Bovine virus diarrhea

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Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis

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Leptospirosis in cattle and swine

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Settler Colonial Listening and the Silence of Wilderness in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area soundscape in northern Minnesota has a long and contested history but is most often characterized today as a pristine and distinctly silent wilderness. This thesis traces the construction and perpetuation of the Boundary Waters as a silent space by government agencies and conservationists, as well as the ways the notion of silence has and continues to limit Ojibwe sovereignty and, in related but distinct ways, undermine non-human animal agency. As extractive industries increasingly threaten the Boundary Waters, advocacy groups continue to appeal to the idea of the place as silent despite the similarity in logics underlying both extractivism and the myth of pristine wilderness. The project also considers broader historiographical and activist consequences associated with the idea of a silent Boundary Waters and utilizes public-facing writing formats to challenge iterative processes perpetuating settler colonial soundscape control

The Music of Science: Environmentalist Data Sonifications, Interdisciplinary Art, and the Narrative of Climate Change

The current environmental crisis is due at least in part to a lack of effective science communication. Traditional methods of disseminating findings are important for continued progress but can be inaccessible to the public and rarely communicate the important emotional and cultural dimensions of environmental issues. Mitigation of the effects of climate change will not occur if a majority of people cannot understand the problem or do understand but fail to change their behaviors. There has been significant communications research into these issues—findings have suggested that communication techniques that can create a narrative, engage emotion, make the abstract more understandable, and use value frames to connect to an audience and encourage empathy will be most effective in encouraging behavioral change. The arts are capable of communicating in this fashion; sounding art in particular has a long history of engaging with politicized and emotional issues in ways that can ultimately provoke large-scale shifts in social convention. The arts and sciences each provide important responses to environmental problems. When used together, however, they have serious potential to create change. Data sonification, or the translation of data into sound, combines climate science and ecological art into a potentially powerful form of environmental activism. This thesis research examines the technique’s blend of art and science and its potential as effective environmentalist art through an exploration of three case studies: Lauren Oakes and Nik Sawe’s 2016 sonification of climate change impacts on Alaskan forests, Andrea Polli’s 2004 online sonification project Heat and the Heartbeat of the City, and the 2012 telematic multimedia opera Auksalaq by Matthew Burtner and Scott Deal. Data sonifications defy classification as either solely artistic or scientific—this disciplinary ambiguity can create tension—but it is exactly this disciplinary ambiguity that makes them useful as environmentalist tools. Sonifications appeal to emotions and logic and require creativity and evidence, powerful persuasive combinations in the face of environmental issues. They require scientists to consider the aesthetics behind the art, and composers to understand the science behind the data; in forcing us to acknowledge the importance of the other disciplinary perspective, they help us to question some of our disciplinary boundaries and effectively serve as a model for the interdisciplinary collaboration that is increasingly necessary as we navigate our changing world

Toward a Nuanced Understanding of Old Time Music, Nature, and Environmentalism

The idea that old-time music is often strongly associated with nature is not news to anyone familiar with the frequent lyrical references to natural settings and the critters who live in them. The genre is also associated with nature beyond lyrical content: the music and its community are steeped with a sense of nostalgia for a more authentic and typically rural past; participatory, communal, and intimate music-making is prized; and styles and practitioners tend to be deeply connected to particular places. These less overt natural associations echo larger societal sentiments and overlap with major themes in modern environmentalist agendas. For this reason, those with a particular concern for the well-being of the natural world seem to gravitate toward old-time music regardless of their location and understanding of the music’s roots, sometimes resulting in a romanticization of the relationship between nature and old-time music. This is not inherently bad, but can eventually lead to a problematic and one-dimensional portrait of Appalachian culture. A more nuanced understanding of the relationships between nature and old-time music is necessary for an appreciation of Appalachian cultural traditions not steeped in false idealizations. This paper draws on ecocritical and ecomusicological sources and methodologies to explore this romanticized relationship, and seeks a more complex understanding of the connections between old-time music, nature, and environmentalism

Ketosis of dairy cows

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Pasteurella bacteria in cattle pneumonia

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Minnesota beef cow-calf management calendar

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What Can Design Laboratories Do?

Part 4: PannelsInternational audienceThe distinction between design and use is getting blurred in severalways as products and services increasingly are co-created in use, and use andusers proliferate and diversify. This has led to a growing interest in stagingwhat we here will call design laboratories that both involve future users incodesign and incubate emergent everyday practices of design in use. Very littlecan be said about novel designs or technologies before it is seen what the usersmake of it. This is particularly the case when considering mobile technologiesand social media where products seem to act more as an infrastructure fordesign in use than as a provision of well defined services. At the same timeenvisioning such new designs without being in close dialogue with the peoplewho are to appropriate them in new everyday practices may easily lead todisappointing results. This has led to a renewed interest in codesign and userinvolvement in such formats as living labs and codesign workshops. This panelbrings together researchers from some of the environments that most vigorouslyhas pursued this line of inquiry. Some of the panelists have suggested theconcept of design laboratories as a platform for open-ended explorations of theco-evolution of artifacts and practice. They see the design laboratory as aconfined space of controlled experimentation with what can be collaborativelyimagined, scalable through its rehearsals of experimental practices. With thisdefinition of these new collaborative formats the panel asks what it is thatconstitutes a successful design laboratory and what we can expect designlaboratories to accomplish in a world of diversity