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Whole Genome Sequence Of The Treponema Fribourg- Blanc: Unspecified Simian Isolate Is Highly Similar To The Yaws Subspecies, Marie Zobanikova, Michal Strouhal, Lenka Mikalova, Darina Cejkova, Lenka Ambrozova, Petra Pospisilova, Lucinda L. Fulton, Lei Chen, Erica Sodergren, George M. Weinstock, David Smajs

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Town Of Hill, New Hampshire Annual Reports 2012., Hill Town Representatives

Hill, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

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Hirschsprung-Like Disease Is Exacerbated By Reduced De Novo Gmp Synthesis, Jonathan I. Lake, Olga A. Tusheva, Brittany L. Graham, Robert O. Heuckeroth

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Deletion Of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 From The Peri-Wolffian Duct Stroma Leads To Ureteric Induction Abnormalities And Vesicoureteral Reflux, Kenneth A. Walker, Sunder Sims-Lucas, Valeria E. Di Giovanni, Caitlin Schaefer, Whitney M. Sunseri, Tatiana Novitskaya, Mark P. De Caestecker, Feng Chen, Carlton M. Bates

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The Absence Of Myocardial Calcium-Independent Phospholipase A2Γ Results In Impaired Prostaglandin E2 Production And Decreased Survival In Mice With Acute Trypanosoma Cruzi Infection, Janhavi Sharma, Christopher S. Eickhoff, Daniel F. Hoft, David A. Ford, Richard W. Gross, Jane Mchowat

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Estrogenic Modulation Of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Infection Pathogenesis In A Murine Menopause Model, Caihong Wang, Jane W. Symington, Emily Ma, Indira U. Mysorekar

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Hypothetical Pattern Idealization And Explanatory Models, Yasha Rohwer, Collin Rice

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

Highly idealized models, such as the Hawk-Dove game, are pervasive in biological theorizing. We argue that the process and motivation that leads to the introduction of various idealizations into these models is not adequately captured by Michael Weisberg’s taxonomy of three kinds of idealization. Consequently, a fourth kind of idealization is required, which we call hypothetical pattern idealization. This kind of idealization is used to construct models that aim to be explanatory but do not aim to be explanations.

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Socrates In A Different Key: James Baldwin And Race In America, Joel Alden Schlosser

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

This essay interprets Baldwin as continuing the Socratic practice of self-examination and social criticism while also shifting his Socratic undertaking by charting the limits of examination created by the harsh effects of race and slavery in the United States. I argue that Baldwin's Socratic practice inflects not only his essays – the center of previous analyses – but also his fictions. By transposing Socrates to issues of race in twentieth-century America and confronting the incoherent effects of a racialized society, James Baldwin thus carries forward and transforms a pivotal figure in the history of political thought.

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Aristotelian Phronêsis, The Discourse Of Human Rights, And Contemporary Global Practice, Stephen Salkever

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Lexical Composition In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asd), Leslie Rescorla, Paige Safyer

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

For sixty-seven children with ASD (age 1;6 to 5;11), mean Total Vocabulary score on the Language Development Survey (LDS) was 65·3 words; twenty-two children had no reported words; and twenty-one children had 1–49 words. When matched for vocabulary size, children with ASD and children in the LDS normative sample did not differ in semantic category or word-class scores. Q correlations were large when percentage use scores for the ASD sample were compared with those for samples of typically developing children as well as children with vocabulariesnouns, represented a variety of semantic categories, and overlapped substantially with the words having highest …

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In Response To Need: An Analysis Of Social Work Roles Over Time, Toba Schwaber Kerson, Judith Mccoyd

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Acoustic Emission Signal Of Lactococcus Lactis Before And After Inhibition With Nan3 And Infection With Bacteriophage C2, Debasish Ghosh, John M. Stencel, Clair D. Hicks, Frederick Payne, Didem Ozevin

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

The detection of acoustic emission (AE) from Lactococcus lactis, ssp lactis is reported in which emission intensities are used to follow and define metabolic activity during growth in nutrient broths. Optical density (OD) data were also acquired during L. lactis growth at 32°C and provided insight into the timing of the AE signals relative to the lag, logarithmic, and stationary growth phases of the bacteria. The inclusion of a metabolic inhibitor, NaN₃, into the nutrient broth eliminated bacteria metabolic activity according to the OD data, the absence of which was confirmed using AE data acquisition. The OD …

