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Managed Relocation: Integrating The Scientific, Regulatory, And Ethical Challenges, Mark W. Schwartz, Jessica J. Hellmann, Jason M. Mclachlan, Dov F. Sax, Justin O. Borevitz, Jean Brennan, Alejandro E. Camacho, Gerardo Ceballos, Jamie R. Clark, Holly Doremus, Regan Early, Julie R. Etterson, Dwight Fielder, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Patrick Gonzalez, Nancy Green, Lee Hannah, Dale W. Jamieson, Debra Javeline, Ben A. Minteer, Jay Odenbaugh, Stephen Polasky, David M. Richardson, Terry L. Root, Hugh D. Safford, Osvaldo Sala, Stephen H. Schneider, Andrew R. Thompson, John W. Williams, Mark Vellend, Pati Vitt, Sandra Zellmer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Managed relocation is defined as the movement of species, populations, or genotypes to places outside the areas of their historical distributions to maintain biological diversity or ecosystem functioning with changing climate. It has been claimed that a major extinction event is under way and that climate change is increasing its severity. Projections indicating that climate change may drive substantial losses of biodiversity have compelled some scientists to suggest that traditional management strategies are insufficient. The managed relocation of species is a controversial management response to climate change. The published literature has emphasized biological concerns over difficult ethical, legal, and policy …

Evaluation Of The Effects Of September Hunting Seasons On Canada Geese In Nebraska, Scott R. Groepper, Mark P. Vrtiska, Larkin A. Powell, Scott E. Hygnstrom

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Populations of temperate-nesting Canada geese (Branta canadensis) have increased in Nebraska, USA, resulting in an increased number of nuisance and damage complaints. September hunting seasons were initiated in southeastern Nebraska in 2004 to reduce populations of Canada geese. We analyzed band recoveries from Canada geese banded in southeastern Nebraska during their hatch-year (HY) or after-hatch-year (AHY) to determine whether September hunting seasons affected survival, harvest, and recovery rates. Survival analyses revealed that HY geese had higher survival than AHY geese (SAHY = 0.696, 95% CI = 0.679–0.713; SHY = 0.896, 95% CI = 0.786–0.953) and September seasons did …

Undergraduate Catalog - The School Year 2012-2013, Prairie View A&M University

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

From Mourning To Meditation: Theorizing Ecopoetics, Thinking Ecology, Jessica Lee Curran

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Composed of twelve chapters and argued through the months of the year, this dissertation analyzes the works of Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau, situating them in a contemporary ecocritical context, but more importantly, in a widened sense of ecopoetics. The project's thesis states that the ecopoet, in mourning the loss of nature as idealization and salvation, embraces a state of radical metaphor-making, which in turn allows for a heightened sense of intimacy and necessitates a commitment to meditation. The cultivation of intimacy and the practice of meditation lie at the heart of ecological thinking and being. In order to …

Parametric Studies Of Antipsychotic-Induced Sensitization In The Conditioned Avoidance Response Model: Roles Of Number Of Drug Exposure, Drug Dose, And Test–Retest Interval, Natashia Swalve, Ming Li

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Repeated haloperidol and olanzapine treatment produces an enhanced disruption of avoidance responding, a validated measure of antipsychotic activity. Experimental parameters affecting this sensitization-like effect have not been thoroughly examined. The present study investigated the role of three parameters (number of injections, dose, and interval between initial exposure and challenge) in antipsychotic sensitization in the conditioned avoidance response paradigm. Well-trained Sprague–Dawley rats received different numbers of drug treatment (1–5 days) or different doses of haloperidol (0.025–0.10 mg/kg, subcutaneously) or olanzapine (0.5–2.0 mg/kg, subcutaneously). After certain time intervals (4, 10 or 17 days), they were tested for the expression of haloperidol or …

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Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From August 2012 Robert Kelly Archives

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Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From August 2012 Robert Kelly Archives

Breastfeeding Success Among Infants With Phenylketonuria, Sandra Banta-Wright, Kathleen C. Shelton, Nancy D. Lowe, Kathleen A. Knafl, Gayle M. Houck

Faculty Publications - College of Nursing

Breast milk is the nutrition of choice for human infants (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005; American Association of Family Physicians, 2008; Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, 2005; Canadian Paediatric Society, 2005; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 2008; World Health Organization, 2009). The literature on the benefits of breast milk and breastfeeding for infants and mothers has established multiple positive outcomes for infants (Hoddinott, Tappin, & Wright, 2008; Horta, Bahl, Martines, & Victora, 2007; Ip et al., 2007). Breast milk has advantages for infants that distinguish it from standard commercial infant formulas. These advantages include growth factors, hormones, …

