Journal articles: 'Little Rock University'

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Ferguson, John L., and James E. Lester. "The People's College: Little Rock's Junior College and Little Rock University, 1927-1969." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1988): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40038138.

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Sweet, Don, Kathy Sanders, and Bill Traylor. "University of Arkansas at Little Rock institutes student library fee." College & Research Libraries News 53, no. 7 (1992): 439. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.53.7.439.

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McElwee, Tracey M. Barnett, Allison Ames Boykin, Cynthia Wyman Bookwalter, and Reina Olivo. "Assessing food insecurity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock." Social Work and Social Welfare 2, no. 1 (2019): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25082/swsw.2019.01.004.

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Lindstrom, Jon T., James Robbins, Gerald Klingaman, Scott Starr, and Janet Carlson. "The University of Arkansas Plant Evaluation Program." HortScience 35, no. 4 (2000): 564A—564. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.35.4.564a.

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The Univ. of Arkansas initiated a statewide plant evaluation program in 1999. This trial will enable us to evaluate plants on a statewide basis, improve statewide marketing programs, and serve as a propagation source for nonpatented or non-trademarked material. Trees and shrubs will be evaluated for 5 years and herbaceous material for 3 years. Three test sites were established across the state, one in Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hope, Ark. These sites correspond to the three USDA plant hardiness zones found in Arkansas (Zones 6, 7, and 8). A consistent planting protocol (e.g., distance between plants, irrigation system, bed width) is used at all three locations. Data collection consists of annual growth measurements and qualitative evaluations for factors such as time of flowering, length of flowering, and disease or insect problems. A standard protocol has been established for identifying future plants to be evaluated in the program. In the first year, 17 accessions were planted at each of the three different locations. Best plant growth on 15 of the 17 accessions occurred at the Little Rock site. This may be a reflection of the environment present at the sites in Hope and Fayetteville. Both of these sites are exposed, full-sun situations, whereas the Little Rock site receives some afternoon shade. Reception to this trial program has been favorable, with the Little Rock site gaining much attention from the Arkansas nursery industry.

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Glazier, Rebecca, Gerald Driskill, and Kirk Leach. "Connecting with Community and Facilitating Learning through the Little Rock Congregations Study." Metropolitan Universities 31, no. 3 (2020): 22–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/23990.

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Places of worship play important roles as anchor institutions that promote community engagement and motivate political activity. Universities, particularly in urban settings, can also serve as anchor institutions that connect communities. Yet, there is often a gulf between the two, to the detriment of the broader community. In this article, we present the Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) as an approach to community engagement with faith-based organizations in an urban setting. This research project, based at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, involves an interdisciplinary team focused on understanding and improving the community engagement of congregations in the city of Little Rock since 2012. We present qualitative and quantitative data to illustrate the benefits of our approach, including research results returned to community organizations, greater visibility of the university in the community, student involvement in research and with faith-based organizations, and substantive findings that inform the greater body of knowledge and our own community. Through more than eight years of community-based work on the LRCS we provide six key lessons learned for researchers and students building relationships with religious leaders that can help bridge the gulf between these two key community institutions.

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Bowman, Michael. "Erin Krutko Devlin. Remember Little Rock. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. 264 pp." History of Education Quarterly 58, no. 2 (2018): 295–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2018.5.

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Carter, James. "Campus Rock." Journal of Popular Music Studies 32, no. 3 (2020): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.32.3.51.

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During 1967-8, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Animals, The Who, Richie Havens, Jefferson Airplane and the Iron Butterfly, performed in the gymnasium at the small, liberal arts Drew University in suburban New Jersey. Turns out, this experience was not unique to Drew. College campuses across the country were essential for the growth of popular music, and of rock music in particular in the mid- to late-sixties. The music industry took notice as booking agents, record shops, pop music promoters, radio stations, and industry magazines and newspapers all began to place more emphasis on the opportunities provided by the nation’s colleges. While we know a great deal about activism on college campuses during the sixties, we know little about that same environment and its relationship to the growth and development of rock culture. This essay will explore the relationship between the growth of rock culture, the college campus, and the broader sixties experience. The college campus proved crucial in the development of rock music as student tastes determined “rock culture.” Folk, pop, soul/R&B, folk rock, hard rock, and psychedelic/acid rock, thrived simultaneously on the college campus from 1967 to 1970, precisely the period of significant change in popular music.

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Carter, James. "Campus Rock." Journal of Popular Music Studies 32, no. 3 (2020): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.323006.

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During 1967-8, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Animals, The Who, Richie Havens, Jefferson Airplane and the Iron Butterfly, performed in the gymnasium at the small, liberal arts Drew University in suburban New Jersey. Turns out, this experience was not unique to Drew. College campuses across the country were essential for the growth of popular music, and of rock music in particular in the mid- to late-sixties. The music industry took notice as booking agents, record shops, pop music promoters, radio stations, and industry magazines and newspapers all began to place more emphasis on the opportunities provided by the nation’s colleges. While we know a great deal about activism on college campuses during the sixties, we know little about that same environment and its relationship to the growth and development of rock culture. This essay will explore the relationship between the growth of rock culture, the college campus, and the broader sixties experience. The college campus proved crucial in the development of rock music as student tastes determined “rock culture.” Folk, pop, soul/R&B, folk rock, hard rock, and psychedelic/acid rock, thrived simultaneously on the college campus from 1967 to 1970, precisely the period of significant change in popular music.

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Fitchue, M. Anthony. "Erin Krutko Devlin, Remember Little Rock. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. Pp. 264. $28.95 (paper)." Journal of African American History 104, no. 2 (2019): 317–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/702428.

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Hammond, Ralph B., and Ann J. West. "Biofeedback Technician Training Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Students." Teaching of Psychology 16, no. 1 (1989): 22–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top1601_7.

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This article describes a biofeedback technician training program that allowed the university to solve problems concerning budget, dwindling resources, and providing clinical training experiences for students. The program functioned for 7 years at graduate and undergraduate levels with the cooperation of two independent departments, Department of Psychology and the Counseling Center, at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Selection and training of participants in the program, equipment used, cost-effectiveness, and benefits to all involved are discussed.

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Williams, Oscar R. "ReviewKaren Anderson, Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 330. Cloth $35.00." Journal of African American History 96, no. 2 (2011): 267–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.2.0267.

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Lilley, F. E. M. "Demonstrating That Continents Had Drifted: Paleomagnetic Measurements at the Australian National University 1952 - 1964." Historical Records of Australian Science 23, no. 1 (2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr12003.

