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Efficacy Of Rodenticide Baits For The Control Of Three Invasive Rodent Species In Hawaii, William C. Pitt, Laura C. Driscoll, Robert T. Sugihara Jan 2011

Efficacy Of Rodenticide Baits For The Control Of Three Invasive Rodent Species In Hawaii, William C. Pitt, Laura C. Driscoll, Robert T. Sugihara

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

We tested the efficacy and palatability of nine commercial rodenticide bait formulations on Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans), roof rats (R. rattus), and house mice (Mus musculus). Efficacy varied by rodenticide tested and rodent species. Generally, rodenticides were more effective against mice than for either of the rat species, and mice tended to consume more rodenticide bait than the laboratory chow alternative food. Efficacy was generally highest for the second-generation anticoagulants tested; however, this varied across products and one-first-generation rodenticide had similar effectiveness. Bait acceptance (palatability) also varied both by rodenticide and by rodent species. …

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Impacts Of Generalist Mesopredators On The Demography Of Small-Mammal Populations In Fragmented Landscapes, Timothy S. Eagan Ii, James C. Beasley, Zachary H. Olson, Olin E. Rhodes Jr. Jan 2011

Impacts Of Generalist Mesopredators On The Demography Of Small-Mammal Populations In Fragmented Landscapes, Timothy S. Eagan Ii, James C. Beasley, Zachary H. Olson, Olin E. Rhodes Jr.

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Abstract: A consequence of the reduction and subsequent fragmentation of native habitats has been the loss or severe reduction of specialist predator populations from these altered ecosystems, resulting in a “release” of generalist predators. Demographic aspects of small-rodent populations, especially predator-driven density cycles, have been extensively studied. However, the majority of studies examining predator–prey dynamics have been conducted in relatively undisturbed ecosystems, while more limited data are available for regions that have been greatly modified by human settlement. Using raccoons (Procyon lotor (L., 1758)) and white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)) as focal species, we used an …

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Use Of Overhead Wires To Deter Waterfowl From Sewage Treatment Ponds, Thomas W. Seamans, E. Christopher Willis, Bradley F. Blackwelll Jan 2011

Use Of Overhead Wires To Deter Waterfowl From Sewage Treatment Ponds, Thomas W. Seamans, E. Christopher Willis, Bradley F. Blackwelll

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Deterring birds from water on or near airports is an important part of a bird strike reduction program. Overhead wires of various materials and in a variety of patterns can reduce bird use of specific areas. It has been suggested that widely spaced wires can be as effective as narrowly spaced wires and therefore more economical due to decreased material and initial labor costs. However, when a 50-foot design was placed over waste-water ponds in North Carolina, the total number of waterfowl using the ponds increased when compared to the year prior to placement of the wires. Canada goose numbers …

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Anthraquinone-Based Bird Repellent For Sunflower Crops, Scott J. Werner, George M. Linz, James C. Carlson, Susan E. Pettit, Shelagh K. Tupper, Michele M. Santer Jan 2011

Anthraquinone-Based Bird Repellent For Sunflower Crops, Scott J. Werner, George M. Linz, James C. Carlson, Susan E. Pettit, Shelagh K. Tupper, Michele M. Santer

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Non-lethal alternatives are needed to manage bird damage to confectionery and oilseed sunflower crops (Helianthus annuus). Ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) can cause localized damage to newly planted sunflower, and blackbirds (Icterids) damage ripening sunflower annually in the United States of America. We conducted seed germination experiments, a repellent efficacy study with ring-necked pheasants and Avipel® repellent (a.i. 50% 9, 10-anthraquinone), and laboratory and field efficacy studies with common grackles (Quiscalus quiscula) and Avipel®-treated confectionery sunflower. Compared to the germination of seeds not treated with anthraquinone, we observed no negative effects of …

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Effect Of Gonacontm Vaccine On Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs: Immune Response And Health Effects, C. A. A. Yoder, Lowell A. Miller Jan 2011

Effect Of Gonacontm Vaccine On Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs: Immune Response And Health Effects, C. A. A. Yoder, Lowell A. Miller

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Management of prairie dogs in the past has included poisoning, fumigants, barriers, and relocation. Because of the diverse attitudes related to prairie dog management, nonlethal methods that allow the existence of prairie dogs but help minimize damage related to population growth need to be developed. GonaConTM is an immunocontraceptive vaccine that elicits antibodies to native GnRH; this prevents the secretion of reproductive hormones necessary for sperm and oocyte production. Prairie dogs were vaccinated with 0.1, 0.2, or 0.4mL of the GonaConTM emulsion intramuscularly in the upper thigh containing 100, 200, or 400μg GnRH conjugate, respectively. Control animals were …

