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Step-Parent As Fiduciary, Ruth Zafran

Lewis & Clark Law Review

Does a step-parent have any obligations toward the non-resident legal parent of the child? To date, the law has been silent on this point, and the scholarship has paid little, if any, attention to it. This Article argues that the conceptual framework of fiduciary enables us to recognize, both conceptually and legally, the relationship between the step-parent and the non-resident legal parent (who, generally speaking, spends less time with the child on a day-to-day basis). The aim of this fiduciary duty is to protect the more vulnerable party (in this specific context, the non-resident legal parent) from the more powerful …

Trojan Zebra: Unmasking Bostock’S Potential To Undermine Lgbtq+ Protections, James E.A. Rehwaldt

Lewis & Clark Law Review

Engaging with the methodological framework endorsed by the Supreme Court’s holding and rejected by the dissents in Bostock v. Clayton County, this Comment critically examines both the limited scope and potential misuses of the Court’s decision recognizing protection against employment discrimination for gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

Protecting The Sublette Antelope Migration: An Analysis Of The Evolution Of The Legal Tools Employed To Protect The Sublette Antelope Herd From Fencing Obstructions, Colin Reynolds

Lewis & Clark Law Review

A biological marvel of the natural world, each year a small herd of pronghorn antelope—called the Sublette herd—migrate over 300 miles through a mix of public and private land in Wyoming. The Sublette herd’s annual movement constitutes one of the largest remaining “big game” migrations within the continental United States. Unfortunately, this migration faces an increasing number of obstacles threatening its long-term viability; chief among them being fencing obstacles. This Comment examines the evolution of the legal tools the federal government, the state of Wyoming, and everyday citizens can use to protect the Sublette herd’s migration.

ปัจจัยคัดสรรที่สัมพันธ์กับคุณภาพการนอนหลับในผู้ป่วยโรคหัวใจขาดเลือดเฉียบพลัน, ยศพันธุ์ นามสงค์, สุนิดา ปรีชาวงษ์

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

วัตถุประสงค์: 1.ศึกษาคุณภาพการนอนหลับในผู้ป่วยโรคหัวใจขาดเลือดเฉียบพลัน  2.ศึกษาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างปัจจัยคัดสรร ได้แก่ ระดับความรุนแรงของอาการเจ็บหน้าอก ภาวะซึมเศร้า ความวิตกกังวล สถานะการสูบบุหรี่ อาการเหนื่อยล้า กับคุณภาพการนอนหลับ

รูปแบบการวิจัย: การวิจัยเชิงหาความสัมพันธ์

วิธีดำเนินการวิจัย: กลุ่มตัวอย่าง คือ ผู้ป่วยโรคหัวใจขาดเลือดเฉียบพลันอายุ 18 ปีขึ้นไป จำนวน 152 คน ซึ่งคัดเลือกแบบเฉพาะเจาะจง จากโรงพยาบาลระดับตติยภูมิสองแห่งในกรุงเทพมหานคร ตามเกณฑ์การคัดเข้า เครื่องมือที่ใช้ ได้แก่ แบบประเมินความรุนแรงของอาการเจ็บหน้าอก แบบสอบถามภาวะซึมเศร้า แบบประเมินความวิตกกังวล แบบประเมินอาการเหนื่อยล้า และแบบวัดคุณภาพการนอนหลับ  ซึ่งมีค่าสัมประสิทธิ์สหสัมพันธ์แอลฟาครอนบาค เท่ากับ 1.00, 0.76, 0.70, 0.92 และ 0.96  ตามลำดับ วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยสถิติเชิงบรรยาย และทดสอบความสัมพันธ์ด้วยสถิติสหสัมพันธ์เพียร์สัน

ผลการวิจัย: 1. กลุ่มตัวอย่างร้อยละ 84.9 มีคุณภาพการนอนหลับดี 2.ความวิตกกังวล สถานะการสูบบุหรี่ มีความสัมพันธ์ทางลบกับคุณภาพการนอนหลับ (r= -.197, -.175; p< .05) อาการเหนื่อยล้า ภาวะซึมเศร้ามีความสัมพันธ์ทางลบกับคุณภาพการนอนหลับ (r= -.440, -.528,  ; p< .01) และระดับความรุนแรงของอาการเจ็บหน้าอกไม่มีความสัมพันธ์กับคุณภาพการนอนหลับ

