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Patch Fidelity Behavior In Coexisting Damselflies: Hetaerina Cruentata (Odonata: Calopterygidae) And Argia Extranea (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), December 2006, Anna C. Peterson Dec 2006

Patch Fidelity Behavior In Coexisting Damselflies: Hetaerina Cruentata (Odonata: Calopterygidae) And Argia Extranea (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), December 2006, Anna C. Peterson

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Patch fidelity in coexisting territorial damselfly species, Hetaerina cruentata and Argia extranea was studied to determine if these species displayed differing territorial behavior, which may be one mechanism for niche differentiation of these species. Data such as light amount and proximity to water of the patch sites were gathered to provide information about territorial preferences of these two species. No significant relationships between patch fidelity and patch characteristics were found. A significant difference was seen between the patch fidelity of the two species, implicating territory as a possible niche differentiating mechanism. Possible explanations for the variation in patch fidelity behavior …

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Modeling Bus Priority Using Intermodal Dynamic Network Assignment-Simulation Methodology, Khaled F. Abdelghany, Ahmed F. Abdelghany, Hani S. Mahmassani, Akmal S. Abdelfatah Dec 2006

Modeling Bus Priority Using Intermodal Dynamic Network Assignment-Simulation Methodology, Khaled F. Abdelghany, Ahmed F. Abdelghany, Hani S. Mahmassani, Akmal S. Abdelfatah

Journal of Public Transportation

This article presents a modeling framework that represents bus priority at signalized intersections in the context of its potential network-level and intermodal effects. The model incorporates bus priority within an intermodal dynamic traffic assignmentsimulation model. It dynamically assigns travelers to different modes and routes in the network according to prevailing traffic conditions, which result from applying a certain network control/bus priority scheme. The model considers changes in traffic conditions as a result of (1) drivers’ route choice adjustments due to changes in traffic signals settings and (2) modal shifts by travelers to take advantage of improved transit service. Three different …

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Predicting The Impact Of Demand- And Supply-Side Measures On Bus Ridership In Putrajaya, Malaysia, Nor Ghani Md. Nor, Abd Rahim Md. Nor, Ahmad Zainuddin Abdullah Dec 2006

Predicting The Impact Of Demand- And Supply-Side Measures On Bus Ridership In Putrajaya, Malaysia, Nor Ghani Md. Nor, Abd Rahim Md. Nor, Ahmad Zainuddin Abdullah

Journal of Public Transportation

Putrajaya is a unique Malaysian city from a transport policy perspective because of its explicit goal to achieve a 70 percent share of public transport to its core precincts.A study was recently commissioned with the aim of quantifying travelers’ responses to policy measures to ensure effective strategy formulation. This article describes and discusses the methods, results, and policy implications of the study. Econometric estimation results show that improvement in public transport alone is incapable of inducing sufficient modal shift to achieve the goal of a 70:30 split between public and private transport. Although service quality positively influences ridership, modal split …

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Tectonic Control Of Subsidence And Southward Displacement Of Southeast Louisiana With Respect To Stable North America, Roy K. Dokka, Giovanni F. Sella, Timothy H. Dixon Dec 2006

Tectonic Control Of Subsidence And Southward Displacement Of Southeast Louisiana With Respect To Stable North America, Roy K. Dokka, Giovanni F. Sella, Timothy H. Dixon

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

GPS data collected between 1995 and 2006 suggest that southeast Louisiana, including New Orleans and the larger Mississippi Delta, are both subsiding vertically and moving southward with respect to stable North America. Both motions are likely related due to their common tectonic setting. Subsidence in the New Orleans area occurs in part because it is located in the hanging wall of a large listric normal fault system that forms the northern boundary of a 7–10 km thick allochthon that is detached from stable North America. Southward motion of this allochthon relative to stable North America occurs at 2.2 ± 0.6 …

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Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 68, No. 3, December 2006, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society Dec 2006

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 68, No. 3, December 2006, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

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Maternal Defensive Behavior Of Umbonia Ataliba Treehoppers, December 2006, Sarah Anvik Dec 2006

Maternal Defensive Behavior Of Umbonia Ataliba Treehoppers, December 2006, Sarah Anvik

