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Agronomy & Horticulture Newsletter, May 13, 2011, Kathy Schindler

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Monthly Newsletters

A Word from Your Office Professionals………..1

Please Welcome A New Member to Our Faculty………..2

Congratulations! ………..2

Tree Planted In Honor of Dr. Dan Walters………..2

Mark Your Calendars………..3

2011 Walking Tours of the Maxwell Arboretum………..3

Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Spring Plant Sales………..3

For Your Information………..3

Funding Announcements………..4

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, May 13, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The May 13, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Evaluation Of A Medical And Mental Health Unit Compared With Standard Care For Older People Whose Emergency Admission To An Acute General Hospital Is Complicated By Concurrent ‘Confusion’: A Controlled Clinical Trial. Acronym: Team: Trial Of An Elderly Acute Care Medical And Mental Health Unit, Rowan H. Harwood, Sarah E. Goldberg, Kathy H. Whittamore, Catherine Russell, John Rf Gladman, Rob G. Jones, Davina Porock, Sarah A. Lewis, Lucy E. Bradshaw, Rachel A. Elliot

Publications and Research

Background: Patients with delirium and dementia admitted to general hospitals have poor outcomes, and their carers report poor experiences. We developed an acute geriatric medical ward into a specialist Medical and Mental Health Unit over an eighteen month period. Additional specialist mental health staff were employed, other staff were trained in the ‘person-centred’ dementia care approach, a programme of meaningful activity was devised, the environment adapted to the needs of people with cognitive impairment, and attention given to communication with family carers. We hypothesise that patients managed on this ward will have better outcomes than those receiving standard care, and …

Honored For Community Service

News Releases

No abstract provided.

Soil Sampling, Jeff Smeenk

Publications

This publication gives step-by-step instructions for sampling soil on your property. It gives the why, where and how of sampling, along with information necessary for having a sample analyzed.

Staying Off The Bottom Of The Melting Pot: Somali Refugees Respond To A Changing U.S. Immigration Climate, Ihotu Ali

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

College Senate Minutes May 12, 2011, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on May 12, 2011.

Watch What You Eat: From Self-Surveillance To Affective Eating, Constance Calice

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

How is it that Americans are so obsessed with nutrition and dieting and yet remain unhealthy? This project attempts to give a theoretically driven answer to this great paradox within the Western diet. Constance Calice analyzes the practice and rhetoric of dieting as a crystallization of a problematic relationship to food using a Foucauldian understanding of discipline. Using examples from the media, she illustrates the way in which outside forces effect our food choices and the power relationships formed in this exchange. To offer an alternative view to nutritionism she looks to the Local Food Movement and affect theory to …

Uab Cancer Center And Partners Host Survivors Day, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Prenatal Care And Perinatal Outcomes In Kasigau, Kenya, Allison Smith

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The World Health Organization (WHO) implemented the Millennium Declaration in 2000 to establish global health goals to be achieved by 2015. Two of these Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) are directly related to maternal, neonatal and child health. Healthcare during the prenatal period can help achieve the WHO MDG’s for maternal health and child mortality. Evidence has shown that women in Kenya have limited access to prenatal care. This study focused on the prenatal care and postnatal outcome trends of the women in Kasigau, Kenya. Participants were surveyed in three villages (Rukanga, Makwasinyi, and Bhuguta) to determine if prenatal care was …

Parent-Child Communication About Substance Use: Experiences Of Latino Emerging Adults, Kathryn Reid-Quiñones

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the current studies was to identify messages that Latino parents communicate to their offspring about the use of legal and illegal drugs and to determine associations between parental messages and substance use outcomes. Previous research has identified parent-child communication as protective against tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use. However, most of these studies have failed to examine the specific messages communicated and those that have focused almost exclusively on non-Hispanic Caucasians. Study 1 identified messages that Latino parents communicate to their offspring regarding legal and illegal drugs through two focus groups with Latino college students (N = …

A Portable Miniaturized Metabolic Gas Analysis System, Tammy Anderson, Joseph Orr

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Previously we proposed construction of a miniaturized metabolic monitor that could be taken aboard the space station to monitor the physiological response of the body in a microgravity environment. The prototype consisted of an on airway non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) CO2 sensor and a luminescence quenching O2 sensor to measure gas concentrations, and differential pressure ports to measure gas flows. Our motivations, prototype design considerations, and initial experiments were presented in a previous paper.1 This paper aims to further examine the efficacy of the prototype device through 1) characterization of the flow profile by using a discharge coefficient, and 2) validation …

Habits And Lifestyles Of Successfully Aging Women In A Rural Area, Julia L. Sheffler

Honors Theses

Older adults in rural areas have unique challenges to maintain well-being.  The goal of this project was to examine those unique factors related to successful aging in a sample of older women living in a rural area in the Midwest using both quantitative and qualitative methods.  Mental and physical health, personality traits, cognitive abilities (i.e., working memory, vocabulary and attention), and activity levels were assessed.  A semi-structured interview using a life narrative approach was also used to explore habits, family relationships and lifestyles over the past 20 years.  The women were administered the following measures: 1) Big Five Factor Personality …

May 11, 2011 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, May 11, 2011

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Spartan Daily May 11, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 53

Volume 48, Number 38: May 11, 2011, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

May 11, 2011 Greenmail, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

GreenMail (student newsletter through 2024)

No abstract provided.

