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Antipredator Behavior And Physiology Determine Lestes Species Turnover Along The Pond-Permanence Gradient, Robby Stoks, Mark A. Mcpeek

Dartmouth Scholarship

Identifying key traits that shape trade-offs that restrict species to only a subset of environmental gradients is crucial to understanding and predicting species turnover. Previous field experiments have shown that larvae of Lestes damselfly species segregate along the entire gradient of pond permanence and predator presence and that differential predation risk and life history constraints together shape their distribution. Here, we report laboratory experiments that identify key differences in behavior and physiology among species that structure their distributions along this gradient. The absence of adaptive antipredator behavioral responses against large dragonfly larvae and fish of Lestes dryas, the only species …

A Smoking Cessation Project For African American Women: Implications For Relational Research, Suzanne M. Hanna, Patricia W. Walker, Jerome F. Walker, Jacalyn A. Claes, Cheryl K. Stewart, Ann M. Swank, L. Jane Goldsmith

SHU Faculty Publications

Smoking cessation among African Americans is a primary health objective for the nation. African American women are more likely than their counterparts to have a high dependency upon nicotine. Studies with African American women report lower quit rates than those for whites. A culturally sensitive pilot project was designed for African American women to investigate smoking, perception of family environment (FES-R, Life Events Scale, family survey), feasibility of family-focused followup sessions, and an exercise program. Baseline cigarettes were negatively correlated with the FES-R subscales for cohesion, active-recreational orientation, and moral/ religious emphasis; they were positively correlated with negativity in an …

Cultural Commentary: Bridgewater Students Look At Language, Barbara Apstein

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Subversive Fun, Charles F. Angell

Bridgewater Review

Book reviews of:

• Al Franken, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
• Michael Moore, Stupid White Men
• Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, Bushwacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

Bridgewater-In-Lucca: A Summer Tour-Of-Study In Italy, Luci Fortunato Delisle

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Simulated Properties Of Kagomé And Tetragonal Truss Core Panels, S. Hyun, Anette M. Karlsson, S. Torquato, A. G. Evans

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

The finite element method has been used to simulate the properties of panels with Kagomé and tetragonal cores under compressive and shear loading. The simulation has been performed for two different materials: a Cu-alloy with extensive strain hardening and an Al-alloy with minimal hardening. It is shown that the Kagomé core is more resistant to plastic buckling than the tetragonal core under both compression and shear. One consequence is that the Kagomé structure has the greater load capacity and a deferred susceptibility to softening. Another is that the Kagomé core is isotropic in shear: contrasting with the soft orientations exhibited …

Development And Validation Of A 3-D Model To Predict Knee Joint Loading During Dynamic Movement, Scott G. Mclean, Anne Su, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to develop a subject-specific 3-D model of the lower
extremity to predict neuromuscular control effects on 3-D knee joint loading during movements that can potentially cause injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee. The simulation consisted of a forward dynamic 3-D musculoskeletal model of the lower extremity, scaled to represent a specific subject. Inputs of the model were the initial position and velocity of the skeletal elements, and the muscle stimulation patterns. Outputs of the model were movement and ground reaction forces, as well as resultant 3-D forces and moments acting …

Hand Anthropometry Comparison Of Mexicans Vs. British And Vietnamese, Martha Contreras

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Journalism And New Media: African-American Media Outlet And Their Use Of The Internet., Latara T. Strong

Theses (Pre-2016)

Just a few years ago, a student had to visit the library and search through the card catalog to do research; a mother had to stand in line to purchase movie tickets for her children; spouses of soldiers at war had to wait days for a letter to arrive from his/her significant other serving time overseas; and the list goes on. Today, all of this has changed - the advent of the Internet has revolutionized the lives of every individual across the globe in many ways. Students may now access the library card catalog online; a mother may purchase movie …

Full Issue, No Author

Verbum

This is the full issue of Volume 1, Issue 1 of Verbum, published in Fall 2003 by the REST Club at St. John Fisher College. Articles from this issue are available as separate PDFs at http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/verbum/vol1/iss1/

Caydo: Connecting The Gaps Of Community Youth Assessments, Kenneth R. Jones, Daniel F. Perkins

Journal of Extension

Community-based assessments can be strategies that aim to work in partnership with individuals and organizations to empower communities. Often identified as a comparable alternative to needs assessments, Community YouthMapping has been developed to include youth in the community youth development process. However, the authors note significant gaps in Community YouthMapping and offer a new assessment technique that includes an adapted youth mapping process, Comprehensive Assessment of Youth Development Opportunities (CAYDO). This article takes an investigative look at the relevance of including this procedure as a needs assessment tool in the program planning and community development process.

