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Shelling Out For Genomics, Timothy S. Mcclintock, Charles D. Derby

Physiology Faculty Publications

A report on the symposium 'Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Crustacean Biology' held as part of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2006 Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA, 4-8 January 2006.

The Montclarion, April 20, 2006, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Chic-Fil-A Takes Top Collegiate Sales in the Nation
• Campus News
• National News
• Classifieds
• Sports
• Hiatus

The Evolution Of Hominid Bipedalism, Michael J. Friedman '06

Honors Projects

Paleoanthropologists mark the divergence between apes and hominids with the adaptation ofbipedalism five to six million years ago. In this paper, I argue that while the first upright hominids occurred in this time frame, the process ofbecoming a fully efficient biped took much longer and was not complete until Homo erectus at 1.8 million years ago. To provide context to the puzzle ofhow and why our ancestors evolved upright walking, I examine many of the prevailing theories ofbipedal origins, including the aquatic ape hypothesis, the heat hypothesis, and the carrying hypothesis.

The Tower, 4/20/2006

University Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, April 20, 2006, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Volume 97 Issue 24, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

04-19-2006 Swosu Orchestra Plans Pops Concert, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2006

The Southwestern Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra will have its spring pops concert this Tuesday, April 25, on the Weatherford campus.

Spartan Daily, April 19, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 126, Issue 43

Housing Price Determinants In The Lynchburg, Virginia Area, Benjamin L. Ferguson

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

The effect of certain variables on the price of a house is a subject that has been very widely studied. This paper attempts to generate a pricing model for houses in the Lynchburg VA, area using the physical characteristics of a home and other locational variables. The model will attempt to create a representation of the housing price equation for the market in the area. The results of the equation will allow the ability to predict future housing prices in the market, given certain physical and locational values that are similar for the area. 3

Indiana Wildlife Disease News, Volume 1, Issue 2 -- April 2006

Indiana Wildlife Disease News

Special points of interest:
• Special Issue on feral swine
• Avian influenza surveillance in wild birds
• A case study of interaction between feral and wild swine in Indiana
• An update on wildlife disease in Indiana and surrounding states

Inside this issue:
Feral swine threat 2
Feral swine in Indiana 2
Avian influenza update 3
Feral swine case study 3
Dead bird calls: what to do 4
Midwest Wildlife Disease Update 5
EDEN (Extension Disaster Education Network) 5

The Spinnaker Vol. 29 No. 30, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

"Loss Of Estrus" And Concealed Ovulation In Human Evolution: A Reevaluation., Joshua S. Wagener '06

Honors Projects

Accounts ofhuman evolution tend to highlight a number ofsignificant characteristics as critical in defining humanity including bipedalism (Jolly 1970, Lovejoy 1981, Wheeler 1984), enlarged brains (Falk 1990, Foley 1996), hairlessness (Morris 1963, Schwartz and Rosenblum 1980), and language (pinker and Bloom 1990, Dunbar 1996). Less frequently, scholars have focused on the unique aspects of human sexuality. In this paper, I seek to demonstrate that sexual swellings are not the norm among alloprimates and that the prevailing absence ofestrus among female humans is better viewed as a derived trait which is no more unique than that of any other primate. As …

Panther - April 2006 - Vol. Lxxxiv No. 21, Prairie View A&M University

PV Panther Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Electrobraide Fencing As A White-Tailed Deer Barrier, Thomas W. Seamans, Kurt C. Vercauteren

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations continue to increase, resulting in direct threats to public safety and increased agricultural losses. A variety of fencing methods are used to reduce deer presence at airports and agricultural areas. Electric fences may offer a less expensive alternative to expensive woven-wire fences. We tested an electric fence product, ElectroBraide^TM (Yarmouth, N.S., Canada), on free-ranging deer in northern Ohio. We conducted both 1- and 2-choice tests, measuring deer intrusions and corn consumption at 10 sites encompassed with charged, non-charged or no fence. Mean daily deer intrusions decreased in each test when the fence …

The Advocate (Vol. 3, Issue 12)

Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...)

