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The Fauna And Systematic Of The Genus Terellia R-D., 1830 (Diptera: Tephritidae) With A Key To The Species Of Terellia In Turkey, Murat Kütük, Mehmet Yaran

Turkish Journal of Zoology

This study is based on the Terellia species collected from 27 provinces of Turkey during 1999-2006. The locality, host plants (including new records), and figures of the wing pattern of each species are given. An identification key to all 15 species of Terellia known from Turkey is presented and their distribution in Turkey and other countries summarized.

Comparison Of Skeletal Muscle Protein Bands And Trunk Vertebrae Count Between Ommatotriton Ophryticus Nesterovi And O. O. Ophryticus Populations In Turkey, Bi̇lal Kutrup, Ufuk Bülbül

Turkish Journal of Zoology

Skeletal muscle was investigated by SDS-PAGE protein electrophoresis for western versus eastern Turkish populations of the newt Ommatotriton ophryticus. The number of protein bands resolved was 25 in the west and 26 in the east. The modal number of trunk vertebrae was also compared among 10 populations of the eastern group (Artvin, Trabzon, Giresun, and Ordu) and 3 populations of the western group (Zonguldak, Bartın, and Karabük). The eastern group had 13 vertebrae except Şinik (Trabzon) specimens, which had 14 vertebrae, whereas the western group had 12 vertebrae. These data supported the recognition of 2 taxa that would correspond to …

Cytogenetic Characteristics Of Microtus Dogramacii (Mammalia: Rodentia) Around Amasya, Turkey, Zülal Atli Şekeroğlu, Haluk Kefeli̇oğlu, Vedat Şekeroğlu

Turkish Journal of Zoology

The banding patterns of chromosomes of Microtus dogramacii, a recently described vole species endemic to Turkey, were studied. G-, C-, and Ag-NOR-banded patterns of this species are reported here for the first time. In this study, 2 karyotypical forms were determined. Each form had the same diploid chromosome numbers (2n = 48), but possessed different autosomal morphologies. For this reason, the samples collected from the research area were karyologically separated into 2 groups, cytotype-1 (NF = 50) and cytotype-2 (NF = 52). All chromosomes possessed centromeric/pericentromeric heterochromatin bands in both karyotypical forms. It was shown that the acrocentric chromosomes of …

Population Dynamics Of Parthenium Hysterophorus (Asteraceae) And Its Biological Suppression Through Cassia Occidentalis (Caesalpiniaceae), Jai Knox, Disha Jaggi, Manoj Stephen Paul

Turkish Journal of Botany

Phytosociological analysis performed over 2005 to 2009 revealed that Cassia occidentalis L. is a dominant species at 3 of 4 sites in Agra district, India, that were previously observed to be dominated by heavy populations of Parthenium hysterophorus L. In order to determine the role of biomolecular interaction, i.e. the allelopathic effect, if any, on this shift of floral pattern effects, aqueous shoot and root cold leachates were determined on seed germination, shoot cut bioassay, seedling bioassay, chlorophyll, nitrogen, and protein content of P. hysterophorus. A significant reduction in germination percentage, shoot cut bioassay, seedling bioassay, and chlorophyll of P. …

A Comparative Assessment Of Fruit Formation In Some Orchid Species From The Southern Caucasus Region, Houshang Nosrati, Roghieh Hajiboland, Ahmad Razban-Haghighi, Maryam Nikniazi

Turkish Journal of Botany

The distribution and population size of 5 orchid species (Cephalanthera longifolia, Orchis simia, Platanthera bifolia, Dactylorhiza romana, and Ophrys scolopax) were studied in the southern Caucasus based on the individual numbers in a given area. The fruit set was recorded for the latter 3 species and compared in natural and control groups (pollinators prevented) for D. romana and O. scolopax. We compared the obtained fruit set values with those reported from other regions. The distributions of the 5 species were completely fragmented and the population sizes were extremely small. This is the first report of O. scolopax from the region, …

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Turkish Journal of Mathematics

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Commentary On Immune System Associated Diseases Caused Byviruses: The Role Of Ebv, Dale L. Barnard, J. K. Li

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

In her review using the human Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) as an example, Dr. Chen intends to illustrate how host immune systems have evolved in response to pathogens or in many cases co-evolved with pathogens. She discusses why EBV in most people causes what appears to be a self-limiting lymphoproliferative disease (or is it? See her discussion of autoimmune diseases and EBV), but in a very small proportion of individuals the virus causes malignant diseases of severe consequence. She reviews some of the plausible explanations that may include interactions of environmental and host genetic factors resulting in EBV associated malignancies. She …

