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The Eradication Of Invasive Mammal Species: Can Adaptive Resource Management Fill The Gaps In Our Knowledge?, Sugoto Roy, Graham C. Smith, James C. Russell

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Invasive alien species (IAS) threaten global biodiversity; they are the major cause of species extinction on offshore islands. Management of IAS requires data on the ecology of species in their new environment, how these species respond to management, and how these processes interact. Often, however, there is a paucity of information on key biological parameters that are critical to making management decisions. We sent a questionnaire to professionals and organizations managing invasive species and asked the respondents to prioritize a list of information they required to carry out eradication of invasive species. We analysed responses to assess the level of …

White-Tailed Deer Attacking Humans During The Fawning Season: A Unique Human–Wildlife Conflict On A University Campus, Ryan D. Hubbard, Clayton K. Nielsen

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Human–wildlife conflicts associated with suburban white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations have increased in the last 20 years. Primary threats to human health and safety associated with overabundant deer populations include deer–vehicle collisions, attacks on humans, disease, and damage to native and ornamental vegetation. During the fawning seasons (May–June) of 2005 and 2006, 13 confirmed incidences of white-tailed deer attacking humans occurred on the campus of Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. To our knowledge, no report exists that documents free-ranging does attacking humans during the fawning season. The attacks occurred at multiple locations on campus, with injuries to humans, including minor …

Deer Guards And Bump Gates For Excluding White-Tailed Deer From Fenced Resources, Kurt C. Vercauteren, Nathan W. Seward, Michael J. Lavelle, Justin W. Fischer, Gregaory E. Phillips

Human–Wildlife Interactions

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) causing damage is a reoccurring theme in the realm of wildlife damage management, especially regarding human safety, disease transmission, and agricultural losses. Fences often are the only reliable long-term nonlethal means of controlling deer damage. The efficacy of fences, however, relies on their weakest link: human-operated gates. Although not overly time-consuming, the act of closing a gate appears to be a burden to individuals, resulting in open-access to an otherwise protected resource. We examined the efficacy of 2 alternatives to traditional gates to evaluate their potential to be used for excluding or containing deer. …

Ankle Load Modulates Hip Kinetics And Emg During Human Locomotion, Keith E. Gordon, Ming Wu, Jennifer H. Kahn, Yasin Y. Dhaher, Brian D. Schmit

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

The purpose of this research was to examine the role of isolated ankle-foot load in regulating locomotor patterns in humans with and without spinal cord injury (SCI). We used a powered ankle-foot orthosis to unilaterally load the ankle and foot during robotically assisted airstepping. The load perturbation consisted of an applied dorsiflexion torque designed to stimulate physiological load sensors originating from the ankle plantar flexor muscles and pressure receptors on the sole of the foot. We hypothesized that 1) the response to load would be phase specific with enhanced ipsilateral extensor muscle activity and joint torque occurring when unilateral …

Deterring Cliff-Swallow Nesting On Highway Structures Using Bioacoustics And Surface Modifications, Jaclyn S. Conklin, Michael J. Delwiche, W. Paul Gorenzel, Robert W. Coates

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) are migratory birds that breed in colonies and frequently nest on highway structures. Protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, swallows in their active nests cannot be harmed by nesting-control methods. This causes problems and delays in maintenance of structures by divisions of many departments of transportation. We evaluated 2 aversion strategies, bioacoustic deterrents and surface modifi cations, for their effect on cliff swallow nesting behavior. The bioacoustic deterrents consisted of sonic devices that broadcast 8 unique recordings of alarm and distress calls of cliff swallows. We made surface modifications, mounting high-density …

Home Range And Habitat Use Of Feral Hogs In Congaree National Park, South Carolina, Brad A. Friebel, Patrick G. R. Jodice

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Feral hogs (Sus scrofa) are a widespread exotic species that currently occur in most states within the United States and are common throughout the southeastern United States. We radio-collared and tracked feral hogs from April 2005 to November 2006 in Congaree National Park (CNP), South Carolina, USA. The CNP is one of the largest and most intact tracts of old-growth, bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the United States. We measured home range size and determined habitat use for male and female hogs. The mean (± SE) home range sizes for male hogs (n = 7) and female hogs …

A Review Of The Potential Of Fertility Control To Manage Brushtail Possums In New Zealand, Weihong Ji

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) were introduced into New Zealand from Australia in the mid-1800s and became a major invasive pest. They damage native biodiversity by browsing and predation, and they are a disease risk to the livestock industry by acting as vectors of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Management of possums includes their eradication from some offshore islands and control by trapping, shooting, and poisoning on the mainland. Possums have been eradicated successfully from some islands and greatly reduced in abundance in other areas of high conservation value or where they are infected with TB. However, possums are still at …

Smokejumper Magazine, April 2009, National Smokejumper Association, Ed Dearborn, Johnny Kirkley, Mike Hill

Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines

This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: The Fall of Long Tieng (Historic) (Ed Dearborn), Remembering Ed Weissenback, Air America Kicker Reunion (Johnny Kirkley), Off Season in Afghanistan (Mike Hill), Remembering Everett “Sam” Houston. Smokejumper Magazine continues Static Line, which was the original title of the NSA quarterly magazine.