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Over fifty years ago, the new Department of Geophysics of the Australian National University in Canberra pursued research in paleomagnetism which was to be fundamental to the major developments in Earth Sciences now known as the plate tectonics revolution. In the setting of some then unexplained phenomena such as reversely magnetized rocks, and slightly in advance of fundamental developments in the dating of rocks using radioactive decay schemes of naturally-occurring isotopes, a team led by Edward Irving obtained data for the Australian continent which, accepted and combined with data from Europe and North America, demanded that major continents of the globe had moved relative to each other over geological time. Generally these facts are recognised in histories of science, however such histories usually do not record the local Australian National University setting, which it is intended to describe in this paper. Essential for the paleomagnetic work was the skilled support of a wide range of Australian geologists, who guided collection strategy and supplied oriented samples that had been collected continent-wide. It may also be little appreciated that the first paleomagnetic measurements at the Australian National University were carried out by J. C. Jaeger on samples of Tasmanian dolerite, following work on the same rock by P. M. S. Blackett's group in England. Because these cores were vertical and the magnetization in them approximately vertical, that they were not oriented with regard to horizontal direction was unimportant. Their vertical magnetization gave a forerunner of the continental-drift result.

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Bennett, Andrew. "‘Going down the pub!’: The pub rock scene as a resource for the consumption of popular music." Popular Music 16, no. 1 (1997): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000000714.

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In this article I want to consider the importance of the pub rock scene as a resource for the consumption of popular music. Considering its role as one of the primary sites for the production and consumption of live music, very little has been written about pub rock. Moreover, in those studies that have made reference to pub rock, emphasis has often been placed upon its role as a training ground for musicians and songwriters (see, for example, Laing 1985, p. 8), or as a stepping stone to full-time professional music-making rather than ‘a locally expressed and tangible manifestation of music in its own right’ (Finnegan 1989, p. 235). Indeed, if only a few published works exist on the production of pub rock then there are, to the best of my knowledge, no studies devoted to pub rock audiences. What I want to do here is to begin redressing this imbalance. I will focus upon two specific examples of pub rock audiences and thus hope to demonstrate that the production of pub rock is inextricably linked to the localised patterns of consumption that inform its reception, and that the significance which an audience attaches to a particular pub rock event is an essential, if not the essential, aspect of that event. The first audience study presented here is drawn from my experience of working as a part-time musician in a pub rock band. The second study, which pursues a slightly different line of enquiry to the first, is based upon fieldwork material that I am currently collecting as part of my doctoral studies at Durham University.

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Seidel, J. P., and B. Collingwood. "A new socket roughness factor for prediction of rock socket shaft resistance." Canadian Geotechnical Journal 38, no. 1 (2001): 138–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/t00-083.

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Prediction of rock socket shaft resistance is a complex problem. Conventional methods for predicting the peak shaft resistance are typically empirically related to unconfined compressive strength through the results of pile load tests. It is shown by reference to international pile socket databases that the degree of confidence which can be applied to these empirical methods is relatively low. Research at Monash University has been directed at understanding and then modelling the complex mechanisms of shear transfer at the interface between the socketed piles and the surrounding rock. Important factors that affect the strength of pile sockets have been identified in laboratory and numerical studies. With a knowledge of the effect of these factors, the reasons for the large scatter around traditional empirical correlations can be deduced. A computer program called ROCKET has been developed which encompasses all aspects of the Monash University rock socket research. This program has been used to develop design charts for rock-socketed piles based on unconfined compressive strength and a nondimensional factor which has been designated the shaft resistance coefficient (SRC). Implementation of the SRC method in design requires an estimate of the likely socket roughness to be made. Very few researchers or practitioners have measured socket roughness, so there is little available guidance in selection of appropriate values. Although many socket load tests are described in the technical literature, the physical parameter which is regularly missing is the socket roughness. With a knowledge of the shaft resistance, and an estimate of all other relevant parameters, the authors have been able to back-calculate the apparent socket roughness using the SRC method. Based on the back-calculated roughness data, socket roughness guidelines for use in analysis and design of rock sockets have been proposed. Using these roughness guidelines, it is shown that the SRC method is able to predict the scatter observed in previously published international load test databases.Key words: rock socket, drilled shaft, shaft resistance, roughness, shaft resistance coefficient.

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Pierce, Pamela. "Livin’ Like Jagger: The Hardcore Life of a Digitizing Librarian." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 17, no. 1 (2016): 47–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.17.1.458.

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I watched a little too much VH1 as a kid during summers in “It’s a dry heat” Tucson, Arizona: countdowns of the 100 greatest rock songs known to man, tales of sordid behind-the-music history, and “best weeks ever” that read like a grocery store checkout magazine with better humor. Mick Jagger entered into the VH1 programming about every other day. To be clear, he’s not my role model. I’m the digital library coordinator and archivist for the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. I love the academic world and I’m the ultimate bookworm. I have a personal archive of . . .

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Wang, Pei, Daniel Pullen, Fan Liu, William C. Decker, Ningning Wu, and John R. Talburt. "A Case Study on Data Quality, Privacy, and Evaluating the Outcome of Entity Resolution Processes." International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence 6, no. 3 (2016): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijoci.2016070101.

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This paper presents ongoing research conducted through collaboration between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Arkansas Department of Education to develop an entity resolution and identity management system. The process includes a multi-phase approach consisting of data-quality analysis, selection of entity-identity attributes for entity resolution, defined a rule set using the open source entity-resolution system named OYSTER and used entropy approach to identify the potential false positive and false negative. The research is the first known of its kind to evaluate privacy-enhancing, entity-resolution rule sets in a state education agency.

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Brice, William D., Edward Chu, and Anastasiya Brice. "Culture-Based Rejection of Taboo-Infringing Imports." International Journal of Management and Economics 53, no. 3 (2017): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijme-2017-0019.

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AbstractThis empirical study analyzes the cultural basis of the United States market response to imported Spanish products that seem to violate strongly-held cultural taboos. Survey responses were obtained from students in two contrasting majors, Art and Business, in two distinct cities and universities, i.e. Little Rock at the University of Arkansas, and Dominguez Hills at California State University. The study focused on a baby doll marketed to piggy-back on the new movement towards breastfeeding babies. Although accepted in its original European market, the United States media reports strong moral objections to this product among U. S. citizens. The toy was overwhelmingly rejected in some, but not all, population sub-groups. This study attempts to discern the cultural basis for product rejection by comparing responses between regions, college majors, genders and gender/major combinations. Differences in acceptance between groups are correlated with specific cultural constructs.