Analysis Of Chlamydia Pneumoniae-Infected Monocytes Following Incubation With A Novel Peptide, Acaly18, Implicates The Inflammasome In Clearance Of Infection, Brian J. Balin, James D. Thacker, Charles Lim, Corey M. Caruthers, Susan T. Hingley, Juliana Zoga, Denah M. Appelt

Scholarly Posters

Chlamydia pneumoniae infection may be a trigger for the pathology observed in sporadic lateonset Alzheimer’s disease as a function of initiating neuroinflammation following entry of the organism into the brain. We have hypothesized that one entry mechanism may be by bloodborne infected monocytes trafficking the infection into the brain. This study focuses on infection of monocytes in vitro followed by analysis using immunofluorescence labeling and RT-PCR-microarray techniques. The microarrays utilized consisted of an Alzheimer’s disease pathway array and an innate and adaptive immunity array from SAbiosciences. Analysis by real time PCR for both gene arrays was performed on uninfected and …

Bo39-1-Web.Pdf, Bird Observer

Bird Observer

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Death Watch, Nancy Mairs

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

From the dozen or so death-row inmates with whom I have corresponded regularly, I have learned that many of them experienced childhood trauma, both abuse and neglect.

Finding Ourselves In The Voices Of Others, Andrea Stover

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Welcome to this year’s 10th Annual Humanities Symposium. We are gathering today and this week to celebrate the humanities and more specifically to explore this year’s theme of “liberating voices.” When I think of voices that liberate, Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to mind, and Abraham Lincoln, and Sojourner Truth—people who wrote and spoke eloquently for a cause, for a group of people who needed to be lifted up and called to action in a time of crisis.

Numerical Solutions For A Model Of Tissue Invasion And Migration Of Tumour Cells, Mikhail Kolev, Barbara Zubik-Kowal

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

The goal of this paper is to construct a new algorithm for the numerical simulations of the evolution of tumour invasion and metastasis. By means of mathematical model equations and their numerical solutions we investigate how cancer cells can produce and secrete matrix degradative enzymes, degrade extracellular matrix, and invade due to diffusion and haptotactic migration. For the numerical simulations of the interactions between the tumour cells and the surrounding tissue, we apply numerical approximations, which are spectrally accurate and based on small amounts of grid-points. Our numerical experiments illustrate the metastatic ability of tumour cells.

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 33, Nos. 1 & 2, 2011, Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

An issue of the American Society of Parasitologists Newsletter, also known as the Newsletter of the Journal of Parasitology.

Opportunities For Nebraska Energy, Climate And Sustainability, Farooq Baloch, Tim Duey, Becky Gailey, Christine Hunt, Gabriel Medina, Patrick Radigan, Jaclyn Tan, Seanica Reineke, William Whited

Strategic Discussions for Nebraska

Agriculture

Soil: Techniques and Production Methods and How They Conserve Resources Mark Kuzila

Soil Productivity Vital for Economical Crop Production Richard Ferguson

Leading Through Sustainable Management of Natural Resources Charles Wortmann

Scientific Trait Development P. Stephen Baenziger

Center for Plant Science Innovation: Developing Better Foods and Fuels Edgar Cahoon

Crops Innovations Overview Mark Lagrimini

Grapes and Wine: Adding Value to Nebraska’s Economy Paul Read

UNL Plant Trait Research Saves Water, Grows More Food James Specht

Feeding the World from Nebraska’s Research Technology Larry Berger

Research Means Better Ag Productivity, Better Marketing Opportunities Wes Peterson

The Debate: Food for Fuel Richard …

Nebline, January 2011

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Tightening Your Belt in Tough Times

Farm Views

Horticulture

Food & Fitness

Home & Family Living

Environmental Focus

Urban Agriculture

4-H & Youth

Community Focus

Extension Calendar

Nutrition Education Program

Family and Community Education (FCE) Clubs

and other extension news and events

Annual Report Special Pullout Section

The Prevalence And Influence Of The Combination Of Humor And Violence In Super Bowl Commercials, Benjamin J. Blackford, James W. Gentry, Robert L. Harrison, Les Carlson

Department of Marketing: Faculty Publications

The growing concern over violence in the media has led to vast amounts of research examining the effects of violent media on viewers. An important subset of this research looks at how humor affects this relationship. While research has considered this subset in television programming, almost no research has explored this in the context of advertising. This paper builds on the little research that exists by examining the effects of combining humor and violence, as well as the theoretical approaches that underlie these effects. A content analysis is conducted to identify the prevalence of violence, humor, and the combination of …

How Do Neurons Work Together? Lessons From Auditory Cortex, Kenneth D. Harris, Peter Bartho, Paul Chadderton, Carina Curto, Jaime De La Rocha, Liad Hollender, Vladimir Itskov, Artur Luczak, Stephan Marguet, Alfonso Renart, Shuzo Sakata