Using Social Marketing To Plan A Nutrition Education Program Targeting Teens, Gwenn Snow, Jamie Benedict

Journal of Extension

Using focus group interviews, information was gathered from teens describing their perceptions about the benefits and barriers of consuming select nutrient-dense foods, such as dark-green leafy and deep-yellow vegetables, fruits, low-fat dairy foods, and whole grains, and their preferences for learning about foods and nutrition. The article demonstrates how social marketing was used to gather, assess, and use descriptive information to plan a nutrition education program targeting teens. While the content was specific to nutrition education and teens, the concepts presented are appropriate for Extension Educators, and applicable to a broad range of health behaviors.

Assessing The Cultural Dimensions Of The Los Niños Bien Educados Parenting Program, Henry J. Ortiz, Scott W. Plunkett

Journal of Extension

A focus group evaluation was conducted on the Los Niños Bien Educados parenting course to investigate how a cultural frame of reference used in parenting classes for Latinos affects the experiences of the parents who attend them. The findings suggested that a cultural frame of reference in parenting courses for Latinos results in increased motivation to continue attending the classes, stronger connection to the course and information, improved parent-child relationships, improvement in cultural adjustment to the U.S., and improved learning of parenting skills.

Tractor Safety Using The Sc Rops Program, Charles V. Privette Iii, Henry P. Cole

Journal of Extension

The South Carolina ROPS Program was developed to increase awareness of safety issues associated with tractor rollovers and tractor-vehicle collisions, provide education on the safe operation of tractors, and determine if the program developed at the University of Kentucky could be adapted to other states. The project used and evaluated agricultural safety programming material that was developed by the University of Kentucky's Community Partners for Healthy Farming ROPS Project. The project had an impact on the participants in that many adopted safer working practices.

Ecological Encouragement: The Role Of Agricultural Knowledge In Southern Illinois, Natalie Faris

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Refiguring Palmares, Richard Price

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In this methodological/poetical exercise, the author attempts a mind-game in which he reads through the primary and secondary sources on the great seventeenth-century Brazilian quilombo of Palmares, drawing on his knowledge of Maroon societies elsewhere in the Americas, in order to imagine the institutions of that quilombo from their own, rather than outside observers’, perspectives. Using oral testimonies from the descendants of Maroons in Suriname, and comparing them to outsiders’ views of those societies as recorded in archives, he tries to better evoke the cultural institutions that would have existed in Palmares.

Dans cet essai, à la fois méthodolgique et …

Effects Of Habitat Disturbance On The Territorial Response Of The Gray-Breasted Wood-Wren, Henicorhina Leucophrys, December 2003, Blake Audsley

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Habitat fragmentation and disturbance have become integral aspects of the neotropical landscape, impacting a variety of ecological factors. Here I attempt to quantify the relationship of bird territory size and habitat disturbance by observing the effects of habitat disturbance on avian response to conspecific playback in the Gray-breasted Wood-wren, Henicorhina leucophrys. Mean distance traveled to follow playback increased along a gradient of increasing disturbance (F = 4.435, p-value = .0165, s.d. = 27.256; 47.283; 49.094). Edge habitat birds showed significantly greater response than birds in primary and secondary growth (p-values = 0.0051; 0.0479). Variation in response also differed between habitats. …

Student Satisfaction With Michigan Community College Distance Education Courses, Eugene H. Mckay Iii

Dissertations

Distance education courses offered by community colleges and other higher education institutions are becoming popular options for students who seek a more convenient method to obtain a college education. Community colleges are actively expanding their offerings of distance education courses, both nationally and in Michigan. Yet minimal research has been conducted on a large scale to discover the factors which contribute to satisfaction with distance education courses at community colleges.

