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The Unitary Waters Apprach: The Government's Misguided Attempt To Limit The Reach Of The Clean Water Act, Brad W. Blank

San Diego Law Review

This Comment will, first, determine whether the government's unitary waters approach is a viable interpretation of the SWA. Second, it will explore what characteristics should be considered to determine whether two water bodies are"meaningfully distinct." Finally, this Comment will explore the possible consequences of applying the NPDES program to water transfers between two water bodies.

Development Of Biological Reference Conditions Of Wadeable Streams In The Major Ecoregions And Subecoregions Of Georgia, Duncan L. Hughes

Theses and Dissertations

One bioassessment tool available to resource managers to indicate NPS impairment of wadeable streams and rivers are multi-metric invertebrate indices. Such indices are assembled from metrics in broad categories that represent different aspects of community structure and function (e.g. richness, composition, tolerance/intolerance, feeding group, and habit). Indices must incorporate suites of metrics that are ecologically relevant, quantifiable, non-redundant, and that best individually discriminate between reference sites and impaired sites. More than 240 wadeable streams in Georgia were sampled during the September thru February index period using RBP protocols during three successive sample seasons (1999-2003). Ecoregional reference (minimally impaired) sites, as …

Modulation Of Tyramine Signaling By Osmolality In An Insect Secretory Epithelium, Edward M. Blumenthal

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The control of water balance in multicellular organisms depends on absorptive and secretory processes across epithelia. This study concerns the effects of osmolality on the function of the Malpighian tubules (MTs), a major component of the insect excretory system. Previous work has shown that the biogenic amine tyramine increases transepithelial chloride conductance and urine secretion in Drosophila MTs. This study demonstrates that the response of MTs to tyramine, as measured by the depolarization of the transepithelial potential (TEP), is modulated by the osmolality of the surrounding medium. An increase in osmolality caused decreased tyramine sensitivity, whereas a decrease in osmolality …

Systematic Revision Of The Genus Eupleura H. And A. Adams, 1853 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) In The Neogene To Recent Of Tropical America, Gregory S. Herbert

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The systematics of the Neogene to Recent genus Eupleura of tropical America are revised, with descriptions of four new species: Eupleura engerrabunda, from the Late Miocene of Mexico (Atlantic); Eupleura gravidentata, from the Plio-Pleistocene of Colombia (Atlantic); Eupleura paroudia, from the Early or middle Pliocene of Mexico (Atlantic); and Eupleura vokesorum, from the Pliocene of Costa Rica (Pacific) and Ecuador and the Recent tropical eastern Pacific. Two recent taxa, Eupleura plicata and Eupleura limata, are also resurrected, increasing the standing diversity of Eupleura in the eastern Pacific to seven species. Eupleura limata, however, may …

Davidson As Derridean: Analytic Philosophy As Deconstruction, Samuel Wheeler

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Contributions Of Heterosis And Epistasis To Hybrid Fitness, Mitchell B. Cruzan

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Early-generation hybrid fitness is difficult to interpret because heterosis can obscure the effects of hybrid breakdown. We used controlled reciprocal crosses and common garden experiments to distinguish between effects of heterosis and nuclear and cytonuclear epistasis among morphotypes and advanced-generation hybrid derivative populations in the Piriqueta caroliniana (Turneraceae) plant complex. Seed germination, growth, and sexual reproduction of first-generation hybrids, inbred parental lines, and outbred parental lines were compared under field conditions. Average vegetative performance was greater for hybrids than for inbred lines, and firstseason growth was similar for hybrids and outbred parental lines. Hybrid survival surpassed that of inbred lines …

Realism And Idealism: Us Policy Toward Saudi Arabia, From The Coldwar To Today, Bradley L. Bowman

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Rate Response Assessment From Various Granular Vrt Applicators, John P. Fulton, Scott A. Shearer, Stephen F. Higgins, Matthew J. Darr, Timothy S. Stombaugh

