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Back Matter (Pdf), Wader Study Group Bulletin

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Research News And Comment, Wader Study Group Bulletin

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Annual Conference Of The International Wader Study Group, Papenburg, Germany, 4-7 November 2004, Wader Study Group Bulletin

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Notes And News, Wader Study Group Bulletin

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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A Revised Estimate Of The Breeding Population Of Common Sandpipers Actitis Hypoleucos In Great Britain And Ireland, T. W. Dougall, P. K. Holland, D. W. Yalden

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Seasonal Abundance Of Migrant Shorebirds In Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, And California, Usa, Roberto Carmona, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Georgina Brabata

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Waterbird Phenology And Opportunistic Acceptance Of A Low-Quality Wader Staging Site At Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia, Nils Anthes, Hans-Heiner Bergmann, Arne Hegemann, Sophie Jaquier, Jan Ole Kriegs, Sergej W. Pyzhjanov, Holger Schielzeth

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Sexing Eurasian Oystercatchers Haematopus Ostralegus From Breast Feathers Collected When Ringing, Hazel K. Watson, Rebecca J. Mogg, Joanna M. Bond, Sarah E. A. Le V. Dit Durell

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Current Status Of The Endangered Tuamotu Sandpiper Or Titi Prosobonia Cancellata And Recommended Actions For Its Recovery, R. J. Pierce, C. Blanvillain

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Mole Snake Pseudaspis Cana Predation Of African Black Oystercatcher Haematopus Moquini Eggs, K. M. Calf

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Back Matter (Pdf), Wader Study Group Bulletin

Wader Study Group Bulletin

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Concerning The Revision Of Statutes In The Colorado Revised Statutes, As Amended, Amending Or Repealing Obsolete, Inconsistent, And Conflicting Provisions Of Law And Clarifying The Language To Reflect The Legislative Intent Of The Laws., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Seed Quality Qtl In A Prominent Soybean Population, D. L. Hyten Jr., V. R. Pantalone, C. E. Sams, A. M. Saxon, D. Landau-Ellis, T. R. Stefaniak, M. E. Schmidt

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is a versatile crop due to its multitude of uses as a high protein meal and vegetable oil. Soybean seed traits such as seed protein and oil concentration and seed size are important quantitative traits. The objective of this study was to identify representative protein, oil, and seed size quantitative trait loci (QTL) in soybean. A recombinant inbred line (RIL) population consisting of 131 F6-derived lines was created from two prominent ancestors of North American soy-beans (‘Essex’ and ‘Williams’) and the RILs were grown in six environments. One hundred simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers …

Guidance And Counseling Issues In South Africa's Non-Racial Schools, Joyce Hickson, Donna Pascoe

Perspectives In Learning

Guidance teachers and school counselors in non-racial schools in South Africa need to assess the relevance of their services for individuals from different cultures. The importance of providing relevant crosscultural guidance and counseling in school settings has been underscored by numerous empirical studies which indicate that traditional psychotherapy and counseling are often inappropriate for meeting the needs of culturally different clients. Atkinson, Morten, and Sue (1993) assert that despite recognition that cultural diversity requires multicultural rather than monocultural counseling practices, the systematic study of cross-cultural communication only took root in the late twentieth century. Only recently has the term “counseling” …

The Promethean, Volume 12, Number 02, Winter 2004, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

Welcome to the Fall/Winter 2003-04 issue of The Promethean. We are pleased to feature essays, poems, and artwork contributed by members of the Concordia University community during the fall semester. This is our most substantial issue to date and we are pleased with the breadth of perspective and genre that is represented. This issue features the three entries in our annual fall themed-essay forum: "Is the World a Safer Place?" The writers that participated, printed here, offer thoughtful reflections on our responses to September 11 and the war on tenorism.

Also in this issue local poet David Biespiel reflects on …

Environment: Garrison Dam, Columbia River, The Ijc, Ngos Proceedings Of The Canada-United States Law Institute Conference On Multiple Actors In Canada-U.S. Relations: Environment: Garrison Dam, Columbia River, The Ijc, Ngos, John Knox

Canada-United States Law Journal

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Discussion Following The Remarks Of Mr. Gherson And Mr. Strang Proceedings Of The Canada-United States Law Institute Conference On Multiple Actors In Canada-U.S. Relations: The Role Of The Media And Public Perceptions, Discussion

Canada-United States Law Journal

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Fact Book 2003-2004, Various

