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Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and God’s Kingdom Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.. Edited by Peter J. Weigel
No full textFor close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently the executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). These two eminent scholars explore fundamental questions about Christian eschatology, moral theory, the purpose of human life, and the promise of human fulfilment. The authors examine Christian teaching on the final destiny of persons, investigating the meaning of God's kingdom, the hope of the beatific vision, and the centrality of moral goodness and divine grace in one's final end. This work is an ideal source for students, scholars, ministers and lay persons interested in basic questions of Christian theology, the philosophy of religion, ethical theory, and Catholic doctrin
SNP Genotyping Data from the Barley Experimental Population from "Two Genomic Regions Contribute Disproportionately to Geographic Differentiation in Wild Barley"
No full textThe 318 sampled wild barley accensions, known as the Wild Barley Diversity Collection (WBDC), were genotyped using the Illumina Golden Gate Genotyping Assay with two Barley Oligo Pool assay chips (BOPA1 and BOPA2). The genotype calls were based on machine-scored data using the program ALCHEMY and the SNPs were annotated using the program SNPMeta. The BOPA1 & 2 files contains the output of the ALCHEMY program.
Finally the original individual SSR for barley are publicly available at the website called GrainGenes and the sample used in this dataset are included as a txt file. All three files (tsv and txt) can be opened by text editors.Two Barley Oligo Pool Assay chips (BOPA 1 and 2) were genotyped from the Wild Barley Diversity Collection. Due to its broad geographic distribution and ecological adaptation, this collection is a valuable source of potentially useful genes.USDA NIFA 2011-68002-30029University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation FellowshipLieberman-Okinow Endowment at the University of MinnesotaUSAID-funded Cereals Comparative Genomics InitiativeFang, Zhou; Gonzales, Ana M; Clegg, Michael T; Smith, Kevin P; Muehlbauer, Gary J; Steffenson, Brian J; Morrell, Peter L. (2016). SNP Genotyping Data from the Barley Experimental Population from "Two Genomic Regions Contribute Disproportionately to Geographic Differentiation in Wild Barley". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://doi.org/10.13020/D6B59N
Portrait of Peter J. Jerry.
No full textHandwritten inscription: \u27With all good wishes - Peter J. Jerry\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1241/thumbnail.jp
Preventing wild boar "Sus scrofa" damage - considerations for wild boar management in highly fragmented agroecosystems
Get PDFDuring the last three decades wild boar populations have grown rapidly and the range of the species has increased steadily, covering almost the whole European continent today. The huge spread of the wild boar and the high population densities pose major problems, particularly to agriculture. Wild boars cause considerable damage to fields and grassland, but also pose a potentially high threat to livestock, as carrier of the pathogen of the classical swine fever, which may be transmitted to domestic pigs and can cause huge losses. To prevent economic problems by high wild boar populations, an effective wild boar management has to be established. Besides the regulation of the populations by means of hunting, vulnerable crop fields have to be protected adequately. Crop protection is usually achieved by the use of electric fences. Alternatively, various methods are available that claim effective deterrence of wild boars, however, most of which lacking scientific proof of effectiveness.
This thesis, based on a field study conducted in the Canton Basel-Land, northwestern Switzerland, presents research results on the effectiveness of three different deterrent systems: solar-powered blinkers, an odour repellent, and a gustatory repellent. The aims of the study were: (1) to investigate three means to deter wild boars from agricultural land representative for other deterrents based on optic, olfactory, or gustatory effects; (2) to provide relevant and evidence-based data, which contribute to the policy and practice of wild boar management and damage prevention in the Canton Basel-Land, also applicable to other regions. I discussed the results in a broader context, also considering the role of hunting in damage prevention.
Solar blinkers and the odour repellent, which were investigated at baited luring sites, reduced the probability of wild boar visits by 8.1% and by 0.4% respectively. Both deterrents were not effective in preventing wild boars from accessing the lure food. Additionally, we did not find any initial deterrence effect. The gustatory repellent, which was investigated in experimental fields, did not have a significant effect on the frequency of damage events. Although we observed a slight trend towards a damage reduction, the results show, that the repellent was not able to prevent damage. We further could not detect any area avoidance by the wild boars as a response to the repellent.
