Antibiotic resistant pattern of environmental isolates of Listeria monocytogenes from Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

Incidence of Listeria monocytogenes in cow manure, agricultural soil, and common vegetables sold in major markets in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria was determined. Antibiotic resistant pattern of the isolates wasexamined by paper disk assay. A total of 196 environmental samples were cultured on a selective medium out of which 153 (78.1%) were positive for L. monocytogenes. Erythromycin was the mosteffective antibiotic against the isolates with the least resistance (28.1%) while chloramphenicol proved to be least effective with resistant of 52.29%. The multiple-antibiotic resistant pattern of the isolates showed augumentin/amoxicillin (33.3%),  lugumentin/erythromycin (24.18%), and cotrimoxazole/ chloramphenicol/amoxicillin (28.8%) to be most prominent. The least value was observed in cloxacilin/cotrimoxazole/gentamycin with 15.34%. The modal values of the Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations(MICs) of the antibiotics to the isolates range between 4.0 and >16.0 ìg/ml. cotrimoxazole and gentamicin recorded the highest MIC compared with other antibiotics

Manifestations of Neoliberal Discourses Within a Local Job-Training Program

The purpose of conducting this study was to understand how neoliberal discourses manifest within the local context of a short-term, job-training program offered at a two-year college in the USA. Ethnographic data were collected at the local site through interviews, observations and document analysis. We then situated these data within a global context represented by a corpus of purposively selected national and international policy texts. Focusing on three components of discourse as social action—genres, representations and identities—the data analysis illuminated three interrelated themes relating to how institutional actors translated neoliberal discourses available at the global scale into practice. The ideological consequences for learners as well as examples of counter-hegemonic resistance are discussed

Still & Barrel: Craft Spirits in the Old North State: Book Review

In Still & Barrel: Craft Spirits in the Old North State, author John Francis Trump offers readers a grand tour of the distilleries which cover the state of North Carolina. Throughout the pages of the book, the author provides a description of each distillery, the owner names/contact information, and the distillery website and operating hours if known. John Trump explains that the book is not an exhaustive list of all the distilleries in North Carolina, but rather a glimpse of the more popular distilleries across the state. In the long run, the author is trying to help readers gain a further understanding of and learn the overall history of the craft spirit/alcohol industry in North Carolina

BioMusic in the Classroom: Interdisciplinary Elementary Science and Music Curriculum Development

Policymakers and industry leaders are calling for a 21st century education that is more interdisciplinary in nature, including the ability to solve problems and think creatively (PTCS, 2004). Traditional teaching practices that present subjects as separate and distinct disciplines do not encourage students to make connections between subjects in school and in the inherently interdisciplinary nature of their daily lives. It is important for educators to help students link multiple subjects with the world outside the classroom (Katz & McGinnis, 1999), encouraging reform that implements a multidisciplinary approach and real world applications. Boix Mansilla, Miller, and Gardner (2000) describe interdisciplinary learning as integrating concepts from two or more disciplines to establish an understanding that moves beyond the scope of one discipline. It follows that rich inquiry is often achieved by taking multiple perspectives and multiple approaches to examining a science topic (AAAS, 2006)

Community collections: Exploring three distinct approaches to collaboration and outreach through digitization initiatives

Slides from a presentation on community outreach through digitization initiatives. Delivered on March 12, 2015 at the Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Meeting, Greenville, North Carolina by David Gwynn

Civil Rights Greensboro: A blueprint for ongoing community engagement in digital history projects

Slides from a presentation on the collaborative Civil Rights Greensboro project. Delivered in September 2012 at Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians LLAMA Webinar by David Gwynn

Celebrating Local History through Photographs and Papers: Highlights of a Special Collection

Is it possible to capture local history through different means? The Special Collections areas at the UNC-Pembroke Mary Livermore Library and Joyner Library at East Carolina University accomplish this purpose effectively. At UNCP, the Elmer Hunt Photograph Collection, the Lumbee River Fund, and the Charlie Rose Collection all contribute to our collective understanding of local history, particularly in regard to the Lumbee Indians. Similarly, the University Archives, the Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection, and the University Archives at East Carolina bring the local history, culture, and heritage of Pitt County into the clearer focus. Ultimately, all of the aforementioned historical resources function as essential elements in the establishment of Special Collections which truly represent the local areas. This presentation will introduce some of the outstanding materials in the Special Collections Divisions of two historic universities: East Carolina University and UNC Pembroke. The presenter(s) will bring details of the libraries’ holdings to the audience via PowerPoint presentations, overviews of websites, and discussion of latest projects

Preservice Teachers' Opinions of Music Education Methods Course Content

The purposes of this study were to determine how undergraduate instrumental music education students value methods course components and to compare students' ratings of course component categories to the grade weighting of those categories in course syllabi. Subjects (N = 43), undergraduate music education majors from two large universities, were administered a questionnaire about how they value 14 course components, each belonging to one of three broad categories: teaching experiences, course projects, and exam preparation. Means were calculated for each questionnaire item and ranked from high to low. The three top-ranked items were "Engaging in early field experiences in the schools," "Engaging in peer teaching: ensemble rehearsal," and "Preparing lesson plans for peer teaching." Means for each broad category were also calculated. Furthermore, course syllabi (N = 42), from performance-oriented (instrumental and choral) methods courses (n = 18) and from general music methods courses (n = 24), were examined to determine the grade weighting assigned to each of the three broad categories. According to a two-way repeated measures ANOVA, undergraduate music education majors rated teaching experiences as being significantly (p <.01) more valuable than was indicated on both types of methods syllabi, and course projects as being significantly (p<.01) less valuable than was indicated on the performance-based methods syllabi

Silicon communication: A reply and case study

In their contributions to this forum, Nadesan, Cloud, and Weaver have critiqued and extended our argument for the benefits of collaboration between organizational communication and cultural studies. Originally (Carlone & Taylor, 1998), we argued that communication scholars should integrate the resources of these fields to fashion new ways of engaging the convergence of organization and culture in the post-industrial, hyper-capitalist new economy. In response, Nadesan has distinguished a variety of arguments concerning the nature and consequences of “post-Fordism,” Cloud has asserted the enduring relevance of materiality and class, and Weaver has called for public relations practitioners and scholars to reflect on the “worldly” affiliations of their work with the hegemonic interests of profit, efficiency, and progress. In this short article, we address these responses and advance our project through a case study of a particular object