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Amendment (2013)

Amendment, 2004-

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Emotion Capture: Emotionally Expressive Characters For Games, Cathy Ennis, Ludovic Hoyet, Arjan Egges, Rachel Mcdonnell

Conference papers

It has been shown that humans are sensitive to the portrayal of emotions for virtual characters. However, previous work in this area has often examined this sensitivity using extreme examples of facial or body animation. Less is known about how attuned people are at recognizing emotions as they are expressed during conversational communication. In order to determine whether body or facial motion is a better indicator for emotional expression for game characters, we conduct a perceptual experiment using synchronized full-body and facial motion-capture data. We find that people can recognize emotions from either modality alone, but combining facial and body …

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A Highly Efficient Tio2-Xcx Nano-Heterojunction Photocatalyst For Visible-Light Induced Antibacterial Applications, Vinodkumar Etacheri, Michael Seery, Stephen Hinder, Georg Michlits, Suresh Pillai

Articles

Visible-light-induced antibacterial activity of carbon-doped anatase-brookite titania nano-heterojunction photocatalysts are reported for the first time. These heterostructures were prepared using a novel low temperature (100 °C) non-hydrothermal low power microwave (300 W) assisted method. Formation of interband C 2p states was found to be responsible for the band gap narrowing of the carbon doped heterojunctions. The most active photocatalyst obtained after 60 minutes of microwave irradiation exhibits a 2-fold higher visible-light induced photocatalytic activity in contrast to the standard commercial photocatalyst Evonik-Degussa P-25. Staphylococcus aureus inactivation rate constant for carbon-doped nano-heterojunctions and the standard photocatalyst was 0.0023 and -0.0081 min …

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Extreme Wave Events In Ireland: 14 680 Bp–2012, Laura Cooke, John M. Dudley, Frédéric Dias

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The island of Ireland is battered by waves from all sides, most ferociously on the west coast as the first port of call for waves travelling across the Atlantic Ocean. However, when discussing ocean events relevant to the nation of Ire- land, one must actually consider its significantly larger designated continental shelf, which is one of the largest seabed territories in Europe. With this expanded definition, it is not surprising that Ireland has been subject to many oceanic events which could be designated as “extreme”; in this paper we present what we believe to be the first catalogue of such …

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Domestication And Dispersal Of Native Crops In Amazonia, Charles R. Clement, Fábio O. Freitas

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Recent decades have witnessed the rapid expansion of interest in and research on the domestication of crop plants worldwide. These species are the basis of the rise to dominance of Homo sapiens over the last 10,000 years. New techniques in archaeology and the expansion of molecular genetics are uncovering abundant evidence to support or refute old hypotheses about human domestication of crops and creation of food production systems that fueled population expansions and linguistic diasporas, and to raise new hypotheses. In Amazonia and elsewhere in lowland South America, archaeologists are starting to examine these hypotheses in earnest, and geneticists are …

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Terras Pretas De Índio Of The Caquetá-Japurá River (Colombian Amazonia), Gaspar Morcote-Rios, Lauren Raz, Diego Giraldo-Cañas, Carlos E. Franky, Tomas León Sicard

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Amazonian dark earths, or terra preta, constitute archaeological evidence of ancient human settlements. They are distributed throughout the Amazon basin, especially concentrated along its major rivers. In the region of La Pedrera, on the Caquetá (Japurá) River in Colombian Amazonia, archaeological studies have demonstrated the presence of these fertile soils extending over areas of 3 to 5 hectares with an anthropic horizon that varies from 70 cm to 1.2 m in depth. Associated with the sites are faunal remains from fish, turtles, and small rodents, as well as a high density of ceramic fragments and botanical remains, including phytoliths, charcoal, …

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Pryor Transgressions: An Analysis Of Whether The Nfl’S Personal Conduct Policy Can Be Used To Enforce Ncaa Sanctions, Matt Stankiewicz

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Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research And The Constitutionality Of The Dickey-Wicker Amendment, William Mcconnell

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Ethics And The Economist: What Climate Change Demands Of Us, Julie A. Nelson

