current Publications

This publication outlines the different types of diabetes and the complications that can occur with each one.

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Residual Feed Intake As A Selection Tool, Jessica Crozier, D. R. Zobell May 2010

Residual Feed Intake As A Selection Tool, Jessica Crozier, D. R. Zobell

All Current Publications

This publication explains how residual feed intake can be used as a helpful tool when deciding which sires and dams to utilize to obtain superior genetics.

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Planting Landscape Trees, Michael R. Kuhns, Margaret Shao May 2010

Planting Landscape Trees, Michael R. Kuhns, Margaret Shao

All Current Publications

Trees and shrubs are valuable additions to most property, providing beauty, wind protection, shade, wildlife habitat, visual screening, and other benefi ts. Unfortunately, many landscape trees are not properly planted or cared-for.

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City Design Lecture Series: Linking Transportation And Land Use Planning, Mark L. Gillem May 2010

City Design Lecture Series: Linking Transportation And Land Use Planning, Mark L. Gillem

TREC Final Reports

The objective of this multidisciplinary educational program was to host a lecture series that will inform area professionals, students, and the broader public about the need to consider transportation and land use strategies in concert that can jointly create more livable cities with enhanced safety, reduced congestion, greater mobility choices, and more housing variety. This lecture series meets the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium’s (OTREC) goal of encouraging “… multidisciplinary educational programs and experiential learning across disciplines in the transportation field.” The lecture series brought a variety of nationally known experts in the fields of transportation planning, urban design, …

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Color Grading Of Cavendish Banana (Musa Acuminata Colla Cv. 'Gran Nain') Clusters Using Machine Vision., Jan Erwin Suarez Buladaco May 2010

Color Grading Of Cavendish Banana (Musa Acuminata Colla Cv. 'Gran Nain') Clusters Using Machine Vision., Jan Erwin Suarez Buladaco

Undergraduate Theses

A machine vision system, composed of a digital video camera recorder, a light chamber, a Pentium 4 personal computer at 2.66GHz, and named Banana Color Grader was designed for color grading Cavendish banana clusters.The test involved two parts: precision and accuracy. In the test for precision of the software in determining the number of banana pixels at 24 different loading orientation angles, 20 Lakatan banana fingers were used. In the test for accuracy of the software, 153 Cavendish banana clusters were used for color index determination and 60 Cavendish banana clusters were used for the determination of acceptability for export. …

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April 29-30, 2010 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Regular/Special Sessions, Board Of Trustees, Central Washington University Apr 2010

April 29-30, 2010 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Regular/Special Sessions, Board Of Trustees, Central Washington University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes for the Regular/Special Sessions of the Board of Trustees at Central Washington University, April 29-30, 2010.

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What Behavioral Effect Does Recess Have On Elemetntary-Age Students Diagnosed With Attention Deficit Disorder And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Add/Adhd)?, Brittany Long Apr 2010

What Behavioral Effect Does Recess Have On Elemetntary-Age Students Diagnosed With Attention Deficit Disorder And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Add/Adhd)?, Brittany Long

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

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How Farmers Learn: Implications For Agricultural Educators, Nancy Franz, Fred Piercy, Joseph Donaldson, Robert Richard, Johnnie Westbrook Apr 2010

How Farmers Learn: Implications For Agricultural Educators, Nancy Franz, Fred Piercy, Joseph Donaldson, Robert Richard, Johnnie Westbrook

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

In this participatory action research, guided by a steering committee of farmers and agricultural educators, we examined how farmers learn and identified implications for agricultural educators. Since most educators teach the way they prefer to learn, this research could shape agricultural educators’ practice with farmers. Focus group interviews and surveys with 115 farmers and agricultural educators helped us understand how and why farmers learn and the role of agricultural educators, especially Extension educators, in farmer learning. Farmers articulated a learning process that relies mostly on first-hand experiences motivated by saving time and money, learning about cutting edge research, and engaging …

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Thomas F. Pawlick, The End Of Food: How The Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply-And What You Can Do About It, Yang Zhang Apr 2010

Thomas F. Pawlick, The End Of Food: How The Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply-And What You Can Do About It, Yang Zhang

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Review of The End of Food: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply-And What You Can Do about It, by Thomas F. Pawlick

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Household Food Insecurity And Depression Among Single Mothers In Rural Alabama, Andrew A. Zekeri Apr 2010

Household Food Insecurity And Depression Among Single Mothers In Rural Alabama, Andrew A. Zekeri

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Although we live in a wealthy nation, food insecurity, whereby individuals and families have limited or uncertain access to food due to lack of financial resources, continues to affect millions of American families. The objective of this study was twofold: to determine the prevalence of food insecurity among single mothers in rural Alabama; and to determine the extent to which food insecurity is associated with depression. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 300 single mothers living in five rural counties in Alabama using the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module and Center for Epidemiologic Study of Depression (CES-D) scale. About 36% …

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The Bison, April 30, 2010 Apr 2010

The Bison, April 30, 2010

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

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The Daily Egyptian, April 30, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff Apr 2010

The Daily Egyptian, April 30, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

April 2010

No abstract provided.

