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Cultural Awareness And Provider Based Care For Refugee Women, Andrea Jean Middlestead Jan 2013

Cultural Awareness And Provider Based Care For Refugee Women, Andrea Jean Middlestead

Nursing

This disquisitional aimed to improve the cultural education of nurse practitioner's (NP's) related to female refugee populations. The ultimate goal was to improve health care outcomes and decrease disparities for refugee women by focusing on increasing cultural understanding, enhancing education, and providing a framework which NP's can utilize in daily practice. An online educational module was created and offered on the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Continuing Education website. Traditional cultural health care practices for the top 10 refugee populations in the United States in 2011 were compiled, compared with current cultural competence and awareness of primary care providers and …

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Controlled Delivery Of Basal Level Of Insulin, Mayura Arvind Oak Jan 2013

Controlled Delivery Of Basal Level Of Insulin, Mayura Arvind Oak

Pharmacy

The present study was aimed at developing a delivery system for controlled release of insulin at basal level from chitosan-zinc-insulin complex incorporated into thermosensitive polymer, poly(lactic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(lactic acid) (PLA-PEG-PLA). Chitosan-zinc-insulin complex was optimized to restrict the insulin diffusion from the delivery system by complex formation and thereby reducing initial burst release. Polymer concentration, insulin loading, chitosan and Zinc+2 addition were shown to affect the insulin release in vitro. Formulations containing insulin, zinc-insulin, and chitosan-insulin exhibited high initial burst (~7-14%), accompanied with a large secondary burst and incomplete release. Chitosan-zinc-insulin containing formulations showed extended release profiles of insulin for 84-90 …

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In Vitro Detection Of Disease Biomarkers And Drug Contaminants, Erin Kathryn Nyren-Erickson Jan 2013

In Vitro Detection Of Disease Biomarkers And Drug Contaminants, Erin Kathryn Nyren-Erickson

Pharmacy

In recent years the rising cost and increased regulation within the U.S. healthcare system have caused medical laboratory tests to become more costly and more frequently required. As a result, insurance premiums are rising, and small independent laboratories are threatened with closure as their already narrow margins dwindle. Concurrently, there have been several incidents of contaminants and impurities in pharmaceutical drugs causing hundreds of deaths and thousands of illnesses. These challenges substantiate the need for simple and cost-effective screening tests for the presence of disease biomarkers, as well as for contaminants and impurities present in pharmaceutical drugs. The following disquisition …

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Medical Respite Care For Fargo-Moorhead Homeless Population: A Needs Assessment, Alicia Joy Hauff Jan 2013

Medical Respite Care For Fargo-Moorhead Homeless Population: A Needs Assessment, Alicia Joy Hauff

Nursing

Homelessness continues to increase in the Fargo-Moorhead community, and little is known about the health needs of its chronically homeless population. An informal needs assessment completed in 2010 gathered feedback from several key informants with experience working with the homeless population. Informants cited a variety of unmet health needs and barriers to access of appropriate health care services, and the priority need voiced was for a medical respite program. The purpose of this project was to conduct a formal health needs assessment of the Fargo-Moorhead homeless population to describe and document health needs from consumers' and service providers' perspectives, assess …

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Development Of The Jagim Lean Real Time Location Systems Model For Healthcare, Mary Kelly Jagim Jan 2013

Development Of The Jagim Lean Real Time Location Systems Model For Healthcare, Mary Kelly Jagim

Nursing

The critical challenge for healthcare today is to be a high quality/low cost provider. However, healthcare is struggling to meet the challenge in terms of quality, outcomes and cost. Healthcare is in need of a blueprint for transformation, leveraging new knowledge and innovation, while consistently and reliably delivering quality and controlling cost. Integrating the process change methodology of Lean with the enterprise visibility afforded by RTLS offers a wealth of exciting options for transformation, yet there is no existing model or defined body of research regarding the application of RTLS within a Lean methodology. The purpose of this project was …

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Early Eocene To Middle Miocene Cooling And Aridification Of East Antarctica, Sandra Passchier, Steven M. Bohaty, Francisco J. Jiménez‐Espejo, Jörg Pross, Ursu Röhl, Tina Van De Flierdt, Carlota Escutia, Henk Brinkhuis Jan 2013

Early Eocene To Middle Miocene Cooling And Aridification Of East Antarctica, Sandra Passchier, Steven M. Bohaty, Francisco J. Jiménez‐Espejo, Jörg Pross, Ursu Röhl, Tina Van De Flierdt, Carlota Escutia, Henk Brinkhuis