Economics Faculty Publication Series

Climate change is changing not only our physical world, but also our intellectual, social, and moral worlds. We are realizing that our situation is profoundly unsafe, interdependent, and uncertain. What, then, does climate change demand of economists, as human beings and as professionals? A discipline of economics based on Enlightenment notions of mechanism and disembodied rationality is not suited to present problems. This essay suggests three major requirements: first, that we take action; second, that we work together; and third, that we focus on avoiding the worst, rather than obtaining the optimal. The essay concludes with suggestions of specific steps …

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The Effect Of Vitamin D On Human T Regulatory Cell Differentiation, Stephanie Anne Chapman

Master's Theses

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are required for the induction and maintenance of immune homeostasis. Singh et al. demonstrated that depletion of Tregs in mice results in a loss of self-tolerance that manifests in the development of autoimmune diseases such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). In humans, autoimmune diseases such as IBD, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Type 1 Diabetes are thought to occur due to a deficiency in the number or function of Tregs. The importance of Tregs in modulating the human immune system is perhaps best exemplified by IPEX (immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, x-linked syndrome), a severe autoimmune disease characterized …

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Vulnerability And Just Desert: A Theory Of Sentencing And Mental Illness, E. Lea Johnston

UF Law Faculty Publications

This Article analyzes risks of serious harms posed to prisoners with major mental disorders and investigates their import for sentencing under a just deserts analysis. Drawing upon social science research, the Article first establishes that offenders with serious mental illnesses are more likely than non-ill offenders to suffer physical and sexual assaults, endure housing in solitary confinement, and experience psychological deterioration during their carceral terms. The Article then explores the significance of this differential impact for sentencing within a retributive framework. It first suggests a particular expressive understanding of punishment, capacious enough to encompass foreseeable, substantial risks of serious harm …

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Molecular Characterization And Immunolocalization Of The Olfactory Co-Receptor Orco From Two Blood-Feeding Muscid Flies, The Stable Fly (Stomoxys Calcitrans, L.) And The Horn Fly (Haematobia Irritans Irritans, L.), P. U. Olafson

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Biting flies are economically important blood-feeding pests of medical and veterinary significance. Chemosensory-based biting fly behaviours, such as host/nutrient source localization and ovipositional site selection, are intriguing targets for the development of supplemental control strategies. In an effort to expand our understanding of biting fly chemosensory pathways, transcripts encoding the highly conserved insect odorant co-receptor (Orco) were isolated from two representative biting fly species, the stable fly (Scal\Orco) and the horn fly (Hirr\Orco). Orco forms a complex with an odour-specific odorant receptor to form an odour-gated ion channel. The biting fly transcripts were predicted to encode …

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Erebia Serotina Descimon & De Lesse 1953 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), A Recurrent Hybrid Between Two Distantly Related Species, François Michel, Emese Meglécz, Jean-François Martin, Henri Descimon

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Summary. Erebia serotina was described in 1953 as a scarce, low-elevation endemic Pyrenean species flying late in the season. At least 34 individuals are known from various locations. However, the absence of females suggests a hybrid origin, and E. epiphron and either E. pronoe or E. manto have been proposed as possible parents. Electrophoretic analysis of five allozyme loci and sequencing of three mitochondrial DNA segments and one nuclear gene now demonstrate that E. serotina results from the cross between E. epiphron females and E. pronoe males. We have used our and previously published sequence data to generate a …

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Congenital Transmission Of Neospora Caninum In White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus), J. P. Dubey, M. C. Jenkins, O. C. H. Kwok, L. R. Ferreira, S. Choudhary, S. K. Verma, I. Villena, E. Butler, M. Carstensen

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Neosporosis is an important cause of bovine abortion worldwide. Many aspects of transmission of Neospora caninum in nature are unknown. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is considered one of the most important wildlife reservoirs of N. caninum in the USA. During the hunting seasons of 2008, 2009, and 2010, brains of 155 white-tailed deer fetuses were bioassayed in mice for protozoal isolation. Viable N. caninum (NcWTDMn1, NcWTDMn2) was isolated from the brains of two fetuses by bioassays in mice, and subsequent propagation in cell culture. Dams of these two infected fetuses had antibodies to N. caninum by Neospora …

