Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, Volume - 78, Year - 1999

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Minutes of the Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science  

  

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Presidential Address: Herbafism in the Modern World.  

R. Neil Reese  

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Complete Senior Research Papers.presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science.

 

Isolation, Cloning, and Sequencing of a Porcine Melanocortin-1 Receptor like gene.  

Michael Halverson, Carl Westby, Nets Granholm, and Donald Marshall  

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Design and Construction of a Portable Wind Tunnel for Soil Erosion Research.  

Larry D. Stetler  

23

Quantitative Analysis of a Solid Solution Using Fourier Transform infrared Spectrometry: An Instrumental Analysis Experiment.  

Rachel L. Kloos, Dianna M. Wineinger, and Duane E. Weisshaar  

35

Use of ATR and Circle Cell in the FnR Spectra of Polymers and Micelles.  

John D. Gilbertson and Arlen Viste  

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Laser Light Scattering from Silver Sols and Micelles.  

Jennifer K. Biergaard and Arlen Viste  

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Exploring Glasses and Glazes in the History of Chemistry and the Undergraduate Laboratory.  

Gregory J. Honsbruch and Arlen Viste  

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Explorations in Medicinal Chemistry through Molecular Modeling with HyperChem.  

Aimee J. Edwin, Gary W. Earl, and Arlen Viste  

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Multinuclear FT-NMR using the Anasazi EFr-60 Instrument.  

Steven R. Moeckly, Gary W. Earl, and Arlen Viste  

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Tadpole Madtom (Noturus gyrinus) Biology in an Upper Missouri River Backwater.  

Stephen K. Wilson, Shannon J. Fisher, and David W. Willis  

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Seasonal Food Habits of Bluegills in Richmond Lake, South Dakota.  

Nathan J. Harris, Gene F. Gabnat, and David W. Willis  

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Use of FTIR in the Examination of Quaternization Reactions using Dimethyl carbonate.  

Dianna Wineinger and Gary W. Earl  

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Generic Programming in C++.  

Catherine Van Note and Stephen Shum  

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Lipophilic MRI Contrast Agents as Potential Markers for Carnivore Population Studies.  

Jeffrey E. Elbert, Craig D. Kost, Rebecca L. Rasmussen, Danielle L. Johnson, and Jonathan A. Jenks  

109

Advances in Ancient DNA Retrieval.  

Teresa Farnsworth, Thomas Guetzloff, Shirley jennewein, James Sorenson, and Charles Laird  

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Habitat Requirements of Wedand Birds in Western South Dakota.  

David E. Naugle, Kenneth F. Higgins, and Kristel K. Bakker  

129

Protection against Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) of Calves Vaccinated with a Bovine Herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1)-BVDV Recombinant.  

Hj. Swan, Lj. Braun, R.D. Neiger, C.C.L. Chase, Lj. Bello, and W.C. Lawrence  

139

Old Black Hills Ponderosa Pines Tell a Story.  

Matthew J. Bunkers, L. Ronald Johnson, James R. Miller, and Carolyn Hull Sieg  

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 Factors influencing Age Ratios of Male Mallards Harvested in Eastern South Dakota.  

J. Kenneth MacDonald, Jeffrey S. Gleason, and Jonathan A. Jenks  

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Over-Winter Condition Changesin Female Ring-Necked Pheasants During Two Mild Winters.  

Jon R. Purvis, Andy E. Gabbert, Lester D. Flake, and Anthony P. Leif  

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A Biological Assessment of Four Northern Black Hills Streams.  

Ryan L. Newman, Charles R. Beriy, and Walter Duffy  

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Abstracts of Senior Re-search Papers presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science.

 

Strawberry Clover and Its Use in the Amelioration of Cadmium Contaminated Sites.  

Peterjauert, Tom Schumacher, Arvid Boe, and R. Neil Reese  

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More Biofriendly Quaternaries: Synthesis of DihydrogenatedtaBow Methyl Ammonium Methyl Carbonate and Replacement of the Anion with Other Anions.  

Steven R. Moeckly, Gary W. Earl, Drew Paulson, and Dianna Wineinger  

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Quaternization of Dihydrogenatedtallow Methyl Amine, the Synthesis of Ester Amines, and the Quaternization of These Ester Aniines.  

