Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences articles from April 2008

Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences archives from April 2008

Editorial comments.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Dear MAS Journal Editor (Comments to the Editor), As a resident of Waveland, Mississippi, I read with interest your October 2007 Katrina Special Edition. As a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Park Campus, I...

Short-term spatial variations in the beds of Ruppia maritima (ruppiaceae) and Halodule wrightii (cymodoceaceae) at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi, USA.
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Studies have reported extensive losses of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) habitat along the Mississippi coast, but the estimates did not account for smaller scale temporal variations. We hypothesized that there were significant...

Geospatial distribution of pesticide use and disparities in breast cancer mortality in Mississippi women.(Clinical report)
April 1, 2008... Abstract Breast Cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in the United States. Established risk factors include advancing age, early menarche, late menopause, positive first relative, late age at first birth and socioeconomic...

Discovering the patient's definition of a medical emergency.
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Purpose: To discover what motivates patients to seek emergency department (ED) care through their definition of a medical emergency. Design and Methods: A qualitative design using a general inductive approach was conducted...

Leadership institutes: guiding science and mathematics systemic reform: Delta Rural Systemic Initiative (Delta RSI) one decade later.
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The National Science Foundation (NSF) supported program, Delta Rural Systemic Initiative (Delta RSI), was designed to initiate and stimulate systemic reform in K-12 mathematics and science to children living in the most rural and...

Geographic distribution of Hemidactylus turcicus (reptilia: squamata: gekkonidae) in Mississippi.(Report)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Recently collected specimens, literature records, and unpublished museum records were used to evaluate the current distribution of the exotic Mediterranean Gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) in Mississippi. Geckos were often found in...

Mississippi academy of sciences.(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... Seventy-Second Annual Meeting - Program Corrections HEALTH SCIENCES FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23 New Posters, Friday, 3:00p. CHARACTERIZATION OF OXIDATION PRODUCTS FROM CATFISH OIL AND BIODIESEL Supanee Danviriyakul (1),...

An examination of the relationships among Greek status, social behavior, alcohol/substance use, and associated risk behavior.
April 1, 2008... The current study examined the relationship between social Greek organization membership, risk behavior, and a variety of social variables known to be associated with substance use. Approximately 300 undergraduate students at the University of...

Integrated fruit production in Brazil.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Integrated (fruit) production, IFP is defined by the International Organization for Biological Control as a "farming system that produces high quality food and other products by using natural resources and regulating mechanisms to replace...

Executive director column.(Column)
April 1, 2008... Our Academy of Science is making tremendous progress in terms of participation and interest as we head into 2009. Over the past year Dr. Joseph A. Cameron has provided us with excellent leadership and we were encouraged by the number of...