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

Recordings of single neurons have yielded great insights into the way acoustic stimuli are represented in auditory cortex. However, any one neuron functions as part of a population whose combined activity underlies cortical information processing. Here we review some results obtained by recording simultaneously from auditory cortical populations and individual morphologically identified neurons, in urethane-anesthetized and unanesthetized passively listening rats. Auditory cortical populations produced structured activity patterns both in response to acoustic stimuli, and spontaneously without sensory input. Population spike time patterns were broadly conserved across multiple sensory stimuli and spontaneous events, exhibiting a generally conserved sequential organization lasting approximately …

Nebraska Cooperative Fish And Wildlife Research Unit—Usgs: Report Of Activities October 2010 – October 2011

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Annual Reports

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1

PERSONNEL AND COOPERATORS ...................................................................... 2

Unit Personnel ............................................................................. 2

Coordinating Committee Members .............................................................. 4

Cooperators ............................................................................... 5

MILESTONES ...................................................................................... 8

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ......................................................................... 8

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS ........................................................................ 9

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES ............................................................................. 10

RESEARCH PROJECTS............................................................................... 11

Adaptive Management for the Nebraska Natural Legacy Plan ........................................ 12

Angler Behavior in Response to Management Actions on Nebraska Reservoirs ........................... 13

Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Prevention Program ................................................ 15

Assessing Local and Landscape Constraints on Habitat Management for Upland Birds..................... 16

Assessing the Relationship between Stable Isotopes and Grassland Bird Productivity on Great Plains National Park Service Properties ....................................................................... …

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Long-Range Interpretive Plan

United States National Park Service: Publications

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (AGFO) is a 30-minute drive via Nebraska 29 from U.S. 20 at Harrison (22 miles north) or a 45-minute drive from U.S. 26 at Mitchell (34 miles south). The communities of Gering, Scottsbluff, Alliance, and Chadron, Nebraska, are all within a two-hour drive of the monument. Denver is a 4-hour+ drive.

Fishes Of The Niobrara River At Agate Fossil Beds Natonal Monument 2011 Survey, Richard H. Stasiak, George R. Cunningham, Scott Flash, Andrea Wagner, Adena Barela

United States National Park Service: Publications

In June 2011, a fish inventory was conducted in the Niobrara River at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (AGFO). Collecting techniques and locations were similar to those used in previous surveys conducted in 1979 and 1989. Results of the 2011 survey indicated a major change in the fish community had occurred during this time period. Although absent in the 1979 and 1989 surveys, Northern pike (Esox lucius) were the dominant fish species at AGFO in 2011. White sucker (Catostomus commersoni) was the single remaining species from the fish community identified in the 1979 and 1989 inventories, …

Adaptive Management For A Turbulent Future, Craig R. Allen, Joseph J. Fontaine, Kevin L. Pope, Ahjond S. Garmestani

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

The conceptual underpinnings for adaptive management are simple; there will always be inherent uncertainty and unpredictability in the dynamics and behavior of complex ecological systems as a result non-linear interactions among components and emergence, yet management decisions must still be made. The strength of adaptive management is in the recognition and confrontation of such uncertainty. Rather than ignore uncertainty, or use it to preclude management actions, adaptive management can foster resilience and flexibility to cope with an uncertain future, and develop safe to fail management approaches that acknowledge inevitable changes and surprises. Since its initial introduction, adaptive management has been …

Managing For Resilience, Craig R. Allen, Graeme S. Cumming, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Phillip D. Taylor, Brian H. Walker

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Early efforts in wildlifemanagement focused on reducing population variability and maximizing yields of selected species. Later, Aldo Leopold proposed the concept of habitat management as superior to population management, and more recently, ecosystem management, whereby ecological processes are conserved or mimicked, has come into favour. Managing for resilience builds upon these roots, and focuses on maintaining key processes and relationships in socialecological systems so that they are robust to a great variety of external or internal perturbations at a range of ecological and social scales. Managing for resilience focuses on system-level characteristics and processes, and the endurance of system properties …

Impacts Of Invasive Plants On Sandhill Crane (Grus Canadensis) Roosting Habitat, Andrew C. Kessler, James W. Merchant, Craig R. Allen, Steven D. Shultz

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Invasive plants continue to spread in riparian ecosystems, causing both ecological and economic damage. This research investigated the impacts of common reed, purple loosestrife, riparian shrubland, and riparian woodlands on the quality and quantity of sandhill crane roosting habitat in the central Platte River, Nebraska, using a discrete choice model. A more detailed investigation of the impacts of common reed on sandhill crane roosting habitat was performed by forecasting a spread or contraction of this invasive plant. The discrete choice model indicates that riparian woodlands had the largest negative impact on sandhill crane roosting habitat. The forecasting results predict that …

2011 Spring Seed Book, Nebraska Crop Improvement Association

Nebraska Crop Improvement Association Seed Guides

FOUNDATION SEED

PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION ACT and HOW IT BENEFITS YOU!