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Stafne, Eric T., John R. Clark, Donn T. Johnson, and Barbara A. Lewis. "FOLIAR DAMAGE OF BLACKBERRIES AND BLUEBERRIES BY JAPANESE BEETLE (Popillia japonica)." HortScience 40, no. 3 (2005): 879b—879. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.40.3.879b.

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Since 1997, populations of Japanese beetle have settled into some of the major urban areas of Arkansas, especially Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas, due to transported turf and nursery material. Experimental trials at the University of Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Fayetteville have sustained significant damage due to the increasing Japanese beetle population. Plantings of blackberries and blueberries were rated for feeding damage. Significant differences were observed among genotypes of both crops. Mean damage ratings varied from 0.6 to 4.0 for the blackberries and 1.2 to 3.5 for the blueberries. As evidenced by the mean damage ratings, some resistance or tolerance is present within these populations and may be exploited for improvement.

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Jacobson, William H. "Practice Report: Transforming a Traditional Personnel Preparation Program in Orientation and Mobility into an Online Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock." Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness 99, no. 11 (2005): 707–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145482x0509901109.

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Nazir, Muhammad Mudasser, Muhammad Mazhar Ayaz, Atif Nisar Ahmed, et al. "Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, and Sarcocystis Species DNA in the Heart and Breast Muscles of Rock Pigeons (Columbia livia)." Journal of Parasitology Research 2018 (2018): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6264042.

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Little is known about the prevalence of protozoan parasites in the muscles of rock pigeons (Columbia livia). The muscles from 54 (heart from 45 and breast from 54) rock pigeons were examined for DNA of Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, and Sarcocystis species using PCR. Twenty-four were female and 30 were males. The birds were part of flocks of pigeons housed at the tombs of saints in Lahore, Pakistan. Birds that died or were euthanized due to poor health were submitted for necropsy at the Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, where DNA isolations and PCR were conducted. Nineteen (35.1%) of the birds were positive for T. gondii DNA. Seven males and 12 females were positive. Breast tissue was always infected in T. gondii positive birds, while the heart was infected in 13 (28.8%) of breast positive birds. Five (9.2%) of the pigeons, 2 males and 3 females, were positive for N. caninum. The distribution of N. caninum DNA was more variable in the muscles of pigeons than T. gondii and was found only in the heart of 1 (female), heart and breast muscle of 2 (male), and only the breast muscle of 2 birds (female). One of the 54 rock pigeons (female) was positive for both T. gondii (heart and breast) and N. caninum (heart only). Two of the positive Neospora caninum amplicons were sequenced and had 97% nucleotide identity with N. caninum isolates. Sarcocystis DNA was not found in any bird. The prevalence of T. gondii in rock pigeons and their predation by cats suggest that they may play an unrecognized role in maintaining environmental contamination with T. gondii oocysts by cats. Our study indicates that rock pigeons are intermediate hosts of N. caninum and this information will aid in understanding the epidemiology of N. caninum.

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Miller, John S., and Cal Ledbetter. "Liberal Arts Faculty as Mediators: The Pulaski County Program." American Review of Politics 7 (January 1, 1987): 74–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1986.7.0.74-79.

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The effectiveness and efficiency of the justice system is a continuing focus of research, and public attention. Burdened by crowded dockets and demands policy for improved conditions and service, the justice system is examining new operative and management alternatives to traditional adjudication such as court-ordered arbitration, mediation programs and even private sector initiatives for handling disputes. In this paper we discuss the Pulaski County Mediation Program (MPX an innovative alternative to the traditional courtroom resolution 01 disputes in small claims, juvenile, and chancery court. The MP brings together, in a joint program, the needs, facilities, support and strengths of Pulaski County and the human and administrative resources of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), College of Liberal Arts.

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Kirk, John A. "Sondra Gordy . Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed Its Public Schools . Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press . 2009 . Pp. xxvii, 242. $29.95." American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (2010): 864–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.115.3.864.

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Govindarajan, Rangaswamy, James Posey, Calvin Y. Chao, et al. "Recurrence score distributions in stage II colon cancers of African American (AA) and Caucasian (CA) patients." Journal of Clinical Oncology 33, no. 3_suppl (2015): 613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2015.33.3_suppl.613.

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613 Background: The 12-gene colon cancer assay (Oncotype DX) can identify groups of stage II colon cancer patients with lower or higher recurrence risk, but distribution of scores based on race/ethnicity has not been assessed. This study compared the distribution of Recurrence Score results and gene expression profiles between African American (AA) and Caucasian (CA) stage II colon cancer patients. Methods: Stage II colon cancer patients were identified from tumor registry data from four institutions: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock; Veterans Administration Medical Center, Little Rock; Baptist Medical Center, Memphis, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. The 12-gene assay and mismatch repair (MMR) status were performed on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues by Genomic Health (Redwood City, CA). T-test and Wilcoxon test were used to compare data from the two groups (SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1). Results: Of the 244 subjects, there were 118 women (63 AA, 55 CA) and 126 men (59 AA, 67 CA). Median ages (years) were 66 for AAs and 68 for CAs. Age, gender, surgery year, pathologic T-Stage, tumor location, number of nodes examined, lympho-vascular invasion, and MMR status were not significantly different between groups (p>0.05). Recurrence Score results between AAs (mean 27.9; SD 12.8) and CAs (mean 28.1; SD 11.8) were not statistically different (p>0.05). The proportion of patients with high Recurrence Score values (≥41) was similar between the groups (17/122 AA; 15/122 CA). None of the gene expression variables, either single genes or gene groups, (cell cycle group, stromal group, BGN1, FAP, INHBA1, Ki67, MYBL2, cMYC3 and GADD45B) was significantly different between the racial groups (p>0.05). After controlling for clinical and pathologic covariates, means and distributions of Recurrence Score and gene expression profiles still showed no statistical significance between racial groups (p>0.05). Conclusions: In a cohort of AA and CA stage II colon cancer patients with similar clinical characteristics, the distribution of Recurrence Score results and gene expression data were similar between AA and CA patients.

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Thompson, Gail L. "Sondra, Gordy, Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed Its Public Schools. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2009. Pp. 242. Cloth $29.95." Journal of African American History 95, no. 2 (2010): 269–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.2.0269.

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Mohr, Peter D. "Dr Catherine Louisa Corbett MB ChB DPH (1877–1960), Diary in Serbia. Her work with the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Serbia and Russia, 1915–1917." Journal of Medical Biography 26, no. 4 (2018): 242–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967772018756275.

