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No Reason For Complacency, Jason Hall-Spencer Jan 2011

No Reason For Complacency, Jason Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Capture Technique And Fish Personality: Angling Targets Timid Bluegill Sunfish,Lepomis Macrochirus, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Thomas R. Binder, Keegan P. Mcgrath, Steven J. Cooke, Jean Guy J. Godin Jan 2011

Capture Technique And Fish Personality: Angling Targets Timid Bluegill Sunfish,Lepomis Macrochirus, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Thomas R. Binder, Keegan P. Mcgrath, Steven J. Cooke, Jean Guy J. Godin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Size-selective harvesting associated with commercial and recreational fishing practices has been shown to alter life history traits through a phenomenon known as fishing-induced evolution. This phenomenon may be a result of selection pathways targeting life-history traits directly or indirectly through correlations with behavioral traits. Here, we report on the relationship between individual differences in behavior and capture technique (beach seining versus angling) in wild-caught juvenile bluegill sunfish ( Lepomis macrochirus ). Both fish caught by using a seine net (seined) and fish caught by using a lure (angled) were individually tested under standardized laboratory conditions for their boldness, water-column use, …

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Online, Distance Legal Education As An Agent Of Social Change, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2011

Online, Distance Legal Education As An Agent Of Social Change, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

New York Law School (NYLS) created its online, distance learning mental disability law program in an effort to provide education in an area of the law that remains hidden in most law school curricula. Since 2000, it has offered its mental disability law courses in an online, distance learning format to its own students, to law students from other US-based law schools, to mental health professionals, to students in all the allied mental health professions and in the fields of criminology and criminal justice, and to activists and advocates (including members of the psychiatric survivor movement). It has offered the …

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Considering Pathological Altruism In The Law From Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Neuroscience Perspectives, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2011

Considering Pathological Altruism In The Law From Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Neuroscience Perspectives, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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Statutory Arteriosclerosis, David Schoenbrod, Melissa Witte Jan 2011

Statutory Arteriosclerosis, David Schoenbrod, Melissa Witte

Articles & Chapters

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Urbanization, Water Quality, And The Regulated Landscape, Dave Owen Jan 2011

Urbanization, Water Quality, And The Regulated Landscape, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

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Single-Seed Descent, Single-Pod Descent, And Bulk Methods In Soybean, Mizuki Funada Jan 2011

Single-Seed Descent, Single-Pod Descent, And Bulk Methods In Soybean, Mizuki Funada

Plant Sciences

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] breeders need to use the most efficient and inexpensive method to advance populations during the inbreeding process. Most breeders in the soybean industry prefer the bulk method because it requires less hand labor during harvest. This study used molecular markers to compare the single seed descent (SSD), the single-pod descent (SPD) and the bulk methods. The objective was to identify the most efficient method of inbreeding by determining which method had the greatest number of unique lines and the fewest pairs of redundant lines. The number of pairs of redundant lines was detem1ined by scoring …

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Gene Expression Associated With Wound And Native Periderm Maturation In Potato Tubers, Jonathan David Neubauer Jan 2011

Gene Expression Associated With Wound And Native Periderm Maturation In Potato Tubers, Jonathan David Neubauer

Plant Sciences

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's fourth largest food crop and large financial losses are incurred each year from wound and bruise related injuries. However, little is known about the coordinate induction of genes that may be associated with, or mark major wound-healing and periderm maturation events. Also, one of the key defense mechanisms for potato tubers is the robust barrier provided by the phellem (skin) of the native periderm. Many biological processes are involved in the formation of this stout tissue. However, little is known about induction of genes that may be associated with this process. The objectives …

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Efficacy And Soil Residual Of Herbicides Developed For Optimum Gat (Glyphosate Acetolactate Synthase Tolerant) Crops, David James Carruth Jan 2011

Efficacy And Soil Residual Of Herbicides Developed For Optimum Gat (Glyphosate Acetolactate Synthase Tolerant) Crops, David James Carruth

