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Supporting Kindergarteners Coping With Chronic Traumatic Stress In The Classroom: A Handbook For Teachers, Allison Tom-Yunger

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This independent study focuses on the effect of chronic traumatic stressors on young children and the role of kindergarten teachers in supporting them. The literature review examines the impact of chronic trauma on children, the importance of resilience and protective factors, and the challenges teachers face addressing the needs of these children. A discussion of standards within the public school system and methods to promote social-emotional learning within the standards-driven classroom is also included. The handbook gives a description of chronic traumatic stress and signs of children coping with trauma, suggestions for direct individual support of children, play and the …

Soybean Disease Profiles I: Foliar Diseases, Loren J. Giesler, Robert M. Harveson, Tamra A. Jackson-Ziems, Kevin A. Korus, Bo Liu, Stephen N. Wegulo

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Extension Circular 1093 (EC1903).

Disease photographs and descriptions of Bacterial Blight, Bacterial Pustule, Brown Spot, Cercospora Leaf Blight and Purple Seed Stain, Downy Mildew, Frogeye Leaf Spot, Soybean Rust, Powdery Mildew, and Bean Pod mottle and Soybean Mosaic.

Effects Of Foliar Fungicides And Application Timing On Field Corn In Nebraska, 2011, C. M. Schleicher, T. A. Jackson

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

A foliar fungicide efficacy timing trial was conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center, NE. DeKalb corn hybrid DKC 62-54, rating of “good” (6 out of 9) for gray leaf spot (GLS) and “excellent” (2 out of 9) for common rust (CR), was planted on 2 May in 30 in. rows with a target population of 32,000 plants/A. The trial area was disked with soybean as the previous year’s crop. On 9 May before plant emergence, a herbicide program of Roundup (1 pt/A), Verdict (16 fl oz/A) and Atrazine (1 lb/A) was applied to …

Evaluation Of Application Timing Of Foliar Fungicides On Efficacy Of Field Corn At Ardc In Eastern Nebraska, 2011, C. M. Schleicher, T. A. Jackson-Ziems

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

A foliar fungicide efficacy timing trial was conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research and Development Center near Mead, NE. Pioneer corn hybrid P0832XR was planted on 10 May in 30 in. rows with a target population of 30,000 plants/A. The trial area was disked in the early spring with corn as the previous year’s crop. A herbicide program of Lexar (3 pts/A) + Roundup PowerMax (22 fl oz/A) +AMS was applied to the trial. Nine treatments and a non-treated control were replicated five times in a randomized complete block design. Each plot was four rows (10 ft) wide …

Evaluation Of Application Timing Of Foliar Fungicides On Efficacy Of Field Corn In Central Nebraska, 2011, C. M. Schleicher, T. A. Jackson-Ziems

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

A foliar fungicide efficacy timing trial was conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center, NE. DeKalb corn hybrid DKC 62-54, rating of “good” (6 out of 9) for gray leaf spot (GLS) and “excellent” (2 out of 9) for common rust (CR), was planted on 3 May in 30 in. rows with a target population of 32,000 plants/A. The trial area was disked with a crop history of seven years of continuous corn. On 9 May before plant emergence, a herbicide program of Roundup (1 pt/A), Verdict (16 fl oz/A) and Atrazine (1 lb/A) …

On Being In Relation With All Created Things (An Ecofeminist, Evangelical, Theological Anthropology), Jennifer L. Butler

Seminary Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Pacs Bulletin 2012-2013, Program In Audiology And Communication Sciences

PACS News

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Resemblance Of Symptoms For Major Depression Assessed At Interview Versus From Hospital Record Review, Ying Chen, Haimin Li, Yihan Li, Dong Xie, Zhiyang Wang, Fuzhong Wang, Yuan Shen, Sulin Ni, Yan Wei, Yanhua Liu, Lanfen Liu, Chengge Gao, Jun Liu, Lijuan Yan, Gang Wang, Keqing Li, Qiang He, Tiehang Liu, Jinbei Zhang, Yan Ren, Qunli Du, Jing Tian, Honghui Chen, Yanfang Luo, Fengzhi Zhang, Guangwei Sun, Chunjie Shan, Xueyi Wang, Yutang Zhang, Xiaoqin Weng, Yunchun Chen, Zhen Kang, Jing Guan, Yiping Chen, Shenxun Shi, Kenneth S. Kendler, Jonathan Flint, Hong Deng

Psychiatry Publications

Background

Diagnostic information for psychiatric research often depends on both clinical interviews and medical records. Although discrepancies between these two sources are well known, there have been few studies into the degree and origins of inconsistencies.

