Students will critically assess nonscholarly and scholarly resources related to sustainable agriculture and begin to understand realworld implications (and impacts) of academic research. The purpose of this lesson is, as Wallis said, to incorporate “c . . .

Texas’s Rio Grande Valley (RGV) population is predominantly Tejano (Texans of Hispanic ancestry). It is a region undergoing rapid growth, transforming from a rural farming and ranching region to a conurbation of municipalities stretching along the Rio . . .

Dislocations are central to the understanding of mechanical properties of crystalline solids. While continuum elasticity theory describes well the long-range elastic strain of a dislocation for length scales beyond a few lattice spacings, it breaks do . . .

The physiological mechanisms that regulate adaptive plasticity of clonal organisms are key to their success in changing environments. Here, we review the mechanisms that regulate morphological plasticity of colonial hydrozoans. There is a heritable, g . . .

On October 18, 2000, the richest man in the world addressed an audience of Silicon Valley's technological elite at the "Creating Digital Dividends" conference. The conference, according to its press release, was "aimed at finding private business solu . . .

Principal components analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA) are used to identify global patterns in solar and space data. PCA seeks orthogonal modes of the two-point correlation matrix constructed from a data set. It permits the ident . . .

Tumor-targeted Salmonella offers a promising approach to the delivery of therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The Salmonella strains used, however, must be stably attenuated in order to provide sufficient safety for administration. Approaches to . . .

I moved to Louisiana at the end of 1998 to attend Louisiana State University (LSU) as an undergraduate student, and I didn't leave until December of 2006. Having come from Maryland, where I was raised from an early age, I had all the typical prejudice . . .

This chapter will provide readers with an overview of the typical ways to implement and incorporate information literacy curriculum into required university course offerings. Attention will be paid to identifying discipline based curricular practices . . .

This project is an inquiry into the rhetorical nature and dimension of warfare in the twenty-first century. It is my contention that U.S. public policy responses to terrorism that have emerged since September 11th have fundamentally misapprehended the . . .

Noah's Arc is an American cable television dramedy (drama/comedy) that chronicles the lives of four gay African-American friends in Los Angeles. Noah's Arc premiered on October 19, 2005, on the Logo television network and became Logo's most popular pr . . .

The spatial distribution of magnetic fields on the solar surface and the temporal distribution of solar magnetic activity each show the dual properties of intermittence and scaling symmetry. Both distributions therefore define measures amenable to mul . . .

The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center and Fort Hays State University Forsyth Library joined together in 2008 to digitize the personal archive of Apollo 13 astronaut John L. (Jack) Swigert. The documents (1966-1970) include blueprints and proofs of t . . .