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Corticosterone And Foraging Behaviour In A Pelagic Seabird, F Angelier, Scott A. Shaffer, H Weimerskirch, C Trouvé, O Chastel Jan 2007

Corticosterone And Foraging Behaviour In A Pelagic Seabird, F Angelier, Scott A. Shaffer, H Weimerskirch, C Trouvé, O Chastel

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

Because endocrine mechanisms are thought to mediate behavioral responses to changes in the environment, examining these mechanisms is essential for understanding how long-lived seabirds adjust their foraging decisions to contrasting environmental conditions in order to maximize their fitness. In this context, the hormone corticosterone (CORT) deserves specific attention because of its major connections with locomotor activities. We examined for the first time the relationships between individual CORT levels and measurements of foraging success and behavior using satellite tracking and blood sampling from wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) before (pretrip CORT levels) and after (posttrip CORT levels) foraging trips during the incubation …


Review Article Of The Scholar’S Art: Literary Studies In A Managed World By Jerome Mcgann, Katherine D. Harris Jan 2007

Review Article Of The Scholar’S Art: Literary Studies In A Managed World By Jerome Mcgann, Katherine D. Harris

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.


This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation, Dore Bowen Jan 2007

This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation, Dore Bowen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Mobile Multimedia Streaming Library, Bao Ho Jan 2007

Mobile Multimedia Streaming Library, Bao Ho

Master's Projects

In recent years, multimedia has become a commonly used tool for presenting contents to the users. The employment of multimedia is no longer limited to only the entertainment industry, but spans in other areas as well. In academics, lectures are recorded to audio and video for storage and distribution to students. Free online multimedia hosting services are popularly cherished, such as “youtube.com” and “yahoo video”, and with the increasing affordability of digital camera, hundreds, or maybe thousands, of home-made videos and music audio are created daily and published online. Low-cost digital recorders such as webcams also help promote the use …


Emotional And Domain Concept Enhancements To Alicebot, Alvin Cho Jan 2007

Emotional And Domain Concept Enhancements To Alicebot, Alvin Cho

Master's Projects

Extensive research and development have been done in the area of human simulation and artificial intelligence and their related fields, such as common sense knowledge bases, chatterbots, natural language parsing, semantic analysis, synthetic actors, and cognitive sciences. This paper takes part in that extensive research by focusing on the improvement of human simulation in chatterbots, specifically in Alicebot, a prominent non-emotional pattern-matching chatbot. An emotion and personality model is added to Alicebot so that it can make decisions based on its emotions and personality. Alicebot is also augmented with the ability to determine what it likes or does not like …


Biogeography And The Cambrian Radiation Of Arachnomorph Arthropods, Jonathan R. Hendricks, Bruce S. Lieberman Jan 2007

Biogeography And The Cambrian Radiation Of Arachnomorph Arthropods, Jonathan R. Hendricks, Bruce S. Lieberman

Faculty Publications

Biogeographic patterns in primarily Cambrian arachnomorph taxa are investigated using a recently constructed phylogenetic hypothesis in order to explore the biogeographic context of the Cambrian radiation. A modified version of Brooks Parsimony Analysis is employed to elucidate patterns of vicariance and geodispersal in taxa from six regions (Laurentia, Baltica, Siberia, Australia, Africa and China). Well resolved vicariance and geodispersal trees are very similar and reconstruct Laurentia and China as sister areas. This close area relationship between Laurentia and China provides extensive evidence for congruent vicariance and range expansion in Cambrian arachnomorphs, while data from trilobites do not show this pattern. …


Learning 2.0 At Sjsu And Sjpl, Susan L. Kendall Jan 2007

Learning 2.0 At Sjsu And Sjpl, Susan L. Kendall

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


La Discussió Deliberativa: Usar El Discurs De Classe Per Promoure El Pensament Crític, Mark Felton Jan 2007

La Discussió Deliberativa: Usar El Discurs De Classe Per Promoure El Pensament Crític, Mark Felton

Faculty Publications

Per potenciar el pensament creatiu a classe cal comprendre les arrels d’aquest pensament en el raonament argumentatiu. El pensament crític inclou la recerca i l’avaluació de les raons que hi ha darrere d’una afirmació. Per prendre part en aquesta activitat d’investigació, cal entendre els elements sobre els quals es discuteix i com aquests es combinen per justificar una conclusió. Les investigacions es mostren cada vegada més unànimes en el fet que els estudiants experimenten una millora substancial en el desenvolupament del pensament crític (i que aquesta millora es transfereix també a nous temes) a mesura que van adquirint experiència en …


