Should the Playing Field Be Leveled? Funding Inequities Among Division I Athletic Programs

Significant funding inequity exists within Division I athletic programs. The widening gap between heavily resourced university athletic programs and those less resourced is explored, explained, and then analyzed. Considerations are offered to help frame continued discussion and include regulating the number of ancillary personnel, creating a financial support bandwidth for conference membership, distributing media income, and scaling success differently

Corn supplements and substitutes for fattening lambs

This test was planned to determine the advisability of adding a protein supplement to a basal ration of shelled com, corn silage, alfalfa hay and block salt for fattening range lambs; to compare the relative value of linseed oil meal, velvet bean feed meal and peanut meal as protein supplements added to the same basal ration; and to note the practicability of replacing the shelled corn in the basal ration with corn gluten feed, a corn by-product. Linseed oil meal is a well established and popular supplement to corn widely used for lamb feeding. Velvet bean feed meal and peanut meal are comparatively new supplements, neither being fed to any great extent to live stock in the corn belt. However, both velvet beans and peanuts have been used in the southern states with fairly good results

Corn Oil Cake Meal for Growing and Fattening Pigs

Corn oil cake meal is really a residue of the germs of corn grain which remains after most of the oil is extracted therefrom. The particular corn oil cake meal which we used in our test is a by-product from the manufacture of glucose. These four main products are made from the corn grain: Glucose, corn oil, gluten feed, and corn oil cake meal. It is with the latter that we are to deal

Prospective, multicenter study of P4HB (Phasix) mesh for hernia repair in cohort at risk for complications: 3-Year follow-up

Background: This study represents a prospective, multicenter, open-label study to assess the safety, performance, and outcomes of poly-4-hydroxybutyrate (P4HB, Phasix) mesh for primary ventral, primary incisional, or multiply-recurrent hernia in subjects at risk for complications. This study reports 3-year clinical outcomes. Materials and methods: P4HB mesh was implanted in 121 patients via retrorectus or onlay technique. Physical exam and/or quality of life surveys were completed at 1, 3, 6,12, 18, 24, and 36 months, with 5-year (60-month) follow-up ongoing. Results: A total of n = 121 patients were implanted with P4HB mesh (n = 75 (62%) female) with a mean age of 54.7 +/- 12.0 years and mean BMI of 32.2 +/- 4.5 kg/m(2) (+/-standard deviation). Comorbidities included: obesity (78.5%), active smokers (23.1%), COPD (28.1%), diabetes mellitus (33.1%), immunosuppression (8.3%), coronary artery disease (21.5%), chronic corticosteroid use (5.0%), hypo-albuminemia (2.5%), advanced age (5.0%), and renal insufficiency (0.8%). Hernias were repaired via retrorectus (n = 45, 37.2% with myofascial release (MR) or n = 43, 35.5% without MR), onlay (n = 8, 6.6% with MR or n = 24, 19.8% without MR), or not reported (n = 1, 0.8%). 82 patients (67.8%) completed 36-month follow-up. 17 patients (17.9% +/- 0.4%) experienced hernia recurrence at 3 years, with n = 9 in the retrorectus group and n = 8 in the onlay group. SSI (n = 11) occurred in 9.3% +/- 0.03% of patients. Conclusions: Long-term outcomes following ventral hernia repair with P4HB mesh demonstrate low recurrence rates at 3-year (36-month) postoperative time frame with no patients developing late mesh complications or requiring mesh removal. 5-year (60-month) follow-up is ongoing

Enzyme activity below the dynamical transition at 220 K

Enzyme activity requires the activation of anharmonic motions, such as jumps between potential energy wells. However, in general, the forms and time scales of the functionally important anharmonic dynamics coupled to motion along the reaction coordinate remain to be determined. In particular, the question arises whether the temperature-dependent dynamical transition from harmonic to anharmonic motion in proteins, which has been observed experimentally and using molecular dynamics simulation, involves the activation of motions required for enzyme function. Here we present parallel measurements of the activity and dynamics of a cryosolution of glutamate dehydrogenase as a function of temperature. The dynamical atomic fluctuations faster than ~100 ps were determined using neutron scattering. The results show that the enzyme remains active below the dynamical transition observed at ~220 K, i.e., at temperatures where no anharmonic motion is detected. Furthermore, the activity shows no significant deviation from Arrhenius behavior down to 190 K. The results indicate that the observed transition in the enzyme's dynamics is decoupled from the rate-limiting step along the reaction coordinate

Geographic Variation in Informed Consent Law: Two Standards for Disclosure of Treatment Risks

We analyzed 714 jury verdicts in informed consent cases tried in 25 states in 1985–2002 to determine whether the applicable standard of care (“patient” vs. “professional” standard) affected the outcome. Verdicts for plaintiffs were significantly more frequent in states with a patient standard than in states with a professional standard (27 percent vs. 17 percent, P = 0.02). This difference in outcomes did not hold for other types of medical malpractice litigation (36 percent vs. 37 percent, P = 0.8). The multivariate odds of a plaintiff’s verdict were more than twice as high in states with a patient standard than in states with a professional standard (odds ratio = 2.15, 95% confidence interval = 1.32–3.50). The law’s expectations of clinicians with respect to risk disclosure appear to vary geographically

Limiting the grain ration for fattening cattle

During the past few years, the Iowa cattle feeder has been confronted with the big problem of determining how much corn grain to feed fattening cattle with corn silage allowed in conjunction with linseed oil meal as the supplement and a leguminous hay, such as alfalfa, as the dry roughage. Should the cattle be full-fed or limited-fed ? How limited should the grain ration be? If full-fed, how should the grain be given the cattle, by hand-fed or self-fed methods? Can all of the silage be replaced, economically, with alfalfa from the roughage standpoint? Should the same methods be employed for feeding from 150 to 160 days as for 120 days

Corn substitutes for fattening lambs—Parts I and II

Shelled corn is a superior basal grain for fattening lambs in dry lot, in the cornbelt and under the conditions of the experiments reported in this bulletin. This fact stands out clearly in the results of the two years’ work at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station in the winters of 1918-19 and 1919-20. Shelled corn proved to be more efficient than either oats or barley when fed alone, this being the case when all factors, such as feed required per hundred pounds gain, feed costs, cost of shipping and margin of profit or loss per lamb, are considered