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Oregon Natural Areas Plan, Oregon Natural Heritage Advisory Council

Institute for Natural Resources Publications

The rich diversity of ecosystems and native plants and animals is one of Oregon's most distinctive and valued qualities. Our state contains rain forests, dry forests, oak woodlands, alpine meadows, prairies, deserts, marshes, estuaries, dunes, rocky headlands, lakes and streams. There are a number of reasons it is so diverse. First are the extremes of climate, with rainfall ranging from over 200 inches a year along Oregon’s north coast, to less than 7 inches a year in the Alvord Desert, and temperatures from the very mild banana belt along the coast near the California border to the extremes of the …

The College Of Marine Science At The University Of South Florida, Frank Muller-Karger, Kent Fanning, Albert Hine, William Hogarth, Jacqueline Dixon

Gulf of Mexico Science

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Ursinus Magazine, Winter 2010, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Ellen Labrecque, Beth Laskowski

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Ursinus lauded by Middle States visiting team • Upcoming exhibitions • Berman Museum expansion on target during 20th anniversary year • Alumni critical in Ursinus admissions effort • Project Delphi takes CIE one step further • Ursinus gets greener: New initiatives • Professor melds science and art • New faculty • Determined to make a difference: Ursinus students raise awareness for conflict in Congo • Middle East expert and best-selling author lectures at Lenfest • Ursinus welcomes Jill Leauber Marsteller 1978 as Senior Vice President for Advancement • Faculty expertise: Patrick Hurley • Dairy queen: Anne Mendelson's fresh perspective on …

The Dynamics Of Emergent Self-Organisation: Reconceptualising Child Development In Teacher Education, Minkang Kim, Derek Sankey

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

For more than half a century, child development has endured as one of the main components of teacher education. But if children do develop, as developmentalists claim, what precisely is it that develops and how? Traditionally, within education, answers to these questions have drawn heavily on the theories of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Piaget advocated the progressive development of reasoning through identifiable linear phases or stages. Vygotsky emphasised the role of cultural mediation, whereby the child internalises the habits of mind of his/her social group. More generally within cognitive psychology, development has been attributed to the interaction of two …

Defending A Social Learning Explanation: A Comment On The Origins Of Shared Intuitions Of Justice, Christopher B. Jaeger

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc

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Application Of Liquid Chromatography - Tandem Mass Spectrometry For The Determination Of Veterinary Drug Residues In Food Of Animal Origin, Brian Kinsella

Theses

The QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe) sample preparation approach was evaluated for the extraction of anthelmintic residues from bovine milk and tissues. Liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrom.etry (LC- MS/MS) was used for detection and quantification of residues, which included the benzimidazoles (BZs), macrocyclic lactones (MLS) and the generally overlooked flukicides.

Initial work focused on the optimisation of a QuEChERS method to effectively extract anthelmintic residues from milk and liver. The method involves the extraction of residues with acetonitrile (MeCN) in the presence of salts (MgS04 and NaCl) to induce phase separation. After shaking and centrifugation, …

Evaluation Of Stream Assessment Protocols For The Evaluation Of Habitat In Intermittent Headwater Streams, Eric Rasmussen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

EPA and state water resource agencies are now placing greater emphasis on monitoring and managing headwater streams. Two EPA stream protocols are available for headwater stream assessment but little effort has been made to compare these two methods or their resulting habitat quality index scores. The objectives of this effort were to 1) compare data types of the two protocols; 2) compare how the two protocols assess intermittent streams using habitat quality index (HQI) scores; and 3) compare stream characteristic emphases (geomorphology, riparia, substrate, in-stream cover for biota and hydrology) between the two protocols and their effect on overall HQI …

The Legal Status Of Bcci: Unwarranted Ad-Hocism, Constitutional Hudles And The Pressing Need For A Cricket-Legislation, Aditya Sondhi

National Law School of India Review

The Supreme Court in Zee Telefilms rejected the contention that the Board of Control for Cricket in India comes within the scope of the definition of 'State' as defined in Article 12 of the Constitution. The Court, by a 3:2 majority, came to the conclusion that the BCCI is essentially an autonomous non-statutory body with no declared monopoly over the game of cricket, no public function to discharge, no significant financial assistance from the Government and not being subject to what could be described as 'deep and pervasive control' by the Government. This paper seeks to analyse the more significant …

Evaluation Of Two Novel Aluminum-Free, Zinc-Based Glass Polyalkenoate Cements As Alternatives To Pmma Bone Cement For Use In Vertebroplasty And Balloon Kyphoplasty, Gladius Lewis, Mark R. Towler, Daniel Boyd, Matthew J. German, Anthony W. Wren, Owen M. Clarkin, Andrew Yates