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Catherine Corbett was the second woman to gain a medical degree from the University of Manchester Medical School in 1905; however, little was known about her life or work, apart from the fact that she was a School Medical Inspector (SMI) and never married. The rediscovery of her Diary in Serbia (1916) has revealed her work for the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) during the First World War in Serbia (1915–1916). Her time alongside her female colleagues was a good experience, however the harsh conditions, especially those she experienced during a further period working in Russia (1916–1917), left her exhausted and psychologically stressed. After the war, her job as a SMI in Burnley and her pursuit of rock climbing helped her adjust to a normal life and allowed her to promote her views on female education.

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Gordy, S. "Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School. By Karen Anderson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xii, 330 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-09293-5.)." Journal of American History 97, no. 3 (2010): 851–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/97.3.851-a.

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Lewis, Catherine. "Karen Anderson . Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School . (Politics and Society in Twentieth‐Century America.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2010. Pp. x, 330. $35.00." American Historical Review 116, no. 5 (2011): 1528–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.5.1528.

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Masyuk, A. N., and V. A. Gorban. "Specific features of accumulation of humus in technozems under poplar plantations in the conditions of the Western Donbass." Fundamental and Applied Soil Science 18, no. 3-4 (2017): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/041716.

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One of the consequences of the mining industry’s activity is the removal of various granulometric composition on the daily surface of rocks, differing in water, physical and chemical properties. Subsequently, these rocks become the object of biological reclamation of land. The study of the role of humus in soil-forming processes occurring in reclaimed lands is important for establishing the features of their genesis. The suitability of soils for biological reclamation, taken out during development in dumps, is divided into three groups: suitable (fertile soil, which, as a rule, is separately removed, and potentially fertile rocks), are of little use (they have limited opportunities for growing plants) and are unsuitable phytotoxicity, rocky and others, in which edapho-ecological restrictions approach a minimum and a maximum). Proceeding from this, it is of interest to study: 1) the humus profile in technozems that are formed only from rocks, since from the moment of their emergence on the day surface the counting of the soil-forming process begins; 2) consideration of the behavior of humus in the fertile layer of technozems, consisting only of the mixed horizons H and Hp of zonal soils, because in the process of the technical stage of reclamation, the connections and properties characteristic of their natural historical compilation are lost. Field studies were concentrated on the experimental and experimental site of forest recultivation number 2 of Dniprovsky National University named after Oles Honchar in the Western Donbass, representing various variants of artificially created edaphotopes. Formation of the site lasted for two years and in its final form was a dump made up by a mine rock (carefully planned), on the surface of which there were artificially designed single-, two- and three-tier structures of reclaimed lands. The heap with a total area of 11.4 hectares was located between the mines «Blagodatnaya» and «Pavlogradskaya» (Dnepropetrovsk region, Pavlograd district). Stationary observations were carried out in poplar plantations. Edaphotop constructions were created as a result of the technical stage of reclamation, when the ground mass of ordinary chernozem and overburden rocks in different sequence and thickness fell to the phytotoxic mine rock (the product of the coal mining industry), which was placed on the day surface in the dumps. In the trial plots, soil sections were laid. Sampling was carried out every 10 cm along all the soil profile in 3-fold repetition, including mine rock. For a more complete (objective) characteristic, in some cases, the selection was carried out from the top 0–2 cm layer, as well as at the boundaries of the different-quality reclamation layers. The total content of humus was determined by Tyurin. As control (zero-moment), rocks were used from the sides of the quarry, from which the edaphotops artificially created for reclamation were formed and located in the immediate vicinity of the experimental site. To determine the stage of soil formation in comparison technologies, zonal soils were used (chernozems of ordinary heavy loam on loess) located in the Mavrinsky nursery (Dnipropetrovsk region, Pavlograd district), in which there were plantations of black poplar, the age of which corresponds to the age of plantations in the areas of forest reclamation in the Western Donbass and located 20 km from the experimental site outside the zone of influence of coal industry objects. As a result of the studies carried out, it has been established that the processes of humus accumulation in techno-scales are most active in surface layers (0–2 cm), which are characterized by the maximum content of humus primarily due to the fall of poplar plantations. In the studied techno-scales with depth, a gradual attenuation of the processes of humus accumulation is observed. The main source of organic matter, which eventually turns into soil humus, is the roots and decay of poplar, which under these conditions is the main edificator. The flow of organic matter in the form of leaf litter stimulates the processes of humus accumulation in the surface layers of technozems, and in the form of roots in all layers of the technozems where they are located. The humus content in the fertile soil layer increases, and the profile changes depend on the content of organic matter in the «parent» (zonal) horizons H and Hp involved in the reclamation and their relationships (or their share in the formation of the upper part of the technozem). In the horizons of rocks lying below the fertile soil layer, the humus content was within the limits corresponding to the zero-moment of soil formation. In the composition of ancient alluvial deposits, inclusions of various clays (loess-like, kaolinic, reddish-brown and others) are often found, ground mass of chernozems, sometimes of mine rock, which gives it a new qualitative state and promotes the formation of fertility close to loam. In places of significant impurities of clay (more than 30 %), the fertility of various mixtures can be higher than that of each breed separately – sands, sandy loams, loams, clays. Significant carbon stocks in the mine rock are not a source of organic matter used to feed plants due to the lack of mobile and water-soluble forms of humus nature.

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Peters, Shanan E., and Michael Foote. "Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic: a reinterpretation." Paleobiology 27, no. 4 (2001): 583–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0583:bitpar>2.0.co;2.

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Many features of global diversity compilations have proven robust to continued sampling and taxonomic revision. Inherent biases in the stratigraphic record may nevertheless substantially affect estimates of global taxonomic diversity. Here we focus on short-term (epoch-level) changes in apparent diversity. We use a simple estimate of the amount of marine sedimentary rock available for sampling: the number of formations in the stratigraphic Lexicon of the United States Geological Survey. We find this to be positively correlated with two independent estimates of rock availability: global outcrop area derived from the Paleogeographic Atlas Project (University of Chicago) database, and percent continental flooding. Epoch-to-epoch changes in the number of formations are positively correlated with changes in sampled Phanerozoic marine diversity at the genus level. We agree with previous workers in finding evidence of a diversity-area effect that is substantially weaker than the effect of the amount of preserved sedimentary rock. Once the mutual correlation among change in formation numbers, in diversity, and in area flooded is taken into consideration, there is relatively little residual correlation between change in diversity and in the extent of continental flooding. These results suggest that much of the observed short-term variation in marine diversity may be an artifact of variation in the amount of rock available for study. Preliminary results suggest the same possibility for terrestrial data.Like the comparison between change in number of formations and change in sampled diversity, which addresses short-term variation in apparent diversity, the comparison between absolute values of these quantities, which relates to longer-term patterns, also shows a positive correlation. Moreover, there is no clear temporal trend in the residuals of the regression of sampled diversity on number of formations. This raises the possibility that taxonomic diversity may not have increased substantially since the early Paleozoic. Because of limitations in our data, however, this question must remain open.

