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Wild/Feral Horses: The Great Debate Between Freedom And Capturing, Jolee Lamoreaux

Fall Student Research Symposium 2022

Wild Horses have been around for as long as anyone can remember. However, there has been a great debate that these horses are harmful to the environment and they need to be taken care of either by rehoming or slaughtering. This study aims to determine why people think these horses are harmful and what has been done to try and solve the issue. I conducted my research mostly by researching keywords and evaluating my search results to examine credible sources. The three major claims that I wanted to make sure I addressed in my paper were the history and background …

The Lumberjack, November 02, 2022

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

No abstract provided.

In Search For An Alternative To The Computer Metaphor Of The Mind And Brain, Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, Paul E. Cisek, Benjamin De Bari, James Dixon, Luis H. Favela, Fred Hasselman, Fred Keijzer, Vincente Raja, Jeffrey B. Wagman, Brandon J. Thomas, Madhur Mangalam

Biomechanics Books and Monographs

The brain-as-computer metaphor has anchored the professed computational nature of the mind, wresting it down from the intangible logic of Platonic philosophy to a material basis for empirical science. However, as with many long-lasting metaphors in science, the computer metaphor has been explored and stretched long enough to reveal its boundaries. These boundaries highlight widening gaps in our understanding of the brain's role in an organism's goal-directed, intelligent behaviors and thoughts. In search of a more appropriate metaphor that reflects the potentially noncomputable functions of mind and brain, eight author groups answer the following questions: (1) What do we understand …

Exploring Nonlinearity In The Association Between Birth Defect Rates And Agrichemicals In Groundwater In An Agricultural State, Martha G. Rhoades, Debora L. Barnes-Josiah, Roy F. Spalding, Leslie M. Howard, Colleen E. Steele, Cheryl L. Beseler

Child Health Research Institute Pediatric Research Forum

Background: Agricultural practices over the last 70 years have led to increased agrichemical contamination in some drinking water supplies. Studies report an elevated risk of birth defects associated with exposure to nitrate or atrazine, but little is known about effects of co-exposure. This ecological study evaluated the relationship between the concomitant presence of nitrate and atrazine in Nebraska drinking water supplies and risk for birth defects.

Methods: County birth data were combined with water chemistry data retrieved from a state-sponsored agrichemical contaminant database. Segmented linear regression was used to examine associations between percentage of wells with nitrate and atrazine (separately …

Ecological Studies Of Wolves On Isle Royale Annual Report 2021-2022, Sarah R. Hoy, Rolf O. Peterson, John A. Vucetich

Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale

Annual Report 2021-2022

A Meta-Analysis Of Quantitative Collecting Techniques For Spiders, Eliana Eldridge, Joshua Hicks, Sean O'Keefe

2022 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

Quantitative sampling of organisms is often used to provide information in ecological studies, monitor populations, and aid in biodiversity projects. Many studies involve the quantitative sampling of spiders. In this meta-analysis study, 207 peer-reviewed journal articles formed the basis of an initial data set for a quantitative analysis of spider collection techniques. Data collected included country of study, mode of study, trapping techniques used, spider diversity, and number of specimens collected. Our meta-analysis gathered research articles that included 33 different countries of study. Trapping techniques greatly vary depending on the habitat in which spiders dwell. These were divided into aerial, …

Volume 2, Chapter 19-3: Bryophyte Defenses Against Bacteria, Janice M. Glime

Bryophyte Ecology Subchapters

No abstract provided.

Volume 4, Chapter 1-20: Aquatic And Wet Marchantiophyta, Class Marchantiopsida: Conocephalaceae, Part 1, Janice M. Glime

Bryophyte Ecology Subchapters

No abstract provided.

Volume 4, Chapter 18-5: Caves - Caverns, Janice M. Glime

Bryophyte Ecology Subchapters

No abstract provided.

Memphis State Magazine, 02:02, 1982 Spring

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "25 Years a University: Ivory Towers in the Political Arena" by Laurie Petrick

The hard-fought battle to make Memphis State a university is told in this special silver anniversary section full of memories from 1957.

Also featured, "On Top of the Charts" by Laura Derrington

MSU Cartographic Services Laboratory will not only design such maps, charts, and graphs for students, faculty and staff of MSU, but the unique service is also available to local governments, private businesses and citizens at a minimal fee.

Memphis State Magazine, 09:01, 1990 Spring

Memphis State University Magazine

Cover Story, "Video Magic"

For hundreds of years, painters have used brushes, potters have manipulated wheels and sculptors have brandished chisels. Now Memphis State's art students are wielding a new tool to produce images — the computer graphics system. On the Cover: "Hidden Symmetry" was produced with a computer and thermal printer. Its creator, James Watkins, teaches MSU art students to blend creativity with technology.

Also featured, "Standing at the River — A Look at the 1968 Sanitation Strike"

As custodian of the 1968 Sanitation Strike Archival Project, MSU's Mississippi Valley Collection is an important source of historical information used …

Ecocinema Theory And Practice 2, Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research.

Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specifc national and indigenous flm contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, flm festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifes how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the …

Ecological Risk Assessment For The Western Rock Lobster Resource : Workshop Procedure And Outcomes, R Stoklosa

Fisheries occasional publications

No abstract provided.