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Female Mate Choice Is Influenced By Male Sport Participation, Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde, Mark A. Eys, Krista Johnson

Kinesiology and Physical Education Faculty Publications

Sexual selection theory argues that females invest more heavily in reproduction than males and thus tend to be choosier in terms of mate choice. Sport may provide a context within which females can gain information about male quality to inform this choice. Males may be able to display attractive traits such as athleticism, strength, and physique to females while participating in sport. We predicted that females would favor males that participated in team sports over individual sports and non-athletes because team sport athletes may be more likely to display qualities such as the ability to work well with others and …

The Relationship Between Agency Characteristics And Quality Of Home Care, Dawn M. Dalby, John P. Hirdes

Kinesiology and Physical Education Faculty Publications

ABSTRACT. Background. This project assessed the relationship between home care quality indicators HCQIs) and agency characteristics. Methods. Twelve agencies completed a mailed survey on a variety of characteristics, including size of their caseload and for-profit (FP) status of contracted service providers. The HCQIs were derived from standardized assessments completed voluntarily for home care clients in Ontario and in Manitoba, Canada. Results. The average caseload was 121.3 clients per case manager, and over 40% of nursing, personal support and therapy providers were considered FP. For individual HCQIs, few correlations were statistically significant. An overall summary measure of quality was …

Mean Energy Balance In The Tropical Pacific Ocean, Jaclyn N. Brown, Alexey V. Fedorov

Journal of Marine Research

The maintenance of the ocean general circulation requires energy input from the wind. Previous studies estimate that the mean rate of wind work (or wind power) acting on the surface currents over the global ocean amounts to 1.1 TW (1 TW = 10¹² Watts), though values remain highly uncertain. By analyzing the output from a range of ocean-only models and data assimilations, we show that the tropical Pacific Ocean contributes around 0.2 to 0.4 TW, which is roughly half of the total tropical contribution. Not only does this wind power represent a significant fraction of the total global energy …

Modeling Estuarine Ingress Of Blue Crab Megalopae: Effects Of Temporal Patterns In Larval Release, Charles E. Tilburg, Colleen D. Kernehan, Alex Andon, Charles E. Epifanio

Journal of Marine Research

The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus is an important predator in estuarine ecosystems and supports a large commercial fishery throughout its range. Settlement of blue crab megalopae in juvenile nurseries is episodic and is controlled by the combined effect of buoyancy- and wind-driven transport processes. Modeling studies have succeeded in hind-casting the temporal pattern of megalopal settlement but not the magnitude of individual settlement events. This shortcoming has been attributed to the lack of information concerning larval release by the adult spawning population. In this paper we present results of a set of field and modeling studies designed to test …

Episodic Downwelling Predicts Recruitment Of Atlantic Cod, Greenland Cod And White Hake To Newfoundland Coastal Waters, D. W. Ings, R. S. Gregory, D. C. Schneider

Journal of Marine Research

Recruitment in marine fish is influenced by abiotic and biotic processes operating at many spatial and temporal scales. Annual recruitment to fisheries has received more attention at the scale of the population than at finer temporal scales, where spatially heterogeneous biological processes modify year-class success. We tested two hypotheses: (1) that recruitment of marine fish to the nearshore benthos at a fine temporal scale is determined by downwelling associated with onshore winds and (2) that fish arrival nearshore is related to tidal stage. During summer and autumn 1998 to 2001 and late spring to autumn 2002, we monitored recruitment of …

The Regulation Of Mitochondrial Uncoupling Proteins In The Heart, Karl Robert Laskowski

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

The mitochondrial uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are a recently discovered group of proteins that are present in the inner mitochondrial membrane and mediate a variety of important functions. Involved in transmembrane proton transport, UCPs regulate cellular metabolism as well as prevent reactive oxygen species formation (ROS) and detoxify exogenous ROS. In the heart, these proteins may protect tissue during times of ischemic or metabolic stress. Also activated during metabolic stress is AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), which has been shown to provide cardioprotection during ischemia/reperfusion. We hypothesized that AMPK activation plays a role in upregulating the expression of uncoupling proteins UCP2 and …

Understanding Soil Analysis Data, M A. Hamza

Resource management technical reports

No abstract provided.