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

A population of Umbonia ataliba (Homoptera: Membracidae) located between 1300 and 1500 m in Monteverde, Costa Rica was studied from October to November 2006. The maternal defensive behavior exhibited by these subsocial insects toward nymphs of different developmental stages was experimentally investigated. The purpose of my study was to determine how the defensive behavior changed from eggs to adults and in response to two different predator types. I attached dead wasps to long wooden sticks and then simulated predator approaches toward family groups of eggs, second instar and fourth instars nymphs. I found that the defensive behavior by females guarding …

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Microclimate Effects On Cyphellae Density In Sticta Lichens, December 2006, Aidée Casillas Dec 2006

Microclimate Effects On Cyphellae Density In Sticta Lichens, December 2006, Aidée Casillas

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The genus Sticta is a dominant lichen in tropical montane rainforest environments that is unique in possessing cyphellae, i.e. depressed pores involved in gas exchange, on the undersides of thalli. Microclimatic parameters such as relative humidity, canopy density and temperature were measured in relation to cyphellae density and colony size of S. filix in the Monteverde Cloud Forest. Significant correlations were found relating canopy density to cyphellae density (R2 = 0.200, p = 0.0007, n = 54), (R2 = 0.213, p = 0.0016, n = 44), colony size to temperature (R2 = 0.239, p = 0.0002, n = 54), (R2 …

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Species Composition Of Bats (Chiroptera) In Different Land- Use Mosaics, December 2006, Samantha Carter Dec 2006

Species Composition Of Bats (Chiroptera) In Different Land- Use Mosaics, December 2006, Samantha Carter

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Bats are an abundant and diverse group of species that can be used as indicators of habitat disturbance and to test the effects of land-use mosaics on an ecosystem. For 11 nights I used mist-nets to sample the bat assemblages in pastures, forest fragments, banana fields and coffee fields on the Finca Santamaría in Cañitas, Monteverde, Costa Rica. The differences between the land-use areas were not significant in the abundance of bats, species richness, species diversity or trophic diversity. However the species that were found, such as Glossaphaga commissarisi and Sturnia ludovici could be considered indicators of disturbed habitats suggesting …

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Blood Parasite Infection In Mice From Cloud Forest And Nearby Disturbed Habitats, December 2006, Jesse A. Blumenstock Dec 2006

Blood Parasite Infection In Mice From Cloud Forest And Nearby Disturbed Habitats, December 2006, Jesse A. Blumenstock

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Conversion of habitat by humans is pervasive, increasing, and the root of serious environmental problems. This study was performed to find differences in blood parasite infections of host mice in neotropical cloud forest versus nearby disturbed habitat. In Monteverde, Costa Rica, mice were trapped and examined for blood parasite species richness and abundance in primary forest and disturbed areas near houses. Twenty-eight mice were captured: 15 from the forest and 13 from the disturbed habitats. Eighty-six percent of these mice were of the species Peromyscus nudipes. There was no significant difference of parasite species richness between mice from the forest …

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Full Issue 9(5) Dec 2006

Full Issue 9(5)

Journal of Public Transportation

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Editor's Intorduction, Herb Hirsch Dec 2006

Editor's Intorduction, Herb Hirsch

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This is the third issue of Volume 1 of Genocide Studies and Prevention. It is the first non-topical or general issue and, therefore, contains articles covering a wide variety of topics. The lead article by Professor David Scheffer, formerly US ambassador at large for war crimes issues (1997–2001) and currently the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University, is an exciting and interesting call for a new genre of human-rights law. Arguing that the term ‘‘genocide’’ has imposed limitations on action to protect human rights, …

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Labeling “Genocide” In Sudan: A Constructionist Analysis Of Darfur, William F.S. Miles Dec 2006

Labeling “Genocide” In Sudan: A Constructionist Analysis Of Darfur, William F.S. Miles

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Labeling is critical for the framing, perception, and political implications of social problems, genocide being a critical but overlooked example. For half a century social-science theory has developed increasingly sophisticated paradigms for understanding the process by which problems are recognized and addressed: social constructionism, labeling theory, politico-linguistics, problem definition, and tipping points. Yet rarely have these theoretical frameworks been applied to genocide studies. When reconsidered in light of Sudan, these general frameworks validate the constructionist argument that the recognized severity of political problems—including government-organized or -sanctioned mass killings—is a function of the socio-linguistic processing and naming of them. Anti-genocide advocates, …

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Author Biographies Dec 2006

Author Biographies

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

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The Effect Of Wing Color On Heliconius Melpomene Mating Behavior And Its Implications On The Evolution Of Mimicry, December 2006, Ellen Thompson Dec 2006

