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The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 21-22, 1978 [Program, 90th Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Body Size, Hair And Brown Adipose Tissue Upon Fever In The Rabbit, Reginald L. Dean

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Museum Victory For Animal Rights, Henry Spira

Commentaries and Editorials

No abstract provided.

Quantitative Analyses Of The Ontogeny Of Predatory Behaviour In Coyotes, Canis Latrans, Louis E. Vincent, Marc Bekoff

Ethology Collection

Four infant coyotes (Canis latrans) were studied in order to describe quantitatively the development of predatory behaviour. Our results indicated that prior play and agonistic experience had virtually no effect on later predatory success. Also, there was no relationship between an individual's social rank and its prey-killing ability. Latency to kill was shortened when animals were tested in, pair and hunger level was not related to latency to kill. The results are discussed with respect to current 'functionalist' theories of play behaviour and Leyhausen's concept of the relative hierarchy of moods. The practice theory of play should be reconsidered in …

Circadian Rhythms In Blood And Self-Measured Physiologic Variables In Young People Ages 9-14, Joseph Rabatin

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In order to investigate circadian (about 24 hour) rhythms in young people 9-14 years of age in several physiologic variables, self-measurements of oral temperature, pulse, blood pressure and selected performance tests were conducted by ten subjects. Each subject was also 'hospitalized for a twenty-four hour span in order to have blood sampled to detect a circadian rhythm in several blood constituents and indices.

The Effect Of Novelty And Familiarity On The Conditioning Of Learned Aversions To Gustatory And Nongustatory Stimuli In Coyotes (Canis Latrans), William Eric Swanson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

Papers representative of the variety of scholarly research conducted at WKU.

• Adams, Kathy. The Appalachian Language
• Barnett, Philip. A Study of Deviant Behavior of XYY Individuals in Regard to Environment and Genotype
• Bell, Brooks. Loving, Loyal Linda Loman: An Interpretive Note
• Danhauer, Janice. Motivating Workers Through Job Design
• Davis, Barbara. The Transformation of a Man into a Man of Understanding in Murinbata Society
• Davis, Diane. The Argot of the Homosexual
• Jewell, Teresa. The Life Story of the Hero of World War I - Sergeant Alvin C. York
• Lanham, Wayne. Das Knarrenschiff and a Ship of Fools: A Study in Influence …

Food Deprivation And The Regulation Of Meal Size In Larvae Of Chrysopa Carnea, Alan B. Bond

Alan Bond Publications

The course of repletion and the effects of food deprivation on meal size were explored in three experiments on larvae of Chrysopa carnea (Neuroptera). Feeding to repletion was found to occur within the first 30 min of exposure to food. Meal size increased as an ogival function of deprivation, up to the limit of gut capacity. Behavioral components involved in the initiation of feeding were little affected by deprivation and did not appear to be inhibited by distention of the gut. Termination of a meal may be mediated by the stimulation of prey-release behavior, rather than by inhibition of feeding.

Genetic Method For The Preferential Elimination Of Females Of Anopheles Albimanus, J. A. Seawright, P. E. Kaiser, D. A. Dame, C. S. Lofgren

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

Recent field experiments demonstrated the possibility of using the sterile male method for the control of Anopheles albimanus Wiedemann, the most impor- tant vector of human malaria in Central America. Until now there was no practical method for excluding females from the releases of sterile males. A genetic method was developed for the preferential elimination of females during any of the four life stages. This genetic sexing system utilizes propoxur (o-isopropoxyphenyl methyl- carbamate) susceptibility as a recessive conditional lethal, a T(Y:2R) translocation, and an In(2R) inversion. The propoxur resistance allele (dominant) was linked to the Y chromosome via a radiation-induced …

Deterioration Of Eggshell Quality And Calcium Metabolism In Laying Hens, Chang Won Kang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study was undertaken to: (1) develop a reliable method of measuring eggshell quality, (2) determine whether diet alterations that cause a somewhat reduced rate of egg production could influence shell quality, and (3) determine whether certain biochemical parameters involved in calcium metabolism are related to shell quality.

The Opportunity Spectrum -- Concept And Behavioral Information In Outdoor Recreation Resource Supply Inventories: Background And Application, Perry J. Brown, B. L. Driver, C. Mcconnell

Forest Management Faculty Publications

The paper describes an outdoor recreation resource (ORR) Supply Inventory and Classification (SIC) System that is being developed for multiple use natural resource planning. Four previously developed ORR SIC’s on which this system was built are described briefly. A general model for natural resource planning is presented to show how the proposed ORR SIC fits into a larger planning framework.

