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Effects Of Supplemental Feeding On Home Range Size And Survival Of Northern Bobwhites In South Georgia, D. Clay Sisson, H. Lee Stribling, Dan W. Speake

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

We studied the effects of supplemental feeding on fall-spring covey home range size and survival of radio-marked northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) for 3 years in southwest Georgia. A total of 372 radio-marked bobwhites were monitored on 2 separate study areas for 25 weeks from fall-spring each year from November 1993 through May 1996. The traditional supplemental feeding program of bi-weekly broadcast spreading of whole grains from November through May was discontinued on one of the study areas during 1993-1994 and 1994-1995. Supplemental feed was distributed on both areas during fall-spring 1995-1996. During the 2 years of no feeding, fall-spring covey …

The Effects Of Endophyte-Infected Ky 31 Tall Fescue Seed On Northern Bobwhite Reproduction, Thomas G. Barnes, James S. Lane, Anthony Pescatore, Austin Cantor

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

We assessed the impact of feeding an endophyte-free, endophyte-infected (Acremonium coenophialum), KY 31 tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) and a control diet on northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) reproduction. The birds consumed significantly more of the tall fescue diets compared to the control diet. There was no difference in female body weights at the end of the experiment. Male birds lost significantly more weight on the tall fescue diets than the control diet. The birds were in positive nutritional balances on all diets. There were no treatment effects on egg production, fertility, embryo mortality, hatch ability, or number of chicks per …

Vegetation Response To Disking On A Longleaf Pine Site In Southeastern Louisiana, Michael W. Olinde

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

The effects of season (November vs February vs May) of disking on plant composition were evaluated on a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) site in southeastern Louisiana during 1986-1990. Almost 150 species of plants were recorded in the fallow disked plots during 3 sampling years. Disked plots, compared to native upland pine sites, had a lower abundance of broomsedges (Andropogon spp.) and wiregrasses (Aristida spp.), more bare ground, and more early seral plants such as 3-seeded mercury (Acalyphya spp.) and poor-joe (Diodia teres). Legumes were reduced or stable under all disking regimes and disking did not increase the quantity of partridge …

Appendix D: Author And Subject Index

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

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Determination Of True Metabolizable Energy Content Of Bobwhite Foods, M. E. Spurlock, J. E. Savage

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

True metabolizable energy (TME) and nitrogen-corrected true metabolizable energy (TMEn) bioassays were used to determine available energy content of several northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) foods. A proximate analysis and trypsin inhibitor (TI) activity were also determined for each food. Corn (Zea mays) was found to contain the highest amount ofTMEn (4.37 kcal/g dry matter) compared with Fayette soybeans (Glycine max; 3.93 kcal/g), Korean lespedeza (Kummerowia stipuki.ceae; 3.73 kcal/g), Marion lespedeza (K. striata; 3.71 kcal/g), tick-trefoil (Desmodium spp.; 3.51 kcal/g), and wild trailing (WI') soybeans (3.24 kcal/g). The higher TMEn value of corn was attributed to its high digestible carbohydrate content …

Relative Invertebrate Abundance And Biomass In Conservation Reserve Program Plantings In Northern Missouri, Loren W. Burger Jr., Eric W. Kurzejeski, Thomas V. Dailey, Mark R. Ryan

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

We measured relative invertebrate abundance, biomass, and diversity in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) fields planted to red clover (Trifolium pratense)/timothy (Phleum pratense), timothy, orchard-grass (Dactylis glomerata), tall fescue (Festuca pratensis), warm-season grasses (big bluestem [Andropogon gerardi]/switch grass [Panicum virgatum]), orchard-grass/Korean lespedeza (Kummerowia stipu/,acea), and conventionally-tilled soybeans, to assess brood habitat quality for northern bobwhite (Colinus virginkinus). We sampled invertebrate populations by vacuuming along 3 15-m transects (4.56 m2/sample) within 4 fields of each planting type, at 2-week intervals from 1 July to 15 August 1990 and 1991. Invertebrate abundance and biomass were lowest in early August (P < 0.05). The CRP fields planted to a red clover/timothy mixture, and dominated by red clover, had the highest levels of invertebrate abundance and biomass (P < 0.05). Conventionally-tilled soybeans had lower invertebrate abundance and biomass than all CRP covertypes (P< 0.05). Mean invertebrate abundance and biomass in CRP fields were 4 times that of soybean fields. In northern Missouri, CRP fields could provide quality brood habitat if structural characteristics are also consistent with brood foraging needs. Incorporation of a legume in CRP plantings may produce higher invertebrate densities and improve the value of these fields as brood habitat.

