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Pino Gate Prairie Dog Study At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico: Mound-Scale Lizard Data (2000-2002), Ana Davidson, David Lightfoot Sep 2010

Pino Gate Prairie Dog Study At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico: Mound-Scale Lizard Data (2000-2002), Ana Davidson, David Lightfoot

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

Keystone species have large impacts on community and ecosystem properties, and create important ecological interactions with other species. Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) and banner-tailed kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spectabilis) are considered keystone species of grassland ecosystems, and create a mosaic of unique habitats on the landscape. These habitats are known to attract a number of animal species, but little is known about how they affect lizard communities. Our research evaluated the keystone roles of prairie dogs and kangaroo rats on lizards at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico, USA. We evaluated the impacts of these rodents on lizard …

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Effects Of Kangaroo Rats On Plant Species Dominance In A Chihuahuan Desert Grassland At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1988), Debra Peters, Scott Collins Sep 2010

Effects Of Kangaroo Rats On Plant Species Dominance In A Chihuahuan Desert Grassland At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1988), Debra Peters, Scott Collins

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

Our objective was to evaluate the effects of burrowing activities by banner-tail kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam) on plant community structure and species dominance for two patch types at an ecotone between shortgrass steppe and desert grasslands in New Mexico, USA. Ten mounds produced by kangaroo rats were selected in patches dominated by Bouteloua gracilis (the dominant in shortgrass steppe communities) and ten mounds were selected in patches dominated by Bouteloua eriopoda (the dominant in Chihuahuan desert grasslands). Plant cover and density by species were sampled from three locations associated with each mound: the mound proper, the edge of the …

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Small Mammal Exclosure Study (Smes) Vegetation Data From The Chihuahuan Desert Grassland And Shrubland At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1995-2009), David Lightfoot Sep 2010

Small Mammal Exclosure Study (Smes) Vegetation Data From The Chihuahuan Desert Grassland And Shrubland At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1995-2009), David Lightfoot

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

This is data for vegetation canopy cover measured from each of the SMES study plots. Vegetation canopy cover was measured from each of the 36 one-meter2 quadrats twice each year. Animal consumers have important roles in ecosystems, determining plant species composition and structure, regulating rates of plant production and nutrient, and altering soil structure and chemistry. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the activities of small mammals regulate plant community structure, plant species diversity, and spatial vegetation patterns in Chihuahuan Desert shrublands and grasslands.

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Individual Variation In Eeg Spectral Power Enhancement And Intelligence, Matthew J. Euler Sep 2010

Individual Variation In Eeg Spectral Power Enhancement And Intelligence, Matthew J. Euler

Psychology ETDs

This study tested the relationship between short-term neuroplasticity and individual differences in intelligence. Twenty-two participants completed cognitive testing and a visual EEG experiment involving exposures to repeated and novel stimuli. Time-frequency analyses of phase-locked (evoked) and non-phase-locked (induced) power showed a small effect of decreasing evoked/induced theta (4-8 Hz) ratios over stimulus exposures, irrespective of condition. Hypotheses that intelligence would relate to an increase in this ratio over exposures were not supported. However, the magnitude of the ratio positively correlated with intelligence; while the amount of induced gamma (30-50Hz) activation pre- to post-stimulus was highly inversely related to g. Results …

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Fluctuating Asymmetry, Facial Masculinity, And Offspring Sex Ratio, Melissa Heap Sep 2010

Fluctuating Asymmetry, Facial Masculinity, And Offspring Sex Ratio, Melissa Heap

Psychology ETDs

Research on offspring sex ratios and parental condition indicate that parents in better condition may benefit from biasing their offspring toward sons. While measures of phenotypic quality and offspring sex ratio have been examined in other animals, the current study was designed to look at this relationship within human families. I investigated the relationship between fluctuating asymmetry and facial masculinity, both possible measures of phenotype, and offspring sex ratio within families. The results were mixed. The fluctuating asymmetry of one sibling covaried negatively with the overall offspring sex ratio within their family. The significant negative correlation between the two provides …

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Relationship Quality And Men's Oxidative Stress, Leslie A. Merriman Sep 2010

Relationship Quality And Men's Oxidative Stress, Leslie A. Merriman

Psychology ETDs

The association between oxidative stress and quality of romantic relationships was investigated in a sample of 98 college males. Given a postulated life history trade-off between current and future reproductive potential, men currently in higher quality romantic relationships may expend less general mating effort (i.e., less energy allocation to finding, attracting, and competing for new mates) than single men or men in lesser quality relationships. Reduced mating effort may allow greater allocation of energy to anti-oxidant defense systems, and increased resistance to oxidative damage by reactive oxygen species (ROS). Consistent with this prediction, men who reported being in higher quality …

