321 research outputs found
Survey of parasite control practices in sheep and cattle
Farms in the Albany, Esperance, Jerramungup and Katanning districts were surveyed to determine parasite control strategies currently used, to evaluate the adoption of recommended control practices and to detect areas of ineffective parasite control. For cattle, the number of drenches given in the low rainfall zone was higher than the number given in the high rainfall zone
A survey of drench resistance in sheep worms
Sheep worms which are resistant to chemical drenches have been detected with increasing freuency is Western Australia\u27s south-western farming areas between 977 and 1980. These worms have anthelmintic resistance and such genetis resistance puts essential internal parasite control practices at risk.
This prompted veterinarians in the Esperance, Albany, Bunbury, Geraldton and Northam areas to survey farms to determine the prevalence of resistance to drenches and to define those sheep management practices which encourage its development.
This article describes the survey which was conducted to assess the extent of drench resistance, what causes its build-up and how it can be controlled by using a combination of drenching programme changes and sheep management practices.
It has been estimated that drench resistance alone could cost the State\u27s sheep industry 6 million a year in lost production, and, as shis survey shows, there is potential for far greater costs if resistance continues to increase
A Time Delay for the Largest Gravitationally Lensed Quasar: SDSS J1004+4112
We present 426 epochs of optical monitoring data spanning 1000 days from
December 2003 to June 2006 for the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS
J1004+4112. The time delay between the A and B images is 38.4+/-2.0 days in the
expected sense that B leads A and the overall time ordering is C-B-A-D-E. The
measured delay invalidates all published models. The models failed because they
neglected the perturbations from cluster member galaxies. Models including the
galaxies can fit the data well, but strong conclusions about the cluster mass
distribution should await the measurement of the longer, and less substructure
sensitive, delays of the C and D images. For these images, a CB delay of
681+/-15 days is plausible but requires confirmation, while CB and AD delays of
>560 days and > 800 days are required. We clearly detect microlensing of the
A/B images, with the delay-corrected flux ratios changing from B-A=0.44+/-0.01
mag in the first season to 0.29+/-0.01 mag in the second season and 0.32+/-0.01
mag in the third season.Comment: 23 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Ap
Researching workplace friendships: drawing insights from the sociology of friendship
Although organizational research on workplace friendships is well established, it has been criticized for its predominately postpositivistic outlook, which largely focuses on how workplace friendships can be linked to improving organizational outcomes such as efficiency and performance. As a consequence other aspects of the lived experiences of work and friendship are obscured, in particular how these friendships are important in their own right and how they function as social and personal relationships. Supplementing postpositivistic research on workplace friendships, this article shows how researchers can derive theoretical insights from a âsociology of friendshipâ. The main contribution of this article relates to the development of a sociology of workplace friendship that understands the porous and mutable nature of these relationships and considers the social and personal factors that influence their role, place and meaning in the workplace. As such, three sociological frames of analysis are elaborated that encourage researchers to examine friendships at work as a set of contextually contingent social practices and as historically patterned social and personal relationships. This article articulates an agenda of research to inspire and guide researchers using these frames, one potential outcome of which is generating much needed scholarship that explores how workplace friendships contribute to human flourishing
Volume 01
Introduction from Dean Dr. Charles Ross
Three Decades of Digging: Undergraduate Archeology at Longwood by Jessica Fields and Stephanie Neeley
Interactions of Allelopathy and Heat Stress in Plants by Derek W. Hambright and Mary E. Lehman
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement D-D Fusion Device: Construction and Simulation by Andrew R. Grzankowski
Shackled Nim by Zachary Johnson
Development of GC-MS and Chemometric Methods for the Analysis of Accelerants in Arson Cases by Boone M. Prentice
A Comparison of Image Analysis Methods in cDNA Microarrays by Ashley M. Swandby
Perceived Sexual Activity of Short and Long-Term Relationships by Victoria Morgan and Katie Williamson
Elderly Male Communication by Kristine G. Bender