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Spring Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida Apr 2010

Spring Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Spring Commencement ceremonies.

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 99 [100], No. 49 (April 30, 2010), The New Hampshire Apr 2010

The New Hampshire, Vol. 99 [100], No. 49 (April 30, 2010), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 99, but it is the 100th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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Brain Research To Ameliorate Impaired Neurodevelopment - Home-Based Intervention Trial (Brain-Hit), Jan L. Wallander, Elizabeth Mcclure, Fred Biasini, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Omrana Pasha, Elwyn Chomba, Darlene Shearer, Linda Wright, Vanessa Thorsten, Hrishikesh Chakraborty, Sangappa M. Dhaded, Niranjana S. Mahantshetti, Roopa M. Bellad, Zahid Abbasi, Waldemar Carlo Apr 2010

Brain Research To Ameliorate Impaired Neurodevelopment - Home-Based Intervention Trial (Brain-Hit), Jan L. Wallander, Elizabeth Mcclure, Fred Biasini, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Omrana Pasha, Elwyn Chomba, Darlene Shearer, Linda Wright, Vanessa Thorsten, Hrishikesh Chakraborty, Sangappa M. Dhaded, Niranjana S. Mahantshetti, Roopa M. Bellad, Zahid Abbasi, Waldemar Carlo

Community Health Sciences

Background: This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effects of an early developmental intervention program on the development of young children in low-and low-middle-income countries who are at risk for neurodevelopmental disability because of birth asphyxia. A group of children without perinatal complications are evaluated in the same protocol to compare the effects of early developmental intervention in healthy infants in the same communities. Birth asphyxia is the leading specific cause of neonatal mortality in low-and low-middle-income countries and is also the main cause of neonatal and long-term morbidity including mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Mortality …

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Spartan Daily April 29, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Apr 2010

Spartan Daily April 29, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 46

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 29, April 29, 2010 Apr 2010

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 29, April 29, 2010

Central Florida Future

Puppy love on the lawn; Uncover Thursdays; Arts up against the wall; Plus: former students host Mediocre show; Column: Fowler's farewell to all; Students work to lase fat, win title; Renovations close Chick-fil-a for summer.

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Vista: April 29, 2010, University Of San Diego Apr 2010

Vista: April 29, 2010, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

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Investigations On Some Zeolitic Volcanic Tuffs From Cluj County (Romania), Used For Zinc Ions Removal From Aqueous Solution, Horea Bedelean, Andrada Maicaneanu, Silvia Burca, Maria Stanca Apr 2010

Investigations On Some Zeolitic Volcanic Tuffs From Cluj County (Romania), Used For Zinc Ions Removal From Aqueous Solution, Horea Bedelean, Andrada Maicaneanu, Silvia Burca, Maria Stanca

Studia UBB Geologia

Representative samples of zeolitic tuffs from Măcicaş, Aluniş and Apahida occurrences (Cluj County, Romania) were investigated using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and wet chemical analyses. The studied tuffs samples are mainly represented by vitric and vitric crystal varieties. The mineral assemblage suggests a rhyo-dacitic petrographic type of the volcanic tuff. Diagenetic alteration process in the pyroclastic sequence from this region led to the formation of zeolites, mainly clinoptilolite. The zeolitic tuffs under study can be used in wastewaters treatment to remove Zn2+ ions. Zn2+ removal was performed on some bulk samples: Aluniş (labelled A1), Apahida …

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Food Security In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study, Emmanuel Oritsejafor Apr 2010

Food Security In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study, Emmanuel Oritsejafor

African Social Science Review

The purpose of this study is to explore the social and economic factors that led to the recent surge in food prices in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis suggests that the surge in food prices results from an increasing demand for food such as dairy products in developing regions. Another contributing factor is the demand for fuel-crops, such as wheat, maize, sugarcane and oilseeds for the production of bio-fuels, bio-electricity, and bio-heat. The analysis finds that these factors have contributed to the global food security with major social and economic implications for Sub-Saharan Africa where poor households survive on less than …

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