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

Variable-rate technology (VRT) adds complexity to application equipment, thereby confounding the assessment of applicator performance. The intent of this investigation was to assess the rate response of various VRT granular applicators: two spinner spreaders (A and B), and two pneumatic applicators (C and D). Variable-rate (VR) tests were conducted to quantify the rate response characteristics (delay and transition times) for the applicators. A sigmoidal function was used to model the rate response for five of the six tests. Applicator A exhibited a linear response during decreasing rate changes. Results indicated that only applicator B demonstrated consistent delay and transition times, …

Ecological Costs And Benefits Of Defenses In Nectar, Lynn S. Adler, Rebecca E. Irwin

Dartmouth Scholarship

The nectar of many plant species contains defensive compounds that have been hypothesized to benefit plants through a variety of mechanisms. However, the relationship between nectar defenses and plant fitness has not been established for any species. We experimentally manipulated gelsemine, the principal alkaloid of Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens), in nectar to determine its effect on pollinator visitation, nectar robber visitation, and male and female plant reproduction. We found that nectar robbers and most pollinators probed fewer flowers and spent less time per flower on plants with high compared to low nectar alkaloids. High alkaloids decreased the donation of fluorescent …

Willful Judging Of Harry Blackmun, The, Gregory C. Sisk

Missouri Law Review

As an invited guest at a symposium in which a central place is given to examining the personal papers and judicial life of a jurist who is esteemed and even revered by many of those participating and attending, my playing of a negative note may sound discordant. Indeed, it may appear downright rude. Because my hosts assured me that the academic ideal of balanced perspectives and critical analysis animated this symposium, and that they would expect nothing less than such a countervailing viewpoint from me, I feel less churlish than otherwise I might.

Qubit, November 2005

Qubit (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The November 2005 issue of the Qubit.

Evaluation Of Cost Effective Sensor Combinations For A Vehicle Precrash Detection System, John Carlin, Charles Birdsong, Peter Schuster, William Thompson, Daniel Kawano

Mechanical Engineering

The future of vehicle safety will benefit greatly from precrash detection -the ability of a motor vehicle to predict the occurrence of an accident before it occurs. There are many different sensor technologies currently available for pre-crash detection. However no single sensor technology has demonstrated enough information gathering capability within the cost constraints of vehicle manufacturers to be used as a stand alone device. A proposed solution consists of combining information from multiple sensors in an intelligent computer algorithm to determine accurate precrash information. In this paper, a list of sensors currently available on motor vehicles and those that show …

Endorsement Retires: From Religious Symbols To Anti-Sorting Principles, Adam M. Samaha

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Eagleville Times,Volume 3, Issue 11, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

Land, Nationalism And Christian Faith, Janos Pasztor

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Increased Agonistic Behavior In Hummingbirds (Family Trochilidae) In Monteverde, Costa Rica With A Reduction Of Food At Artificial Feeders, November 2005, Taegan A. Mcmahon

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This study looked at the change in agonistic behaviors of hummingbirds (Family Trochilidae) with the reduction of an established food source at la Estación Biológica de Monteverde (1567m elevation), Costa Rica. There were three treatment periods: three feeders (ten days), one feeder (six days; reduction of food source), and three feeders (four days) between October 23 and November 14, 2005. The agonistic behaviors were the number of agonistic behaviors recorded, as well as the species composition of aggressors versus recipients. Over the three treatment periods there was an increase in hummingbird visits (treatment one to treatment two: p = 0.0030; …

Selective Bromeliad Foraging In Cebus Capucinus Along A Tropical Premontane Wet Forest Edge, November 2005, Vanessa Machen

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Herbivores of the Neotropics are generally highly selective in their foraging behavior. Cebus capucinus (Primates: Cebidae), an omnivore, has been observed tearing apart and chewing on the leaves of bromeliads in the Upper San Luis valley, Costa Rica. This study examines the use of bromeliads by Cebus capucinus. Specifically, I consider the role of plant size, leaf water content and toughness in determining which bromeliads and which leaves C. capucinus selects. Comparing intact to torn bromeliads based on size, this study determined that C. capucinus selects small- and medium-sized plants. Leaves in the intermediate position of the rosette were also …

Seed Predation On Persea Americana By Dasyprocta Punctata In Monteverde, Costa Rica, November 2005, Gregory Paul Burkard Jr.

