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Summer Grazing Options, S. Ray Smith, Krista Lea

Kentucky Grazing Conference

During the last 15 years there have been several new forage species that have emerged as useful in grazing systems and many new varieties have been released of traditional species. There are many sources of information on summer grazing options. We especially encourage you to read the publication written by Dr. Garry Lacefield and colleagues, “Extending Grazing and Reducing Stored Feed Needs” (AGR-199, www.uky.edu/Ag/Forage/agr199.pdf). I have used information from this publication and other publications from the University of Kentucky Forage Website (www.uky.edu/Ag/Forage) in writing this article.

Technical Service Provider: What Is It And Why Is It Important To You?, Bill Payne

Kentucky Grazing Conference

Progressive graziers and forage managers are continually looking to improve their operations’ productivity. The opportunity exists to have a Grazing Management Plan developed for your operation at little or no cost to you. By contacting your county NRCS office, you can apply to have this plan developed by a Technical Service Provider, an independent professional certified by NRCS.

Forage Legumes: Their Importance And Management In Profitable Livestock Systems, Ben M. Goff

Kentucky Grazing Conference

The landscape of most Kentucky operations is heavily dominated by the utilization of cool-season grasses as the primary source of forage for livestock. However, legumes species, such alfalfa and red or white clovers are an essential component to a complete forage-livestock system. Relative to grasses alone, incorporating legumes into a mixture has the benefits of improving the nutritive value of the available forage in the field, extending the grazing season by increasing the yield of forage during the early summer months, and providing a more economical source of N compared to commercial fertilizers. This paper will briefly describe each of …

Maximizing Stocker Gains On Pastures, Jeff Lehmkuhler

Kentucky Grazing Conference

Stocker enterprises by definition utilize pasture forages to add weight to light weight feeder cattle. These operations add value to calves by assimilating small groups of calves and combining them into larger uniform packages. Stocker operators also enhance quality through livestock husbandry practices that “upgrade” feeders which could include castrating bulls, dehorning, improving immunity and other attributes. In an effort to optimize profit margins, stocker operators must manage feeders to ensure high rates of gain while finding a balance in stocking rates that provide adequate gains per acre.

Naco-Av Workshop, Peter H. Lisius

OLAC Conferences

This workshop is aimed at individuals either currently participating in or desiring to participate in the NACO-AV Funnel Project, in addition to those wishing to learn how to create name-authority records in the RDA environment. The construction of both authorized and variant access points for personal name, corporate name, and titles will be covered, specifically based on MARC encoding. Participants will also be instructed on using entities and notes related to authorized access points. Instruction will be based on RDA guidelines, LC-PCC PSs, and other documentation from the Library of Congress. Following completion of the workshop, individuals who are not …

Grazing Method: Tool Or Toolbox?, Garry D. Lacefield

Kentucky Grazing Conference

This conference makes the 15th consecutive year we have devoted a full day to Grazing. Kentucky is a great state for grazing animals since we have a relatively long pasture season, can grow many forage grasses and legumes and a long tradition of producing quality animal products from quality pasture. We have tremendous potential to improve our overall grazing efficiency and the discussion throughout the day will address many of the practical strategies for improvements.

Foreword And Kfgc Award Winners [2014], Garry D. Lacefield, Christi L. Forsythe

Kentucky Grazing Conference

No abstract provided.

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol 5 Issue 7, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

The Santa Clara, 2014-10-23, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

Ucc Minutes October 23, 2014, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

No abstract provided.

Higgs Boson Mass In The Standard Model At Two-Loop Order And Beyond, Steve P. Martin, David G. Robertson

Physics Faculty Scholarship

We calculate the mass of the Higgs boson in the standard model in terms of the underlying Lagrangian parameters at complete 2-loop order with leading 3-loop corrections. A computer program implementing the results is provided. The program also computes and minimizes the standard model effective potential in Landau gauge at 2-loop order with leading 3-loop corrections.