สรุป: การประเมินปัจจัยต่าง ๆ ที่ส่งผลต่อคุณภาพการนอนของผู้ป่วยโรคหัวใจขาดเลือดเฉียบพลัน เช่น ความวิตกกังวล สถานะการสูบบุหรี่ อาการเหนื่อยล้า ภาวะซึมเศร้า อย่างครอบคลุม จะช่วยให้พยาบาลสามารถวางแผนการดูแลและหาแนวทางการป้องกันการเกิดภาวะแทรกซ้อนในอนาคตได้

ปัจจัยคัดสรรที่สัมพันธ์กับภาวะซึมเศร้าของผู้ต้องขัง ติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน, วราภรณ์ กันธิยะ, เพ็ญพักตร์ อุทิศ

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

วัตถุประสงค์: เพื่อศึกษาภาวะซึมเศร้าของผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน และความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างปัจจัยคัดสรรกับภาวะซึมเศร้าของผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน

รูปแบบการวิจัย: การวิจัยแบบพรรณนาเชิงหาความสัมพันธ์

วิธีดำเนินการวิจัย: กลุ่มตัวอย่าง คือ ผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน อายุ 18-59 ปี ในเรือนจำ/ทัณฑสถานเขตภาคเหนือตอนบน โดยวิธีการสุ่มตัวอย่างแบบชั้นภูมิ ได้กลุ่มตัวอย่างจำนวน 165 ราย เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัย คือ 1) แบบคัดกรองและส่งต่อผู้ป่วยที่ใช้ยาและสารเสพติดเพื่อรับการบำบัดรักษา กระทรวงสาธารณสุข (บคก.กสธ.) V.2 2) แบบประเมินอาการทางจิต 3) แบบสอบถามข้อมูลส่วนบุคคลของผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน 4) แบบสอบถามวัดการเผชิญความเครียด 5) แบบสอบถามวัดการเห็นคุณค่าในตนเอง 6) แบบสอบถามวัดการตีตราตนเอง 7) แบบสอบถามวัดการสนับสนุนทางสังคม และ 8) แบบประเมินภาวะซึมเศร้า เครื่องมือชุดที่ 2 และ 4-8 มีค่าความเที่ยง สัมประสิทธิ์อัลฟาของครอนบาค เท่ากับ .82, .87, .86, .82, .83 และ .91 ตามลำดับ วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยสถิติเชิงบรรยาย และทดสอบความสัมพันธ์ด้วยสถิติไคสแควร์ สหสัมพันธ์พอยท์ไบซีเรียล และสหสัมพันธ์เพียร์สัน

ผลการวิจัย: 1) ผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีนส่วนใหญ่ คิดเป็นร้อยละ 33.9 มีภาวะซึมเศร้าในระดับ    ปานกลาง 2) การเผชิญความเครียด แบบมุ่งจัดการกับปัญหาโดยใช้ความสามารถของตนเอง แบบมุ่งจัดการกับปัญหาโดยอาศัยแหล่งสนับสนุนอื่น ๆ และแบบหลีกเลี่ยงปัญหา มีความสัมพันธ์กับภาวะซึมเศร้าของผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน (c2= 94.23; p<.05) 3) ระยะเวลาการต้องโทษ และการตีตราตนเอง มีความสัมพันธ์ทางบวกกับภาวะซึมเศร้าของผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน (r = .446 และ .340; p<.05) 4) อายุ การเห็นคุณค่าในตนเอง และการสนับสนุนทางสังคม มีความสัมพันธ์ทางลบกับภาวะซึมเศร้าของผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีน (r = -.292, -.404 และ -.396; p<.05)