Quail And Rain: What's The Relationship?, William M. Giuliano, R. Scott Lutz

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

We used Christmas Bird Count reports in conjunction with precipitation data from 9 locations in Texas, to investigate relationships between rainfall and northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) abundance. Regional differences in northern bobwhite abundance could not be predicted by precipitation regimes, whereas scaled quail abundance was negatively correlated with fall and winter rainfall. Differences in rainfall patterns were not significantly correlated with year-to-year changes in northern bobwhite and scaled quail abundance.

Modern Pesticides And Bobwhite Populations, Kenneth L. Stromborg

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

(Invited Paper) Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) are frequently used as test animals for wildlife tests of pesticides. The organophosphate and carbamate pesticides that have replaced the organochlorines have many desirable properties, but they span a wide range of acute toxicities and some of them affect survival, reproduction, food consumption, behavior, and nervous system enzymes in laboratory tests. Applying these laboratory findings to the field requires assumptions about the severity of exposure in the field. Direct field measurements show that birds may be exposed to significant amounts of these pesticides or even more toxic degradation products under some conditions. Adverse population effects …

Summation Of The National Bobwhite Symposium, E. V. Komarek

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

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Formulation Of An Optimum Winter Food-Patch Mix For Bobwhite Quail, Charles W. Smart, Edward B. Rayburn, Oscar T. Sanders

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

Many state game agencies are seeking to improve winter quail food and habitat by means of artificial food-patch plantings. The objective of such plantings is to increase the limited supplies of nutrients available to quail in late winter. Desirable qualities of food species included in the seeding mixture are: low seeding cost, high nutrient and energy content, persistent seeds, and cultivation ease.
Presently used mixtures have been formulated in the absence of detailed nutritional analysis and cost-minimization techniques. This paper seeks to demonstrate the utility of modern operations-research technology in such decisions by outlining the procedures for determining the composition …

A Model For Determining Least-Cost Quail Stocking Programs, Charles H. Lobdell, Robert H. Giles Jr.

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

A model is presented to allow the calculation of the minimum cost of providing an acceptable level of quail hunter success expressed as kill per day. The model is based on a Poisson distribution for hunter kill per day, the number of hunters, their success rates, quail survival rates, various costs of quail production and release, stocking levels, and frequency of stocking. An example is given.

Some Aspects Of The Dynamics Of A Hunted Bobwhite Population, John L. Roseberry, W. D. Klimstra

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

Dynamics of a hunted bobwhite population have been investigated on a 1,450-acre study area near Carbondale, Illinois since 1952. Habitat conditions have not changed greatly during the study, and November densities have oscillated regularly about a rather stable long-term mean. Most of the variance of annual rates of population change is due to variation in net productivity from spring to fall rather than to variation in net losses from fall to spring. Population declines from November to April averaged 66% (range 36 to 81%); about 0.66 of this resulted from hunting. Post-hunting mortality, which was slightly density-related, partially compensated for …

Insects And Bobwhite Quail Brood Habitat Management, George A. Hurst

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

Small insects were the most important foods eaten by quail chicks 2 to 20 days of age. The foods eaten, in order of importance, were beetles, leafhoppers, true bugs, spiders, grasshoppers, ants, larvae, snails, and flies. Important seeds ingested were Panicum spp., Carex spp., Scleria spp., Paspalum spp., and Setaria sp.
The effect of fire, a major tool in southern quail management, on insect populations was studied by sampling burned and unburned plots with a sweep net and a D-vac machine. On an old-field type of habitat, population densities and biomass of herbivorous insect populations were significantly greater on February-burned …

