Digital Commons Network^™

The Department Of Defense And Its Precursors: History, Responsibilities, And Policies (1770s - Present), Lisa M. Brady

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Department of Defense (DoD) is the nation's oldest agency, founded in 1789, and one of the world's largest single landholders, with approximately twenty-eight million acres under its control in the United States, its territories, and in thirty-eight countries. Over the course of nearly two and a half centuries, the DoD has enabled the United States to assert its influence and power on a global scale, with global consequences. Responsible for the military and defensive needs of the United States, the DoD has played a pivotal role in expanding and securing the nation's territorial claims and in spurring many of …

Chemical Control Of Turfgrass Diseases 2014, Paul Vincelli, Gregg Munshaw

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Turfgrasses under intensive management are often subject to outbreaks of infectious diseases. Diseases usually are most damaging when weather or cultural conditions favor the disease-causing agent but not plant growth and vigor. Cultural conditions that predispose turfgrass to diseases include close mowing, inadequate or excessive nitrogen fertility, light or frequent irrigation, excessive thatch, poor drainage, and shade.

Good turf management practices often greatly reduce the impact of disease by promoting healthy plants that are better able to resist infections. Even under good management, however, diseases sometimes cause excessive damage to highly managed turfgrasses. The proper use of fungicides in these …

Off With His Head: The King Can Do No Wrong, Hurricane Katrina, And The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Christopher R. Dyess

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

Congress passed the Federal Tort Claims Act in 1946 to provide a legal remedy to citizens for torts committed by the Federal Government. Prior to the act, United States citizens were mostly prohibited from filing suits against the government for torts committed by government employees. However, Congress when passing the act realized that some government actions are the result of considered policy judgment for what is in the best interest of the citizenry as a whole. In order to prevent the government from being sued for such actions, Congress included what is referred to as the Discretionary Function Exception. If …

Fly Ash As A Potential Scrubber Of Acidic Wastes From The Phosphate Industries In Israel, Roy Nir Lieberman, Eli Lederman, Ithamar Pelly, Haim Cohen

Coal Combustion and Gasification Products Journal Archive

Fly ash (FA) is produced in Israeli utilities via bituminous coal combustion. It is used as a cement additive or in concrete production, and its economic value is low. The FA produced in Israel is very basic (defined as class F) owing to ambient air quality standards that impose low sulfur content in the imported coals. Because the lime content is high (in the South African coal, ,10 wt%), it is a good potential chemical scrubber to acidic wastes. The phosphate industry in Israel produces mainly phosphate fertilizers and water-treatment products as well as phosphoric acid. The production methods rely …

When Cheaters Prosper: A Look At Abusive Horse Industry Practices On The Horse Show Circuit, Kjirsten Sneed

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Decker V. Northwest Environmental Defense Center: How Judicial Irresponsibility Saved The Logging Industry, Greg Jackson

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Towards The Heart Of The Sport: A Sporting Perspective On Abraham & Veneklasen Joint Venture V. American Quarter Horse Association, Samuel D. Hinkle, Maria Gall

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Cave Talk, January 2014, Robert A. Holt

Cave Talk

Contents: Message from the President -- Harrison's Cave Acknowledged For Cruise Visitors Tour Stop -- NCA Buyers Group Talk -- Cave Attractions And Their Place in the Travel Industry -- NCA Insurance Column -- National Cave And Karst Research Institute

Tree Foiling: A Treatment To Improve Nesting Success By Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers (Picoides Borealis), Vincent Morris

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

First Documentation Of A Florida Scrub- Jay (Aphelocoma Coerulescens) Killing A Bat, M. Shane Pruett

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Jeffers, Cosmos, And Mind, Robert Zaller

Jeffers Studies

No abstract provided.

Different Gene-Specific Mechanisms Determine The ‘Revised-Response’ Memory Transcription Patterns Of A Subset Of A. Thaliana Dehydration Stress Responding Genes, Ning Liu, Yong Ding, Michael Fromm, Zoya Avramova

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Plants that have experienced several exposures to

dehydration stress show increased resistance to future

exposures by producing faster and/or stronger

reactions, while many dehydration stress responding

genes in Arabidopsis thaliana super-induce their

transcription as a ‘memory’ from the previous encounter.