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Greyhounded, Robert Ficociello Jan 2011

Greyhounded, Robert Ficociello

Short Story

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Short Story, Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2011 [Download Entire Issue] Jan 2011

Short Story, Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2011 [Download Entire Issue]

Short Story

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Short Story, Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2011 [Download Entire Issue] Jan 2011

Short Story, Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2011 [Download Entire Issue]

Short Story

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Kewpie, Susan M. Rochette Jan 2011

Kewpie, Susan M. Rochette

Short Story

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The Saint And The Snake: Sufism And Social Critique In Naguib Mahfouz And Alifa Rifaat, Suzanne Black Jan 2011

The Saint And The Snake: Sufism And Social Critique In Naguib Mahfouz And Alifa Rifaat, Suzanne Black

Short Story

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Review Of Seeds Of Destruction: Why The Path To Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, And How To Reclaim American Prosperity, Michael S. Barr Jan 2011

Review Of Seeds Of Destruction: Why The Path To Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, And How To Reclaim American Prosperity, Michael S. Barr

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The United States has just gone through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Our financial system came to brink of collapse, saved only by a massive intervention by the federal government. Although officially the Great Recession is now over, high unemployment and slow growth persist. Deficits that were ballooning in the 2000s with the weight of tax cuts, increased health care expenditures, and defense spending related to Iraq and Afghanistan, even before the financial crisis, have continued to climb, as lower tax receipts, automatic stabilizers, and fiscal stimulus kicked into gear.

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Counterfeits, Copying And Class, Ann Bartow Jan 2011

Counterfeits, Copying And Class, Ann Bartow

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Consumers who want to express themselves by wearing contemporary clothing styles should not have to choose between expensive brands and counterfeit products. There should be a clear distinction in trademark law between illegal, counterfeit goods and perfectly legal (at least with respect to trademark law) "knockoffs," in which aesthetically functional design attributes have been copied but trademarks have not. Toward that end, as a normative matter, the aesthetic features of products should not be registrable or protectable as trademarks or trade dress, regardless of whether they have secondary meaning, just as functional attributes of a utilitarian nature are not eligible …

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Toward Legitimacy Through Collaborative Governance: An Analysis Of The Effect Of South Carolina's Office Of Regulatory Staff On Public Utility Regulation, William H. Ellerbe Jan 2011

Toward Legitimacy Through Collaborative Governance: An Analysis Of The Effect Of South Carolina's Office Of Regulatory Staff On Public Utility Regulation, William H. Ellerbe

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

In 2004 the South Carolina General Assembly instituted a major reform to its system of public utility regulation. Previously, the Public Service Commission, the administrative agency in charge of regulating public utilities, both adjudicated utility proceedings and, through its staff,a advocated for the public interest. A scandal concerning revelations of extensive ex parte communications between regulated utilities and members of the Public Service Commission led to the 2004 reform, which created the Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) as a separate agency to perform the Commission's advocative functions. In my research, I use data on fuel factor proceedings before and after …

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Saving The Home Of The Tadpoles One Tree At A Time: A Framing And Pedagogical Analysis Of Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement, Anke Thorey Wolbert Jan 2011

Saving The Home Of The Tadpoles One Tree At A Time: A Framing And Pedagogical Analysis Of Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement, Anke Thorey Wolbert

Wayne State University Dissertations

While often mistaken for `just' an environmental organization, Kenya's Green Belt Movement (GBM) is engaged in environmental protection, feminism, human rights, education, sustainable development, democratic participation, and peace issues, amongst others. This diverse approach to social change makes it sometimes difficult to place the GBM within current social movement theory. To further our understanding of the GBM's unusual approach, this dissertation examines the framing efforts of the GBM's leader, Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai, as well as the organization's educational practices. Leaning on Entman's (1993) and Kuyper's (2006) definitions of framing, this project analyzes the development of the GBM's frame(s) …

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Development Of A Biomechanical Surrogate For The Evaluation Of Commotio Cordis Protection, Nathan Dau Jan 2011

Development Of A Biomechanical Surrogate For The Evaluation Of Commotio Cordis Protection, Nathan Dau

