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Calving Date And Wintering System Effects On Cow And Calf Performance I: A Systems Approach To Beef Production In The Nebraska Sandhills, W. A. Griffin, L. A. Stalker, D. C. Adams, R. N. Funston, T. J. Klopfenstein

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

A 4-yr study using 217 cows/yr (3/4 Red Angus, 1/4 Simmental) evaluated effects of calving date and wintering system on cow and calf performance from birth to harvest. Cows were assigned to 1 of 5 treatments: 1) March (Mar) calving cows wintered on native range, 2) Mar calving cows wintered on corn residue, 3) June (Jun) calving cows wintered on native range, 4) Jun calving cows wintered on corn residue, and 5) August (Aug) calving cows wintered on corn residue. Steers born in Mar entered the feedlot at weaning (calf-fed). Steers and heifers born in Jun and Aug were divided …

Smooth Bromegrass Pasture Beef Growing Systems: Fertilization Strategies And Economic Analysis, A. K. Watson, T. J. Klopfenstein, Walter H. Schacht, G. E. Erickson, D. R. Mark, Matt K. Luebbe, K. R. Brink, Matthew A. Greenquist

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

In recent years, prices for N fertilizer have increased dramatically, reducing net returns of fertilized pasture systems. A 5-yr study from 2005 to 2009 was conducted to evaluate management strategies and relative differences in profitability for 3 methods of backgrounding calves on smooth bromegrass pastures. Forty-five steers were used each year for a total of 225 animals in a randomized complete block design. Treatments included pastures fertilized in the spring with 90 kg N/ha (FERT), nonfertilized pastures with calves supplemented daily with dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) at 0.6% of BW (SUPP), and control (CONT) pastures that had no …

Nebraska Green Scene: Annual Publication By Agronomy And Horticulture 2012

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Annual Newsletters

Letters from the Head and Associate Head . 3

Meet the Staff

Natalya Nersesian, Brenda Gibson. 4

Jeff Witkowski, Ben Lennander. 5

Student news

Undergraduate Research in Iron by Grace Troupe. 6

Undergraduate Recruitment Update by Anne Streich. 7

Student Club Updates . 12

Faculty news

Introducing Humberto Blanco. 9

Introducing Amit Jhala, Haishun Yang. 10–11

Developing Stress Tolerant Cropping Systems by Richard Ferguson. 14

Alternative Crops Breeding Program by Dipak Santra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Visiting Scholars Make Most of Time in Nebraska. 16

Lyon …

Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2011-2012, Tennessee. Department Of Human Services

Annual Reports

This annual report highlights the accomplishments of the Department of Human Services for the fiscal year.

United States V. White: Further Unbalancing The Judicial Analysis Of Forcible Medication Of Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial, Cynthia Polasko

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pm Ceremonial Script, April 29, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, June 19, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, February 21, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Linking Through Libguides: Collaborating With Faculty Through An Adaptable Teaching And Marketing Tool, Kimbel May, Anna Leyba Delgado

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010

This presentation will demonstrate how LibGuides can be used as a winning teaching and marketing tool to promote collaboration between the library and academic departments that benefit from information literacy instruction. Two librarians with a diverse range of subject liaison responsibilities will illustrate how you can successfully market LibGuides across any and all disciplines and will present examples of LibGuides created as successful research guides and instruction tools.

Droughtscape, Winter 2012, National Drought Mitigation Center

DroughtScape: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (2007–2023)

Drought Planning for Kansas Ranchers Jan. 21

South Hoping La Niña Dryness Stays Away

2011 Brought Record-Breaking Extent of D4

Reported Impacts Ease as Growing Season Ends

Disaster Planning in Nanjing at Hohai U

Ag, Fire and Water Supply Topped 2011 Impacts

College Of Agricultural Sciences And Natural Resources: 19th Annual Report August 1, 2011-July 31, 2012

College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR): Annual Reports

Introduction excerpt

Nineteenth Annual Report for the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR). Reflects on the accomplishments of our faculty, staff and students and offers a review the year, and serves as an archive of accomplishments for the College. Primarily covers the period August 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012.

 IANR 2025 action plans initiated and many goals and objectives already accomplished;

 Summer Sessions is assigned to each College;

 Online Worldwide maturing as a multi-campus consortium;

 120 credit hour degree requirement (reduced from 125) approved by College degree programs;

 Entomology celebrates its 100th …

Organizational Adaptation Through Diffusion And Social Networks: A Study Of Family Consumer Sciences Extension Agents, Deborah Adkins Murray

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Leadership Studies

This study examines the interconnectedness of social networks of the early adopter Family and Consumer Science Extension Agents (FCS Agents) of the Mental Healthiness and Aging Initiative (MHAI) pilot conducted in eleven (11) eastern Kentucky counties between October 2007 and April 2009 and compares the social network connections of the FCS Agents in the other six Extension Districts in Kentucky.