Guiding Stars Raises Awareness Of Healthy Food Choices Available On Campus, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Guiding Stars Raises Awareness Of Healthy Food Choices In Unh Dining Halls, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

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Herbal Supplements: Safety And Research Support, Rosanne H. Pruitt, Ashley Lemanski, Adam Carroll

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this project is to fill a gap and provide evidence to inform practice by evaluating the quality of the research supporting commonly used herbs and translate the information into an easily accessible format for health care providers.

Preconception Health Planning: Improving Outcomes, Julie A. Fitzgerald

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Current data suggests that lack of engagement in preconception health planning is a global problem and new approaches are needed to prevent preterm births and improve pregnancy outcomes. Many pregnant women make lifestyle changes during pregnancy to promote their health and the health of the fetus. Studies note that pre-conceptual health of both the mother and father influence pregnancy outcomes (Ding, Li, Xie & Yang, 2015; Moss & Harris, 2015). The CDC and Workgroup of the National Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (Frayne, Verbiest., Chelmow,, Clarke, Dunlop, Hosmer, & ... Stuebe 2015) identified the need for preconception health …

Preventing Heart Failure Readmissions By Using A Risk-Stratification Tool, Anna Dermenchyan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: To implement strategies to improve care and patients" experience and reduce readmissions for heart failure (HF) patients, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center accepted an invitation from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to join the Patient Navigator Program (PNP). The goal for the program is for hospitals to establish a patient-centered focus that involves making hospitalization less stressful for patients by providing evidence-based quality improvement strategies. At the initiation of the program (Spring 2014), UCLA utilized a validated risk model, LACE index, to identify patients who are at high risk of readmissions before discharge. This tool has been used …

Assessment And Management Of Alcohol Use Disorder In Older Adults: A Review Of The Evidence, Mary Dibartolo, Judith M. Jarosinski

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The aim of this presentation is to summarize and critically evaluate the recent literature on methods to better identify AUD in older adults, including instruments specifically developed or modified for this age group, as well as, delineate targeted treatment strategies which may be more effective in achieving and maintaining sobriety in this population.

Background: Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) has been identified as a significant, under-recognized, underreported and hidden epidemic in the U.S. (Alpert, 2014). The prevalence is expected to rise dramatically as the number of adults aged 65 and older increases to one in five by 2030. Worldwide, older …

Integrating Substance Abuse Screening Brief Intervention And Referral To Treatment Into Nursing Curriculum, Julie A. Fitzgerald

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

It is estimated that about 30 percent of US adults experience a mental health or substance abuse disorder in a year, and many struggle with both. There is also wide geographical variation in the proportion of alcohol-attributable deaths and disability adjusted life years (DALYs), with the highest alcohol-attributable fractions reported in the WHO European Region (WHO, 2014). It is estimated that 15.3 million persons worldwide suffer from a substance use disorder (WHO, 2014). Globally, excess alcohol intake is responsible for approximately 6% of deaths. Culture, gender and religious norms impact alcohol consumption throughout the world. Substance abuse disorders are associated …

Bjc Today

BJC Today

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Guiding Stars On Campus, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Anthropometric Indices For Non-Pregnant Women Of Childbearing Age Differ Widely Among Four Low-Middle Income Populations., K. Michael Hambidge, Nancy F. Krebs, Ana Garcés, Jamie E. Westcott, Lester Figueroa, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Sangappa Dhaded, Omrana Pasha, Sumera Aziz Ali, Antoinette Tshefu, Adrien Lokangaka, Vanessa R. Thorsten, Abhik Das, Kristen Stolka, Elizabeth M. Mcclure, Rebecca L. Lander, Carl L. Bose, Richard J. Derman, Robert L. Goldenberg, Melissa Bauserman

Global Health Articles

BACKGROUND: Maternal stature and body mass indices (BMI) of non-pregnant women (NPW) of child bearing age are relevant to maternal and offspring health. The objective was to compare anthropometric indices of NPW in four rural communities in low- to low-middle income countries (LMIC).

