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Essays On U.S. Beef Markets, Elham Darbandi

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

This dissertation includes three essays on U.S. beef market. Each essay has looked at this market from a different point of view. The first essay investigates the price adjustment along the different levels of this market. The second essay discusses the impact of food safety incidents on export levels in this market. The third essay considers the environmental loading of U.S. beef market. A summary of each article is as follows.

The first essay (chapter 2) analyzes price adjustment of the U.S. beef sector with a focus on the Great Recession. To this purpose, the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) …

Pipelines, Electrical Lines, And Little Pink Houses: Do Any Limits On "Public Use" Remain In Eminent Domain Law?, Kristin J. Hazelwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

That property is more than mere dirt, brush, or rugged terrain is made obvious by the fervor with which individuals will defend their right to inhabit or use that property. Property can be valuable to individuals for myriad reasons, including an ancestral connection to the property; "historic, religious, and cultural significance;" or emotional attachment. The desire to preserve the right to use property or to protect it from environmental harm can create atypical activists, such as the Sisters of Loretto in Kentucky. The sisters opposed the construction of the pipeline across their pristine property and voiced their disapproval of the …

The Mockingbird - 2018, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

Jillian Bailey [Faded]; Taylor Campbell [Move to Jupiter]; Elizabeth Chapman [Sepsis]; Arizona Clawson [13%; November]; Thomas Chase Clayton [Alcohol, Love, and Other Things that Kill You]; Alexandria Craft [Electric Love; Watauga Lake in Autumn]; Brooke Day [Seated and Lovely]; Kelly Dorton [Alternative Quotes]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Home before Dark (Autumn Reflections along I-26)]; Jeremy Fahn [Close Distance; Meaningless Stare]; Seth Grindstaff [Letter to Dreamer]; Kayla Hackney [The Imposter]; Bardley Hartsell [August Chapel]; Zöe Hester [MOASS]; Janice Hornburg [October Shower; Orogeny]; Mark Hutton [Old South]; Emily Johnson [Delicacy]; Rachel Nicole Lawson [Everystudent]; Emily Williams McElroy [Sacrament]; Andrew Miller [A Field and …

Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 95, No. 3, 2018)

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Assessing Health Beliefs Associated With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Nepalese College Students, Tyler Cutrer

Merge

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a rising global health issue in developing countries, such as Nepal, due to several preventable risk factors such as smoking. In this study, the researcher will assess the perceived risks and susceptibility associated with COPD among the Nepali student population at Mississippi University for Women (MUW). The researcher utilized the Health and Belief Model as an analysis framework and conducted qualitative research in the form of a focus group. As the study population, Nepali students were invited to complete a semi-structured interview in order to explore their health beliefs related to COPD. The interview …

Geochemical And Microbiological Controls On Mercury Methylation In Natural Waters, Alison M. Agather

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant toxic to humans and wildlife. Monomethylmercury (MMHg) is a bioavailable compound that bioaccumulates and biomagnifies in food webs. Humans are primarily exposed to MMHg from seafood consumption (Sunderland 2007), and high quantities of the neurotoxin lead to reduced neurocognitive functioning in adults and the children of exposed mothers (Cohen et al. 2005, Yokoo et al. 2003). Negative effects from MMHg accumulation on the health of humans and wildlife requires a more complete understanding of the chemistry and microbiology driving Hg methylation in both marine and freshwater systems. This work focuses on water column distribution, …

Missed Work Due To Occupational Illness Among Hispanic Horse Workers, Ashley M. Bush, Susan C. Westneat, Steven R. Browning, Jennifer Swanberg

Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center Faculty Publications

Occupational illnesses are inadequately reported for agriculture, an industry dominated by a vulnerable Hispanic population and high fatal and nonfatal injury rates. Work-related illnesses can contribute to missed work, caused by a combination of personal and work factors, with costs to the individual, employer, and society. To better understand agricultural occupational illnesses, 225 Hispanic horse workers were interviewed via community-based convenience sampling. Descriptive statistics, bivariate analyses, and log binomial regression modeling were used to: (1) describe the prevalence of missed work due to work-related illnesses among Hispanic horse workers, (2) examine work-related and personal factors associated with missed work, and …

