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Review Of The Geography Of Manitoba: Its Land And Its People Edited By John Welsted, John Everitt, And Christoph Stadel, Paul Hackett

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

The Geography of Manitoba, a wide-ranging look at Canada's Keystone Province, comprises a collection of papers grouped into four sections dealing with the province's physical geography, people, resources and industries, and recreation. Supplementing the major essays are brief case studies (thirty-nine in all) that examine specific topics related to the sections within which they appear. The text is amply supported throughout by excellent black-and-white maps, as well as by illustrations, photographs, tables, and several color plates.

Review Of Wetlands Of The American Midwest: A Historical Geography Of Changing Attitudes By Hugh Prince, Sanford Sandy Kaplan

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

I wish I could recommend this book as a "must read" for anyone interested in the history and development of the Great Plains region; however, I cannot. For one thing, the Great Plains per se are rarely discussed in it, and the subject is certainly not a topic of universal interest. I can recommend the book, however, as a highly readable and well-documented study of the change in our perceptions of the wetlands of the Midwest over time. Hugh Prince has done a magnificent job of gathering a great deal of scattered information and using it to illustrate his idea …

Review Of Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem Edited By Fred B. Samson And Fritz L. Knopf, Walter H. Fick

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

Prairie Conservation will interest anyone concerned about the current condition and preservation of grasslands, wetlands, and associated wildlife species in the Great Plains of North America. The book contains twenty chapters plus a summary by Paul G. Risser. Forty-four authors contributed to the book with over 700 literature citations. The well-written text is accompanied by forty-six figures and tables. A foreword by Nebraska Governor E. Benjamin Nelson discusses a program called the Great Plains Partnership (GPP), an experiment in environmental problem solving that will strive to bring all stakeholders together by working with and through private landowners.

Review Of Guide To Kansas Architecture By David H. Sachs And George Ehrlich, Jennifer Honebrink

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

Presenting the architecture of an entire state is a daunting task, given the profusion of potential pieces with something special to offer. This book admittedly does not contain all the structures most worthy of preservation or only the best designed. Instead it provides a representative sample of architectural styles and types across Kansas, giving equal coverage to cities and less populous areas. Structures were chosen for their architectural, historical, or cultural significance from those mentioned in previously published works, the Kansas State Register, and the Kansas section of the National Register, as well as from those suggested by the Kansas …

Nitrogen Transformation And Fate In Prairie Wetlands, William G. Crumpton, L. Gordon Goldsborough

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

Agricultural applications of fertilizers and pesticides have increased dramatically in the prairie pothole region since the middle 1960s, and agrochemical contamination of surface and groundwater has become a serious environmental concern. There is growing interest in the potential of prairie wetlands as sinks for excess nutrients in this agricultural landscape. As much as 50% of the fertilizer nitrogen applied to cultivated crops may be lost as nitrate in agricultural drainage water, and prairie wetlands may be especially effective as nitrate sinks. The effectiveness of prairie wetlands as sinks for nonpoint source nitrogen loads is likely to depend on the magnitude …

Effects Of Atmospheric Change And Agriculture On The Biogeochemistry And Microbial Ecology Of Prairie Wetlands, Richard D. Robarts, Marley J. Waiser

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

Relatively little is known about the factors which regulate in water biogeochemical processes and food chains in prairie wetlands. Climatic warming, increased UV-radiation and agricultural activities will have interacting effects on these wetlands. We examined the effects of these processes on prairie wetland functioning and productivity with particular emphasis on production and cycling of organic carbon, especially dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Autotrophic and heterotrophic production are temperature dependent and temperature increases or decreases could affect production under more extreme climate change scenarios. DOC concentrations could decrease with increasing bacterial production and photolysis, leading to increases in UV-radiation penetration. This is …

The Media's Role In Public Negativity Toward Congress: Distinguishing Emotional Reactions And Cognative Evaluations, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, John R. Hibbing

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Campus Racial Climate Policies: The View From The Bottom Up, Michelle Hughes, Rick Anderson, Julie Harms Cannon, Eduardo Perez, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

We review the debates over campus multicultural goals from the perspective of university officials and again from the perspective of the policy target: students. We then assess a sample of student policy opinions and the role of campus experiences and diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds in shaping those opinions. Often descriptive, this provides insights on working with diverse student populations. We focus our research on students because student voices are often unheard in education. Administrators are assumed to “know better” because of their years of campus experience or professional training.

Agricultural Productivity In Developing Countries, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

This paper examines changes in agricultural productivity in 18 developing countries over the period 1961-1985. We use a nonparametric, output-based Malmquist index and a parametric variable coeficients Cobb-Douglas production function to examine, whether our estimates confirm results from other studies that have indicated declining agricultural productivity in LDCs. The results confirm previous findings, indicating that at least half of these countries have experienced productivity declines in agriculture.

