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Notes On Aquarium Brood Release And Feeding Of The Opossum Pipefish, Microphis Brachyurus Lineatus, Sarah Frias-Torres

Gulf and Caribbean Research

The opossum pipefish, Microphis brachyurus lineatus, is a migratory syngnathid with a salmon-like life history (Frias-Torres 2002). Adults breed in freshwater and oligohaline habitats associated with emergent vegetation, mostly Panicum sp. and Polygonum sp.; breeding occurs during the wet season (May to November) (Gilmore and Hastings 1983). In southern Mexico, opossum pipefish associate with Ruppia maritima, and reproduction is year-round (Miranda-Marure et al. 2004). Pelagic juveniles are found in the Atlantic Ocean and are associated with Sargassum sp. (Böhlke and Chaplin 1968). Juveniles eventually recruit into oligohaline habitats. The species range is from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to New …

Predators And The Distribution And Abundance Of Blennies On Offshore Petroleum Platforms, Tommy J. Rauch

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Predation may be important in structuring fish assemblages but studies of the intensity of predation on marine fish assemblages are uncommon. Predator avoidance behavior was used to identify the predators of an assemblage of blennies found on offshore petroleum platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The distribution of predators was then compared with the distribution of 3 species of blennies to see if predation intensity was related to the vertical zonation of blennies. Predator approaches and blenniid activity were compared in low and high surface current events. Results did not support a hypothesis of predation controlling the distribution and …

The Types Of Computer Technology Skills Needed By Graduates Of The Information Systems Technology Program, Thomas Czerwinski

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

To guide the solution to this problem, the following research goals were established: 1. The researcher will identify computer skills required of entry-level technicians at Canon I.T.S.; 2. The researcher will identify the types of computer technology courses offered in the IST program at Paul D. Camp Community College; 3. The researcher will align the Canon competency needs with Paul D. Camp Community College Information Systems Technology courses.

Perspectives On Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Executive Functions, Working Memory, And Language Disabilities, Carol Westby, Silvana Watson

Communication Disorders & Special Education Faculty Publications

The conceptualization of the nature of attention deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD) has changed in the last decade. ADHD is now viewed as a neurologically based condition with primary deficits in executive functions and working memory (WM). Students with ADHD have deficits in discourse organization, inferring, and monitoring that are related to their executive function and WM deficits. A large number of students with ADHD also have comorbid reading and language disabilities that exist in addition to the deficits directly associated with the ADHD. Comprehensive evaluation of students with ADHD is essential to address their specific learning needs

On The Ecological Status Of The Concept "Boundary Conditions" - A Few Methodological Remarks, Lubomira Burchardt, Krzystof Lastowski, Harold G. Marshall

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Plant and animal populations are frequently found in habitats where the environmental conditions are considered extreme or challenging for life form to exist. These conditions may be classified as either: (1) Supreme: a situation characteristic of degradation conditions where only a few species live under stress, and (2) Extra-ordinary: habitats that provide high biodiversity that are under stress conditions. Due to the differences in what we consider extreme conditions, it is necessary to distinguish between these two categories, because they are not comparable. Our presentation will include examples of these two extreme environmental categories.

Scholarship, Pepperdine University, And The Legacy Of Churches Of Christ, Richard T. Hughes, Thomas H. Olbricht

Center for Faith and Learning Publications

We hope that this small book will help Pepperdine faculty and staff members understand more about the specific Christian tradition to which Pepperdine is related-the Churches of Christ-and how that tradition can fruitfully interact with and even sustain the task of Christian higher education in the context of this institution.

Fun With Dick And Jane And Lawrence: A Primer On Education Privacy As Constitutional Liberty, Susan P. Stuart

Law Faculty Publications

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In Search Of Themis: Toward The Meaning Of The Ideal Legislator--Senator Edmund S. Muskie And The Early Development Of Modern American Environmental Law, 1965-1968, Robert F. Blomquist

Law Faculty Publications

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"Two Guns, A Girl And A Playstation™": Gender In The Tomb Raider Series, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

This article considers the combination of game play and narrative which combine to produce cross-gender identifications in video games, a previously underexamined potential for the production of alternate genders, one which calls into question the stability of gender, particularly masculinity, as a construct.

Environmental Issues In Western Australia, Harry Recher (Ed.)

Research outputs pre 2011

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Sawtooths To Selkirks| Connecting The Wild In Idaho, Montana, And British Columbia, Joshua W. Burnim

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Waif Elements | A Natural History Of Restoration In Hawai'i, Katharine I. Hyzy

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Vitellaria Paradoxa And The Feasibility Of A Shea Butter Project In The North Of Cameroon, Karin L. Vermilye

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Sowing And Reaping On Borrowed Land| Garden City Harvest's Community Gardens, Joellen Shannon

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Rebuilding The Closet: Bowers V. Hardwick, Lawrence V. Texas, And Themismeasure Of Homosexual Historiography, Jody Madeira

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

This paper acknowledges that "[i]t is now commonplace to disparage the Hardwick Justices' performance as historians, though it is less common to specify what was wrong with it''. In an effort to engage in such specification, this paper will first address mischaracterization of history in Bowers, which portrays the historic legal and ecclesiastical penalties of what the Court labels as "homosexual activities" as a continuous, unitary narrative extending from the halls of the Emperors Theodosius and Justinian to the legislative assembly rooms of Georgia and Texas. This illusory perspective portrays the criminalization of sodomy (and therefore the identity of homosexuality …

The Fourth Annual A.A. Sommer, Jr., Lecture On Corporate, Securities & Financial Law, William J. Mcdonough, William Michael Treanor, John Fx Peloso, Jill E. Fisch

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.