Principal findings

We compared data from structured interviews and medical records on 1,970 Han Chinese women with recurrent DSM-IV major depression (MD). Correlations were high for age at onset of MD (0.93) and number of episodes (0.70), intermediate for family history (+0.62) and duration of longest episode (+0.43) and variable but generally more modest for individual depressive symptoms (mean kappa = 0.32). Four factors …

Comparison Of Statistical Tests For Association Between Rare Variants And Binary Traits, Silviu-Alin Bacanu, Matthew R. Nelson, John C. Whittaker

Psychiatry Publications

Genome-wide association studies have found thousands of common genetic variants associated with a wide variety of diseases and other complex traits. However, a large portion of the predicted genetic contribution to many traits remains unknown. One plausible explanation is that some of the missing variation is due to the effects of rare variants. Nonetheless, the statistical analysis of rare variants is challenging. A commonly used method is to contrast, within the same region (gene), the frequency of minor alleles at rare variants between cases and controls. However, this strategy is most useful under the assumption that the tested variants have …

Network-Assisted Investigation Of Combined Causal Signals From Genome-Wide Association Studies In Schizophrenia, Peilin Jia, Lily Wang, Ayman H. Fanous, Carlos N. Pato, Todd L. Edwards, Zhongming Zhao

Psychiatry Publications

With the recent success of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), a wealth of association data has been accomplished for more than 200 complex diseases/traits, proposing a strong demand for data integration and interpretation. A combinatory analysis of multiple GWAS datasets, or an integrative analysis of GWAS data and other high-throughput data, has been particularly promising. In this study, we proposed an integrative analysis framework of multiple GWAS datasets by overlaying association signals onto the protein-protein interaction network, and demonstrated it using schizophrenia datasets. Building on a dense module search algorithm, we first searched for significantly enriched subnetworks for schizophrenia in each …

Mining For Phytochemicals: A Multifaceted Effort, Kay W. Simmons, Jack Okamuro

Agricultural Research Magazine

Unlike in animals, the “fight or flight” response isn’t an option for imperiled plants—including those grown as crops for our food, fuel, and fiber needs. A plant, for example, cannot simply uproot itself and sprint to safety from an approaching caterpillar.

But plants can defend themselves, and they’ve done so for millennia, by using an abundance of potent secondary compounds broadly referred to as “phytochemicals.” Some, like glyceollins in soybeans, are produced only in response to a specific threat—similar to the adrenaline surge a person experiences from a life-threatening event. For plants, this threat can be from a grazing animal, …

Comparing Light-Conversion Efficiency Of Plants And Manmade Solar Cells, Donald R. Ort, Sharon Durham

Agricultural Research Magazine

When it comes to using light energy, how do manmade photo cells compare to plants’ photosynthesis? An Agricultural Research Service scientist participated in a study comparing how efficiently plants and photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into energy. The study, published in Science, could help researchers improve plant photosynthesis—a critical first link in the global supply chain for food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy production.

Comparing the two systems is a challenge. Although both processes harvest energy from sunlight, they use that energy in different ways. Plants convert the sun’s energy into chemical energy, whereas solar cells produce electricity.

Scientists know that …

Vol. 37, No. 4: Holiday 2012, School Of Medicine & Health Sciences

North Dakota Medicine Archive

No abstract provided.

