Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Honors Kyle Picha of Prairie du Chien, WI As Youth Advocate of the Year

--Leadership in Fight Against Tobacco Recognized Nationally-- WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kyle Picha, 17, of Prairie du Chien, Wis., has been named the Central Regional Youth Advocate of the Year by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids for his leadership in the fight against to...

Optim To Assist Prairie Community Health Center with Construction Scope Development

ROYAL OAK, Mich., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Prairie Community Health Center (PCHC), Terry, Montana, has selected Optim to perform an evaluation of hospital renovation, expansion or replacement needs. As the Owner's Representative, Optim will conduct a demographic study of the area's population ...

Partnership for Prescription Assistance Prepared to Help South Dakota Workers Hurt by Recession

... WHERE: Brookings Health System 300 22nd Avenue Brookings , South Dakota WHEN: 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. WHERE: prairie Lakes Healthcare System 401 9th Avenue NW Watertown , South Dakota Friday, July 3, 2009 WHEN: 10:00 a.m. to Noon W...

Prairie Island Indian Community Supports Fight Against Diabetes Locally and Nationally

... Welch, Minn. (Vocus) May 29, 2009 -- The prairie Island Indian Community understands the serious h...e amount of $20,000 was presented on behalf of the prairie Island Indian Community to the American Diabetes A... held at the Saint Paul RiverCentre. "The prairie Island Indian Community's support of the American ...

One Little Penny...One Big Difference

..."Pennies for Patients is no longer just a school project but an entire Eden prairie community project," said Wavinak. "With the economy the way it is this year, Eden prairie showed its generosity and how much they care for others." To learn mor...

Partnership for Prescription Assistance Prepared to Help Kansan Workers Hurt by Recession

...treet Wichita, Kansas EVENT TIME: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ADDRESS: prairie Star Health Center (community clinic) 1600 North Lorraine Street Hutchi... Salina, Kansas EVENT TIME: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ADDRESS: Konza prairie Community Health Center 361 Grant Avenue Junction City, KS 66441 "...

Elder Abuse Complaint Filed Against Extendicare

...tendicare paid $2.3 million to Wisconsin in a civil settlement over serious nursing home violations arising from the 2003 death of a resident. Its Sun prairie home, Willows Nursing & Rehabilitation, was cited for poor care after two residents died. Willows paid $198,045 in state and federal fines; it als...

Sanford Children's Hospital Opens New Castle of Care

...ds, from hallways and ceilings to murals above every bed: The Deep Blue Waters (lower level) Rushing River Valley (ground floor) Wide Windy prairie (1st floor) Land of Nez (2nd floor) Enchanted Forest (3rd floor) "Patients and visitors will know which theme they are entering once the...

Salmonella Common In U.S. Poultry

... in the October 2008 issue of Pediatrics . In 2003, a human monkey pox outbreak was traced back to imported African Gambian rats that had infected prairie dogs sold as pets. And small pet turtles were responsible for 103 cases of salmonella infection in the second half of last year, mostly among young ch...

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Introduces International Medical Tourism Pilot Program

...s to retain the remaining rural character of its home in Washington County. Upon completion of the company headquarters in 1997, Serigraph undertook a prairie restoration project on the property. Preservation of green space and natural resources in the community are core values of the company. ...

Prairie in Medical Technology

TCS Healthcare Technologies Releases Three New Clinical Care Programs Within ACUITY

... Program Reports. Jan Wierschke, Director of Health Management Services at prairie States Enterprises, notes that "AcuCare is a great value when considering t...ther that "AcuCare Programs are a practical solution for our care managers. prairie States Enterprises will take advantage of the underlying functionality of A...

Prairie in Medical Dictionary

Skull

...ext to wield a Skull , as there is with a weapon, (but... Grunts dancing around the Grunt Birthday Skull on the level the Arbiter ... Make your prairie scene realistic with our Longhorn Skull and Wagon Wheel. The 16 inch x 29 inch skull is one-sided. Attach this 23 inch brown, one-sided wheel to t...

Gasoline

...d? ... Exploding the myth that premium gasoline delivers better performance in the average automobile ... Gasoline Alternative May Be Found in prairie Grass ... Liquid coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline ... Their mantra is that coal-based fuels are more Am...

Prairie in Biological News

New 'Raider Amethyst' prairie verbena: conserves water, drought-tolerant

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Prairie verbena, a common wildflower, grows from the Mississippi River to Arizona and from Southern Mexico to South Dakota. This beautiful native plant can be seen covering large areas of plains, prairies, pastures, and roadsides, often from March through October. Working to ...

Key OSU water research receives national funding

... water use, be it by people or wildlife." In the Great Plains, tallgrass prairie is rapidly transforming to woodland largely because of the encroachment of ...ific data about how the encroachment of eastern redcedar trees in tallgrass prairie alters the dynamic response between precipitation and water loss through ve...

U of A honored for research that could help 30 million Brazilians

... in a huge, impoverished and uncharacteristically dry area of Brazil. The area is classified as dry tropical forest. It's as vast as Canada's three prairie provinces, and supports 30 million people on a near subsistence level of agriculture. Ricardo Berbara, a professor of agronomy at the University of...

Study of agricultural watersheds and carbon losses

...s from agricultural practices. Forty-eight drainage lysimeters were established at the field site in 1992. Twelve field treatments included a restored prairie grass, continuous corn rotations and cornsoybean rotations fertilized at three nitrogen rates, and continuous corn rotations fertilized with lagooned ...

Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity

...t the long-term productivity of soils. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists at the Indian Head Research Farm in Indian Head and the Semiarid prairie Agricultural Research Centre in Swift Current, all located in Saskatchewan (SK), measured the impact of straw removal after 50 years on soil organic c...

AIBS recognizes diversity in the biological sciences

...h is an examination of individual differences and behavioral syndromes. Her dissertation is titled "Individual differences in exploratory behavior of prairie voles, Microtus ochogaster". Lee is an active member of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS), including ABS's Education and Diversity Committees. Her i...

New dinosaur species possible in Northwestern Alberta

...hita and Fanti began building a theory that Grande prairie is a "missing link" between known dinosaur species... to the evolution of a new species." One Grande prairie dinosaur the researchers suspect is a new species ...uck bill found further north in Alaska, the Grande prairie has a visible bump or crest on its forehead. The p...

K-State biologist collaborating with researchers in Africa on grassland sustainability, biodiversity

... With a campus situated in the Kansas Flint Hills and access to the Konza prairie Biological Station, Kansas State University researchers certainly know grasslands. They're using that expertise to collaborate with researchers in Bot...

Prairie dog research promotes caring, conservation

...sor states the case for protecting the species in prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Soc...wrote the book to bring attention to the fact that prairie dogs are lapsing into extinction," Slobodchikoff s... Although they only grow to about 15 inches high, prairie dogs are a keystone genus that 200 other plains sp...

Birds in Flint Hills of Kansas, Oklahoma face population decline despite large habitat

...s were destroyed by predators. They also found that birds nesting in native prairie hayfields were more successful than birds nesting in grazed grassland. She ... be because in the Flint Hills, the hayfields were mown later than in other prairie regions, enabling birds to finish nesting before the nests are mowed under....

Prairie in Biological Technology

Red Prairie launches direct to consumer software

Waukesha, Wis. - Supply-chain technology firm RedPrairie has launched a new software package aimed at retailers who ship directly to consumers or use drop shipping. The package includes an Internet module for rules-based order sourcing called Dlx SourceRight, which the company announced March 5, as...

California investment firm acquires Red Prairie of Milwaukee

Waukesha, Wis. RedPrairie , which makes software for supply chains, said on Tuesday it has been acquired by the California-based investment firm Francisco Partners . While the exact terms of the deal are still unreleased, representatives from both companies said that RedPrairie has signed a...

Canada's Genome Centres Promote Collaboration at International Conference

... that additional research partnerships could develop based on conversations at this event." Dr. Reno Pontarollo, Chief Scientific Officer for Genome prairie was the Master of Ceremonies at the successful reception. "To date, our six Canadian genomics centres have led over $1.6 billion in genomics researc...

FDA Approves Boston Scientific's Express(R) SD Renal Stent System

...icians with an on-label stenting option for use with PTRA in certain patients with renal artery disease," said Krishna Rocha-Singh, M.D., F.A.C.C., of prairie Cardiovascular Heart Institute in Springfield, Illinois. "FDA approval for the Express SD Renal Stent is an important step in providing physic...

Matching Genetics, Technology and Management Practices Critical to Meeting Strong Demand for Agricultural Crops

...tics Research and Development, will tell agricultural leaders today at the prairie Grains Conference in Grand Forks, N.D. “For farmers looking...they need in their fields,” Niebur said. Niebur is attending the prairie Grains Conference to talk about new technologies in the seed industry and t...

ACIST Medical Systems Announces the Opening of Its New Expanded Corporate Headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN

...Prairie, MN. The First Lady Mary Pawlenty and Eden prairie Mayor Phil Young will join Fulvio Renoldi Bracco, ...nology company, our new corporate facility in Eden prairie was designed to create an overall positive environ...advanced technology. But it all originates in Eden prairie with some of the best and brightest people of our ...

Abbott Announces Labs Are Vital(TM) Facebook Scholarship Contest Winners

..., Calif. -- Public Health Labs * Print advertisement -- Hannah Brewer, prairie Village, Kan. * T-shirt design -- Jennifer Roscoe, Mundelein, Ill. -- Blood Banks * Print advertisement -- Hannah Brewer, prairie Village, Kan. * T-shirt design -- Jennifer Nguyen, Garden Grove, Calif....

Harland Medical Systems to Offer March Plasma Systems Surface Materials

...rvice capabilities to perform pilot and production medical device coating. Harland Medical Systems has operations and application laboratories in Eden prairie and St. Paul, Minnesota and provides sales and support on a worldwide basis. For further information contact: March Plasma Systems - World Hea...

Corona Optical Systems continues to excite investors

...urned out to be ideal for a company that has to cram so much performance into such a little box. Why Eau Claire , as opposed to the tech-rich Silicon prairie of Chicagoland? There are just lots of people there who know how to do very unusual packaging and make very dense, high-speed circuits and various...

Six Spam Fighters Face Off in Madison

...logy director, Cambridge School District Pete Kretche , network systems administrator,UW-Green Bay Louis Loeffler , supervisor of technology, Sun prairie Area Public Schools Paul Onufrak , automation librarian, Eastern Shores Library System Craig Stephenson , enterprise services developer, WiscNet...

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Prairie in Biological Dictionary

Rhizobia

...mes (Fabaceae). Rhizobia require a plant host; they cannot independently fix nitrogen. Morphologically, they are... Selection of rhizobia for prairie legumes used in restoration and reconstruction ... Sesbania rhizobia showed extremely high specificity to rhizobiophages. ... Rhizobia bacteri...