After Edwards: Original Sin And Freedom Of The Will, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

Book Summary: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers in the Christian tradition and an important and influential figure in American theology. After Jonathan Edwards is a collection of specially commissioned essays that track his intellectual legacies from the work of his immediate disciples that formed the New Divinity movement in colonial New England, to his impact upon European traditions and modern Asia. It is a unique interdisciplinary contribution to the reception of Edwardsian ideas, with scholars of Edwards being brought together with scholars of New England theology and early American history to produce a …

Graduate Catalog - The School Year 2012-2013, Prairie View A&M University

Graduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Paper Towns: Sense Of Place In Industrial, Small-Town New England, 1869-1927, David William Deacon

History - Dissertations

After the Civil War, new technologies and business structures transformed the American economy and society. One area that has received much attention in the antebellum period but much less after the Civil War, is small town New England. In the late 1860s, the introduction of wood pulp paper technology transformed formerly small market and manufacturing communities into centers of heavy industry. This dissertation is a study of this transformation. It focuses on three communities: Bellows Falls, Vermont, Franklin, New Hampshire, and Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

This study examines four broad areas: the historical background of the towns, and townspeople's awareness of …

Histomorphometric Differences In Tibial Cortical Bone Based On Sampling Location, Stepahnie Nicole Blatch

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Histomorphometric analysis of cortical bone is often used to estimate age at death of skeletons or to make inferences about mobility in past populations. Although previous studies have indicated that remodeling is variable within a single cross-section of bone, there has been little examination of the nature of these differences in the human tibia. This study investigated whether there are differences in remodeling based on sampling location in human tibiae, specifically examining inter-quadrant differences (anterior, posterior, medial, and lateral) as well as differences between periosteal, endosteal, and midcortical sampling locations. Slides of undecalcified sections of human tibiae at midshaft (N=10) …

Morphological Correlates Of Primate Hallucal Grasping, Katherine Elizabeth Goodenberger

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Primates are unusual among mammals in having a well-developed hallucal grasping mechanism. Hallucal grasping has been featured in many adaptive scenarios of primate evolution. Some authors have suggested that primates possess more powerful hallucal grasping than non-primate euarchontans and that there are variations in hallucal grasping power and grasping type among primates. In these scenarios, powerful grasping is associated with the use of different substrate size and orientation and some authors have argued that these differences should be reflected in the morphology of the hallucal metatarsal (Mt1). Using data taken from the primate behavior literature, this thesis examines the morphology …

The Effects Of Habitat And Predation On Bay Scallop Populations In New York, John Michael Carroll

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Bay scallops once supported a vibrant fishery on Long Island. Populations crashed in the mid 1980s due to a series of brown tides, and while blooms haven't occurred within the Peconic Estuary since 1995, scallops have not naturally recovered. Concomitant with the loss of scallops due to the blooms was the disappearance of eelgrass, often called the "preferred" scallop habitat, possibly explaining the lack of recovery. Current restoration efforts have produced over 6 million scallops for deployment to the estuaries, leading to significant increases in the local scallop population. However, it is possible that the loss of seagrass might limit …

Examining The Ecological Role Of White Perch (Morone Americana) Using Acoustic Telemetry In The Great South Bay Estuary, New York., Martha Marie Divver

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Acoustic telemetry was used to investigate movement and behavior of the semi-anadromous white perch (Morone americana) in the Great South Bay system. Fifteen Vemco?? VR2 acoustic receivers were deployed in the Carmans River and another fifteen were placed in tributaries throughout the Bay. Forty fish were tagged with Vemco?? V9 acoustic transmitters from August 2010 - 2011, fifteen of which returned 28+ days of movement data. Spatial use of the River varied seasonally with an expanded range during autumn and spring and contracted range during summer and winter. Both residential and dispersive individuals existed within the population, suggesting connectivity between …

Automatic Mesh Generation And Processing For Biomedical Geometries, Volodymyr Dyedov

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Introduction of advantages of fluid dynamics simulations into clinical practice depends on ability to quickly create patient-specific computational models from computed tomography or magnetic resonance images with minimal human interaction. Our research addresses three steps in this process. First is identifying lung airways in radiological images. Our approach is based on a combination of geometric analysis of gradient vector flow and graph-based algorithms. Second is a novel method for robust and efficient computation of medial curves for complex biomedical geometries. This algorithm is based on three key concepts: a local orthogonal decomposition of geometry into substructures, a differential concept called …

