... Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water inthe Central UnitedStates An Atrazine Primer Atrazine is a selective herbicide ... chemicals Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water inthe Central UnitedStates Recommendations for Protecting Human Health and the Environment ... atrazine as well as the presence of atrazine in drinking water Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the EPA has determined that no more than parts per billion (ppb) of atrazine (as a running...
... perspectives in archaeology enrich knowledge about the lives of people inthe past and their interactions with people in other gender groups in their communities The early gender studies in archaeology ... are subdivided into those activities relating to acquiring and processing food; making and repairing tools, clothing, and buildings; and maintaining social relations For each step in an activity, ... 1995, including that for the southeastern UnitedStates (Claassen 1997), to see what themes were emerging and what methods and theoretical positions were favored That survey and the articles in...
... “Investigating variation and change in written documents,” in Chambers, Trudgill, and Schilling-Estes (eds.), 67–96 forthcoming The English dialect heritage of the Southern United States, ” in ... ‘R,’” Southern Speech Journal 9: 102–6 Phliponneau, Catherine (ed.) 1995 Sociolinguistic Studies and Language Planning: Proceedings of the XVIth Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic ... article: the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States, ” American Speech 68: 263–318 1993b The Southern accent – alive and well,” Southern Cultures, inaugural issue: 47–64 1993c The verb be in American...
... $70,000 a year,” in her words In selling mailing lists over the telephone, she finds the strategy of switching into a southern-sounding way of talking and interacting to be particularly useful ... southern-sounding speech King may well sound southern in other contexts too, for other reasons, including ones such as those discussed above These examples illustrate just four points on a continuum ... southern style in her bid to “sound southern.” The resources of southernness are available to these women because of where they are from: they have heard people sounding like Southerners all their...
... about them, by outsiders and insiders This idea structures much discourse about Southerners, whether the Southerners in question are from the coastal or the mountain South and whether they are ... of the specific linguistic features which have been observed inthe speech of some Southerners (and in literary and other representations of southern speech) Then I talk about some of the things ... “playback” phase in which she asked Southerners to comment on the meanings of these address terms while watching clips of the film Like Ching, she found that the core meaning was the expression...
... up inthe pronunciation of the state name, with northern Louisiana favoring four syllables beginning [luz-] and southern Louisiana favoring five syllables beginning [luiz-] The people of southern ... declining since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the oldest cohort of LAGS informants was born The use of preterit come and plural verbal -s seems to have begun to decline inthe ... fronting of /u/ inthe vowel system of the Virginian, none of these systems show evidence of the Southern Shift In all three vowel systems, /e/ remains to the front of /ε/, both /o/ and /u/ remain...
... shifting inthe South, both the ordering of the changes and whether chain shifting is the mechanism taking place at all here What she found was that while the back movements were in place, the ... large-scale immigration of Northerners to Atlanta and Dallas may be in uencing the speech there, so they may no longer Vowel shifting inthe southern states 129 share the features of their nearby core areas ... complex phonology, marking off the region from the rest of theUnitedStates On the other hand, over time, the rise of cities inthe South – with the crosscurrents of southern speech from various...
... Vowel shifting inthe southern states Introduction In 1972 it was first realized that there was a general shift inthe vowels of not only the southern states, but all the southern varieties ... task There is still much to The phonology of English inthe South 125 know about the phonology of English inthe southern UnitedStates and many ways of looking at the many ways of sounding southern ... their urban network ties The data from Springville further suggest that as verbal -s is lost it initially disappears inthe first singular, next inthe third plural, and lastly inthe third singular...
... later Inthe case of language, speakers are very accommodating Dispersing individuals in a metapopulation find it easier to accommodate the locals in adopting their speech habits than to maintain their ... perspective, some of the newcomers, who come by installments, interbreed with the locals Their offspring, who inherit the founder traits, increase the number of their transmitters to offspring of some ... majority, and inthe Caribbean, with its non-white, black and brown majority Inthe latter, it led to more racial integration within the relevant economic classes, whereas intheUnited States, the Jim...
... certain minority variants which entered the southern UnitedStates with the first Early Modern English speakers remained in use as variants in southern idiolects for many generations, and then inthe ... (conditional links are when the action inthe main clause depends upon the fulfilment of the condition inthe subordinate clause, as in (31) “yf the said Walker lye here onelie for the busines betweene ... the above version of the Divergence Hypothesis, I capitalize here on the evidence provided by the socioeconomic history of theUnitedStates Linguistic evidence is rather indirect, lying in the...