The present study revealed, that none of the deterrents investigated was able to prevent wild boars from entering the experimental sites. Hence the deterrents in question are no effective means for field protection. Moreover, I suggest that any other deterrent basing on startling response, neophobia, fear-evocation, or conditioned avoidance would not be effective in preventing wild boars from entering agricultural land. To date, the only recommendable means for damage prevention is the electric fence, which should be taken into account by the responsible authorities. Based on the findings of the present study, farmers must be discouraged from the use of other deterrents than electric fences to protect their fields. Additionally, damage compensation should be subject to the condition of fencing of the fields.
Besides the protection of vulnerable crops the reduction of wild boar populations by means of hunting is crucial for damage prevention. Hunting rates have to be increased and hunting effort should focus on females of all age classes, but especially on juvenile females, which have shown to be highly reproductive and substantially contribute to population growth. For this purpose, selective hunting techniques like hide hunting and stalk hunting should be prioritised and promoted.
The highly reproductive wild boar possesses the ability to recover from population losses in a very short time. Hence, both effective hunting management and field protection will remain the most important tools for damage control. Further research is required to investigate and compare different wild boar management systems including also damage prevention under an economic perspective. Stakeholders like farmers, hunters, and authorities must be involved.
The omnivore wild boar is enabled to adapt to various environments. Wild boar populations are expected to increase further and to spread into areas not yet populated. In Switzerland, the spread into the central parts of the country will also be supported by additional wildlife crossings that are in construction or in process of planning which will pose a challenge for wildlife management in these regions
Terry Anderson and Peter J. Hill : The not so wild, wild west. Property rights on the frontier
No full textCarnis Laurent. Terry Anderson and Peter J. Hill : The not so wild, wild west. Property rights on the frontier . In: Politiques et management public, vol. 24, n° 1, 2006. pp. 123-130
"Badly Wrong" - Der Existenzialismus und J. M. Coetzees The Lifes of Animals
No full textDie Existenzphilosophie ist geprägt vom Nachdruck auf den existierenden Menschen, der sein Leben philosophisch zu durchdringen sucht. Diesem Leitgedanken verpflichtet, plädieren die hier vorliegenden Beiträge für eine Lebenskunst, die die sinnlichen und geistigen Vermögen in ihrer Spannung produktiv werden lässt; für eine kohärente Wertehaltung und Lebensführung, etwa im Umgang mit Tieren und unseren Essgewohnheiten; für eine Reflexion über den modernen Glücksbegriff; für ein Selbstverständnis, das das menschliche Leben in der Spannung von Zufall und Entscheidung reflektiert; für ein Nachdenken darüber, wie unser Umgang mit Zeit sowohl unsere Lebensform als auch unser Glück bestimmen kann oder wieso es uns passieren kann, dass wir gerade dort, wo wir am autonomsten zu sein glauben, die höchste Abhängigkeit erfahren. Die philosophiehistorisch orientierten Beiträge widmen sich Aristoteles' Diktum, wonach der Mensch von Natur aus nach Wissen strebe; erläutern, welche Rolle Henri Bergson der Intuition zuschreibt und warum seine Überlegungen bis heute für uns relevant sind, und denken mit Merleau-Ponty darüber nach, inwiefern die Sinnfrage eine unhintergehbare Bedingung menschlicher Existenz ist. Ein weiterer Beitrag widmet sich der gesellschaftspolitischen Frage, ob und wie die Moralphilosophie dem Einzelnen und der Gesellschaft helfen kann, moralisch richtige Entscheidungen zu treffen. Mit Beiträgen von: Emil Angehrn, Anthony Feneuil, Rafael Ferber, Gottfried Gabriel, Gunnar Hindrichs, Sebastian Hüsch, Georg Kohler, Annemarie Pieper, Peter Schaber, Daniel Schulthess, Tilo Wesche, Markus Wild, Jean-Claude Wol
Appendix S1 "Probabilistic genetic identification of wild boar hybridization to support control of invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa)"
Get PDFFigure S1. Flow chart illustrating the workflow for characterizing the probability that a given Sus scrofa high density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotype could be described under the null hypothesis – descending strictly from contributions from domestic pigs – relative to the alternative hypothesis of allowing for European wild boar ancestry. Table S1. A complete list of the high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) Sus scrofa genotypes included in the study, with 1,421 reference samples organized into five groups