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Neurometabolism And Cognitive Functioning In Healthy Children : A Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study, April Lightsey Sep 2010

Neurometabolism And Cognitive Functioning In Healthy Children : A Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study, April Lightsey

Psychology ETDs

This study investigated the role of sex, mean NAA/Cr and Cho/Cr, and variability in these metabolites in predicting memory and processing speed. This study utilized predictive models including sex, mean ratios of NAA/Cr and Cho/Cr, as well as the standard deviation of these ratios, within tissue type, among voxels in a supraventricular slice. In addition, models included interaction terms between each neurometabolic variable and sex. Tests of memory and processing speed were then regressed in a three-step hierarchical regression onto sex, main effects for neurometabolites, and interaction effects. The regression of memory was significant in the model including interaction terms, …

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Nutrient Cycling In Impacted Stream Ecosystems: From Microbes To Watersheds, David James Van Horn Sep 2010

Nutrient Cycling In Impacted Stream Ecosystems: From Microbes To Watersheds, David James Van Horn

Biology ETDs

The conditions found in stream ecosystems are an integration of watershed characteristics and processes. Anthropogenic disturbances are part of this integration and include direct inputs to streams, alteration of riparian areas, and modification of catchment properties which affect material inputs. Impacts to discrete portions of terrestrial watersheds combine as water moves down gradient, transporting the byproducts of catchment disturbances to streams including, nutrients, organic materials, particulates, and toxins. This dissertation explores the effects of disturbance on nutrient cycling in stream ecosystems at three spatial scales: the patch scale includes localized processes and assemblages, the reach scale encompasses tens to hundreds …

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Validity Of Self-Report With Respect To Prescription Medications Among Pregnant Women, Pallavi Jaiswal Sep 2010

Validity Of Self-Report With Respect To Prescription Medications Among Pregnant Women, Pallavi Jaiswal

Pharmaceutical Sciences ETDs

Objectives: Accuracy of self-report regarding prescription medication use among pregnant women is largely unknown. Accurate self-reported information is needed for medication reconciliation purposes, clinical management, clinical teratology research, and monitoring of adherence. This study examined the accuracy of self-reported medication use by pregnant women for medications used chronically and episodically or intermittently during pregnancy. Further, predictors of inaccurate reporting regarding prescription medication use were also estimated. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of data collected through the University of New Mexico (UNM) cohort study, Safety of Medication and Perception of Teratogenicity' (SMART) was conducted. Pregnant women were recruited from UNM prenatal care …

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Eliciting Abstinence And Improving Retention In A Vocational And Educational Training Program For Young People : A Pilot Study, Julie Steele Seel Sep 2010

Eliciting Abstinence And Improving Retention In A Vocational And Educational Training Program For Young People : A Pilot Study, Julie Steele Seel

Psychology ETDs

There is support in the literature for motivational enhancement therapy (MET) as an acceptable method for achieving abstinence and increasing retention in therapy for the treatment of marijuana and alcohol abuse, and for contingency management (CM) as a useful tool for enhancing both of these objectives when combined with empirically supported therapies such as MET. However, MET combined with CM had yet to be tested with substance using adolescents and young adults enrolled in a substance use program in a vocational and educational training facility. This study examined the effectiveness of an MET and CM program designed to provide opportunities …

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Rallying Around The Flag In The Era Of The Traditional Presidency, John Todsen Sep 2010

Rallying Around The Flag In The Era Of The Traditional Presidency, John Todsen

Political Science ETDs

The rally around the flag effect describes the presidents to increase in job approval during and immediately after an international crisis. This project has been built as an attempt to explain why that effect occurs. The literature on the presidency and public opinion point at two determinants for the rally effect: the acceptance of the President as the symbolic leader of the nation and the center of action in the government, and opinion leadership, especially that given by the independent mass media. By examining the development of the rally effect, I tested the relative importance of these two factors. To …

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Sex Differences In Heat Shock Protein 72 Expression And Inflammatory Response To Acute Exercise In The Heat., Trevor Gillum Sep 2010

Sex Differences In Heat Shock Protein 72 Expression And Inflammatory Response To Acute Exercise In The Heat., Trevor Gillum

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

This study evaluated possible sex differences in intracellular heat shock protein 72 (Hsp72), intracellular cytokines, and extracellular Hsp72 (eHsp72) before and after exercise in the heat. Nine non-heat acclimated women (W) (age 23 ± 3, BF 21 ± 2%, VO2max 58 ± 5 ml/kgFFM/min) and nine non-heat acclimated men (M) (age 25 ± 5, BF 12 ± 5%, VO2max 60 ± 7 ml/kgFFM/min) completed 2 treadmill bouts at 60% VO2max for 60 min in a 42°C, 20% RH environment. The W had normal menstrual cycles and were tested in counterbalanced order during follicular (fol) and luteal (lut) phases. M and …

