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The Bg News November 1, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 1, 2000. Volume 86-Issue 46.

Changes In Hummingbird Species Richness And Abundance In A Forest Fragment And Agricultural Ecotones, November 2000, Stephen Smith

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Hummingbirds are important pollinators in tropical forests, and their behavior is vitally important to the plants they pollinate. As the tropics become more and more fragmented, hummingbirds will play the increasingly important role of long-distance pollination of many plants between isolated tracts of forest. This study looked at the different responses of hummingbirds to a forest fragment and the surrounding agricultural land. Hummingbirds preferred edge to open areas and forest, with three feeders out of 18 getting 126 of the 482 total visits, compared to 91 total visits of the second most visited feeder. Further, the birds preferred an open …

Nectar Robbery And Pollination By Hummingbirds In Relation To Morphological And Physiological Features Of Gesneriaceae, November 2000, Catherine L. Hein

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Many flowers depend on hummingbirds for pollination. However, some hummingbirds are known to rob flowers rather than pollinate them. High robbery rates could decrease pollination reproductive fitness in these plants. Corolla length, bract coverage, nectar volume and sugar concentration, were hypothesized in this study to affect robbery rates. A long corolla, short bract, and high nectar volume and concentration were hypothesized to increase the rate of robbery. Pollination rates were also expected to increase with a high nectar volume and sugar concentration. Data were collected on Alloplectus tetragonus, Besleria formosa, and Drymonia rubra (Gesneriaceae) in the Santa Elena Reserve for …

The Effect Of Plant Location, And Leaf Position On The Adult Leaf Form Of Monstera Tenuis In Costa Rica, November 2000, Heather J. Allen

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Leaf morphology of Monstera tenuis (a tropical forest vine) differs greatly between growth stages. The mature leaf growth form has open areas presumably to prevent shading of the lower leaves on the same plant or to prevent overheating. Therefore, leaves highest on a plant, those exposed to most sun should show the most open area. Plants located on the edge of forest are exposed to more evenly distributed light; therefore, they are expected to have more open area per leaf on average. These ideas were tested in the forest and on the forest edge near the Estación Biológica Monteverde. One …

Effects Of Elevation On Pollinaria Removal In Asclepias Curassavica (Asclepiadaceae), November 2000, Carolyn S. Weaver

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Pollinaria removal was studied in three populations of Asclepias curassavica located on an elevational gradient in and around Monteverde, Costa Rica (815m, 1175m, 1440m). The following plant characteristics were also studied: number of inflorescences, number of flowers per inflorescence, number of pollinaria removed per flower, number of pods. Pollinaria removal in plants with the presence of herbivory was compared to pollinaria removal in plants without herbivory at all three elevations. Pollinaria removal and the presence of aphids were compared the same way as herbivory. Data were collected over a nine day period during the misty season (October – November). Results …

A Comparison Of Ground-Dwelling Insect Communities In Gaps And Closed Canopy Forest In The Elfin Forest Of Monteverde, Costa Rica, November 2000, Elizabeth Green

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This experiment compared communities of ground-dwelling insects in gaps and closed canopy forest in the elfin forest of the Estación Biológica Monteverde in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Insects were trapped with pitfall traps in six gaps and adjacent forest areas in October and November 2000. Shannon-Weiner Diversity indices, Margalef species richness indices, evenness (H’ /(In S)), mean abundance per site, and Morisita Similarity indices were compared. Diversity differed only for Coleopterans, which were more diverse in gaps (H’ = 1.201) than in forest (H’ = 0.8387; modified t-test t= 1.979, p < 0.001). The Margalef index of species richness did not vary between paired gap and forest sites for total insects captured, but was significantly higher for Coleopterans in the gaps than in the forest (sign test, a level 0.05). Coleopterans also had greater evenness in gaps than in forest (sign test, a level 0.05). Mean abundances in gap (8.04 +/- 7.669 mean number of insects/trap) and forest (5.09 +/- 3.191 insects/trap) sites were not different. The Morisita Similarity index was 0.4846, with 47.05% of ground-dwelling insect morphospecies shared between gaps and closed forest. Perhaps conditions in gaps and closed canopy areas in this forest are sufficiently different to allow specialization by ground-dwelling insects to one or the other habitat type.