This research used whole-network survey analysis applying the social network approach, a conceptual model for explaining the communication of new ideas and information within an organizational network. Organizational networks are important structural elements of organizational systems and key to understanding …

Concerning A Supplemental Appropriation To The Department Of Education., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Bending The Health Cost Curve: The Promise And Peril Of The Independent Payment Advisory Board, Ann Marie Marciarille

Faculty Works

Underlying today's and the future's health care reform debate is a consensus that America's health care financing system is in a slow-moving but deep crisis: care appears substandard in comparison with other advanced industrial countries, and relative costs are exploding beyond all reasonable measures. The Obama Administrations' Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) attempts to grapple with both of these problems. One of the ACA's key instrumentalities is the Independent Payment Advisory Board - the IPAB, designed to discover and authorize ways to reduce the rate of growth of Medicare and other categories of health spending. The IPAB is …

An Analysis Of Factors That Impact Secondary Science Outcomes In Tennessee, Suzanne Lawson South

Ed.D. Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to analyze school and district characteristics for 2005–2006 through 2007–2008 to determine which factors impacted science achievement for the graduating class of 2008–2009 in Tennessee. School size, socioeconomic status, per pupil instructional expenditures and rurality/urbanicity were predictor variables. Achievement was represented by performance on the science and reasoning portion of the ACT. Correlational studies indicated that socioeconomic status had a significant impact on science achievement while the impact of school size and rurality/urbanicity was observed to be weak. Statistical analyses through multiple linear regression produced a model in which socioeconomic status and rurality/urbanicity explained …

Populus Defense And Stress Response Regulation During Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis With Laccaria As Revealed By Global Transcriptome Analysis, Avinash Sreedasyam

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

University Of Northern Iowa Today, Special Edition, V94n4 [V95n3], Winter 2012, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
-- We are Iowa's university
-- Enabling innovation
-- Remarkable voices
-- Education at its finest
-- UNI I am a legacy family
-- Go Panthers!
-- Panther athletes making a difference
-- Getting creative
-- Class Notes

Perspectives: Developing And Defining Both Science And Science Education As Disciplines, Robert E. Yager

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

The six "domains" have been identified as features for the "doing" of science. These six are: Concept, Process, Creativity, Attitude, Application, and Worldview. They are offered to affect teaching, student learning, as well as a new way of defining science. Concepts and Processes often are the only two typically used to define school and college science content; Creativity and Positive Attitudes are added as two "enabling" domains; a fifth Domain is offered as a focus on the Application of typical concepts and process skills. It is the Domain where and how most people live and operate! The sixth Domain is …

Detection And Identification Of Salmonella Enterica, Escherichia Coli, And Shigella Spp. Via Pcr-Esi-Ms: Isolate Testing And Analysis Of Food Samples, Sarah E. Pierce, Rosalee S. Hellberg, Chorng-Ming Cheng, Kai-Shun Chen, Donna M. Williams-Hill, William B. Martin, Marc W. Allard

Food Science Faculty Articles and Research

An assay to identify the common food-borne pathogens Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Shigella, and Listeria monocytogenes was developed in collaboration with Ibis Biosciences (a division of Abbott Molecular) for the Plex-ID biosensor system, a platform that uses electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy (ESI-MS) to detect the base composition of short PCR amplicons. The new food-borne pathogen (FBP) plate has been experimentally designed using four gene segments for a total of eight amplicon targets. Initial work built a DNA base count database that contains more than 140 Salmonella enterica, 139 E. coli, 11 Shigella, and 36 Listeria patterns and 18 other Enterobacteriaceae organisms. …

Creating A Clearinghouse To Evaluate Environmental Risks To Fetal Development, Kate Bloch

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Anemia In First Simple Febrile Seizure In Children Aged 6 Months To 5 Years Old, Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi, Farhad Heydarian

Neurosciences

No abstract provided.

Exploring Teacher Leadership Development In A Public Secondary School In Uganda, Stephen Olukor

Master of Education

Effective school leadership is currently associated with school improvement that enhances teaching and learning processes. School improvement is believed to be possible with teacher participation in leadership at the classroom and school organizational levels. To create a culture of reflective teaching and learning in a school requires a shift in perception of school leadership as actions of an individual called a head teacher to a process of collective influence. Schools need to put in place effective leadership development programmes for teachers. This study on teacher leadership development was conducted in one public secondary school in Uganda to explore how teacher …

Can Consumers Be Wise? Aristotle Speaks To The 21st Century, Barry Schwartz, D. G. Mick

Psychology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Planning For The Next Century Or The Next Week, Whichever Comes First, Erik M. Jensen

Faculty Publications

I look at long term planning in law schools.

What Is The Meaning Of Health? Constitutional Implications Of Defining 'Medical Necessity' And 'Essential Health Benefits' Under The Affordable Care Act, B. Jessie Hill

Faculty Publications

One consequence of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that government will come to play a more extensive role in healthcare decision-making by individuals and their providers. The ACA does not directly regulate access to health services, but by means of a system of funding, mandates, and penalties, it essentially requires many employers to provide, and most individuals to carry, a certain minimum level of health insurance. Governmental decisions about which medical services qualify as medically necessary and appropriate may take on a new and greater importance, because government officials will be required to decide what sorts of procedures must …

Wsu Research News, Winter/Spring 2012, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A twenty-one page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

The Adverse Effects Of Aquatic Invasive Species On Native Commercial And Recreational Fisheries Of The Great Lakes And The Exacerbation Of The Problem By Judicial Reluctance To Act, Andrew S. Leung

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Harvesting A Lawsuit: Challenging The Enforcement And Validity Of Monsanto's Transgenic Seed Patents, Kelly E. Calder

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Naturally Confusing Consumers: Express Federal Preemption Of State Claims Regarding False And Misleading Food Product Labels, Taryn M. Deveau

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Correlation Of Air Displacement Plethysmography With Alternative Body Fat Measurement Techniques In Men And Women, Brittany L. Reinert, Roberta L. Pohlman, Lynn K. Hartzler

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions with serious health consequences. Techniques used to measure body fat (BF) yield variable BF estimates, and this variability may lead to underestimation or overestimation of BF and subsequent treatment options. The measurements that are most accurate (Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) and Air Displacement Plethysmography (ADP)) are expensive and often unavailable. The purpose of this study is to find the commonly available BF measurement that is the most accurate and practical for individual body types in the general population and compare these measurements to ADP (BOD POD^®) as the standard. Field measurements include skinfolds …