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Anti-Predator Behaviour In The Freshwater Gastropod Lymnaea Stagnalis, Sarah Joanne Dalesman Jan 2007

Anti-Predator Behaviour In The Freshwater Gastropod Lymnaea Stagnalis, Sarah Joanne Dalesman

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

The freshwater gastropod Lymnaea stagnalis was used as a model organism to investigate the mechanisms employed by prey species to fine-tune anti-predator behaviour to match their environment. Lymnaea stagnalis was found to exhibit both genetic adaptation of innate responses and also induced responses to predator cues. Snails were also capable of responding to predation cues via associative learning dependent on recent experience. Constitutive responses were found to differ between populations depending on the predator regime that the population experienced in the wild. Artificial selection produced in only two generations a difference in the magnitude of response between high and low …

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Effect Of Coyotes And Release Site Selection On Survival And Movement Of Translocated Swift Foxes In The Badlands Ecosystem Of South Dakota, Greg M. Schroeder Jan 2007

Effect Of Coyotes And Release Site Selection On Survival And Movement Of Translocated Swift Foxes In The Badlands Ecosystem Of South Dakota, Greg M. Schroeder

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Success of different release strategies for swift fox (Vulpes velox) translocation was evaluated in the Badlands Ecosystem in southwestern South Dakota. Release site selection (outside coyote [Canis latrans] core-use areas compared to random release sites) and release method (i.e., hard, semi-hard, and soft) were examined to determine effects on swift fox survival and movements at 50 days post-release. I hypothesized that swift foxes released outside of coyote core-use areas would survive at a higher rate than foxes released at random sites. From 2003-2006, 16 adult coyotes were fitted with Global Positioning System (GPS) radio collars and monitored during the pup …

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Status, Distribution, And Density Of White-Tailed Jackrabbits And Black-Tailed Jackrabbits In South Dakota, Dustin J. Schaible Jan 2007

Status, Distribution, And Density Of White-Tailed Jackrabbits And Black-Tailed Jackrabbits In South Dakota, Dustin J. Schaible

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The status of jackrabbit (Lepus spp.) populations throughout the Northern Great Plains has been a cause for concern by wildlife managers in recent years and there has been a paucity of information about the ecology of the white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) and the black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) in South Dakota. Since there have been little monitoring efforts for hares, 21 permanent spotlight line transects were established across South Dakota for future surveying efforts. These transects were surveyed to obtain baseline information about jackrabbit density and distribution throughout the state. Jackrabbit density was highest in the northwestern portions of the state …

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Imaging Body Structure And Mapping Brain Function: A Historical Approach, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2007

Imaging Body Structure And Mapping Brain Function: A Historical Approach, Stacey A. Tovino

Faculty Articles

Now in its second decade, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) localizes changes in blood oxygenation that occur in the brain when an individual performs a mental task. Physicians and scientists use fMRI not only to map sensory, motor, and cognitive functions, but also to study the neural correlates of a range of sensitive and potentially stigmatizing conditions, behaviors, and characteristics. Poised to move outside the traditional clinical and research contexts, fMRI raises a number of ethical, legal, and social issues that are being explored within a burgeoning neuroethics literature. In this Article, I place these issues in their proper historical …

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Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste And Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation, Carla Pratt Jan 2007

Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste And Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation, Carla Pratt

Faculty Articles

Scholars have generally characterized Loving v. Virginia as a case about the line separating whites from blacks. But within the subtext of Loving there is an additional narrative about the line separating blacks from Indians. State laws governing miscegenation had a profound impact on tribal law and the practices of tribal people by indirectly regulating interracial relations between certain nonwhite groups of people and rendering blacks as undesirable partners for marriage.

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Extending Methods For Modeling Heterogeneity In Nest-Survival Data Using Generalized Mixed Models, Jay Rotella, Mark Taper, Scott Stephens, Mark Lindberg Jan 2007

Extending Methods For Modeling Heterogeneity In Nest-Survival Data Using Generalized Mixed Models, Jay Rotella, Mark Taper, Scott Stephens, Mark Lindberg

Studies in Avian Biology

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Literature Cited, Studies In Avian Biology Jan 2007

Literature Cited, Studies In Avian Biology

Studies in Avian Biology

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Full Issue, Studies In Avian Biology Jan 2007

