Deer Harvesting Total by Districk Since 1997

Since 1997, St. John\u27s Abbey Arboretum has collected data on deer harvested in each district, but that data has never been aggregated and mapped. With the help of John Geissler\u27s data that has been through the years, deer harvesting will be mapped by district, including age and sex information. By examining shapefiles of the districts and adding each yearly excel data by spatial joins, the deer population will be presented through graduated colors. John Geissler and hunters will be informed which districts are more likely to contain deer

Preservice Teacher Awareness of Risk Factors for Student Suicide

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States. Given this, it is imperative that those who have regular contact with members of the youth population be able to recognize and identify those youth who are at risk for suicide. Part of the process of identifying suicidal adolescents requires having knowledge about adolescent suicide and about those factors that place certain adolescents at greater risk for completing suicide than others. One group of professionals who are in an optimal position to detect at-risk youth is schoolteachers. Fifty-four undergraduate students who were studying to obtain teaching licensure at a large public university completed the Adolescent Suicide Behavior Questionnaire (ASBQ), an instrument that measures knowledge about adolescent suicide across five content areas (Scouller & Smith, 2002 Smith & Scoullar, 2001).Undergraduate students also completed items from the eight clinical scales of the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ), a measure that assesses attitudes toward suicide (Domino, 2005 Domino et al., 1982, 1988-89). On average, preservice teachers scored approximately 61 of ASBQ items correctly. Preservice teachers were the most informed about the warning signs of adolescent suicide and were the least informed about demographic and statistical information related to adolescent suicide. Preservice teachers in Middle Childhood and Secondary Education answered significantly more items correctly on the ASBQ than preservice teachers in Early Childhood Education. Preservice teachers with classroom teaching experience answered significantly more ASBQ items correctly than preservice teachers without this experience. Only 59.3 of all preservice teachers recognized that secondary school teachers are in a good position to detect the risk factors for suicide in their students. Responses to the SOQ indicated that preservice teachers were either conflicted or unsure about their attitudes toward suicide along several different attitudinal dimensions. Howe

Junior recital: Program notes

The following program notes provide a brief historical background and harmonic analysis of the pieces performed at my Junior Recital. These pieces include several solo piano pieces, a piano duet, and a saxophone/piano duet

Home on the Range: A consideration of the role ranching plays in bison conservation

Since Europeans arrived to stay in North America, the number of wild bison fell from more than 30 million, to a low in 1884 of 325 wild bison – including just 25 in Yellowstone National Park. But in the late 20th century, bison ranching soared in popularity. In 1970, the number of bison being raised on ranches exceeded, for the first time, the number of bison in herds managed for conservation. Some people say this shows the power of ranching as a tool for conservation. Today, there are 500,000 bison in the United States. Of those, 480,000 are privately owned. Conservationists argue bison have to be wild to be valuable. Scientists argue they have to have DNA free of bovine genes to be wild. And other ranchers would just assume the range – and their own fence lines -- be left for the more easily managed cattle. But bison ranchers and their allies say that in order to keep North America’s iconic furry beasts of the plains in the picture, you’ve got to let them earn their keep. To save them, they argue, we need to eat them

What dementia can do to language processing

The thesis at hand focuses on two main aspects: Firstly, the written text production in the preclinical phase of the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia embedded in a longitudinal study; secondly, on the examination of Proper Names in patients suffering from Alzheimer´s Disease in a fluency task setting. Both studies focus on aspects which have not been subject to scientific research so far. The broad analysis of linguistics in written text production covered the levels of semantics, syntax and morphology and also included the examination of vocabulary and punctuation. The results showed an early onset of symptoms (approximately nine years before the clinical diagnose took place). Most surprising was the finding of an overwhelming amount of morphologic errors and an extreme usage of quotation marks. The results thus deepen the insight in the process of how the syndrome manifests itself in text production even before clinical diagnosis takes place. The fluency tasks for Proper Names proved to be promising for future usage as a screening tool for dementia. It could be shown that Proper Name fluency must be distinguished from Common Name fluency and that performance is different in patients suffering from AD and healthy elderly. Also, performance differs depending on the Proper Name fluency task.Die vorliegende Arbeit konzentriert sich auf zwei Schwerpunkte: Einerseits die schriftliche Textproduktion in der präklinischen Phase bei der semantischen Variante der Primär Progredienten Aphasie im Langzeitverlauf und andererseits die Untersuchung von Eigennamen bei Patienten mit Alzheimer Demenz in Form von fluency tasks. Beide Studien beleuchten Aspekte, zu denen bisher noch kaum wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse vorliegen. In der umfassenden Studie zur schriftlichen Textproduktion wurden Aspekte aus den Bereichen Semantik, Syntax und Morphologie, sowie Vokabular und Zeichensetzung untersucht. Die Ergbnisse zeigen vor allem einen frühen Onset von ersten Symptomen (ca. neun Jahre vor klinischer Diagnosestellung der Erkrankung). Es zeigte sich unerwarteterweise eine starke Häufung von morphologischen - im Vergleich zu semantischen - Auffälligkeiten und eine extreme hohe, wie auch falsche Verwendung von Anführungsstrichen. Die Ergebnisse erweitern also die bisher nur spärlich vorliegenden Erkenntnisse zum sprachlichen Abbauprozess in der schriftlichen Textproduktion im präklinischem Stadium. Die fluency-Aufgaben für Eigennamen zeigten sich hinsichtlich einem späteren Einsatz als Screeningtool für Demenz als vielversprechend. In der Studie konnte folgendes gezeigt werden: 1) Die fluency für Eigennamen unterscheidet sich tatsächlich von der fluency für Appellativa. 2) Die Leistung der Versuchspersonen variiert in Abhängigkeit vom Eigennamen-fluency-task. Es ist also anzunehmen, dass die Aufgaben tatsächlich eigenständige Aufgaben darstellen und daher unterschiedlich verarbeitet werden. 3) Die Leistungsprofile in den Eigennamen-fluency-tasks von Gesunden und an Alzheimer Demenz Erkrankten unterschieden sich deutlich