สรุป: การพยาบาลที่เหมาะสมกับผู้ต้องขังติดเมทแอมเฟตามีนควรมีการคัดกรองโดยใช้แบบประเมิน
และติดตามอย่างต่อเนื่อง เพื่อให้การดูแลที่เหมาะสมโดยคำนึงถึงปัจจัยต่าง ๆ ที่พบว่าสัมพันธ์กับอาการนี้

Who Are You Protecting?: A Feminist Analysis Of Gay And Trans Panic Defense Bans, How They Are Defined, And Who They Protect, Tyler S. Sesker

Undergraduate Honors Theses

As of April 2022, sixteen U.S. states ban Gay panic and Trans panic criminal defenses. These state-law prohibitions stemmed from several high-profile murder trials, focusing on the identity of the decedent, including the killings of Matthew Shepard and Latisha King. Between 1970 and 2020, criminal defenses interrogating the gender identity or sexual identity of victims of violence were used at least 104 times, with nearly a third of those cases resulting in reduced criminal charges and penalties. Today, in thirty-four states, the same tactics remain legal. Applying a feminist and outsider legal lens, this study engages in a textual analysis …

Impacts Of Some Metal Ions On Glutathione S-Transferase In The Liver Of Chalcalburnus Tarichi: An Endemic Species Of Lake Van, Muhammet Serhat Özaslan, Mehmet Çi̇ftci̇

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Glutathione-S-transferase (GSTs) is a multifunctional enzyme that provides homeostasis by catalyzing the first step of the formation of mercapturic acid, the end product in detoxification metabolism. They can prevent reactive electrophilic compounds from harming the body by covalently binding the same type of compounds to each other. In this study, we determined the in vitro inhibitory effects of metal ions such as Cu2+, Cd2+, Ag+, and Co2+ on GST enzyme activity. For this aim, GST was purified from C. tarichi Pallas liver with 37.36% yield and 29.304 EU/mg specific activity using the chromatographic method. The Vmax values of liver GST …

Preparation And Characterisation Of Ethambutol With Β-Cyclodextrin: A Comprehensive Molecular Insight Into Host-Guest Interaction, Soen Qeng Goh, Qiao Hui Chan, Rohana Adnan, Nurul Yani Rahim

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The increase in new cases of drug resistance to first-line drugs such as ethambutol (ETB) makes it necessary to develop improvements for antituberculosis drugs. A new method for improving the bioavailability of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) was investigated for preventing drug resistance and side-effects of antituberculosis drugs. In this study, an antituberculosis drug delivery system using β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) as the supramolecular carrier of ETB was prepared using the kneading method. The inclusion behaviour of β-CD/ETB inclusion complex in solid and liquid state was investigated. The inclusion complex was characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) …

Global Climate Governance In 3d: Mainstreaming Geoengineering Within A Unified Framework, Gabriel Weil

Scholarly Works

The failure of conventional climate change mitigation to reduce climate-related risks to tolerable levels has spurred interest in more unconventional—and riskier—climate interventions. What currently sounds like science fiction could become a reality in the not-so-distant future: planes blasting particles into the sky to block the sun, vast deserts covered with mirrors, algae sucking carbon into the depths of the ocean. Scholars tend to lump all these unconventional climate measures together in a fuzzy category called “geoengineering,” and set them apart from conventional climate change mitigation. But the characteristics of climate interferences vary across three distinct dimensions, which the mitigation-geoengineering dichotomy …

Antagonistic Co-Contraction Can Minimize Muscular Effort In Systems With Uncertainty, Anne D. Koelewijn, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Muscular co-contraction of antagonistic muscle pairs is often observed in human movement, but it is considered inefficient and it can currently not be predicted in
simulations where muscular effort or metabolic energy are minimized. Here, we investigated the relationship between minimizing effort and muscular co-contraction
in systems with random uncertainty to see if muscular co-contraction can minimize effort in such system. We also investigated the effect of time delay in the muscle, by varying the time delay in the neural control as well as the activation time constant.We solved optimal control problems for a one-degree-of-freedom pendulum actuated by two identical …

Assessing Sex-Specific Circadian, Metabolic, And Cognitive Phenotypes In The Aβpp/Ps1 And Appnl-F/Nl-F Models Of Alzheimer's Disease., Jesse Britz, Emmanuel Ojo, Asmita Dhukhwa, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C Saido, Erin R Hascup, Kevin N Hascup, Shelley A Tischkau

Articles

BACKGROUND: Circadian disruption has long been recognized as a symptom of Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, emerging data suggests that circadian dysfunction occurs early on in disease development, potentially preceding any noticeable cognitive deficits.