The Effect Of Wing Color On Heliconius Melpomene Mating Behavior And Its Implications On The Evolution Of Mimicry, December 2006, Ellen Thompson

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Wing color is important to butterflies both for social signals and protection from predators. Butterflies gain protection from predators by having aposematically colored wings that warn the predator that the butterfly is distasteful. Some butterflies are also part of Mullerian mimicry complexes in which two distasteful species converge on the same color pattern to enhance their aposematic protection. Heliconius erato and Heliconius melpomene are Mullerian mimics that exhibit a wide variety of wing patterns throughout Central and South America. Their wing patterns have greatly diverged within each species, but between the species they are almost perfect mimics in each area. …

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Soil Organic Matter (Som) In Agroecosystems And Intact Cloud Forest In The Monteverde Area, Costa Rica, December 2006, J. T. Metten Dec 2006

Soil Organic Matter (Som) In Agroecosystems And Intact Cloud Forest In The Monteverde Area, Costa Rica, December 2006, J. T. Metten

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Properly managed agroecosystems have great potential for sequestering carbon as Soil Organic Matter (SOM) (Brown et al. 2002; Lal 2005). I measured % SOM, Bulk Density, Total SOM, and Root Biomass in two agroecosystems, forest fragment, and intact cloud forest in Cañitas and Monteverde, Costa Rica. These data were analyzed to see if agroecosystems and forests differ in carbon sequestering ability. I found significant differences in % SOM and Bulk Densities between agroecosystems but when Total SOM was calculated, results were not significant. Analysis on Total SOM alone suggests that agroecosystems and forest in Monteverde have an equal ability to …

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The Impact Of Grey Literature In Advancing Global Karst Research, Todd A. Chavez, Anna Perrault, Pete Reehling, Courtney Crummit Dec 2006

The Impact Of Grey Literature In Advancing Global Karst Research, Todd A. Chavez, Anna Perrault, Pete Reehling, Courtney Crummit

Academic Resources Faculty and Staff Publications

This presentation presents the findings of a survey of karst researchers from around the globe. The data suggests that karst research is heavily dependent on access to grey literature, yet formal efforts to organize for access and to preserve this important information is weak.

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Hymenoptera Diversity And Abundance In Fragmented And Continuous Forest In San Luis, Costa Rica, December 2006, Katie Macdiarmid Dec 2006

Hymenoptera Diversity And Abundance In Fragmented And Continuous Forest In San Luis, Costa Rica, December 2006, Katie Macdiarmid

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Fragmentation of forest habitats can have a negative impact on the diversity of many species. When fragmentation impacts pollination, it can result in major changes to the composition of forest plant communities as well as a reduction in fruit production for nearby agriculture. I studied Hymenoptera diversity in a four hectare fragment and a continuous forest using Euglossine traps as well as a mixture of honey and water to attract Hymenoptera species. Hymenoptera diversity did not differ significantly between the two habitats but abundance of Hymenoptera, Euglossine, and Apidae were all significantly greater in the continuous forest site. This indicates …

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Sapl Newsletter : 2006 : 12 (Fall), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library. Dec 2006

Sapl Newsletter : 2006 : 12 (Fall), Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library.

Society for Advancement of Poynter Library

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Qubit, December 2006 Dec 2006

Qubit, December 2006

Qubit (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The December 2006 issue of the Qubit.

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Suppression Of Spontaneous Genome Rearrangements In Yeast Dna Helicase Mutants, Kristina H. Schmidt, Richard D. Kolodner Nov 2006

Suppression Of Spontaneous Genome Rearrangements In Yeast Dna Helicase Mutants, Kristina H. Schmidt, Richard D. Kolodner

Kristina H. Schmidt

Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants lacking two of the three DNA helicases Sgs1, Srs2, and Rrm3 exhibit slow growth that is suppressed by disrupting homologous recombination. Cells lacking Sgs1 and Rrm3 accumulate gross-chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) that are suppressed by the DNA damage checkpoint and by homologous recombination-defective mutations. In contrast, rrm3, srs2, and srs2 rrm3 mutants have wild-type GCR rates. GCR types in helicase double mutants include telomere additions, translocations, and broken DNAs healed by a complex process of hairpin-mediated inversion. Spontaneous activation of the RadS3 checkpoint kinase in the rrm3 mutant depends on the Mec3/Rad24 DNA damage sensors and results from …