... so in these letters they describe the business of running the plantation and the routine events like planting, the state of the crops, the weather, diseases among slaves, and so on What is interesting ... Texas In contrast, north of the “fall line,” the line where the flat bottomlands start to rise to the interior hills and mountains, the Piedmont and mountain area of the interior is known as the ... plural indicative be inthe Court Minute Books in entries for the years 1575–7 (interestingly, the same point in time when verbal -s makes its first appearance in this archive, although it was in...
... English inthe Southern UnitedStatesThe English of the southern UnitedStates is possibly the most studied regional variety of any language because of its rich internal diversity, its distinctiveness ... the interdisciplinary intersection of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and critical theory and is the author of five books including Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2000), The Linguistic ... that the South is the most distinct speech region intheUnited States, ” points to the difficulty in identifying a set of phonological features that delimit southern speech, even with the salience...
... damage to the crop pines Consequently, these three sites were not included inthe analyses involving the VC treatment; however, these sites were used for analyses involving only the examination ... applied inthe spring of the year installed The combined VC and fertilization treatment was the same used for the individual treatments but applied together Height and diameter of planted pines ... However, the combined treatment (VC and fertilization applied together) was greater than the response to either single treatment at four of the five sites in year two and both sites in year four The...
... intense deer browsing are acting in concert to prevent adequate oak canopy recruitment CONCLUSION The rise in oak dominance inthe eastern UnitedStates at the beginning of the Holocene epoch ... logging and fire during this century promoted Acer and Prunus invasion into the Quercus understories While logging and other disturbances promoted oak during the 19th century, logging inthe ... were dominated by Quercus in combination with other species (table II) The leading tree species Q alba, Q velutina, Q rubra, Q prinus, Carya spp, Castanea dentata and Pinus spp (including P strobus...
... retroelements (IAPs) Together with our data, these findings highlight the difficulty of avoiding DNA contamination in clinical samples and the risk of testing contaminated samples as XMRV-positive ... sequences In order to establish consistency and to minimize the risk of contamination during the procedure, three individuals independently performed the nested PCR experiments using independently ... designed the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...
... Glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth infested fewer fields in Louisiana (16% of fields) than it did inthe remaining three states (54% collectively) Average Palmer amaranth hand-weeding costs inthe midsouth was US$59 ... flexibility, and minimal herbicide toxicity further increased the adoption of herbicide-resistant soybean systems (Bradley 2000) Ninety-three percent of the current soybean acreage intheUnitedStates ... because of the adoption of RR soybean; however, from 2002 to 2006, there was 2.6-fold increase inthe overall use of preplant 2,4-D intheUnited States, which can be attributed to the evolution...
... extra-axillary Inthe Sycamore the bud does not show while the leaf remains on the tree, as it is inthe hollow of the leafstalk Inthe winter the bud has a ring-like scar entirely around it, instead of the ... nuts If the nut has a partial scaly covering, as inthe Oaks, the whole forms an acorn If the coating has spiny hairs, as inthe Chestnut and Beechnut, the whole is a bur The coating in these cases ... the single leaf Inthe Silver Maple there are buds on each side of the true axillary one; these are flower-buds, and during the winter they are larger than the one which produces the branch The...
... disregarding theologians such as St John of the Cross who, building on the idea of the peregrinatio, have held similar views, mainly inthe theological sense, ever since the Middle Ages 14 In 1987 the ... visiting the Tito statue in Kumrovec: The visitors connect the creative and prosperous period of their lives with their then leader ,the greatest son of these lands, inthe hope that in their ... would be paid inthe Dutch project to the veneration of rock stars and other secular individuals or of monuments, etc Inthe rst instance another reason for not involving them inthe project was...
... delivered That said, the accords only extend to theUnited States, the UK, and the EU, meaning that they have no relevance to the other dozen international navies operating inthe region In addition, ... century, are composed of influential insurers and reinsurers and will act in concert to protect the interests of their members 4 Countering Piracy intheModern Era The trigger for these measures was ... Maersk-Alabama the first case of a U.S.-flagged vessel being attacked inthe waters off the Horn of Africa Countering Piracy intheModern Era lia since the fall of the Said Barre dictatorship in 1991...