OBJECTIVE: This study compares the onset of AD in male and female wild type (C57BL6/J), transgenic (AβPP/PS1), and knock-in (APPNL-F/NL-F) AD mouse models from the period of plaque initiation (6 months) through 12 months.

METHODS: Rhythmic daily activity patterns, glucose sensitivity, cognitive function (Morris water maze, MWM), and AD pathology (plaques formation) were assessed. A comparison was made across sexes.

RESULTS: Sex-dependent hyperactivity in AβPP/PS1 mice was …

A Comparison Of Wildfire Adaptive Traits In Juvenile Conifers Of The Northern Rockies, Andie Sonnen

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Wildfire is an importance disturbance that continues to shape the ecosystems of the northern Rockies through varying patterns of frequency and intensity. Due to historical fire suppression and the hotter and drier conditions brought upon by anthropogenic climate change, wildfire frequency and intensity is increasing. These increases will alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which is unknown.

Individual plant traits can offer insight into how these vegetation communities will shift, especially the particular traits that reduce fire-related mortality. To survive wildfires, juvenile northern conifers employ two strategies: increasing their bark thickness and increasing their crown height. To …

Asbury Theological Seminary Academic Catalog : 2022-2023, Asbury Theological Seminary

Academic Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Genre Fluidity In Black Speculative Fiction As An Exploration Of Blackness, Jake Upton

English Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Capitalocene Imaginations: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, And The Environmental Crisis In Twenty-First-Century U.S. Literature, Zoe F. Pellegrino

English Honors Papers

This thesis, a study of climate fiction novels and Indigenous knowledge and poetry, argues that these texts use the power of imagination to open up alternative possibilities, otherwise foreclosed by the ideological hegemony of the capitalist climate crisis. I first explore the United States’ settler colonial history, and how the perpetuation of settler ideology over time justified the exploitative values of the capitalist system, resulting in the slow violence of our environmental crisis.

The central texts explored in this thesis are the climate fiction novels Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea and The Ministry for the Future by Kim …

Significant Impacts Under Nepa: The Social Cost Of Greenhouse Gases As A Tool To Mitigate Climate Change, Sydney Hofferth

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

The increased severity of the impacts of climate change demand a re-evaluation of the legal tools that could combat it. The National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) was passed to force government agencies to account for the environmental impacts of their actions. However, as it exists today, NEPA fails to require agencies to consider how their actions will mitigate or exacerbate climate change. This Note argues that agencies should be required to consider the social cost of the greenhouse gases associated with potential major actions at various stages of NEPA analysis. This change would result in increased transparency and public engagement …

Castor Oil Conversion To Biodiesel: A Process Simulation Study, Yaser M. Asal Mr, Islam M. Al-Akraa, Ahmad M. Mohammad, Razan Aymen

Chemical Engineering

The aim of this study is to highlights the importance to shift from the use of traditional fossil fuels to biodiesel as a clean energy source. A simulation study has been conducted using ASPEN HYSIS software for the biodiesel production form castor oil. The simulation was run and the properties of the produced biodiesel were highlighted. The optimum conditions resulted in 88 % conversion.

