A Phenomenological Case for the Family Farmer as an Environmental Steward

This phenomenological analysis concludes that the American family farmer is a steward of the environment in a way that the corporate farmer is not. As a study of consciousness, phenomenology recognizes that family farmers have more sensitive and less selective experience because of living in the farm environment. It draws from the first-hand accounts articulated by family farmers-accounts that reflect their firsthand and direct experiences of the farm environment. Although considered to be irrelevant by many scientists and statisticians, phenomenological accounts of direct experience are important starting points for the scientific study of farmers and their knowledge of environmental problems

School-Based DBT: Merging Mental Health and Behavioral Supports for High School Students at Tiers II & III: SB-DBT Nuts and Bolts

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a research-based methodology to teach students and families emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal regulation skills. School-Based DBT (SB-DBT) is an adaptation of DBT designed as a Tier II and Tier III mental health intervention within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). Data support the effectiveness of SB-DBT for students with mental health challenges. Large-Group Session During the large-group session, Mr. Hanson will provide an overview of SB-DBT and how it fits into a MTSS. Learn which systems that must be in place to implement SB-DBT as well as how Student Support Teams can coordinate SB-DBT with other evidence-based interventions. The SB-DBT foundation in behaviorism and dialectics will be examined. Finally, student and program results from seven years of implementation in a large urban high school in Portland, OR will be shared. Break-Out Session During a break-out session following the large-group session, Mr. Hanson will provide a more in-depth examination of SB-DBT implementation, fidelity, and sustainability. He will examine issues such as practitioner qualification and training and supervision, student selection, scheduling, and treatment plans/IEP goals. Practical tools such as an SB-DBT syllabus, agenda, curriculum, and orientation checklists will be shared. Finally, facilitators and obstacles to district and site-based implementation will be discussed

School-Based DBT: Merging Mental Health and Behavioral Supports for High School Students at Tiers II & III: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in the Public Schools

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a research-based methodology to teach students and families emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal regulation skills. School-Based DBT (SB-DBT) is an adaptation of DBT designed as a Tier II and Tier III mental health intervention within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). Data support the effectiveness of SB-DBT for students with mental health challenges. Large-Group Session During the large-group session, Mr. Hanson will provide an overview of SB-DBT and how it fits into a MTSS. Learn which systems that must be in place to implement SB-DBT as well as how Student Support Teams can coordinate SB-DBT with other evidence-based interventions. The SB-DBT foundation in behaviorism and dialectics will be examined. Finally, student and program results from seven years of implementation in a large urban high school in Portland, OR will be shared. Break-Out Session During a break-out session following the large-group session, Mr. Hanson will provide a more in-depth examination of SB-DBT implementation, fidelity, and sustainability. He will examine issues such as practitioner qualification and training and supervision, student selection, scheduling, and treatment plans/IEP goals. Practical tools such as an SB-DBT syllabus, agenda, curriculum, and orientation checklists will be shared. Finally, facilitators and obstacles to district and site-based implementation will be discussed

Simulated Trading for Maryland’s Nitrogen Loadings in the Chesapeake Bay: A Policy Overlook

Jim Hanson and Ted McConnell looked at whether decreasing nutrients into the Bay could cost less if trading is permitted. Rather than having the sewage treatment plants install new technology (high cost), these sewage plants could pay farmers to plant more cover crops (low cost) to meet the nitrogen loading goals

Review of Lender Requirements for Beginning Farmer Loan Programs

Beginning Farmer Success, University of Maryland Extension, USDA-National Institute for Food and Agricultur

Making Grassroot Agricultural Auctions Work

Large retailers often prefer to buy produce from large farms, leaving the owners of smaller farms in search of alternative markets. Drs. Stephan Tubene and Jim Hanson of the University of Maryland took a close look at the ways in which Pennsylvania farmers have been using wholesale produce auctions to sustain and increase their local markets

NASA Cube Quest Challenge: Citizen Inventors Advance CubeSats into Deep Space on 2018 EM-1 Mission