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Vertebroplasty (VP) and balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) are now widely used for treating patients in whom the pain due to vertebral compression fractures is severe and has proved to be refractory to conservative treatment. These procedures involve percutaneous delivery of a bolus of an injectable bone cement either directly to the fractured vertebral body, VB (VP) or to a void created in it by an inflatable bone tamp (BKP). Thus, the cement is a vital component of both procedures. In the vast majority of VPs and BKPs, a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) bone cement is used. This material has many shortcomings, notably …

Albian Rudist Fauna From The Karaburun Peninsula, İzmir Region, Western Turkey, Jean-Pierre Masse, Mükerrem Fenerci̇-Masse, İsmai̇l Işintek, Tali̇p Güngör

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Platform carbonates bearing shallow water foraminifera and dasycladale assemblages with an Albian stratigraphic significance, crop out at two localities on the Karaburun Peninsula: Barbaros and Zeytineli. Rudist faunas collected from these localities include Toucasia seunesi Douvillé, Pseudotoucasia catalaunica Astre , Mathesia darderi (Astre), Petalodontia ? sp., and Eoradiolites sp. aff. murgensis. The overall stratigraphic significance of this fauna is consistent with the Albian age derived from micropalaeontological data. Some taxonomic elements, e.g. Toucasia seunesi, Pseudotoucasia catalaunica and Mathesia darderi possess a broad Mediterranean palaeobiogeographic distribution. By contrast, Eoradiolites sp. aff. murgensis, an advanced form resembling Eoradiolites murgensis, restricted to the …

Epidiceras (Bivalvia, Hippuritoidea) From The Tithonian–Berriasian Torinosu-Type Limestones Of The Sakawa Area, Southwest Japan, Shin-Ichi Sano, Peter W. Skelton

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Excavated specimens of two primitive rudists, Epidiceras speciosum (Goldfuss) and Epidiceras guirandi (de Loriol), are systematically described for the first time from the Tithonian-Berriasian Torinosu-type limestones of the Torinosu Group in the Sakawa area, Central Shikoku, Southwest Japan. E. guirandi was previously known only from the Late Kimmeridgian Mediterranean Tethys, so this occurrence in Southwest Japan significantly extends the recorded biogeographical and stratigraphical distribution of the species. Moreover, the documentation of E. speciosum from the Torinosu-type limestones in Japan and the Bau Limestone in Sarawak, Borneo, indicate that this species was already widespread throughout the Tethyan Realm at that time. …

Scientific Understandings Of Postpartum Illness: Improving Health Law And Policy?, Stacey A. Tovino

Faculty Articles

In its broadest sense, this Article examines the relationship between science and the law in the context of postpartum illness. From classical antiquity to the present day, physicians and scientists have investigated the causes, correlates, and consequences of the depressions and psychoses that develop in some women following their transition to motherhood. The scientific investigation of postpartum illness has been characterized by an open-ended search for knowledge with the recognition that scientific findings published one day are subject to revision the next. Legislators and judges also have sought to understand postpartum illness as necessary to make laws that affect and …

Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Conservation On Private Lands In Southwest Georgia, James Cox

Oriole

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Role Of The Osmotic Stress Regulatory Pathway In Morphogenesis And Secondary Metabolism In Filamentous Fungi, Ana M. Calvo, R.M. Duran, J.W. Cary

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Environmental stimuli trigger an adaptative cellular response to optimize the probability of survival and proliferation. In eukaryotic organisms from mammals to fungi osmotic stress, mainly through the action of the high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway, leads to a response necessary for adapting and surviving hyperosmotic environments. In this review we show that the osmoadaptative response is conserved but not identical in different fungi. The osmoadaptative response system is also intimately linked to morphogenesis in filamentous fungi, including mycotoxin producers. Previous studies indicate that the response to osmotic stress is also coupled to the biosynthesis of natural products, including mycotoxins.

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog 2010 - 2011

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog

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Visible Or Invisible? Korean High School Students' Current Schooling Experiences In The United States, Bogum Yoon, Claudia Haag

Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Faculty Scholarship

This qualitative study examined the current schooling experiences of eight Korean high school students in the United States. By comparing and contrasting recent immigrant adolescents and 1.5/2nd generation students, the purpose of this study was to explore how their identities as Koreans or Korean Americans were formed and shifted while they engaged with American teachers and peers in mainstream contexts. The findings suggest that even in the same ethnic group, differences were conspicuous. The newcomer group desperately wished to assimilate to mainstream culture by associating with American classmates. On the other hand, the 1.5/2nd generation group lived bi-culturally with dual …

Cover, Ornitología Neotropical

Ornitología Neotropical

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Cover, Ornitología Neotropical