METHODS: Anthropometry and maternal characteristics/household wealth questionnaires were obtained for NPW enrolled in the Women First Preconception Maternal Nutrition Trial. Body mass index (BMI, kg/m(2)) was calculated. Z-scores were determined using WHO reference data.

RESULTS: A total of 7268 NPW participated in Equateur, DRC (n = 1741); Chimaltenango, Guatemala (n = 1695); North Karnataka, India (n = …

Religion And Gay Rights Need Not Be At Loggerheads, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

Ricky Kamden-Ouaffo V. Naturasource International Llc

2017 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Seroepidemiology Of Sarcocystis Neurona And Neospora Hughesi Infections In Domestic Donkeys (Equus Asinus) In Durango, Mexico, Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Daniel K. Howe, Michelle R. Yeargan, Domingo Alvarado-Esquivel, José Alfredo Zamarripa-Barboza, Jitender P. Dubey

Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center Faculty Publications

There is currently no information regarding Sarcocystis neurona and Neospora hughesi infections in donkeys in Mexico. Here, we determined the presence of antibodies against S. neurona and N. hughesi in donkeys in the northern Mexican state of Durango. Serum samples of 239 domestic donkeys (Equus asinus) were assayed for S. neurona and N. hughesi antibodies using home-made enzyme-linked immunoassays; six (2.5%) of the 239 donkeys tested seropositive for S. neurona. The seroprevalence of S. neurona infection was comparable among donkeys regardless of their origin, health status, or sex. Multivariate analysis showed that seropositivity to S. neurona was …

Adherence A Review: T2dm In Haitian-Americans, Balkys L. Bivins

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) has soared globally due to socioeconomic, demographic, and lifestyle changes, and lack of social justice. In the United States, DM has become a costly epidemic that resulted in an annual healthcare cost of $245 billion in 2012. The total prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. is significant at 29.1 million, of which 97.3 % is attributed to Type II diabetes (T2DM). Among the populations affected by the disease and the challenges to effective diabetes treatment and management are Haitian Americans in the U.S. The aim of this review from 1979 to …

Growing In Recovery: A Service Learning Case Study, Amanda Eymard, Heidi Rodrigue

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This qualitative case study utilized heuristic phenomenology to explore the potential impact of initiating a garden at a halfway house. For the service learning project, a garden was developed by nursing students in collaboration with clients at the facility. A grant from Sigma Theta Tau funded the project. During this project, one client emerged as the primary caretaker of the garden. This male client, undergoing rehabilitation for drug abuse, became the subject of the case study. A senior nursing student mentored by a faculty member conducted the case study. Over a period of five months, the subject was interviewed extensively …

The Impact Of Feeding And Parenting Guidance On The Prevention Of Child Obesity, Elizabeth Reifsnider, David Mccormick, Michael Todd, Lucy Reyna, Irma Pecina

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test an intervention, guided by public health nursing practice and delivered by community health workers, to prevent the development of obesity in infants and young children who are at risk of obesity because of maternal body size, income status, and ethnicity. We followed the Institute of Medicine"s (IOM) 2011 report on early childhood obesity prevention policies, which recommended five approaches to preventing obesity: assess, monitor, and track growth from birth to age 5; increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior in young children; support breastfeeding and be responsive to children"s feeding cues; …

Teaching To Develop A View Of Life And Death In Nursing Students, Chiaki Otsuka, Mari Hirota, Sachiko Teraoka, Misae Ito

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: As Japanese society increasingly ages, in 2025 it is estimated that deaths will reach a yearly figure of 1,600,000. Against this background, the Japanese Ministry of Science and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has established as goals for students graduating from college nursing programs that they should have the ability to relieve and reduce suffering at the end of life, respect, support and be able to offer advice to the dying on an individual basis. This paper clarifies an educational project seeking to develop a view of life and death and foster the ability to support and care …