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Impact Of Cow Milk Production On Cow–Calf Performance In The Nebraska Sandhills, Tasha M. King, Jacki A. Musgrave, Richard N. Funston, J. Travis Mulliniks

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Livestock producers have tended to select for increased output traits like milk production and growth to increase productivity. Even with the increased selection for greater calf growth potential, some regions in the United States have seen a plateau in calf body weight (BW) at weaning (Lalman et al., 2019). When focusing on reaching maximum potential of these output traits, it is important to consider the multitude of variables that affect a production system. With increased milk production, nutrient requirements for cows become increased (Ferrell and Jenkins, 1984; Montaño-Bermudez et al., 1990), which may not be met if range and forage …

Influence Of Host Genetics In Shaping The Rumen Bacterial Community In Beef Cattle, Waseem Abbas, Jeremy T. Howard, Henry Paz, Kristin E. Hales, James E. Wells, Larry A. Kuehn, Galen E. Erickson, Matthew L. Spangler, Samodha Fernando

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

In light of recent host-microbial association studies, a consensus is evolving that species composition of the gastrointestinal microbiota is a polygenic trait governed by interactions between host genetic factors and the environment. Here, we investigated the effect of host genetic factors in shaping the bacterial species composition in the rumen by performing a genome-wide association study. Using a common set of 61,974 single-nucleotide polymorphisms found in cattle genomes (n = 586) and corresponding rumen bacterial community composition, we identified operational taxonomic units (OTUs), Families and Phyla with high heritability. The top associations (1-Mb windows) were located on 7 chromosomes. These …

Genetic Structure And Admixture In Sheep From Terminal Breeds In The United States, Kimberly M. Davenport, C. Hiemke, Stephanie D. Mc Kay, J. W. Thorne, Ronald M. Lewis, Todd Taylor, B. M. Murdoch

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Selection for performance in diverse production settings has resulted in variation across sheep breeds worldwide. Although sheep are an important species to the United States, the current genetic relationship among many terminal sire breeds is not well characterized. Suffolk, Hampshire, Shropshire and Oxford (terminal) and Rambouillet (dual purpose) sheep (n = 248) sampled from different flocks were genotyped using the Applied Biosystems Axiom Ovine Genotyping Array (50K), and additional Shropshire sheep (n = 26) using the Illumina Ovine SNP50 BeadChip. Relationships were investigated by calculating observed heterozygosity, inbreeding coefficients, eigenvalues, pairwise Wright’s FST estimates and an identity by state matrix. …

Muknalia Minima From The Yucatán Of Mexico Is Synonymous With The Collared Peccary, Pecari Tajacu (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae), Blaine W. Ob, Joshua X. Samuels, James C. Chatters, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales

ETSU Faculty Works

Ongoing investigation of peccary remains from fossiliferous deposits in the Yucatán resulted in re-examination of previously identified tayassuid fossils from the region. This included the recently described new genus and species of peccary, Muknalia minima, which is based on a dentary from Muknal Cave near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Diagnostic characters of this taxon include a concave notch along the caudal edge of the ascending ramus and a ventrally directed angular process. Our assessment of the holotype indicates that these characteristics are not a reflection of the original morphology, but are instead the result of breakage and polishing of the …

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Highlights 2019-2020, Jim Jansen, Jeffrey Stokes

Extension Farm and Ranch Management News

Introduction

The Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Highlights 2019-20 report represents the 42nd edition to the annual series. These reports provide an important insight on agricultural land market dynamics for stakeholders across Nebraska. In today’s market, where market transactions exceeding $1 million dollars are the norm, objective market information and analysis is more critical than ever. The focus of the report continues to be on providing unbiased information for agricultural land values and rental rates so industry participants can make educated and informed decisions.