Regional Perspectives Report Chapter 3: Ontario, Christopher J. Lemieux, Allan G. Douglas, David Pearson

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Structure Of A Monomeric Photosystem Ii Core Complex From A Cyanobacterium Acclimated To Far-Red Light Reveals The Functions Of Chlorophylls D And F, Christopher J. Gisriel, Gaozhong Shen, Ming-Yang Ho, Vasily Kurashov, David A. Flesher

Faculty Publications

Far-red light (FRL) photoacclimation in cyanobacteria provides a selective growth advantage for some terrestrial cyanobacteria by expanding the range of photosynthetically active radiation to include far-red/near-infrared light (700-800 nm). During this photoacclimation process, photosystem II (PSII), the water:plastoquinone photooxidoreductase involved in oxygenic photosynthesis, is modified. The resulting FRL-PSII is comprised of FRL-specific core subunits and binds chlorophyll (Chl) d and Chl f molecules in place of several of the Chl a molecules found when cells are grown in visible light. These new Chls effectively lower the energy canonically thought to define the "red limit" for light required to drive photochemical …

The Souls Of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures Of Enslaved Women In The Lower South, Emily Clark

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Emily Suzanne Clark writes that Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh’s The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South “is one of the most important books in African American religious history of the past decade.” Clark concludes that “By placing women at the center,” Oghoghomeh “shifts the field’s focus away from the pulpit as a means of empowerment.”

Modeling Crash Severity And Collision Types Using Machine Learning, Amit Kumar, Hari Krishnan Melempat Kalapurayil

Publications

Traffic safety analysis is the fundamental step for reducing economic, social, and environmental cost incurred due to traffic accidents. The essence of traffic safety is understanding the factors affecting crash occurrence, injury severity and collision type and their underlying relationships and predict-prevent future crash instances. Crash injury severity studies in past have utilized numerous statistical, econometric and Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to extract the underlying relationship between the crash causal factors and the consequent severity or collision type. The study aims to explore the Multi-Label Classification (MLC) tool from the domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for …

Organizational Practices And Second-Generation Gender Bias: A Qualitative Inquiry Into The Career Progression Of Us State-Level Managers, Maria J. D’Agostino, Helisse Levine, Meghna Sabharwal, Ai C. Johnson-Manning

Publications and Research

Ely and Meyerson’s gendered organizations framework reconceptualizes traditional gender differences defined by biology and lack of structural opportunities, to a complex set of social relations in the workplace. We apply this framework to second-generation gender bias to further understand impediments to women’s career progression in the public sector workplace. In-depth interviews of state-level administrators in U.S. public sector agencies indicate that “narratives” perpetuate second-generation gender bias that is deeply ingrained in organizational practices and policies, especially for women and women of color. This framework can be applied to future studies examining the gendered nature of organizations in different workplace settings. …

The Parastagonospora Nodorum Necrotrophic Effector Sntox5 Targets The Wheat Gene Snn5 And Facilitates Entry Into The Leaf Mesophyll, Gayan K. Kariyawasam, Jonathan K. Richards, Nathan A. Wyatt, Katherine L.D. Running, Steven S. Xu, Zhaohui Liu, Pawel Borowicz, Justin D. Faris, Timothy L. Friesen

Faculty Publications

Parastagonospora nodorum is an economically important necrotrophic fungal pathogen of wheat. Parastagonospora nodorum secretes necrotrophic effectors that target wheat susceptibility genes to induce programmed cell death (PCD). In this study, we cloned and functionally validated SnTox5 and characterized its role in pathogenesis. We used whole genome sequencing, genome-wide association study (GWAS) mapping, CRISPR-Cas9-based gene disruption, gain-of-function transformation, quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis, haplotype and isoform analysis, protein modeling, quantitative PCR, and laser confocal microscopy to validate SnTox5 and functionally characterize SnTox5. SnTox5 is a mature 16.26 kDa protein with high structural similarity to SnTox3. Wild-type and mutant P. nodorum strains …

A New Detection Of The Invasive Mexican Rice Borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) From Georgia In The United States Based On Morphological And Molecular Data, Ilgoo Kang, Blake Wilson, Blake Carter, Rodrigo Diaz

Faculty Publications

The Mexican rice borer, Eoreuma loftini (Dyar), is an invasive herbivore that attacks many gramineous host plants. The species is an economic pest of several grass crops in North America including sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), rice (Oryza sativa), corn (Zea mays), and sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). The species was first detected in the United States in 1980 and has since expanded its range eastward along the Gulf Coast reaching Louisiana in 2008. A disjointed introduction was detected in Florida in 2012, though range expansion of this population within the state has been limited. Most recently, a separate introduction was detected along the …

Impact Report, 2021-2022, Lsu Libraries

Libraries Impact Reports

No abstract provided.

