Plains bluestem ( Bothriochloa ischaemum L.) is one of the primary grass species used for pastureland in Oklahoma. Plains bluestem is popular due to its high forage and beef production potential. It is also used for soil conservation on highly erodible areas. Despite the current importance of this species, N fertilizer sources, rates, and timing have not been thoroughly evaluated. The objective...

On October 19, 1901, Dr R.C. Harris, a St Louis physician, attended to a young girl named Bessie Baker who was suffering from advanced diphtheria. As was his routine, he injected diphtheria antitoxin into the child and, as a preventive, her 2 younger siblings and concluded that “she would soon be entirely well.” But 4 days later he was called back to the Bakers’ home to a terrifying discovery:

The tensions and silences within influential «postcolonial» theories, the majority of which are written and published from locations in the First World, can be explored by opening them to a critica1 dialogue with works of so-called «postcolonial» literature. In many respects, these narratives, which are international in readership yet written in Third World locations, challenge the concepr of «...