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Tommaso Campanella's La Città Del Sole: Topography And Astrology, Ilona Klein Jan 1989

Tommaso Campanella's La Città Del Sole: Topography And Astrology, Ilona Klein

Faculty Publications

At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Dominican friar from Calabria, fra' Tommaso Campanella, had already solidified his anti-Aristotelian theories, had been persecuted and arrested, and was simulating madness in order to save his life while incarcerated in Naples. When Campanella conceived La Città del Sole under these circumstances in 1602, he was interpreting Telesio's naturalistic philosophy in a metaphysical manner, and was expressing in nuce the fundamental theories he would amplify two years later in Del Senso delle Cose e delle Magie.

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An Incentive-Based Wild Horse Management System On Public Rangeland, Ray G. Huffaker, James E. Wilen, B. Gardner Delworth Jan 1989

An Incentive-Based Wild Horse Management System On Public Rangeland, Ray G. Huffaker, James E. Wilen, B. Gardner Delworth

Faculty Publications

This paper explores an incentive-based management system to induce federal grazing permittees to choose sustained cattle stocking strategies which accommodate government-set wild horse numbers and nongrazing uses. Particular attention is paid to constraints imposed by federal grazing statutes. The proposed system employs increased livestock grazing fees to induce permittees to provide increased vegetation for consumption by wild horses and nongrazing uses. The negative impact of increased fees on permittee wealth is counterbalanced with compensatory transfer payments. Taken together, grazing fees and compensation payments induce multiple-use compliance by permittee-stewards and keep their discounted livestock profits intact at some predetermined level.

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Growing Up Nov 1988

Growing Up

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

I was born in Zlirich, right after the First World War, on October 16, 1919. I basically grew up as an only child, because my sister Irma is six years younger. My early childhood memories are happy ones. I remember all kinds of adventures with a band of other, mostly older children, involving such stunts as illegally riding down the rails into an immense clay pit in open rollingtrucks. It is a wonder we survived unscathed.

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Enduring Apprenticeships, Walter Angst Nov 1988

Enduring Apprenticeships, Walter Angst

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Since I was two years older than my school chums and knew that I could not afford to go on to higher education, I quit secondary school after the second year. My dream was to become a graphic artist, devising posters. My father was afraid for me: if I would indulge in an artist's life, I surely would go to pot! He proposed instead that I learn the trade of a barber or, as a concession, a cabinet-maker. Consequently, I was apprenticed to a master cabinetmaker who promptly dismissed me after a few weeks as being too weak. After a …

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Full Issue Nov 1988

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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Samples Of Walter Angst's Heraldic Creations * Nov 1988

Samples Of Walter Angst's Heraldic Creations *

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

* These illustrations are inadequate black and white reproductions of some of the splendidly colored pictures that appeared in the Smithsonian 4 (July 1973): 22, 23, 24.

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New Heraldic Creations And My Fourteen-Point Ethical Code, Walter Angst Nov 1988

New Heraldic Creations And My Fourteen-Point Ethical Code, Walter Angst

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Most of my contemporaries have many misconceptions about all things heraldic. Most people - if they even know what we are talking about - consider heraldic designs disdainfully as pretentious, superfluous, even silly, or at best arcane frills having to do with royalty. They are wrong. Armorial bearings are an expression of such things as sovereignty, of individuality, of beauty, of sagas, history, past glories and civic achievements. Just fancy our villages and resort places back-home: how poor would they be if they could not display their panoply of colorful community flags fluttering in the alpine breeze. Even here in …

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Full Issue Nov 1988

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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A Mixed Pollination System In Penstemon Pseudospectabilis M. E. Jones (Scrophulariaceae), William H. Reid, Pamela Sensiba, C. Edward Freeman Oct 1988

A Mixed Pollination System In Penstemon Pseudospectabilis M. E. Jones (Scrophulariaceae), William H. Reid, Pamela Sensiba, C. Edward Freeman

Great Basin Naturalist

A population of Penstemon pseudospectabilis M. E. Jones (Scrophulariaceae) on Cave Creek in Cochise County, Arizona, was used in an experimental test of reproductive fitness with three caging treatments: all flying pollinators excluded, hummingbirds excluded, and no exclusion. Twenty plants were chosen and three shoots on each used in the experiment. The flowers were 25.6 (s.d. = 1.5) mm long, the end diameter was 8.5 (s.d. = 1.0) mm, the tube opening was 6.5 (s.d. = 1.0) mm, and the greatest diameter, 75% distal from the receptacle, was 10.1 (s.d. = 0.8) mm (N= 59). Floral nectar contained 11.7% (s.d. …

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Foods And Weights Of The Rock Ptarmigan On Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, William B. Emison, Clayton M. White Oct 1988

Foods And Weights Of The Rock Ptarmigan On Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, William B. Emison, Clayton M. White