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Suppression Of Spontaneous Genome Rearrangements In Yeast Dna Helicase Mutants, Kristina H. Schmidt, Richard D. Kolodner Nov 2006

Suppression Of Spontaneous Genome Rearrangements In Yeast Dna Helicase Mutants, Kristina H. Schmidt, Richard D. Kolodner

Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications

Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants lacking two of the three DNA helicases Sgs1, Srs2, and Rrm3 exhibit slow growth that is suppressed by disrupting homologous recombination. Cells lacking Sgs1 and Rrm3 accumulate gross-chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) that are suppressed by the DNA damage checkpoint and by homologous recombination-defective mutations. In contrast, rrm3, srs2, and srs2 rrm3 mutants have wild-type GCR rates. GCR types in helicase double mutants include telomere additions, translocations, and broken DNAs healed by a complex process of hairpin-mediated inversion. Spontaneous activation of the RadS3 checkpoint kinase in the rrm3 mutant depends on the Mec3/Rad24 DNA damage sensors and results from …

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The Weekly Challenger : 2006 : 11 : 23, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Nov 2006

The Weekly Challenger : 2006 : 11 : 23, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Newspaper collection

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Disparo En Red, November 22, 2006, Disparo En Red Nov 2006

Disparo En Red, November 22, 2006, Disparo En Red

Disparo en Red (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The November 22, 2006, issue of Disparo en Red.

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Sbe Notícias, Ano 1, No. 33, November 21, 2006, Marcelo A. Rasteiro, Barbara E.P.F. Rodrigues Nov 2006

Sbe Notícias, Ano 1, No. 33, November 21, 2006, Marcelo A. Rasteiro, Barbara E.P.F. Rodrigues

SBE Notícias

Palestra na SBE destacou a utilização de SIG e SR em Espeleologia - Palestra na SBE sobre técnicas verticais - ABNT publica norma técnica para espeleoturismo de aventura - Acidente fatal com espeleosocorrista portorriquenho - Expedição percorre o Rio Ribeira de Iguape - Praga de morcegos irrita cidade americana - Estudos revelam mistérios do Homem de Neanderthal - Parque realiza consulta pública.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 14/31 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 2006

Education Policy Analysis Archives 14/31 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

No More Aggregate NAEP Studies? / Sherman Dorn.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 14/30 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 2006

Education Policy Analysis Archives 14/30 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Relationships between high-stakes testing policies and student achievement after controlling for demographic factors in aggregated data / Gregory J. Marchant, Sharon E. Paulson [and] Adam Shunk.

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Relationships Between High-Stakes Testing Policies And Student Achievement After Controlling For Demographic Factors In Aggregated Data, Gregory J. Marchant, Sharon E. Paulson, Adam Shunk Nov 2006

Relationships Between High-Stakes Testing Policies And Student Achievement After Controlling For Demographic Factors In Aggregated Data, Gregory J. Marchant, Sharon E. Paulson, Adam Shunk

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

With the mandate of No Child Left Behind, high-stakes achievement testing is firmly in place in every state. The few studies that have explored the effectiveness of high-stakes testing using NAEP scores have yielded mixed results. This study considered state demographic characteristics for each NAEP testing period in reading, writing, mathematics, and science from 1992 through 2002, in an effort to examine the relation of high-stakes testing policies to achievement and changes in achievement between testing periods. As expected, demographic characteristics and their changes were related significantly to most achievement outcomes, but high-stakes testing policies demonstrated few relationships with achievement. …

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No More Aggregate Naep Studies?, Sherman Dorn Nov 2006

No More Aggregate Naep Studies?, Sherman Dorn

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This editorial reviews recent studies of accountability policies using National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data and compares the use of aggregate NAEP data to the availability of individual-level data from NAEP. …

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Undergraduate Curricula And Assessment Committee Meeting : 2006 : 11 : 17, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Business. Undergraduate Curricula And Assessment Committee. Nov 2006

Undergraduate Curricula And Assessment Committee Meeting : 2006 : 11 : 17, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Business. Undergraduate Curricula And Assessment Committee.

Kate Tiedemann College of Business: College Curricula and Assessment Committee: Undergraduate

No abstract provided.

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Sapl Board Meeting : 2006 : 11 : 16, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library. Nov 2006

Sapl Board Meeting : 2006 : 11 : 16, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library., Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library.

Society for Advancement of Poynter Library

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