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Erickson, Ansley T. "Tony A. Freyer. Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 276 pp. Cloth $35.00. Paper $17.95. - Elizabeth Jacoway. Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation. New York: Free Press, 2007. 477 pp. Cloth $30.00. Paper $19.95." History of Education Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2010): 86–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2009.00247.x.

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SARTAIN, LEE. "Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis (eds.), Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis (Fayetteviile, University of Arkansas Press, 2007, $19.95). Pp. 242. isbn1 55728 857 7. - A. John Kirk, Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 2007, $19.95). Pp. 213. isbn1 55728 851 8." Journal of American Studies 42, no. 3 (2008): 599–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875808005732.

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Kuykendall, John A., and Thomas G. Barrett. "Growth of Innovation: Saturday Academies." Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice 22, no. 4 (2018): 627–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1521025118779181.

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The article presents a mixed-methods assessment of an educational intervention proposed by a partnership between Pulaski County Special School District, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Philander Smith College, and plaintiffs in a longstanding federal desegregation lawsuit. The Donaldson Scholars Saturday Academy is part of a plan, approved by the Federal Court’s Eastern District of Arkansas in 2014, designed to improve educational achievement of all Pulaski County Special School District students with special emphasis on improving academic performance of African American and other at-risk students. Composed of eight all-day sessions during the academic year focused on relationship building, academic rigor, fun, and college graduation, goals of the Saturday Academy include developing better cognitive and noncognitive skills to succeed in college and facilitating college graduation by eliminating the need for developmental courses. Students completing the program and enrolling in one of the two partner colleges receive a $10,000 scholarship. Preliminary findings are impressive.

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Snyder, Janea, Amar Kanekar, and Bennie Prince. "Growing Healthy Communities Initiative." Californian Journal of Health Promotion 16, no. 2 (2018): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.32398/cjhp.v16i2.2092.

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A contributing factor to the U.S. national obesity epidemic is the built environment-the physical aspects of a community in which we live, work and engage in our everyday activities. Therefore, modifying the built environment can be a solution to address the epidemic. Such an example is the Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention (ArCOP) Growing Healthy Communities (GHC) initiative. The GHC initiative encourages community health workers, health education specialists, government officials and other stakeholders to embrace community collaboration in efforts to improve built environments by equipping them with resources that increase community access to healthy foods and physical activities to help combat obesity. ArCOP to date has funded 100+ GHC communities in Arkansas. One of the five communities being highlighted by the authors for their GHC efforts includes: the University of Arkansas at Little Rock University District community, in which the authors have contributed to implementing various GHC projects for the residents of this community. The GHC, a state initiative, has implications for national and global use, and it is emerging as an exemplary best practice model. It provides communities with effective strategies to help address the health inequities of obesity, through prevention and intervention measures to improve health behaviors.

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Farrell, Tim. "Student-Oriented Learning Outlines: A Valuable Supplement to Traditional Instruction. Van Arsdale SK, Hammons JO (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR), Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. 1998;10:22-26." Journal of Physical Therapy Education 13, no. 2 (1999): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001416-199907000-00015.

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Ross, J. "Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed Its Public Schools. By Sondra Gordy. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xxviii, 242 pp. $29.95, ISBN 9781-55728-900-1.)." Journal of American History 97, no. 1 (2010): 253–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jahist/97.1.253.

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Machaca, Khaled, and Shirley Haun. "Induction of maturation-promoting factor during Xenopus oocyte maturation uncouples Ca2+ store depletion from store-operated Ca2+ entry." Journal of Cell Biology 156, no. 1 (2002): 75–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200110059.

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Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Arkansas Medical Science, Little Rock, AR 72205 During oocyte maturation, eggs acquire the ability to generate specialized Ca2+ signals in response to sperm entry. Such Ca2+ signals are crucial for egg activation and the initiation of embryonic development. We examined the regulation during Xenopus oocyte maturation of store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE), an important Ca2+ influx pathway in oocytes and other nonexcitable cells. We have previously shown that SOCE inactivates during Xenopus oocyte meiosis. SOCE inactivation may be important in preventing premature egg activation. In this study, we investigated the correlation between SOCE inactivation and the Mos–mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)–maturation-promoting factor (MPF) kinase cascade, which drives Xenopus oocyte maturation. SOCE inactivation at germinal vesicle breakdown coincides with an increase in the levels of MAPK and MPF. By differentially inducing Mos, MAPK, and MPF, we demonstrate that the activation of MPF is necessary for SOCE inactivation during oocyte maturation. In contrast, sustained high levels of Mos kinase and the MAPK cascade have no effect on SOCE activation. We further show that preactivated SOCE is not inactivated by MPF, suggesting that MPF does not block Ca2+ influx through SOCE channels, but rather inhibits coupling between store depletion and SOCE activation.

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Thompson, Carol, and Michael Kleine. "Using literature to explore interpersonal theory: Representation of rhetorical objectification and oppression." Journal of Pedagogy 7, no. 2 (2016): 97–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jped-2016-0013.

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Abstract This essay explains pedagogical experiment at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock using a piece of literature as a case study to examine interpersonal-communication concepts and to emphasize a course theme of objectification of other human beings. The course, entitled Rhetoric and Communication, has two co-instructors. One instructor is from Rhetoric and Writing, the other is from Communication. This essay reviews the course they teach, along with the readings they require, and it selects The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, to illustrate how interpersonal themes play out in a literary text and how objectification thwarts deeply personal values. Initially, the essay summarizes key interpersonal concepts (schema theory, coordinated management of meaning, the work of Martin Buber, and Knapp’s work on relationship stages). It then considers students’ work as they produce a “filtered” summary, a summary that endeavors to apply the interpersonal concepts being studied to Kafka’s work. Finally, it explains how summaries work, the “passage hunt” exercise, and how text-based class discussions can lead to lively discussion, robust student writing and a richer understanding of interpersonal concepts as well as the part objectification plays in damaging relationships. Thus, the paper illustrates several pedagogical strategies as it explores how The Metamorphosis becomes a literary case study that answers the question: how did this fictional family create communication that resulted in such communicative tragedy?

