Development of Streams Classification System for Nutrient Criteria in Illinois

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Alien Registration- Russell, Amy (Presque Isle, Aroostook County)

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Motivating Factors of Aphid Behavior

Citation: Kruse, A. (2017). Motivating Factors of Aphid Behavior . 1st Annual Undergraduate Research Experience in Entomology Symposium, November 16, 2016. Manhattam, KS.Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects with long slender mouthparts used to pierce leaves and extract fluids; to check for aphid infestation, one must check the underside of the leaf as this is the preferential side for many aphid species [1]. Sugarcane Aphids, Melanaphis sacchari, cause serious damage to sorghum growth, development and productivity in many countries [2]. We hoped to find with this experiment what factors can best explain why Sugarcane Aphids colonize on the underside of sorghum. We found that the only two treatments that were statistically significant (mesh top/cardboard bottom, and mesh top/mesh bottom flipped) meaning that with further research we may be able to prove light is the most motivating factor of aphid colonization behavior

Experiential Learning in Industrial/Organizational Psychology: A Case Study

Experiential learning is considered a powerful tool for learning in college. Community-based research is one type of experiential learning that has been used to learn research skills in a variety of social science disciplines. The current case study was conducted as an experiential learning research project. A team of six students and a professor from a small Midwestern college conducted community-based research with a large agribusiness company headquartered near the college. The goal of the project was to create an effective employee-selection process for this firm and to provide an effective learning experience for students. This included development of a situational judgment test, cognitive ability testing, and personality assessment. The article focuses on steps taken to organize a community- based research project, the steps required to develop an effective selection process, and an evaluation of the experience from students, the community partners, and faculty

A storm like no other: changes that shaped Seward Peninsula communities at the turn of the 20th century

Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2009"This thesis explains how four events at the turn of the twentieth century--the start of an American administration, the introduction of schools and missions, the introduction of reindeer, and the 1918 influenza epidemic--brought sweeping changes to Inupiat on the Seward Peninsula, and contributed to the decline of two formerly-prominent Seward Peninsula communities: Kingegan and Kauwerak"--Leaf iiiNational Park Service Bering Land Bridge Preserve historic resource study (HRS) grant1. Introduction -- Prehistoric cultures of the Seward Peninsula -- 2. Kingegan and Kauwerak -- Whalers and American explorers -- The Gilley affair -- 3. U.S. administration and the Seward Peninsula -- 4. Missions and schools on the Seward Peninsula -- Mission schools in Northwest Alaska -- Role of missionaries -- Wales Mission history -- Spread of Christianity on the Seward Peninsula -- New teachers and new missions on the Seward Peninsula -- Bureau of Education's medical services -- Schools after the missionary period -- End of Bureau of Education work in Alaska -- 5. Reindeer on the Seward Peninsula -- Creation of the Alaska Reindeer Service -- "The reindeer are the schoolbooks" -- Influence of Chukchi and Sami herders -- The first Inupiaq herders -- Influence of the Sami -- Moving the reindeer station Eaton -- The overland relief expedition to Barrow -- Fate of the reindeer -- Return voyage -- Impacts of the expedition for herders -- Impacts of the expedition on reindeer herding -- Changes in the Native ownership of deer -- Changes to the reindeer program under Jackson -- Reindeer fairs -- A burgeoning industry -- Following the 1918 flu epidemic -- Reindeer industry in the 1930s -- Major impacts to the reindeer industry following the 1940s -- Influence of herding on Inupiat -- 6. Devastation of the 1918 influenza epidemic -- Influenza reaches Alaska -- Influenza decimates villagees on the southern half of the Seward Peninsula -- Shishmaref and deering saved -- Aftermath -- Effects of the influenza -- 7. Conclusions -- References

Non-Combatant Immunity and 'Just War'

Moral philosophers and the international political community alike have traditionally valued the lives of civilians over those of soldiers. The first part of jus in bello, the doctrine which aims to characterise the just conduct of war, states that 'civilians, as non-combatants, must not be attacked or killed', whereas the only requirement concerning the killing of soldiers is that any attack must meet the requirement of proportionality: it must not cause so much harm that the good it does is overridden. Similarly, Article 51 of the Geneva Protocols states that 'the civilian population and individual civilians shall enjoy general protection against dangers arising from military operations', and that 'the civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack'. The requirement of proportionality is mentioned only with reference to the protection of civilian life or cultural objects, except in the general statement that 'it is prohibited to employ weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering.' The specific protections offered to combatants are limited to wounded, sick or shipwrecked combatants, and prisoners of war - those combatants who most closely resemble civilians. The Protocols do state that all attacks must be limited to 'military objectives', but the definition of these objectives is permissive, to say the least: 'Military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.' To kill enemy soldiers in large numbers surely offers a definite military advantage. This thesis examines the moral basis for the distinction that these laws and doctrines draw between soldiers and civilians. I explain why the distinction between combatant and non-combatant casualties is not, in a significant proportion of cases, a morally sound one. I argue that any moral justification of the principle of non-combatant immunity must be of a utilitarian nature, pointing to its ability to limit the overall carnage of warfare. The implications for jus in bello of recognising that the principle can be justified only on these grounds are wide-ranging and important. If we want to retain civilian immunity, we must accept a utilitarian simulacrum of that doctrine. I argue that applying utilitarian standards to the just conduct of war will lead us to prefer very different sorts of policies from those currently embodied by jus in bello. Thus what we think about civilian immunity may have consequences for what we think about the moral foundation of our doctrine of just war