This study consists of a cross-sectional survey of over 6000 Michigan community college students in Michigan, who completed a distance education courseduring the fall semester of 2002. Sixteen of Michigan's …

Music And Language Arts A Symbiotic Relationship, Katherine Irwin Thomas

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

A Portfolio Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Kennesaw State University in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF EDUCATION

When Given Strong Wings, Any Child Can Soar, Kelly Evans

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

No abstract provided.

Raising The Bar, Jessica A. Edens

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

A Portfotio Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Kennesaw State University in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree

Música, Espacio Escénico Y Estructura Dramática En El Jardín De Falerina De Calderón De La Barca, Alejandra Pacheco Y Costa

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

In 1934, Emilio Cotarelo described El Jardín de Falerina as the first theatrical work in which Calderón de la Barca essaied a new gender intended to be performed in Spanish Court, with a greater participatíon of music than any other work until its date, according to historian Cotarelo y Mori. The creation of this comedy was thus the beginning of a new dramatic gender: the zarzuela. During seventy years since Cotarelo's work, his opinion about the gender of El Jardín de Falerina has been worked out by several scholars, and the aim of the present work is to reconsider …

El Manifiesto Teatral De Los Hermanos Machado: ¿1928 Ó 1933?, Manuela Fox

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

The Manifiesto teatral by the machado brothers has been preserved ín at least three different versions, which, according to some scholars might have been written either by both brothers or only by Antonio. The author of this article examines the Manifiesto and brings to light several important points of it, underlines several Machados' theatrical principies and emphasizes the modernity of their theatre.

El Manifiesto teatral de los Machado se nos ha conservado en, al menos, tres versiones distintas, atribuidas por los estudiosos a los dos hermanos o a Antonio en particular, la autora examina ese texto y saca a la …

El Cumpleaños De La Abadesa: Una Loa De Alonso Martín Brahones En El Convento De Santa Inés De Sevilla (1671), Carmen Alarcón Román

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

The theatre staged in enclosed convents for women in Spanish Golden Age and XVIIIth century was an interesting dramatic practice that still remains almost unknown. Some plays were wntten, performed and directed by nuns themselves, but in other cases a professional poet was usually put in charge of the composition of these specific convent pieces that commemorated the taking of vows by a novice, Christmas Eve, Corpus Christi and other celebrations. One of these plays, which we are analyzed here, is a loa written by Alonso Martin Brahones in 1671 for the convent of Santa Inés of Seville, in honour …

El Público Del Teatro Griego Antiguo, Máximo Brioso Sánchez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

The author deals with several aspects concerning theatre audience in classical Athens, among others its behaviour and influence on the evolution of dramatic genres, as well as its social composition and the view the playwrights had of it.

El autor examina diversos aspectos referidos al público teatral ateniense de la época clásica, entre otros su conducta y su papel en la evolución de los géneros dramáticos, así como la composición social y la visión que de él tenían los dramaturgos.

Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Prólogo, Ángel Berenguer

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Cosme Pérez, Actor Tudelano, Francisco Sáez Raposo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

The author unearths new fundamental data about Cosme Pérez, the most celebrated and famous actor of the 17th century, about his biography - mainly his tudelan origin and his birth certifícate - and his family. This article includes the transcription of such a document, looked for in vain by Cotarelo y Mori, who assumed that Pérez should have been born in Madrid.

El autor aporta nuevos datos fundamentales acerca de la biografía de Cosme Pérez, Juan Rana y de su familia. Pérez fue el actor más famoso y festejado del siglo XVII, protagonista de entremeses escritos especialmente para él. El …

La Propuesta Teatral De Los Teatros De Arte En España, Mar Rebollo Calzada

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

The Teatros de arte appear in Spain in the twilights of the 19th century as an offer of artistic renovation against commercial theatre, following the model of Antoine. During the twenties, this model of theatre develops the most innovative productions headed by Martínez Sierra, Rivas Cherif, and groups as El Mirlo Blanco or Fantasio. The alternative answers to commercial theatre promoted new ways of stage management, interpretation and scenographic solutions, inaugurating a route towards the aesthetic change and the education of the public.

Los Teatros de Arte en España aparecen en las postrimerías del siglo XIX como propuesta de …

Apuntes Celestinescos (I): Una Edición Moderna De La Celestina, Héctor Brioso Santos

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.