General Fiscal Chronicle

Annual Report to the Board Of Trustees of George Fox College

The Reconcilability Of The Nahimana “Media Case” Decision For Direct And Public Incitement To Commit Genocide And Persecution As A Crime Against Humanity With U.S. Free Expression Law, Philip E. Hamilton

War Crimes Memoranda

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Animal Science Alumni Newsletter, Winter 2004

Department of Animal Science: Departmental News

Contents:

Four Animal Science Faculty Awarded Omtvedt lnnovation Awards
Animal Science Leadership Academy
From the Department Head’s Desk
New Faculty
Animal Science Leadership Academy
Alum Earns First Degree in Culinary
Middle School Science Teacher Learns about Research First Hand
Sahs Exhibition Hall Named After Former Director
Former Department Head to Retire From University of Wisconsin
Animal Science Graduate Student Association (ASGSA)
Bud Britton Golf Classic
ASGSA Activities
Ambassador Activities
Equestrian Team Successful Again
Sixth Annual Block and Bridle Steak Fry
Recent Department Awards and Recognitions
Nold Receives Distinguished Specialist Award
Wolverton 2004 4-H Hero's Award
Notable Undergraduate
Beef Top 40 …

Solving The Puzzle Of The Archaeological Labyrinth: Time Perspectivism In Mediterranean Surface Archaeology, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

This chapter critiques the currently embraced paradigm in Mediterranean surface archaeology of regional/settlement pattern studies – seated in flat-time functional metaphysic. As shown by Mediterranean archaeologists, that chronotype does not deal well with either complexity or history. And, attending methods, also as demonstrated by Mediterranean archaeologists, do not consistently accommodate or satisfactorily assign meaning to the varied archaeological landscape. But another formational metaphysic exists and seems better to comprehend the complex, historical world and to acknowledge landscape variation.This chapter argues for approaches to the Mediterranean landscape that accept and embrace a time perspectivism.

Artifact, Landscape, And Temporality In Eastern Mediterranean Archaeological Landscape Studies, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Intensive survey over the last several decades has detailed an archaeological surface record in the Mediterranean that Cherry (1983:395, emphasis in original) describes as "likely to consist of a virtually continuous spatial distribution of material over the landscape, but a distribution extremely variable in density." In addition, geoarchaeological work, often coupled with survey, has demonstrated just how dynamic Mediterranean surfaces have been. Both of these field practices, intensive survey and geoarchaeology, were carried out in part to enable regional settlement pattern studies, to collect accurate, reliable, and precise data about past settlements and their location with respect to each other …

Poison Hunting Strategies And The Organization Of Technology In The Circumpolar Region, Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

INUPIAT ESKIMO WHALERS are allowed to kill up to 50 bowhead whales every year in the arctic waters off Barrow, Alaska. Some of the older bowheads are more than 20 m in length and weigh more than 50 tons. Since 1981 the Inupiat have found at least six lance and harpoon end blades embedded within the thick blubber that insulates these magnificent mammals (Raloff 2(00). These archaeological weapon points included projectiles fashioned from chipped stone, ground slate, ivory, and iron. Wildlife biologists have suspected that whales may live to be quite old. One can only imagine their surprise, however, once …

Niche: A Productive Guide For Use In The Analysis Of Cultural Complexity, Lewis R. Binford

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

THIS CHAPTER EXPLORES some of the interpretative implications of a failure to consider the potential causes for organized variability among cultural systems. The niche concept is considered useful when exploring organizational similarities and differences among cultural systems and central to a productive discussion regarding the differences between living systems that are biologically as opposed to culturally organized. Some interesting issues regarding systems complexity are focused upon through a discussion of mutualism and what is implied by the term when students of cultural systems use the idea.

Predicting Population Gene Frequency From Sample Data, R. M. Lewis, B. Grundy, L. A. Kuehn

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

With an increase in the number of candidate genes for important traits in livestock, effective strategies for incorporating such genes into selection programmes are increasingly important. Those strategies in part depend on the frequency of a favoured allele in a population. Since comprehensive genotyping of a population is seldom possible, we investigate the consequences of sampling strategies on the reliability of the gene frequency estimate for a bi-allelic locus. Even within a subpopulation or line, often only a proportion of individuals will be genotype tested. However, through segregation analysis, probable genotypes can be assigned to individuals that themselves were not …

Effects Of Food Quality On Growth And Carcass Composition In Lambs Of Two Breeds And Their Cross, R. M. Lewis, J. M. Macfarlane, G. Simm, G. C. Emmans