Cube Quest Challenge, sponsored by Space Technology Mission Directorate\u27s Centennial Challenges program, is NASA\u27s first in-space prize competition. Cube Quest is open to any U.S.-based, nongovernment CubeSat developer. Entrants will compete for one of three available 6U CubeSat dispenser slots on the EM-1 mission - the first un-crewed lunar flyby of the Orion spacecraft launched by the Space Launch System in early 2018. The Cube Quest Challenge will award up to $5M in prizes. The advanced CubeSat technologies demonstrated by Cube Quest winners will enable NASA, universities, and industry to more quickly and affordably accomplish science and exploration objectives. This paper describes the teams, their novel CubeSat designs, and the emerging technologies for CubeSat operations in deep space environment. Over a 2-year development period, teams demonstrate progress and vie for one of three available dispenser slots on NASA\u27s SLS vehicle through a series of ground-based competitions called Ground Tournaments . The first Ground Tournament (GT-1) was conducted in August of 2015. The remaining three events are at roughly 6-month intervals. Judges assess the team\u27s designs and mission plans for technical excellence and compliance with rules and safety requirements. The top three winners of the fourth Ground Tournament, scheduled for March 2017, will be selected for integration with the SLS vehicle. After being dispensed in a trans-lunar injection trajectory, the three competing CubeSats will boldly go where no CubeSat has operated before, to compete at the moon and well beyond. The in-space competition is also open to qualified teams that can procure their own launch. There are two competition tracks: Lunar Derby requires teams to successfully achieve and maintain a lunar orbit, while the Deep Space Derby will be conducted only after CubeSats have achieved a range of over 4M km from Earth. Once in either lunar orbit or beyond 4M km, teams will attempt to achieve or exceed communications data goals (rates and data volume over time), to survive the longest (up to a year), and to successfully communicate from the farthest distance (for the Deep Space Derby). To survive in deep space and demonstrate the rigor needed to operate at the moon or beyond and attempt prizes, teams will have to push the envelope of CubeSat capabilities. Teams will have to demonstrate advancements in propulsion in order to get into lunar orbit, in navigation without GPS or Earth\u27s magnetic field, in reliability, in fault tolerance and radiation hardening to survive and operate in deep space beyond the Van Allen belts, and in long distance communications capabilities that no CubeSat has previously demonstrated. Twelve teams of citizen inventors registered for GT-1 and ten for GT-2. About two thirds of the competitors are from academia, while the remaining teams are small companies. At GT-1 there was one high school team and a team comprised of one individual engineer. Cube Quest is open to any team at no charge. Teams develop CubeSats on their own time without government support

The Vehicle, Spring 1989

Table of Contents Home MoviesBob Zordanipage 4 Mummy BreathMichael Salempage 5 Pop ArtMonica Grothpage 6 Grey Haze and MoonAllison Stroudpage 7 The State of Being at a Soap & SudsDenise Santorpage 9 Letter HomeJim Reedpage 10 Thursday Afternoon in the StacksRebecca Dickenspage 11 Sizing DownMichael Salempage 12 Intellectual AnatomyMonica Grothpage 13 Grandmother PoemAmy Sparkspage 14 Blues of the BrothermanAlma Watsonpage 15 MigrationPatrick Peterspage 17 RidingBob Zordanipage 18 All Hallow\u27s EveErik Hansonpage 19 Waiting RoomAmy Sparkspage 20 Father, Forgive HerMonica Grothpage 21 Silent ReplyTom Caldwellpage 22 PhotographRobb Montgomerypage 24 WashdayAnn Moutraypage 25 PhotographDiane Atkinspage 26 Uptown FogRobb Montgomerypage 27 Shinbones and SkullsJennifer Berkshirepage 29 Sudden Small PhrasesPatrick Peterspage 31https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1053/thumbnail.jp

Tissue tropisms opt for transmissible reassortants during avian and swine influenza A virus co-infection in swine

Genetic reassortment between influenza A viruses (IAVs) facilitate emergence of pandemic strains, and swine are proposed as a “mixing vessel” for generating reassortants of avian and mammalian IAVs that could be of risk to mammals, including humans. However, how a transmissible reassortant emerges in swine are not well understood. Genomic analyses of 571 isolates recovered from nasal wash samples and respiratory tract tissues of a group of co-housed pigs (influenza-seronegative, avian H1N1 IAV–infected, and swine H3N2 IAV– infected pigs) identified 30 distinct genotypes of reassortants. Viruses recovered from lower respiratory tract tissues had the largest genomic diversity, and those recovered from turbinates and nasal wash fluids had the least. Reassortants from lower respiratory tracts had the largest variations in growth kinetics in respiratory tract epithelial cells, and the cold temperature in swine nasal cells seemed to select the type of reassortant viruses shed by the pigs. One reassortant in nasal wash samples was consistently identified in upper, middle, and lower respiratory tract tissues, and it was confirmed to be transmitted efficiently between pigs. Study findings suggest that, during mixed infections of avian and swine IAVs, genetic reassortments are likely to occur in the lower respiratory track, and tissue tropism is an important factor selecting for a transmissible reassortant