TURFGRASSES

PERENNIAL FORAGE GRASSES

SPRING WHEAT

SPRING BARLEY

OATS

OAT VARIETY CHARACTERISTICS - 2011

MILLET

MILLET VARIETY CHARACTERISTICS  2011

FIELD PEAS

HYBRID SEED CORN

NEBRASKA SEED QUALITY ASSURANCE® PROGRAM

SOYBEANS BUYERS’ NOTICE

APPROVED SEED CONDITIONERS

CUSTOM CERTIFIED CONDITIONERS

2010 NCIA MEMBERS

Leo Tolstoy From 1901–2010 In Two Leading English-Language Newspapers In India, Radha Balasubramanian

Russian Language and Literature Papers

On May 30, 1901 The Hindu published its first lengthy editorial on Count Leo Tolstoy. It was followed by a personal letter to Tolstoy on June 13, 1901 from A. Ramaseshan, publicist and editor of the journal The Arya out of Madras. This seminal letter set the stage for a steady correspondence between Tolstoy and many Indians from different walks of life, the most prominent among them being M. K. Gandhi (1869-1948), who, as a political and ideological leader of India during the Indian Independence Movement, wrote to the Russian writer between 1909-1910.

Some of the essence of this continuous …

Nebraska Forest Service Annual Report 2011, Nancy Evans

Nebraska Forest Service: Publications

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Forest Service Annual Report 2011, Nancy Evans

Nebraska Forest Service: Publications

Woody Biomass is Underutilized Resource..................................2

Conservation Education: Investing in the Future......................3

Nebraska’s Trees Face Serious Threats..........................................4

Tree Pest Detector Program: Year 2.............................................5

Tribute to a Forester: Rich Lodes..................................................5

CFSL Works to Improve Community Forests.............................6

2011 CTAP Update..........................................................................6

Record Missouri River Floods Will Have Lasting Impacts........8

NFS to Work on Cottonwood Restoration...................................9

Extreme Fires Changing Pine Ridge............................................10

NFS To Facilitate Prescribed Fire Training................................11

Grants & Cost Share Awarded to NFS Partners in 2011.........13

Contributors: Dennis Adams, Jeanne Andelt, Eric Berg, Dr. Mark Harrell,

Graham Herbst, Casey McCoy, Dr. Ralph Johnson, Dr. Scott J. Josiah,

Jessica Kelling, Karma Larsen, Doak Nickerson, Jeralyn …

The Nebraska Natural Legacy Project: State Wildlife Action Plan 2nd Edition, Rick Schneider, Kristal Stoner, Gerry Steinauer, Melissa J. Panella, Mark Humpert

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Publications

Nebraska’s rich biological diversity is composed of thousands of plant and animal species interacting with each other and the environment. The flora and fauna of the state, along with the natural habitats they occupy, form Nebraska’s natural heritage – a legacy that should be treasured just as much as our cultural heritage. Unfortunately, populations of many once common species have declined because of a variety of stresses, including habitat loss, habitat degradation, diseases, and competition and predation from invasive species. While conservation actions in the past have had notable successes, they have not been sufficient to stem the overall tide …

Ecosystem Services Provided By Playas In The High Plains: Potential Influences Of Usda Conservation Programs, Loren M. Smith, David A. Haukos, Scott T. Mcmurry, Ted Lagrange, David Willis

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

Playas are shallow depressional wetlands and the dominant wetland type in the non-glaciated High Plains of the United States. This region is one of the most intensively cultivated regions in the Western Hemisphere, and playas are profoundly impacted by a variety of agricultural activities. Conservation practices promoted through Farm Bills by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that influence playas and surrounding catchments impact ecosystem functions and related services provided by wetlands in this region. As part of a national assessment, we review effects of agricultural cultivation and effectiveness of USDA conservation programs and practices on ecosystem functions and associated …

Genetic Monitoring Reveals Genetic Stability Within And Among Threatened Chinook Salmon Populations In The Salmon River, Idaho, Donald M. Van Doornik, Robin Waples, Melissa C. Baird, Paul Moran, Ewann A. Berntson

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Identifying and understanding temporal genetic changes within fish populations is important for the management of these populations, especially those of conservation concern. Such changes are often the result of genetic drift, which can be exacerbated when the size of a population decreases. Using molecular-genetics techniques, we monitored nine populations of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha in the Salmon River, Idaho, to determine how the genetic characteristics within and among these populations have changed over time. We found no evidence of change in the level of heterozygosity or allelic richness over three to four generations in eight of the populations. This is …