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Serial - All Animals 2009-15

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President's Note

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

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Front Lines

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Coalition Fights for Maine Bears; Farmer to Farmer; Champion for Shelter Dogs; Signs of the Times; Standing Up for U.K. Badgers; Client Pays It Forward

Q&A

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Veggie Pride

Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan slowly evolved from a meat-heavy childhood and a career on the barbecue circuit to a vegetarian diet, the topic of his new weekly column.

To The Rescue

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

367 dogs rescued in multi-state bust of fighting operations; Hazel the goat gets her legs back; Spuds eludes capture; fledgling helped back to the nest

Demystifying The Feline Mystique

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

In her new book The Cat Whisperer, behaviorist Mieshelle Nagelschneider shares lifesaving insights into the fascinating minds of these essentially wild beings: their champion-survivor behaviors, their vast differences from dogs, their philosophical patron (hint: It’s not Dr. Phil).

Hometown Heroes

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

A Happier Home

Tampa’s Big Cat Rescue provides sanctuary to lynx, bobcats, and other exotic animals rescued from abysmal situations such as backyard pens and roadside zoos.

On The Way Back, Karen E. Lange

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

In an era of mass extinctions, there are reasons for hope. During the last half-century, human interventions have helped species thought forever lost or diminished overcome threats from habitat loss and disease to bounty hunting and pollution.

We Are The Hsus

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Donors, Staff, and Volunteers in Action

Your Pet

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Inside the Rat Pack

Forget everything you thought you knew about rats: They’re clean, they’re smart, and they want to be your best friend.

Celebrating Animals

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Photos from our readers

Real Comfort

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

For our first Meatless Monday recipe contest, HSUS supporters shared their best comfort food concoctions. We cooked up a storm and chose four mouth-watering recipes to sustain readers through the long days of winter.

Humane Living

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Money Talks

Whether avoiding companies that harm animals or investing in ones that help them, sustainable and responsible investing means you can watch your money grow and do right by animals.

In the Limelight

“Everybody should rescue a dog”: In a new Shelter Pet Project PSA, Paul Shaffer and daughter Victoria describe why adoption is good for the soul.

Incorporating New Technologies Into Toxicity Testing And Risk Assessment: Moving From 21st Century Vision To A Data-Driven Framework, Russell S. Thomas, Martin A. Philbert, Scott Auerbach, Barbara A. Wetmore, Michael J. Devito, Ila Cote, J. Craig Rowlands, Maurice Whelan, Sean M. Hays, Melvin E. Andersen, M.E. (Bette) Meek, Lawrence W. Reiter, Jason C. Lambert, Harvey J. Clewell Iii, Martin L. Stephens, Q. Jay Zhao, Scott C. Wesselkamper, Lynn Flowers, Edward W. Carney, Tim P. Pastoor, Dan D. Petersen, Carole L. Yauk, Andy Nong

in Vitro Research Models Collection

Based on existing data and previous work, a series of studies is proposed as a basis toward a pragmatic early step in transforming toxicity testing. These studies were assembled into a data-driven framework that invokes successive tiers of testing with margin of exposure (MOE) as the primary metric. The first tier of the framework integrates data from high-throughput in vitro assays, in vitro-to-in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) pharmacokinetic modeling, and exposure modeling. The in vitro assays are used to separate chemicals based on their relative selectivity in interacting with biological targets and identify the concentration at which these interactions …

Discrimination Of Familiar Human Faces In Dogs (Canis Familiaris), Ludwig Huber, Anaïs Racca, Billy Scaf, Zsófia Virányi, Friederike Range

Recognition Collection

Faces are an important visual category for many taxa, and the human face is no exception to this. Because faces differ in subtle ways and possess many idiosyncratic features, they provide a rich source of perceptual cues. A fair amount of those cues are learned through social interactions and are used for future identification of individual humans. These effects of individual experience can be studied particularly well in hetero-specific face perception. Domestic dogs represent a perfect model in this respect, due to their proved ability to extract important information from the human face in socio-communicative interactions. There is also …

November 2013, Issue 4, James Madison University Uhc Marketing Team

Potty Mouth

No abstract provided.

Nove2013, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

from November 2013 Robert Kelly Archive

The Impact Of Reducing Nitrogen Fertilizer In Iceberg Head Lettuce, Jason Acquistapace

Agricultural Education and Communication

The impact of Nitrogen use in Iceberg lettuce was studied by measuring the weight and size of lettuce heads. A standard nitrogen application based on traditional commercial production was determined and portions of commercial fields (401 and 406) were designated for testing. Based on the standard, three fertilizer treatments (40%, 60%, and 80% of the control) were tested against the control in fields 401 and 406. The results indicated there was no difference in the weight of lettuce heads when treated with the relative fertilizer percentages. However, the size of lettuce heads decreased as the relative fertilizer percentages decreased. This …

