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Risk Management Education/Annie’S Project, Beth A. Eberspacher, Karrie Blake

Cornhusker Economics

Since 2001 the North Central Risk Management Education Center has been providing leadership and program coordination in risk management education for twelve states in the North Central Region. These states include: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. “Empowering the strengths and skills of individuals in the North Central Region involved in the management of agricultural production, marketing, financial, legal and human resource risks” is the Center’s mission. The Center is headquartered in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

Kellogg Foundation Chooses Nebraska Initiative For National Grant: Hometown Competitiveness, Jeff Yost

Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA—HomeTown Competitiveness, a Nebraska initiative currently working in seven counties and communities in Nebraska, has been chosen as one of six recipients of grants provided through the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s 75^th Anniversary Entrepreneurship Development Systems for Rural America.

The $2 million award, over three years, was approved by the Kellogg Foundation Board of Directors meeting at Battle Creek, MI last month. More than 180 applications were received for the grants to develop six national models in rural entrepreneurship.

HomeTown Competitiveness (HTC) provides a framework for rural communities to help them identify reachable goals and strategies focused …

Three Potentially Effective Approaches To Community Change, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel

Cornhusker Economics

Communities change all the time .... businesses come and go, streets and other infrastructure are improved and schools grow or constrict depending upon their enrollment. Even with the wide range of changes in our communities, research shows that there are really only three commonly used approaches to implement change. They include the: 1) self-help; 2) technical assistance; and 3) conflict approach.

The Un-L Student Chapter Of The National Agri-Marketing Association, Beth Griess, Bonnie Hassler, Matt Spilker

Cornhusker Economics

The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) is a professional organization consisting of 25 regional chapters with more than 3,500 professional and student members. Members come from advertising and marketing agencies; media (including farm publications, radio and television stations and newspapers); associations and companies; and others providing services to the agribusiness marketing executive.

Digital Commons Presentation, Jeff Riedel

Institutional Repository Information

This presentation discusses the Digital Commons resource. It was delivered to UNL Libraries staff on May 9th, 2005.

May 2005 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Constitution Of Afghanistan = Assasi Qanun (1964), Government Of Afghanistan

Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection

The Constitution of the Royal Government of Afghanistan

2004 Net Farm Income Reaches Record High, Tina N. Barrett

Cornhusker Economics

Farm incomes reached a new record high of $78,930 in 2004, as recorded by the Nebraska Farm Business, Inc. (NFBI). Since 1977, NFBI has been tracking accrual farm records of actual producers in Nebraska. In 2004, over 140 farms submitted their records to produce the record net income. The previous high income of $72,657 was in 1978.

K-Means Clustering With Multiresolution Peak Detection, Guanshan Yu, Leen-Kiat Soh, Alan B. Bond

Avian Cognition Papers

Clustering is a practical data mining approach of pattern detection. Because of the sensitivity of initial conditions, k-means clustering often suffers from low clustering performance. We present a procedure to refine initial conditions of k-means clustering by analyzing density distributions of a data set before estimating the number of clusters k necessary for the data set, as well as the positions of the initial centroids of the clusters. We demonstrate that this approach indeed improves the accuracy and performance of k-means clustering measured by average intra to interclustering error ratio. This method is applied to the virtual ecology project to …

University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension Connect, May 2005

Connect (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension)

Inside this issue:

pg. 3 Nebraska City survey
pg. 5 Guardianship program
pg. 7 Cow-calf savings

Conceptions Of Relationships , Katie Taylor, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

This study seeks to examine the relationships between young adults’ understandings of past and current interpersonal relationships and their conceptualizations of a personal relationship with a higher spiritual power.

Findings: •As hypothesized, students with permissive parents reported lower levels of Awareness and Realistic Acceptance in relation to God. •Contrary to prediction, students with permissive parents did not have higher scores on the Disappointment subscale of the SAI. •As hypothesized, students with authoritarian parents had higher scores of Instability or Disappointment in God on the SAI. •Contrary to prediction, students with authoritative parents did not have higher scores for Awareness, Realistic …

Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?, John R. Alford, Carolyn L. Funk, John R. Hibbing

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in behavioral genetics—–specifically, comparisons of the differential correlations of the attitudes of monozygotic twins and dizygotic twins—–we analyze data drawn from a large sample of twins in the United States, supplemented with findings from twins in Australia. The results indicate that genetics plays an important role in shaping political attitudes and ideologies but a more modest role in forming party identification; as such, they call for finer distinctions in theorizing about the sources of political attitudes. We conclude …

Collaboration As A Foundation For The Project Approach In Family Child Care, Joan Youngquist, Carolyn P. Edwards, Ruth Heaton

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Supporting children's curiosity was considered important at my family child care home. How could we best achieve this? As my assistant caregiver Deb and 1 attended professional development workshops, we began to wonder if the project approach (Helm & Katz 2001) would be an effective means of supporting inquiry and collaborative learning. Before we would commit ourselves, we wanted to learn more. We had many questions. Just what is the project approach? What does it look like? How will it support children's learning? What do we need to be successful with it? The literature suggested many examples of successful projects …

Good Mental Health Key To Success In Traumatic Job, Carla Kimbrough

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

Sometimes what we do is no fun. We cover devastation, the horrors of war and tragedy simply because we must. We record history. We tell the stories of life and of death. As journalists, that's what we are called to do.
In this rough and tumble world, we are charged with being ready for anything. The wise among us carry a change of clothes in our trunks, a passport in our top drawer and a can-do spirit in our souls. We are journalists.