Wpa News 55 (1998), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1998), number 55

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Group Rebellion In The 1980s, Ryan Dudley, Ross A. Miller

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

The authors evaluate the ability of four theoretical approaches to account for the occurrence and severity of group rebellion in the 1980s. These explanations for rebellion are state responses and capabilities, relative deprivation, diffusion, and rational actor. Results indicate that relative deprivation and rational actor explanations were most important in accounting for the occurrence of group rebellion. On the other hand, state responses and capabilities and relative deprivation were the best explanations for the level of group rebellion.

Gender-Based Pay Gaps: Methodological And Policy Issues In University Salary Studies, Myra Marx Ferree, Julia Mcquillan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Methodology is often a point of contention in gender-based salary studies. Although this debate seems at first to be merely about technical issues, it also has an important conceptual dimension. We argue that there are two competing implicit conceptions of discrimination, one institutional and the other individual, that underlie many such debates. We first contrast the preferred methodologies advanced by each side, the policy capturing approach and the flagging approach, and explore the theoretical meaning of their statistical models. We then describe a practical application of both methodological approaches in one specific salary inequity study. In conclusion, we reflect on …

February 1998 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

April 1998 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

January 1998 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Food Safety Regulations - Cross-Border Implications - A U.S. Perspective, Matthew Schaefer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The United States and Canada are largely in agreement on food safety regulation issues. So, let me set up the debate between several parties not in the room. The debate at the time the Sanitary & Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement was concluded was between the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and some consumer advocates, like Ralph Nader, and expresidential candidates, like Pat Buchanan. The claim by the USTR was that the SPS Agreement would allow an increase in trade by eliminating protectionist barriers under the guise of food safety standards while still allowing the United States to maintain …

The "Grey Areas" And "Yellow Zones" Of Split Sovereignty Exposed By Globalization: Choosing Among Strategies Of Avoidance, Cooperation, And Intrusion To Escape An Era Of Misguided "New Federalism", Matthew Schaefer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Numerous commentators claim that globalization is injuring U.S. federalism. However, it is the strategies that governments in the United States are pursuing in response to globalization that are diminishing the values of federalism rather than any aspect of globalization itself.

The analysis and critique of the U.S. federal and state government strategies reveal that the United States is in danger of adopting a misguided notion of "new federalism." The strategies pursued by the governments in the United States preserve and promote the autonomy of states in a manner that allows for policies creating negative externalities, beggar-thy-neighbor policies, and other sub-optimal …

Hipaa And Its Related Legislation: A New Role For Erisa In The Regulation Of Private Health Care Plans?, Colleen E. Medill

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and its related legislation, the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 (NMHPA) and the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA) (hereinafter collectively referred to as "HIPAA and its related legislation") signals a possible new role for the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the federal law governing private health care plans. HIPAA and its related legislation represent a broadening, in the private health care context, of ERISA's Title I protective provisions from disclosure and fiduciary administration requirements to substantive benefit and coverage …

The Sec's New Regulation Ce Exemption: Federal-State Coordination Run Rampant, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") recently adopted a novel exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933. This new exemption, Regulation CE, contains a single rule, Rule 1001, that exempts from registration "[o]ffers and sales of securities that satisfy the conditions of paragraph (n) of Sec. 25102 of the California Corporations Code ...." California section 25102(n), in turn, exempts offerings to "qualified purchasers" and includes a "test-the- waters" provision that allows issuers to solicit purchasers in writing, even if non-qualified investors receive the solicitation.

Regulation CE is part of the SEC's continuing effort to ease the …

Integrating Restorative Justice And Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Thomas Scheff describes and endorses community conferences intended to develop dispositions of some criminal cases that promote individual and community interests in a manner consistent with Restorative Justice (RJ). He suggests that the research program known as Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ) might provide a useful structure for RJ, but he does not provide detailed discussion of the proposed integration of RJ and TJ. This comment clarifies and examines some potentially interesting aspects of such an integration. Section II sketches some central features of TJ and of RJ, and section III considers potential applications of the former to the latter.

Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase And Methionine Synthase: Biochemistry And Molecular Biology, R. G. Matthews, Christal A. Sheppard, C. Goulding

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase catalyze the penultimate and ultimate steps in the biosynthesis of methionine in prokaryotes, and are required for the regeneration of the methyl group of methionine in mammals. Defects in either of these enzymes can lead to hyperhomocysteinemia. The sequences of the human methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and methionine synthase are now known, and show clear homology with their bacterial analogues. Mutations in both enzymes that are known to occur in humans and to be associated with hyperhomocysteinemia affect residues that are conserved in the bacterial enzymes. Structure/function studies on the bacterial proteins, summarized in this review, …