Spartan Daily, December 7, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2006

Spartan Daily, December 7, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 56


Spartan Daily, December 6, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2006

Spartan Daily, December 6, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 55


Spartan Daily, December 5, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2006

Spartan Daily, December 5, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 54


Spartan Daily, November 30, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2006

Spartan Daily, November 30, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 52


Spartan Daily, November 28, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2006

Spartan Daily, November 28, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 50


Spartan Daily, November 16, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2006

Spartan Daily, November 16, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 47


Spartan Daily, November 14, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2006

Spartan Daily, November 14, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 45


Spartan Daily, November 7, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2006

Spartan Daily, November 7, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 41


Spartan Daily, November 6, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2006

Spartan Daily, November 6, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 40


Spartan Daily, November 1, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2006

Spartan Daily, November 1, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 38


Spartan Daily, October 30, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2006

Spartan Daily, October 30, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 36


Spartan Daily, October 26, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2006

Spartan Daily, October 26, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 35


Spartan Daily, October 25, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2006

Spartan Daily, October 25, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 34


Spartan Daily, October 12, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2006

Spartan Daily, October 12, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 27


Spartan Daily, October 5, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2006

Spartan Daily, October 5, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 23


Technological Change, Universal Access, And The End Of The Library, Wayne Bivens-Tatum Oct 2006

Technological Change, Universal Access, And The End Of The Library, Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library and Information Science (LIS) does not lend itself to philosophizing. Political philosophy offers a useful and necessary approach to thinking about libraries. Teleological thinking helps bring into relief some of the problems and issues of library and information science. When we do not address political problems teleologically, we may confuse means and ends, and ignore ends altogether. As an example of a teleological investigation, the author considers a proposition that some take to be the end of the library, the proposition that libraries should provide free access to all information to all persons all of the time. Should libraries …


Philosophical Views About Digital Information And Relational Schemata, Markos Dendrinos Oct 2006

Philosophical Views About Digital Information And Relational Schemata, Markos Dendrinos

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The nature and organization of digital information are examined from a philosophical point of view. A Platonic model is first suggested, based on both the Platonic allegory of the two worlds and the hypothesis of the informationised universe. Ancient classification schemata are presented in terms of the relationship types involved, concluding with an attempt to view the semantically rich web management system as an extended Platonic model.


Blazing The Trail In Poverty Alleviation Among University Students In Nigeria: The Federal University Of Technology, Yola, Baba L. Ndagana, S. A. Ogunrombi Oct 2006

Blazing The Trail In Poverty Alleviation Among University Students In Nigeria: The Federal University Of Technology, Yola, Baba L. Ndagana, S. A. Ogunrombi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study reports on the innovative “study and work” programme for students at the Federal University of Technology, Yola. In particular, the use of student part-time workers in the Library is discussed. The study reviews the widespread and severe poverty in Nigeria and among students in particular.This study reveals that the “study and work scheme” to alleviate poverty is beneficial to both students and university departments. The scheme extolls the dignity of labour in addition to alleviating the suffering of indigent students. The advantages of the scheme to the Library are discussed and it is recommended that the “study and …


The Sound Of The Suburbs: A Case Study Of Three Garage Bands In San Jose, California During The 1960s, Paul Kauppila Oct 2006

The Sound Of The Suburbs: A Case Study Of Three Garage Bands In San Jose, California During The 1960s, Paul Kauppila

Faculty and Staff Publications

The Chocolate Watchband, the Count Five, and the Syndicate of Sound were three garage bands from San Jose, California. During the 1960s, before the high‐tech economy transformed the Santa Clara Valley into Silicon Valley, San Jose was a culturally sleepy suburb. This paper will examine these three groups in the context of 1960s culture and society and will compare and contrast their image and musical output with that of the better‐known “hippie” music scene originating an hour north in San Francisco.


Spartan Daily, September 27, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Sep 2006

Spartan Daily, September 27, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 18


Spartan Daily, September 20, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Sep 2006

Spartan Daily, September 20, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 14


Spartan Daily, September 18, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Sep 2006

Spartan Daily, September 18, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 12