A Fishing Farm In The West Fjords Of Iceland: A Preliminary Report Of The Archaeofauna From Gjögur, Yekaterina Krivogorskaya, Sophia Perdikaris, Thomas H. Mcgovern

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

The date for the onset of full scale commercial fisheries in Iceland remains somewhat controversial, but thus far the earliest radiocarbon dated seasonal fishing station (11th- 13th century) is in NW Iceland’s Strandasýsla County at Akurvík. This paper presents a preliminary report of the ongoing analysis of the large archaeofauna from the farm mound at Gjögur, 3 km from Akurvík, places the site of Gjögur in the wider context of the NW region of Iceland by comparing the site with the Akurvík archaeofauna, and outlines new methodologies of reconstructing live fish size and age based on recovered fish bones. Although …

The Communication Studies Researcher And The Communication Studies Indexes, David C. Tyler, Signe Swanson, Susan M. Leach

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The existence of widely available large, multi-subject, online databases calls into question the necessity for small, discipline-specific indexes to support research. This study attempts to determine whether the online Communication Studies indexes provide access to the journal literature that researchers in the field actually cite and whether, where the current journal literature is concerned, that access is in any way superior to that provided by large, multi-subject, online indexes.

Compositions And Compounds For Use As Molecular Adjuvant For A Ncotine Waccne, Sam D.G. Sanderson, Jonathan L. Vennerstrom, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Maniyan Parameswaran, Rick A. Bevins, Cheruku R. Srinivasa

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Compounds are disclosed comprising molecular adjuvants having an antigen presenting cell-targeting ligand linked to a nicotine hapten. Methods are disclosed for employing the compounds as a nicotine vaccine for treatment or prevention of nicotine addiction.

Supreme Court Rules Against Attempt To Beat County Zoning Deadline, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

One of the most misunderstood concepts in zoning law is that of non-conforming uses, or “grandfathering.” Most zoning regulations exempt existing uses that would not conform to the new (or revised) zoning regulation. These uses (land uses or buildings) are called non-conforming uses because they do not conform to the new (or revised) zoning regulation. The often mistaken belief is that zoning regulations must leave non-conforming uses alone. This is incorrect: Neb.Rev.Stat. § 23-173.01 allows non-conforming uses to be terminated, continued or regulated by a county zoning regulation. As a practical matter, however, most counties will not regulate or terminate …

‘Omaha Blues’ Recalls Lost Childhood, Timothy G. Anderson

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

In 1997, I walked into Joe Lelyveld’s office and handed him a newspaper clipping about his parents. Lelyveld was executive editor of the New York Times, and I was one of his nearly 1,100 news department employees. The clipping, from a World-Herald column, noted that the Lelyvelds had once lived in Omaha; that Arthur, Joe’s father, had been rabbi at Temple Israel in the early 1940s; that his mother, Toby, had taught at the University of Omaha; and that the Lelyvelds had divorced in 1964. The news was that Toby had died in New York at age 85. If I …

The Comparative Advantages Of Family-Owned Businesses, Jeffrey S. Royer

Cornhusker Economics

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, approximately 97 percent of the farms in the United States are family farms (Banker and MacDonald). In addition, many agricultural input suppliers, marketing and processing firms, and other agricultural businesses are family-owned or controlled. Among the food processing and wholesaling companies that are family-owned or controlled are Archer Daniels Midland, Campbell Soup, Pilgrim’s Pride, Smithfield Foods, J. M. Smucker, and Tyson Foods (Boland). More generally, over 35 percent of the firms included in the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index are family-held firms (Anderson and Reeb).

Adoption Of Riparian Forest Buffers On Private Lands In Nebraska, Usa, Peter Skelton, Scott J. Josiah, James W. King, James R. Brandle, Glenn A. Helmers, Charles A. Francis

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Pesticide and nutrient runoff from agricultural fields is a socio-environmental problem in the Midwestern United States. Riparian forest buffers (RFBs) are a proven conservation practice that effectively manage this problem, though adoption rates are low. A mail survey was conducted to determine differences between adopter and nonadopter characteristics and attitudes with regard to the use of RFBs. Data were collected from 48 RFB adopters and 261 RFB nonadopters in two Nebraska watersheds. Inferential and multivaririate statistics were used to identify differences between adapter status and producer status groups. About half (50.8%) the respondents were nonproducers. Nonproducers are agricultural landowners not …

Hog Markets, Al Prosch

Cornhusker Economics

If the lean hog carcass futures prices are any indicator, producers should have four or five months of very good prices. Feed costs are down from this period a year ago and futures prices through September are very good. If actual prices are at or near futures expectations, profits will be good. Beyond September the profit picture changes quickly.

