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Managing Bison To Restore Biodiversity, Joe C. Truett, Michael Phillips, Kyran Kunkel, Russell Miller Apr 2001

Managing Bison To Restore Biodiversity, Joe C. Truett, Michael Phillips, Kyran Kunkel, Russell Miller

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Prior to their demise in the late 1800s, bison coexisted with and helped sustain a diverse and spectacular assemblage of animals and plant communities on the Great Plains. Bison, in concert with fire, exerted strong control on the structure of the vegetation by grazing, trampling, and wallowing. The changes in the vegetation induced changes in many animal populations. These impacts, coupled with the bison's role as the major converter of grass to meat, so greatly affected other species that some have called bison a "keystone" species in the Great Plains ecosystem. The black-tailed prairie dog, dependent on bison grazing over …

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Nutrient Composition Of Grass- And Grain-Finished Bison, Martin Marchello Apr 2001

Nutrient Composition Of Grass- And Grain-Finished Bison, Martin Marchello

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The North American buffalo (Bison bison) has survived near extinction to become a commodity (meat, hides, and hair) in a consumer-driven market. Since this is a growth industry, primarily young bulls are slaughtered for meat, while most females are used to build the herd. Bison meat is highly palatable, and previous research showed that grain-finished bison meat is low in fat and high in protein. However, bison may be grain- or grass-finished. In this study we found few differences in nutrient content of the meat between grain- or grass-finished bison. Grass-finished animals had a little more moisture (75.9 …

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Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes In Archeological Bison Remains As Indicators Of Paleoenvironmental Change In Southern Alberta, Jeremy J. Leyden, Gerald Oetelaar Apr 2001

Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes In Archeological Bison Remains As Indicators Of Paleoenvironmental Change In Southern Alberta, Jeremy J. Leyden, Gerald Oetelaar

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Between 1995 and 1997, archeological excavations in northwest Calgary, Alberta, uncovered cultural materials from several occupations dating back 8,500 years. Samples of bison bone recovered at the sites were chemically prepared and analyzed for isotopic ratios. Using the resultant carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios, we reconstructed the diet of bison from four different cultural occupations spanning the last 8,500 years. Based on current and established models of bison subsistence behavior, this dietary information was used to infer large-scale environmental changes during this time interval in our study area. The inferred changes in vegetation and climate were compared with paleoenvironmental reconstructions …

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Review Of Great Texas Birds , Paul A. Johnsgard Apr 2001

Review Of Great Texas Birds , Paul A. Johnsgard

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

John O'Neill is unique: the only active professional bird artist who is also a world-class ornithologist. He is thus a kind of reincarnation of George M. Sutton, O'Neill's mentor and the idol of thousands of lovers of birds and fine bird art. Since graduating from the University of Oklahoma, O'Neill has repeatedly visited the Peruvian tropics, discovering more than a dozen species (more than any other living biologist) and illustrating hundreds more for field guides and other ornithological books. His subjects are generally more detailed, and his palette brighter, than Sutton's, but he is able to use white space and …

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Review Of Passage Of Discovery: The American Rivers Guide To The Missouri River Of Lewis And Clark By Daniel B. Botkin, Bruce A. Barton Apr 2001

Review Of Passage Of Discovery: The American Rivers Guide To The Missouri River Of Lewis And Clark By Daniel B. Botkin, Bruce A. Barton

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In Passage of Discovery, well-known ecologist and noted author Daniel Botkin takes the reader on a historic and ecological journey up the Missouri River from its confluence near St. Charles, Missouri, to its source at Three Forks, Montana, following the route of Lewis and Clark in 1804-05. Apparent throughout is Botkin's justifiably high regard for the observational, intuitive, and leadership skills demonstrated by both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their monumental expedition. The fact that only one member of the party died, and that due to circumstances beyond their control, is a tribute to those skills.

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Editorial Matter For Volume 2, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton Apr 2001

Editorial Matter For Volume 2, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication
Editor’s Introduction, Dail Mullins
About the Authors

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Science Literacy And The Undergraduate Science Curriculum: Is It Time To Try Something Different?, Dail Mullins Apr 2001

Science Literacy And The Undergraduate Science Curriculum: Is It Time To Try Something Different?, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I had a very disturbing experience a few months ago---Dne might almost call it a crisis of faith-while leafing through the financial pages of my daily newspaper. Confronted with column after column of virtually indecipherable NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX stock quotations-and even more nonplussed by articles which made reference to such things as "put" and "call" options, small cap growth funds, and companies taking "poison pills" to avoid a hostile takeover-I realized in a flash of depressing insight that I was one of this nation's economic illiterates.