Towards Using A Physio-Cognitive Model In Tutoring For Psychomotor Tasks., Jong W. Kim, Chris Dancy, Robert A. Sottilare

Faculty Conference Papers and Presentations

We report our exploratory research of psychomotor task training in intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) that are generally limited to tutoring in the desktop learning environment where the learner acquires cognitively oriented knowledge and skills. It is necessary to support computer-guided training in a psychomotor task domain that is beyond the desktop environment. In this study, we seek to extend the current capability of GIFT (Generalized Intelligent Frame-work for Tutoring) to address these psychomotor task training needs. Our ap-proach is to utilize heterogeneous sensor data to identify physical motions through acceleration data from a smartphone and to monitor respiratory activity through …

The Animalistic Brown Penis And The Meek White Penis In “The English Patient” And “Fun Home”, Tarun Malik

Student Works

"The English Patient" and "Fun Home" are both texts that involve the topic of sex and male sexuality. However, these topics are handled very differently when it comes to race. "The English Patient" treats a harmless brown man as a threat whereas "Fun Home" portrays an abusive white man as safe. This paper examines the differences in treatment and reflects on what this says about the view of men-of-color as sexual threats in the culture at large.

Santa Clara Review, Vol. 105, No. 1, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Review

No abstract provided.

College Of Health Sciences Annual Report, 2017-2018, Old Dominion University College Of Health Sciences

Ellmer College of Health Sciences Reports and Documents

Annual Report of the Old Dominion University College of Health Sciences for 2017 - 2018. Content includes Accreditations, Enrollment and degrees, Community engagement, Outstanding graduates, Faculty/staff achievements, Annual giving, Financial status, and Alumni highlights.

The Culture Of Counterfeiting: The Interplay Of Social Norms In The Regulation And Creation Of Counterfeit Goods, Regina Roediger

International Program Papers

No abstract provided.

Servant-Leadership As Loving Leadership: Explorations For Catholic Health Ministry, Michael D. Cox

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Leading within Catholic health care is a growing struggle as the health care environment undergoes monumental change. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a significant force in shaping health care policy, lists its five primary focus areas on its website: Improvement Capability; Patient and Family Experience; Patient Safety; Quality, Cost and Value; and Triple Aim for Populations (IHI, n.d.). Successfully addressing each area provides unique challenges to leaders because each area demands significant changes to individual behavior and organizational structure. Added to this is the reality that any improvement in one area likely adds complexity to another area. For example, …

Icipe Annual Report 2018, International Centre Of Insect Physiology And Ecology (Icipe)

icipe Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Will Racing Reclaim Its Seat On The Throne? A New Tax Regulation And Pari-Mutuel Betting, Keziah K. Colleton

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Food In The Early 1900s, Fcs 3784

1918 menu at The Café Documents

Handout for the 1918 Menu

The Built Environment And Its Patterns: A View From The Vision Sciences, A.J. Wilkins, Olivier Penacchio, Ute Leonards

SDAR* Journal of Sustainable Design & Applied Research

Abstract Visual patterns are all around us. Despite overwhelming evidence from the visual sciences that some visual patterns, in particular highly-geometric and repetitive patterns, can be aversive, patterns in our visual environment are rarely considered with regard to their impact on brain, behaviour and well-being. Yet, attempts toward developing healthier, more inclusive cities recently attracted negative headlines, for example for their use of dazzling floor patterns in public spaces that lead to discomfort, avoidance behaviours and falls, particularly in older citizens. Recent developments in analysis now allow us to measure and predict adverse effects of patterns in the real world. …

Engineered Nanomaterials And Human Health: Part 2. Applications And Nanotoxicology (Iupac Technical Report) (Review), Vladimir Gubala, Linda J. Johnston, Harald Friedrich Krug, Colin J. Moore, Christopher K. Ober, Michael Schwenk, Michel R. Vert

