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Diisopropyl Phosphofluoridate-Induced Antinociception, Gary Lee Koehn

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Seed Extracts Of Pisum Sativum On Tobacco Mosaic Virus Infectivity, Douglas G. Mack

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Diet On Aerobic Performance, Maureen Hall Fennerty

Student Work

Aerobic performance is affected by a number of physiological, psychological, sociological and environmental factors (Astrand, 1977). Among the many physiological factors nutrition plays an important part. However, when considering what constitutes a balanced diet, nutritionists express varying opinions as to what percentage of protein, fat and carbohydrate should be included for the general populace and the athlete. Mayer and Bullen (1960) in their review of literature on nutrition and athletic performance concluded a balanced diet is adequate for the athlete.

The Effects Of Pre And Postnatal Gonadal Hormone Administration On The Adult Aggressive-Target Biting In Female Mice, David D. Smith

Masters Theses

Introduction

It is now well established that androgens and estrogens are intricately involved in influencing the sexual differentiation of the brain, as well as male and female differences of aggressiveness. Evidence is accumulating which indicates that these steroid hormones influence the pattern of nervous connection and organization developing in utero and in the early postnatal period.

To more completely link testosterone's involvement with aggressive behavior, one must examine the voluminous literature which links testosterone with developing neonatal correlates of aggression as well as with adult capacity to display aggressive behavior. In most species the male is more aggressive than the …

Concurrent Drinking By Pigeons On Fixed-Interval Reinforcement Schedules, Robert H.I. Dale

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Three experienced pigeons were exposed to at least ten consecutive 100-min sessions on each of three food-reinforced fixed-interval (FI) schedules: FI 50-sec, FI 100-sec and FI 200-sec. Water was freely available. Drinking was largely confined to the first third of each fixed interval, and the mean sessional water intake was directly related to the food-reinforcement rate for each animal. The animals drank very quickly, i.e., 3-4 ml/sec, but the drinking bouts were brief, i.e., 0.8-1.4 sec, and infrequent, i.e., 2-5/hr. The parameters describing concurrent drinking in the pigeon are strikingly different from those describing rats’ drinking under similar reinforcement schedules, …

The Role Of Exercise And Nutrition In The Rehabilitation Of The Geriatric, Robert R. Ladd

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

[Abstract not included]

The Ontogeny And Organization Of Comfort Behavior In Adelie Penguins, Marc Bekoff, David G. Ainley, Anne Bekoff

Ethology Collection

No abstract provided.

1978 Publications Of The Staff Of Henry Ford Hospital

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Search Image Formation In The Blue Jay (Cyanocitta Cristata), Alexandra T. Pietrewicz, Alan Kamil

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Blue jays trained to detect Catocala moths in slides were exposed to two types of slide series containing these moths: series of one species and series of two species intermixed. In one species series, detection ability increased with successive encounters with one prey type. No similar effect occurred in two species series. These results are a direct demonstration of a specific search image.

Investigations On Improvement Of Acceptability And Evaluation Of The Nutritive Value Of Processed Cabbage And Its Effects On The Tumorigenicity In Mice, Chareonsri Srisangnam

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The objectives of this investigation have been to study the acceptability and nutritive value of processed cabbage and to elucidate the effects of chronic administration of cabbage on the activity of a colon tumorigen, 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH). The organoleptic unacceptability of cabbage in spite of its high nutritional and economic values governed the choice of this cruciferous vegetable for this work.

Cabbage samples were blanched with steam, chemical solutions, and microwaves. Microwave blanching led to a "burnt spot" effect and to a relatively greater loss in weight of the vegetable. Blanching in solution involved boiling of cabbage with a chemical solution …

Abstracts, 91st Session [Iowa Academy Of Science], April 20-21, 1979, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Presentation abstracts from the annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 20-21, 1979 [Program, 91st Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

We're Serving You ........................................ 2

Youth County-Juniors Find Action in County Government ............................... 3

Farmer's Market-From Farm to Fork ....................... 4

Dog Owner's Beware-Mosquitoes Spread Heart-worm in Nebraska ......................6

Tap and Sap-Making Maple Syrup in Nebraska .............. 8

How Do Children Cope When Parents Break Up? ............. 10

Free-Wheeling Garden Is Edible, Educational ................. 12

Citizenship Comes Alive-With Impact '78! .................. 14

Nebraskans Play a Role in Care Labeling .................... 16

Town or City-There's No Place Like HOME ................. 18

Ramifications Of Land Values, Farm Prices And Transportation : Highlights Of Papers Presented At The Sixteenth Agri-Business Day, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Department Of Economics, South Dakota State University

Agricultural Experiment Station Agricultural Economics Pamphlets (1941-1991)

Contents: Causes and Consequences of Changing Land Values Land Use Issues in South Dakota Presentation of Honored Agri-Business Person of 1978 Comments by Honored Agri-Business Person of 1978 1978 U.S. Grain Price and Foreign Trade Outlook Implications of Recent Developments on Livestock Outlook Railroads in South Dakota

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 18, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Wolf Howling And Its Role In Territory Maintenance, Fred H. Harrington, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The wolf (Canis lupus) is a wide-ranging social carnivore with a complex spatial organization (MECH, 1972; 1973). The precise manner in which this organization is maintained is unknown, but territory advertisement using olfactory and acoustic modes seems to be involved.

