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This executive order by Governor John C. West directs that an election be held for the annexation of land from Charleston County to Colleton County.

This executive order by Governor John C. West appoints a committee to study all facts related to an annexation of land from Aiken County to Edgefield County.

This executive order by Governor John C. West appoints a commission to study and report on the facts pertinent to annexation of land from Richland County to Lexington County.

This executive order by Governor John C. West orders that Departments and Agencies of State Government are hereby individually and severally charged with the duty of assuring the continuity of the State Government in peacetime radiological emergencies that might confront the State. To this end, the coordination of State Agencies' response to any peacetime radiological emergency will be the responsibility of the Department of Health and Environmental Control.

This executive order by Governor John C. West orders that an election be held to determine if land should be annexed from Charleston to Dorchester County.

This executive order by Governor John C. West declares that the Executive Order of November 26, 1973, shall not be enforced effective December 15, 1973, pending action by the Federal Government to raise the national speed limit.

This executive order by Governor John C. West call an extraordinary session of the General Assembly of South Carolina, to convene at the State House in Columbia on Tuesday, September 11, 1973, at 12:00 Noon.

This executive order by Governor John C. West appoints several Charleston County residents to investigate facts pertinent for an area of Charleston County to be annexed into Dorchester County.

Abstract ContextFeral cat is a favoured food item in some Australian Indigenous communities. We describe how cats are hunted and whether cat hunting can contribute to the persistence of threatened species. AimsTo determine whether cat hunting by expert trackers has the potential to be an effective method of managing predation impacts on threatened species at key sites. MethodsWe recorded all cats captured on the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous protected area (Kiwirrkurra IPA) over a 5-year period by offering incentive payments for hunters to report their catch. For a subset of hunts, we measured the duration and distance of the hunt. We compared the frequency of occurrence of cat tracks in 2-ha track plots between the hunting zone and more remote, unmanaged areas. At a finer scale, we compared cat presence at bilby burrows inside and outside the hunting zone. Key resultsIn all, 130 cats were removed from the Kiwirrkurra IPA from 2014 to 2019. Hunts took an average of 62min to complete and a team of four hunters could catch up to four cats in a single day. Although cats still occurred throughout the hunting zone, we found that cat detections at track plots were less likely in the areas where cats were hunted. Long-term data suggest that threatened species have persisted better in areas where there is an active presence of hunters. ConclusionsCat hunting by Indigenous tracking experts is an efficient method of despatching cats at localised sites. Following footprints on foot facilitates the targeting of individual cats that are hunting at threatened species burrows. More rigorous studies are required to determine whether cat hunting significantly reduces predation on threatened species, or whether there are other co-benefits of maintaining a presence of hunters in the landscape (such as fine-scale fire management) that are more important for the persistence of vulnerable prey. Implications Wherever open sandy substrates occur, there is potential to employ Indigenous expert trackers to assist with the removal of problem cats, such as, for example, to complete cat eradication inside fenced reintroduction sites, or at times of peak prey vulnerability, such as breeding events or after bushfires.

AbstractAimsMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have identified structural and functional differences in salience network nodes of individuals with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) after chronic exposure to alcohol. However, no studies have investigated cerebral blood flow (CBF) in nontreatment-seeking (NTS) individuals with AUD.MethodsIn this work, we sought to quantify putative CBF deficits in NTS individuals relative to social drinking (SD) controls and determine if CBF in the salience network is associated with AUD severity. Fifteen NTS (36.5 ± 11.2 years old, 30.0 ± 22.7 drinks/week) and 22 SD (35.6 ± 11.9 years old, 9.1 ± 5.7 drinks/week) underwent pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling MRI.ResultsCompared with social drinkers, NTS individuals had significantly lower CBF in the right and left dorsal anterior insula, and the left ventral anterior and posterior insula. The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) score showed a significant negative relationship with CBF in the bilateral caudal anterior cingulate cortex. In addition, a significant negative correlation was present between number of standard drinks consumed per week and the left frontal opercular CBF.ConclusionThese results provide evidence that insular CBF is negatively associated with heavy drinking, and that severity of alcohol use is related to CBF deficits in key nodes of the salience network. Longitudinal data are needed to understand if disruptions of CBF in the insula and the salience network are a predisposition for or a consequence of chronic AUD.

Objective This project quantifies operationally relevant measures of flight performance and workload in a high-fidelity long-duration spaceflight analog, longitudinally across mission duration, using a portable simulation platform. Background Real-time performance measures allow for the objective assessment of task performance and the timely identification of performance degradations. Methods Measures of flight performance on a piloted lunar lander task were collected on 32 total crewmembers across 8 simulated space missions of 45 days each (623 total sessions). Results Mission duration demonstrated a significant effect on measures of flight performance across all campaigns. Flight measures showed a general pattern of peaking in accuracy during the middle-late quartiles of overall mission time, then degrading again towards baseline. On the workload measure, however, a general linear decrease in workload consistent with progressive task learning was observed in both campaigns. Conclusion This investigation demonstrated the disruptive effect of time in mission on some, but not all, aspects of task performance. While mission interval differentially impacted measures of flight accuracy, workload, by contrast, seemed to steadily decrease with in-mission time. Application While more work is needed, the observed discrepancy between progression of flight performance and workload assessment highlights the importance of sensitive and specific measurement tools for the tracking of distinct performance metrics.