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

[1] Few high‐latitude terrestrial records document the timing and nature of the Cenozoic “Greenhouse” to “Icehouse” transition. Here we exploit the bulk geochemistry of marine siliciclastic sediments from drill cores on Antarctica's continental margin to extract a unique semiquantitative temperature and precipitation record for Eocene to mid‐Miocene (~54–13 Ma). Alkaline elements are strongly enriched in the detrital mineral fraction in fine‐grained siliciclastic marine sediments and only occur as trace metals in the biogenic fraction. Hence, terrestrial climofunctions similar to the chemical index of alteration (CIA) can be applied to the alkaline major element geochemistry of marine sediments on continental margins …

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Evaluating Biodegradable Containers As Alternatives To Plastic Pots, Renee L. Conneway Jan 2013

Evaluating Biodegradable Containers As Alternatives To Plastic Pots, Renee L. Conneway

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Marked improvements in the sustainability of the horticulture industry have occurred over the last few decades. Movement towards better management practices in areas such as pesticide (IPM), fertilizer application and water usage characterizes today's industry. However, several obstacles have to be overcome for true long-term sustainability of the ornamental horticulture industry. One of these obstacles is the abundant use of plastics in the horticulture industry. This research focused on reducing the industry's plastic waste stream by evaluating the effects of biodegradable pots on plant growth parameters and substrate chemistry, as well as characteristics of biodegradable pots such as strength and …

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Ukraine: A Nation Without Heroes, Geoffrey Vandrovec Jan 2013

Ukraine: A Nation Without Heroes, Geoffrey Vandrovec

History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

Ukraine's creation of national heroes reflects the challenges of nation-building after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since its independence in 1991, Ukraine has attempted to "rehabilitate" controversial political figures into national heroes in order to create a united national history. Nations have always depended on symbols and perhaps one of the most important symbols is that of a national hero. A person who fought and possibly died fighting for a national cause can unite and inspire future generations while legitimizing the necessity of the state. Along with inspiring faith and courage, the focus on national heroes manifests norms, goals, …

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Petroleum Exploration History In North Dakota To 1951, Clarence Anthony Herz Jan 2013

Petroleum Exploration History In North Dakota To 1951, Clarence Anthony Herz

History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

The delayed discovery of oil in North Dakota resulted from remoteness, environment, and economic disadvantage, three of the six themes of Elwyn B. Robinson. Initially, lacking outside capital, the local explorers turned to their communities from 1917 to 1935 to raise the capital necessary to search for oil. As a result a complex group united to raise the capital necessary, but did not discover oil. The Great Depression ushered in the era of outside capital from 1937 to the successful discovery of oil on April 4, 1951. During this entire exploration period the state legislature, restricted by a lack of …

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The Tides Of The Tourism Complex At La Paz, Mexico, Anthony Dutton Jan 2013

The Tides Of The Tourism Complex At La Paz, Mexico, Anthony Dutton

History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

By 1940, the outlying Mexican territory of Baja California Sur faced an uncertain future. The extractive industries of mining and pearling had collapsed in the southern areas of the peninsula, and the remaining economic activities of agriculture and fishing held little prospect for growing the population and fueling development. The solution adopted by local government, boosters, and the federal government was to promote international tourism. The rise of the tourism complex at La Paz represented a local response to the regional problems of economic underdevelopment and isolation, and its decline began with the intense federal involvement in funding the comprehensive …

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Bracketing Ncaa Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Xiao Zhang Jan 2013

Bracketing Ncaa Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Xiao Zhang

Statistics

This paper presents a new bracketing method for all 63 games in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament. This method, based on the logistic conditional probability models, is self-consistent in terms of constructing winning probabilities of each game. Empirical results show that this method outperforms the ordinal logistic regression and expectation method with restriction(Restricted OLRE model) proposed by West (2006).