The acoustic mode includes primarily howling. Within a wolf pack, howling may be useful to reassemble separated members (MECH, 1966; THEBERGE & FALLS, 1967), and may communicate information on individual identity, location, and other behavioral and environmental contingencies (THEBERGE & FALLS, 1967). Between packs, however, howling may serve to advertise territory, communicating the locations of packs and thus …

Olfactory Discrimination Of Lithium Chloride By The Coyote (Canis Latrans), Glenn Carle Martin

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Interacting Prey Characteristic Effects On Kestrel Predatory Behavior, Frederick F. Knowlton, Leonard F. Ruggiero, Carl D. Cheney

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Prey selection was assessed based on 116 experimental trials in which six kestrels were presented pairs of mice. Independent variables included pelage color (black and white), morphology (familiar and unfamiliar), and movement (aberrant, normal, and none). Each prey item represented a combination of three treatments, i.e., one per variable. In general, black pelage was preferred to white and familiar morphology was preferred to unfamiliar. An important interaction occurred between movement and morphology. Kestrel selection was low for moving unfamiliar prey but high for nonmoving unfamiliar prey. The highest rates of attack were elicited by moving familiar prey. It was concluded …

Iowa Academy Of Science Leadership Directory And Membership Roster, 1979-80, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Board of Directors ... 2
Section Chairs ... 3
Committees ... 6
Past Presidents ... 20
Award of Merit Recipients ... 21
Membership Roster ... 23
Constitution, Article III ... 36

Scaling Social Data Across Time: A Comparison Of Samples And Techniques, Virginia P. Steelman

LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

No abstract provided.

Saint Thomas Aquinas' Division Of The Sciences, Marvin E. Kanne

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Saint Thomas Aquinas holds that scientific knowledge is attained when observable phenomena and their properties are accounted for in terms of their relations to their causes. On establishing the divisions of the sciences, Aquinas follows the threefold division of the speculative sciences as proposed by Aristotle and handed on to the Middle Ages by Boethius: natural philosophy, mathematics, and theology. Each science is defined by its subject matter and by its method of procedure.

While Aquinas followed the teachings of Boethius on this point, he makes significant additions and alterations. Thus in his analysis Aquinas focuses his attention on the …

On The Causal Irreducibility Of Natural Function Statements, Eric Russert Kraemer

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

One topic of interest to a number of philosophers of science is whether functional explanation can be reduced to some other kind of explanation, such as causal explanation. Some philosophers have tried to reduce talk of natural functions to talk of causes. I here examine some such attempts and try to provide, in addition to the traditional counter-examples, an argument as to why such reductions should fail. Certain parallels are drawn between attributions of natural functions to parts of organisms and attributions of propositional attitudes to persons.

The Realizing Character Of The Social Sciences, Andrew Larkin

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Because of successful construction of theories in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences, and because of their unchallenged technological usefulness, the philosophy of science has concentrated on the formal and epistemological aspects of sciences. However, the less formal social sciences have had a greater impact on society. This realizing character of the sciences, i.e., their influence on society through policy (in the case of the social sciences), has been inadequately studied. In this paper the normative character of the social sciences is seen from the perspective of realization. Norms as internal and external criteria, which are entailed by realization, are …

Are Psychophysical Models Of Behavior Possible?, Marianne Shaw

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

In "The Correspondence Hypothesis," (Philosophical Review), Bruce Goldberg argues that the correspondence hypothesis is an illusion because "B's having the same thought as A" does not entail "B's having the same set of mental or neurophysiological properties, i.e., brain state or process, as A." If Goldberg is correct, a telling blow has been struck against the construction of information processing and psycho linguistic models created with the intention of later incorporation into neurophysiological models of brain functioning.

However, while Goldberg is correct in pointing out that two individuals can be said to have the same thought and yet …

Kant's Subjectivist Theory Of Space, Mark C. Timmons

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

In his 1780 Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, Kant rejects those objectivist views of space according to which space belongs to the order of things in themselves, either as itself a thing in itself (Newton), or reducible to properties of things in themselves (Leibniz), and argues for a subjectivist alternative. What this subjectivist view comes to is unclear. This paper provides an analysis of a few key passages from the Kritik in an attempt to reconstruct Kant's doctrine of space.

Use Of The Autobiography For Personal Development And As An Investigative Technique, Mark W. Ware

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Theory and previous research indicated that an autobiographical project should facilitate personal development and the acquisition of an investigative technique. Twelve students from classes in Personality and History/Systems of Psychology participated in the study by writing autobiographical papers as one option for a course project and by completing an evaluation form. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the effectiveness of the autobiography for personal development and as an investigative method were obtained. Data from both sources supported the use of an autobiographical project for acquiring and clarifying information about one's self and his/her relationships to others. Student reactions also indicated that …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences Volume Vii (1979): Table Of Contents

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee ......... ii

Editorial Board, Instructions to Contributors ......... vi

Symposium "Water Usage: Who Cares?"

Water usage-who cares?: a planner's viewpoint (G. J. Karabatsos) ......... 1

Water usage-who cares?: an environmental viewpoint (H. G. Nagel) ......... 5

Water usage-who cares?: an historical perspective (D. T. Pederson) ......... 9

Instream flow needs for water quality management (R. D. Todd) ......... 11

Water usage and power production: the electric utility industry is dependent on water utilization (T. P. Harding and L. G. Harrow) ......... 15

Other Water-Related Subjects

Hydrogeologic relationships to structural failure, Chadron State College, …

Humanities In Medical Education- The Past Ten Years, James J. Quinn

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

What has always fascinated me is an historical account that ends triumphantly but whose start-to-finish is riddled with reversals and hostile obstacles and haunted by anguishing circumstances. The history of "humanities in medical education- the past ten years" in the United States is just such a story. In the last ten years there has been a continually wider acceptance of humanities in United States medical schools, i.e., a growing number of schools introducing the humanities, a growth in the quality and scope of programs being offered, and a greater acceptance of the humanities as an integral part of the medical …

Variations In Mood During The Menstrual Cycle In Relation To The Personality Factors Of Trait-Anxiety And Androgyny, Mary Leslie Smith O'Connor

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.