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The effects offood quality, breed type and sex (ram and ewe) on Iamb growth and carcass composition, and their changes throughout growth, were measured. The three breed typeswereScottish Blackface (B; no. = 24), Suffolk (S; no. = 28) and their reciprocal crosses (X; no. 33). The lambs had free access to a nutritionally non-limiting food, H, or a bulky food, L. Each lamb was scanned using X-ray computed tomography to measure the weights offat, lean and bone in the carcass at three degrees of maturity (0·30, 0·45 and 0·65) in live weight. Live weight and food intake data were recorded …

Exogenous Estrogen Boosts Circulating Estradiol Concentrations And Calcium Uptake By Duodenal Tissue In Heat-Stressed Hens, K.K. Hansen, M.M. Beck, S.E. Scheideler, Erin E. Blankenship

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

In the hen, heat stress (HS) disrupts shell calcification and reproductive processes, including hormone synthesis and egg production. Two studies were conducted to investigate palliative effects of exogenous estrogen or dietary vitamin D3 on Ca homeostasis and reproductive physiology during HS. Study 1: Hy-Line W36 hens were randomly assigned to thermoneutral (TN) or HS treatments and to 1 of 7 estrogen treatments: zero (control) or one Compudose 200 implant given 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, or 10 d before onset of HS. With no implant, HS reduced plasma estradiol (E2) and total Ca absorbed (CaT) by duodenal cells (P < 0.05). In TN hens with implants, plasma E2 tripled within 24 h (P < 0.05) and remained elevated (P < 0.05) through d 9. In HS hens with implants, plasma E2 rose 6-fold (P < 0.05) to equal TN+E2 concentrations and remained elevated through d 10. In TN and HS hens with implants, the rate of Ca absorption (CaTR) and CaT increased dramatically; the responses were quadratic and essentially identical. Study 2: Hy-Line W36 hens were provided diets formulated either according to NRC requirements (NRC, 1994), or with the addition of 22,000 IU/kg vitamin D3 (+VD hens). A 24-h HS episode was imposed 2 wk after initiation of the dietary regimen. Duodenal samples were collected for Ca absorption assays after the 24-h HS episode. Both CaTR and CaT in +VD hens were approximately 3-fold higher than in hens in the NVD group (P = 0.102). The results lead to the conclusion that exogenous estrogen, high levels of dietary vitamin D, or both, before a HS episode, are efficacious in alleviating at least some of the effects of HS and should be further investigated.

Linking Wild And Captive Populations To Maximize Species Persistence: Optimal Translocation Strategies, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Andrew J. Tyre, Katriona Shea, Hugh P. Possingham

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Captive breeding of animals is widely used to manage endangered species, frequently with the ambition of future reintroduction into the wild. Because this conservation measure is very expensive, we need to optimize decisions, such as when to capture wild animals or release captive-bred individuals into the wild. It is unlikely that one particular strategy will always work best; instead, we expect the best decision to depend on the number of individuals in the wild and in captivity. We constructed a first-order Markov-chain population model for two populations, one captive and one wild, and we used stochastic dynamic programming to identify …

Targeting Outcomes Of Programs: A Hierarchy For Targeting Outcomes And Evaluating Their Achievement, Kay Rockwell, Claude Bennett

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Targeting Outcomes of Programs (TOP) focuses on outcomes in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs. TOP is based on a hierarchy that integrates program evaluation within the program development process. TOP uses this simple framework to target specific outcomes in program development and then to assess the degree to which the outcome targets are reached. Intended Audience: People who develop and administer information, education, and training programs on high priority problems or issues in today's society. TOP is based on a theoretically sound framework that has been tested, revised and refined, and widely used over the past 20 years (Bennett, 1975 …

Women’S Work, Child Care, And Helpers-At-The-Nest In A Hunter-Gatherer Society, Raymond Hames, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Considerable research on helpers-at-the-nest demonstrates the positive effects of firstborn daughters on a mother’s reproductive success and the survival of her children compared with women who have firstborn sons. This research is largely restricted to agricultural settings. In the present study we ask: “Does ‘daughter first’ improve mothers’ reproductive success in a hunting and gathering context?” Through an analysis of 84 postreproductive women in this population we find that the sex of the first- or second-born child has no effect on a mother’s fertility or the survival of her offspring. We conclude that specific environmental and economic factors underlay the …