Full Issue, Studies In Avian Biology

Studies in Avian Biology

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Acknowledgments, Larry B. Spear, David G. Ainley, William A. Walker Jan 2007

Acknowledgments, Larry B. Spear, David G. Ainley, William A. Walker

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

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Breeding Birds Of Lake Meredith National Recreation Area And The Alibates Flint Quarries, Michael Patrikeev Jan 2007

Breeding Birds Of Lake Meredith National Recreation Area And The Alibates Flint Quarries, Michael Patrikeev

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument are located in the Texas Panhandle (Potter, Moore, and Hutchinson counties), and poorly known ornithologically. This paper confirms nesting of 37 species, and nesting is suspected for a further 35 species. Additionally, 41 species that may or have nested in the area are discussed.

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The Muduga And Kurumba Of Kerala, South India And The Social Organization Of Hunting And Gathering, George Tharakan C. Jan 2007

The Muduga And Kurumba Of Kerala, South India And The Social Organization Of Hunting And Gathering, George Tharakan C.

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This article examines the subsistence practices among the Muduga and Kurumba of Attappady in Kerala paying close attention to the socio-ecological basis of their economic activities. This facilitates an understanding of the close relationship between the distribution of natural and cultural communities, and the way in which the society is organized to reach a successful accommodation of a specific set of environmental needs. The data presented relate to wild and domesticated food products and the kin and social systems employed for obtaining them. I conclude that, although hunting and gathering alone could provide a subsistence, in a modern situation, dependence …

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Generative Social Science: Studies In Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Eric C. Jones Jan 2007

Generative Social Science: Studies In Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Eric C. Jones

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

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Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; 12-Month Finding On A Petition To List The Jollyville Plateau Salamander (Eurycea Tonkawae) As Endangered With Critical Habitat; Proposed Rule 50 Cfr Part 17, National Archives And Records Administration. Office Of The Federal Register Jan 2007

Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; 12-Month Finding On A Petition To List The Jollyville Plateau Salamander (Eurycea Tonkawae) As Endangered With Critical Habitat; Proposed Rule 50 Cfr Part 17, National Archives And Records Administration. Office Of The Federal Register

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

Summary of the proposal to list the Jollyville Plateau salamander as endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Open Access See Extended description for more information.

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Phylogeography Of Cave Crickets (Ceuthophilus Spp.) In Central Texas: A Keystone Taxon For The Conservation And Management Of Federally Listed Endangered Cave Arthropods, Kevin P. Johnson, Jean K. Krejca, John D. Murdoch Jan 2007

Phylogeography Of Cave Crickets (Ceuthophilus Spp.) In Central Texas: A Keystone Taxon For The Conservation And Management Of Federally Listed Endangered Cave Arthropods, Kevin P. Johnson, Jean K. Krejca, John D. Murdoch

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

Ceuthophilus spp. (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) in two subgenera (Ceuthophilus and Geotettix) were examined phylogenetically, morphologically, and biogeographically in order to improve our understanding of these species that carry nutrients into caves and are thus closely tied to rare and endangered troglobites in central Texas. Crickets were collected from 43 caves across central Texas, and outgroup taxa were collected in west Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, and Mexico. We analyzed 1263 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA from the COI and ND5 genes and complemented this data with morphometric analyses of 19 morphological characters. Phylogenetic trees from the molecular analysis allowed us to …

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Risks Of Diazinon Use To The Federally Listed Endangered Barton Springs Salamander (Eurycea Sosorum), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Jan 2007

Risks Of Diazinon Use To The Federally Listed Endangered Barton Springs Salamander (Eurycea Sosorum), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

The purpose of this assessment is to make an "effects determination" for the Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) by evaluating the potential direct and indirect effects of currently registered uses of the insecticide diazinon within the Barton Springs area (action area) on the survival, growth, and reproduction of this federally listed endangered species. This assessment was completed in accordance with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Endangered Species Consultation Handbook (USFWS/NMFS, 1998 and procedures outlined in the Agency's Overview Document (U.S. EPA, 2004). Open Access - Permission by Publisher See Extended description for …

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Risks Of Carbaryl Use To The Federally Listed Endangered Barton Springs Salamander (Eurycea Sosorum), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Jan 2007

Risks Of Carbaryl Use To The Federally Listed Endangered Barton Springs Salamander (Eurycea Sosorum), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