The Parthenon, November 1, 2000, Marshall University

The Parthenon

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Automated Systematic Testing For Constraint-Based Interactive Services, Patrice Godefroid, Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan, Radha Jagadeesan, Konstantin Laufer

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Constraint-based languages can express in a concise way the complex logic of a new generation of interactive services for applications such as banking or stock trading, that must support multiple types of interfaces for accessing the same data. These include automatic speech-recognition interfaces where inputs may be provided in any order by users of the service. We study in this paper how to systematically test event-driven applications developed using such languages. We show how such applications can be tested automatically, without the need for any manually-written test cases, and effi- ciently, by taking advantage of their capability of taking unordered …

The Guardian, November 1, 2000, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty-four page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

The Pulse: November 2000, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

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Biomedical Engineering Company Announces Its Disa S-Flex Coronary Stent, Africas First Ce Marked Heart Implant, Gregory Starke

Saudi Medical Journal

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Diabetes And Perinatal Loss, A Continuing Problem, Ratib Mesleh, Adekunle A. Dekunle, A. Sobande

Saudi Medical Journal

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Factors Affecting Academic Performance Of Students In A Private College, Aw Seng Hong

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study investigates the relationships between socio-demographic and behavioral factors and academic performance of students at pre-university level in a private college. The subjects for this study are students pursuing Cambridge 'A' Level and South Australian Matriculation (SAM) courses at the college. The findings of this study show that past academic achievement (SPM aggregate) is the most important factor determining the performance at pre-university level. Those who obtained good SPM results tend to excel at pre-university level. Examination results also vary widely according to the socio-demographic characteristics of the students. Children of highly educated parents tend to perform better in …

Hop Integrity In Computer Networks, Mohamed G. Gouda, E.N. Elnozahy, Chin-Tser Huang, Tommy M. Mcguire

Faculty Publications

A computer network is said to provide hop integrity iff when any router p in the network receives a message m supposedly from an adjacent router q, then p can check that m was indeed sent by q, was not modified after it was sent, and was not a replay of an old message sent from q to p. We describe three protocols that can be added to the routers in a computer network so that the network can provide hop integrity. These three protocols are a secret exchange protocol, a weak integrity protocol, and a strong integrity protocol. All …

Chief Judge Melvin Shortess: A Pencil Sketch From Life, Paul R. Baier

Louisiana Law Review

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Equality And Affiliation As Bases Of Ethical Responsibility, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Louisiana Law Review

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City Of Monterey V. Del Monte Dunes At Monterey: Drawing The Battle Lines Clearly, Mark Mahaffey

Louisiana Law Review

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A "Primer", Renee Zeringue

Louisiana Law Review

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The Apocalyptic End Of The World: The View From Islam, F. V. Greifenhagen

Consensus

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The Pursuing Christ, Nancy Vernon Kelly

Consensus

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Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As A Christian Tradition, Richard A. Thrift

Consensus

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Banking Crises In Transition Economies: Fiscal Costs And Related Issues., Helena Tang, Edda Zoli, Irina Klytchnikova

Documents

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Decolonising Restoration And Justice: Restoration In Transitional Cultures, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article is a strategy for the comparative analysis of justice in various contesting forms. To identify useful levels of the comparative project, the colonising potential of restorative justice is examined. In this context the influence of formalised justice mechanisms over the less formal is explored, with examples in transitional cultures in the South Pacific discussed. Local and global potentials (and dilemmas) are identified for analysis. The integration of justice forms, both in terms of structure and ideology, is argued for. Notions of collaborative rather than restorative justice are advanced, in order that the intersection between state-sponsored and customary justice …

The “First” Justin De Jacobis, Biagio Falco C.M.

Vincentiana

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Letter Of John Paul Ii To Gaston Poulain, Bishop Of Perigueux And Sarlat, For The Fourth Centenary Of The Priestly Ordination Of The Great Apostle Of Charity

Vincentiana

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Bibliography Of Saint Giustino De Jacobis: Biografy End Studies, Luigi Nuovo C.M.

Vincentiana

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Devotion To St. Justin De Jacobis In Eritrea And Ethiopia, Iyob Ghebresellasie C.M.

Vincentiana

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Edited And Unedited Writings Of St. Justin De Jacobis, Giuseppe Guerra C.M.

Vincentiana

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Holy See: Appointments, Decree, And Letter

Vincentiana

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