Electroweak Prospects for Tevatron RunII

The prospects of precision electroweak measurements from CDF and D0, using RunII data, is reviewed.Comment: 4 pages; to appear in the Proceedings for the ICHEP-02 Conference, Amsterda

Using Adult Baits to Manage Corn Rootworms and Improved Economic Thresholds for Corn Rootworm Traps

Corn Rootwonns have one generation per year and a strong preference for corn. You are familiar with the significance of their preference for corn. Other then local populations that have demonstrated extended diapause (a topic for another concurrent session), rootworm larval injury has only been of concern when com is planted after com (continuous corn). The most common tactic used by growers to protect continuous corn from larval injury is to apply an insecticide to the soil at planting. The second fact, that economically important corn rootwonns have only one generation per year, has generated interest in a second way insecticides might be used to avoid larval injury; the broadcasting of a foliar insecticide spray to kill adult corn rootworms before they lay their eggs. Northern and western com rootworms lay the majority of their eggs during August and early September. The eggs overwinter in the soil, and the damaging larval stage hatches the following June. If the adults were eliminated from a field before they laid their eggs, there would be no larvae to damage corn the following season

Ideologies Clashing: Corporations, Criminal Law, and the Regulatory Offence

This article explores the ideological dimensions of the current debate over the constitutional status of the regulatory offence. It contends that what animates this debate is an underlying conflict between competing liberal ideologies in which an emergent libertarian classical liberalism is increasingly undermining the dominance within legal discourse of a more statist-oriented pluralist liberalism. Moreover, it suggests that it is a debate which is closely connected to a more far-reaching ideological controversy over the future of the regulatory state. The article concludes by arguing that, within this debate, fundamental questions about the nature of corporate power and legal status are obscured, questions that a critical theory of the regulatory offence must confront

Quorum Sensing Molecules for Unicellular Organisms: Spectroscopic and Computational Study of Conformational Behavior

Quorum sensing plays a vital role in unicellular communications. Until recently, it was thought that unicellular bacteria were non-cooperative; that they did not communicate among each other as a larger community. They do, in fact, communicate via small molecules that are created and released into the extracellular environment. Detailed knowledge regarding the interactions of these quorum sensing molecules (QSM) with the molecular and cellular-scale environments can lead to the manipulation of quorum sensing within a population. The function of these molecules requires that they can readily diffuse through the polar environment of aqueous solution and the nonpolar environment of cell membranes. The goal of this research is to see if there are any structural trends between a number of QSMs as these molecules enter an intracellular environment from an extracellular environment. We used infrared spectroscopy in conjunction with computational chemistry to study a class of QSMs named N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs), which, when found in nature, have varying acyl chain lengths, saturation levels, and oxidation states. Solutions of QSMs were prepared in water and octanol to replicate, respectively, the extracellular and cell membrane environments. Examination of the spectral data reveals the conformational differences of the QSMs in the different solvents, while, computational modeling of the structures and the conformational changes helps to validate the spectral interpretation and to visualize the role played by the QSM structures in performing their biological functions

Appreciative Advising and New Student Orientation

South Dakota State University utilized Appreiciative Advising strategies and activities in the summer of 2015 during its New Student Orientation sessions.  Nearly 2,000 new students and their families participated in activities throughout their one and a half day stay on campus in June and July.  Adding Appreciative Advising to New Student Orientation led to many thoughtful conversations about how the students time at South Dakota State Univeristy can impact and help them reach their dreams

Rapid Revival: Re-imagining the Former Blandin Paper Mill through Sustainable Design Practices and Public Amenity Planning in Grand Rapids, Minnesota

As technology progresses, more companies are choosing paperless practices. As this trend continues, numerous paper mills are beginning to shut down leaving behind first rate spaces to be redeveloped. Problems we face with the turmoil of the closed down paper mills include polluted soil from the waste of making paper, water pollution from the same paper making process, and large structures left behind that need to be repurposed. Through sustainable landscape design and research concerning the pollutants that result from the paper making industry, these spaces that commonly line the water’s edge can be transformed into an environmentally friendly oasis for people, wildlife, and native vegetation. With these areas it is crucial to incorporate low impact designs near the water to protect the natural environment surrounding the site. While using SITES grading system as a basis for sustainable design, different sustainable practices will be considered for the best path to take in remediating and redeveloping paper mills. With the finding on what works best, an appropriate framework for redeveloping these sites can be made to propose the best options possible for future paper mill brownfields