Institutions From Above And Voices From Below: A Comment On Challenges To Group-Conflict Resolution And Reconciliation, Laurel E. Fletcher

Law and Contemporary Problems

Fletcher explores how assumptions about justice have succeeded in establishing a new international consensus on necessary processes of rebuilding societies, some pitfalls of this approach, and recommendations for new directions for the field of transitional justice. A central assumption animating the moral, political, and legal cases for transitional justice is that those responsible for unleashing and conducting mass violence that devastates countries and the lives of civilian residents should not get away with their criminal acts. And further, supporters of justice assume that a legal response is necessary in order to promote reconciliation. He thinks that the appropriate role of …

Daily Eastern News: April 01, 2009, Eastern Illinois University

April

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A Study Of Exceptional Mentoring Insights For Adult Education And Emerging Mentors, Laura Lee Larson

Dissertations

The purpose of this critical engagement project was to focus on how mentoring relationships positively impact personal and professional lives -- what I call exceptional mentoring. This was a qualitative study using a narrative inquiry methodology and the theoretical framework of transformational leadership. There were five participants in the study who are known in the industry to be exceptional mentors because of their dedication and passion for caring about others. The research method included one-on-one interviews lasting between two and five hours. The study explored the life stories of these individuals with the intent to learn how people become mentors, …

Fecal Egg Count Tests Improve Deworming Programs, Patricia Evans, Kerry A. Rood

All Current Publications

This publication discusses improvements that have been made to deworming programs.

Daily Horse Observations For Horse Owners, Patricia Evans, Karen Waite

All Current Publications

This publication gives suggestions of what to watch for on a daily basis to assure your horse is healthy and happy.

Dialogue: April 2009, Staff And Writers Of Dialogue

Dialogue

2 Editorial Ryan Weberling and Miranda Brouwer; 3, 4 (Untitled) Jenna Sue Vanden Brink; 5 (Untitled) Amy Crouch; 6 (untitled) Alice Scogin; 7 S-Bahn to Sachsenhausen Than DeJonge; 8 Vibrant Transportation Than DeJonge; 9 (Untitled) Sarah Vander Molen; 12 (Untitled) Silas Wolff; 13 (Untitled) Silas Wolff; 14 (Untitled) Jenna Sue Vanden Brink; 15, 16 (Untitled) Jenna Sue Vanden Brink; 17 Experts Agree ... Ryan Weberling; 18 American Unilateralism Than DeJonge

Area Sensitivity In North American Grassland Birds: Patterns And Processes, Christine A. Ribic, Rolf R. Koford, James R. Herkert, Douglas H. Johnson, Neal D. Niemuth, David E. Naugle, Kristel K. Bakker, David W. Sample, Rosalind B. Renfrew

Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications

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Invasive Pathogen Threatens Bird-Pine Mutualism: Implications For Sustaining A High-Elevation Ecosystem, Shawn T. Mckinney, Carl E. Fiedler, Diana F. Tomback

Forest Management Faculty Publications

Human-caused disruptions to seed-dispersal mutualisms increase the extinction risk for both plant and animal species. Large-seeded plants can be particularly vulnerable due to highly specialized dispersal systems and no compensatory regeneration mechanisms. Whitebark pine ( Pinus albicaulis), a keystone subalpine species, obligately depends upon the Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) for dispersal of its large, wingless seeds. Clark's Nutcracker, a facultative mutualist with whitebark pine, is sensitive to rates of energy gain, and emigrates from subalpine forests during periods of cone shortages. The invasive fungal pathogen Cronartium ribicola, which causes white pine blister rust, reduces whitebark pine cone production by killing …

Barack Obama, Implicit Bias, And The 2008 Election, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Gregory S. Parks

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States suggests that the United States has made great strides with regard to race. The blogs and the pundits may laud Obama’s win as evidence that we now live in a “post-racial America.” But is it accurate to suggest that race no longer significantly influences how Americans evaluate each other? Does Obama’s victory suggest that affirmative action and antidiscrimination protections are no longer necessary? We think not. Ironically, rather than marking the dawn of a post-racial America, Obama’s candidacy reveals how deeply race affects judgment.