Drew J. Paulson, Gary W. Earl, S.R. Moeckly, and D.M. Wineinger  

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Development of an HPLC Method for the Analysis of Quaternization Reactions of Tertiary Aniines with Dimethyl Carbonate.  

Dianna Wineinger and Gary Earl  

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Genetic Analysis of a Pullulan Gene in Aureobasidium Pullulans.  

Anna R. Ofler and Carl A. Westby  

213

Body Weight and Ovarian Function in Ay/A Mice.  

Maureen Diggins, Rachel Christopher, and Nels H. Granholm  

215

Characterization of Lake Littoral Zone Habitats and Invertebrate Conununities in Northern Glaciated Plains and Northwestern Glaciated Plains Ecoregions.  

Corey W. Braskamp and Nels H. Troelstrup Jr.  

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Characterization of Water Quality and Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Cooling Pond of the Ottertafl Power Plant, Milbank, SD.  

Amy L. Gronke and Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr..................................... .  

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Influence of Elevation and Weed Ecology on Supervised Classification Procedure Using a Geographic Information System.  

Charles Cole, Sharon Clay, and Jason Lems  

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The Effect of the Removal of Lipids from Soil on the Growth of Fast Plants.  

James C. Sorenson and Thomas R Guetzloff  

223

Encouraging'the Establishment of a Native Grass Vegetation in Ungrazed Rangeland in Southeastern South Dakota.  

James C. Sorenson and Jerry Wilson  

225

Report on Plans for the Development of the Northern Great Plains Environmental Research Network.  

Pat Zinunernian, Bill Capehart, Andy Detwiler, and David Clay  

227

Assessing the Economic Importance of Nematodes in Cow-Calf Pairs in Eastern Brookings County-A Pilot Study.  

Keith Mertz, Bill Epperson, and Mike Hildreth  

229

 Further Characterization of Adult Excretory/Secretory Antigens.  

TL. Lackey, M.B. Hildreth, and M.A. Perry  

231

Dietary Reconstruction of Human Bone Samples from Early Populations in the Central Columbian Andes, CA. 7000-4000 BP, With the Use of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes.  

Ann Bowden and Larry L. Tieszen  

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Seed weights and Germination of Two Populations of American Lotus.  

Steve R. Anderson, Gary E. Larson, and Paul D. Evenson  

235

Agouti Protein and Melanocortin Interactions in Ay/a Mice.  

Partha Ramasastry, Loren D. Wipf, Nels H.Granholm, and Maureen R. Diggins  

237

A Breeding Population of Virginia's Warblers in the Southwestern Black Hills.  

David L. Swanson and Jeffrey S. Palmer  

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Breeding Bird Richness and Abundance in Pine-juniper-Shrub Habitat in the Southwestern Black Hills.  

Eric T. Liknes, David L. Swanson, and Jeffrey S. Pahner  

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Discrimination Between Two Varieties of Soybean [Glycine Max (L.) Meff.: Fabaceael Using Nuclear Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer DNA Sequences.  

Frederick J. Peabody, Michael Huela, and Darren G. Hall  

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Differential Effects of Habitat Disturbance on the Genetic Structure of Two Closely Related Beetle Species.  

A. MacClure, H.B. Britten, and K.L. Olmstead  

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Row Spacing Effects on the Growth and Yield of Hybrid Corn (Zea mays L.).  

Craig Converse and Zeno Wicks III  

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Diet Reconstruction of Herbivores from Mongolia Using Stable Isotopes of Carbon.  

Dan Denevan and Dr. Larry L. Tieszen  

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Alteration of Monocyte-Derived Macrophage Function by Bovine Herpesvirus-1 Infection In Vitro.  

Pu Wang, Lyle J. Braun, Christopher C. L. Chase, and David J. Hurley  

251

Vagal Lobe Structure in Different Species of Catostomid Fishes.  

Nathan Steinle, Michelle Sulzbach, Brett Theeler, and Charles Lamb  

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South Dakota Academy of Science --- 1999 Junior Academy Winning Papers

 

Chute Stress Phase II.  

Heather May Anderson  

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Taking the Earth's Pulse.  

Elaine Kub  

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