From Loving To Romer: Homosexual Marriage And Moral Discernment, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The dual-gender marriage requirement does not treat men and women unequally. Instead, it recognizes and celebrates the physical differences between men and women and their obvious sexual complementarity. Traditional marriage laws do not discriminate on the basis of gender; rather, they recognize the equal indispensability of both genders to the institution of marriage. The dual-gender requirement, like the decision in Loving, is animated by a moral sense that discerns the true nature of marriage. As Justice Ginsburg put it so well, most people understand that the two sexes are not fungible and that dual-gender marriages and same-sex unions are …

"They Call Me 'Eight Eyes'": Hardwick'S Respectability, Romer'S Narrowness, And Same-Sex Marriage, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Justice White's landmark opinion in Hardwick has survived both the test of time and the many slings and arrows of outraged scholarship launched at it by law professors who believe the Constitution should be interpreted as codifying the Kama Sutra. The eminent respectability and rightness of Justice White's methodology and reasoning in Hardwick was completely vindicated in Glucksberg, the Supreme Court's latest--and one of its most significant--decisions on the meaning of fundamental rights protected by substantive due process.

In Glucksberg, the Supreme Court reaffirmed an objective historical methodology based upon a careful and precise description of the asserted liberty …

September 1998 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

November 1998 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Everyday Relating Or “The Grout Around The Tile”: Studying The Ordinary Aspects Of Personal Relationships, Dawn Braithwaite, Kathryn Dindia, Valerian Derlega, Mark Fine, Mark Leary, Rowland Miller, Julie Yingling

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

In answering the call to explore everyday aspects of personal relationships, we planned a thematic symposium for the 1997 INPR [International Network on Personal Relationships] conference in Oxford, Ohio, titled, “‘Everyday Relating’: Studying the Ordinary Aspects of Personal Relationships.” We brought leading scholars together to facilitate discussion groups to explore how this diverse group would respond to the call to focus research attention on everyday relating. We asked the participants to consider: “How should we approach and study everyday relating in personal relationships?” We gathered panelists representing diverse disciplines, theoretical perspectives, and research methods. Panelists shared their perspectives and led …

Megapode Newsletter 12(3)-16(1) (1998-2002), World Pheasant Association, Birdlife International, Ssc Megapode Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Volume 12, Number 3 (December 1998)

Editors: Rene W. R. J. Dekker, Darryl N. Jones, and Gary J. Wiles

Project description: Ontogeny of behaviour in the Australian brush-turkey Alectura lathami, Ann Göth

Notes on the nesting grounds of the Moluccan megapode Eulipoa wallacei at Amahai and desa Iha Baru (Elpaputih), South Seram, Indonesia, C. J. Heij

Maleo survey and conservation project, Gillian C. Baker

Nesting biology of the Vanuatu megapode Megapodius layardi on Ambrym, Vanuatu, Tanya Foster

Volume 13, Number 1 (July 1999)

Editors: Rene W. R. J. Dekker, Darryl N. Jones, and Gary J. Wiles

SHOCing news . …

Boletín De El Iucn/Birdlife/Wpa Grupo De Especialistas En Crácidos 6-11 (1998-2000), Iucn, Birdlife International, Wpa Cracid Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Volume 6 (March 1998)

Editors: Daniel M. Brooks (English), Alfredo J. Begazo (Spanish), Fábio Olmos (Portuguese)

¡Noticias de Armonia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia! Notícias de Armonia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, News from Armonia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia!

O raro jacu-de barriga-castanha (Penelope ochrogaster) no Pantanal de Pantanal, Poconé, Matto Grosso, Brazil, Fábio Olmos

The chestnut-bellied guan (Penelope ochrogaster) in the northern Pantanal of Poconé, Matto Grosso, Brazil, Fábio Olmos

Estado de la subespecie guacharaca de utila (Ortalis vetula deschauenseei) en la Isla Utila, Gilles Seutin

Status of the Utila Island subspecies of the plain chachalaca (Ortalis vetula deschauenssei …

Checklist And ‘‘Pollard Walk’’ Butterfly Survey Methods On Public Lands, Ronald Royer, Jane Austin, Wesley Newton

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Checklist and ‘‘Pollard Walk’’ butterfly survey methods were contemporaneously applied to seven public sites in North Dakota during the summer of 1995. Results were compared for effect of method and site on total number of butterflies and total number of species detected per hour. Checklist searching produced significantly more butterfly detections per hour than Pollard Walks at all sites. Number of species detected per hour did not differ significantly either among sites or between methods. Many species were detected by only one method, and at most sites generalist and invader species were more likely to be observed during checklist searches …

Fm 34-54, Technical Intelligence, 30 January 1998, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This manual defines and describes the technical intelligence mission. It names the key technical intelligence organizations involved at the national level and their interrelationships and responsibilities.

The manual describes in detail the technical intelligence organizations and operations in a US command in the field. It discusses at length the responsibilities on the key staff sections in the command.

It has extensive appendices explaining forms and procedures used by forces in the field. It has an excellent list of acronyms and glossary.

Comment by the depositor

A clear understanding of the evolution of technical intelligence may not be needed by the …