A previously unknown, rather unusual,

memory response pattern is displayed by a subset

of the dehydration stress response genes. Despite

robustly responding to a first stress, these genes

return to their initial, pre-stressed, transcript levels

during the watered recovery; surprisingly, they do

not respond further to subsequent stresses of similar

magnitude and duration. This transcriptional behavior

defines the …

Plant Community Composition And Structure Monitoring For Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, 2013 Annual Report, Isabel W. Ashton, Michael Prowatzke

United States National Park Service: Publications

Introduction

During the last century, much of the prairie within the Northern Great Plains has been plowed for cropland, planted with non-natives to maximize livestock production, or otherwise developed, making it one of the most threatened ecosystems in the United States. Within Nebraska, greater than 77% of the area of native mixed-grass prairie has been lost since European settlement (Samson and Knopf 1994). The National Park Service (NPS) plays an important role in preserving and restoring some of the last pieces of intact prairies within its boundaries. The stewardship goal of the NPS is to “preserve ecological integrity and cultural …

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

United States National Park Service: Publications

The purpose of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is

• to protect the Miocene epoch fossils and associated quarries and related geological phenomena

• to provide a center for continuing paleontological research and for the display and interpretation of Miocene epoch fossils

• to curate, exhibit, and protect the James H. Cook–Red Cloud Native American collection

Molecular Identification Of A Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis And Its Impact On Amphibians In Urban Landscaping Districts Of New Jersey, Tin-Chun Chu, Meiyin Wu, Lauren Pohren, Bobak Haghjoo, Christina Soman, Lee H. Lee

Department of Biology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In urban landscape, amphibians face many challenges in order to sustain their populations, such as road mortality and infection of pathogenic Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Bd infection has been reported to cause significant mortality; however, its current distribution in the state of New Jersey remains unknown. In spring, amphibians emerge from their wintering group and migrate to nearby breeding ponds or vernal pools. Their migration pathway is often intercepted by the dense network of human transportation which leads to extirpation. This study aims to investigate potential mortality caused by human transportation and the infected rate of Bd fungus on the amphibian …

Piwi Homologs Mediate Histone H4 Mrna Localization To Planarian Chromatoid Bodies, Labib Rouhana, Jennifer A. Weiss, Ryan S. King, Phillip A. Newmark

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The well-known regenerative abilities of planarian flatworms are attributed to a population of adult stem cells called neoblasts that proliferate and differentiate to produce all cell types. A characteristic feature of neoblasts is the presence of large cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granules named chromatoid bodies, the function of which has remained largely elusive. This study shows that histone mRNAs are a common component of chromatoid bodies. Our experiments also demonstrate that accumulation of histone mRNAs, which is typically restricted to the S phase of eukaryotic cells, is extended during the cell cycle of neoblasts. The planarian PIWI homologs SMEDWI-1 and SMEDWI-3 are …

Chasing Tachinids ‘Down Under’: Expeditions Of The Phylogeny Of World Tachinidae Project, Part Ii Eastern Australia, James E. O'Hara, Pierfilippo Cerretti, John O. Stireman Iii, Isaac S. Winkler

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Last year we documented in the pages of this newsletter an expedition to the Western Cape of South Africa in search of tachinids for the “Phylogeny of World Tachinidae” project (Cerretti et al. 2013). The project itself was discussed in a separate article (Stireman et al. 2013). In this issue of The Tachinid Times we discuss our expedition to eastern Australia in late 2013. This trip took place so recently that we have yet to fully identify our material and as a result cannot record here all of the taxa we collected. Instead, we will add the taxa to a …

Why Is Living Fast Dangerous? Disentangling The Roles Of Resistance And Tolerance Of Disease, James P. Cronin, Megan A. Rúa, Charles E. Mitchell