Statistics Department 2012 Newsletter, Statistics Department

Statistics Department Newsletter

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Botryllid Tunicates Regeneration In The San Francisco Bay, Michelle Wray, C. Sarah Cohen

STAR Program Research Presentations

Regeneration of body parts is a remarkable phenomenon that is shared by phylogenetically diverse organisms, including some chordates. Lizards can regenerate their tails and sea stars their arms when injured by predators. Humans can even regenerate small portions of the liver. However, colonial botryllid tunicates, basal chordates, have the incredible ability to regenerate the entire functioning body (zooids) from only a small sample of vasculature in a process called vascular budding. Regeneration processes for various botryllid species show some characteristic features in laboratory studies using application of retinoic acid as a developmental initiator. The three botryllid species, Botrylloides violaceus (n …

Informing Drug Design: Human Acetylcholinesterase Response To Organophosphate Poisoning, Aiyana Emigh, Sebnem Essiz-Gokhan, Brian Bennion

STAR Program Research Presentations

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is target enzyme of organophosphate (OP). Curent treatments for OP poisoning i.e. oximes, have limited success, especially without pre-treatment. This study uses molecular dynamic analysis to shine light on structure and dynamical fluctuations of free AChE and OP-inhibited AChE. Knowledge gained by the study of OP inhibition of acetylocholinesterase should guide future drug designs of more effective antitoxins.

First Record Of Serropalpus Substriatus Haldeman, 1848 (Coleoptera: Melandryidae) On Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron Giganteum (Lindl.) J. Buchholz (Cupressaceae): New Larval Host, Kim S. Camilli, Joshua D. Soderlund, David Wood, Jim Kral, Douglas D. Piirto

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Developmental Fairy Tales, Nicole Kwoh

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

At the 1996 APEC Economic Leaders Meeting, Jiang Zemin concluded his speech on economic development with a quote from Lu Xun: “For actually the earth had no road to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made” (1921). This quote highlights the important role played by the first generation of modern Chinese literature in shaping the current rhetoric of building a road to progress. In Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture, Andrew F. Jones explains the construction of this ubiquitous concept of cultural and historical progress. With a focus on Lu …

Predicting The In Vivo Mechanism Of Action For Drug Leads Using Nmr Metabolomics, Steven M. Halouska, Robert J. Fenton, Raúl G. Barletta, Robert Powers

Robert Powers Publications

New strategies are needed to circumvent increasing outbreaks of resistant strains of pathogens and to expand the dwindling supply of effective antimicrobials. A common impediment to drug development is the lack of an easy approach to determine the in vivo mechanism of action and efficacy of novel drug leads. Towards this end, we describe an unbiased approach to predict in vivo mechanisms of action from NMR metabolomics data. Mycobacterium smegmatis, a nonpathogenic model organism for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was treated with 12 known drugs and 3 chemical leads identified from a cell-based assay. NMR analysis of drug-induced changes to …

Mexican-Origin Youth's Cultural Orientations And Adjustment: Changes From Early To Late Adolescence, Kimberly A. Updegraff, Adriana J. Umana-Taylor, Susan M. Mchale, Lorey A. Wheeler, Norma Perez-Brena

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications

Drawing from developmental and cultural adaptation perspectives and using a longitudinal design, this study examined: (a) mean-level changes in Mexican-origin adolescents’ cultural orientations and adjustment from early to late adolescence; and (b) bidirectional associations between cultural orientations and adjustment using a cross-lag panel model. Participants included 246 Mexicanorigin, predominantly immigrant families that participated in home interviews and a series of nightly phone calls when target adolescents were 12 years and 18 years of age. Girls exhibited more pronounced declines in traditional gender role attitudes than did boys, and all youth declined in familism values, time spent with family, and involvement …

Observations Of Oviposition Behavior Among North American Tiger Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) Species And Notes On Mass Rearing, Mathew L. Brust, C. Barry Knisley, Stephen M. Spomer, Kentaro Miwa

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

Although the larvae of a large number of North American tiger beetle species have been described, little information exists on the oviposition behavior of female tiger beetles at the species level. In this study, we found that the oviposition behavior varied widely among species, with some species utilizing more than one method. We found that, contrary to many references, several tiger beetle species did not oviposit from above the soil surface by inserting the ovipositor into the soil. Instead, several species oviposited by tunneling over 20 mm below the soil surface. In addition, we outline recently used successful protocols for …

Strategic Plan - 2009 – 2012, Nctr

U.S. DOT Reporting

No abstract provided.

