Events calendar.
ASAE Conferences and International Meetings To receive more information about ASAE conferences and meetings, contact Brenda West at 800-371-2723, 616-428-6327 or west@asae.org. For the complete list, see www.asae.org/resource/asaevents.html. 2002 July 26-27 Automation Technology for Off-Road Equipment (ATOE 2002). Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois, USA....

Summer diet composition of moose in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
ABSTRACT: Summer diet composition of habituated adult moose (Alces alces) in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, was determined using direct observations and fecal analysis. Direct observations determined moose ate 20 different plant species, including 6 willow (Salix spp.) species, which comprised 91.3% of the overall diet from June through...

At early growth stages: machine vision-based automated corn plant population and spacing measurement.
Recent studies have shown that plant population and spacing variability have a substantial effect on corn yield. Thus, an automated corn plant population and spacing sensing system may provide a key layer of field variability information useful for crop management. In this regard, plant geneticists have shown a fundamental...

Differential cell sensitivity to cadmium exposure in RTgill-W1, RTG-2, and RTL-W1 rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) cell lines: an in vitro cell line model to study cadmium-induced cytotoxicity.
ABSTRACT Cadmium is intimately connected to Idaho through mining practices and other emissions of this toxic metal into the environment. Since aquatic organisms can serve as bioindicators to assess the possible impact of heavy metal contaminants, we used liver (RTL-W1), gonadal (RTG-2), and gill (RTgill-W1) cell lines...

TECHTONICS.
Sunshine at school The Met. Office hopes to bring sunshine into the classroom with its new interactive weather website. The site, at www.metoffice.gov.uk/education, contains 'live' data such as UK weather charts, visible and infrared satellite pictures as well as archive information on rainfall, wind-speed, wind direction and...

Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of Cecil D. Andrus Wildlife Management Area, Washington County, Idaho.
ABSTRACT Cecil D. Andrus Wildlife Management Area is located in northern Washington County, Idaho, and managed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The authors conducted field surveys for butterflies during 1997 and 1998. Seventy-seven species of butterflies were observed within the boundaries of the WMA...

First records of Yuma skipper, Ochlodes Yuma (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), in Idaho.
Keywords: Ochlodes yuma, Yuma skipper, Idaho, Lepidoptera Stanford and Opler (1993) compiled a western U.S. butterfly atlas based on verified specimens, and they reported no occurrences of O. yuma (Yuma Skipper) in Idaho. In 1995, Ochlodes yuma was collected for the first time in Idaho, and the...

Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of the Mud Flat Road, Owyhee County, Idaho, with comments on the discovery of Thessalia leanira (C. & R. felder) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Idaho.
ABSTRACT From 1993 to 1999, the authors made annual trips to the Mud Flat Road in Owyhee County, Idaho, and identified 57 species of butterflies along the Idaho portion of that route. Six species were Owyhee County first records. One species was a state record. In 1995,...

Wild silk moths (Saturniidae: Lepidoptera) and sphinx moths (Sphingidae: Lepidoptera) of Cecil D. Andrus wildlife management area, Washington County, Idaho.
ABSTRACT Cecil D. Andrus Wildlife Management Area, located in northern Washington County, Idaho, is managed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Moths were collected and identified during 1997 and 1998. Diurnal moths were captured with an aerial insect net. Nocturnal moths were collected by blacklight...

ADVANCED COMPOSITES PROVED AS WINNERS FOR PROSTHESES.
Advanced composites have become the material of choice for artificial limbs. Indeed, they now offer such an advantage for lower-limb amputees that questions of ethics have been raised regarding their use in athletic competition. In some cases, high-performance composite prosthetics catapult the runner forward more efficiently than running on...