Mechanics Of Limb Bone Loading During Terrestrial Locomotion In River Cooter Turtles (Pseudemys Concinna), M. T. Butcher, R. W. Blob

Publications

Studies of limb bone loading during terrestrial locomotion have focused primarily on birds and mammals. However, data from a broader functional and phylogenetic range of species are critical for understanding the evolution of limb bone function and design. Turtles are an interesting lineage in this context. Although their slow walking speeds and robust limb bones might lead to low locomotor forces and limb bone stresses similar to other non-avian reptiles, their highly sprawled posture could produce high bending loads, leading to high limb bone stresses similar to those of avian and mammalian species, as well as high torsion. To test …

New Species Of Cheumatopsyche (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) From North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Christy J. Geraci, John C. Morse

Publications

Sulawesi Island has a high density of endemic animal species, including insects in the order Trichoptera. We describe the males of four new species of Cheumatopsyche (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from North Sulawesi (Provinsi Sulawesi Utara), and provide a checklist of the Cheumatopsyche species from the Indonesian archipelago. Describing the aquatic insect fauna is an important step toward establishing biomonitoring protocols in Indonesia, which is experiencing rapid development and water pollution problems.

Ua42/2 Clipping File, Wku Independent Learning

WKU Administration Documents

Newspaper clippings and advertisements regarding WKU Independent Learning program 1920-2008.

E-Poetry: Between Image And Performance -- A Cultural Analysis, Jan Baetens, Jan Van Looy

The Journal of e-Media Studies

By establishing an opposition between two ways of studying e-poetry: the patrimonial stance, which historicizes and canonizes a corpus and the cultural stance, which discusses e-poetry in its social context, the article makes a plea for a broad, cultural approach to electronic reading and writing. This approach defines e-poetry in terms of performance, placing a strong emphasis on the mediated and often networked environment in which e-poetry creation and reception take place. The close reading of two examples by Pierre Alferi and Eric Sadin, two prominent authors of electronic literature in France, further illustrates the idea of writing and reading …

Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory And Practice For Composition Studies, Jonathan Alexander

All USU Press Publications

Despite its centrality to much of contemporary personal and public discourse, sexuality remains infrequently discussed in composition courses and in our discipline at large. Moreover, its complicated relationship to discourse, to the very language we use to describe and define our worlds, is woefully understudied in our discipline. Talk and writing about sexuality surround us. Not only does the discourse of sexuality surround us, but sexuality itself forms a core set of complex discourses through which we approach, make sense of, and construct a variety of meanings, politics, and identities. In Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy, Jonathan Alexander argues for the development …

The Fierce Tribe, Mickey Weems

All USU Press Publications

In this ethnography that documents the folk nature of popular culture, Mickey Weems applies interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. The Circuit, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events—gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals. Music and dance drive complex, shared performances—electronic house music played by professional DJs and mass ecstatic dancing that engenders communitas. Other performances, from drag queens and concerts to contests, theatrics, and the individual display of muscular bodies are part of the festivities.

Body sculpting through muscle building is strongly associated with the Circuit, and masculine aggression is both displayed …

Three Parents - Jacob V. Shultz-Jacob,923 A. 2d473,2007 Pa Super Lexis 957 (Pa Super 2007), Robert E. Rains

Faculty Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

'This Text Deletes Itself’: Traumatic Memory And Space-Time In Zoe Wicomb’S David’S Story, Shane Graham

English Faculty Publications

The group of cultural and literary theorists whom I would loosely categorize as practitioners of “trauma theory”–including, most notably, Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub, and Dominick LaCapra–share several assumptions. Their ideas all derive to a large extent from Freudian conceptions of memory and trauma, and they all emphasize the temporal aspects of psychic trauma: Caruth, for instance, describes the traumatic encounter as “a break in the mind’s experience of time” (61). Implicit in this conception of trauma, as well, is the assumption that trauma is an individual and private phenomenon. And they all suggest, moreover, that trauma manifests itself …