Public School Science Education And Geographically-Specific Environmental Sustainability Issues: Implications For Social Work Education, Amanda Gallion

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The focus of this project was to examine the educational practices of Kentucky-based public school teachers (grades 4th-8th) related to their efforts to incorporate sustainability into the science classroom and specifically related to the teachers’ focus or lack of focus on karst landscape. The major themes that were analyzed were how educators include this content into their classroom material and how this impacts their students in the area of environmental sustainability. The themes analyzed were: environmental sustainability as a lifestyle choice; education about environmental sustainability, the nexus of family, school, and community; the importance of geographical context in regards to …

Ecogeomorphic Feedbacks And Flood Loss Of Riparian Tree Seedlings In Meandering Channel Experiments, Li Kui, John C. Stella, Anne Lightbody, Andrew C. Wilcox

Geosciences Faculty Publications

During floods, fluvial forces interact with riparian plants to influence evolution of river morphology and floodplain plant community development. Understanding of these interactions, however, is constrained by insufficient precision and control of drivers in field settings, and insufficient realism in laboratory studies. We completed a novel set of flume experiments using woody seedlings planted on a sandbar within an outdoor meandering stream channel. We quantified effects on local sedimentation and seedling loss to scour and burial across realistic ranges of woody plant morphologies (Populus versus Tamarix species), densities (240 plants m^-2 versus 24 m^-2), and sediment …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Holloway, Kae. WKU, State Policies Questioned After Election – Regents, Barbara Burch, Nepotism
• Brown, Leah. All-Gender: Single-Occupancy Restrooms to be Renamed
• Mudd, Aaron. Students Get a Taste of Ecuadorian Culture – Dining Services
• Henderson, Andrew. Pecha Kucha Provides Variety of Opportunity
• Pettway, Shantel. Ask in the Dark Provides Sexual Awareness for Students – Housing & Residence Life
• Editorial Cartoon Guthrie Bell Tower
• Cole, Tanner. 10 Best Songs Played by the Guthrie Bell Tower
• Parker, Jacob. Happiness Is Brews Can Get You Out of the Blues – Alcohol
• Pope, Jake. …

Seminar: Designing Optimal Spraying Strategies For Controlling Re-Infestation By Chagas Vectors, Oct. 23, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Mindful Learning Model, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Khalid Sayood

Discipline-Based Education Research Group Speaker Series

Earlier we published the Unified Learning Model which speaks to learning based on achieieving the "top slot" in working memory, repetition, and connections. The Mindful Learning Model accounts for more recent understandings of learning, and especially connections to "consciousness." The model has many parts. Inputs to the brain from sensors (eyes, ears) are not so much information about what is perceived but about discrepancies between that perception and one's mental model of the current context. The voices in our heads are after‐the fact reports rather than realtime executives. Working memory is a series of detectable brain events taking place over …

Keck-I Mosfire Spectroscopy Of Compact Star-Forming Galaxies At Z ≳ 2: High Velocity Dispersions In Progenitors Of Compact Quiescent Galaxies, Guillermo Barro, Jonathan R. Trump, David C. Koo, Avishai Dekel, Susan A. Kassin, Dale D. Kocevski, Sandra M. Faber, Arjen Van Der Wel, Yicheng Guo, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Elisa Toloba, Jerome J. Fang, Camilla Pacifici, Raymond Simons, Randy D. Campbell, Daniel Ceverino, Steven L. Finkelstein, Bob Goodrich, Marc Kassis, Anton M. Koekemoer, Nicholas P. Konidaris, Rachel C. Livermore, James E. Lyke, Bahram Mobasher, Hooshang Nayyeri, Michael Peth, Joel R. Primack, Luca Rizzi, Rachel S. Somerville, Gregory D. Wirth, Adi Zolotov

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present Keck-I MOSFIRE near-infrared spectroscopy for a sample of 13 compact star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at redshift 2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5 with star formation rates of SFR ~ 100 M _☉ yr^–1 and masses of log(M/M _☉) ~10.8. . . .