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Beaumont Glass Site In Morgantown, Wv. Sustainable Urban Redevelopment Through Interpretive Design, Brownfield Reclamation And Mixed Uses., Maria Juliana Lloreda Jan 2013

Beaumont Glass Site In Morgantown, Wv. Sustainable Urban Redevelopment Through Interpretive Design, Brownfield Reclamation And Mixed Uses., Maria Juliana Lloreda

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis project consists of a design approach to the former Beaumont Glass site and the adjacent sites, a total of 14.6 acres. The city of Morgantown and its downtown area are in need of demonstrations of sustainable development practices and mixed use design. The project design and development focus on site inventory and analysis, historic quality of the site, needs of the community, and stakeholder expectations. The applied design strategies are based on sustainable development, interpretive design, brownfield reclamation, phytoremediation technologies, and stormwater management. The vision of this project is the creation of an overall conceptual masterplan based on …

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A Study Of Direct Care Staff For Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities/Mental Illness Regarding Grief And Loss Issues, Elizabeth Anne Wood Jan 2013

A Study Of Direct Care Staff For Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities/Mental Illness Regarding Grief And Loss Issues, Elizabeth Anne Wood

Sociology and Anthropology

Social service agencies often ignore death and dying issues (DDI). Direct care staff (DCS) are left to fend for themselves when it comes to these issues. Training on DDI and GLI is scarce. Theories such as Symbolic Interactionism and Awareness Theory help explain DDI and GLI. The methods used in this study include qualitative interviewing. Ten DCS were interviewed in 2012 from a Fargo social service agency. They were asked questions about their belief in DDI and their work with clientele. Addressed were their belief about DDI effects them personally and their educational background. Results indicated there were positive perceptions …

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Towards The Consideration Of The U.S. Community College Model To Address The Need For Higher Education Reforms In Ghana, John Kwame Asubonteng Rivers Jan 2013

Towards The Consideration Of The U.S. Community College Model To Address The Need For Higher Education Reforms In Ghana, John Kwame Asubonteng Rivers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The higher education systems throughout the continent of Africa are undergoing unprecedented challenges and are considered in crisis. African countries, including Ghana, all have in common ties to their colonial legacy whereby they are confronted with weak policies put in place by their colonizers. Having gained their independence, Africans should now take responsibility for the task of reforming their higher education system. To date, nothing substantial has been accomplished, with serious implications for weakening and damaging the structures of the foundation of their educational systems. This qualitative, single case study utilized a postcolonial theory-critical pedagogy framework, providing guidance for coming …

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Violence's Law Israel's Campaign To Transform International Legal Norms, George Bisharat Jan 2013

Violence's Law Israel's Campaign To Transform International Legal Norms, George Bisharat

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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An Analysis Of Factors Contributing To Wins In The National Hockey League, Joseph Michael Roith Jan 2013

An Analysis Of Factors Contributing To Wins In The National Hockey League, Joseph Michael Roith

Statistics

This thesis looks at common factors that have the largest impact on winning games in the NHL. Data was collected from regular season games for all teams in the NHL over seven seasons. Logistic and least squares regressions were performed to create a win probability model and a goal margin model to predict the outcome of games. Discriminant analysis was also used to determine significant factors over the course of an entire season. Save percentage margin, shot margin, block margin, short-handed shot margin, short-handed faceoff percentage, and even-handed faceoff percentage were found to be significant influences on individual game wins. …

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Assessment Of Obese Children Within A Family-Based Intervention Pilot Study, Kelly Shannon Agnello Jan 2013

Assessment Of Obese Children Within A Family-Based Intervention Pilot Study, Kelly Shannon Agnello

Nursing

About one third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. Multiple comorbidities coincide with obesity affecting children physically and emotionally, which in turn impacts obese children’s quality of life. Despite the increased prevalence and negative consequences of pediatric obesity, few evidence-based practice or generalizable assessment tools exist. The purpose of this project is to transition a generalizable, evidence-based pediatric obesity assessment tool from research into practice in a local pediatric obesity program which can later be utilized in primary care in order to implement early intervention with obese children. The pediatric obesity specific quality of life measurements …

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Screening And Brief Interventions For Alcohol Use In College Students, Angela Ann Dolalie Kelsch Jan 2013

Screening And Brief Interventions For Alcohol Use In College Students, Angela Ann Dolalie Kelsch

Nursing

College students are recognized as a high-risk group for alcohol problems in the United States. Annually approximately 500,000 college students are unintentionally injured, and more than 1,700 college students die from alcohol-related unintentional injury. In addition, individuals who begin drinking alcohol early in life increase their risk of developing serious alcohol problems later in life. As a result, it is essential that efforts be made to focus on opportunities for alcohol screening and brief intervention where applicable in an attempt to reduce problem drinking behaviors. Alcohol screening and brief interventions for alcohol misuse is an effective way for health care …