Genetic And Stress Influences On The Prevalence Of Hypertension Among Hispanics/Latinos In The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study Of Latinos (Hchs/Sol), Liana K. Preudhomme, Marc D. Gellman, Nora Franceschini, Krista M. Perreira, Lindsay E. Fernández-Rhodes, Linda C. Gallo, Carmen R. Isasi, Sylvia Smoller, Sheila F. Castañeda, Martha Daviglus, Christina Hutten, Richard S. Cooper, Jianwen Cai, Neil Schneiderman, Maria M. Llabre

Faculty Publications

Purpose: The current study examined the effects of chronic stress and a genetic risk score on the presence of hypertension and elevated systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure among Hispanics/Latinos in the target population of Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Materials and Methods: Of the participants (N = 11,623) assessed during two clinic visits (Visit 1 2008–2013 & Visit 2 2014–2018), we analysed data from 7,429 adults (50.4% female), aged 18–74, who were genotyped and responded to chronic stress questionnaires. We calculated an unweighted genetic risk score using blood pressure increasing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) found to be …

Effects Of Testing And Disclosing Ancestry-Specific Genetic Risk For Kidney Failure On Patients And Health Care Professionals: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Girish N. Nadkarni, Kezhen Fei, Michelle A. Ramos, Diane Hauser, Emilia Bagiella, Stephen B. Ellis, Saskia Sanderson, Stuart A. Scott, Tatiana Sabin, Ebony Madden, Richard Cooper, Martin Pollak, Neil Calman, Erwin P. Bottinger, Carol R. Horowitz

Faculty Publications

Importance: Risk variants in the apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1 [OMIM 603743]) gene on chromosome 22 are common in individuals of West African ancestry and confer increased risk of kidney failure for people with African ancestry and hypertension. Whether disclosing APOL1 genetic testing results to patients of African ancestry and their clinicians affects blood pressure, kidney disease screening, or patient behaviors is unknown. Objective: To determine the effects of testing and disclosing APOL1 genetic results to patients of African ancestry with hypertension and their clinicians. Design, Setting, and Participants: This pragmatic randomized clinical trial randomly assigned 2050 adults of African ancestry with …

Alternative Nesting Strategies Of Polistine Wasps In A Subtropical Locale, Scott Nacko, Mark A. Hall, Gregg Henderson

Faculty Publications

Phylogenetic studies suggest that historically all paper wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in North America have tropical origins, but some species have adapted to survive temperate conditions. Subtropical climates, which are intermediate between temperate and tropical, allow a unique opportu-nity to study ancestral traits which can be retained or lost within populations, and ultimately elucidate the process of social wasp evolution. We investigated the phenology of paper wasps at study sites in subtropical Baton Rouge, USA, through nest searching and monitoring of nest parameters throughout the warm season (March–October). Across the year, two periods of nest initiation occurred: from March–May (early season …

Lsu General Catalog 2022-2023, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

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The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The LSU General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

Holistic Management Of Pollinators And Pests: Integrating Semiochemicals With On-Farm Pesticides, Olabimpe O. Okosun, Gadi V.P. Reddy

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Insect pollinators and insect herbivores affect plant reproduction and fitness. Floral displays are used to attract and manipulate pollinators' behavior to support plant sexual reproduction while rewarding the visitors with access to nectar and pollen. The plant-pollinator interactions use various semiochemicals as important communication channels for successful species interaction networks. Floral display and scents can also attract insect herbivores (in which case they act as kairomones). Consequently, semiochemical-color-based traps used for monitoring pest insects in crop fields often accidentally capture pollinators, and these interactions simultaneously affect pest monitoring, pollinator assemblages, and crop production in agroecosystems. An integrated interdisciplinary approach that …