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Lown, Debbie, and Kenneth Lown. "Effects of enteral nutrition and ethanol on cytochrome P450 distribution in small intestine of male rats R HAKKAK, M RONIS, AND T BADGER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Center, Little Rock." Nutrition in Clinical Practice 8, no. 6 (1993): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/088453369300800608.

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McAllister, Meredith L. "A Study Of Undergraduate Students Alternative Conceptions Of Earths Interior Using Drawing Tasks." Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education (JAESE) 1, no. 1 (2015): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jaese.v1i1.9104.

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Learning fundamental geoscience topics such as plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanoes requires students to develop a deep understanding of the conceptual models geologists use when describing the structure and dynamics of Earths interior. Despite the importance of these mental models underlying much of the undergraduate geoscience curriculum, surprisingly little research related to this complex idea exists in the discipline-based science education research literature. To better understand non-science-majoring undergraduates' conceptual models of Earths interior, student-generated drawings and interviews were used to probe student understanding of the Earth. Ninety-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with non-science-major college students at the beginning of an entry-level geology course at a large Midwestern university. Students were asked to draw a picture of Earths interior and provide think-aloud explanations of their drawings. The results reveal that students hold a wide range of alternative conceptions about Earth, with only a small fraction having scientifically accurate ideas. Students understandings ranged from conceptualizing Earths interior as consisting of horizontal layers of rock and dirt, to more sophisticated views with Earths interior being composed of concentric layers with unique physical and chemical characteristics. Processes occurring within Earth, such as "convection," were rarely mentioned or explained. These results provide a first-steps basis from which to further explore college students thinking and contribute to the growing body of knowledge on earth science teaching and geoscience education research.

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Kilpatrick, Judith. "Tony A. Freyer, Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. 238. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7006-1535-3); $17.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7006-1536-0)." Law and History Review 27, no. 1 (2009): 225–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248000001899.

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Whittington, Julie R., Megan Pagan, Kristen Daugherty, et al. "Duration of the Third Stage of Labor and Estimated Blood Loss in Twin Vaginal Deliveries." American Journal of Perinatology Reports 10, no. 03 (2020): e330-e334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1715170.

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Objective The main aim of this study was to characterize the duration of the third stage of labor and estimated blood loss in twin vaginal deliveries. Study Design This was a retrospective case–control study. The data was collected from deliveries at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas, from January 2013 to June 2017. Women were identified who had twin gestation, were delivered vaginally, and whose maternal age was greater than 18 years old. Women were excluded if they had an intrauterine fetal demise, delivered either/both fetuses via cesarean, history of a previous cesarean or a fetus with a congenital anomaly. If a subject met criteria to be included in the study, the next normal singleton vaginal delivery was used as the control subject. Results There were 132 singleton vaginal deliveries and 133 twin vaginal deliveries analyzed. There was no significant difference in the length of the third stage of labor between twin and singleton vaginal deliveries except in the 95th percentile of the distribution. Mothers delivering twins had an increase in third-stage duration by 7.618 minutes (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.73, 14.50; p = 0.03) compared with those who delivered singletons. The twin group had a higher estimated blood loss than singleton deliveries. The increase in blood loss in the twin group was 149.02 mL (95% CI: 100.2, 197.8), 257.01 mL (95% CI: 117.9, 396.1), and 381.53 mL (95% CI: 201.1, 562.1) at the 50th, 90th, and 95th percentiles, respectively. When the third stage of labor was at the 90th percentile or less in twin pregnancy (14 minutes), estimated blood loss was less than 1000 mL. Conclusion Twin pregnancy is a known risk factor for postpartum hemorrhage. As the duration of the third stage prolongs, the risk for hemorrhage also increases. We recommend delivery of the placenta in twin pregnancies by 15 minutes to reduce this risk. Key Points

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Garfinkel, Alan P. "Rock Art at Little Lake: An Ancient Crossroads in the California Desert. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Gordon Hull and JOHN C. Bretney, editors. 2012. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, California .Xxxiii + 246 pp. $59.00 (cloth), ISBN-978-1 -931745-92-5." American Antiquity 78, no. 4 (2013): 805–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0002731600002882.

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Smith, D. L., C. Fritz, Q. Watson, et al. "First Report of Soybean Vein Necrosis Disease Caused by Soybean vein necrosis-associated virus in Wisconsin and Iowa." Plant Disease 97, no. 5 (2013): 693. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-11-12-1096-pdn.

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Several viral diseases of soybean (Glycine max) have been identified in the north-central U.S. soybean production area, which includes Wisconsin and Iowa (2). Previously, Soybean vein necrosis disease (SVND) caused by Soybean vein necrosis-associated virus was reported in Arkansas, Tennessee, and other southern states (4). In September 2012, soybean plants with symptoms similar to those reported for SVND (4) were observed in fields across Wisconsin and Iowa. Symptoms included leaf-vein and leaf chlorosis, followed by necrosis of the leaf veins and eventually necrosis of the entire leaf. Six samples with symptoms indicative of SVNaV were collected from research plots located at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station located in Madison, WI. An additional three samples were collected from three locations in central Iowa. Total RNA extracted from each sample using the Trizol Plus RNA purification kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) was used to generate complementary DNA (cDNA) using the iScript cDNA synthesis kit (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA) following the manufacturers' suggested protocols. The resulting cDNA was used as template in a PCR with SVNaV-specific primers, SVNaV-f1 and SVNaV-r1 (3). PCRs of two of the six Wisconsin samples and two Iowa samples were positive. Amplification products were not detected in the other five samples. The amplification products from the four strongly positive samples were purified using the Wizard SV Gel and PCR Purification Kit (Promega, Madison, WI) following the manufacturer's suggested protocol and were subjected to automated sequencing (University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center or Iowa State University, DNA Sequencing Facilities). BLASTn (1) alignments of the 915-bp consensus sequence revealed 98% and >99% identity of the Wisconsin and Iowa samples, respectively, with the ‘S’ segment of the SVNaV ‘TN’ isolate (GenBank Accession No. GU722319.1). Samples from the same leaf tissue used above, were subjected to serological tests for SVNaV using antigen coated-indirect ELISA (3). Asymptomatic soybeans grown in the greenhouse were used as a source of leaves for negative controls. These tests confirmed the presence of SVNaV in eight symptomatic soybean leaflets collected in Wisconsin and Iowa. The asymptomatic control and one Iowa sample, which was also PCR-negative, were also negative by serological testing. Six additional samples from soybean fields in as many Wisconsin counties (Fond Du Lac, Grant, Green, Juneau, Richland, Rock) tested positive for SVNaV using specific primers that amplify the ‘L’ segment (4). The sequenced amplification products (297-bp) showed 99 to 100% homology to the L segment of the TN isolate (GU722317.1). To our knowledge, this is the first report of SVNaV associated with soybean and the first report of SVND in Wisconsin and Iowa. Considering that little is known about SVNaV, it is assumed that it is like other Tospoviruses and can cause significant yield loss (4). Soybean is a major cash crop for Wisconsin and Iowa, and infection by SVNaV could result in potential yield loss in years where epidemics begin early and at a high initial inoculum level. References: (1) S. F. Altschul et al. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403, 1990. (2) G. L. Hartman et al. Compendium of Soybean Diseases, 4th ed, 1999. (3) B. Khatabi et al. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 133:783, 2012. (4) J. Zhou et al. Virus Genes 43:289, 2011.

