The Impact of Phosphate Mining on Culex nigripalpus and Culex salinarius (Diptera: Culicidae) Populations in Central Florida

1985 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Slaff ◽  
John D. Haefner
Keyword(s):  
Phosphate Mining ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Culex Nigripalpus ◽  
Culex Salinarius ◽  
The Impact

Spinetoram Is Compatible with the Key Natural Enemy of Frankliniella Species Thrips in Pepper

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mrittunjai Srivastava ◽  
Lara Bosco ◽  
Joe Funderburk ◽  
Anthony Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Frankliniella Occidentalis ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Western Flower Thrips ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Flower Thrips ◽  
Natural Predator ◽  
Wilt Virus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reduced Risk

Feeding by the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, causes damage to the fruits of pepper, and the species is the key vector of Tomato spotted wilt virus. Effective management integrates conservation of populations of the natural predator, Orius insidiosus, with the use of reduced-risk insecticides, namely spinosad. We conducted field experiments in northern Florida in 2005 and 2006 and in central Florida in 2006 to evaluate the new reduced-risk insecticide spinetoram for control of thrips and to determine the impact on natural populations of O. insidiosus. Spinetoram at 61 g ai/ha was as effective as spinosad at 140 g ai/ha against the western flower thrips and the other common thrips in Florida, Frankliniella tritici and Frankliniella bispinosa. The mean numbers of the predator were very high in all treatments in each experiment, and their numbers relative to the numbers of thrips indicated that predation was sufficient to suppress thrips populations in all treatments. Broad-spectrum insecticides when included in the experiments provided little or no control; sometimes, they flared thrips numbers compared to untreated pepper. Accepted for publication 25 October 2007. Published 18 January 2008.

Universities’ Role as Catalysts for Venture Creation

2013 ◽  
pp. 153-181
Author(s):  
Thomas O’Neal ◽  
Henriette Schoen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
University Of Central Florida ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Universities are being asked to play an increasingly larger role in communities as catalysts for venture creation. Some universities have embraced taking an active role, often filling gaps in the local entrepreneurial environment, to induce venture creation. This chapter discusses the role the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, USA, has taken when partnering with local economic development entities in academic to practitioner-based activities. Over the last 12 years, UCF’s Office of Research and Commercialization (UCF ORC) has continuously worked on improving the process of getting ideas from the university laboratories and the community out to the market to help the community grow and flourish. UCF and a growing number of other universities are creating a suite of Entrepreneurial Support Entities (ESEs) that provide entrepreneurial help in all of a company’s development stages. This chapter presents the interactions among the ESEs, with UCF serving as an example to demonstrate the impact a university can have on its surroundings and on the community’s development. There are many examples of such interactions across the US at other universities as well.

Using French Language Facebook Posts to Increase Beginning Students’ Instrumentality and Cultural Interest

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Shelly Wyatt ◽  
Glenda Gunter
Keyword(s):  
Target Language ◽  
French Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Language Orientation ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact

This quasi-experimental study examined the impact of interactions with native French language Facebook posts on beginning French language learners’ attitudes towards the target language and culture. Participants in this study were recruited from two sections of FRE 1120, Elementary French Language and Civilization I at the University of Central Florida. Native French language Facebook posts were ‘pushed’ to participants’ personal Facebook News Feeds over the course of four weeks, with posts pushed on weekdays only. Dörnyei and Clément’s (2001) Language Orientation Questionnaire was used to measure participants’ attitudes towards the target language and culture. Data were analysed using a split-plot ANOVA. A total of twenty-six participants completed the study, with fourteen participants in the control group and twelve participants in the treatment group. Both sections of FRE 1120 were conducted in a face-to-face modality and were taught by the same instructor. Results indicated that participants’ attitudes towards the target language and culture were not significantly impacted by interaction with native French language Facebook posts. Opportunities for future research include increasing the size of the sample, increasing the length of the study, and selecting participants who are more advanced in their mastery of the target language.