The Ethical Visions Of Copyright Law, James Grimmelmann

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This symposium essay explores the imagined ethics of copyright: the ethical stories that people tell to justify, make sense of, and challenge copyright law. Such ethical visions are everywhere in intellectual property discourse, and legal scholarship ought to pay more attention to them. The essay focuses on a deontic vision of reciprocity in the author-audience relationship, a set of linked claims that authors and audiences ought to respect each other and express this respect through voluntary transactions.

Versions of this default ethical vision animate groups as seemingly antagonistic as the music industry, file sharers, free software advocates, and Creative Commons. …

Bringing It All Back Home: How To Save Main Street, Ignore K Street, And Thereby Save Wall Street, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Seasonal Variation In Diet Of A Marginal Population Of The Hispid Cotton Rat, Sigmodon Hispidus, Lynn A. Walker, Robert K. Rose

Virginia Journal of Science

Cotton rats live in oldfields, habitats with a variety of mostly herbaceous plants. Based on other studies, the hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, eats many kinds of herbaceous plants but grasses predominate. In contrast, our population of cotton rats ate many monocots but mostly they were not grasses. Our study sought to determine the diet of the cotton rat in eastern Virginia, near the northern limit of distribution on the Atlantic Coast. Fecal samples, collected each month during an on-going capture-mark-release demographic study of the rodent community, were analyzed using a standard method. A greater variety of foods (including …

Forum, Volume 33, No. 1, Spring 2009, Florida Humanities Council, Barbara O'Reilley

FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Creating a New Vision for Paradise -- Do What's Right for our Children -- Students Need More than Academics -- Universities are Key to the Economy -- A Shift to High-Level Jobs is Crucial -- Our Environmental Emergency is Now -- Reading Florida -- Rethink Land Use, Energy Sources -- Smart Growth Helps Build Community -- Realizing Strength in Diversity -- Savoring Florida -- So Many Residents, So Few Floridians

Rule-Based Expression In Copyright Law, Jeffrey Malkan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Political Science: Regulatory Science After The Bush Administration, Sidney A. Shapiro

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Traveling With Holly Golightly: Breakfast At Tiffany’S As Cinderella Mythology, Dina Smith

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Serialized from 1953 to its publication in 1958, and adapted into a celebrated film starring Audrey Hepburn in 1961, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s focuses on the ingénue/Cinderella figure Holly Golightly. A poor white, Southern-farm-girlturned starlet-turned-NewYork-call-girl, Holly Golightly both fascinates and repels the narrator of her story by the very libidinous terms of her mobility. She exists in the novel as the narrator’s construction: an untenable, though tantalizing, figuration of a deviant postwar female sexuality.

The Nabokov Riddle, Dmitry Sokolenko

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First two paragraphs]

The Russian language was the language of the Writer’s heart, English was the language of his mind, while French appealed to his ear. I was guided by this when I worked on the montage below.

When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines!

Review Of H. C. For Life, That Is To Say . . ., By Jacques Derrida And Insister Of Jacques Derrida, By Hélène Cixous, Alan Clinton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

It is evident that Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous love one another, and these two books provide clues not only as to the singular nature of that friendship, but may serve as testimonies, in their very singularities, for new inventions of friendship in a more general sense. Derrida’s book, published in English posthumously, has a title that a childhood sweetheart might utter, but in fact comes to us from the side of death. Nevertheless, it is Derrida’s proclamation while alive, and the reason he loves Cixous for life is, on the one hand, because they should have been …

Cs 205: Computer Literacy And Office Automation, Ann Tirpack

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ceg 479/679-01: Computer Animation, Thomas Wischgoll

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

By the end of this quarter, you will have learnt techniques for designing various models and algorithms for animation of such models as well as theur rendering using OpenGL and CIC++.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2009, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Rita Raley; Articles: Gibson Got It Wrong, South Park Got It Right: How one animated episode effectively critiques The Passion of the Christ—Sarah Martindell; Wuthering Heights: A Psychoanalytical and Masculine Study—Meghan (Johnson) Boyd; Perseverance through Adversity: The Importance of Unification—Jessica Sheffer; Liquid Influences—Whitney Prose; Revisiting van Inwagen, Lewis, and the Consequence Argument—Larsa Ramsini; Two Worlds Combined: Modernism and Classicism in Stravinsky’s Apollo—Bonnie Shore; Book Reviews: Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl—Will Ferrall; Suite Française—Stephanie Freas; The White Tiger—Zachary Hopper; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Christine Horvath; A Mercy—Jessica Ramey; The Wordy …

Montana Indians: Their History And Location, Montana Office Of Public Instruction

Tribal Nations Documents

In this handbook we are attempting to give a brief look at Indians in Montana. We have organized the material by reservation areas, even though in some cases, more than one tribe is located on one reservation. There are also many Indians who reside on reservations not their own . A section on Montana's "Landless" Indians, the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa, is included. A section on urban Indians is also included.