Plant Sciences

Field experiments were conducted at five Northern Midwest locations to evaluate one and two pass herbicide programs developed for weed control in Optimum GAT (Glyphosate Acetolactate Synthase Tolerant) corn (Zea mays L.). All treatments provided greater than 95% control of grass and broadleafweed species 14 days after application (DAA) and greater than 80% control 28 DAA. There were no statistical differences in weed control 14 and 28 DAA between one and two pass herbicide treatments. Field experiments were conducted at three North Dakota locations to evaluate the growth and yield of hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), field corn, …

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Globalizing Conservation Easements: Private Law Approaches For International Environmental Protection, Gerald Korngold Jan 2011

Globalizing Conservation Easements: Private Law Approaches For International Environmental Protection, Gerald Korngold

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For the past thirty years nonprofit organizations have revolutionized open space and habitat conservation in the United States through the use of conservation easements. Pursuant to legislation, nonprofits may now acquire and hold perpetual restrictions that prevent alteration of the subject land’s natural and ecological features. These rights can be held “in gross,” with the result that the nonprofit need not own land near the restricted property and can be based in a distant location.

As a result of this success, proponents in more recent years have advocated the export of “conservation easements” from the United States to other countries. …

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Exposing The Underground Establishment Clause In The Supreme Court's Abortion Cases, Justin Murray Jan 2011

Exposing The Underground Establishment Clause In The Supreme Court's Abortion Cases, Justin Murray

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In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court held that women have a right to abortion under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court reasoned toward this conclusion by importing concepts and concerns that are ordinarily associated with the Establishment Clause. This Article is the first attempt to systematically describe, and critically evaluate, the Court's use of Establishment Clause ideas in Roe and later abortion cases. Some brief background is essential in order to see how the Court wove Establishment Clause themes into the structure of its Due Process analysis. The Due Process Clause prohibits the government from …

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Alabama's Water Crisis Essay: Alabama Legal Issues Series, Heather Elliott Jan 2011

Alabama's Water Crisis Essay: Alabama Legal Issues Series, Heather Elliott

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Alabama faces a major and expanding water crisis. Population growth and economic development are putting more pressure on water resources already strained by recent droughts, and such droughts are likely to become more frequent and more severe in the future. Disputes with neighboring states over shared water resources threaten Alabama's use of interstate waters to meet future needs. And Alabama's current legal regime is wholly inadequate to meet these challenges. The failures of Alabama's state water law could be corrected with one statute. The State Legislature should act swiftly to adopt a comprehensive water management statute based on the Regulated …

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Lie Detection And The Negotiation Within, Clark Freshman Jan 2011

Lie Detection And The Negotiation Within, Clark Freshman

Faculty Scholarship

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High In Situ Repeatability Of Behaviour Indicates Animal Personality In The Beadlet Anemone Actinia Equina (Cnidaria)., Mark Briffa, Julie Greenaway Jan 2011

High In Situ Repeatability Of Behaviour Indicates Animal Personality In The Beadlet Anemone Actinia Equina (Cnidaria)., Mark Briffa, Julie Greenaway

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

'Animal personality' means that individuals differ from one another in either single behaviours or suites of related behaviours in a way that is consistent over time. It is usually assumed that such consistent individual differences in behaviour are driven by variation in how individuals respond to information about their environment, rather than by differences in external factors such as variation in microhabitat. Since behavioural variation is ubiquitous in nature we might expect 'animal personality' to be present in diverse taxa, including animals with relatively simple nervous systems. We investigated in situ startle responses in a sea anemone, Actinia equina, to …

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Numerical Investigation Of Deep Water Circulation In The Faroese Channels, Nataliya Stashchuk, Vasiliy Vlasenko, Toby J. Sherwin Jan 2011

Numerical Investigation Of Deep Water Circulation In The Faroese Channels, Nataliya Stashchuk, Vasiliy Vlasenko, Toby J. Sherwin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The overflow of dense water from the Nordic Seas through the Faroese Channels is investigated numerically using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model. The model is forced by the removal of a barrier that separates different water masses in the bottom layer of the Faroe-Shetland Channel at the north-eastern boundary. An analysis of the output reveals that during its adjustment in the rotating channel the propagating flow is unstable and forms cyclonic and anti-cyclonic eddies in the Faroese Channels. The life-time of the cyclonic eddy is about 10 days, but an anti-cyclonic eddy that is formed upstream of …

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