Reports

Research on engineered nanomaterials (ENM) has progressed rapidly from the very early stages of studying their unique, size-dependent physicochemical properties and commercial exploration to the development of products that influence our everyday lives. We have previously reviewed various methods for synthesis, surface functionalization, and analytical characterization of ENM in a publication titled 'Engineered Nanomaterials: Preparation, Functionalization and Characterization'. In this second, inter-linked document, we first provide an overview of important applications of ENM in products relevant to human healthcare and consumer goods, such as food, textiles, and cosmetics. We then highlight the challenges for the design and development of new …

Nádúr Daonna (Natureza Humana): An Intervention To Work With Nature In The Intellectual Development Of First Year Engineering Students, Domhnall Sheridan, Michael Carr

Conference papers

For most of the 20th Century there has been a debate among psychologists, educationalists and others as to whether nature or nurture determined the personality and capabilities of the adult person. Only in the last decade has an answer been found for that perennial question: the adult is the product of both nature and nurture. The genotype, the genetic inheritance from parents provides a template, but the expression of the genotype, the phenotype, depends on the interaction between the individual and their environment. Nothing is written in stone: the young child beginning education has almost infinite possibilities. In order for …

Mens Sana: An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Psychological Traits And Academic Success Of First Year Engineering Students, Domhnall Sheridan, Michael Carr

Conference papers

In 1904, the French government asked the psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a general test of intelligence that could be used to identify pupils who were behind their age cohort, in order to give them extra help to bring their level up to that of their peers. For most of the 20th century, intelligence testing has played a major role in education, unfortunately to categorize pupils at an early stage in the life, rather than to help them. In the last two decades, much work has been done in broadening the testing of students, especially in examining the relationship between …

Against The Grain: Why Is Timber Underutilised In The Irish Construction Industry Given Its Environmental Properties?, Francis Noel Duffy

Other resources

This study explores why timber is underutilised in the Irish construction industry, given its environmental properties. Defined literature discourse (framed by two timber exemplar case study buildings and themed into procurement, policy and academic sections) is analysed in pursuit of factors that meet the research question. The literature data collected is used to formulate action-based research in the form of a “Wood First” motion, subsequently passed into policy by South Dublin County Council in July 2017. The literature is also refined into questions for a two-stage, fourth-generation evaluation interview process. This process further examines the discourse of industry experts and …

The Fumbally Menu 2018, Fumbally Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

The Fumbally is the culmination of 4 years of cooking, travelling, working at festivals, gathering ideas, arguing those ideas, making mistakes, making new friends, finally realising those ideas, having lots of dinners, tasting new things, building a kitchen and seeing what will happen.

Some of us have been working in kitchens all our lives, others haven’t, but we all have a love for food, good coffee and the simple pleasure of sharing a meal with friends.

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

What’S In A Name? Playing In The Onomastic Sandbox, Kevin L. Barney

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Name as Key-Word brings together a collection of essays, many of them previously published, whose consistent theme is exploring examples of onomastic wordplay or puns in Mormon scripture in general and the Book of Mormon in particular. Without a knowledge of the meaning of these names, the punning in the scriptural accounts would not be recognized by modern English readers. Exploring the (probable) meanings of these names helps to open our eyes to how the scriptural authors used punning and other forms of wordplay to convey their messages in a memorable way.

Origins Of Animal Cell Adhesion, Jennyfer Mora Mitchell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A fundamental requirement for multicellularity is cell adhesion. This includes mechanisms by which cells adhere to each other and to their secreted extracellular matrix (ECM). Two well characterized adhesion complexes in animals include: 1) adherens junctions (AJs), which are involved in cell-cell adhesion and composed of cadherin receptors, p120-, α- and β-catenin, and 2) focal adhesions (FAs), which are involved in cell-ECM adhesion and include proteins such as integrins, vinculin, paxillin, talin and focal adhesion kinase (FAK). The molecular components of AJs are widely conserved in animals, and largely absent in non-animals. In contrast, the molecular components of FAs have …