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End-Of-Life Issues For Native American And Alaska Natives: A Critical Literature Review, Jodi Lynn Terpestra Jan 2013

End-Of-Life Issues For Native American And Alaska Natives: A Critical Literature Review, Jodi Lynn Terpestra

Nursing

This paper conducts a critical literature review on end of life issues relating to Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework was used to guide this literature review. In particular, a PRISMA flow diagram which outlines the various steps of the critical literature review is given. The review identified 18 papers. Although all of these papers fit the inclusion criteria, there was very little uniformity among them. Six common themes emerged; namely, communications, program development, spirituality, rituals, advance planning, and guidelines. A detailed discussion of these six themes along with nursing …

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Implementing An Evidence-Based Oral Health Assessment Tool (Ohat) In A Nursing Home, Nancy Nekesa Nyongesa Jan 2013

Implementing An Evidence-Based Oral Health Assessment Tool (Ohat) In A Nursing Home, Nancy Nekesa Nyongesa

Nursing

Literature substantiates that there is a relationship between poor oral health and cardiovascular risk, uncontrolled diabetes, aspiration pneumonia, poor nutritional status, and poor social life for the older adults, especially those residing in nursing homes. Recognizing the impact of poor oral health and putting protocols in place to improve oral health status is a safe and cost effective intervention. This Practice Improvement Project (PIP) introduces and pilots a regular oral health assessment system into the care of residents in the nursing home. Four study questions were posed. These questions were: 1) how does an education intervention on the "Importance of …

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Skin Cancer Prevention In North Dakota Farmers And Ranchers, Kathryn Marie Stensgard Jan 2013

Skin Cancer Prevention In North Dakota Farmers And Ranchers, Kathryn Marie Stensgard

Nursing

It is widely known that skin cancer is a significant health concern. Studies show that farmers and ranchers are at increased risk of skin cancer, presumed to be secondary to the increased time they spend outdoors and their increased exposure to the sun. This study examined the current sun protection techniques utilized by a sample of North Dakota individuals, who spend the majority of their occupational time outdoors. After collecting information reflecting demographics and current sun protection measures practiced by the sample, educational material focusing on skin cancer prevention and healthy sun behaviors was distributed to the individuals and the …

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Assessing North Dakota Nurse Practitioners' Knowledge Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Treatment Guidelines For Adult Cancer Pain, Lisa Maire Schoenberg Jan 2013

Assessing North Dakota Nurse Practitioners' Knowledge Of The National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Treatment Guidelines For Adult Cancer Pain, Lisa Maire Schoenberg

Nursing

The purpose of this project was to determine if access to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's guidelines on the treatment of adult cancer related pain increased nurse practitioner knowledge and utilization in practice. The guidelines were provided to nurse practitioners who practiced within an oncology setting in North Dakota to assess whether their knowledge of pain management increased and if they found the guidelines to be a useful tool to have in practice. A pre-intervention questionnaire was sent to the participants to gain demographic information, including, age and gender, type of certification, primary area of practice, number of years practicing …

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Coastal Empire Economic Monitor, 4th Quarter, 2013, Armstrong Atlantic State University Center For Regional Analysis Jan 2013

Coastal Empire Economic Monitor, 4th Quarter, 2013, Armstrong Atlantic State University Center For Regional Analysis

Coastal Empire Economic Monitor

The Coastal Empire Economic Indicators are designed to provide continuously updating quarterly snapshots of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area economy. The coincident index measures the current economic heartbeat of the region. The leading index provides a short term forecast of the region’s economic activity in six to nine months.

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Illuminating Teaching And Learning: Students' Metacognition And Teacher Responsiveness In One College Developmental Reading Class, Tasha A. Vice Jan 2013

Illuminating Teaching And Learning: Students' Metacognition And Teacher Responsiveness In One College Developmental Reading Class, Tasha A. Vice

Reading Faculty Publications (Archived)

College students enrolled in a developmental reading program often do not perceive themselves as remedial readers, have low self-esteem about their abilities, or have a limited understanding about reading and therefore are unable to engage themselves with effective reading strategies. The challenge for educators in developmental college reading is to engage and motivate students with educational methods that create an awareness and understanding of reading by using strategies and practices appropriate for students’ diverse educational needs also necessary for their reading achievement. At the same time students need to develop the metacognitive awareness of their own knowledge of and use …

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How Can Physicians’ Knowledge Be Activated To Provide Better Healthcare? Explaining Electronic Health Record Adaptation By Physicians., Cherie Noteboom, Sajda Qureshi Jan 2013

How Can Physicians’ Knowledge Be Activated To Provide Better Healthcare? Explaining Electronic Health Record Adaptation By Physicians., Cherie Noteboom, Sajda Qureshi

CAHIT

No abstract provided.

