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Resource Partitioning Between Trigona Fulviventris And Scaptotrigona Mexicana With Overlapping Flight Ranges, May 2003, Michelle H. Averbeck May 2003

Resource Partitioning Between Trigona Fulviventris And Scaptotrigona Mexicana With Overlapping Flight Ranges, May 2003, Michelle H. Averbeck

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The theory of resource partitioning predicts that congeneric species are allowed to coexist by a division of the available resources. This study looks at the possibility of resource partitioning between Trigona fulviventris and Scaptotrigona mexicana on fine temporal scales in Cloud Forest habitat, a region in which stingless bee pollen diets has not been extensively studied. Workers from one T. fulviventris and one S. mexicana nest, located 200 m apart, were studied synchronously over six days. Capture-mark and release experiments verified that the foraging areas of these two nests indeed overlap. Of the 14 morphotypes of pollen brought in by …

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Harris’ Hawk Surviving In The Wild After Partial Loss Of Wing And One Hallux, Jill Morrow, Lance Morrow May 2003

Harris’ Hawk Surviving In The Wild After Partial Loss Of Wing And One Hallux, Jill Morrow, Lance Morrow

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

On 6 December 2001 an immature female Harris’ Hawk was found surviving in the wild missing half of one wing and the hallux of one foot. Apparent cause of injury was exposure to a high voltage electric current. We hypothesize that Harris’ Hawks are able to survive in the wild after sustaining serious injury more readily than other species of raptors because Harris’ Hawks are unique among raptors by cooperatively hunting and sharing food among group members.

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First Specimens Of Three Species Of Seabirds From The Upper Texas Coast, Daniel M. Brooks, Keith A. Arnold May 2003

First Specimens Of Three Species Of Seabirds From The Upper Texas Coast, Daniel M. Brooks, Keith A. Arnold

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

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Variation In Red-Billed Pigeon Clutch Size, Jack C. Eitniear, Jeff Breeden May 2003

Variation In Red-Billed Pigeon Clutch Size, Jack C. Eitniear, Jeff Breeden

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

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First Nesting Attempt Of Yellow-Faced Grassquit (Tiaris Olivacea) In The United States, Tim Brush May 2003

First Nesting Attempt Of Yellow-Faced Grassquit (Tiaris Olivacea) In The United States, Tim Brush

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

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Movement Patterns In The Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus Fuscus), W. Adam Phelps May 2003

Movement Patterns In The Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus Fuscus), W. Adam Phelps

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Temperate insectivorous bats have historically used such structures as hollow trees, slabs of loose bark, foliage, and caves as roosts. With the advent of modern man in North America, human-built structures have become available to bats. Eptesicus fuscus is one of only two species of bats in the eastern United States that regularly utilize human structures as roosts, and the only one that regularly hibernates there. Individual ~- fuscus utilizing the attic of a church on the campus of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) were implanted with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags. The electronic tag reader was placed near the only …

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Endangered Species Bulletin, May/June 2003 - Vol. Xxviii No. 3 May 2003

Endangered Species Bulletin, May/June 2003 - Vol. Xxviii No. 3

Endangered Species Bulletin

In this issue:
4 Conserving Wildlife of the Americas: Mexico’s Strategic Role
6 Conservation Along the Border
7 The Kemp’s Ridley: Recovery in the Making
10 Conserving Cacti in México
12 Black-footed Ferrets Thrive in Mexico
14 California Condors Return to Mexico
16 Nightly Wings, Nectar Sips
18 California Red-legged Frog: Jumping to Survival
20 Binational Conservation Grows from the Ground Up
22 Aquatic Life in the Sonoran Desert
24 Jaguar Conservation in the Borderlands
26 Corridors for Migration
27 Pronghorn Races Against Extinction
30 The Masked Bobwhite at Buenos Aires NWR
31 Regional News and Recovery Updates
32 Box …

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The Probe, Issue 228 – May/June 2003 May 2003

The Probe, Issue 228 – May/June 2003

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association


• The Urban Coyote -- Dallas Virchow
• Since the distribution of some species of vampire bats extends to northern Mexico, do these bats ever enter the U.S. ?
• The first of many BMPs for trapping is now on-line. Below you will find a link that provides the new Best Management Practices (BMPs) for trapping coyotes in the eastern United States: http://www.furbearermgmt.org/03ecbmp.pdf
• Human-Wildlife Conflicts in China -- Alex E Mettler, Berryman Institute, Utah State University
• An Arizona DPS officer found this animal dead along an interstate highway in Arizona. The officer thought it looked like a rat, …