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Dasyprocta punctata (Rodentia: Dasyproctidae), a scatter-hoarding rodent, plays an important role in seedling recruitment and tropical forest composition. (Herrera and Pellmyr 2002) The purpose of this study was to see if D. punctata maximizes its fitness by behaving as a density-dependent forager, and if the scatter-hoarding caching behavior of D. punctata is aiding the fitness of Persea americana (Lauraceae). P. americana seeds were presented to D. punctata in three distinct densities at the Santuario Ecológico in Cerro Plano, Costa Rica to observe individual seed fate. No significant difference was found for the fates of P. americana seeds between the three …

Theology Of Brotherly Love, Robert L. Marshall Jr.

Doctor of Ministry

Is it possible to have an adverse experience with Christianity and emerge being empowered by a new understanding of the gospel? Howard Thurman seems to answer that question in the affirmative. Thurman analyzes comments from Mahatma Gandhi and a barrister from "India" about Christianity under the light of the gospel. This encounter was important. It was the Genesis of Thurman's theology of brotherly love. This paper is an historical analysis of Howard Thurman's struggle to resolve the conflict between the perception that Christianity is a white man's religion and the gospel of Jesus and the disinherited. The writer will discuss …

Things Which Had Grown Are Being Made New: The Revitalization Of Missional Intent In The Diocese Of Oregon, George Thomson Hemingway

Doctor of Ministry

The problem addressed in this paper is to find out if the application of missional principles in the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon can revitalize this diocese, direct the diocese to missional ends, and provide applications for similar situations in other dioceses. This investigation assumes that the existing infrastructure of the diocese has intrinsic value for mission if it can become focused on God's mission as its primary end. This approach assumes that the diocese has been and perhaps still is distracted by matters of secondary importance such as maintenance of existing facilities, issues of power, lack of trust, and cultural …

Mine Action: Lessons And Challenges, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

Mine Action: Lessons and Challenges represents the views of selected experts as to what some of the key lessons have been, and what challenges remain for the future.

Following an Executive Summary of its main conclusions and findings, this work is laid out in two parts. Part I looks at the core activities — the “pillars” — of mine action: advocacy, victim assistance, mine risk education, demining (survey, marking and clearance of mines and unexploded ordnance) and stockpile destruction. Part II looks at key management issues, specifically, programme coordination and management, information management and capacity development. This work concludes with …

Life History Traits Of The Threatened Purple Amole (Chlorogalum Purpureum Var. Purpureum), John A. Guretzky, Elizabeth Clark, Darlene Woodbury

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Researchers monitored the threatened plant, purple amole (Chlorogalum purpureum var. purpureum) at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, from 1998 to 2004. The objectives of this research were to complete a statistical analysis of these data to evaluate: (1) demographics; (2) trends in population density; and (3) the relationship of purple amole to associated species, biological soil crusts, and disturbance. Overall, purple amole was most likely to flower and have greater seed production when it attained about 8 leaves or widths of 7 to 8 mm for its widest leaf, revealing a clear relationship between plant size and successful reproduction and seed …

Uncertainty And Informed Choice: Unmasking Daubert, Aaron D. Twerski, Margaret A. Berger

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Why The Rule Of Law?, Richard K. Greenstein

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lawlessness Revealed: The Supreme Court's Man Of Liberty Transcends Tort Law, Nelson P. Miller

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rediscovering Subjectivity In Contracts: Adhesion And Unconscionability, Richard L. Barnes

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Main Hall To Main Street, November 2005, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

Main Hall to Main Street, 2005-2010

This is volume 11, number 11 of Main Hall to Main Street.

Philip Melanchthon On Time And History In The Reformation , Timothy J. Wengert

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 11/1/2005, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.