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Stream Ambient Noise, Spectrum And Propagation Of Sounds In The Goby Padogobius Martensii: Sound Pressure And Particle Velocity, Marco Lugli, Michael L. Fine

Biology Publications

The most sensitive hearing and peak frequencies of courtship calls of the stream goby, Padogobius martensii, fall within a quiet window at around 100Hz in the ambient noise spectrum. Acoustic pressure was previously measured although Padogobius likely responds to particle motion. In this study a combination pressure (p) and particle velocity (u) detector was utilized to describe ambient noise of the habitat, the characteristics of the goby’s sounds and their attenuation with distance. The ambient noise (AN) spectrum is generally similar for p and u (including the quiet window at noisy locations), although the energy distribution of uspectrum is …

Of Birth-Mother And Daughter, Diane J. Graves

Library Faculty Research

A story from the book Risk, Courage, and Women: Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry.

Overcoming The Behavioral Impetus For Greater U.S. Energy Consumption, John C. Dernbach

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Rawls' Theory Of Justice And International Environmental Law: A Philosophical Perspective, Todd B. Adams

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Business Of Climate Change: What's Ethics Got To Do With It?, Prue Taylor

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Another Day Older And Deeper In Debt: How Tax Incentives Encourage Burning Coal And The Consequences For Global Warming, Roberta Mann

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Environmental Effects Of Shipwrecking And Possible Solutions Under India's Environmental Regime, David Dodds

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Bioenergetics-Based Population Dynamics Model Of Pacific Herring (Clupea Harengus Pallasi) Coupled To A Lower Trophic Level Nutrient–Phytoplankton–Zooplankton Model: Description, Calibration, And Sensitivity Analysis, Bernard A. Megrey, Kenneth A. Rose, Robert A. Klumb, Douglas E. Hay, Francisco E. Werner, David L. Eslinger, S. Lan Smithg

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

We describe an approach to dynamically couple a fish bioenergetics-based population dynamics model to the NEMURO lower trophic level nutrient–phytoplankton–zooplankton model. The coupled models, denoted NEMURO.FISH and configured for Pacific herring (Clupea harengus pallasii) on the west coast of Vancouver Island, are capable of simulating the daily dynamics of the lower trophic levels and the daily average weight and numbers of individual herring in each of 10 age classes over multiple years. New recruits to the herring population are added each June based on either constant recruitment or dynamic recruitment generated from an environmental Ricker spawner–recruitment relationship. The …

A Guide To Nestling Development And Aging In Altricial Passerines, Dennis Jonsomjit, Stephanie L. Jones, Thomas Gardali, Geoffrey R. Geupel, Paula J. Gouse

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Nestling growth and development studies have been a topic of interest for a greater part of the last century (Sutton 1935, Walkinshaw 1948) and continue to be of interest today. This is not surprising since studies on nestling growth can provide a wealth of biological information that has larger implications for avian management and conservation. Despite this history of studying nestling development, basic information is still limited or absent for many species. Many questions remain unanswered, and contradictory conclusions are often found in the literature (Starck and Ricklefs 1998a). Therefore, much information on aging and development can still be gained …

Lead Shot Availability To Birds Using The North Platte River Near A Trap And Skeet Range, Kimberly Dickerson, Aida Farag, Andrea Gray, Dave Harper, William Brumbaugh

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

A trap and skeet shooting range gun club is located on the North Platte River, below the Guernsey Reservoir in Wyoming. In 1999, we obtained sediment samples to determine if lead shot from shooting activities was present and potentially available to waterfowl and bald eagles. We collected 25 sediment samples, each consisting of the upper 10 cm of sediment, every 1.5 meters along transects that paralleled the river bank and skeet range. Sediment was sorted using a series of sieves. Nineteen of the 25 samples contained at least one lead shot (range = 1-14 lead shot/sample). Samples nearest the bank …

Assessment Of Impacts To Aquatic Organisms From Pesticide Use On The Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Elizabeth J. Materna, Jeremy Buck

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

The primary habitat management objective for the three refuges of the Willamette Valley NWR Complex is to provide high quality forage for wintering Canada geese. To accomplish this, much of the land within the refuge is managed for grass production involving applications of herbicides, fungicides, and fertilizers. Other agrochemicals such as insecticides are applied to agricultural land outside the refuge. Some agrochemicals used in the area have the potential to enter aquatic habitats of the refuge and could impact species such as amphibians, turtles, or the federally-listed Oregon chub. The objective of this investigation was to sample both biotic and …

Evaluation Of Wetlands Created With Effluent From A Swine Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Using Mallard Sentinels: Implications For Mcmurtrey National Wildlife Refuge, Matthew S. Schwarz, Christina D. Lydick

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Previous work by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service identified nutrients, elemental contaminants, algal toxins, bacterial pathogens, and hormones as contaminants of concern (COCs) associated with wetlands created from the secondary effluent of a large swine concentrated animal feeding operation. In this follow-up study, COC exposure and effects to waterfowl were evaluated using game farm mallards. Mallards were kept in enclosures built on two created wetlands (treatment sites) and two reference wetlands that are federally managed for waterfowl habitat. Water quality in the created wetland enclosures had higher specific conductivity, BOD, turbidity, pH, and nutrients than reference wetlands. Algal blooms …

Parasites And Pathogens Of Fish From Devils Lake, Sheyenne River, Red River, And The Red River Delta.