Wayne State University Dissertations

Commotio Cordis (CC) has proven to be life threatening for young athletes as it is the second leading cause of mortality in youth sports. In the past 15 years, researchers have been working to understand the pathophysiology of this event. It has been proven that impacts directly over the cardiac silhouette during a vulnerable period of the cardiac cycle can cause CC. In order to reduce the occurrence of CC in sports, chest protectors need to be tested for efficacy. Currently there is no biofidelic surrogate to serve this purpose. In order to test equipment to a given standard of …

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Uab Magazine - Spring/Summer 2011, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jan 2011

Uab Magazine - Spring/Summer 2011, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

UAB Magazine

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Uab Magazine - Fall/Winter 2011, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jan 2011

Uab Magazine - Fall/Winter 2011, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

UAB Magazine

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Successes And Failures In International Human Trafficking Law, Luis Cdebaca Jan 2011

Successes And Failures In International Human Trafficking Law, Luis Cdebaca

Michigan Journal of International Law

Professor Carr yesterday remarked that human trafficking is too often discussed only in theoretical or academic ways. I've spent most of my career in the field, where interactions with victims, traffickers, and defense attorneys are anything but theoretical. But as keynote speaker for an academic symposium this morning, I'm going to try to lay out a bit of the conceptual state of play from my current vantage point. The title of this symposium, "Successes and Failures in International Human Trafficking Law," is a bit binary. Perhaps, in the best diplomatic tradition, we can temper that to "Limitations and Opportunities in …

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Lies, Lyres, And Laughter: Surplus Potential In The Homeric Hymn To Hermes, Christopher Bungard Jan 2011

Lies, Lyres, And Laughter: Surplus Potential In The Homeric Hymn To Hermes, Christopher Bungard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This paper seeks to reevaluate scholarly responses to the laughter in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Using Zupančič's recent work on comedy, I argue that Hermes intentionally exploits surplus potentials that emerge from splits in the perceived unity and completeness of Zeus's cosmos. Through surpluses (a tortoise-lyre, a baby cattle rustler, a baby master of legal speech), Hermes is able to attain his place among the Olympians. The laughter of the audience is one final expression of this acceptance of Hermes and his potential.

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Ethanol Yields And Cell Wall Properties In Divergently Bred Switchgrass Genotypes, Gautam Sarath, Bruce S. Dien, Aaron J. Saathoff, Kenneth P. Vogel, Robert B. Mitchell, Han Chen Jan 2011

Ethanol Yields And Cell Wall Properties In Divergently Bred Switchgrass Genotypes, Gautam Sarath, Bruce S. Dien, Aaron J. Saathoff, Kenneth P. Vogel, Robert B. Mitchell, Han Chen

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Genetic modification of herbaceous plant cell walls to increase biofuels yields is a primary bioenergy research goal. Using two switchgrass populations developed by divergent breeding for ruminant digestibility, the contributions of several wall-related factors to ethanol yields was evaluated. Field grown low lignin plants significantly out yielded high lignin plants for conversion to ethanol by 39.1% and extraction of xylans by 12%. However, across all plants analyzed, greater than 50% of the variation in ethanol yields was attributable to changes in tissue and cell wall architecture, and responses of stem biomass to diluteacid pretreatment. Although lignin levels were lower in …

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Larval Transport, Settlement And Nurseries (2011 Casco Bay Workshop Presentation), Richard Wahle Jan 2011

Larval Transport, Settlement And Nurseries (2011 Casco Bay Workshop Presentation), Richard Wahle

Presentations

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Computational Modeling/Cognitive Robotics Complements Functional Modeling/Experimental Psychology, S. Mello, S. Franklin Jan 2011

Computational Modeling/Cognitive Robotics Complements Functional Modeling/Experimental Psychology, S. Mello, S. Franklin

CCRG Papers

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The Lida Framework As A General Tool For Agi, J. Snaider, R. Mccall, S. Franklin Jan 2011

The Lida Framework As A General Tool For Agi, J. Snaider, R. Mccall, S. Franklin

CCRG Papers

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Consciousness And Ethics: Artificially Conscious Moral Agents, W. Wallach, C. Allen, S. Franklin Jan 2011

Consciousness And Ethics: Artificially Conscious Moral Agents, W. Wallach, C. Allen, S. Franklin

CCRG Papers

No abstract provided.