This year, the February 2020 survey of nearly 120 expert panel members from across the state …

Platforms And The Fall Of The Fourth Estate: Looking Beyond The First Amendment To Protect Watchdog Journalism, Erin C. Carroll

Maryland Law Review

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Curbing (Or Not) Foreign Influence On U.S. Politics And Policies Through The Federal Taxation Of Charities, Johnny Rex Buckles

Maryland Law Review

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Rethinking The Role Of Nonstate Actors In International Climate Governance, Jason Maclean

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

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What Is A "Grave" International Crime? The Rome Statute, Durkheim And The Sociology Of Ruling Outrages, Nikolas M. Rajkovic

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

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Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource [Complete Collection Of Lessons], Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This course explores the world’s visual arts, focusing on the development of visual awareness, assessment, and appreciation by examining a variety of styles from various periods and cultures while emphasizing the development of a common visual language. The materials are meant to foster a broader understanding of the role of visual art in human culture and experience from the prehistoric through the contemporary. This is an Open Educational Resource (OER), an openly licensed educational material designed to replace a traditional textbook.

Lesson 03: Prehistory - Our Connection To The History Of Humankind Before Text, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers prehistoric art from the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. It focuses on cave art (Pech-Merle, Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc, Lascaux) and carved figures (Woman of Willendorf) from the Paleolithic period and megalithic architecture (Stonehenge) from the Neolithic period.

Lesson 04: Death And Mourning In The Prehistoric And Ancient World, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers death and mourning in the prehistoric and ancient world by discussing related art and architecture including, but not limited to, Varna Necropolis, The Flood Tablet / The Gilgamesh Tablet, Ziggurat in Uruk, Royal Tombs of Ur, Great Pyramids of Giza, Tomb of King Tutankhamun, and Book of the Dead of Hunefer.

Lesson 02: Elements And Principles, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers the elements and principles of art. Elements of art are the physical parts of the work, including line, shape, form, space, texture, value, color, and time. Principles of art are the ways in which those parts are arranged, including unity/variety, balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm, and pattern.

Lesson 08: The Renaissance, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created during the Renaissance in Europe. It begins with a preface on artworks created prior to the Renaissance that focused on Christian ideology and iconography. Artists discussed include Botticelli, Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Lesson 06: Divine Architecture, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers divine architecture including the Ancient Greek Parthenon, Ancient Roman Pantheon, Byzantine Hagia Sophia, and Gothic Chartres Cathedral.

Lesson 11: Bosch And Other Scenes Of The Apocalypse, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks of scenes from the apocalypse with a focus on Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.

Lesson 09: Michelangelo- From High Renaissance To Mannerism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created between the High Renaissance and Mannerism with a focus on Michelangelo.

Lesson 17 Part 1: Reactions To The Modern World-Introduction And Impressionism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons covers the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Impressionism is represented through artworks by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Edgar Degas.

Lesson 17 Part 2: Reactions To The Modern World-Post-Impressionism And Expressionism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons covers the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Post-impressionism is represented through artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cèzanne, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Expressionism is represented through artworks by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Vassily Kandinsky.

Lesson 21: Vision And Abstraction By Female Artists, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers female artists including Judy Chicago, Hilma af Klint, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, and Yayoi Kusama.

Lesson 22: Postmodernism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers postmodernism with a focus on artists Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, James Turrell, Damien Hirst, Nam June Paik, Kehinde Wiley, and Bruce Nauman.

Lesson 24: Converging Histories - The Global Art World, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers contemporary artists that incorporate artistic traditions specific to the histories of various geographic regions including Mariko Mori, Ai Weiwei, Raqib Shaw, Shirin Neshat, Muzaffar 'Ali, Takashi Murakami, El Anatsui.

Block And Bridle Annual 2020, Unl Animal Science Block And Bridle 2020 Team

Block and Bridle Annual (1933–2021)

Advertising Index

Block & Bridle

Department Head Letter

2020 Honoree

Past Honorees

Animal Science Faculty

Club Members

Officer Team and Advisors

President’s Letter

Secretary’s Report

Treasurer’s Report

Historian’s Report

Senior Spotlights

Nebraska Brands

Beef Pit

East Campus Welcome Back

Steak Fry

Kimmel Orchard

National Swine Registry Fall Classic

Little Aksarben

Initiates Week

Holiday Party

Stock Dog Trial

Porkfest

Big Red Beef Show

AgOlympics

Nebraska Beef Industry Scholars

Beef Merchandising Class

Livestock Judging Team

Horse Judging Team

Demonstrating Mate Choice Copying In Spiders Requires Further Research, R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, Eileen A. Hebets

