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A Phylogenetic Analysis Of Vanzolinius Heyer, 1974 (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae): Taxonomic And Life History Implications, Rafael O. De Sá, W. Ronald Heyer, Arley Camargo

Biology Faculty Publications

The validity of the monotypic leptodactylid frog genus Vanzolinius Heyer, 1974 has been questioned recently. We explore the relationship of Vanzolinius discodactylus within the cluster of closely related genera Adenomera, Leptodacylus, and Lithodytes with both morphological and molecular data sets. Morphological and combined morphological and molecular data were analyzed using maximum parsimony; molecular data sets were analyzed with maximum likelihood methods. The resultant relationships are unambiguous in Vanzolinius being imbedded within Leptodactylus. In order to maintain Leptodactylus as a monophyletic genus, Vanzolinius is placed in the synonymy of Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826. The implications of relationships analyzed in …

Forage News [2005-10], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Kentucky Agricultural Income Tops Four Billion Dollars
• New Tall Fescue Book
• Alfalfa Hay for Horses: Myths and Realities
• Building Hay Storage Structures with Agriculture Development Board’s Cost Share Program
• KFGC Fall Board Meeting
• AFGC Annual Meeting - San Antonio March 10-14
• Late Fall Fertilization of Cool Season Grasses
• Prussic Acid Poisoning
• Comparative Lamb and Heifer Growth Rates on Non-Toxic and Endophyte-Free Tall Fescue
• Upcoming Events

Wvrhc Newsletter, Fall 2005, West Virginia & Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center Newsletters

Desperately Seeking Sherlock Holmes! The IAI Collection

Impulse, Dave Graves, Kyle Johnson, Miranda Reiman, Nicole Schaffer, Greta Stewart, Denise Watt

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

Features:
[Page] 2 South Dakota no longer is merely a launching pad: An industrialization of the economy has made the state a land of opportunity for engineers while still having a small town feel.
[Page] 4 While you were away: Brookings and SDSU aren't the places many alums remember them to be.
[Page] 6 What will lead future growth in the region?: University and community leaders are proposing a 134-acre research park adjacent to the SDSU campus.
[Page] 8 GIS Center of Excellence: Scientists have been hired for the inaugural year of operation for the Geographic Information Science Center of …

An Evening With Richard D. Parsons, Richard D. Parsons

Media Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

What About Broadcast Violence?, Shalom C. Stephens

Media Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Faculty, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

New faculty add to Law School expertise; West turns scholar's spotlight on Japanese law; Faculty members' new books; On Robert Harris; Building on...The Campaign for the University of Michigan Law School: Looking at legal education.

A Legacy Of Service, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Today's Law School inherits and continues a legacy of service that began with the School's charter leaders; In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the Law School community reaches out; Faculty members in the public arena; Gross: Correcting the past; Niehoff: Speaking out; Barr: We have a duty to advance the public good; Joseph Vining: On grand jury service; MaryAnn Sarosi, '87, the Law School's dirctor of public service on a multi-faceted commitment; A wealth of opportunities to support public service at the Law School; Two clinics - two new initiatives; Law School Debt Management/Loan Forgiveness Program; Student-run programs in the …

Sagp Ssips 2005 List Of Papers, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Alphabetical listing of the participants in the 2005 SAGP SSIPS meeting at Fordham University.

Montanan, Fall 2005, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 22, number 3.

Review Of Amphibians And Reptiles Of Montana By J. Kirwin Werner, Bryce A. Maxell, Paul Hendricks, And Dennis L. Flath, Anthony Russell

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

This volume documents comprehensively Montana's herpetofauna in a field guide/natural history format. As such, it joins other relatively recently published guides to the herpetofaunas of the northern Great Plains states and provinces that border Montana to provide extensive background information about amphibians and reptiles across this broad region. Assembled by a consortium of authors with a wealth of first-hand experience, the guide is profusely illustrated with color photographs of habitats and animals in the field, almost all of good to excellent quality, though a few are too small or indistinct to illustrate clearly the features being considered. For the most …

Review Of Damselflies Of Alberta: Flying Neon Toothpicks In The Grass By John Acorn, Dennis Lehmkuhl

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

This book is small enough to fit into a field pack or be rolled up and put in your pocket, but don't be misled by the size: it contains many compelling topics in addition to identification and species accounts. Of special interest is the chapter on the history of damselfly study in Alberta. Settlement of many areas of the Canadian and American Plains occurred about a hundred years ago, and the pattern was similar in many places-avid amateurs or professional biologists began the study of local faunas, and the stories of their personal lives and experiences in those pioneer years …