Male-Male Competition And Loud Calls In One-Male Groups Of Simakobu (Simias Concolor), Wendy Marie Erb

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Sexual selection arises when individuals compete for access to mates, resulting in differences in reproductive success. In mammals, where females invest much more in offspring through gestation and lactation, sexual selection is usually stronger in males, whose fitness is limited by access to receptive females and who compete to monopolize them. Males can maintain exclusive access to a group of females by avoiding other groups, aggressively excluding rival males, or by herding females or defending an area in which they range. In polygynous species, male weapons, ornaments, and displays are often well developed for intrasexual competition, and males may use …

Phenylalanine As A Probe For Mineral-Mediated Hydroxyl Radical Formation, Shawn Charles Fisher

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Mineral-induced formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can lead to transformations of organic compounds in aqueous solutions and has been tied to human-health related illnesses resulting from inhalation of mineral or pyritic coal dust. This dissertation reports the use of phenylalanine (Phe) as a biologically-relevant probe to better characterize the conditions that control the formation and fate of hydroxyl radical (.OH) in suspensions of pyrite, coal, and manganese oxide minerals (MnOx). An HPLC-MS method involving minimal sample processing was developed that allows for sensitive analysis of both Phe and its specific phenyl hydroxylation product mixture of ortho-, meta-, and para-tyrosine …

The Molecular Basis Of A Nitric Oxide Responsive Quorum Sensing Circuit In Vibrio Harveyi, Bernadette Matanguihan Henares

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The discovery of bacteria's ability to coordinate population-wide undertakings has paved the way to understanding many biological processes once thought to be restricted to multi-cellular organisms. Bacteria use small molecules to communicate with one another and gauge the surroundings to formulate a unified response. This process, known as quorum sensing (QS), regulates diverse functions such as bioluminescence, biofilm formation, and virulence. Vibrio harveyi have three parallel QS circuits that regulate bioluminescence. Each system involves the synthesis of specific small molecule called autoinducer that binds to its cognate receptor histidine kinase and regulates phosphorylation. The three pathways converge and exchange phosphate …

Tyme, Rime, Minde & Kinde: The Reverberation Of Time In Composition, Cognition & Kynde In The Book Of The Duchess, Kassim Mirza

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In Europe during the fourteenth century the perception of time was revolutionized by the invention of the mechanical clock. The device rendered the old qualitative, self referential perception of time obsolete and replaced it with a means of time reckoning abstracted from human experience. In this thesis I will analyze the influence of the emergence of the mechanical clock on Geoffrey Chaucer's earliest know work: The Book of the Duchess. I utilize close reading and numerology to interpret the relationship between the forest and the humans of the Dreamscape. Ultimately, I argue that Chaucer allocates the old qualitative perception of …

Long-Range Ordered Carbon Clusters: A Crystalline Material With Amorphous Building Blocks, Lin Wang, Bingbing Liu, Hui Li, Wenge Yang, Yang Ding, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Yue Meng, Zhenxian Liu, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Wendy L. Mao

Xiao Cheng Zeng Publications

Solid-state materials can be categorized by their structures into crystalline (having periodic translation symmetry), amorphous (no periodic and orientational symmetry), and quasi-crystalline (having orientational but not periodic translation symmetry) phases. Hybridization of crystalline and amorphous structures at the atomic level has not been experimentally observed. We report the discovery of a long-range ordered material constructed from units of amorphous carbon clusters that was synthesized by compressing solvated fullerenes. Using x-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and quantum molecular dynamics simulation, we observed that, although carbon-60 cages were crushed and became amorphous, the solvent molecules remained intact, playing a crucial role in maintaining …

Binding The Executive (By Law Or By Politics), Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Healing Hands Reviewing The Potential Applications Of Energy Therapies To Redirect Pain During Labor And Childbirth, Cecilia Dinh

HIM 1990-2015

The birth experience is a highly subjective phenomenon that leaves a lasting impression for mothers and their families and friends. Although the passage of a child from the mother's womb into the world is typically joyous, the experience is not always as positive. Negative physical and psychological factors may greatly impact a woman's impression of the childbirth experience. Among childbearing women, the two main concerns of childbirth are pain and safe management. Similarly among healthcare providers, management of labor pain is one of the main goals of maternity care. Pain is a highly subjective phenomenon that is expected during the …