Phylogeography Of The California Sheephead, Semicossyphus Pulcher: The Role Of Deep Reefs As Stepping Stones And Pathways To Antitropicality, Marloes Poortvliet, Gary C. Longo, Kimberly Selkoe, Paul H. Berber, Crow White, Jennifer E. Caselle, Alejandro Perez-Matus, Steven D. Gaines, Giacomo Bernardi

Biological Sciences

In the past decade, the study of dispersal of marine organisms has shifted from focusing predominantly on the larval stage to a recent interest in adult movement. Antitropical distributions provide a unique system to assess vagility and dispersal. In this study, we have focused on an antitropical wrasse genus, Semicossyphus, which includes the California sheephead, S. pulcher, and Darwin's sheephead, S. darwini. Using a phylogenetic approach based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers, and a population genetic approach based on mitochondrial control region sequences and 10 microsatellite loci, we compared the phylogenetic relationships of these two species, as well …

Book Review Of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions And The Crisis Of Governance, By Sanford Levinson, Lawrence Friedman

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Research Seminar: Stevens On Cenozoic Faunal Dynamics On Afro Arabia, Nov 18, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Constraint Of Dignity: Lawrence V. Texas And Public Morality, Kristian R. Mukoski

Notre Dame Law Review

This Note will proceed in four parts. Part I will catalogue the jurisprudential and philosophical conflict over the legitimacy of morals legislation. Part II will examine the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence regarding reproductive and sexual liberty, noting the trend towards conflating liberty with autonomy that culminated in Lawrence v. Texas. Part III will closely scrutinize the characterization of liberty in Lawrence, demonstrating that it is restricted by associational and spatial limitations. Part IV will connect those limitations to the description of dignity Justice Kennedy employed in Lawrence and in other cases. This conception of dignity embodies substantive values concerning the appropriate …

Key Findings Of The 2013 West Coast Demersal Scalefish Resource Stock Assessment, Department Of Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Management Papers

Now, six years since the first stock assessment, and with the completion of a comprehensive boat-based survey of recreational fishing, ongoing annual monitoring of commercial and charter catches and a third stock assessment completed in 2013, the effectiveness of current management measures is able to be assessed.

This paper also provides an overview of the determination in regard to the sectoral allocations of the demersal scalefish resource in the WCB.

Little Miss Bird-In-Hand, Annie Bilancini

Booth

The girls of the Little Miss Bird-in-Hand County Pageant instantly understood that Contestant Twelve was different, though they could not be certain why. To begin with, her parents were different from theirs. They were older. They did not preen their daughter like tropical birds. When they dropped her off at the dressing room, they lingered with stiff limbs in the doorway as though their coats were stuffed with newspaper and straw. The girl waved at them and smiled, gently shooing them off. After a moment they turned away, two hunks of stale putty shuffling down the hall, leaving their daughter …

Ua35/8 Military Student Services [Newsletter], Tonya Archey

Veterans Upward Bound Publications

No abstract provided.

Global Carbon-And-Conservation Models, Global Eco-States? Ecuador’S Yasuní-Itt Initiative And Governance Implications, Conny Davidsen Ph.D., Laura Kiff

Journal of International and Global Studies

The “global carbon age” marks a structural change far beyond the economic realms of implementing carbon trade, affecting the fabric of global environmental governance and its actors. Carbon trade and conservation in the Global South have taken on various forms, and climate change mitigation efforts in light of continued rainforest deforestation are scrambling to establish effective approaches. Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative proposes a new global carbon-and-conservation model in the Ecuadorian Amazon that leaves oil reserves of the Yasuní Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (ITT) oil fields underground, in exchange for international compensation payments that would be based on voluntary contributions of governments and …

Counteracting Dynamics Of Violent Communication In Bullying, Jacques L. Koko

Peace and Conflict Studies

This study examines fourteen conversations from observations conducted on bullying among 8th graders in 2002, in a Middle School in Virginia in the United States of America to: (1) identify power disparity in verbal bullying between bullies and targets, (2) examine how power disparity in verbal bullying empowers the perpetrator against silent targets, (3) explain how targets’ verbal responses neutralize bullies or stop bullying, and (4) design an approach to counteracting verbal bullying –the “agere contra” approach to bullying, which demonstrates how words could also be used, not only to counteract bullying, but also to heal both the perpetrator and …

Volume 20, Number 2 (Fall 2013), Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

No abstract provided.

Bereavement, Storytelling, And Reconciliation: Peacebuilding Between Israelis And Palestinians, Frida Kerner Furman

Peace and Conflict Studies

Despite the ongoing conflict and the general neglect by the media, power brokers, and the public, grassroots organizations in the Middle East persist in their dedication to “people to people” diplomacy between Israelis and Palestinians. The Parents Circle-Families Forum is a bi-national NGO committed to peacebuilding and reconciliation between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Its most distinctive features are its membership, composed of 300 families from each side who have lost a close relative to the conflict, and its use of storytelling to connect the two sides. Bereaved individuals develop the capacity for empathy …

Reporter - November 1st 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.