Redemptive Memory: The Christianization Of The Holocaust In America, Laura Bender Herron

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

There has been a considerable debate among historians concerning the role of the Holocaust in the American collective memory. Since the watershed year 1993, when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors on the Mall in Washington, DC, and the film Schindler’s List debuted, the level of awareness of the Holocaust in the public mind has been at an all-time high in the United States. The question at the heart of this academic discussion is how Americans have come to identify so strongly with an experience that occurred over sixty years ago, on foreign shores, to a group …

Ultra High-Speed Sorting, James F. Leary

Other Nanotechnology Publications

Background: Cell sorting has a history dating back approximately 40 years. The main limitation has been that, although flow cytometry is a science, cell sorting has been an art during most of this time. Recent advances in assisting technologies have helped to decrease the amount of expertise necessary to perform sorting. Methods: Droplet-based sorting is based on a controlled disturbance of a jet stream dependent on surface tension. Sorting yield and purity are highly dependent on stable jet break-off position. System pressures and orifice diameters dictate the number of droplets per second, which is the sort rate limiting step because …

Review Of Playas Of The Great Plains By Loren M. Smith, James H. Locklear

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

Loren M. Smith and his students at Texas Tech have been studying the ecology of playas for two decades. Playas of the Great Plains is the fruit of that work.
Playas (or playa lakes) are shallow, circular basins that hold water following rainstorms but usually dry up later in the growing season. These unique, ephemeral wetlands occur in arid and semi -arid environments around the world, but nowhere more abundantly than on the tablelands of the Southern Great Plains of North America.

Great Plains Research 15 - Annual Index 2005

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

Annual Index

Incitement In The Mosques: Testing The Limits Of Free Speech And Religious Liberty, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

In times of terror and tension, civil liberties are at their greatest peril. Nowadays, no individual rights are more in jeopardy than the freedoms of speech and religion. This is true particularly for followers of Islam, whose leaders have become increasingly radical in both their preaching and practice. "Kill the Jews!" and "Kill the Americans!" are chants heard regularly in many Middle Eastern mosques, as frightful echoes of the fatwa are issued by today's quintessential terrorist, Osama bin Laden. The incitement continues unabated to this day. In April of 2004, for example, a Muslim preacher at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in …

The Scope Of The 'Safe Harbor' Provision Of The Hatch-Waxman Act In View Of Merck V. Integra Lifesciences, Brian D. Coggio

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Ninth Annual Scientific Meeting Of The Institute Of Cardiovascular Science And Medicine & The Fifth Scientific Conference On Cardio Vascular Sciences Across The Strait

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

No abstract provided.

Notre Dame Lawyer - Fall 2005, Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Lawyer

$21 Million Dollar Gift from Alumnus Frank Eck Through the generosity of Frank Eck, a staunch supporter of the University of Notre Dame, the law school moves closer to completing its building campaign to expand the Law School.

Voices of Continuity One senior and four junior faculty members are promoted, a testament to their collective dedication to scholarship, teaching, and service.

New Voices Six new faculty members and three visiting scholars join the Notre Dame Law School, bringing a collective voice already well known in scholarly journals and conferences.

Carozza Elected Member on Human Rights Commission Professor Paolo Carozza’s dedication …

Frame-Shifting In Humor And Irony, L. David Ritchie

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

Coulson's (2001) analysis of humor as "frame-shifting" is extended to irony and compared to other current theories of humor and irony, including Giora's (2003) graded salience model. It is argued that the effects of humor and irony often depend on a subversive relationship between the initial and alternative frames, which adds to both cognitive and social meaning; understanding these effects requires consideration of the expansion of common ground (Clark, 1996) and relevance effects (Sperber & Wilson, 1986) triggered by the shift from a culturally licensed to a subversive frame. Reanalysis of several examples from recent studies in the light of …

Extended Visions, September/October 2005

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

Contents:
ARDC FEATURE UNIT - Feedmill
Ag Builders of Nebraska Visit the ARDC
Agro-Environmental Trail Project at the University of Nebraska ARDC
Best Wishes to Meduna
Calendar of Events
Director's Comments
Busy Summer Makes Way for Fall Projects
It’s Fair Time In Saunders County
Mead Magnet School Update
Valuable Experience from Horticulture Internship
Missouri and Iowa Visited on Livestock Tour
Summer Field Days Provide Education
Think Spring - In the Fall
Acreage Insights Rural Living Clinics
Landscape Maintenance Workshop
WANTED: Master Gardeners!
UNL Makes the Grade - UNL Quick Fact

