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Arkansas
Agricultural Experiment Station, University
of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale
Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
A
newsletter for faculty, staff and students
November-December 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 6
Discovery Journal Features Student Scientists
Seventeen articles by student authors, with faculty mentors as coauthors, were published this fall in Volume 5 of Discovery, The Student Journal of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.
The journal is produced by Professor John Clark, faculty editor, and Camilla Romund, managing editor. Articles in Vol. 5 cover a broad range of topics including education methodology, animal and plant production issues, environmental concerns and food processing.
A pdf version is available online at: http://www.uark.edu/depts/agripub/Publications/Discovery/index.html
Titles and authors in this issue are:
Effect of pig weaning age and commingling after the nursery phase on humoral and behavioral indicators of well-being and on growth performance
Sarah C. Arthur, Mari E. Davis, Jason K. Apple, and Charles V. Maxwell
Method analysis of laboratory measures of stream sediment and water phosphorus equilibrium
Anna L. Erickson, Stephanie M. Williamson, and Brian E. Haggard
Laboratory-scale evaluation of incandescent and compact florescent lamps for poultry house lighting
Leanne M. Gabriel and Donald M. Johnson
mpact of dietary changes on hepatic homocysteine metabolism in young broilers
Fauna M. Ganson, Padmakumar B. Pillai, and Jason L. Emmert
Factors associated with student grades in Animal Physiology I
Margo D. Hale and Charles F. Rosenkrans
Evaluation of post-harvest disease resistance in blackberry genotypes
John-Paul Kidd, John R. Clark, Patrick Fenn, and Barbara Smith
A comparison of recently introduced instruments for measuring rice flour viscosity
Nettie K.Mathis, Linfeng Wang, and Terry J. Siebenmorgen
Effects of vegetation removal on native soil quality in eastern Arkansas
Lorena Moreno and Kristofor R. Brye
Soybean seed yield and quality under an ultra-short-season production system
Lorena Moreno, Tetsuaki Ishibashi, Pengyin Chen, and Patrick Fenn
Assessment and restoration of a neighborhood wetland invaded by exotic plant species
Ryan J. Neal, Kimberly R. Payne, Lorena Moreno, Graham Duffy, Jonathan Peck, and Mary C. Savin and Pengyin Chen
Effects of thinking-aloud pair problem solving on the troubleshooting performance of undergraduate students in a power technology course
Michael L. Pate, George W. Wardlow, and Donald M. Johnson
Microbial biomass and nitrogen availability under the invasive plant species Lonicera japonica and native grasses in wetland soil
Kimberly R. Payne, Mary C. Savin, and Peter J. Tomlinson
Acaricidal efficacy of various agents in the treatment of naturally occurring Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Acari: Macronyssidae) infestations of chickens
Maggie Phillips, T.A. Yazwinski, C.A. Tucker, Jennifer Robins, Jeremy Powell, and Linda Stamps
Aerobic stability of heat and orchardgrass round-bale silage
Robert T. Rhein, Wayne K. Coblentz, Charles F. Rosenkrans, Jr., and D. Wayne Kellogg
A survey into the prevalence of parasitic helminths in broiler breeders
Anita Sarathi, T.A. Yazwinski, C. Tucker, and J. Robins
Characterizing bean pod rot in Arkansas and Missouri
Jeremey H. Taylor and Craig S. Rothrock
Propagation of thornless blackberries utilizing adventitious shoots from root cuttings
Ellen Thompson, John R. Clark, and Curt R. Rom