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Corticosterone And Foraging Behaviour In A Pelagic Seabird, F Angelier, Scott A. Shaffer, H Weimerskirch, C Trouvé, O Chastel

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

Because endocrine mechanisms are thought to mediate behavioral responses to changes in the environment, examining these mechanisms is essential for understanding how long-lived seabirds adjust their foraging decisions to contrasting environmental conditions in order to maximize their fitness. In this context, the hormone corticosterone (CORT) deserves specific attention because of its major connections with locomotor activities. We examined for the first time the relationships between individual CORT levels and measurements of foraging success and behavior using satellite tracking and blood sampling from wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) before (pretrip CORT levels) and after (posttrip CORT levels) foraging trips during the incubation …

A Framework For Monitoring Arctic Marine Mammals

United States Marine Mammal Commission

A Framework for Monitoring Arctic Marine Mammals

“The Deepest And Widest Metaphor For Life” Re-Visions Of Christian Faith In Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Nicole Camastra

Robert Penn Warren Studies

While it would be foolish to assert that Warren was a committed Christian and unequivocal believer, a kind of tempered faith does exist in some of Warren’s poems from Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978. Manuscript revisions of “Amazing Grace in the Back Country” and “Heart of the Backlog” reveal Warren’s struggle to find faith, not his conviction of living in it. However, “Heart of Autumn,” the final poem in the volume, points to the conscious act of surrendering to the depth of theistic conflict in its preceding counterparts.

The Use And Misuse Of Disclosure As A Regulatory System, Paula J. Dalley

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Selective Activation Of Estrogen Receptor-Β Transcriptional Pathways By An Herbal Extract, Aleksandra Cvoro, Sreenivasan Paruthiyil, Jeremy O. Jones, Christina Tzagarakis-Foster, Nicola J. Clegg, Deirdre Tatomer, Roanna T. Medina, Mary Tagliaferri, Fred Schaufele, Thomas S. Scanlan, Marc I. Diamond, Isaac Cohen, Dale C. Leitman

Biology Faculty Publications

Novel estrogenic therapies are needed that ameliorate menopausal symptoms and have the bone-sparing effects of endogenous estrogens but do not promote breast or uterine cancer. Recent evidence suggests that selective activation of the estrogen receptor (ER)-beta subtype inhibits breast cancer cell proliferation. To establish whether ERbeta-selective ligands represent a viable approach to improve hormone therapy, we investigated whether the estrogenic activities present in an herbal extract, MF101, used to treat hot flashes, are ERbeta selective. MF101 promoted ERbeta, but not ERalpha, activation of an estrogen response element upstream of the luciferase reporter gene. MF101 also selectively regulates transcription of endogenous …

The Patriot, V. 04, N. 02, Stony Brook University. Patriot.

The Patriot

v.: ill.; 32 cm (original analog pub.)

Inverting The Cave: Edgar Huntly And The Enlightenment, Abby Sherwood

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Population Responses Of Wood Frog (Rana Sylvatica) Tadpoles To Overwintered Bullfrog (Rana Catesbeiana) Tadpoles, Leroy J. Walston, Stephen J. Mullin

Faculty Publications

A fundamental goal in ecology is to understand how environmental variation influences the distribution of individuals within a population. In this study, we used laboratory experiments to examine the population responses of sympatric Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) tadpoles to native overwintered Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) tadpoles. For periods of up to two weeks, we measured growth, activity, and refuge use of Wood Frog tadpoles in small mesocosms with and without an overwintered Bullfrog tadpole present. Bullfrog tadpoles had a negative effect on the growth of Wood Frog tadpoles allotopic (naive) to Bullfrogs, whereas the presence of Bullfrogs had no effect on …

Financial Report, 2006, City Of Glendale

UMSLCAB - UMSL’s Political Science Millennial Era Saint Louis Local Curated Area Budgets

This resource is one among many in the UMSLCAB open dataset at IRL.UMSL.edu/CAB

Annual Financial Report, 2006, City Of Hillsboro

UMSLCAB - UMSL’s Political Science Millennial Era Saint Louis Local Curated Area Budgets

This resource is one among many in the UMSLCAB open dataset at IRL.UMSL.edu/CAB

Calvin Bibliography 2007, Paul Fields

Calvin Bibliographies

No abstract provided.

Smokejumper Magazine, January 2007, National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines

This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Prisoner in Laos Part II (continues in article from October 2006), Remembering Chuck Dywart, Alaska Fire Control Jumpers, Smokejumping and Ski Jumping (Historic). Smokejumper Magazine continues Static Line, which was the original title of the NSA quarterly magazine.

The Western Shoshone Struggle: Opening Doors For Indigenous Rights, Julie Ann Fishel

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

By a review of the recent Western Shoshone success at the United Nations, this paper focuses on the present-day circumstances of the Western Shoshone and the ongoing impairment of Indigenous rights caused by U.S. laws and policies. This article will walk the reader through the international process used by the Western Shoshone petitioners and provide thoughts on how to build on that success and move towards full recognition, respect for and implementation of Indigenous Peoples' human rights.