Seattle Pacific University Catalog 2008-2009, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Confronting The Insider-Outsider Polemic In Conducting Research With Diasporic Communities: Towards A Community-Based Approach, Bruce A. Collet

School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications

Researchers focusing on diasporic contexts face the difficult task of wearing their “academic hats” while at the same time building meaningful relationships with immigrant communities. This is no more apparent (and important) than with “non-community” (i.e. outsider) researchers. Here diasporic communities, having already experienced the trauma of forced migration, must see the academic researcher as one they can trust and who is invested in their long-term well being. In this paper I address methodological and philosophical concerns related to the insider-outsider researcher distinction and to conducting research as an “outsider.” The principle aims of the paper are to critically examine …

Mapping Of Pressure Losses Through Microchannels With Sweeping-Bends Of Various Angle And Radii, Chase Hansel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) have received a great deal of attention in both the research and industrial sectors in recent decades. The broad MEMS category, microfluidics, the study of fluid flow through channels measured on the micrometer scale, plays an important role in devices such as compact heat exchangers, chemical and biological sensors, and lab-on-a-chip devices. Most of the research has been focused on how entire systems operate, both experimentally and through simulation. This paper strives, systematically, to map them through experimentation of the previous to untested realm of pressure loss through laminar square-profile sweeping-bend microchannels. Channels were fabricated …

Supporting Early Literacy Through Attachment-Based Parenting: An Intervention Project, Maureen Louise Stine

Theses Digitization Project

A Four-month intervention project consisting of regular parent training meetings and weekly take-home parent-child interactive literacy activities was implemented to examine the association between quality of mother-child interaction and preschoolers' early literacy development for five families enrolled in a state subsidized preschool program. The Palm Vista Family Home Literacy Program located in the high desert region of San Bernardino County was offered free of charge to all parents and their preschool aged children who were enrolled.

Juvenile-To-Adult Antler Development In White-Tailed Deer In South Texas, James Kroll, Ben Koerth

Faculty Publications

Past studies using penned deer provide conflicting results on the age when reliable predictions about antler growth potential in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) can be made. We captured wild whitetail males via aerial net gun on 12 ranches in 5 counties in south Texas, USA, from 1999 to 2007 to determine if a reliable juvenile-to-adult relationship in antler development existed. We individually marked and released captured animals at the trap site after we took antler and body measurements. We recaptured marked animals as possible in subsequent years or until we obtained final measurements after legal harvest. Amount of growth in …

Estimating Bobcat Abundance In East Texas Using Infrared-Triggered Cameras, Matthew E. Symmank, Christopher E. Comer, James C. Kroll

Faculty Publications

Reliable population estimation techniques for cryptic forest predators generally are lacking. Development of an efficient and reliable technique to estimate predator abundance directly would be a valuable tool for wildlife managers concerned with predator management. We evaluated the potential for camera survey techniques to provide abundance estimates for bobcats (Lynx rufus) in southeastern forest habitats. We also determined our ability to capture other forest carnivores photographically using these techniques. We used TrailMaster 1500 active infrared-triggered cameras to estimate abundance on a 1318-ha private land holding in eastern Texas. Camera stations were located along roads and wildlife travel corridors …

Nobody’S Dolphins, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Make Someone's Life Better, College Of Health And Human Services

Annual Reports

2008 annual report of Governors State University College of Health and Human Services.

Stopover Behavior And Refueling Physiology In Relation To Migration Distance In Wilson's Warblers (Wilsonia Pusilla), Quentin Rousseau Hays

Digitized Theses

I investigated how inter-individual variation in total migration distance within a species affects stopover behavior and refueling rate. Wilson’s Warbler is a leapfrog migrant passerine that winters in Central America and breeds throughout North America. Birds were captured in the spring and fall of 2006 during passage through a desert stopover site in southern Arizona. Total migration distance of individuals was assessed using deuterium ratios of tail feathers, stopover duration was estimated using mark-recapture analysis of color-banded birds, and relative refueling rate was measured using plasma metabolite analysis. Compared to short-distance migrant individuals, longer-distance migrants passed through later during spring …