Sequestered Alkaloid Defenses In The Dendrobatid Poison Frog Oophaga Pumilio Provide Variable Protection From Microbial Pathogens, K. J. Hovey, E. M. Seiter, Erin E. Johnson, Ralph Saporito

2018 Faculty Bibliography

Most amphibians produce their own defensive chemicals; however, poison frogs sequester their alkaloid-based defenses from dietary arthropods. Alkaloids function as a defense against predators, and certain types appear to inhibit microbial growth. Alkaloid defenses vary considerably among populations of poison frogs, reflecting geographic differences in availability of dietary arthropods. Consequently, environmentally driven differences in frog defenses may have significant implications regarding their protection against pathogens. While natural alkaloid mixtures in dendrobatid poison frogs have recently been shown to inhibit growth of non-pathogenic microbes, no studies have examined the effectiveness of alkaloids against microbes that infect these frogs. Herein, we examined …

Thought Experiment As An Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, Sharon M. Kaye

2018 Faculty Bibliography

The thesis of this paper is that thought experiments provide an especially powerful way to frame a class discussion. They work for students for the same reason that they have worked for great geniuses (such as Einstein) through the ages—namely, because they are interdisciplinary. Competing rationalist and empiricist accounts of how thought experiments work suggest that they will engage both rationally- and empirically-minded students. Examples of student responses to thought experiments confirm that they bring out interestingly diverse ways of thinking. Concern that interdisciplinary pedagogy makes genuine communication impossible has led some theorists to insist on a methodological pluralism that …

Chroakolemma Gen. Nov. (Leptolyngbyaceae, Cyanobacteria) From Soil Biocrusts In The Semi-Desert Central Region Of Mexico, Itzael Becerra-Absalon, Jeffrey R. Johansen, M. Angeles Munoz-Martin, Gustavo Montejano

2018 Faculty Bibliography

Twelve strains of Leptolyngbya-like filaments were isolated from biological soil crust samples from two localities in the Central Region of Mexico. The strains were morphologically distinguished from most Synechococcalean species by the obligate presence of a blackish sheath. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence placed all strains into a strongly supported single clade sister to Scytolyngbya. The genetic identity between our strains and all other Synechococcales, including Scytolyngbya, was less than 95%, and the strains were further distinguished by morphology and terrestrial ecology. The conserved domains of the 16S-23S ITS region had secondary structures distinct from all other …

Behavioural Preference For Low Levels Of Uv-B Radiation In Two Neotropical Frog Species From Costa Rica, Joseph A. Demarchi*, Andrew Britton**, Kaylee O'Donnell**, Ralph Saporito

2018 Faculty Bibliography

Tropical frogs experience damaging effects from exposure to UV-B radiation, and some diurnally active, con- spicuous species exhibit avoidance behaviours to high levels of UV-B. To determine if similar behaviours are present in

other diurnal frogs, we experimentally compared UV-B avoidance in two common species of neotropical diurnal frogs – Oophaga pumilio, an aposematic poison frog and Craugastor bransfordii, a cryptic leaf-litter frog – in response to different levels of UV-B. Wild-caught frogs were tested in experimental arenas fitted with filters that permitted two different levels of UV-B (low: 14% vs. high: 84% UV-B). Both species spent significantly more time …

Male Mate Preference As An Agent Of Fecundity Selection In A Polymorphic Salamander, Kortney E. Jaworski, Matthew S. Lattanzio, Cari-Ann M. Hickerson, Carl D. Anthony

2018 Faculty Bibliography

Color polymorphisms are associated with variation in other traits which may affect individual fitness, and these color‐trait associations are expected to contribute to nonrandom mating in polymorphic species. The red‐backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) exhibits a polymorphism in dorsal pattern: striped and unstriped, and previous studies have suggested that they may mate nonrandomly. However, the mechanism(s) contributing to this behavior remain unclear. Here we consider the role that male preference may have in driving mating behavior in P. cinereus. We limit our focus to striped individuals because this morph is most likely to be choosy given their dominant, aggressive behavioral profiles …