Mexican Congress Approves Changes To Constitution That Would Make Access To Ample, Quality Food A Basic Right, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Nrt1 And Tna1-Independent Export Of Nad+ Precursor Vitamins Promotes Nad+ Homeostasis And Allows Engineering Of Vitamin Production, Peter Belenky, Rebecca Stebbins, Katrina L. Bogan, Charles R. Evans, Charles Brenner

Dartmouth Scholarship

NAD⁺ is both a co-enzyme for hydride transfer enzymes and a substrate of sirtuins and other NAD⁺ consuming enzymes. NAD⁺ biosynthesis is required for two different regimens that extend lifespan in yeast. NAD⁺ is synthesized from tryptophan and the three vitamin precursors of NAD⁺: nicotinic acid, nicotinamide and nicotinamide riboside. Supplementation of yeast cells with NAD⁺ precursors increases intracellular NAD⁺ levels and extends replicative lifespan. Here we show that both nicotinamide riboside and nicotinic acid are not only vitamins but are also exported metabolites. We found that the deletion of the nicotinamide …

Strengthening Africa’S Contributions To Child Development Research: Introduction, Kofi Marfo, Alan Pence, Robert A. Levine, Sarah Levine

Institute for Human Development, East Africa

The articles in this Special Section are based on contributions to an SRCD-sponsored invitational conference held in Victoria, Canada, in February 2009. This introductory article establishes the rationale for focusing on Africa as part of an effort to advance a more inclusive science of child development, provides a brief overview of the thrust of the other articles in the section, describes 2 research capacity-building initiatives that emerged from the conference, and concludes with reflective perspectives on conceptual and methodological considerations for a future African child development field.

Erosion Potential Of The Main Branch Of The Piedras Marcadas Watershed, Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico, Elaine S. Brouillard

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

The Piedras Marcadas Watershed covers approximately 6 square miles west of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This watershed is semi-arid and has arroyos, ephemeral streams that empty into a retaining dam. During the fall of 1998, eleven erosion pins and bridges were placed to record the sediment eroded or aggraded. The erosion pins recorded erosion in a range of 0.05 to 4 mm erosion and aggradation of 2 to 10 mm. The erosion bridges recorded erosion in a range of 3 to 9 mm and 1.5 to 10.7 mm ranges of aggradation. Two modified universal soil loss equations …

Interview With Michelle Markesteyn-Ratcliffe, Oda, 2011, Michelle Markesteyn-Ratcliffe

All Sustainability History Project Oral Histories

Interview of Michelle Markesteyn-Ratcliffe by Megan Rice in Portland, Oregon on May 10th, 2011.

The interview index is available for download.

May 9th 2011, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

The Cpd Celebrates Graduation 2011, Center For Persons With Disabilities

Blog Posts

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, May 9, 2011

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Video Game Theatre, A Willoughby

Theses and Dissertations

Video games are becoming the fastest growing and most lucrative form of entertainment across the globe. The goal of this project was to take gaming to the next level; to the theatre. I have devised an original piece of theatre using the CIC’s of video gaming: Creativity, Interaction, and Community and put on a production from members of the VCU community. Aside from the project, I have detailed why video games are growing in popularity at an alarming rate and why they belong in the category of ‘Art.’ With new technology and new stories being told, the gaming industry is …

Three Seniors Recognized With The Tillman Award For Academic Achievement, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2011

• The Tillman Award is the university’s highest academic honor.
• The three were among 644 students given their degrees at the May 7 ceremony.

Administrative Censoring In Ecological Analyses Of Autism And A Bayesian Solution, Scott M. Bartell, Thomas A. Lewandowski

Publications and Research

Widely cited ecological analyses of autism have reported associations with mercury emissions, with precipitation, and race at the level of counties or school districts. However, state educational agencies often suppress any low numerical autism counts before releasing data—a phenomenon known as “administrative censoring.” Previous analyses did not describe appropriate methods for censored data analysis; common substitution or exclusion methods are known to introduce bias and produce artificially narrow confidence intervals. We apply a Bayesian censored random effects Poisson model to reanalyze associations between 2001 Toxic Release Inventory reported mercury emissions and 2000-2001 autism counts in Texas. Relative risk estimates for …

Quorum Sensing In Archaea, Charles Mackin

Honors Scholar Theses

Bacteria coordinate cell density dependent behaviors by communicating through chemical intermediaries in a process called quorum sensing. In a bacterial culture, individual cells will constitutively produce signal molecules, termed autoinducers, and export them into the environment. When the concentration of autoinducers reaches a threshold, the cells sense that they are in a specific situation, which requires the upregulation of certain genes. This upregulation causes the bacteria to produce proteins that allow them to take part in a coordinated population-wide behavior.

In bacteria that are naturally competent, or capable of importing DNA from the environment, the expression of competence genes is …