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Lubera, Ewa. "FROST WEATHERING OF SELECTED ROCKS FROM THE TATRA MOUNTAINS." Quaestiones Geographicae 33, no. 1 (2014): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0003.

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Abstract The paper summarises the progress of a frost weathering simulation experiment involving a range of rocks after more than 300 gelation cycles. Samples of granite, conglomerate, sandstone, dolomite, limestone and amphibolite were sourced in the Chochołowska Valley, Tatra Mts. The simulation project, which continues at the Low Temperature Laboratory of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, is set to quantify the resistance of the rocks to frost weathering by measuring the number of gelation cycles after which the samples are damaged. At the end of the project, the degree of damage will be assessed using the percentage loss of the initial sample weight and a frost weathering indicator. So far, little damage has been recorded overall, with the dolomite samples losing the highest percentage of their initial weight at nearly 6%. The paper also presents results of physical tests of the rocks, including their strength, porosity and density, which provide a useful insight into the interpretation of differences in frost weathering resistance.

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Sell, David, Lucy Conway, Tracy Clark, et al. "SCIENTIFIC CRITERIA TO OPTIMIZE OIL SPILL CLEANUP." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1995, no. 1 (1995): 595–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-1995-1-595.

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ABSTRACT Aberdeen University Research and Industrial Services (AURIS) undertook a joint industry pilot investigation on “Scientific Criteria for Optimizing Oil Spill Cleanup Operations and Effort” from October 1993 to March 1994. This project examined the worldwide scientific literature on the effects of oil spills, and experimental and natural clearances, on both rocky shores and salt marshes, to ascertain whether defensible scientific criteria could be used to establish the appropriate end point for oil spill cleanup operations. After exhaustive screening of the literature, the investigation found that ecological recovery of shore biota usually follows natural time scales of up to three years for rocky shores and five years for salt marshes, regardless of cleanup. Cleanup has a negative or marginal influence on these time scales, so there is little scientific justification for shore treatment. It may be justified, however, by socioeconomic factors relating to recreation, tourism, fisheries, aquaculture, visual amenity, or birds and mammals. In exceptional cases, where oil has formed heavy smothering deposits or toxic subsurface deposits, there are grounds for treatment to promote ecological recovery of the shore biota within the expected time scales.

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Ismarika, Ismarika, and Elmeida Efffendy. "A Case of Pica on a 6–Year-Old Child from Medan." Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 9, T3 (2021): 172–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.6301.

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BACKGROUND: In 2013, in the feeding and eating disorder category of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), pica was included as a diagnosis. Eating one or more non-nutritious, non-food substances continuously for at least 1 month is an important characteristic of pica. Children who participate in pica eat products that differ greatly but also include paper, plastic, fabric, dirt, paint, rocks, soap, and cigarette butts. This purpose of this case report is to determine the symptoms and diagnosis of pica in child. CASE REPORT: A 6-year-old girl was brought to the Psychiatry Clinic of North Sumatera University Hospital with her mother due to her unusual behavior of eating stuff including paper, sawdust, crayon, cloth, and ice cubes. This on since the little girl was 3 years of age. One week earlier, the little girl experienced diarrhea before being admitted to the psychiatry clinic. In this case, the diagnosis of pica used the DSM-5 criteria. CONCLUSION: We hope that this case report about pica can figure out more about this particularly unusual behavior, which can occur even in normal children in which parental neglect may precipitate its occurrence. As clinicians, we can detect the symptoms and signs of pica in children to prevent further complications.

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Gentz, Margaret C., and J. Kenneth Grace. "Native Boron Levels and the Effect of Boron Treatment on Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), Coptotermes acinaciformis (Froggatt) (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae), and Mastotermes darwiniensis Froggatt (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae)." Journal of Entomological Science 43, no. 2 (2008): 217–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-43.2.217.

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Although boron is a ubiquitous element found in rocks, soil and water, little has been determined about its physiological role in plants and animals. Comparing the effect of sublethal boron exposure on 3 species yields a broader view of the toxicity of boron compounds in termites. Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) were collected from colonies maintained in at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus in Honolulu, HI (United States); C. acinaciformis (Froggart) from Darwin, North Territory (Australia); and Mastotermes darwiniensis Froggart (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae) from Darwin, North Territory (Australia). Termites were exposed to untreated composite board or board containing zinc borate and anhydrous boric acid (ZB/B2O3 in a 60/40 ratio, 0.75% BAE) in a no-choice test for 5 d, either in Honolulu (C. formosanus) or Australia (C. acinaciformis and M. darwiniensis); survival rates, wet weight, and boron content of the termites were determined. Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES) was used to determine boron content in field-caught and experimental termites. There was a significant (P &lt; 0.01) decrease in survival of the boron-treated Coptotermes in comparison with the untreated termites, although no mortality was observed in M. darwiniensis. All 3 species showed a significant (P &lt; 0.01) increase in boron content in boron-treated individuals, and there were no significant differences observed between the field-caught and untreated termites.

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Austin, Ronald L., Bernard Owens, and Edwin G. Spinner. "Alan Charles Higgins (1936–2004)." Journal of Micropalaeontology 23, no. 2 (2004): 191–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jm.23.2.191.

