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Corn aplenty
Two children watch a local farmer grow a crop of corn and as the corn develops--from seed to harvest time--so does the friendship between the children and the farmer.
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The body economic
The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic \"life,\" making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.
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Bob & Rob & corn on the cob
Bob and Rob, two squirrels who love corn on the cob, convince their rabbit friend, Ella Mae Dobbs, try a new food.
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Effects of Forsythia Suspense Extract as an Antibiotics Substitute on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility, Serum Antioxidant Capacity, Fecal Escherichia coli Concentration and Intestinal Morphology of Weaned Piglets
The aim of this study is to determine the efficiency of Forsythia suspense extract (FSE) as an antibiotics substitute on performance, nutrient digestibility, serum antioxidant capacity, fecal Escherichia coli concentration and intestinal morphology of weaned piglets. A total of 108 Duroc × (Landrace × Yorkshire) weaned piglets (28 days (d) weaned, average body weight of 8.68 ± 1.36 kg) were randomly assigned into three dietary treatments, six pens per treatment, three barrows and three gilts per pen. The treatments contained a corn-soybean meal basal diet (CTR), an antibiotic diet (basal diet + 75 mg/kg chlortetracycline; CTC), and an FSE diet (basal diet + 200 mg/kg FSE; FSE). The experiment included phase 1 (d 1 to 14), phase 2 (d 15 to 28) and phase 3 (d 29 to 35). Compared with CTR, piglets fed FSE show improved (p < 0.05) average daily gain (ADG) and average daily feed intake in phase 2, as well as enhanced (p < 0.05) ADG from day 15 to 35 and day 1 to 28. Piglets supplemented with CTC and FSE showed a reduced (p < 0.05) diarrhea rate in phase 1, while piglets fed FSE showed enhanced (p < 0.05) apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of dry matter, organic matter, crude protein and gross energy, as well as lower (p < 0.05) nitrogen output in phase 2 compared with CTR and CTC. The content in the form of Colony-Forming Units (CFUs) of fecal E. coli on day 14 and 28 was lower (p < 0.05) in piglets fed FSE in comparison with CTR. The contents of total antioxidant capacity, superoxide dismutase and catalase in serum are enhanced (p < 0.05) compared with CTR and CTC, whereas the concentration of malondialdehyde in serum was decreased (p < 0.05) for piglets fed FSE on day 28 compared with CTC. The villus height to crypt depth ratio in ileum was numerically higher (p < 0.05) in piglets fed FSE in comparison with CTR. In conclusion, dietary FSE supplementation could substitute CTC in improving antioxidant capacity, nutrients digestibility and reducing fecal E. coli content, so as to reduce nitrogen output and diarrhea rate, and eventually improve performance in weaned piglets.
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Materials researchers join historic March for Science
News & Analysis Science Policy The historic, April 22nd March for Science in Washington, DC--with more than 600 satellite marches around the globe--focused the world's attention on the importance of science in daily life as it celebrated the work and achievements of the scientific community, including materials researchers. Brillson said many marchers carried signs with slogans such as \"Science Facts Not Alternative Science Fiction\" or \"Science, It Works!\" Speakers ranged from medical doctors covering the importance of vaccines and breakthrough medical advances to an ornithology professor who showed the importance of birds to the environment, Brillson said. At an American Chemical Society children's demonstration, participants helped make colorful packing peanuts from corn starch instead of petrochemicals--literally, an often sticky, hands-on demonstration of the creativity and versatility in materials research today. When asked what made him decide to participate, Hurd was stunned, \"I never really even thought I wouldn't!\" This is unsurprising considering his experience with advocacy while serving as president of the Materials Research Society (2007) and, later, as a Franklin Fellow for the US Science and Technology advisor to the Secretary of State (2012-2013). [...]once the semantics were clarified and science organizations, including the Materials Research Society, understood the effort to be a partnership with the federal government to support the value of research, momentum quickly built up for the March, including the participation of policymakers. March for Science organizers pledge that the historic event--which they calculated drew ~1.07 million marchers worldwide--will be an ongoing effort to support science...
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Market mystery
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics service shocked the market by reporting corn plantings at 90 million acres, nearly a million more than last year. [...]another wing of USDA, its Farm Service Agency, reported farmers filled prevent plant corn claims of 11.2 million acres. Not all farmers do this, but most do historically, especially in a year like 2019, when filing the reports was mandatory to collect Market Facilitation Program payments.
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Fiction and Fact: Bess Streeter Aldrich's \The Drum Goes Dead\ and the Hard Times of the 1930s
By contrast, the fiction writer is at liberty to order details in accord with a design.\\n With their Cass County neighbors and undoubtedly millions of other Americans beset with economic problems, Elmwood area residents looked beyond their own difficulties and gave money to Red Cross flood relief drives in 1935.1936, and 1937.66 Despite drought and the Great Depression, the mid-i930s did not bring unrelieved misery to Bellfield or Elmwood; though challenged, the normal currents of life endured. [...]these years brought continuing modernization to Elmwood and Cass County, albeit at what was probably a much slower than optimal pace. Bess Streeter Aldrich was a teacher before she became an established writer of fiction. Because much of her writing implicitly raises the question of its factual underpinning, she is the friend of teachers who use fiction as a path to understanding important elements of the history of the Midwest and Great Plains.
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Will machines weed and feed corn someday?
What’s more, you only sprayed weeds if there were weeds, and only applied fertilizer where there were corn plants. A Bayer scientist at the 2019 Farm Progress Show demonstrated early technology trained by artificial intelligence to recognize and report specific soybean diseases. Future direction The students believe the type of technology they’re developing could play a future role in agriculture once various developmental issues are resolved.
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Corn roots: Separate fact from fiction
Nodal roots develop from the crown of the plant. [...]nodal root depth is not influenced much at all by seedling depth, Nielsen says. The depth at which the emerging seedling senses changes in red to far-red light within the light spectrum determines crown location. [...]if growing conditions are poor and nodal root development is subpar due to weather, soil compaction or other factors, it may be a rocky transition.
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STARVATION IN VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS FICTION
It may seem that Christmas literature, with its glorified descriptions of overflowing tables and conviviality, has no place in a discussion of that other extreme, starvation. However, much of the nineteenth-century literature containing narratives of Christmas speaks directly to national fears of famine. Starvation entered the print matter of Christmas first as part of a social argument and later as a concern for the abiding national identity that had become intertwined with Christmas itself and, more symbolically, Christmas fare. Writers including Charles Dickens, Benjamin Farjeon, Augustus and Henry Mayhew, the creators of Punch, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon authored Christmas pieces that showcase literary reactions to the developing issues of hunger throughout their century. This essay offers an overview of the treatment of starvation in the Christmas literature of the nineteenth century.
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