Great Basin Naturalist

We examined the crop contents from 129 Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) collected between 1967 and1971 on Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. On a yearly basis two plant species, Empetrum nigrum and Equisetum arvense, made up 87% of the diet. Only in July and August were they less than 90% of the diet, and in those months they constituted 65% of the diet. During the warmer months (May-October) when a variety of plant species were available, the Amchitka ptarmigan fed upon growth forms of plants high in nutritive value (particularly Equisetum strobili). Its main winter food was the …

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Population Cycles Of Wahweap Milkvetch On The Henry Mountains And Seed Reserve In The Soil, M. H. Ralphs, V. L. Bagley Oct 1988

Population Cycles Of Wahweap Milkvetch On The Henry Mountains And Seed Reserve In The Soil, M. H. Ralphs, V. L. Bagley

Great Basin Naturalist

A population outbreak of Wahweap milkvetch (A. lentiginosus var. wahweapensis Welsh) occurred in the Henry Mountains area of southeastern Utah in 1985 and 1986, causing extensive locoweed poisoning in cattle grazing these winter ranges. Weather conditions supporting this population outbreak included above average precipitation in the fall of 1984 and 1985, which presumably allowed germination of seed lying dormant in the soil. Above average spring precipitation in the subsequent year supported the population growth. Part of the population died in the summer of 1985, and nearly all plants died in the summer of 1986. Historically, population outbreaks occurred every …

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Elevational Changes In Woody Vegetation Along Three Streams In Washington County, Utah, G. Merrill Webb, Jack D. Brotherson Oct 1988

Elevational Changes In Woody Vegetation Along Three Streams In Washington County, Utah, G. Merrill Webb, Jack D. Brotherson

Great Basin Naturalist

Patterns of change in the woody vegetation (trees and shrubs) of the riparian communities of three streams draining the slopes of the Pine Valley Mountains in Washington County, Utah, were examined. Thirty-nine study sites were established adjacent to the streams along an elevational gradient where vegetation, plant population, and species data were taken. Vegetation and species patterns varied with respect to elevation and geographical location. Vegetation of the high- and low-elevation areas was distinctly different, while that of the mid-elevations was transitional to both. Geographical patterns showed a north-south transition in vegetation between the Mojave and Great Basin deserts. Size-class …

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Rodent Weights In Modified Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands Of Southwestern New Mexico, K. E. Severson, B. J. Hayward Oct 1988

Rodent Weights In Modified Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands Of Southwestern New Mexico, K. E. Severson, B. J. Hayward

Great Basin Naturalist

Changing habitat structure in pinyon (Pinus edulis)–one-seed juniper (Juniperus monosperma) stands by (1) pushing trees down with a bulldozer and leaving them in place, (2) pushing, then piling and burning slash, or (3)thinning to a spacing of 6.1 m and leaving slash did not affect weights of individuals of nine rodent species. Previous studies have shown that habitat modifications influence kinds of species and numbers of individuals, but changes in total rodent biomass are a function of sizes of different species occupying different habitats, not changes in weights of individuals.

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End Matter, Vol. 48 No. 4 Oct 1988

End Matter, Vol. 48 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

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Full Issue, Vol. 12 Oct 1988

Full Issue, Vol. 12

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

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End Matter, Vol. 12 Oct 1988

End Matter, Vol. 12

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

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Communication And Deviation: Kenneth Rexroth's Approach To Classical Chinese Poetry, Yunzhong Shu Oct 1988

Communication And Deviation: Kenneth Rexroth's Approach To Classical Chinese Poetry, Yunzhong Shu

Comparative Civilizations Review

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The Collected Works Of Hugh Nibley Volume 1, Old Testament And Related Studies Hugh Nibley, Kent P. Jackson Oct 1988

The Collected Works Of Hugh Nibley Volume 1, Old Testament And Related Studies Hugh Nibley, Kent P. Jackson

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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Metmorphoses Of La Malinche And Mexican Cultural Identity, Ann Mcbride-Limaye Oct 1988

Metmorphoses Of La Malinche And Mexican Cultural Identity, Ann Mcbride-Limaye

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Comparing World Systems: Toward A Theory Of Semipheral Development, Christopher Chase-Dunn Oct 1988

Comparing World Systems: Toward A Theory Of Semipheral Development, Christopher Chase-Dunn

Comparative Civilizations Review

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End Matter, Vol. 12, Index Oct 1988

End Matter, Vol. 12, Index

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

No abstract provided.

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Front Matter, Vol. 12 Oct 1988

Front Matter, Vol. 12

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

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A Parallel-Processing Subsystem For Rapid 3-D Interpolation Of Ct Images, William A. Barrett, Stephen J. Allan, Scott R. Cannon Sep 1988

A Parallel-Processing Subsystem For Rapid 3-D Interpolation Of Ct Images, William A. Barrett, Stephen J. Allan, Scott R. Cannon

Faculty Publications

An inexpensive parallel-processing subsystem for the rapid interpolation of CT image planes is demonstrated with a variety of node topologies. The subsystem is based on a tree network of INMOS T414 Transputer processors and is hosted by an AT-based image workstation. The subsystem accepts a stack of eight arbitrarily-spaced 256 x 256 image planes from the host. Subsystem output to the host consists of a stack of 32 scaled and evenly-spaced image planes (256 x 256 x 32 with cubic voxels). Benchmark execution times ranged from 12.3 seconds for three nodes to 5.8 seconds for eight nodes.