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Abstract. Alan Higgins was born in Hanley, Staffordshire on 16 December 1936, the youngest of three children. Throughout his childhood he was fascinated by the natural history of the nearby Peak District and it was not surprising that sciences played an important part in his education at Hanley High School. In 1955, he went to the University of Sheffield to study Geology and obtained a 2(1) degree in 1958. During those early years in Sheffield, he came under the influence of the late Professor Leslie Moore and, on graduation, was encouraged by him to undertake research on Namurian conodonts. At that time, little was known of the true potential of conodonts and, indeed, almost nothing of their occurrence in Upper Carboniferous rocks. Alan collected samples extensively throughout the southern Pennine region, often working closely with the staff of the Geological Survey and generated the first Namurian conodont zonation for the British Isles. He exploited every opportunity to prove the value of conodont studies outside the Carboniferous Period and, in 1962, published the results of an investigation on the microfaunas found in the Durness Limestone of northwest Scotland. His PhD was completed in 1961.In late 1961, he was awarded a DSIR (Government) Fellowship which allowed him to work in Brussels at the offices of the Belgian Geological Survey whilst investigating the stratigraphic distribution of conodonts in the Namurian type sections of the Namur Basin. These studies, carried out in close collaboration with Jos Bouckaert, established detailed correlations with the British sequences . . .

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Wynn-Williams, David D. "The International Journal of Astrobiology." International Journal of Astrobiology 1, no. 1 (2002): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147355040200109x.

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The launch of a new journal is appropriately like a space mission. It is the result of a scientific need, the inspiration of a group of committed scientists and technologists, a series of draft proposals, an approved mission protocol, and a launch. Today is the launch day for a journal whose remit has only recently consolidated from diverse disciplines. Cambridge University Press has an international reputation for astronomy. To this we add extreme biology and its associated environmental research to integrate astrobiology as: ‘the study of the origin, evolution, adaptation and distribution of past and present life in the Universe’.Astrobiology has three main themes: (1) Origin, evolution and limits of life on Earth; (2) Future of life, both on Earth and elsewhere; (3) Search for habitats, biomolecules and life in the Solar System and elsewhere. These fundamental concepts require the integration of various disciplines, including biology (especially microbiology), chemistry, geology, palaeontology, and the physics of atmospheres, planets and stars. We must also keep our minds wide open about the nature and limits of life. We can safely assume a carbon-based system within Solar Systems as we know them, but our concept of habitable zones expands yearly. We were taught that only the spores of certain bacilli could survive temperatures above the boiling point of water, and yet we now know that the deep-sea vent microbe Pyrolobus can survive an hour at 121 °C, which is the temperature used for sterilising medical instruments. We know of cyanobacteria which can not only live inside deep-frozen Antarctic rocks but also survive on roof-tops in Jerusalem at 80 °C. The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans tolerates lethal doses of nuclear radiation, and cyanobacteria inside Antarctic desert sandstone receive so little moisture that their carbon turnover time (from its fixation by photosynthesis to its release as carbon dioxide during respiration) is 10,000 years. Life is tolerant, adaptable and tenacious.

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Vogler, D. R., and D. A. Charlet. "First Report of the White Pine Blister Rust Fungus (Cronartium ribicola) Infecting Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Ribes spp. in the Jarbidge Mountains of Northeastern Nevada." Plant Disease 88, no. 7 (2004): 772. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis.2004.88.7.772b.

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The Jarbidge Mountains are a remote and little-visited desert mountain range at the northern edge of the Great Basin in Elko County, NV, 110 km north of Elko and 115 km southwest of Twin Falls, ID. The forest is dominated by subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) at lower elevations and whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) at higher elevations; limber pine (P. flexilis) occurs along streams in canyons at lower elevations (2). P. albicaulis and P. flexilis are hosts for the blister rust fungus, Cronartium ribicola. In the late 1990s, a survey across the Intermountain West reported no evidence of C. ribicola in the Jarbidge Mountains or elsewhere in the central Great Basin (3). However, unpublished observations by D. A. Charlet in 1988 and 2001 indicate that blister rust has been present in the Jarbidge Mountains for at least 16 years. In September 2002, D. R. Vogler visited the Jarbidge Mountains over a 2-week period, examining whitebark pines along the unpaved route through the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest connecting Highway 225 and Jarbidge, NV. Blister rust-infected whitebark were found in two locations: (i) Coon Creek Summit (2,575 m elevation), atop the divide between the Great Basin to the south and the Columbia Plateau to the north, and (ii) Bear Creek drainage (2,315 to 2,405 m elevation), 6.7 km northeast of Coon Creek Summit. At Coon Creek Summit, three whitebark pines ranging in diameter from 10 to 30 cm at breast height (dbh) were infected (evidenced by spindle-shaped branch swellings, aecia, and aeciospores), with the oldest infection occurring on wood produced in 1975. Assuming a mean needle retention of 10 years, the first pine infection likely occurred between 1975 and 1984. Ribes montigenum and an unknown Ribes sp. were common at Coon Creek Summit but were not infected. In the Bear Creek drainage north of the divide, 27 whitebark pines ranging in size from under 0.3 m high to 12 cm dbh were found infected, with the oldest infection on 1976 wood indicating an origin between 1976 and 1985. Most pines there, however, appeared to have been infected between 1994 and 1998. At Bear Creek, infection on Ribes spp. was common, with R. cereum the most frequently infected species. Voucher specimens of R. cereum (KPK-948 and KPK-949) are archived in the fungal herbarium at the Institute of Forest Genetics, Placerville, CA. On pine, fresh spermatia and aeciospores were abundant even though it was late in the season. Late sporulation has also been observed above 2,500 m on western white (P. monticola) and whitebark pine northeast of Lake Tahoe in Nevada (4). To our knowledge, our report marks the first recorded intrusion by C. ribicola into the north-central Great Basin. Recently, the first report of C. ribicola on Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (P. aristata) was documented in southern Colorado (1). Now, Great Basin bristlecone (P. longaeva), which is restricted in Nevada to higher elevations in the eastern and southern parts of the state (2), may also be at risk; the northernmost occurrence of this last whitepine holdout from blister rust is in the Ruby Mountains, 135 km south of our findings in the Jarbidge Mountains. References: (1) J. T. Blodgett and K. F. Sullivan. Plant Dis. 88:311, 2004. (2) D. A. Charlet. Atlas of Nevada Conifers. University of Nevada Press, Reno, 1996. (3) J. P. Smith and J. T. Hoffman. Western North American Naturalist 60:165, 2000. (4) J. P. Smith et al. Plant Dis. 84:594. 2000.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Little Rock University'

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