The proposed SIC System is described and its application for regional and unit planning is explained. Relationships between OR consumers' preferences for specific types of satisfying experiences and their preferences for specific attributes of the physical, social, and managerial settings …

A Correlation Study On The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases, Lynn Walter Capraun

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Data were extracted from medical records of 202 former patients of a well established central Florida general hospital. Records were selected so as to include an equal number of disease categories dispersed equally over the two years. One hundred records were dated 1973 and 102 were dated 1976. Emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthma had been diagnosed in 67, 67, and 68 of the cases respectively. The age, sex, race, smoking habits, and occupations of the patients were recorded and crosstabulated with the diagnostic tests and subsequent treatment ordered by the various physicians. Most of the emphysematous patients were males over …

Regional Differences In Central Adrenergic Neuronal Activity During Anesthesia, Byron C. Bloor

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences Volume Vi (1978): 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 .......... v

Symposium: "The Ice Age- When dd it begin and has it ended"

Cochairmen: John F. Shroder, Jr. and Lloyd G. Tanner

The comparative method in stratigraphy: the beginning and end of an ice age (T. M. Stout) .......... 1

The Plio-Pleistocene: sediments, environments, and geochronology along the Karari Escarpment, East Turkana, Kenya (Vondra, Burggraf, Jr., and White) .......... 19

Chronology of some Late Cenozoic deposits from the central United States and the Ice Ages (J. D. Boellstorff) .......... 35

Progress on rock glacier research …

Origins Of Biological Thought, John B. Jenkins

Biology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Metabolites, Which Accumulate During Phenylketonuria, On The Activity Of Stearoyl-Coenzyme A Desaturase, Walter Scott

Masters Theses

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:

2 From the Vice Chancellor

3 Behind the Branches

5 Loneliness

7 Sprayer Kills Weed Escapes and Recovers Your Herbicide

9 4-H Camps Serve Thousands

10 Enterprise Budgets Easier with AGNET's CROPBUDGET

12 Holiday Plants

15 Child Abusers: Myths and Realities

17 Tan Spot: NewBlight Threatens Wheat Growers

19 Composting Converts Waste Into Valuable Resources

22 Foundation Seed Division-Seeds' Genetic Purity Ensured

Nepal Studies Association Bulletin, No. 14, Nepal Studies Association, Donald A. Messerschmidt

Nepal Studies Association Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Research For Connecticut By The Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

The Rear-End Collision — Soma Or Psyché?, Hugh A. Clarke

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Rear-end collisions represent 25% of all vehicular accidents. On occasion, the patients become more disabled by the diagnosis of "whiplash" than by the injury. During the past three years, 100 patients were referred for neurological examination and disposition following rear-end collisions. Appropriate neurological testing, included the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Test (MMPI). A minority of these patients required hospitalization. The incidence of disc rupture requiring surgical decompression was less than 1%. The psychological tests were of limited aid in helping the physician to treat this group of patients. The middle-aged patient without concomitant arthritic change, having secured conservative treatment in …

The Treatment Of Chronic Pain: Program Of The Community Hospital Rehabilitation Center For Pain, Karl L. Manders

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

After approximately three years' experience, the use of multiple modality treatment appears to be the most advantageous for individuals who have not responded satisfactorily to routine medical and surgical treatment. Alleviation of pain, discontinuance of narcotic medication, and return to both social and vocational activities has been accomplished in most patients of this center for the treatment of chronic pain.

Report On Kellogg Rural Adjustment Unit (Krau) Conference, Peter Eckersley

All other publications

The aim was for the 170 attenders to define how much productivity increases could help farmers in the main rural industries, and what size increases are likely in the foreseeable future (especially the next 5 years recommend feasible Government and industry action to stimulate increases in farm productivity.