April 2005 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy In Science & Technology Disciplines, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

"Information Literacy in Science & Technology Disciplines" is a presentation given as part of the 2005 ACRL preconference, “Information Literacy in the Disciplines: Librarian/Faculty Collaboration for 21st Century Research Skills.” The purpose of the presentation was to give preconference attendees a background that would assist in facilitating discussions of methods of collaborating with faculty to develop library instruction that addresses information literacy standards relevant to specific disciplines.

Farm Program Spending Under The President’S 2006 Budget Proposal, Roger Selley, Bruce B. Johnson

Cornhusker Economics

According to Secretary of Agriculture Johanns news release on February 7, 2005, the President’s 2006 budget proposes a net reduction in farm support program spending nationally of about $587 million in 2006, and $5.7 billion from 2006 through 2015. These proposals include: reducing the payment limitation for all commodity payments, making marketing assistance loans based on historical production and reducing all commodity payments to farmers by 5 percent. It is difficult to estimate the impact of any changes in the payment limitation. Nearly all producers have their business arrangements configured to avoid the current payment limitations, and their ability to …

A Framework For The “Entrepreneurial” Learner Of The 21st Century, Connie I. Reimers-Hild, James W. King, John E. Foster, Susan Fritz, Steven S. Waller, Daniel W. Wheeler

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Successful distance learners and entrepreneurs may be similar in that they seek out and capitalize on opportunities and marshal resources to achieve their goals. Further, entrepreneurial behavior is a vital asset in the rapidly changing global knowledge economy of the 21 st Century. This paper presents a theoretical framework for examining the characteristics of successful distance learners through the lens of entrepreneurship. The proposed theoretical framework suggests a relationship between the entrepreneurial personality, which is the combined score of locus of control, need for achievement and risk taking propensity, with success and persistence in the academic environment. We believe that …

Target Markets For Grain And Cotton Marketing Consultants And Market Information Systems, Oscar Vergara, Keith H. Coble, Darren Hudson, George F. Patrick, Thomas O. Knight, Alan Baquet

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

This paper examines the use of market consultants and market information systems by grain and cotton producers. A model of producer demand for marketing information and consultants is proposed that decomposes price received into exogenous and endogenous components. The analysis is based on a survey of over 1,600 producers. The results suggest that expenditures on market information systems and market consultants are not independent and, more specifically, expenditures on marketing consultants substitute for expenditures on market information systems.

Focus Spring 2005

FOCUS: Economic Issues for Nebraskans

Contents:
Forecasting Nebraska Land Values by Glenn Helmers, Saleem Shaik and Bruce Johnson
Diminishing Returns and the Economic Value of Water by Raymond J. Supalla and Scott Nedved
Department Continues to Plan for Change by Jeffrey S. Royer
Faculty Recognitions: Recent Grant and Contract Awards
Faculty Honors and Awards
Epilogue to a Career by Roy Frederick
Student Activities and Awards
The National Agri-Marketing Association Student Chapter
AGP Student Ambassador Scholarship Program
Students Successful at AAEA

Review Of Circle Of Goods: Women, Work, And Welfare In A Reservation Community By Tressa Herman, Alice Littlefield

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This slim volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary reservation economies in the Northern Plains, a subject that has received insufficient attention from anthropologists. Berman's narration demonstrates the intersection of kinship, the informal economy, ceremonial exchanges or goods, government assistance programs, and the cash economy on the reservation, home to the affiliated Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes who were settled there in the 1860s. Her analysis addresses several themes: the circulation of goods within a symbolic system of social and power relations; the centrality of women in kinship and community relations: and the reorganization of reservation economy …

Review Of The Hell Creek Formation And The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary In The Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record Of The End Of The Cretaceous Edited By Joseph H. Hartman, Kirk R. Johnson, And Douglas J. Nichols, Russell Jacobson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Hell Creek Formation (especially near the Fork Peck Reservoir and the Cedar Creek Anticline in east-central Montana) has been extensively studied over the years to evaluate changes in terrestrial floras and faunas across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary. The research round in this volume, however, contains important new data from the lesser studied eastern outcrop area of western North Dakota, South Dakota, and nearby areas, along with new analyses of data from the well-studied areas around Fort Peck Reservoir. The compilation or new research is based on years of field studies that, for the most part, have not been published. …