Central Washington University 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Course Catalog 2012-2013, Laguardia Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Investigación Y Conservación De La Biodiversidad En Perú: Importancia Del Uso De Técnicas Modernas Y Procesos Administrativos Eficientes, Rudolf Von May, Alessandro Catenazzi, Ariadne Angulo, Pablo J. Venegas, César Aguilar

Publications

This commentary focuses on the importance that DNA sequence analysis has in biodiversity studies and the need for improving administrative procedures regarding biodiversity research in Peru. Given the rapid loss of biodiversity and natural resources in many areas of Peru, research aimed at identifying, characterizing, and describing biodiversity is a priority for developing appropriate conservation and mitigation strategies. For current and future research on Peruvian biodiversity and conservation, we emphasize the importance of using an integrative taxonomy approach, including the study of evolutionary processes associated with areas of high biodiversity and endemism. Additionally, it is essential that governmental institutions responsible …

A Community Resilience Model For Understanding And Assessing The Sustainability Of Forest-Dependent Communities, Kofi Akamani

Forestry Articles

Recent decades have seen an evolution in thinking on the sustainability of forest-dependent communities from community stability to community resilience, which seeks to enhance communities’ ability to respond to drivers of change in ways that sustain the multiple dimensions of well-being. However, the process of community response to drivers of change is not well understood and methods for assessing community resilience are not fully developed. This paper proposes a theoretical model to understand the structures and processes influencing the adaptation of communities and households to drivers of change and which can serve as a guide to the development of indicators …

Genetic Analysis Of Relative Water Content (Rwc) In Two Recombinant Inbred Line Populations Of Soybean [Glycine Max (L.) Merr.], Salvador Virginia, Megan Pagan, Melissa Cooper, Stella K. Kantartzi, David A. Lightfoot, Khalid Meksem, My Abdelmajid Kassem

Articles

Drought affects soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] and other crops productivity in the US and other parts of the world. Relative water content (RWC) is an important indicator for plant water deficit tolerance (WDT). The objective of this study is to map quantitative trait loci (QTL) for RWC and several other leaf traits such as leaf dry weight (LDW), leaf fresh weight (LFW), and leaf turgid weight (LTW) in two soybean recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations, one derived from a cross of ‘Essex’ and ‘Forrest’ (ExF, n=94) and the other is derived from a cross of ‘PI 438489B’ and …

New Approaches To Selecting Resistance Or Tolerance To Sds And Fusarium Root Rot, Jiazheng Yuan, Rabia Bashir, Graciela Salas, Hemlata Sharma, Ali Srour, David A. Lightfoot

Articles

Fusarial rots are a significant problem worldwide affecting roots (and sometimes fruits) of most major crops including soybean, maize and wheat. Cultivar variation in partial resistance or tolerance is widespread and significant. Different cultivars of the soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] have both resistance/tolerance to the leaf scorch known as Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) and to the infection and root rot by the causal organism, Fusarium virguliforme (ex. F. solani f. sp glycines) hence the syndrome is composed of two diseases (1-3). Thirteen loci have been identified from analysis of 7 different crosses (2). Using new strains and new …

Student Perception Of Clicker Usage In Nursing Education, Pamela Fifer

Faculty Publications - College of Nursing

Nurse educators must explore innovative ways to engage students and stimulate learning. Student response system (SRS) technology is one tool educators can use to increase participation, provide immediate feedback, and encourage critical thinking. This study evaluated perceptions of first-year nursing students using SRS technology. The findings support the use of SRS technology as a positive pedagogical approach to incorporate in teaching associate degree nursing students.

Governance Committee Roster, 2012-2013, Office Of The University Secretary

Office of the University Secretary

No abstract provided.