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The First Phase Of Destruction Killing The Southern Plains Buffalo, 1790-1840, Pekka Hamalainen Apr 2001

The First Phase Of Destruction Killing The Southern Plains Buffalo, 1790-1840, Pekka Hamalainen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The eradication of the vast bison herds from the North American Great Plains is one of the oldest topics in western history and, recently, also one of the most popular. Drawing ideas and methodologies from ecology and zoology, historians have revealed in the 1990s an entirely new anatomy of the destruction. According to the new interpretation, the great slaughter of the 1870s merely delivered a clinching blow to herds that had already been weakened in a number of ways. Concentrating on the Southern Plains, Dan Flores has concluded that large-scale dying may have begun as early as 1840, when a …

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Essay: Bison Restoration In The Great Plains And The Challenge Of Their Management, Judith L. Mcdonald Apr 2001

Essay: Bison Restoration In The Great Plains And The Challenge Of Their Management, Judith L. Mcdonald

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Efforts to save remnant wild bison from extermination have resulted in the establishment of herds on private, public, and tribal lands. Ironically, their successful restoration has evolved into a profitable agricultural industry and a practical alternative to raising domestic cattle. Bison restoration actively managed by humans raises ecological, ethical, and evolutionary questions about whether we are compromising their native ability to function in a grasslands ecosystem. In this essay I examine current bison management practices, conflicting human values about land-use practices, and emerging land-use initiatives focusing on wild bison and ecosystem restoration in the northern Great Plains.

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Review Of Texas Bug Book: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly By C. Malcolm Beck And John Howard Garrett, W. Eugene Hall Apr 2001

Review Of Texas Bug Book: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly By C. Malcolm Beck And John Howard Garrett, W. Eugene Hall

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Seeing the title of this book prior to reading it, I was a bit concerned about its content and possible negative outlook towards insects. Having worked as an entomologist the past sixteen years and possessing a lifelong appreciation for insects and other arthropods, I tend to think of all insects as "good," very few if any of them "bad," and none of them "ugly." Like it or not, every species of insect serves a positive or beneficial purpose in the great scheme of things within the natural world. Insects ruled this planet long before humankind became established, continue to dominate …

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Review Of The Ecological Indian: Myth And History By Shepard Krech Iii, John C. Mohawk Apr 2001

Review Of The Ecological Indian: Myth And History By Shepard Krech Iii, John C. Mohawk

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, anthropologist Shepard Krech III sets out to prove that the image of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the Americas so regularly invoked to demonstrate humanity's capacity to live harmoniously with nature is a misleading one, more the product of image building by modern ecologists than a reality of history. That image of the American Indian as ecologist was epitomized in a 1971 Keep America Beautiful, Inc. campaign against litter depicting actor Iron Eyes Cody as a Native American who shed tears over thoughtless acts of littering and pollution. It was an …

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Review Of The Smithsonian Book Of North American Mammals Edited By Don E. Wilson And Sue Ruff, Jerry Choate Apr 2001

Review Of The Smithsonian Book Of North American Mammals Edited By Don E. Wilson And Sue Ruff, Jerry Choate

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In his 1982 Journal of Mammalogy review of E. Raymond Hall's epic tome The Mammals of North America (1981), J. Knox Jones Jr. opined, "It is unlikely that any other American mammalogist would have undertaken, or will undertake again, such a gigantic task." That statement remains valid only because Hall produced useful maps.

The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals is, in many respects, a companion volume to Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1993). That book, like the present one, was a collaborative effort with the American Society of Mammalogists and the …

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Review Of The American Robin By Roland H. Wauer, Laura Erickson Apr 2001

Review Of The American Robin By Roland H. Wauer, Laura Erickson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Bookstore shelves bulge with bird books: field guides, feeding and birdhouse books, guides to hot spots, and books about individual families and species. One gaping hole in the body of bird literature has been a book about one of our most common and beloved songbirds, the American Robin. Robins nest in backyards and on buildings throughout much of the US and Canada and are one of the most familiar birds on the continent. A good book about them could fill an important niche.

