Alien Registration- Hartsgrove, Dible (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Creating a Web-Based Tool for Determining Drought Acknowledgments in State Plans

Drought is a lingering and costly disaster and can cause billions of dollars of damage throughout the United States. Drought produces social, economic, and environmental impacts which makes it become a disaster. Due to the long-lasting and intense effects, drought research is needed to understand weather and climate more efficiently so that preparedness, mitigation, response recovery, and resilience is more effective. Policies that include drought mitigation are shown to reduce the likelihood that drought become disasters. The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has been working on a new web-based tool to identify which plans in a state address key aspects of drought planning. The goal is to incorporate comprehensive drought planning in existing drought, water, multi-hazard, and climate plans. How are plans addressing drought and risks associate with it? How can we tell states are addressing these comprehensively? Is more experience with drought a lead motivator for comprehensive planning? Does a state’s tax base link to a more comprehensive planning approach? Using selected criteria inspired by James Schwab to view how states are addressing drought in their plans, interviews from key state drought planners, how often states are in a drought, and state tax revenues, we concluded that there is limited to moderate support that increased drought exposure is correlated with a greater comprehensive score and that a state’s tax base is not determined to lead to improved planning. We found that a state’s experience with drought is a lead motivator for state agencies to create drought plans and incorporate drought within other planning documents. It is recommended that if NDMC continues with the web-based tool and uses this approach to show each state’s comprehensive planning efforts that they update plans often enough so that planners can view their progress and efforts in drought planning. Advisory Committee: Professor Zhenghong Tang (Chair), Professor Yunwoo Nam, Professor Dan Piatkowsk

Sex Differences in the Anatomy of MAM E17 Treated Rats: A Developmental Model of Schizophrenia

Enlarged ventricles and reduced cortical volume are neuroanatomical abnormalities correlated with schizophrenia and typically more severe in males. The MAM model of schizophrenia is a developmental disruption model that involves exposing animals to a teratogen, methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM), to reflect the neuroanatomical traits of schizophrenia. Rodents exposed to MAM on embryonic day 17 (E17) experience a reduction of cortical volume and increased ventricular volume. Measuring brain weight and ventricular volume can be used to inversely measure the severity of cortical reduction. The circling method was used to measure the lateral ventricles of a sample of 27 rodents; 8 MAM-females, 7 MAM-males, 5 control females, and 7 control males. The body weights of all subjects were recorded for 12 weeks. There were significant effects of sex, time, and treatment on body weight as well as significant time by treatment and time by sex interactions. Rodents exposed to MAM had lower body weight throughout the 12-week period and, after puberty, the females of both the control group and MAM group had lower body weight than male counterparts. Significant effects of sex and treatment were also found on brain weight. The rodents exposed to MAM had lower average brain weight than the control groups. Finally, there was a significant interaction of sex and treatment on ventricular volume. Male rodents exposed to MAM had greater ventricular volume than all other groups, respectively. These results reflect a similar pattern of ventricular enlargement and cortical reduction to that seen in humans diagnosed with schizophrenia

Alien Registration- Hartsgrove, Avon L. (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Butterfield, Mary (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Creating a Web-Based Tool for Determining Drought Acknowledgments in State Plans

Drought is a lingering and costly disaster and can cause billions of dollars of damage throughout the United States. Drought produces social, economic, and environmental impacts which makes it become a disaster. Due to the long-lasting and intense effects, drought research is needed to understand weather and climate more efficiently so that preparedness, mitigation, response recovery, and resilience is more effective. Policies that include drought mitigation are shown to reduce the likelihood that drought become disasters. The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has been working on a new web-based tool to identify which plans in a state address key aspects of drought planning. The goal is to incorporate comprehensive drought planning in existing drought, water, multi-hazard, and climate plans. How are plans addressing drought and risks associate with it? How can we tell states are addressing these comprehensively? Is more experience with drought a lead motivator for comprehensive planning? Does a state’s tax base link to a more comprehensive planning approach? Using selected criteria inspired by James Schwab to view how states are addressing drought in their plans, interviews from key state drought planners, how often states are in a drought, and state tax revenues, we concluded that there is limited to moderate support that increased drought exposure is correlated with a greater comprehensive score and that a state’s tax base is not determined to lead to improved planning. We found that a state’s experience with drought is a lead motivator for state agencies to create drought plans and incorporate drought within other planning documents. It is recommended that if NDMC continues with the web-based tool and uses this approach to show each state’s comprehensive planning efforts that they update plans often enough so that planners can view their progress and efforts in drought planning. Advisory Committee: Professor Zhenghong Tang (Chair), Professor Yunwoo Nam, Professor Dan Piatkowsk

Alien Registration- Hartsgrove, Basil L. (Caribou, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Hartsgrove, Annie (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Hartsgrove, Avon L. (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Hartsgrove, Annie (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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