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"I Remember When You Taught Me That!" Developmental And Gender Differences In Children's Episodic Memories Of Learning Events During The Early School Years, Rhyannon H. Bemis Jan 2011

"I Remember When You Taught Me That!" Developmental And Gender Differences In Children's Episodic Memories Of Learning Events During The Early School Years, Rhyannon H. Bemis

Doctoral Dissertations

The study presented in this dissertation was designed to investigate young children's ability to accurately recall episodic (i.e., specific-one-moment-in-time) memories of learning events and whether this ability was related to another metacognitive skill, source monitoring. Further, the study investigated possible gender differences in the ability to recall learning events. Sixty children, ages four to six years, participated in two staged learning events about two novel topics, the Aleutian Islands and the visual system. Following a delay, children were interviewed and asked both general factual knowledge questions and questions about the target material learned in the staged events. Children were asked …

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"The Alien Within": Residual Catholicism And The Emerging National Identity Of Post-Reformation England, Melissa K. Siik (Femino) Jan 2011

"The Alien Within": Residual Catholicism And The Emerging National Identity Of Post-Reformation England, Melissa K. Siik (Femino)

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation contributes to the current critical discourse in Early Modern English Studies on the conceptions and literary representations of national and racial identity in 16th- and 17th-century England. Central to this discourse is an examination of how the English defined themselves in relation to those they deemed as "others": the foreign and marginalized members of society. My study is unique because I look at individual figures of "otherness"---the Irishman, the Turk, and the Jew---in light of their common characteristic: their shared significance as coded figures of Catholicism. Ultimately, my dissertation unifies disparate conversations about race, religion, and politics in …

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Existing Regulatory Circuitries Govern Backbone And Acquired Host Association Factors In The Human Pathogen Vibrio Parahaemolyticus, Jennifer C. Mahoney Jan 2011

Existing Regulatory Circuitries Govern Backbone And Acquired Host Association Factors In The Human Pathogen Vibrio Parahaemolyticus, Jennifer C. Mahoney

Doctoral Dissertations

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a poorly characterized human gastrointestinal pathogen whose virulence mechanisms are not well understood. Though closely related to Vibrio cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus infections are inflammatory and utilize virulence traits that are unique from the Cholera toxins yet remain poorly characterized. Vibrio spp. in general share an extensive core genome dedicated to environmental survival and unique, often horizontally acquired, gene content that is reserved for species specific lifestyles. This diversity has resulted in a genus of highly specialized bacteria partaking in dramatically different lifestyles ranging from symbiosis to pathogenesis. We propose that a comparative genomic and transcriptomic analysis of …

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The Role Of Reuniens And Rhomboid Thalamic Nuclei In Spatial Memory, Jacqueline R. Hembrook Jan 2011

The Role Of Reuniens And Rhomboid Thalamic Nuclei In Spatial Memory, Jacqueline R. Hembrook

Doctoral Dissertations

Spatial working memory is the ability to encode and temporarily store information for future retrieval to guide behavioral responses. Two areas of the brain that are important for this process are prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus. The hippocampus has strong connections to medial PFC, however there are no direct return projections from medial PFC to hippocampus. The reuniens (Re) and rhomboid (Rh) nuclei of ventral midline thalamus have anatomical connections with PFC and hippocampus. This dissertation sought to provide behavioral evidence for the role of the ventral midline thalamic nuclei in spatial working memory. Four experiments were conducted in rats …

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From Sweetwater To Seawater: An Environmental History Of Narragansett Bay, 1636--1849, Christopher L. Pastore Jan 2011

From Sweetwater To Seawater: An Environmental History Of Narragansett Bay, 1636--1849, Christopher L. Pastore

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines environmental change on and around Narragansett Bay from first European settlement in 1636 to the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. It uses one of the largest estuaries on the East Coast and one situated at the heart of early English settlement in New England as a means to write estuaries into Atlantic history. Examining the ecological and epistemological complexities that arose at the nexus of land and sea, where improvable space and the push of "progress" met an eternal or "profound" ocean, this study reframes estuaries as watery borderlands that people used but never …

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Unraveling The Mystery Of Leaf Reddening In Seagrasses, Alyssa B. Novak Jan 2011

Unraveling The Mystery Of Leaf Reddening In Seagrasses, Alyssa B. Novak

Doctoral Dissertations

Seagrass meadows around the world are declining due to natural and anthropogenic stressors, including global climate change. Recently, more attention has been given to identifying responses that offer resistance to stressors so that researchers can better manage seagrasses for resilience to environmental change. Leaf reddening, the expression of red coloration in leaves, is a well-documented response in terrestrial plants that has been shown to increase resilience to stress, but has been poorly understood in seagrasses. To increase our understanding of the prevalence, causes, and function of leaf in seagrasses, surveys were conducted in the world's six seagrass bioregions and a …

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