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Glyphosate And Fungicide Effects On Cercospora Leaf Spot In Four Glyphosate-Resistant Sugar Beet (Beta Vulgaris) Varieties, William W. Kirk, Linda E. Hanson, Christy L. Sprague

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The potential for improved management of Cercospora leaf spot (CLS), caused by Cercospora beticola, using the herbicide glyphosate in glyphosate-resistant sugar beet varieties was investigated. Controlled field experiments were conducted in 2008 and 2009 to determine if glyphosate and glyphosatee‒fungicide combinations improved the management of CLS in four commercial varieties of glyphosate-resistant sugar beet. Variety and fungicide main effects were significant for CLS development. However, regardless of the herbicide program, glyphosate or a conventional herbicide program, CLS development was not affected. Therefore, results from of this research indicate that glyphosate and glyphosatee‒fungicide combinations do not significantly contribute to CLS …

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Invited Review: Sustainability Of The Us Dairy Industry, M. A. G. Von Keyserlingk, N. P. Martin, E. Kebreab, K. F. Knowlton, R.J. Grant, M. Stephenson Ii, C.J. Sniffen, J.P. Harner Iii, A.D. Wright, S.I. Smith

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The US dairy industry has realized tremendous improvements in efficiencies and milk production since the 1940s. During this time, farm and total cow numbers have decreased and average herd size has increased. This intensification, combined with the shift to a largely urban public, has resulted in increased scrutiny of the dairy industry by social and environmental movements and increased concern regarding the dairy industry’s sustainability. In response to these concerns, a group of scientists specializing in animal welfare, nutrient management, greenhouse gas emissions, animal science, agronomy, agricultural engineering, microbiology, and economics undertook a critical review of the US dairy industry. …

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Technical Note: Whole-Pen Assessments Of Nutrient Excretion And Digestibility From Dairy Replacement Heifers Housed In Sand-Bedded Freestalls, W. K. Coblentz, P. C. Hoffman, N. M. Esser, M. G. Bertram

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Our objectives were to describe and test refined procedures for quantifying excreta produced from whole pens of dairy heifers. Previous research efforts attempting to make whole-pen measurements of excreta output have been complicated by the use of organic bedding, which requires cumbersome analytical techniques to quantify excreta apart from the bedding. Research pens equipped with sand-bedded freestalls offer a unique opportunity for refinement of whole-pen fecal collection methods, primarily because sand-bedded freestall systems contain no organic bedding; therefore, concentrations of ash within the manure, sand, and feces can be used to correct for contamination of manure by sand bedding. This …

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Distribution Of Psocids (Psocoptera) In Temperature Gradients In Stored Wheat, James E. Throne, Paul W. Flinn

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Psocids have become important pests of stored products during the last two decades, but little is known about their behavior or ecology. We examined distribution of Liposcelis bostrychophila Badonnel (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae), Liposcelis entomophila (Enderlein), and Liposcelis paeta (Pearman), three of the main psocid pests of stored grain throughout the grain growing regions of the world, in temperature gradients of 20°-24°C, 20°-30°C, and 20°-42°C in small bulks of wheat to determine their ecological preferences. Psocids consistently preferred the warmest regions of the gradients, except in the 20-42°C gradients. Over 80 and 78% of psocids moved to the warmest region of the …

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Town Of Hill, New Hampshire Annual Reports 2012., Hill Town Representatives

Hill, NH Annual Reports

Hirschsprung-Like Disease Is Exacerbated By Reduced De Novo Gmp Synthesis, Jonathan I. Lake, Olga A. Tusheva, Brittany L. Graham, Robert O. Heuckeroth

Open Access Publications

Open Access Publications

The Absence Of Myocardial Calcium-Independent Phospholipase A2Γ Results In Impaired Prostaglandin E2 Production And Decreased Survival In Mice With Acute Trypanosoma Cruzi Infection, Janhavi Sharma, Christopher S. Eickhoff, Daniel F. Hoft, David A. Ford, Richard W. Gross, Jane Mchowat

Open Access Publications

Estrogenic Modulation Of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Infection Pathogenesis In A Murine Menopause Model, Caihong Wang, Jane W. Symington, Emily Ma, Indira U. Mysorekar

