Autumn Foods of White-Tailed Deer in Arkansas

Rumen contents from 65 hunter-harvested deer were collected and analyzed during 1985-86 to estimate the principal autumn foods consumed by white-tailed deer inhabiting the Ozark Mountains, Arkansas River Valley, and Gulf Coastal Plain regions of Arkansas. Deer in the Ozarks and Coastal Plain fed heavily on woody browse species, which comprised 99% of rumina identified from these 2 regions. Acorns were the primary food of deer in these heavily forested areas. Acorns and other woody browse were less important to deer inhabiting the Arkansas River Valley. In this region of interspersed agricultural fields and bottomland forests, soybeans and corn comprised 75% of the diet, and acorns accounted for only 2%

Unit Plan: The Desegregation of Portland Public Schools

The greatest turning point in United States history was when the Brown vs. Board of Education decision outlawed the policy of separate but equal. It paved the way for equal rights to become a reality across the nation. This unit starts with the national context educating students on segregation before the Brown decision. As students move through the lessons they build background knowledge on the impact of Brown from a national context down to a more local context by focusing on the desegregation in Portland Public Schools in Portland, Oregon. Students will develop reading, writing, and critical thinking skills through a variety of activities. This unit can be taught chronologically or thematically in relation to a Civil Rights unit. This unit can be placed in a unit/class with the broader theme of national and local equal rights. It is the teacher’s discretion whether students should have explicit instruction on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prior to teaching this unit.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/hist_lessonplan/1003/thumbnail.jp

Critical parameters for efficient sonication and improved chromatin immunoprecipitation of high molecular weight proteins

Solubilization of cross-linked cells followed by chromatin shearing is essential for successful chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). However, this task, typically accomplished by ultrasound treatment, may often become a pitfall of the process, due to inconsistent results obtained between different experiments under seemingly identical conditions. To address this issue we systematically studied ultrasound-mediated cell lysis and chromatin shearing, identified critical parameters of the process and formulated a generic strategy for rational optimization of ultrasound treatment. We also demonstrated that whereas ultrasound treatment required to shear chromatin to within a range of 100–400 bp typically degrades large proteins, a combination of brief sonication and benzonase digestion allows for the generation of similarly sized chromatin fragments while preserving the integrity of associated proteins. This approach should drastically improve ChIP efficiency for this class of proteins

Centrality dependence of hyperon global polarization in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

We present the centrality dependence of Lambda and Anti-Lambda hyperon global polarization in Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=62 GeV and 200 GeV measured with the STAR detector at RHIC. Within the precision of the measurement, we observe no centrality dependence of Lambda and Anti-Lambda hyperon global polarization and within our acceptance it is consistent with zero. Different sources of systematic uncertainties (feed down effects, spin precession) are discussed and estimated. The obtained upper limit, |P_{Lambda,Anti-Lambda}| < 0.02, is compared to theoretical predictions discussed recently in literatures.Comment: Talk given at QM 2006, The 19th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, November 14-20, 2006, Shanghai, China; 4 pages, 2 figure

Baryonic Resonance Studies with STAR

Yields and spectra of $\Sigma(1385)$ are measured in $p+p$, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV . The nuclear modification factors in d+Au collisions are presented. The $p_{T}$ dependent medium effects are investigated via the nuclear modification factors. The implications of these results on various models are discussed.Comment: Strange Quark Matter 2006 Conference Talk Proceeding

Incident-energy and system-size dependence of directed flow

We present STAR's measurements of directed flow for charged hadrons in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 200$ GeV and 62.4 GeV, as a function of pseudorapidity, transverse momentum and centrality. We find that directed flow depends on the incident energy, but not on the system size. We extend the validity of limiting fragmentation hypothesis to different collision systems.Comment: Quark Matter 2006 proceedings, 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys.

Recent Results on Searches for Pentaquark States from STAR at RHIC

We present results on pentaquark searches from nuclear collisions at RHIC with the STAR detector system. An intriguing peak has been observed in the invariant mass distribution of $pK^{+}+\overline{p}K^{-}$ from 18.6 Million d+Au collision events at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 200$~GeV. The peak centers at a mass $1528 \pm 2 \pm 5$~MeV/c$^{2}$ and the FWHM $\sim15$ MeV/c$^{2}$ limited by detector responses. The statistical significance of the peak is $4.2\sigma$. Such a state if confirmed is manifestly exotic and implies a family of isospin one states. A weak signal of less statistical significance ($\sim3\sigma$) has been observed in 5.6M Au+Au collision events at 62.4 GeV. Searches in 10.7M Au+Au collision events at 200 GeV yield no significant signal. The Au+Au results neither confirm nor rule out the d+Au observation as a possible state.Comment: To appear in proceedings of International Conference on QCD and Hadron Physics at Beijing, June 200

Direct photons in d+Au and p+p collisions

Results are presented from an ongoing analysis of direct photon production with the STAR experiment at RHIC. The direct photon measurement in d+Au collisions and the neutral pion spectrum in p+p collisions are found to be in agreement with NLO pQCD calculations.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of Quark Matter 200

Anisotropic flow at RHIC

We present the first measurement of directed flow ($v_1$) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). $v_1$ is found to be consistent with zero at pseudorapidities $\eta$ from -1.2 to 1.2, then rises to the level of a couple of percent over the range $2.4 < |\eta| < 4$. The latter observation is similar to that from NA49 if the SPS rapidities are shifted by the difference in beam rapidity between RHIC and SPS. We studied the evolution of elliptic flow from p+p collisions through d+Au collision, and onto Au+Au collisions. Measurements of higher harmonics are presented and discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Proceeding for the 20th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Jamaic

Centrality Dependence of Azimuthal Anisotropy of Strange Hadrons in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions

Measurements of azimuthal anisotropy for strange and multi-strange hadrons are presented for the first time in their centrality dependence. The high statistics results of v2(pT) allow for a more detailed comparison to hydrodynamical model calculations. Number-of-constituent-quark scaling was tested for different centrality classes separately. Higher order anisotropies like v4(pT) are measured for multi-strange hadrons. While we observe agreement between measured data and models a deeper understanding and refinement of the models seem to be necessary in order to fully understand the details of the data.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; Strange Quark Matter 2006 conference proceedings, to appear in J. Phys.