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Continuing Studies Of Water Quality In Farmington Bay And The Great Salt Lake, Utah, Amy M. Marcarelli, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh May 2003

Continuing Studies Of Water Quality In Farmington Bay And The Great Salt Lake, Utah, Amy M. Marcarelli, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

For the past three years, an Aquatic Ecology Practicum class at Utah State University has conducted research examining the limnology of Farmington Bay. In 2000, our class discovered that Farmington Bay could be classified as hypereutrophic, and had significantly higher levels of chlorophyll and phytoplankton than the Great Salt Lake proper (Marcarelli et al. 2001). In 2001, individual student projects identified high phosphorus loading into Farmington Bay from surrounding sewage treatment plants, brine shrimp biomass five times lower than in the Great Salt Lake, and that the water in the bay lost all oxygen on a windy night in October …

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The Ethics Of Apology And The Role Of An Ombuds From The Perspective Of A Lawyer, Sharan Lee Levine, Paula A. Aylward May 2003

The Ethics Of Apology And The Role Of An Ombuds From The Perspective Of A Lawyer, Sharan Lee Levine, Paula A. Aylward

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University, March 20, 2003.

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Thirty-Seventh Commencement 2003 (Undergraduate), Sacred Heart University May 2003

Thirty-Seventh Commencement 2003 (Undergraduate), Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Undergraduate ceremony held May 18, 2003.

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The Advocate, May 1, 2003, Minnesota State University Moorhead May 2003

The Advocate, May 1, 2003, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

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Conundrums With Penumbras: The Right To Privacy Encompasses Non-Gamete Providers Who Create Preembryos With The Intent To Become Parents, Lainie M.C. Dillon May 2003

Conundrums With Penumbras: The Right To Privacy Encompasses Non-Gamete Providers Who Create Preembryos With The Intent To Become Parents, Lainie M.C. Dillon

Washington Law Review

To date, five state high courts have resolved disputes over frozen preembryos. These disputes arose during divorce proceedings between couples who had previously used assisted reproduction and cryopreserved excess preembryos. In each case, one spouse wished to have the preembryos destroyed, while the other wanted to be able to use or donate them in the future. The parties in these cases invoked the constitutional right to privacy to argue for dispositional control over the preembryos; two of the five cases were resolved by relying on this right. The constitutional right to privacy protects intimate decisions involving procreation, marriage, and family …

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The Mayfly Newsletter, Peter M. Grant May 2003

The Mayfly Newsletter, Peter M. Grant

The Mayfly Newsletter

The Mayfly Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Permanent Committee of the International Conferences on Ephemeroptera.

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Factors That Influence The College Attendance Decisions Of Appalachian Students, Erica Chenoweth May 2003

Factors That Influence The College Attendance Decisions Of Appalachian Students, Erica Chenoweth

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The current study sought to examine the factors that influence the decisions of Appalachian high school students regarding college attendance. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory of human development (1986) as a theoretical basis, direct and indirect influences of environmental factors upon the academic aspirations of Appalachian youth were examined using survey methodology. Results indicated that predictors of college attendance for Appalachian students are not significantly different from those of students elsewhere. Variables reflective of individual academic preparation were most salient in predicting college aspirations for both males and females. Other important predictors included parent education, parent occupation, and socioeconomic status. …

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On-Campus And Off-Campus Students' Ratings Of Instruction And Courses, Noriko Saeki May 2003

On-Campus And Off-Campus Students' Ratings Of Instruction And Courses, Noriko Saeki

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The associations of student ratings of instruction and courses (SRIC) with noninstructional variables (e.g., class size, expected grade) were examined in three instructional delivery groups--on-campus, off-campus face-to-face, and distance education courses. Factor analysis of SRIC from a 20-item form yielded two highly correlated factors, which differed somewhat across the groups ("Course " and "Instruction"; "Course/Instruction" and "Interaction Opportunities /Instructor Availability"; "Course/Instruction" and "Interaction Opportunities/Helpfulness"). The only educationally significant (r2 > .05) zero-order correlations were between SRIC total scores and expected grade, and were positive in all three groups (r2 = .07, .08, .06). In multiple regression analyses, …

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Test Of A Psychosocial Strain Model Of Delinquency For Mexican American Youth, Jose De Jesus Rodriguez May 2003