Change In Availability And Nutritional Quality Of Postharvest Waste Corn On Waterfowl Staging Areas Near Long Point, Ontario, Edward Sydney Barney

Digitized Theses

Increase in harvester efficiency has raised concern that there has been a decrease in the quantity of waste corn available for waterfowl staging in northern areas. I conducted this study to evaluate seasonal changes in waste corn availability and nutritional quality, as well as field use by waterfowl near Long Point, Ontario. I found significant decreases in both waste corn density and nutritional quality between fall (initial) and spring (final) sampling periods. Waterfowl use of fields was not related to initial waste corn abundance; birds used fields based on physical characteristics. Currently, waste corn densities are potentially limiting to waterfowl …

Cerebral Hemodynamic Disturbances In Motor Neuron Disease, Matthew J. Murphy

Digitized Theses

An association between motor neuron disease (MND) and dementia was first realized in the late 1800s, yet substantiating research and a description of dementia as part of the clinical syndrome would not appear until the 1990s. In the last two decades, medical imaging has investigated cerebral blood flow changes in the motor and nonmotor cortex to correlate with motor dysfunction and clinical dementia, respectively. The aim of this thesis is to describe early cerebral hemodynamic disturbances with the goal to determine a marker for cognitive decline in MND. Chapter 2 describes the relationship between changes in cerebral hemodynamics and cognition …

Characterization Of A Mutant Of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii That Is Deficient In The Molybdenum Cofactor, Daniel R. Fingrut

Digitized Theses

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain Dark Blue 6 (DB6) was isolated following random insertional mutagenesis, due to its inability to assimilate nitrate. DB6 lacks terminal nitrate reductase activity and xanthine dehydrogenase activity, indicating that it is deficient in the molybdenum cofactor (Moco) required for those two enzymes. The inability of DB6 to grow on a nitrate medium is partially rescued when it is cultured in a medium containing high concentrations of molybdate. This distinct attribute, termed molybdate repair, is typically associated with mutants defective in molybdate transport or the insertion of molybdenum into the Moco pterin precursor. The molybdenum content in DB6 …

Borders Of Knowledge: Cultural And Political Borderlands, Identity And The Ironsides In The Great Lakes (1790-1863), Ellen Kimberly Brown

Digitized Theses

This thesis which examines three generations of the Ironside family that lived through the frontier borderlands, along western Lake Erie and the Detroit River, and later along north Lake Huron and Manitoulin Island, is ideal for exploring how identity on a physical borderland, and between the biological and cultural borderlands between European and Native, could be revised to serve personal notions of self, as well as to create a hybrid of innovative categories of identity. To achieve this exploration, I examine the identity of the Ironside family by primarily focusing on correspondence by members of this family, written in official …

Differential Effects Of Igf-I And Igf-Ii On The Fate Of Mouse Trophoblast Stem Cells, Robert Stanley Porteous

Digitized Theses

The main objective of this thesis was to identify the role(s) of IGF-I and IGF-II on the fate of mouse trophoblast stem cells (TS cells) and their role in contributing to the stem cell fate, when grown in the absence of additional growth factors. By analyzing the expression of self-renewal and trophoblast-specific transcription factors, the addition of IGF-I and IGF-II restored nuclear OCT4 and CDX2 expression, with IGF- II inducing a longer effect, while the expression of SOX2 was not restored. IGF-I was found to induce the differentiation of TS cells based on expression and quantitative analysis of PL-1 expression. …

Development, Testing, And Application Of Stressor Gradients In Rural, Headwater Streams In Southwestern Ontario, Adam G. Yates

Digitized Theses

Effective biological monitoring requires a conceptual model of how human activity varies and how this activity affects resident biota. This model can then be used to generate appropriate hypotheses and study designs in response to bioassessment needs. Stressor gradients have the potential to improve this process, but questions about the development and effectiveness of stressor gradients must be addressed before they can be widely applied to biological monitoring. With the aim of developing the most effective and efficient stressor gradient, four gradients were calculated from stressor information differing in level of detail and spatial explicitness for 479 rural, headwater basins. …