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Counting the Days
• Campus News
• National
• Opinion
• Feature
• Classifieds
• Sports
• News

Spectator 2006-04-19, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, April 19, 2006, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

I Know You Are, But What Am I? A Temporal Approach To Legal Classification, Wendy A. Adams

ExpressO

No real epistemological disagreement exists that legal knowledge can be represented and understood in categorical form. At issue is the extent to which categorical analysis captures the full complexity of legal reasoning. Can legal reasoning be represented as a taxonomy of mutually-exclusive classes, a taxonomy considered necessary if legal certainty and the rule of law are to prevail, or does the complexity of the process defy attempts at exhaustive classification?

The author agrees with those who argue that multiple legal concepts must often be applied simultaneously to resolve legal problems. The author also acknowledges that simultaneous application of multiple concepts …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 4/18/2006, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Bard Observer, Vol. 20, No. 12 (April 18, 2006), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

No abstract provided.

Recommendation For An E-Commerce Implementation For A Small Business, Kelly A. Harr

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Small Business E-Commerce Solution With the prevalence of the Internet it is important for many small businesses to have a Web presence to remain competitive. For this professional project the author has researched and proposed what it would take to put together an end-to-end E-commerce solution for a small local fly-fishing company in Boulder, Colorado and made a recommendation for implementation. This included researching what was available both open source and commercially for each of the E-commerce web site components, studying the business needs, and making a recommendation for implementation. This allowed the author to pull together what has been …

Anti-Individualism And Rationality, Adam J. Arico

Theses

Paul Boghossian has argued that externalist descriptions of mental content are unfit for assessments of rationality. An individual, he suggests, can comport with the principles of logic and rationality if and only if she is able to introspectively recognize the content of her thoughts and beliefs without relying on empirical evidence. Jessica Brown argues, first, that Boghossian¿s notion of rationality is unrealistic and incompatible with modern experimental data, and second, that his principles of transparency of mental content are unreasonable and, ultimately, self-defeating. In defending Boghossian¿s notion of rationality, and subsequently his transparency principles, this paper attempts to respond to …

Murray Ledger And Times, April 18, 2006, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

La Story: Improving Care Management For The Chronically Ill And Chronically Underserved, Eileen Salinsky, Jessamyn Taylor

National Health Policy Forum

This Los Angeles-based site visit examined safety net and private sector efforts to improve care coordination for underserved and vulnerable populations, including the homeless, the uninsured, the undocumented, and individuals with chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma, and severe mental illness. The visit highlighted challenges and innovations in the use of disease management programs, information systems, performance incentives, and managed care as tools for improving care coordination.

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Alters Alpha2 Receptor Expression In Adolescent Rats, Rosemarie M. Booze, David R. Wallace, Janelle M. Silvers, Barbara J. Strupp, Diane M. Snow, Charles F. Mactutus

Neuroscience Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Prenatal cocaine exposure produces attentional deficits which to persist through early childhood. Given the role of norepinephrine (NE) in attentional processes, we examined the forebrain NE systems from prenatal cocaine exposed rats. Cocaine was administered during pregnancy via the clinically relevant intravenous route of administration. Specifically, we measured alpha2-adrenergic receptor (alpha2-AR) density in adolescent (35-days-old) rats, using [3H]RX821002 (5 nM).

RESULTS: Sex-specific alterations of alpha2-AR were found in the hippocampus and amygdala of the cocaine-exposed animals, as well as an upregulation of alpha2-AR in parietal cortex.

CONCLUSION: These data suggest that prenatal cocaine exposure results in a persistent alteration …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 95 [96], No. 45 (April 18, 2006), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 95, but it is the 96th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Discontinuities In Ecological Data, Craig R. Allen

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Historically, ecology has focused on continuous distributions and smooth transitions. Only recently have discontinuities and thresholds become an explicit focus in some areas of ecology, especially in the realm of complex systems. The study of animal body mass distributions has been recognized for its potential to provide insight into the underlying processes shaping animal communities. Hutchinson (1) formalized the understanding of species niches and the potential for competition to shape body mass distributions. However, despite a long history of theoretical and empirical pursuit, the mechanisms driving patterns in body mass distributions remain poorly understood. The work of Scheffer and van …

The Bg News April 18, 2006, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 18, 2006. Volume 96-Issue 138.