Guilty As Charged, Jay Hatheway

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

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Roger Argyle V. Sterling D. Jones, Dorothy P. Jones : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from Amended Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order entered by the Honorable Claudia Laycock of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Utah County, State of Utah on January 2,2004 and the Ruling on Defendants' Rule 52(b) Motion to Amend Findings of Fact and Judgment entered on March 8, 2004.

State Of Utah V. C.R. : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

BRIEF OF APPELLEE APPEAL FROM AN ADJUDICATION OF TRUE TO A PETITION ALLEGING ONE COUNT OF WANTON DESTRUCTION OF PROTECTED WILDLIFE, A THIRD DEGREE FELONY IF COMMITTED BY AN ADULT, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. § 23-20-4 (WEST 2004), IN THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUVENILE COURT IN AND FOR UINTAH COUNTY, THE HONORABLE LARRY A. STEELE, PRESIDING

Be Not Afraid Of Change: Time To Eliminate The Corporate Practice Of Medicine Doctrine, Nicole Huberfeld

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article focuses on three key reasons that the corporate practice of medicine doctrine should be laid to rest. First, the motives for creating the corporate practice of medicine doctrine are long gone; it has been some time since physicians have been able to operate as a guild of autonomous providers of health care. The delivery and financing of health care places physicians in an integrated system that is only frustrated by the corporate practice of medicine doctrine. Second, it is disingenuous to pretend that physicians are not influenced by financial gain. This is handily evidenced by the federal and …

Race And Equality Across The Law School Curriculum: The Law Of Tax Exemption, David A. Brennen

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

What is the relevance of race to tax law? The race issues are apparent when one studies a subject like constitutional law. The Constitution concerns itself explicitly with such matters as defining rights of citizenship, allocating powers of government, and determining rights with respect to property. Given the history of our country -- with slavery followed by periods of de jure and de facto racial discrimination -- these constitutional law matters obviously must have racial dimensions.

Tax law, however, does not generally concern itself explicitly with matters of race. Tax law is often thought of as completely race neutral in …

The State Of Utah V. Rickie L. Reber, Tex William Atkins, And Steven Paul Thunehorst : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from Rulings, Orders, and Verdicts of the Eighth District Court in and for Uintah County Hon. A. Lynn Payne, presiding

South Eagle Limited Liability Company V. Utah County Board Of Adjustment : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

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South Eagle Limited Liability Comopany V. Utah County Board Of Adjustment, Et. Al : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

REPLY BRIEF AN APPEAL FROM THE AMENDED FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDER DENYING APPELLANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND GRANTING DEFENDANT'S SUMMARY JUDGMENT, IN THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THE HONORABLE GARY D. STOTT PRESIDING

Kitches And Zorn V. Yong Woo Kim : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from the Final Order of the Second Judicial District Court of Davis County, State of Utah The Honorable Rodney S. Page, District Court Judge

Exploring Life Through The Depths Of The Subconscious Mind, Urszula Blaszak

HIM 1990-2015

The animation short I have produced is very personal on the subconscious level. There is no single theme; the narrator is the viewer. It is a dream sequence aiming to achieve Kafkaesque quality. About four minutes long, combined with dynamic music this piece of work is my reaction to society, to my life, ever changing surroundings, my traveling, childhood memories, and man-woman relationships, education, feelings, everyday worries, and everything else that I at the moment of producing felt like adding. It is suppose to be a portrait of me inside. I tried to recreate the everyday chaos of thoughts, emotions, …

Field Experiments, Glenn W. Harrison, John A. List

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

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Modeling And Simulation With Augmented Reality, Khaled Hussain, Varol Kaptan

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

In applications such as airport operations, military simulations, and medical simulations, conducting simulations in accurate and realistic settings that are represented by real video imaging sequences becomes essential. This paper surveys recent work that enables visually realistic model constructions and the simulation of synthetic objects which are inserted in video sequences, and illustrates how synthetic objects can conduct intelligent behavior within a visual augmented reality.

Using Noninvasive Wearable Computers To Recognize Human Emotions From Physiological Signals, Christine Laetitia Lisetti, Fatma Nasoz

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

We discuss the strong relationship between affect and cognition and the importance of emotions in multimodal human computer interaction (HCl) and user modeling. We introduce the overall paradigm for our multimodal system that aims at recognizing its users' emotions and at responding to them accordingly depending upon the current context or application. We then describe the design of the emotion elicitation experiment we conducted by collecting, via wearable computers, physiological signals from the autonomic nervous system (galvanic skin response, heart rate, temperature) and mapping them to certain emotions (sadness, anger, fear, surprise, frustration, and amusement). We show the results of …

Some Suggestions For Keeping National Wildlife Refuges Healthy And Whole, Reed F. Noss

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

National wildlife refuges have a biological conservation mandate surpassing that of any other category of public land in the United States. The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 forged a statutory requirement to maintain the biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health of refuges, Yet, considerably more guidance from science is needed if this mandate is to be interpreted in a scientifically defensible and biologically conservative manner. After evaluation of the extent to which well-accepted goals and principles of conservation biology are reflected in the wildlife refuge system mandate and in the actual design and management of refuges, it …