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

The International Joint Commission and International Red River Board contacted the AEC Co-Chairs and requested that a program be developed to monitor parasites and pathogens in Devils Lake. The objective of this program was to be a further analysis of the potential for transfer of species that might exist in Devils Lake but not in the Sheyenne River, Red River or Lake Winnipeg. Previous studies conducted on Devils Lake (Hudson and Peters, 2005, Williamson et al. 2005, Arroyo 2005) focused on fish parasites and pathogens, phytoplankton, zooplankton, aquatic macrophytes, and terrestrial plants. The IJC requested a proposal that would continue …

Automated Random Testing To Detect Specification-Code Inconsistencies, Yoonsik Cheon

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

An interface specification language such as JML provides a means to document precisely the behavior of program modules such as Java classes, and it is being adopted by industry. However, few practical tools exist for programmers to assure the correctness of their interface specifications. Nonetheless, the correctness of an interface specification is a prerequisite for the use of the specification, both as a precise API documentation and as a foundation for formal verification of and reasoning about the implementation. We propose automated random testing as a practical tool to assure the correctness of interface specifications. The key idea of our …

The Return Of The Supreme Court To Patent Law, Timothy R. Holbrook

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This Article, composed from comments made at the Eighth Annual Sughrue Symposium University of Akron School of Law, explores the various Supreme Court decisions directly in or that relate or impact patent law. It also explores the then-pending cases. It concludes by noting the altered relationship between the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court.

Book Reviews: "Musical Instruments: History, Technology, And Performance Of Instruments Of Western Music." By Murray Campbell, Clive Greated And Arnold Myers, And "From Renaissance To Baroque: Change In Instruments And Instrumental Music In The Seventeenth Century: Proceedings Of The National Early Music Association Conference Held, In Association With The Department Of Music, University Of York And The York Early Music Festival, At The University College Of Ripon And York St Johan, York, 2-4 July 1999." By Jonathan Wainwright And Peter Holman., Rudolf Rasch

Performance Practice Review

Rasch reviews two books on musical instruments.

Campbell, Murray, Clive Greated, and Arnold Myers. "Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-816504-8.

Wainwright, Jonathan, Peter Holman, eds. "From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the National Early Music Association Conference held, in association with the Department of Music, University of York and the York Early Music Festival, at the University College of Ripon and York St Johan, York, 2-4 July 1999." Aldershot Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-0403-9.

Is A Basketball Free-Throw Sequence Nonrandom? A Group Exercise For Undergraduate Statistics Students, Stephen C. Adolph

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

I describe a group exercise that I give to my undergraduate biostatistics class. The exercise involves analyzing a series of 200 consecutive basketball free-throw attempts to determine whether there is any evidence for sequential dependence in the probability of making a free-throw. The students are given the exercise before they have learned the appropriate statistical tests, so that they can come up with ideas on their own. Students spend a full class period working on the problem, with my guidance and hints. In the next class period, we discuss how each student group approached the problem. I then present several …

Janf2007, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From January 2007 Robert Kelly Archive.

Jane2007, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From January 2007 Robert Kelly Archive.

Jand2007, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From January 2007 Robert Kelly Archive.

Janc2007, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From January 2007 Robert Kelly Archive.

Overcoming The Behavioral Impetus For Greater U.S. Energy Consumption, John C. Dernbach

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Aspen Indicator Species In Lichen Communities In The Bear River Range Of Idaho And Utah, Paul C. Rogers, Roger Rosentreter, Ronald J. Ryel

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

Aspen are thought to be declining in this region due to a combination of fire suppression, grazing and wildlife management practices, and potentially cool/wet climates of the past century which favor advancing conifer succession. Many scientists are concerned that aspen’s related species may also be losing habitat, thereby threatening the long-term local and regional viability of this important community. To date, few studies have specifically examined the role of aspen’s epiphytic lichen community. This paper presents basic community research describing the application of Indicator Species Analysis for lichens growing on aspen stems in the central Rocky Mountains of North American. …

Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions In The Bullfrog, Rachel E. Lohr

Independent Studies and Capstones

Recovery of distortion product otoacoustic emissions in the bullfrog after noise exposure does not correlate with hair cell damage noted on the amphibian papilla.

Bereavement Rituals In The Muscogee Creek Tribe, Andrea C. Walker, David E. Balk

College of Science and Engineering Faculty Research and Scholarship

A qualitative, collective case study explores bereavement rituals in the Muscogee Creek tribe. Data from interviews with 27 participants, all adult members of the tribe, revealed consensus on participation in certain bereavement rituals. Common rituals included (a) conducting a wake service the night before burial; (b) never leaving the body alone before burial; (c) enclosing personal items and food in the casket; (d) digging graves by hand; (e) each individual throwing a handful of dirt into the grave before covering, called giving a ‘‘farewell handshake’’; (f) covering the grave completely by hand; (g) building a house over the grave; (h) …

Deputy-Doctors: The Medical Treatment Exception After Davis V. Washington, Elizabeth J. Stevens

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Energy Policy Act Of 2005: The Path To Energy Autonomy, The;Note, Justin Stolte

Journal of Legislation

No abstract provided.

Multi-Core Processors And The Future Of Parallelism In Software, Ryan Christopher Youngman

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis is to examine multi-core technology. Multi-core architecture provides benefits such as less power consumption, scalability, and improved application performance enabled by thread-level parallelism.

Multi-User Game Development, Cheng-Yu Hung

Theses Digitization Project

This project included the development of a multi-user game that takes place in a 3 dimensional world of the computer science department. Basically, the game allows prospective students to meet existing students and faculty in a virtual open house that takes place within the third floor of Jack Brown Hall. Users can walk around Jack Brown Hall and type text messages to chat with each other.

Environmental Education Curriculum For The California Conservation Corps, Barbara Katherine Cook

Theses Digitization Project

This project was developed to provide curriculum for young adults in the California Conservation Corps to help them connect to their employment with attitude and knowledge acquisition related to the outdoors.