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Are Thermotolerance And Heat Acclimation Related Through The Heat Shock Response?, Matthew Kuennen Sep 2010

Are Thermotolerance And Heat Acclimation Related Through The Heat Shock Response?, Matthew Kuennen

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Thermotolerance (cellular adaptations that allow survival after an acute, severe heat exposure) and heat acclimation (systemic adaptations that improve heat dissipation following chronic heat exposure) have traditionally been considered separate phenomena. However, recent studies in animals suggest these adaptations may be related through the heat shock response. METHODS: We evaluated the effects of a standard laboratory heat shock response-inhibitor (QUERCETIN) on established markers of thermotolerance [gastrointestinal barrier permeability, plasma TNF-a, Il-6, and Il-10 concentrations; leukocyte HSP70 content(HSP70)] and heat acclimation [reduced body temperatures, heart rate, and physiologic strain in response to exercise/heat stress] in male subjects (n=8) completing a 7-day …

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Las Fronteras Del Cuerpo : Crítica De La Corporeidad, Arturo Rico Bovio Sep 2010

Las Fronteras Del Cuerpo : Crítica De La Corporeidad, Arturo Rico Bovio

Centro Cultural Abya Yala del Ecuador

1.- El primado del Cuerpo 2.- La propuesta filosófica del Cuerpo 3.- Alcances de la filosofía de la corporeidad 4.- Crítica de la corporeidad latinoamericana. Serie Pluriminor

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Environmental Disturbance Of Oligotrophic Bacteria And Effects On Water Quality In Deep Karstic Pools, Andrea Hunter Sep 2010

Environmental Disturbance Of Oligotrophic Bacteria And Effects On Water Quality In Deep Karstic Pools, Andrea Hunter

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Active intervention of humans in pristine water resource environments has caused both surface and ground waters to degrade in quality and natural purification capacity (Geldreich 1996). Groundwater is often considered to be less impacted than that of surface water due to the absence of climate changes and storm water migrations (Geldreich 1996). Shallow karstic limestone areas (less than 30 m deep) have a greater change of surface contamination since surface water runoff can rapidly percolate through areas lacking a protective bedrock layer.

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Levinas's Symbiotic Phenomenology Of Infinity And Totality, Christian Wood Sep 2010

Levinas's Symbiotic Phenomenology Of Infinity And Totality, Christian Wood

Philosophy ETDs

I present a novel interpretation of Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenology wherein I argue that his seemingly antagonistic and exclusive notions of "totality" and "infinity" are best understood, rather, as symbiotic, interdependent, and mutually conditioning. My demarche uses close textual analysis, constant reference to Levinas's (admittedly sparse) comments on philosophical method, and an important return to, and then departure from, Cartesian thought in order to advance my thesis that infinity and totality are essentially intertwined and "symbiotic." As such, they are not essentially opposed in any sort of preferential, evaluative, or eliminative sense, to name some prominent (and misguided) caricatures that regrettably …

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Cleaning Up After Sex: An Environmental History Of Contraceptives In The United States, 1873—2010, Sarah Ruth Payne Sep 2010

Cleaning Up After Sex: An Environmental History Of Contraceptives In The United States, 1873—2010, Sarah Ruth Payne

History ETDs

I argue in my dissertation, 'Cleaning Up After Sex: An Environmental History of Contraceptives in the United States, 1873—2010,' that through the processes of contraceptive production, consumption, and disposal, over time, the role of contraceptives in human/nature interactions has become more significant and the impact more direct. I examine the production, consumption, and disposal histories of condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps, intrauterine devices, and hormonal birth control. Production, consumption, and disposal of the birth control methods I study have determined physical experiences with both our bodies and with the non-human natural world, but those three processes have also shaped discourse …

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2009 Annual Report, Thomas F. Turner Sep 2010

2009 Annual Report, Thomas F. Turner

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

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Gpsa Council Meeting, 8/28/2010, Graduate And Professional Student Association Aug 2010

Gpsa Council Meeting, 8/28/2010, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Chile: Gay-Marriage Debate Heats Up, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Aug 2010

Chile: Gay-Marriage Debate Heats Up, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiSur

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National Renewable Energy Policy 2009-2030, Ministry Of Energy And Mining Aug 2010

National Renewable Energy Policy 2009-2030, Ministry Of Energy And Mining

Latin American Energy Policies

This document presents Jamaica s National Renewable Energy Policy which is designed to achieve: A well-developed, vibrant and diversified renewable energy sector that contributes to Jamaica s energy security and a sustainable future. This policy supports the implementation of the National Energy Policy 2009-2030 which seeks to provide affordable and accessible energy supplies with long-term energy security. The creation of this policy was a specific response to the National Energy Policy which calls for the development of the energy sector especially in areas related to renewables, diversification fuels, biofuels and waste-to-energy.