Aboriginal Exploitation Of Marine Food Resources, Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Anthropological interest in human exploitation of resources has increased considerably during the last decade. Archaeological and ethnological literature concerning man's utilization of the world's oceans is relatively abundant and there are now several on-going anthropological research programs, e.g., Aleutian Islands, Pacific Northwest Coast, California, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Southern Africa which focus primarily on maritime adaptations. The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to suggest that anthropological assumptions regarding marine food resources and their use are inadequate; (2) to examine marine ecosystems with respect to structure and dynamics, primary productivity, ecological efficiencies, distributional and quantitative …

The Effect Of Septal Lesions And Postoperative Time Delay On A Shuttle Sidman Avoidance Task, Martin David Tier

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Education at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Martin David Tier on June 9, 1977.

Clinical Uses Of Biofeedback: A Review Of Recent Research, Richard M. Lee, Scott E. Baldwin, Julia A. Lee

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Biofeedback refers to a special type of operant conditioning (ie, a category of learning) in which subjects acquire control over physiological processes through the feedback of information. Its methodology is based upon principles of behavioral science developed in the laboratory through experimentation. It has been conclusively demonstrated that humans (and other animals) can learn to control such actions as EKG parameters, blood pressure, body temperature, EEG, individual motor units, and glandular secretions. Clinically, biofeedback has been applied to a wide variety of psycho-physiologic disorders in which a measurable response requires alteration. The best established applications are tension and migraine headaches, …

Forage Preferences Of Mule Deer In The Lodgepole Pine Ecosystem, Ashley National Forest, Utah, Joseph A. Deschamp

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

During the summer of 1976, five tame, trained mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) were used to determine botanical composition and relative preference of mule deer diets on five habitat segments in the lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) ecosystem of northeastern Utah. Diets were statistically analyzed according to estimated weight consumption per unit of time spent feeding on the different segments. Habitat segments sampled were: clearcut forest, dry and wet meadow, mature forest, and stagnated forest.

Diets differed between segments mainly because of differences in plant species available and their abundance. The diets in the non-forested segments averaged …

A Field Study In The Use Of Dietary And Urinary Variables In Determining Osteoporosis In Elderly People, Jane Steger Osborn

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Three-day dietary records were analyzed for nutrient content and 24 hour urine samples were analyzed for calcium, phosphorous, total nitrogen, and free alpha-amino nitrogen for 210 elderly people. Dietaries and urine samples were collected twice, October and March at five month intervals, for each subject. Increases were found in both dietary intake and urinary components October to March. Based on a criteria of high dietary protein, low dietary calcium, high urinary nitrogen and low calcium, 23 subjects were selected as osteoporotic and and 25 were selected as non-osteoporotic. This method of prediction was not supported by radiological evaluations.

Bone density …

Subtle Teratogenic Effects Of Locoweed In Rats, Benjamin K. Nelson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Locoweed, a well-known teratogenic plant affecting livestock, is prevalent in mountain regions of the Western United States. Two common species (Astragalus lentiginosus and A. wootoni), administered to pregnant rats, induced behavioral deviations in their offspring. Treated mothers consumed less feed and gained less wieght during gestation than controls when gavaged locoweed at the rate of 1 gram whole plant per day on days 7 through 17 of gestation. A. lentiginosus reduced pup weight at birth (13% less than controls) and this weight reduction (as much as 29% less than controls) continued at least four weeks. A. lentiginosus also …

Influence Of Angler Motivations, Expectations, And Opinions On Fishery Management Practices In The United States, James E. Brogdon

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This report is concerned with the behavioral inputs into the decisions concerning fishery resource management. Topics discussed are motives, expectations, and opinions of fishermen concerning the fishing experience and present-day fishery management practices and regulations; how management agencies and sportsmen organizations have dealt with recreational fishing; the need for managers to utilize this behavioral information in forming management decisions; and where past people-wildlife research has been and where it must lead in the future. Material for this paper came from copies of published articles and library research.

Sex-Linked Mental Retardation Without Physical Stigmata (Martin-Bell Or Renpenning Type) : A Genetic And Psychometric Approach, Craig L. Hanis

Theses and Dissertations

Screening the Utah State Training School (a resident institution for the mentally retarded) for kindreds having at least two institutionalized sibs generated 54 sib groups. Of these, 20-male only sibships had histories compatible with sex-linked mental retardation without physical stigmata (Martin-Bell or Renpenning type). Affected males had no characteristic physical stigmata (an appreciable number did have speech problems and/or seizure disorders) and exhibited IQs ranging from 5 to 74 with a mean of 34.2. Obligate carrier females had a mean IQ score of 91.9 (range, 79 to 106), which is as would be predicted due to random X-inactivation. Carrier females …