The purpose of this assessment is to make an "effects determination" for the Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) by evaluating the potential direct and indirect effects of currently registered uses of the insecticide carbaryl within the Barton Springs area (action area) on the survival, growth, and reproduction of this federally-listed endangered species. This assessment was completed in accordance with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Endangered Species Consultation Handbook (USFWS/NMFS, 1998 and procedures outlined in the Agency's Overview Document (U.S. EPA, 2004). Open Access - Permission by Publisher See Extended description for more …

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Conservation Of Grassland Birds In North America: Understanding Ecological Processes In Different Regions, Robert A. Askins, Felipe Chavez-Ramirez, Brenda C. Dale, Carola A. Haas, James R. Herkert, Fritz L. Knopf, Peter D. Vickery Jan 2007

Conservation Of Grassland Birds In North America: Understanding Ecological Processes In Different Regions, Robert A. Askins, Felipe Chavez-Ramirez, Brenda C. Dale, Carola A. Haas, James R. Herkert, Fritz L. Knopf, Peter D. Vickery

Ornithological Monographs

Many species of birds that depend on grassland or savanna habitats have shown substantial overall population declines in North America. To understand the causes of these declines, we examined the habitat requirements of birds in six types of grassland in different regions of the continent. Open habitats were originally maintained by ecological drivers (continual and pervasive ecological processes) such as drought, grazing, and fire in tallgrass prairie, mixed-grass prairie, shortgrass prairie, desert grassland, and longleaf pine savanna. By contrast, grasslands were created by occasional disturbances (e.g., fires or beaver [Castor canadensis] activity) in much of northeastern North America. The relative …

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Nesting Records Of The Ovenbird In Bibb County, Georgia, Paul Johnson Jan 2007

Nesting Records Of The Ovenbird In Bibb County, Georgia, Paul Johnson

Oriole

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Exhibition Catalog, Beyond The Quill: Printed Books, 1450-1500, February 22 - September 30, 2007, Lesley T. Stone, James P.S. Ascher Jan 2007

Exhibition Catalog, Beyond The Quill: Printed Books, 1450-1500, February 22 - September 30, 2007, Lesley T. Stone, James P.S. Ascher

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

An exhibition catalog for the exhibit "Beyond the Quill: Printed Books, 1450-1500" held from February 22, 2007 to September 30, 2007, at the University of South Florida, Tampa Library. Included is introductory text by Derrie Perez and Lesley T. Stone. Each page or folio in that portion of the exhibit (referred to as catalogs) is included in the guide to the exhibit. There is also a glossary, figure index, and suggestions for further reading.

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A Social Defense Of Sarbanes-Oxley, James A. Fanto Jan 2007

A Social Defense Of Sarbanes-Oxley, James A. Fanto

Faculty Scholarship

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Acadian Biospeleology: Composition And Ecology Of Cave Fauna Of Nova Scotia And Southern New Brunswick, Canada, Max Moseley Jan 2007

Acadian Biospeleology: Composition And Ecology Of Cave Fauna Of Nova Scotia And Southern New Brunswick, Canada, Max Moseley

KIP Articles

The vertebrate and invertebrate fauna, environment and habitats of caves and disused mines in Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick are provisionally catalogued and described, based on field collections made over many years. The area was glaciated and the subterranean fauna consists of non-troglobites all of which have arrived and colonised the caves during or following final recession of the Pleistocene glaciers. The statistical composition of the fauna at the higher taxonomic level is similar to that in Ontario, but is less species rich and there are some notable ecological and other differences. Porcupine dung accumulations are an important habitat …

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The Hiv/Aids Prevention Project For Vulnerable Youth In Northern Nigeria: Community Advocates Training Manual, Population Council, Adolescent Health And Information Projects, Federation Of Muslim Women's Associations In Nigeria, Islamic Education Trust Jan 2007

The Hiv/Aids Prevention Project For Vulnerable Youth In Northern Nigeria: Community Advocates Training Manual, Population Council, Adolescent Health And Information Projects, Federation Of Muslim Women's Associations In Nigeria, Islamic Education Trust

HIV and AIDS

This Community Advocates training manual contains a curriculum developed by the Population Council, Nigeria, under the HIV Prevention Project for Vulnerable Youth in Northern Nigeria funded by USAID/Nigeria. The curriculum was developed as a tool for training community advocates in conducting advocacy activities on the issues of early marriage, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive health. The curriculum aims to improve knowledge and strengthen the skills of community representatives from the northern region of Nigeria so they can openly discuss sensitive issues relating to HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and marriage. Designed to be adapted or implemented as written, the curriculum is based on the …