An Exploration Of African Folktales Among The Gullah Community Of The South Carolina Sea Islands : History, Culture, And Identity., Tytianna Nikia Maria Wells Smith 1987-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an exploration of Black cultural space and its influence on the retention, adaptation, and transmission of African folktales during and after the antebellum era. During slavery, the survival of kinship and family helped to create an environment that existed through which African folktales were used to educate and socialize children on South Carolina Sea Islands plantations. This research conducted a literary and cultural analysis of the historical and current function of ten folktales that impart moral lessons and cultural values that encourage children in Gullah communities to appreciate their African heritage and challenge the world in which …

Narrative Of Modern Chinese Masculinity In Ha Jin's Fiction., Lezhou Su

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of readings of three selected novels by Ha Jin-Waiting, The Crazed, and A Free Life. These novels cover three historical periods of Contemporary China under the rule of the Communist Party in sequence-the Mao's era (1949-1976), post-Mao era (1976-1989) and post-Tiananmen Square Incident era (1989 onwards). The readings are predominated with gender issues in the literary works, particularly with the construction and representation of contemporary Chinese masculinity. Drawing mainly on the Kam Louie's theory which pins down traditional Chinese masculinity in terms of wen (literary power) and wu (physical power)-the two concepts deeply entrenched in Confucianism, the …

Blockade Of Cxcr4 Inhibits Porphyromonas Gingivalis Colonization In Vivo And Subsequent Periodontal Bone Loss., Megan L. Mc Intosh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Chronic periodontitis is strongly associated with composition of the oral biofilm occupying the gingival crevicular aspect of the tooth and its associated root. Some gram-negative, "red complex" bacteria instigate periodontal bone loss in patients, principal among these Porphyromonas gingivalis. P. gingivalis is a "late colonizer", indicating not only its physical location within the oral biofilm, but also the pathogenic dynamic of the interaction between P. gingivalis and the host innate immunity. Among several other subversive tactics, P. gingivalis has been shown to compel receptors vital to the orchestration of an appropriate immune response to co-associate and consequently signal in a …

Teenagers' Safety At Work : Dangerous Tasks And Safety Training., Teresa Jane Mcgeeney 1987-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Teenaged workers are twice as likely to be injured on the job as adult workers, and face a number of differences developmentally and psychosocially that present challenges for their safety at work. Little research has focused on the tasks that teenagers perform at work and what factors mediate their performance of hazardous tasks and tasks prohibited by law. Data used for this thesis was collected through a survey of 884 teenagers enrolled at two public high schools in Louisville, Kentucky in Spring 2011. Focus groups and interviews were also conducted with 42 employed teenagers in Spring 2010 to provide qualitative …

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis : Diagnosis, Management, And The Search For A Cure., Daniel Fioret

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrotic lung disease with poor prognosis. To address this disease broadly, the candidate engaged in clinical work, literature analysis, database analysis, and laboratory work. The clinical work culminated in a case report that highlights the controversies inherent in the diagnosis and treatment of IPF. The literature analysis discusses ongoing clinical trials and challenges inherent in the management of IPF. Evaluation of a national database unveiled information about the burden of IPF on the healthcare system. Finally, the laboratory work examined the role of oxidant stress and the interaction of lung fibroblasts and lung cancer …

Child Behavioral Inhibition, Parental Overcontrol, And Parental Anxiety As Predictors Of Adolescent Anxiety., Benjamin M. Keizer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examined the prediction of anxiety symptoms over time during developmentally significant periods - the transition to middle school (12 years old) and the transition to high school (15 years old). Specifically, relationships between child behavioral inhibition, paternal anxiety, maternal anxiety, and parental control and concurrent levels of adolescent anxiety at each time point were analyzed. Despite a strong research base supporting individual connections between child behavioral inhibition, levels of parental control, parental anxiety symptoms and adolescent anxiety, the joint longitudinal associations have received scant attention in the literature. The current study also compared two different models of adolescent …

In Vivo And In Vitro Digestibility Of A Complete Pelleted Feed In Horses, Cassandra Renee Sweeney

Master's Theses

ABSTRACT

COMPLETION OF AN IN VIVO DIGESTIBILITY TRIAL IN HORSES AND IN VITRO DIGESTIBILITY ASSAY DEVELOPMENT

Cassandra Renee Sweeney

In vivo analysis of equine feed digestibility has been the gold standard since the late 1800's, although it can be time consuming, costly, and labor intensive. In vitro digestibility analysis may be more economical and beneficial to both feed manufacturers and consumers. The availability of accurate in vivo data is crucial for critical evaluation and validation of any potential in vitro method (Coles et al., 2005). Ten adult American quarter horse geldings were used in the in vivo digestibility evaluation of …