Test Of A Psychosocial Strain Model Of Delinquency For Mexican American Youth, Jose De Jesus Rodriguez

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purposes of this study were twofold: (1) to compare rates of delinquency between Mexican American and European American adolescents, and (2) to test the application of a model of delinquency designed to be especially relevant to Mexican American adolescents. The study is one of the first attempts to advance knowledge about delinquency among Mexican American adolescents through the development and test of a comprehensive model of delinquency. The model constructed as part of this study—labeled the psychosocial strain model—was unique in that it integrated variables from different theoretical perspectives and its construction was guided by knowledge of cultural and …

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Phylogenetic Position Of Pterocommatinae And Cavariella, And Implications For The Origins Of Host Alternation In Aphids, Carol A. Rowe May 2003

Phylogenetic Position Of Pterocommatinae And Cavariella, And Implications For The Origins Of Host Alternation In Aphids, Carol A. Rowe

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Aphids are morphologically simple. Their numerous hypothesized convergent reductions, such as reduced siphunculi length in association with ant attendance, have made it difficult to define morphological synapomorphies that are necessary for phylogenetic studies. Thus, I used molecular characters both to reexamine the phylogenetic relationships of Cavariella and Pterocommatinae within Aphididae, and to further map host associations and life cycles onto these phylogenies to better understand the evolutionary lability of host alternation within Aphididae. Independent and combined analyses were performed under unweighted parsimony and maximum likelihood criteria for sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II plus tRNA-Leucine plus partial cytochrome oxidase I …

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The Influence Of Fat And Water On The Melted Cheese Characteristics Of Mozzarella Cheese, Robert Lloyd Fife May 2003

The Influence Of Fat And Water On The Melted Cheese Characteristics Of Mozzarella Cheese, Robert Lloyd Fife

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The effect of reducing the fat content of low-moisture part-skim Mozzarella cheese from 19% to less than 5% on melted cheese properties, i.e., apparent viscosity, cheese melt, and cook color, was investigated. Functional properties of melt and stretch and cook color were evaluated at d 1, 7, 14, and 28. A rapid microwave oven method underestimated the moisture content of the low fat cheeses by approximately 10%. Low fat cheese did not melt as well as did the low-moisture part-skim Mozzarella cheese although the moisture content of the low fat cheese (moisture content ranged from 62.5% to 63.6%) was greater …

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May 1, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina May 2003

May 1, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

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Daily Eastern News: May 01, 2003, Eastern Illinois University May 2003

Daily Eastern News: May 01, 2003, Eastern Illinois University

May

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Tax Incentives: A Means Of Encouraging Research And Development For Homeland Security?, Jennifer L. Venghaus May 2003

Tax Incentives: A Means Of Encouraging Research And Development For Homeland Security?, Jennifer L. Venghaus

University of Richmond Law Review

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Female Sexual Arousal And Race: A Comparison Study, Katrenia Y. Reed Hughes May 2003

Female Sexual Arousal And Race: A Comparison Study, Katrenia Y. Reed Hughes

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1986) suggests that individuals differ in sexual behavior according to societal expectancies. Therefore, there may be differences in sexual responsiveness between African American and European American females, particularly to different sexual stimuli. However, few studies have investigated female sexuality and virtually none have investigated African American female sexuality. The present two-part study assessed African American and European American women's subjective sexual arousal to erotic films that vary in the ethnicity of the actors. Study one assessed participants' willingness to engage in interracial relationships, levels of sex guilt, and levels of sensation seeking. One hundred and twenty-one …

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Evidence That Acetyl Phosphate Functions As A Global Signal During Biofilm Development, Alan J. Wolfe, Dong Eun Chang, Jason D. Walker, Jeanine E. Seitz-Partridge, Michael D. Vidaurri, Charles F. Lange, Birgit M. Prüß, Margaret C. Henk, John C. Larkin, Tyrrell Conway May 2003

Evidence That Acetyl Phosphate Functions As A Global Signal During Biofilm Development, Alan J. Wolfe, Dong Eun Chang, Jason D. Walker, Jeanine E. Seitz-Partridge, Michael D. Vidaurri, Charles F. Lange, Birgit M. Prüß, Margaret C. Henk, John C. Larkin, Tyrrell Conway