Roland H. Wauer's lean volume is a start. Chapters include an overview of the robin's popularity, robin …

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What The Past Can Provide: Contribution Of Prehistoric Bison Studies To Modern Bison Management, Kenneth Cannon Apr 2001

What The Past Can Provide: Contribution Of Prehistoric Bison Studies To Modern Bison Management, Kenneth Cannon

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For over 100 years, bison in the Greater Yellowstone Area have been managed intensely. Even during the years of "natural regulation," bison herds have been heavily managed by culling. One of the fundamental goals of the plan for the Greater Yellowstone Area is to maintain the ecosystem's integrity using sound science. In order to reach this goal, it must be recognized that it is a dynamic system, continually undergoing change. However, our knowledge of such changes is extremely limited. In the case of bison, our knowledge is based on nonsystematically collected historic records and modern studies of small, isolated populations. …

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Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 1 - Complete Issue Apr 2001

Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 1 - Complete Issue

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 1 - Courting Justice With The Heart: Emotional Intelligence In The Courtroom, Nancy Perry Lubiani, Patricia H. Murrell Apr 2001

Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 1 - Courting Justice With The Heart: Emotional Intelligence In The Courtroom, Nancy Perry Lubiani, Patricia H. Murrell

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

American culture certainly has a word for sadness. In fact, we have several words, depression, dejection, sorrow, melancholy, despondency, and even a few colloquial phrases: “the blues,” “down in the dumps.” Sadness is probably one of the mildest emotions that judges see in their courtroom. On any given day they might also see anger, frustration, fear, impatience, apathy, boredom, awe, respect, intimidation, perhaps even some of the more welcome emotions, such as happiness, relief, or even joy, and that is just when the judge is on the bench. The list could go on and on. Other aspects of judicial work …

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Fish & Wildlife News: April/May/June 2001 Apr 2001

Fish & Wildlife News: April/May/June 2001

Fish and Wildlife News

Contents:
Proposal Brings Whoopers Back to East 2
Calling All Photographers! 5
Convictions, Fines in Caviar Case 6
Recarpeting a Bay 7
Students Become Refuge Biologists 8
Special Section: Native Americans 10
Apaches Join in Wolf Recovery Efforts 16
Mythical Condors Returning to West 16
The Day of the “Duck In” 20
Cooking Up Conservation 23
Spontaneity at Government Meeting 27
Fish and Wildlife...In Brief 35

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Straight From The Heart, Volume 2, Number 7, Sacred Heart University Apr 2001

Straight From The Heart, Volume 2, Number 7, Sacred Heart University

News, Magazines and Reports

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Statistical Properties Of Maximum Likelihood Estimates For Accelerated Lifetime Data Under The Weibull Model, Mahmoud A. Yousef Apr 2001

Statistical Properties Of Maximum Likelihood Estimates For Accelerated Lifetime Data Under The Weibull Model, Mahmoud A. Yousef

Doctoral Dissertations

Pipe rehabilitation liners are often installed in host pipes that lie below the water table. As such, they are subjected to external hydrostatic pressure. The external pressure leads to early deformation in the liners, which could ultimately lead to its failing or buckling before its expected service lifetime is achieved. Experiments involving long term buckling behavior of liners are typically accelerated lifetime testing procedures. In an accelerated testing procedure a liner is subjected to a constant external hydrostatic pressure and observed until it fails or for a certain time, t whichever occurs first. Liners that do not fail at time …

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The Ali Child Support Principles: Incremental Changes To Improve The Lot Of Children And Residential Parents, Leslie Joan Harris Apr 2001

The Ali Child Support Principles: Incremental Changes To Improve The Lot Of Children And Residential Parents, Leslie Joan Harris

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

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Clinical Evaluation Of A Compomer In The Restoration Of Class I And Ii Cavities In Permanent Posterior Teeth: 1-Year Results, C.G. Toh, N. H. Abu Kasim Apr 2001

Clinical Evaluation Of A Compomer In The Restoration Of Class I And Ii Cavities In Permanent Posterior Teeth: 1-Year Results, C.G. Toh, N. H. Abu Kasim

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The clinical performances of a compomer (Dyract AP") is combination with a non-rinse conditioner (K-0100”) and self-priming adhesive (K-0 I07”) were compared with a hybrid composite resin (Spectrum TPH”) in combination with a 36% phosphoric acid conditioner (DeTrey Conditioner”) and self-priming adhesive (K-0107”) in a randomized controlled split-mouth model. 23 patients with bilateral occlusal and/or interproximal caries had their teeth restored with Dyract AP in one quadrant and Spectrum TPH in the opposite quadrant by either one of the 2 evaluators. Removal of tooth structure was as dictated by caries and access. All non-caries fissures were sealed with either a …

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Clinical Evaluation Of A Compomer In The Restoration Of Class I And Ii Cavities In Permanent Posterior Teeth: 1-Year Results, C.G. Toh, N.H. Abu Kasim Apr 2001