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Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights In Software Products And How To Accomplish A Technology Transfer Transaction In China, Felix Miao Jan 2007

Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights In Software Products And How To Accomplish A Technology Transfer Transaction In China, Felix Miao

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Contents, Discovery Editors Jan 2007

Contents, Discovery Editors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Quantifying Soil Chemical Properties Using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy, Robert L. Ficklin, Shane M. Foley, Robert E. Kissell Jr. Jan 2007

Quantifying Soil Chemical Properties Using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy, Robert L. Ficklin, Shane M. Foley, Robert E. Kissell Jr.

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Methodologies for determining soil chemical properties have evolved dramatically during the past century. Early geochemical analyses were conducted exclusively through the use of wet chemistry techniques that were relatively reliable but painstaking and subject to errors at various stages of analysis. Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) has emerged as a new approach for rapidly analyzing a variety of materials including soils. In this study soil samples were taken from eight study areas across the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas, and NIRS calibration models were developed to determine the accuracy of using NIRS to analyze soils compared with standard soil chemical analysis …

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Summer Food Habits Of Young Grass Pickerel (Esox Americanus),Warmouth (Lepomis Gulosus), And Logperch (Percina Caprodes) From A Cove In Lake Ouachita, Garland County, Arkansas, C. Renn Tumlison, Christian Carroll, Matt Greenwood Jan 2007

Summer Food Habits Of Young Grass Pickerel (Esox Americanus),Warmouth (Lepomis Gulosus), And Logperch (Percina Caprodes) From A Cove In Lake Ouachita, Garland County, Arkansas, C. Renn Tumlison, Christian Carroll, Matt Greenwood

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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How To Create—Or Destroy—Wealth In Real Property, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2007

How To Create—Or Destroy—Wealth In Real Property, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

Current legal conceptions of property differ in the private and the public law. The former develops a comprehensive conception that gives full protection for each element in the bundle of rights - possession, use and disposition - which allows parties to enter into complex transactions that increase wealth for the parties without prejudicing outsiders. Constitutional doctrine gives strong protection to exclusion, but weak protection to use and disposition, and thus invites a complex range of government strategies that reduce property value, without creating any offsetting gain in third parties.

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Deference, Delegation, And Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox Jan 2007

Deference, Delegation, And Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox

Faculty Articles

The history of immigration jurisprudence is a history of obsession with judicial deference. The foundational doctrine of constitutional immigration law - the plenary power doctrine - is centrally concerned with such deference. This century-old doctrine has been augmented by developments in administrative law that often obligate judges to defer to agencies' factual and legal judgments. Taken together, these constitutional traditions and administrative law trends would appear to make it inevitable that federal courts will passively accept administrative judgments on immigration matters. Yet Judge Richard Posner's recent immigration jurisprudence flips this foundational premise on its head: his immigration opinions exhibit extremely …

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Education And Women’S Empowerment: Re-Examining The Relationship, Dilshad Ashraf, Iffat Farah Jan 2007

Education And Women’S Empowerment: Re-Examining The Relationship, Dilshad Ashraf, Iffat Farah

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

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My Brother The Buffalo: An Ethnohistorical Documentation Of The 1999 Buffalo Walk And The Cultural Significance Of Yellowstone Buffalo To The Lakota Sioux And Nez Perce Peoples, Sarah Anne Tarka Jan 2007

My Brother The Buffalo: An Ethnohistorical Documentation Of The 1999 Buffalo Walk And The Cultural Significance Of Yellowstone Buffalo To The Lakota Sioux And Nez Perce Peoples, Sarah Anne Tarka

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This study was prepared for the National Park Service to serve as documentation of the cultural significance of Yellowstone buffalo to two American Indian cultural groups, the Nez Perce and the Lakota Sioux, and of the 1999 Buffalo Walk and accompanying ceremony that took place within the boundary of the park. Both Lakota Sioux and Nez Perce peoples had leadership roles in the Buffalo Walk, which was a benchmark event in the history of the park and of Yellowstone buffalo management. Participants in the Buffalo Walk walked and rode more than 500 miles from Rapid City, South Dakota to the …

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