National Louis University Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog, 2006-2007, National Louis University

National Louis University Course Catalogs

Course catalog for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Heavy Metal Migration From The Savannah River Site, Frank Carl Ph.D., Savannah Riverkeeper

Savannah Riverkeeper

In addition to the radioactive waste for which the Savannah River Site is famous, there have been tons of potentially toxic heavy metals and thousands of gallons of organic solvents discarded on the Site, much of it in unlined ditches or in constructed depressions called seepage basins. With little containment many of these toxins have reached the groundwater and some have reached Four Mile Branch. The DOE is attempting to monitor the migration of the toxins and to slow their contamination of both the groundwater and the surface water on the Site.

Since the heavy metal contamination on the Site …

Standardizing Sampling Effort On Autosimilarity For Comparing Assemblages: Effect Of Species-Occurrence And Species-Abundance Distributions, Y. Cao, Charles P. Hawkins, J. Van Sickle

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Prairie Rendezvous, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Winter 2007), Grand Prairie Friends, Prairie Grove Volunteers

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Program Booklet, Allen K. Lanham, Marlene Slough, Peggy Manley

Farm Life: Booklet and Audio Files

Review: Eat Smart North Carolina: Guidelines For Healthy Foods And Beverages At Meetings, Gatherings, And Events, Megan Mccallister, Kelly Knust, Lindsey Wilson, Melanie Burns

Faculty Research & Creative Activity until 2018 (FCS)

No abstract provided.

Physical Contests For Females In The Japanese Beetle, Popillia Japonica, Paul Switzer, Kipp C. Kruse

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

We conducted field observations of physical competition for mates, in which a single male attempts to usurp a female from another male, in male Japanese beetles, Popillia japonica Newman (Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae). Physical contests for mates were relatively rare, but when they occurred the challenger male was able to successfully takeover females by dislodging the previously paired resident male in only 18% of contests, suggesting that a substantial prior residency advantage exists in this species. Challenger males that were successful in takeover attempts were significantly larger than the resident male. In contrast, no size pattern was found between intruding males and …

Using Dragonflies As Common, Flexible, And Charismatic Subjects For Teaching The Scientific Process, Paul Switzer

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Male And Female Body Size On Mating Behavior Of Male Fairy Shrimp, Eubranchipus Neglectus, Craig Feigenbaum, Paul V. Switzer

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

We studied size-related mating patterns in the freshwater fairy shrimp Eubranchipus neglectus in the laboratory. Males were provided with relatively small or large females that they could only sense by vision. We recorded the number of times a male pursued the female (“follows”), the duration of these follows, and the number of times a male attempted to grasp the female. Relatively large males performed more mating behavior than relatively small males. Furthermore, males (regardless of their own size) exhibited more mating behavior towards large than small females. They followed large females more frequently, attempted to grasp large females more often, …

Farm Life, Booth Library

Booth Library Programs

Further information about this program can be found on the Booth Library FARM LIFE exhibit page.

Exhibit Dates
This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library February 5 - March 7, 2007

Copyright Crash Course - Who Owns What?, Georgia K. Harper

A repository of copyright educational resources for higher education

Copyright Crash Course's page explaining ownership of materials, how to obtain copyright and how to protect your own intellectual property through copyright.

Nevada Institute For Children's Research And Policy Public Health Bills- 2007 Session - Final, Nevada Institute For Children's Research And Policy Reports

Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy Reports

Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy Public Health Bills- 2007 Session - Final

Innovation, July, 2007, Unknown

Issues

No abstract provided.

Social And Cultural Change In Ireland As Seen In Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer Novels, Eamon Maher

Books/Chapters

No abstract provided.

Working With Navajos: A Case Study Of A Diversity Training Programme, Bruce Carolan

Other resources

This paper critically analyzes – in a qualitative, exploratory way – a diversity training programme designed by Mr. Marshall Plummer, the former Vice President of the Navajo Nation, called ‘Working with Navajos.’ My research query is whether the training programme is consistent with theoretical models for developing intercultural sensitivity, particularly M.J. Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. (Bennett, 1993; Bennett & Bennett, 2004) My research has included a document review and semi-structured, in-depth interviews with key informants, including Mr. Plummer.

De Boerinn (Netherlands), Thomas Cooney

Case studies

Hendrik Jan Hoogendoom and his parents sat around the family dinner table and once again discussed the key problem facing the business in which they all worked. There had been many changes in the use of their land over the past two decades but they knew that they had not yet achieved the maximum economic return from it. Currently, the primary income came from recreation activities, which were extremely successful for six months of the year. But the challenge remained on how they could keep the business equally active during the long cold winter months.

Responding To Nietzsche: The Constructive Power Of Destruktion, Francis J. Mootz Iii

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.