Ornitología Neotropical

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How Folk Classification Interacts With Ethnoecological Knowledge: A Case Study From Chiapas, Mexico, Aaron M. Lampman

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Folk taxonomies play a role in expanding or contracting the larger domain of ethnoecological knowledge that influences when and how cultural groups use living things. This paper demonstrates that ethnomycological classification is limited by utilitarian concerns and examines how Tzeltal Maya ethnoecological knowledge, although detailed and sophisticated, is heavily influenced by the structure of the folk classification system. Data were collected through 12 months of semi-structured and structured interviews, including freelists (n=100), mushroom collection with collaborators (n=5), open-ended interviewing (n=50), structured responses to photos (n=30), structured responses to mushroom specimens (n=15), and sentence frame substitutions (n=20). These interviews were focused …

Local And Traditional Knowledge And The Historical Ecologyof Pacific Herring In Alaska, Thomas F. Thornton, Madonna L. Moss, Virginia L. Butler, Jamie Hebert, Fritz Funk

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

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Explaining Human Actions And Environmental Changes, Damian M. Smith

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

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Population Genetics, Species Boundaries, And Conservation Of The Jollyville Plateau Salamander, Eurycea Tonkawae, Paul T. Chippindale

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

Report submitted to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in fulfillment of contract 184467. The report was prepared while the author was affiliated with the University of Texas at Arlington. The author evaluated the genetics variation and population structure of the Jollyville Plateau salamander, Eurycea tonkawae. This information was used to recommend conservation strategies for this species and others found in similar environments. Open Access See Extended description for more information.

Preconstruction Groundwater Assessment For The Jollyville Transmission Main Wtp4

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

"The City of Austin (City) requested that a preconstruction groundwater assessment be completed to address potential impacts of the construction of the Jollyville Transmission Main tunnel project. This assessment evaluated the groundwater conditions in the project area and assessed the potential impacts of tunnel and shaft construction on groundwater flow in the project area, in particular, on springs that are found on hillsides and on flow in Bull Creek. Springs and seeps in the project area provide habitat for the Jollyville Plateau Salamander, a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act that occupies habitat along Bull Creek. The …

Wastewater Disposal Practices And Change In Development In The Barton Springs Zone, Matthew Menchaca, Matthew Westbrook

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

County tax appraisal district records and regional population projections are used as surrogates to track historical and future development in the Barton Springs Zone of the Edwards Aquifer. Wastewater disposal by either Texas Land Application Permit (TLAP) and by individual on-site sewage facility (OSSF) are identified spatially and temporally. There are 27 active TLAP permits in the Barton Springs Zone and as of 2010 there is 3.8 million gallons per day of permitted wastewater irrigation volume. There are at least 9,470 OSSF permits in the Barton Springs Zone, with the highest density of permits observed in the Bear Creek watershed. …

Lichen Composition In Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher And Roby-Throated Hummingbird Nests, Jim Mccormac, Ray E. Showman

Ohio Cardinal

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New Research: Changes In The Sugarcreek Metropark Bird Community Between 1978 And 2010, Thomas P. Rooney, Jeffrey L. Peters, Jennifer L. Hays

Ohio Cardinal

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Breeding Status Influences Breeding Frequency In Bachman's Sparrow, Aubrey Sirman, James Cox

Oriole

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Interview With Derek C. Ford, Ivo Lučić, Derek C. Ford

KIP Articles

The series starts in this issue with professor Derek C. Ford, probably „the“ key figure in karst science of the last half-century. As a teacher, researcher, consultor and author he has contributed a lot to the world recognition of karst and research related to it.

National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report Nckri Annual Report, 2008-2009, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

KIP Articles

Contents: Executive Director's Report -- Headquarters Construction -- NCKRI Projects ; Anthropogenic Sinkholes ; Fort Stanton Cave ; Carbonate Pool Precipitates ; Naica Mine Cave ; Met Pro Corporation ; Desert Varnish ; Imagery Data Extraction ; Karst Information Portal ; Hypogene Karst ; Hypogene Karst Studies in Texas ; NASA Spaceward Bound Teacher Training -- Student Activities ; Student Projects ; Student Awards ; Student Presentations ; Student Publications -- Outreach -- Board Activities -- Board of Directors -- NCKRI Staff -- Staff Publications -- Organizational Structure -- 2008-2009 Budget -- Strategic Plans.

Karst Hydrogeology And Speleogenesis Of Sistema Zacatón Association For Mexican Cave Studies Bulletin, Vol. 21, 2010, Marcus O. Gary

KIP Articles

A reformatted PhD dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin, with color illustrations throughout. A study of an area containing deep water-filled sinkholes of volcanogenic origin in northeastern Mexico, including El Zacatón, 350 meters deep.