Clinical Evaluation Of A Compomer In The Restoration Of Class I And Ii Cavities In Permanent Posterior Teeth: 1-Year Results, C.G. Toh, N.H. Abu Kasim

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The clinical performances of a compomer (Dyract AP") is combination with a non-rinse conditioner (K-0100”) and self-priming adhesive (K-0 I07”) were compared with a hybrid composite resin (Spectrum TPH”) in combination with a 36% phosphoric acid conditioner (DeTrey Conditioner”) and self-priming adhesive (K-0107”) in a randomized controlled split-mouth model. 23 patients with bilateral occlusal and/or interproximal caries had their teeth restored with Dyract AP in one quadrant and Spectrum TPH in the opposite quadrant by either one of the 2 evaluators. Removal of tooth structure was as dictated by caries and access. All non-caries fissures were sealed with either a …

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Changing The Meaning Of Motherhood, Martha M. Ertman Apr 2001

Changing The Meaning Of Motherhood, Martha M. Ertman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Ertman responds to McClain's suggestion that we should alter our understandings of care for children to see it as a public value rather than a private responsibility. Ertman both echoes McClain's focus on the importance of finding theoretical and doctrinal grounds for remunerating the work that many primary homemakers do for their families and sounds a note of caution about the majoritarian morality that often accompanies public law solutions. In light of the downside of a public law focus, Ertman explores how private law mechanisms, or public-private hybrids, might serve as alternative means to get financial support to those who …

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News From Hope College, Volume 32.5: April, 2001, Hope College Apr 2001

News From Hope College, Volume 32.5: April, 2001, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

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Attorney-Client Confidentiality And The Assessment Of Claimants Who Allege Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Robert H. Aronson, Lonnie Rosenwald, Gerald M. Rosen Apr 2001

Attorney-Client Confidentiality And The Assessment Of Claimants Who Allege Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Robert H. Aronson, Lonnie Rosenwald, Gerald M. Rosen

Washington Law Review

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was first recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. A PTSD diagnosis requires an individual or individual's loved ones to have experienced a traumatic event that was a threat to life or physical integrity and caused the individual to react to the incident with a specific number of avoidance, reexperiencing, and hyper-arousal symptoms. Obtaining a PTSD diagnosis can be of great value to a personal-injury plaintiff who claims damages due to a traumatic event. Further, if the traumatic event is unquestioned and the individual reports the classic symptoms, a PTSD diagnosis is relatively easy to …

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Pages News, Volume 9, No. 1, April 2001, Keith Alverson, Isabelle Larocque Apr 2001

Pages News, Volume 9, No. 1, April 2001, Keith Alverson, Isabelle Larocque

PAGES

Contents: Recent Progress in Paleoclimate Modeling: Climate Models of Reduced Complexity -- GCM Study of Synoptic Influences on the Isotope Record in Antarctic Ice Cores -- Isotopic Tracers in Coupled Models: A New Paleo-Tool -- Workshop Reports -- Obituary -- Program News -- Last Page

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The Voice, Spring 2001: Volume 46, Issue 3, Dordt College Apr 2001

The Voice, Spring 2001: Volume 46, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Middle School Endorsement Draws Many Students; Using the Gifts of Everyone; New Faculty Members Get Their Own Orientation; Theater Department Wins ACTF Awards; Music Department Brings Variety of Performers to Campus; Students Article Published; Women in Sciences Get Support; Calling All Dordt Writers; Dordt Hosts Its Last Staley Lecturer; Construction Progresses; Re-Accreditation Helps College Assess How Well It is Doing; First Youth Ministry Majors Get Experience at Local Churches; Finding Women Faculty is Crucial, but Challenging; Where are All the Women?; Professor and Senior Team Up for a Teaching Placement; Faculty News; Rhoda Retires as Women's Basketball Coach; Women's Basketball …

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Volume 2000-2001 - Issue 2 - Spring, 2001, Echoes Staff Apr 2001

Volume 2000-2001 - Issue 2 - Spring, 2001, Echoes Staff

Rose Echoes

No abstract provided.

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Grandparent Visitation Rights In South Carolina In The Wake Of Troxel V. Granville, Ronald M. Mcmahan Jr. Apr 2001

Grandparent Visitation Rights In South Carolina In The Wake Of Troxel V. Granville, Ronald M. Mcmahan Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Orange & White - Spring 2001, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College Apr 2001

Orange & White - Spring 2001, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

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