Faculty Publications

We used DNA macroarray analysis to identify genes that respond to the status of the intracellular acetyl phosphate (acP) pool. Genes whose expression correlated negatively with the ability to synthesize acP (i.e. negatively regulated genes) function primarily in flagella biosynthesis, a result consistent with observations that we published previously (Prüß and Wolfe, 1994, Mol Microbiol 12: 973-984). In contrast, genes whose expression correlated positively with the ability to synthesize acP (i.e. positively regulated genes) include those for type 1 pilus assembly, colanic acid (capsule) biosynthesis and certain stress effectors. To our knowledge, this constitutes the first report that these genes …

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Thermoregulation In Swimming Mallard Ducklings (Anas Platyrhynchos), Aaron James Lynott May 2003

Thermoregulation In Swimming Mallard Ducklings (Anas Platyrhynchos), Aaron James Lynott

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Temperature regulation in birds has been studied for several decades. However, most studies have been limited to the thermal effects of air. This is surprising considering the abundance of waterfowl and the significant amount of time that many birds spend immersed in water. While we do know that water has a thermal conductivity that is 23 times that of air, the effect of water temperature on temperature regulation remains unknown. Though the thermal effect of water seemingly has a strong influence on the thermoregulation of birds, neonatal aquatic birds seem particularly susceptible. Many aquatic neonates, such as mallard ducklings, enter …

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Production Of The Siderophore 2,3-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Is Required For Wild-Type Growth Of Brucella Abortus In The Presence Of Erythritol Under Low-Iron Conditions In Vitro, Bryan H. Bellaire, Philip H. Elzer, Cynthia L. Baldwin, R. Martin Roop May 2003

Production Of The Siderophore 2,3-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Is Required For Wild-Type Growth Of Brucella Abortus In The Presence Of Erythritol Under Low-Iron Conditions In Vitro, Bryan H. Bellaire, Philip H. Elzer, Cynthia L. Baldwin, R. Martin Roop

Faculty Publications

Production of the siderophore 2,3-dihyroxybenzoic acid (2,3-DHBA) is required for the wild-type virulence of Brucella abortus in cattle. A possible explanation for this requirement was uncovered when it was determined that a B. abortus dhbC mutant (BHB1) defective in 2,3-DHBA production displays marked growth restriction in comparison to its parent strain, B. abortus 2308, when cultured in the presence of erythritol under low-iron conditions. This phenotype is not displayed when these strains are cultured under low-iron conditions in the presence of other readily utilizable carbon and energy sources. The addition of either exogenous 2,3-DHBA or FeCl3 relieves this growth defect, …

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Transformation And Homeland Security: Dual Challenges For The Us Army, Terrence K. Kelly May 2003

Transformation And Homeland Security: Dual Challenges For The Us Army, Terrence K. Kelly

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

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Unorthodox Thoughts About Asymmetricwarfare, Montgomery C. Meigs May 2003

Unorthodox Thoughts About Asymmetricwarfare, Montgomery C. Meigs

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

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Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 7, May 2003, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University May 2003

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 7, May 2003, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

An eight page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.

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Hdl-Associated Estradiol Stimulates Endothelial No Synthase And Vasodilation In An Sr-Bi–Dependent Manner, Ming Gong, Melinda E. Wilson, Thomas Kelly, Wen Su, James Dressman, Jeanie Kincer, Sergey V. Matveev, Ling Guo, Theresa Guerin, Xiang-An Li, Weifei Zhu, Annette M. Uittenbogaard, Eric J. Smart May 2003

Hdl-Associated Estradiol Stimulates Endothelial No Synthase And Vasodilation In An Sr-Bi–Dependent Manner, Ming Gong, Melinda E. Wilson, Thomas Kelly, Wen Su, James Dressman, Jeanie Kincer, Sergey V. Matveev, Ling Guo, Theresa Guerin, Xiang-An Li, Weifei Zhu, Annette M. Uittenbogaard, Eric J. Smart

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death in the United States. Two factors associated with a decreased risk of developing cardiovascular disease are elevated HDL levels and sex — specifically, a decreased risk is found in premenopausal women. HDL and estrogen stimulate eNOS and the production of nitric oxide, which has numerous protective effects in the vascular system including vasodilation, antiadhesion, and anti-inflammatory effects. We tested the hypothesis that HDL binds to its receptor, scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI), and delivers estrogen to eNOS, thereby stimulating the enzyme. HDL isolated from women stimulated eNOS, whereas HDL isolated …

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