(mixed-commercial breeds, Durocs, heritage breeds, primitive breeds, and European wild boar) for the development of the Delta Likelihood test static, and, for evaluation of the Delta Likelihood approach, a test set of 435 genotypes from 29 additional domestic breeds and 6,566 wild pigs sampled across the invaded range within the contiguous United States. The original publishing source for genotypes is presented in the table with complete references below. Figure S2. Illustration of the genetic structure, as revealed with principal component analysis (plotting principal component 1 versus 2), among the five reference groups of Sus scrofa genotyped with a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array for the development of the Delta Likelihood statistic – an approach to probabilistically describe that a given genotype possesses wild boar ancestry in full or in part (i.e., a wild boar-domestic pig hybrid). Figure S3. Barplots illustrating genetic structure among the 1,421 genotypes that comprise five reference groups of Sus scrofa – organized as mixed-commercial breeds of domestic pig, Durocs, heritage breeds, primitive breeds, and European wild boar – as revealed with high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes and leave-one-out analyses conducted in ADMIXTURE (v1.3.0; Alexander et al., 2009) in a supervised framework as described in Smyser et al. (2020). Figure S4. Delta Likelihood statistics calculated from high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes for Sus scrofa reference genotypes, organized into reference groups representing mixed-commercial breeds (n = 310), Durocs (n = 159), heritage breeds (n =381), primitive breeds (n = 189), and European wild boar (n = 382); plots represent kernel density estimates of Delta Likelihood statistics for the respective reference groups in which the loci retained for analysis were pruned for linkage disequilbrium (LD) base on the specific reference group listed in the plot title. Pruning for LD based on the heritage reference group resulted in the greatest difference between the upper tail of the kernel density estimate observed among the domestic pig reference groups versus the lower tail of the wild boar reference group (difference of 36.07 when LD pruning was based on the heritage reference group versus 32.72 for the mixed-commercial reference group, 28.79 for Duroc, 35.17 for primitive, and 30.79 for wild boar); thus, the set of 18,790 loci based on the heritage reference set LD prune was retained for subsequent analyses. Table S2. The statistical distribution and associated parameters for respective distributions fitted to Delta Likelihood statistics calculated for domestic pig reference groups (i.e., mixedcommercial breeds, Durocs, heritage breeds, primitive breeds) based on bootstrapped iterations in which the composition of the specific genotypes included in the reference groups were resampled with replacement 1,000 times. Figure S5. Kernel density estimates of Delta Likelihood statistics calculated with 18,790 single nucleotide polymorphic (SNP) loci for Sus scrofa reference genotypes, organized into reference groups representing mixed-commercial breeds (n = 310), Durocs (n = 159), heritage breeds (n = 381), primitive breeds (n = 189), European wild boar (n = 382) and an empirical test set of an additional 29 domestic breeds, represented by 435 genotypes, that were excluded from the reference set. Figure S6. Delta Likelihood statistics calculated from simulated high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes (18,790 loci) for Sus scrofa in which genotypes were simulated with R package gscramble (Anderson 2023, R Development Core Team 2023) from fourgeneration pedigrees established by randomly sampling without replacement a total of 16 genotypes from one of four domestic pig reference groups (16 – 1 genotypes drawn from either mixed-commercial, Duroc, heritage, or primitive reference groups) and a complementary number of genotypes (0 – 15) drawn from the wild boar reference group. Following four generations of one-to-one pairing with no inbreeding conducted within the simulation, while allowing for biologically realistic rates of recombination (1 centimorgan per megabase) to reflect the linkage structure among proximate loci and tracking the proportion of each genotype attributable to wild boar ancestry versus domestic pig ancestry, we randomly selected a single simulated genotype for analysis from the 64,000 iterations conducted.Peer reviewe
Joseph Bimeler letter to Peter Kaufmann, June 8, 1844
No full textLetter from J. M. Bimeler (by Christian Weibel) to Peter Kaufmann, acknowledging receipt of Bibles and spelling books and ordering more Bibles. He repeats his statement from his letter of April 31, 1844, of a preference for Bibles that embrace the Apocrypha. The letter also requests a catalog of books on hand at Kaufmann's establishment.
Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left Germany and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar, in which each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. After decades of economic prosperity, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society.
Peter Kaufmann was a German immigrant and intellectual. He arrived first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1820; in 1826 he became professor of languages at the Harmony Society town of Economy, Pennsylvania. In 1827, Kaufmann led the establishment of Teutonia, a utopian community in Columbiana County, Ohio, and published its weekly titled "Teutonia: The Herald of a Better Time." Following this he moved to Canton, Ohio, where he became translator and editor of "Der Vaterlandsfreund und Geist der Zeit" under Solomon Sala. Additionally, Kaufmann wrote a number of books on education, as well as a German almanac. He was also an influential Democrat, counting President Van Buren among his friends, and knew Ralph Waldo Emerson
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