Biodemography Of A Long-Lived Tephritid: Reproduction And Longevity In A Large Cohort Of Female Mexican Fruit Flies, Anastrepha Ludens, James R. Carey, Pablo Liedo, Hans-Georg Müller, Jane-Ling Wang, Damla Senturke, Lawrence G. Harshman

Lawrence G. Harshman Publications

Age of sexual maturity, daily and lifetime reproductive rates, and life span were recorded in a laboratory cohort of Mexican fruit flies consisting of over 1100 females maintained individually. The results revealed that, relative to the medfly, the Mexfly is slower maturing (14 vs 17 days), more fecund (1400 vs 650–1100 eggs/female), and longer lived (50 vs 35 days). The results reinforced the generality of several earlier findings on the medfly including the deceleration of mortality at older ages and the weakness of the correlation between the rate of egg laying at early ages and both subsequent reproduction and remaining …

Nebraska Blueprint - Fall 2005

Nebraska Blueprint (Student Publication)

Table of Contents:

Letter from the editor by Frank Pribyl
Contributors
Humanoid robotics
Gravity Galore by Celica Orwig
CGI: Computer Generated Imagery
Learn a word: Hologram
UNL mini baja team

Wildlife Health Centre Newsletter, Volume 11-1, Fall 2005

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Canada Takes a Big Step Forward
Update from the Centre for Coastal Health
West Nile Virus in non-corvid Bird Species
National Cervid Population Estimates
Fatal Encounter of a Great Horned Owl with a Porcupine
Total Amputation of Extremities in a Raccoon
Foot Gangrene in Northern Gannets
Avian Cholera in the St. Lawrence Estuary in the Common Eider
Verminous pneumonia in beluga whales from the St. Lawrence Estuary
Pesticide Toxicities in Birds
Virus Infections in Gulls & Cormorants on Lakes Erie and Ontario
A Mortality Event in Freshwater Drum from Lake Ontario, Associated with Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv), Type IV …

Masaki Miyake. Civilization And Time, Andrew Targowski

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Agroecology Of The Naso-Teribe: The Management And Conservation Of Traditional Agroecological Systems, Maisie Ganz

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The term “agroecology” is used to describe the sustainable design and management of agricultural systems by the application of ecological concepts and principles. The resulting agroecosystems, often practiced by indigenous or poor farmers in marginal environments without access to external technologies, are systems of food production that integrate cultivated crops into surrounding ecosystems. The Naso-Teribe, an indigenous community of approximately 3,800 individuals living in the forests of western Panama, practice a complex agroecological system. The Naso farmers’ agricultural practices contribute to, and are dependent on, the biodiversity of resources available. The ways in which Naso farmers manage, maintain, and preserve …

Periodismo Medioambiental, Peter Weisberg

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

INTAG is a community run, environmental newspaper that serves the county of Intag on the western slopes of the Andes in northern Ecuador. For the month of November 2005, I worked for the newspaper, writing articles and researching ways in which the paper can increase communication among different organizations that formed over the last eleven years of resistance to proposed mining. After interviewing eleven community leaders, I conclude that the paper can 1) do more to elicit the participation of groups that are currently inactive and 2) maintain its ecological position while gaining credibility by constructively criticizing the anti-mining community …

Molt Strategies And Age Differences In Migration Timing Among Autumn Landbird Migrants In Southwestern Idaho, Jay D. Carlisle, Gregory S. Kaltenecker, David L. Swanson

Intermountain Bird Observatory Publications and Presentations

Intraspecific patterns of autumn migration timing are not well known, particularly in the western United States. Here, we (1) describe autumn migration timing and age ratios of landbird migrants in southwestern Idaho, (2) examine differences in timing among age and sex classes, and (3) demonstrate how prebasic molt strategies affect migration timing differences between age classes. As a group, Neotropical migrants were most common from late July through early September, whereas temperate migrants were most common from mid-September into early October. Proportion of hatch-year birds was 74.5% for all migrants combined and ranged from 33.3% to 100% for individual species. …

Agricultural Situation And Outlook Fall 2005, Matt Ernst, Kenneth H. Burdine

Agricultural Situation and Outlook

No abstract provided.