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Finding Meaning In Misery: Can Stressful Situations Provide Meaning In Life?, Jacob Juhl Jan 2013

Finding Meaning In Misery: Can Stressful Situations Provide Meaning In Life?, Jacob Juhl

Psychology

Theory and research investigating the relationship between affective experiences and meaning in life have focused on how positive affect contributes to perceptions of meaning in life. No work has considered how people can attain meaning in life while experiencing negative affect. The present work tested whether affectively negative circumstances can provide meaning in life. Specifically, two studies, using distinct methodologies, tested whether people can attain meaning in life while experiencing the stress associated with goal-pursuit. In Study 1, the salience of stressful college-related goal-pursuit was experimentally heightened and then perceptions of goal-engagement, meaning in life, and positive and negative affect …

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A Test Of An Interactive Model Of Binge Eating In Men, Allison Minnich Jan 2013

A Test Of An Interactive Model Of Binge Eating In Men, Allison Minnich

Psychology

Past research has shown that a combination of high perfectionism, high body dissatisfaction, and low self-esteem is predictive of binge eating in college women (Bardone-Cone et al., 2006). The aim of the present study was to determine whether this triple interaction model was applicable to men. Male undergraduate college students from a Midwestern university (n=302) completed self-report measures online at two different time points. Analyses revealed a significant interaction between the three risk factors, such that high perfectionism, high body dissatisfaction, and low self-esteem at Time 1was predictive of greater Time 2 binge eating symptoms. However, the triple interaction was …

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Social Norms' Influence On Gendered Behaviors, Elizabeth Ewing Lee Jan 2013

Social Norms' Influence On Gendered Behaviors, Elizabeth Ewing Lee

Psychology

Individual variability in engagement in gendered behavior is primarily assumed to be the result of variability in gender roles (i.e., femininity, masculinity; Bem, 1981). However, contextual factors have also been shown to influence behaving in gendered ways (Leszczynski & Strough, 2008; Pickard & Strough, 2003). The current studies sought to explore engagement in gendered behaviors by examining the influence of social norms on gendered behaviors, as well as how those perceptions interact with gender self-concepts (i.e., gendered contingencies of selfworth, self-efficacy for behaving in gendered ways, similarity to others of one's sex) to influence engagement in gendered behaviors. Two studies …

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Characterization Of Sensitivity Of Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum Isolates From North Central U.S. To Thiophanate-Methyl And Metconazole, Gazala Ameen Jan 2013

Characterization Of Sensitivity Of Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum Isolates From North Central U.S. To Thiophanate-Methyl And Metconazole, Gazala Ameen

Plant Pathology

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary causes Sclerotinia stem rot on canola and many other crops of economic importance in the U.S. SSR is primarily controlled with fungicides applied at flowering time. Most fungicides currently used to control SSR can promote resistance buildup in their target populations making monitoring of sensitivity important. In this study the reaction of S. sclerotiorum to thiophanate-methyl (TM) and metconazole (MTZ) was characterized. Samples collected in several states of north central U.S. were used. Three and ten isolates were considered to be moderately insensitive to TM and MTZ, respectively. Greenhouse trials indicated, however, that diseases caused …

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Developing Management Tools For Sunflower Rust (Puccinia Helianthi), Andrew John Friskop Jan 2013

Developing Management Tools For Sunflower Rust (Puccinia Helianthi), Andrew John Friskop

Plant Pathology

Sunflower rust, caused by Puccinia helianthi (Schwein), is an economically important disease in North Dakota. Since 2008, sunflower rust incidence and severity have increased. Therefore, a four year study was initiated to examine the management strategies for the disease. A total of 19 fungicide efficacy and timing trials were conducted from 2008-2011. Results indicated that DMI and QoI chemistries can be used effectively to manage the disease. Timing trials indicated that disease control was highest when fungicide applications were made at R5.0-R5.8. Results indicate a fungicide application is warranted when rust severities at approximately 1% are found on the upper-four …

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