Economic Issues Related To Chickpea Production In The Northern Plains

Production Economics,

The relationship between executive control, conscientiousness and health behaviour

Health is important, but the health of the nation is failing, with chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes on the rise. Most of which are related to the performance of negative health behaviours. As a result, improving the health of the population through the promotion of positive health behaviours is a key aim of health professionals and Government. However, to promote positive health behaviours, first, what variables predict health behaviour must be identified. Two prominent variables of interest are cognition and personality. Recently, attention has focussed on executive control (EC) and conscientiousness as predictors of health behaviour. As such, a number of questions have emerged. Firstly, due to the conceptual overlap of these variables, are they related constructs? Secondly, do they have a direct impact on health behaviour? Finally, are they moderating variables, and do they moderate the intention-behaviour relationship? The aim of this PhD was to explore the relations between EC, conscientiousness and multiple health behaviours in healthy samples. Over four studies, participants completed an array of computer, and paper and pencil-based tasks and computer-administered questionnaires. In addition, behavioural intentions and health behaviour performance was measured over a period of 7-14 days using online daily diaries. Using multilevel modelling analysis, three main findings emerged. First, the relationship between EC and conscientiousness is dependent on the measures used. Second, some EC and conscientiousness measures have direct effects on health behaviour; and third, some EC and conscientiousness measures have indirect effects on health behaviour via moderation of the intention-behaviour relationship. The findings highlight EC and conscientiousness are significantly related to health behaviour performance, though the relationships are more complex than shown by previous research. As such, the current findings serve to highlight issues of construct complexity, ecological validity, sample diversity and measurement

Disrupting Evasion Pedagogies

As we have researched in schools and reflected on our own teaching, we have come to recognize the lie and our untruthfulness that permeates many of our cultural scripts (Gutierrez et al., 1995) and practices as teachers. It is within these cultural scripts and practices that inequity is perpetuated and humanizing learning evaded. Thus, what we term evasion pedagogies, serve to sustain the status quo and are powerful tools to maintain oppressive projects like white supremacy, heteronormativity, gender binaries, patriarchy, ableism, classism, and linguicism. In this piece, we examine the notion of evasion pedagogies as a powerful lie in practice that needs to be disrupted in teaching and learning across grade levels and contexts. Then, we draw on decades of research to illustrate how existing scholarship offers meaningful opportunities to disrupt evasion pedagogies by focusing on humanization

Developing a Sustainable and Measurable First-Year Experience (FYE) Library Session

Community College librarians will share the process of creating a sustainable, standardized workshop and assessment for the First-Year Experience (FYE) course. Walk away from this talk with some ideas and actionable steps to create your own workshops that will meet the needs of your students

K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Space

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be. Day 1 • Vocabulary trace, Label My Buddy, Space shapes, Let\u27s move Day 2 • Reading passage, Mix it fix it, Space dot-to-dot, Window or walk Day 3 • Vocabulary matching, Let\u27s compare, Astronaut writing, Move with your Buddy Day 4 • Space graphing, Space addition, If I lived in space, Let\u27s draw Day 5 • My journal, Would your rather writing, Let\u27s create, Space patterns My Packet Journal Reference Shee

K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Shapes

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Shapes memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences Day 2 • Writing new words, Matching, Today\u27s number (63) Day 3 • Showing location, Exercise addition, Sorting shapes Day 4 • Shapes walk, Journal writing, Today\u27s number (23) Day 5 • Searching for shapes, Making pictures from shapes, Write about a picture, Dictionary My Packet Journal Answer Key

4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Habitats

Packet #2 outline: habitats Choose a Buddy Reading daily practice Roll your sight words #2 Vocabulary cards: habitats Habitats Write and draw Facts and opinions about habitats Compound words Vocabulary cut and paste Writing a poem: acrostic Math daily practice Coordinate habitat Goods from habitats Lunchtime goods and services Let\u27s take a break! My Packet Journal Reference Sheet Answer Key

Three-Dimensional Solution Structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Reduced Iso-l-cytochromec

Two-dimensional ^1H NMR spectra of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reduced iso-1-cytochrome c have been used to confirm and slightly extend the assignment available in the literature. 1702 NOESY cross-peaks have been assigned, and their intensities have been measured. Through the program DIANA and related protocols (Güntert, 1992), a solution structure has been obtained by using 1442 meaningful NOEs and 13 hydrogen-bond constraints. The RMSD values with respect to the mean structure for the backbone and all heavy atoms for a family of 20 structures are 0.61 ± 0.09 and 0.98 ± 0.09 Å, the average target function value being as small as 0.57 Å^2. The larger number of slowly exchanging amide NHs observed in this system compared to that observed in the cyanide derivative of oxidized Ala 80 cytochrome c suggests that the oxidized form is much more flexible and that the backbone protons are more solvent accessible. Comparison of the present structure with the crystal structures of reduced yeast cytochrome c and of the complex between cytochrome c peroxidase and oxidized yeast cytochrome c reveals substantial similarity among the backbone conformations but differences in the residues located in the region of protein−protein interaction. Interestingly, in solution the peripheral residues involved in the interaction with cytochrome c peroxidase are on average closer to the position found in the crystal structure of the complex than to the solid state structure of the isolated reduced form

Discovery of the magnetic behavior of hemoglobin: A beginning of bioinorganic chemistry

Two articles published by Pauling and Coryell in PNAS nearly 80 years ago described in detail the magnetic properties of oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin, as well as those of closely related compounds containing hemes. Their measurements revealed a large difference in magnetism between oxygenated and deoxygenated forms of the protein and, along with consideration of the observed diamagnetism of the carbonmonoxy derivative, led to an electronic structural formulation of oxyhemoglobin. The key role of hemoglobin as the main oxygen carrier in mammalian blood had been established earlier, and its allosteric behavior had been described in the 1920s. The Pauling–Coryell articles on hemoglobin represent truly seminal contributions to the field of bioinorganic chemistry because they are the first to make connections between active site electronic structure and the function of a metalloprotein