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Government Inaugurates Germoplasm Bank, Research Center For Mexico’S Native Corn Varieties, Carlos Navarro Aug 2010

Government Inaugurates Germoplasm Bank, Research Center For Mexico’S Native Corn Varieties, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Report Of The Second Report On The Ninth Meeting Of The Adhoc Open-Ended Working Group On Access And Benefit-Sharing, Convention On Biological Diversity Jul 2010

Report Of The Second Report On The Ninth Meeting Of The Adhoc Open-Ended Working Group On Access And Benefit-Sharing, Convention On Biological Diversity

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This document is the meeting minutes from the Convention on Biological Diversity's draft of the protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from their utilization.

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Guyanas National Energy Efficiency Program', Sandra Britton Jul 2010

Guyanas National Energy Efficiency Program', Sandra Britton

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This presentation summarizes Guyana's current levels of energy consumption and demand. It outlines the actions, proposals, and experiences that have resulted from the National Energy Efficiency Program.

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Uap 3720: Conflicts Of Interest, University Of New Mexico Jul 2010

Uap 3720: Conflicts Of Interest, University Of New Mexico

Section 3000: Personnel

Process Owner: University Counsel

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Issue No. 84: July 2010, Historical Society Of New Mexico Jul 2010

Issue No. 84: July 2010, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 The First Automobile in New Mexico, "Locomobile Traverses Raton Pass in 1900"
1 The Ocean to Ocean Highway or New Mexico's Other Historic Highway
3 Charlie's Automotive Service and the Star Café
4 History in Small Places
4 New Mexico Designates Moon Landing Site a Cultural Property
5 Books, Ernest Thompson Seton: The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist
5 Books, Beaumont's Kitchen: Lessons on Food, Life, and Photography with Beaumont Newhall
5 Van Gieson Donates Manuscripts to University of New Mexico
5 Flockhart Ford Wedding at the Governor's Mansion
6 Gift Memberships Available
6 In Memoriam …

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2010-07-01 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department Jul 2010

2010-07-01 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2010

No abstract provided.

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Marginality, Mayhem And Middle Class Anxieties: Imaginaries Of Masculinity And Urban Violence In Contemporary Mexican And Brazilian Film, Jeremy Lehnen Jul 2010

Marginality, Mayhem And Middle Class Anxieties: Imaginaries Of Masculinity And Urban Violence In Contemporary Mexican And Brazilian Film, Jeremy Lehnen

Latin American Studies ETDs

Marginality, Mayhem and Middle Class Anxieties: Imaginaries of Masculinity and Urban Violence in Contemporary Mexican and Brazilian Film is a comparative study that explores the confluence of cinematic discourse, violence, masculinity and constructions (or denial) of citizenship in present-day Latin America. My argument is that the thematization of violence and masculinity in contemporary Latin American film intercedes at a symbolic level into social relations that are increasingly mediated through images that depict what is socially permitted. This dissertation considers how film (re)structures perceptions of masculinity and its inter-linkages with cityscapes marked by social and material violence. Violence is at the …

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Fred Harmon, Red Ryder, And Albuquerque's Little Beavertown, Ferenc M. Szasz Jul 2010

Fred Harmon, Red Ryder, And Albuquerque's Little Beavertown, Ferenc M. Szasz

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Reflections Of Navajo Culture And Educational Philosophy In Two Fourth-Grade Art Education Classrooms In The Gallup-Mckinley School System, Mara K. Pierce Jul 2010

Reflections Of Navajo Culture And Educational Philosophy In Two Fourth-Grade Art Education Classrooms In The Gallup-Mckinley School System, Mara K. Pierce

Art & Art History ETDs

This project takes a look at the content and the context that is presented to children in two fourth grade public school art classrooms (Gallup-McKinley County Schools district) that primarily serve Dine children. The purpose of this study is to examine the existence and relevancy of the materials delivered in those classrooms, examining how they serve the best interest of those children with respect to their cultural learning philosophies, academic success, and self-awareness as members of the Dine Nation. The project also takes a look at how the children respond to the lessons delivered in those classrooms, particularly how the …

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