For the remainder of the abstract, please visit:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/795/2/145

Denis Sheils V. Pennsbury School District

2014 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

On The Excursion Probabilities Of Gaussian Random Fields, Yimin Xiao

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Excursion probabilities of Gaussian random fields have many applications in statistics (e.g., scanning statistic and control of false discovery rate (FDR)) and in other areas. In this talk, we consider the excursion probabilities of two types of multivariate Gaussian random fields: those with smooth sample functions, and those with non-smooth (or fractal) sample functions. An important class of such random fields are those with Matérn cross-covariance functions studied by Gneiting, Kleiber, and Schlather (2010). For smooth Gaussian random fields, it is shown that the “Expected Euler Characteristic Heuristic” still holds; and nonsmooth Gaussian random fields, we prove an asymptotic result …

A Causal Model To Predict Organizational Knowledge Sharing Via Information And Communication Technologies, Simon Cleveland

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Knowledge management literature identifies numerous barriers that inhibit employees' knowledge seeking and knowledge contributing practices via information and communication technologies (ICTs). Presently, there is a significant gap in the literature that explains what factors promote common knowledge sharing barriers. To bridge this gap, this study examined two research questions: 1) What are the potential factors that contribute to the commonly accepted barriers to knowledge sharing?, and 2) How do these factors impact employees' use of ICTs for knowledge seeking and knowledge contributing? Literature review of 103 knowledge management articles identified three major barriers to knowledge sharing practices (lack of time, …

Structure, Stability, And Substituent Effects In Aromatic S-Nitrosothiols: The Crucial Effect Of A Cascading Negative Hyperconjugation/Conjugation Interaction, Matthew Flister, Qadir K. Timerghazin

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

Aromatic S-nitrosothiols (RSNOs) are of significant interest as potential donors of nitric oxide and related biologically active molecules. Here, we address a number of poorly understood properties of these species via a detailed density functional theory and the natural bond orbital (NBO) investigation of the parent PhSNO molecule. We find that the characteristic perpendicular orientation of the −SNO group relative to the phenyl ring is determined by a combination of the steric factors and the donor–acceptor interactions including, in particular, a cascading orbital interaction involving electron delocalization from the oxygen lone pair to the σ-antibonding S–N orbital and then …

Academic And Assessment Committee, October 23, 2014, Coastal Carolina University

Board of Trustees Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Improving Airplane Touchdown Control By Utilizing The Adverse Elevator Effect, Nihad E. Daidzic Ph.D., Sc.D.

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

The main objective of this original research article is to understand the short-term dynamic behavior of the transport-category airplane during landing flare elevator control application. Increasing the pitch angle to arrest the sink rate, the elevator will have to produce negative lift to rotate the airplane’s nose upward. This has an immediate adverse effect of initially accelerating airplane downward. A mathematical model of landing flare based on the flat-Earth longitudinal dynamics of rigid airplane was developed which is realistic only on very short time-scales as pitch stiffness and damping were neglected. Pilot control scenarios using impulse and step elevator pull-up …

The East Texan, 2014-10-23, Texas A&M University-Commerce

All Issues

A color copy of The East Texan, a student newspaper published at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Assessments Of Surface-Pelagic Drift Communities And Behavior Of Early Juvenile Sea Turtles In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Robert F. Hardy

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Knowledge of species distribution and habitat associations are essential for conservation measures. Such information is lacking for many marine species due to their occupancy of broad and ephemeral habitats that are difficult to access for study. Sea turtles, specifically the surface-pelagic juvenile stage of some species, are a group for which significant knowledge gaps remain surrounding their distribution and habitat use. Recent research has confirmed the long-standing hypothesis that the surface-pelagic juvenile stage occurs within surface-pelagic drift communities (SPDC). Within the North Atlantic and surrounding basins, the holopelagic macroalgae Sargassum spp. dominates SPDC and serves as a remotely-detectable indicator of …

Synthesizing An Agent-Based Heterogeneous Population Model For Epidemic Surveillance, Madiha Sahar, Nadra Guizani, S Besalamah, M.N. Ayyaz, M. Ahmad, T. Mustafa, Arif Ghafoor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this paper we propose a probabilistic approach to synthesize an agent-based heterogeneous population interaction model to study the spatio-temporal dynamics of an air-born epidemic, such as influenza, in a metropolitan area. The methodology is generic in nature and can generate a baseline population for cities for which detailed population summary tables are not available. The joint probabilities of population demographics are estimated using the International Public Use Microsimulation Data (IPUMS) sample data set. Agents, are assigned various activities based on several characteristics. The agent-based model for the city of Lahore, Pakistan is synthesized and a rule based disease spread …

The Montclarion, October 23, 2014, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Kenyon Collegian - October 23, 2014

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Vista: October 23, 2014, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 19, October 23, 2014, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.