Three Poems: âAdam and Eve and an Orange Treeâ, âThe Name of Everything Before Dyingâ, and âThe âPoet Voiceââ by Katelyn N. Romaine
There\u27s Nothing Like Dancing, After All : Marriage and Gender in the Dance Scenes of Jane Austen\u27s Novels by D. Nicole Swann
Two Poems: âAge Nine with Motherâ and âThe Apple That Crawls Away From the Treeâ by Jessica Fox
Untitled by Mike McAteer
Room 9 by Alex Grabiec
Two Photographs: âGracieâ and âEmilyâ by Laura Nodtvedt
Bowling Lanes Night by Nick Costa
Two Paintings: âCan and Kettleâ and âScarecrowâ by Rachel Wolfe
Exploring Henrik Ibsen\u27s âPerr Gyntâ by Zack Dalton
Creative Writing Scholarship at Longwood University
Music Scholarship at Longwood â Senior Recital Arianne K. Burrus
Longwood University Theater â Peer Gyn
Predictors of long-term outcome following high-dose chemotherapy in high-risk primary breast cancer
We report on a predictive model of long-term outcome in 114 high-risk breast cancer patients treated with high-dose chemotherapy between 1989 and 1994. Paraffin-blocks from 90 of the 114 primaries were assessed for the presence of five risk factors: grade, mitotic index, protein expression of p53, HER2/neu, and oestrogen/progesterone receptor status; we could analyse the effect of risk factors in 84 of these 90 tumours. Seven-year relapse-free and overall survival was 58% (95% confidence interval 44â74%) and 82% (95% confidence interval 71â94%) vs 33% (95% confidence interval 21â52%) and 41% (95% confidence interval 28â60%) for patients whose primary tumours displayed â©Ÿ3 risk factors vs patients with â©œ2 risk factors. For the entire group of 168 high-risk breast cancer patients, inflammatory stage IIIB disease and involved post-mastectomy margins were associated with decreased relapse-free survival and overall survival; patients treated with non-doxorubicin containing standard adjuvant therapy experienced worse overall survival (RR, 2.08; 95% confidence interval 1.04 to 4.16; P=0.04), while adjuvant tamoxifen improved overall survival (RR, 0.65; 95% confidence interval 0.41â1.01; P=0.054). Future trial designs and patient selection for studies specific for high-risk breast cancer patients should include appropriate prognostic models. Validation of such models could come from recently completed randomised, prospective trials
Early above- and below-ground responses of subboreal conifer seedlings to various levels of deciduous canopy removal
We examined the growth of understory conifers, following partial or complete deciduous canopy removal, in a field study established in two regions in Canada. In central British Columbia, we studied the responses of three species (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss x Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm., and Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.), and in northwestern Quebec, we studied one species (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.). Stem and root diameter and height growth were measured 5 years before and 3 years after harvesting. Both root and stem diameter growth increased sharply following release but seedlings showed greater root growth, suggesting that in the short term, improvement in soil resource capture and transport, and presumably stability, may be more important than an increase in stem diameter and height growth. Response was strongly size dependent, which appears to reflect greater demand for soil resources as well as higher light levels and greater tree vigour before release for taller individuals. Growth ratios could not explain the faster response generally attributed to true fir species or the unusual swift response of spruces. Good prerelease vigour of spruces, presumably favoured by deciduous canopies, could explain their rapid response to release
Exploring the pastiche hegemony of men
In this article I explore the continued hegemony of certain men. I use interview extracts to help think through the notion of pastiche hegemony as a means of understanding how men, and narratives about them, have changed, but unequal power relations persist. In particular, I explore this process within menâs understandings of how they were able to gain and maintain influence and power at work. Through their reflexive reading of the changing shape of late modern Western society, these men believed they were able to craft selves and employ social scripts to produce social influence and power in situational and contingent forms. I argue that it is within this interactional process that the increasingly undermined ideological and material legacy of patriarchy might still be reified. As such, while there is clear evidence highlighting the undermining of menâs ability to assume power, within this article I theoretically unpack how certain men might be able to produce a localized, pastiche hegemony. This article is published as part of a thematic collection on gender studies
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