The impact of training and experience on the recovery of evidence in outdoor forensic scenes: implications for human remains recovery

The present study involves a multivariate assessment of the success of evidence recovery by searchers from various backgrounds and skill levels. Volunteers representing four experience levels (civilian volunteers, first year forensic anthropology graduate students, second year forensic anthropology graduate students, and first responders) conducted line searches of mock crime scenes, flagging items of forensic significance with pin flags. The groups were then briefly trained in human skeletal remains recovery, and implemented this training through a second set of mock scene searches. Recovery rates were compared across pre- and post-training trials and across searcher groups in order to determine the influence of searcher training and experience on search success. The results of this study reveal not only the percentage of evidence that was recovered by search teams, but exhibits the degree to which experience and training played a role in evidence recovery

How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables?

This analysis uses ACNielsen Homescan data on 1999 household food purchases from all types of retail outlets to estimate an annual retail price per pound and per serving for 69 forms of fruits and 85 forms of vegetables. Among the forms we priced, more than half were estimated to cost 25 cents or less per serving. Consumers can meet the recommendation of three servings of fruits and four servings of vegetables daily for 64 cents.Demand and Price Analysis, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT OF FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT IN SOFT RED WINTER WHEAT

Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium graminearum, is a destructive disease of the soft red winter wheat grown in the Mid-Atlantic region. Management of FHB focuses primarily on foliar fungicides or cultivar resistance. The purpose of this research was to examine how type II resistance (resistance to spread of the pathogen) is affected by multiple infections along the spike. The combination of type II resistance and fungicide as a way to manage FHB was evaluated in both the greenhouse and field settings. Finally, the role of increased foliage density in an integrated pest management program that included fungicide and cultivar resistance was also evaluated. Multiple infections occurring along a single wheat spike can overwhelm the type II resistance present in some cultivars. The combination of type II resistance and fungicide was the best management practice for FHB than either alone. Foliage density did not improve FHB disease ratings

The Fiction of Truth: Intergenerational Conflict in the Life and Works of Flannery O\u27Connor

Aside from the fact that most of Flannery O\u27Connor\u27s works are set in the South where she lived nearly her entire life, her idiosyncratic characters and the consistently horrifying fates that they meet could not seem further removed from the widely accepted image of the author herself.l This image, instigated by her loved ones and perpetuated by critics, is of a witty, intelligent, and above all else devout Catholic who was stoic in the face of a crippling disease that cut her life short. Despite the limits placed upon her by illness. O\u27Connor is described as having been socially receptive while living a fairly retired life with her beloved mother, Regina Cline O\u27Connor, on their dairy farm where she raised scores of peacocks and other fowl as a hobby. The main determinant of O\u27Connor\u27s literary personality and the most influential force affecting her writing has almost universally been acknowledged to be her staunch Catholicism. Much criticism of O\u27Connor\u27s work reinforces this notion to such a degree that one might infer any study not dealing with O\u27Connor\u27s Christian perspective to be inherently lacking

Marshall University Music Department Presents the Marshall University Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Elizabeth Reed Smith, conductor, in, By Way of Introduction...

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Marshall University Music Department Presents the Marshall University Symphony Orchestra in a Family Concert

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Dad Talk: Father-Child Communication When a Parent Has Cancer

Most individuals are impacted by a cancer diagnosis, in fact 54% of Americans say they or someone in their immediate family has been diagnosed with cancer at some point (CBS Interactive, 2017). While most Americans have a family member with cancer, most research has been done to understand the mother-daughter relationship during such a time. Unfortunately, there is little research regarding father-child communication during a cancer diagnosis, and father-child communication is understudied. The father-child dyad is an important relationship that impacts a child throughout their lives (Fellers & Schrodt, 2021). To further understand these relationships and how cancer may impact it, an online survey was utilized. The survey asked questions regarding father-child closeness, father-child relational satisfaction, and child caregiving. Results suggest that father-child closeness and relational satisfaction were impacted by certain caregiving variables

Characterization of the \u3ci\u3ebrown midrib4\u3c/i\u3e gene of maize (\u3ci\u3eZea mays L.\u3c/i\u3e): a step towards enhancing the carbon sequestration capacity of stover

A variety of agricultural solutions are being tested to address the recent concern of rising rates of CO2 emissions, one of which is to engineer crops to increase their ability to store atmospheric carbon in soil. By targeting cell wall constituents of crop tissues with longer half-lives, such as lignin, the rate at which fixed CO2 in soil organic matter returns to the atmosphere becomes slowed. Maize is an attractive model organism for this approach, as it is grown worldwide, and has one of the most extensively catalogued plant genomes to date. The objective of this thesis is to provide a better understanding of the regulation of lignin composition and content i.e., genetic components that affect carbon storage in this model organism. This was approached by attempting to clone one of the brown midrib mutants of the phenylpropanoid pathway in maize, bm4. The objective was addressed by a fine-mapping approach, which helped to narrow the region of interest to a smaller interval suitable for cloning attempt. Identification and analysis of recombinants from 2 mapping populations segregating for brown midrib4 and wild-type alleles revealed an interval of 126,786 bp, encompassing 8 candidate genes. mRNA Seq transcriptome analyses of wild-type and mutant midrib tissues revealed transcript accumulation of \u3e 40 reads for 4/8 genes within the interval. Further analysis revealed three of these 4 genes exhibit significant differential transcript accumulation between wild-type and mutant samples, with the greatest fold changes (1.92x) reported for a gene encoding the enzyme Folylpolyglutamate Synthetase (GRMZM2G393334). Transposon tagging was used to identify additional bm4 mutants. Cytological sections of midribs were stained and compared to explore subtle differences in mutants of different pedigrees. The continued characterization of bm4 in combination with other efforts to clone the genes underlying the brown midrib mutants will facilitate the understanding of their roles and functions in cell-wall composition, the biosynthesis of lignin, and potential for use in enhancing the carbon storage capabilities of maize tissues