Nebraska case

United States v. L.J. Helder, U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, Case No. 8 02-M-64, Affidavit for Complain by FBI Agent Mark Havrin (8 May 2002). 

Let s take the case of one of the most popular current herbal therapies echinacea. Way back in 1871 Dr. H.C.F. Meyer of Pawnee City, Nebraska, discovered that the Sioux Indians... 

S.K. Hoar, S. Zahm, D.D. Weisenburger, P.A. Babbitt, A case-control study of non-Hodgkin s lymphoma and the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), in Eastern Nebraska. Epidemiology 1 349-356, 1990. 

Bastani, J., Troester, M., Bastani, A. (1996). Serotonin syndrome and fluvoxamine A case study. Nebraska Medical Journal, 81, 107—109. 

In early 2006 there were reports of mumps in 11 states (2,597 cases through May 2006). Of those states, eight reported ongoing transmission (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin) whereas the remaining states (Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi) reported cases associated with air travel from an outbreak state 11 cases with suspected transmission during air travel were identified. As of May 2006, 575 persons were potentially exposed on 33 flights operated by 8 different airlines. 

Complaints of the poisoning of cattle by this plant have been sent in to the Department from Nebraska, and experiments show that the berries are poisonous. No cases of human poisoning have been reported. 

Past experience has shown that weeds resistant to triazines can be managed or confined within a reasonable limit. In the U.S., the total area of land or crops infested with triazine resistant weeds is still relatively small and does not seem to be expanding rapidly. In most areas of the U.S. where triazine resistant weed populations have evolved, it has not been necessary or desirable to discontinue the use of the triazine herbicide of choice, due to the many triazine susceptible weeds that are usually prevalent. In a few cases, the resistant biotypes have even disappeared (e.g., some triazine resistant biotypes of Setaria sp. in Nebraska). However, in other countries, especially when resistance strategies were not followed, resistant biotypes quickly became serious problems. 

In the upper troposphere the size distribution of large and giant particles was investigated by Soviet (Kondratyev et al.. 1969) and American (Blifford. 1970) research workers. Particles were collected by impactors in both cases. Figure 29 shows Blifford s size distributions for different altitudes, obtained over Nebraska, U.S.A. An interesting feature emerging from the distributions presented is the decrease in the steepness of the slope in the distributions (that is the value of fi in equation [4.12] decreases). It is very difficult to explain this peculiarity of aerosol behaviour. However, it is believed that the removal of aerosol particles by cloud elements (Chapter 5) plays an important role in control of the size distribution of aerosol particles in the troposphere. 

In a case control study of NHL in Nebraska, Hoar Zahm et al (3 ) examined the association with exposure to various pesticides. A small Increase in NHL (OR-1.5 95% Cl 0.9-2.4) was associated with use of 2,4-D. The odds ratio increased to... 

Case 5. From 1985 through 1988, while participating in VPP, a Nebraska agricultural manufacturer saw its workers compensation costs decrease by half. During the 3 years in VPP dted they noted a 13 percent increase in productivity and a 16 percent decrease in scrapped product that had to be reworked. 

Hoar Zahm S, Weisenburger DD, Babbitt PA, Saal RC, Cantor KP, Blair A (1988) A case-control study on non-Hodgkin s lymphoma and agricultural factors in eastern Nebraska (abstract). Am J Epidemiol 128 901. 

Jaek L, Koenig is Professor of Macromolecular Science, Director of the NSF sponsored Materials Research Laboratory program, and Director of the Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University where he has been since 1963. He received his Ph. D. degree in 1960 from the University of Nebraska for his research in theorectlcal spectroscopy, followed by employment at Du Pont in Wilmington. In 1973, he joined the NSF in the Division of Materials Research as Program Director of the Solid State Chemistry and Polymer Science Section. His interests Include high resolution solid state NMR, Fourier transform Infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy and is well known for his basic work in spectroscopic characterization of polymeric materials. He has over 200 publications to his credit. 

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