Eileen Hebets Publications

Mate choice copying—when individuals learn to prefer mates or mate types that have been chosen by others—can influence trait evo-lution and speciation (Varela et al. 2018; Dion et al. 2019). Most examples of mate choice copying are from fish, birds, and mammals including humans (Varela et al. 2018). However, 2 invertebrate examples—fruit flies and wolf spiders—have been used to argue that the phenomenon may be phylogenetically widespread, and perhaps the rule rather than the exception in nature (Varela et al. 2018). Here, we revisit the evidence for mate choice copying in wolf spiders (Fowler-Finn et al. 2015) in light of …

Growing A Healthy Future, Winter 2020-2021

Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources: Institute Publications

Letter from IANR Vice Chancellor Mike Boehm; University of Nebraska-Lincoln doubles down on commitment to rural communities; Rural Fellows: making an impact on rural communities since 2013; The Rural Poll: giving a voice to rural Nebraskans for 25 years; Rural Poll: Nebraska communities show characteristics of resilience; Thriving index gives rural communities another tool to gauge economic success; CASNR, CEHS graduates bolstering rural Nebraska economies; Angler surveys lead to better understanding of why people fish, better amenities for anglers; Hops, hazelnuts, and hemp: producers, UNL researchers test new crops; Report: agriculture critical to Nebraska economy, state's resilience; Nebraska MEP drives …

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Weather, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Weather words and math words, Check the weather, Adjectives, Make a rain stick, Letter of the day - C, More or less, Ten more and ten less

Day 2 • Check the weather, Journal outside, Letter of the day - D, What's the problem?, Walk around the neighborhood, Skip, count, and hop

Day 3 • Check the weather, Match the pictures to the weather words, Letter of the day - E, How many suns?

Day 4 • Check the weather, Letter of the day - F, Look around your house, I wish …

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Shapes And Feelings, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Check the weather, Weekly words - feelings and shapes, Let's move, Letter of the day - M

Day 2 • Check the weather, Feelings, Shapes around the house, Letter of the day - N

Day 3 • Check the weather, Matching feelings, Feelings change, Calm down yoga, Ordering objects, Letter of the day - O

Day 4 • Check the weather, Helping others feel better, Nouns, Sides and corners, Letter of the day - P

Day 5 • Check the weather, Sorting shapes, My weekly assignments, Letter of the day - Q, …

K–2nd Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Transportation, Dennise Torres, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Suggested Weekly Schedule

Day 1 • Design and name your Buddy, Check the weather, Weekly words - types of transportation, What is transportation?, Weekly words - verbs, What is a verb?, Letter of the day - R

Day 2 • Check the weather, Transportation book, Favorite way to travel, Count and graph, Letter of the day - S

Day 3 • Check the weather, Acting out verbs, Sort, Matching games - verbs, Letter of the day - T

Day 4 • Check the weather, Singular and plural, Patterns, Where would you go?, Letter of the day - U

Day 5 …

3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Family, Sarah Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Family tree, Matching game, All kinds of families, My family tree, Graph: family members, My family by ___

Day 2 • Our five senses, My 5 sense at home, My 5 senses: math + addition, Get up and move!, My senses

Day 3 • My feelings, Feelings, Feelings poetry, Get up and move! yoga, My 5 senses: math, subtraction

Day 4 • Families by Aliyah, My family by ___, My family: math, multiplication, Get up and move!

Day 5 • My dictionary, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My week

My Packet Journal

Reference Sheet

Answer …

3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Community, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, My community, Matching game, My 5 senses: in my community

Day 2 • Geometric shapes, My community in geometric shapes, Get up and move!, Geometric shapes on my walk

Day 3 • My first community in geometric shapes, Compare and contrast: my communities, geometric shapes: perimeter and area, Get up and move! yoga

Day 4 • My communities by Mateo (Mexico and Nebraska), Compare and contrast: my communities, My communities writing, Get up and move!, Angels in my community

Day 5 • My community, My dictionary, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My week

My Packet …