Open Access Publications

Hypothetical Pattern Idealization And Explanatory Models, Yasha Rohwer, Collin Rice

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

Socrates In A Different Key: James Baldwin And Race In America, Joel Alden Schlosser

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

Aristotelian Phronêsis, The Discourse Of Human Rights, And Contemporary Global Practice, Stephen Salkever

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

Lexical Composition In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asd), Leslie Rescorla, Paige Safyer

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

In Response To Need: An Analysis Of Social Work Roles Over Time, Toba Schwaber Kerson, Judith Mccoyd

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

Acoustic Emission Signal Of Lactococcus Lactis Before And After Inhibition With Nan3 And Infection With Bacteriophage C2, Debasish Ghosh, John M. Stencel, Clair D. Hicks, Frederick Payne, Didem Ozevin

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Amendment (2013)

Amendment, 2004-

Emotion Capture: Emotionally Expressive Characters For Games, Cathy Ennis, Ludovic Hoyet, Arjan Egges, Rachel Mcdonnell

Conference papers

A Highly Efficient Tio2-Xcx Nano-Heterojunction Photocatalyst For Visible-Light Induced Antibacterial Applications, Vinodkumar Etacheri, Michael Seery, Stephen Hinder, Georg Michlits, Suresh Pillai

Articles

Extreme Wave Events In Ireland: 14 680 Bp–2012, Laura Cooke, John M. Dudley, Frédéric Dias

Articles

Domestication And Dispersal Of Native Crops In Amazonia, Charles R. Clement, Fábio O. Freitas

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Terras Pretas De Índio Of The Caquetá-Japurá River (Colombian Amazonia), Gaspar Morcote-Rios, Lauren Raz, Diego Giraldo-Cañas, Carlos E. Franky, Tomas León Sicard

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Pryor Transgressions: An Analysis Of Whether The Nfl’S Personal Conduct Policy Can Be Used To Enforce Ncaa Sanctions, Matt Stankiewicz

Student Works

Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research And The Constitutionality Of The Dickey-Wicker Amendment, William Mcconnell

Student Works

Ethics And The Economist: What Climate Change Demands Of Us, Julie A. Nelson

Economics Faculty Publication Series

The Effect Of Vitamin D On Human T Regulatory Cell Differentiation, Stephanie Anne Chapman

Master's Theses

Vulnerability And Just Desert: A Theory Of Sentencing And Mental Illness, E. Lea Johnston

UF Law Faculty Publications

Molecular Characterization And Immunolocalization Of The Olfactory Co-Receptor Orco From Two Blood-Feeding Muscid Flies, The Stable Fly (Stomoxys Calcitrans, L.) And The Horn Fly (Haematobia Irritans Irritans, L.), P. U. Olafson

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Erebia Serotina Descimon & De Lesse 1953 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), A Recurrent Hybrid Between Two Distantly Related Species, François Michel, Emese Meglécz, Jean-François Martin, Henri Descimon

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Congenital Transmission Of Neospora Caninum In White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus), J. P. Dubey, M. C. Jenkins, O. C. H. Kwok, L. R. Ferreira, S. Choudhary, S. K. Verma, I. Villena, E. Butler, M. Carstensen

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Glyphosate And Fungicide Effects On Cercospora Leaf Spot In Four Glyphosate-Resistant Sugar Beet (Beta Vulgaris) Varieties, William W. Kirk, Linda E. Hanson, Christy L. Sprague

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Invited Review: Sustainability Of The Us Dairy Industry, M. A. G. Von Keyserlingk, N. P. Martin, E. Kebreab, K. F. Knowlton, R.J. Grant, M. Stephenson Ii, C.J. Sniffen, J.P. Harner Iii, A.D. Wright, S.I. Smith

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Technical Note: Whole-Pen Assessments Of Nutrient Excretion And Digestibility From Dairy Replacement Heifers Housed In Sand-Bedded Freestalls, W. K. Coblentz, P. C. Hoffman, N. M. Esser, M. G. Bertram

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Distribution Of Psocids (Psocoptera) In Temperature Gradients In Stored Wheat, James E. Throne, Paul W. Flinn

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications