Vertebrates Removed by Mechanical Weed Harvesting in Lake Keesus, Wisconsin

Mechanical weed harvesting has been used to control nuisance vegetation in Lake Keesus since 1979. Fish, turtles, and amphibians often become entangled in the vegetation and are incidentally removed from the lake while harvesting weeds. Mechanical harvesting removed 2 to 8% of the standing crop of juvenile fish in harvested areas in Saratoga Lake, New York (Mikol 1985) and 32% of the fish population in harvested areas in Orange Lake, Florida, representing an estimated replacement value of $6000 per ha (Haller et al. 19890). Engle (1990) found mechanical harvesting removed 21,000 to 31,000 fish per year from Lake Halverson, Wisconsin, representing 25% of the fry in the lake. Little other current information has been published concerning aquatic vertebrate removal by mechanical weed harvesting in Wisconsin, though it is a commonly used management tool. Additionally, only Engle (1990) reported information on the removal of turtles relative to weed harvesting, but none on amphibians. The objective of this study was to document the number, species, and size of vertebrates removed by mechanically harvesting weeds in Lake Keesus

Prediction of the thermal environment and thermal response of simple panels exposed to radiant heat

A method of predicting the radiant heat flux distribution produced by a bank of tubular quartz heaters was applied to a radiant system consisting of a single unreflected lamp irradiating a flat metallic incident surface. In this manner, the method was experimentally verified for various radiant system parameter settings and used as a source of input for a finite element thermal analysis. Two finite element thermal analyses were applied to a thermal system consisting of a thin metallic panel exposed to radiant surface heating. A two-dimensional steady-state finite element thermal analysis algorithm, based on Galerkin's Method of Weighted Residuals (GFE), was formulated specifically for this problem and was used in comparison to the thermal analyzers of the Engineering Analysis Language (EAL). Both analyses allow conduction, convection, and radiation boundary conditions. Differences in the respective finite element formulation are discussed in terms of their accuracy and resulting comparison discrepancies. The thermal analyses are shown to perform well for the comparisons presented here with some important precautions about the various boundary condition models. A description of the experiment, corresponding analytical modeling, and resulting comparisons are presented

A strategy for organizing a rural development research center at Alcorn A. & M. College

Call number: LD2668 .P7 1973 T7

Identity, Reality, and Truth in Memoirs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

This research uses trauma theory, memoir theory, narratology, and recent scientific research into the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to explore developments in the memoir coming from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Specifically, the author examines the works of Shoshana Johnson, Colby Buzzell, and Anthony Shaffer to uncover the ways in which identity, reality and truth present themselves in the destabilized narratives of traumatized subjects. Travis Martin is himself a veteran of the Iraq War, using his first-hand knowledge as a compass to guide him through intricate memoirs written by his contemporaries. Beginning with a creative preface which details one night during his own combat experience, Martin reveals how dealing with the lingering effects of combat led him to research the words of others to better understand himself. In this journey, Martin examined how the ability to remember and record experience in memoir is limited by the human brain\u27s ability to perceive combat. Martin concludes that war memoirs are necessarily fictional and that all memory is suspect. Theorists like Cathy Caruth, Paul John Eakin, and Jonathon Shay work to bring the contemporary war authors examined in this essay into the canonical debate commonly centered on established, twentieth-century authors like Tim O\u27Brien, Paul Fussell, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves. Shoshana Johnson\u27s I\u27m Still Standing explains how the self created during war cannot always be reconciled with the normal, peacetime selves which merge to create the summation of experience Martin refers to as identity. Research into the work of Anthony Shaffer explores the reality which necessitates wartime self. In Operation Dark Heart Shaffer\u27s wartime reality is so unlike its peacetime counterpart that peacetime rhetoric fails to fully explain anything true about it. Still Martin asserts that significance can emerge from an exploration of opposites in meaning between the peacetime and wartime realities. This significance, Martin claims, can be examined to reveal simple, yet proverbial scraps of truth (O\u27Brien) needed to understand our own means of existence. Finally, Martin turns the lens upon the peacetime audience, using Colby Buzzell\u27s blook, or blog turned into a book, to make explicit the full effects of media saturation upon the storyteller and societal expectations upon the warrior. Martin examines the things missing--emotion, polish and retrospection--in Buzzell\u27s My War to show how trauma theory demands we reexamine the war writing of all generations. Finally, Martin concludes with an epilogue about how this research has translated itself for the classroom. As a traumatized veteran who sought the words of traumatized authors for solace, Martin finds that bibliotherapy is crucial to the success of a new generation of veterans going from combat to the classroom. Martin draws upon pedagogical theory to define, defend, and encourage the use of optional life-writing in the case of student veterans. The end product of this study is one that combines the personal and the scholarly, the creative and the practical, and the self with a country in desperate need of understanding the wars fought in its name

Free Kick: FIFA’s Unintended Role in Illuminating Jurisdictional Gaps of International Criminal Courts

In the wake of the FIFA corruption scandal of 2015, certain realities have come to light. FIFA’s corruption knows no bounds, but fans of the sport will watch nonetheless. What is less apparent is that the two most prominent international criminal courts—the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) fail to have jurisdiction over the FIFA organization or its officials when they engage in white-collar crimes that sanction human rights abuses abroad. This Note examines how FIFA officials’ acceptance of Qatari bribes to host the 2022 World Cup exposed alarming jurisdictional inadequacies of the ICJ and ICC. The deficiencies of these global courts provide the potential for future organizations and their officials to exploit jurisdictional nuance in order to avoid being prosecuted for international crimes. This Note begins by discussing the origins of the two courts and the circumstances that led to their creation, while pointing out the basis of jurisdiction in each court. The Note will then describe the kafala system that governs Qatar’s migrant worker population and FIFA’s involvement in human rights abuses in Qatar that were committed through the kafala system. This Note will then assess how the jurisdictional limitations of both the ICJ and the ICC prevent these global criminal courts from having jurisdiction over organizations like FIFA or its officials, and will conclude by advocating for amending the Rome Charter, which established the ICC, to include nonnatural organizations like FIFA within the jurisdiction of the court and bolstering the accomplice liability section of the statute to ensnare individuals who cause human rights abuses indirectly through white collar crimes

An Archeological Survey of a Portion of the Upper New River Watershed in Jasper County, South Carolina

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