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Primary axes of host developmental tempo (HDT; e.g., slow-quick return continuum) represent latent biological processes and are increasingly used to a priori identify hosts that contribute disproportionately more to pathogen transmission. The influence of HDT on host contributions to transmission depends on how HDT influences both resistance and tolerance of disease. Here, we use structural equation modeling to address known limitations of conventional measures of resistance and tolerance. We first provide a general resistance-tolerance metamodel from which system-specific models can be derived. We then develop a model specific to a group of vector-transmitted viruses that infect hundreds of grass species …

A Starfish For Teaching: A Model Of Hope For Students And Pedagogy, Virginia Heslinga

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

Millenniums have offered ideas about how people think, cope, adjust, and survive. Nurturing and maintaining a heart and mind to help others, to be inclusive against incredible odds and societies that act more quickly to exclude needs symbols to aid progress. Cognition, observation, hope, imagination, perception, responsibility, and self-efficacy connect well to the starfish. Students of any age need images, symbols, role models, and practice in finding ways to triumph over life experiences that cause pain and discouragement. Starfish in actual examples, metaphors, and stories aid educators in building thinking, learning, and coping skills for healthy inclusive environments.

Sex And Age Differences In Site Fidelity, Food Resource Tracking, And Body Condition Of Wintering Kirtland's Warblers (Setophaga Kirtlandii) In The Bahamas, Joseph M. Wunderle Jr., Patricia K. Lebow, Jennifer D. White, Dave Currie, David N. Ewert

Ornithological Monographs

Distribution of nonbreeding migrant birds in relation to variation in food availability has been hypothesized to result from the interaction of dominance hierarchies and variable movement responses, which together may have sex- and age-specific consequences. We predicted that site fidelity, movements, and abundance of Kirtland's Warblers (Setophaga kirtlandii) wintering on the island of Eleuthera in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (hereafter "The Bahamas") would be correlated with food abundance but vary by sex and age. We found that the species' food resources (fruits and arthropods) typically declined during a winter but varied between winters (years) and study sites. Rainfall is …

Annual Reports Of The Town And School District Of Newfields, New Hampshire For Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2013., Newfields Town Representatives

Newfields, NH Annual Reports

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

Wilderness As A Social Movement: Expanding Cultural Relevance In The 21st Century, Dylan Lang

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

This year is the 50^th anniversary of two monumental pieces of legislation: the Wilderness Act and the Civil Rights Act. Though these two laws exist within different arenas of public affairs, both have had significant effects on American society.

The Wilderness Act was signed into law in 1964 with almost unanimous support, at a time when American society overwhelmingly supported its passage. Since 1964, wilderness has been criticized as an elitist ideal representing a small interest group in the United States. As our country becomes increasingly diverse, and public lands protection loses popular support, making wilderness more relevant to …

Using Egg Freezing To Extend The Biological Clock: Fertility Insurance Or False Hope?, Seema Mohapatra

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Swords, Shields, And Shackles: Human And Corporate "Persons" Under The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention And Consumer Protection Act Of 2005, Linda E. Coco

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Town Of Ashland, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2013., Ashland Town Representatives

Ashland, NH Annual Reports

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

Annual Reports For The Town And School Of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire As Compiled By The Town Officers For The Year Ending December 31, 2013, As Compiled By The School Officers For The Year Ending June 30, 2014., Hampton Falls Town Representatives

Hampton Falls, NH Annual Reports

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

Razing The Bar: Developmental Students Shattering Expectations In A First-Year Learning Community, Cheryl Hogue Smith, Maya Jimenez

Publications and Research

This article examines why basic writing students outperform first-year composition students in the art history survey course in an art history/composition learning community.

John Dewey And Art, Michael Schreyach

Art and Art History Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

What Is The Professional Archivist’S Role In The Evolving Archival Space?, Society Of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting Keynote Address, 2014, Kate Theimer

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.

Discovery And Integration: A Framework Of Spiritual Formation For The Leadership Team Of Via Faith Community, Winston-Salem, Nc, Linda Marie Jones

Doctor of Ministry Projects

For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord-who is the Spirit-makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. (2 Corinth, 3:17-18, NLT )

The process of spiritual formation can be seen throughout all of scripture; men and women, growing in faith, learning to truly love God, themselves and God's people. There is something so special to be on this journey of faith …