Late Hemphillian monodactyl horses (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida

1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 466-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce J. MacFadden
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Sedimentary Sequence ◽  
Crown Height ◽  
Local Fauna ◽  
Phosphate Mining ◽  
Early Pliocene ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
The Common

Isolated cheek teeth of the hypsodont one-toed horses Astrohippus stocki and Dinohippus mexicanus are described from ten localities within the classic vertebrate-bearing beds of the Bone Valley phosphate mining district and one new locality (containing the Lockwood Meadows Local Fauna) in Sarasota, Florida. All occurrences of these taxa are from the upper Bone Valley Formation and further confirm a late Hemphillian (late Miocene to early Pliocene) age, or within the range of about 5.4 to 4.5 myBP for this part of the sedimentary sequence. In contrast to the common occurrences of hipparions in the Bone Valley Formation, A. stocki and D. mexicanus are relatively rare. In some dental charcters such as protocone length and crown height, A. stocki and D. mexicanus are no more advanced in their stage of evolution than the advanced three-toed horses Neohipparion eurystyle, N. gidleyi and Nannippus peninsulatus.

scholarly journals Landscape Diversity: Multiple-Use Landscapes for Reclaimed Phosphatic Clay Areas

EDIS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Local Economy ◽  
Landscape Diversity ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Phosphate Mining ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Soil And Water

The intent of this document is to explore the benefits of using reclaimed phosphatic clay areas — a result of phosphate mining in central Florida — for multiple purposes to add to the local economy and the sustainability of the community and to take advantage of the clay resource for environmental and agricultural purposes. This document is written as a concept paper, which integrates information learned about phosphatic clay. This document is SL 229, a fact sheet of the Soil and Water Science Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date September 2005. 

scholarly journals Universities' Role as Catalysts for Venture Creation

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1311-1339
Author(s):  
Thomas O'Neal ◽  
Henriette Schoen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
University Of Central Florida ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Universities are being asked to play an increasingly larger role in communities as catalysts for venture creation. Some universities have embraced taking an active role, often filling gaps in the local entrepreneurial environment, to induce venture creation. This chapter discusses the role the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, USA, has taken when partnering with local economic development entities in academic to practitioner-based activities. Over the last 12 years, UCF's Office of Research and Commercialization (UCF ORC) has continuously worked on improving the process of getting ideas from the university laboratories and the community out to the market to help the community grow and flourish. UCF and a growing number of other universities are creating a suite of Entrepreneurial Support Entities (ESEs) that provide entrepreneurial help in all of a company's development stages. This chapter presents the interactions among the ESEs, with UCF serving as an example to demonstrate the impact a university can have on its surroundings and on the community's development. There are many examples of such interactions across the US at other universities as well.

scholarly journals Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Runoff Variation of the Intensive Phosphate Mined Huangbaihe River Basin, China

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2039
Author(s):  
Huijuan Bo ◽  
Xiaohua Dong ◽  
Zhonghua Li ◽  
Xiaonong Hu ◽  
Gebrehiwet Reta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Baseline Period ◽  
Change Points ◽  
Natural State ◽  
Phosphate Mining ◽  
Runoff Variation ◽  
Change Period ◽  
The Impact

Natural hydrological processes have been changed under the combined influences of climate change and intensive human activities in the Huangbaihe River Basin, where large-scale phosphate mining has been taking place. Therefore, evaluating the impact of climate change and intensive human activities on runoff variation and detecting the main driving factor leading to the variation are important for more efficient water resource management and more sustainable development of the regional economy. Despite numerous studies having been performed on this topic, little research focused on the impact of mining on runoff variation. The non-parametric Mann-Kendall (MK) trend test and accumulative anomaly methods were applied to identifying basic trends and change points of the hydro-meteorological elements over the period from 1978 to 2016. Then, the Soil Water and Assessment Tool (SWAT) and the Slope Changing Ratio of Accumulative Quantity (SCRAQ) were both used to quantify the contributions of climate change and anthropogenic activities on runoff variation. In this step, the runoff data were restored to their natural state before the construction of Xuanmiaoguan (XMG) dam. Due to the lack of locally observed evapotranspiration data, Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model and an empirical equation applied to obtain the evapotranspiration data. The results revealed that the change points are in 1985 and 2006. Therefore, the total period was divided into three periods, that is, the baseline period Ta (1978–1984), change period Tb (1985–2005) and change period Tc (2006–2016). Compared with the baseline period Ta, climate change dominates the runoff variation in the period Tb and is responsible for 60.5 and 74.4% of runoff variation, while human activities contribute the most to runoff variation for the period Tc (79.3 and 86.1%). Furthermore, an analysis of the underlying mechanism of underground phosphate mining indicates that mining can affect overland flow and baseflow simultaneously. This study can provide some information in determining the contributions of climate change and human activities in intensive phosphate mined basins and areas lack of evapotranspiration data.

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