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Trapping Methods For Rangeland Insects In Burned And Unburned Sites: A Comparison, James D. Hansen Jul 1988

Trapping Methods For Rangeland Insects In Burned And Unburned Sites: A Comparison, James D. Hansen

Great Basin Naturalist

Different insect trapping methods were compared weekly on recently burned and nearby unburned rangeland in the Great Basin of western Utah. Flight traps (or wing traps) collected the most specimens (total = 4,916 at burned site, 4,384 at unburned site) but represented the fewest species (no more than 11 spp./wk at either site); this method was not recommended because of difficulty in removing specimens from adhesive. Water traps amassed the next largest number of specimens (x̄ ± SE/wk = 150.9 ± 75.3 at burned site, 158.0 ± 66.4 at unburned site) and the most species (x̄ ± SE/wk = 21.6 …

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End Matter, Vol. 48 No. 3 Jul 1988

End Matter, Vol. 48 No. 3

Great Basin Naturalist

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Interactions Among Squirrels, Mycorrhizal Fungi, And Coniferous Forests In Oregon, Chris Maser, Zane Maser Jul 1988

Interactions Among Squirrels, Mycorrhizal Fungi, And Coniferous Forests In Oregon, Chris Maser, Zane Maser

Great Basin Naturalist

We examined the mycophagy (ingestion of fungi) of squirrels of five genera and eight species in the coniferous forests of Oregon. Data from 644 dietary samples demonstrated that squirrels of all eight species are mycophagous and eat the belowground fruiting bodies of at least 26 genera of mycorrhizal fungi. Four species are primarily arboreal and active throughout the year; the other four are primarily terrestrial and hibernate during winter. Of the squirrels examined, only the northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus [Shaw]) is nocturnal and almost exclusively a fungivore. The flying squirrel is used to illustrate the dynamics of all …

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Computer Analysis Of Cross Sections Of Leaves Of Chrysothamnus Taxa And Their Relation To Environmental Conditions, J. Huang, W. M. Hess, D. J. Weber, E. D. Mcarthur, S. E. Meyer, R. Seegmiller Jul 1988

Computer Analysis Of Cross Sections Of Leaves Of Chrysothamnus Taxa And Their Relation To Environmental Conditions, J. Huang, W. M. Hess, D. J. Weber, E. D. Mcarthur, S. E. Meyer, R. Seegmiller

Great Basin Naturalist

Thirty-eight accessions of 20 taxa (species and subspecies) of Chrysothamnus from a range of environments were grown in a uniform garden. During mid-June, terminal and lateral leaves were removed, fixed, and processed for light-microscopy studies. Area and perimeter measurements of ink tracings of midleaf vein cross sections were measured using computer-scan techniques. Leaf area and perimeter were compared with vein perimeter and area measurements. Area and perimeter of these Chrysothamnus leaves varied in response to the environment at the collection location. Plants native to hot, dry conditions had small, thick leaves, whereas plants native to cooler, more mesic conditions had …

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Stream Channel And Vegetation Changes In Sections Of Mcknight Creek, New Mexico, Alvin L. Medina, S. Clark Martin Jul 1988

Stream Channel And Vegetation Changes In Sections Of Mcknight Creek, New Mexico, Alvin L. Medina, S. Clark Martin

Great Basin Naturalist

Measurements taken at three-year intervals between 1977 and 1985 of channel morphology and vegetation cover between sections inside and outside a cattle exclosure showed that channels increased in depth and width on all plots. Tree canopy cover decreased significantly between 1977 and 1985, but changes in density of trees and shrubs and herbaceous cover were small. Exclusion of cattle use did not prevent channel erosion or deterioration of vegetation; rather, changes were attributed to a wildfire in the headwaters and subsequent storm events that temporarily upset the dynamic equilibrium of the stream.

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Bibliography Of Montana Vegetation Description, P. S. Bourgeron, A. M. Kratz, T. Weaver, N. Weidman Jul 1988

Bibliography Of Montana Vegetation Description, P. S. Bourgeron, A. M. Kratz, T. Weaver, N. Weidman

Great Basin Naturalist

Listed in alphabetical order by author are 549 references to literature that describes the native vegetation of Montana. This updates the 1965 list of Habeck and Hartley. A keyword subject index is included.

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Brigham Young On The Social Order, Ronald W. Walker Jul 1988

Brigham Young On The Social Order, Ronald W. Walker

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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