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Ceteal News, September/October 2014, Ceteal, Coastal Carolina University

CeTEAL Newsletter

• Doctor Recommended, Doctor Approved: The CeTEAL Writing Circle
  Aneilya Barnes, Director of QEP/Associate Professor of History, Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts
• Instructional Coaching Process Encourages Sharing and Growth
  Wes Fondren, Assistant Professor of Communication, Languages and Cultures, Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts
• How I Used What I Learned in a 3-in-30 Session
  David Doerring, Lecturer of Management and Decision Sciences, Wall College of Business Administration
• Moving Beyond the Idea Phase and Publishing an Article
  Allison Faix, Associate Librarian/Coordinator of Reference Services, Kimbel Library
• Making the Move to Distance Learning and Moodle
  Kimberly Schumacher, Lecturer of Communication, …

International Organizations: An Early History, Michael Davies, Richard Woodward

Books/Book Chapters

This text provides a pioneering and comprehensive analysis of over one hundred international organizations. After introducing the broad historical and contextual settings, the book covers the full range of international organisations including those that are often overlooked or get minimal inclusion elsewhere. Each organization is analysed in a stand-alone section that consider its origins, basic mandates and evolution, the governance structure and the associated key players, current activities and future challenges. The descriptions also reflect each organization’s broader relationships with other international bodies.

Nebline, September 2014

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: 4-H Youth Showcase Their Achievements at Super Fair

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Home & Family Living

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Anthropomorphism, Anthropectomy, And The Null Hypothesis, Kristin Andrews, Brian Huss

Experimentation Collection

We examine the claim that the methodology of psychology leads to a bias in animal cognition research against attributing ‘‘anthropomorphic’’ properties to animals (Sober in Thinking with animals: new perspectives on anthropomorphism. Columbia University Press, New York, pp 85–99, 2005; de Waal in Philos Top 27:225–280, 1999). This charge is examined in light of a debate on the role of folk psychology between primatologists who emphasize similarities between humans and other apes, and those who emphasize differences. Weargue that while in practice there is sometimes bias, either in the formulation of the null hypothesis or in the preference of Type-II …

Laterality Influences Cognitive Performance In Rainbowfish Melanotaenia Duboulayi, Anne-Laurence Bibost, Culum Brown

Sentience Collection

Cerebral lateralization has been suggested to convey a selective advantage to individuals by enhancing their cognitive abilities. Few, however, have explicitly compared the cognitive ability of animals with strongly contrasting laterality. Here, we examined the influence of laterality on learning performance in the crimson spotted rainbowfish, Melanotaenia duboulayi, using a classical conditioning paradigm. We also compared the learning ability of wild caught and captive-reared fish to examine the influence of rearing environment on cognitive performance. Laterality was established by observing which eye fish preferred to use while viewing their mirror image. Subjects were then conditioned to associate the appearance of …

A Comparison Of Spatial Learning And Memory Capabilities In Intertidal Gobies, Gemma E. White, Culum Brown

Sentience Collection

For the majority of animals, the ability to orient in familiar locations is a fundamental part of life, and spatial memory allows individuals to remember key locations such as food patches, shelter, mating sites or areas regularly occupied by predators. This study determined if gobies collected from rocky platforms and sandy beaches differ in their ability to learn and memorise the locations of tide pools in a simulated rocky intertidal zone. Intertidal rock pool gobies show acute homing abilities and, therefore, should be expected to display superior learning and memory capabilities. In contrast, it is unlikely that natural selection would …

Socialising Piglets In Lactation Positively Affects Their Post-Weaning Behaviour, Talia Morgan, John Pluske, David Miller, Teresa Collins, Anne L. Barnes, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Patricia A. Fleming

Sentience Collection

Although commercial farrowing sheds keep individual litters separated, previous studies have suggested that housing systems that allow socialisation of piglets pre-weaning can reduce aggression after weaning. This study tested whether pigs socialised with non-littermates pre-weaning would show less aggression during mixing at weaning (when piglets are taken from their sows and mixed in group housing), and whether socialisation influenced the time budgets or behavioural expression of piglets at weaning. In total, 353 piglets were followed from birth through to one week after weaning. Piglets from 24 sows were allowed to socialise in groups of four litters (‘socialised’ treatment group) from …

Behaviour Of Horses In A Judgment Bias Test Associated With Positive Or Negative Reinforcement, Sabrina Briefer Freymond, Elodie F. Briefer, Anja Zollinger, Yveline Gindrat-Von Allmen, Christa Wyss, Iris Bachmann

Ethology Collection

Moods can influence our judgment of ambiguous stimuli as positive or negative. Measuring judgment bias in animals is a promising method to objectively assess their emotional states. Our study aimed to develop a cognitive bias test in horses, in order to assess the effect of training using positive reinforcement (PR) or negative reinforcement (NR) on their emotional states. We trained 12 mares to discriminate between a rewarded and a non-rewarded location situated on each side of a paddock. The mares were then trained during five days to perform several exercises using PR (n = 6) for one group, and NR …

Emotional Engagements Predict And Enhance Social Cognition In Young Chimpanzees, Kim A. Bard, Roger Bakeman, Sarah T. Boysen, David A. Leavens

Sentience Collection

Social cognition in infancy is evident in coordinated triadic engagements, that is, infants attending jointly with social partners and objects. Current evolutionary theories of primate social cognition tend to highlight species differences in cognition based on human-unique cooperative motives. We consider a developmental model in which engagement experiences produce differential outcomes. We conducted a 10-year-long study in which two groups of laboratory-raised chimpanzee infants were given quantifiably different engagement experiences. Joint attention, cooperativeness, affect, and different levels of cognition were measured in 5- to 12-month-old chimpanzees, and compared to outcomes derived from a normative human database. We found that joint …

President's Note

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

No abstract provided.

Community

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

No abstract provided.

Front Lines

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

TARGETING CRUEL PROFITS; BASHING THE GAS; KEY PROVISION FOR HORSES

To The Rescue

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Pocket pups rescued in Tennessee; walking horses find their way again.

Q&A

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

SOME KIND OF WONDER-PIG

Porcine social media star does more than make people laugh.

At The Care Centers

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Photography workshop brings out horse admirers; wildfire victims recuperate.

Where Wombats Rule, Kama Einhorn

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Caring for pinkies and older joeys is a full-time job at Sleepy Burrows Wombat Sanctuary in Australia. Massages, daily walks and pouch time help these recuperating marsupials on their path back to freedom.

Wolves In The Wild, Emily Smith

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Victims of seesawing government policies, gray wolves are far from the fearsome creatures portrayed in fairy tales. Their family bonds, intelligence and intricate communication tell a more complex story.

In The Kitchen

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

KEEP TRUCKIN’

Quinoa avocado salad gets food truck fans’ hearts racing.

Humane Backyard

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

CATERPILLAR EFFECT

By catering to caterpillars, you can grow a butterfly garden.

We Are The Hsus

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Tara Loller helps law enforcement carry out puppy mill regulations.

In The Limelight

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting; reviews.

Hometown Heroes

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

SENIOR MOMENTS

“It feels like you’re visiting someone’s grandma’s house”: Peaceful Passings offers refuge in rural Virginia.

Your Pet

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

EXIT STRATEGIES

Whether it’s a home fire or a hurricane, preparation can protect you and your pet in a crisis.

Celebrating Animals

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Photos from our readers.

Digging For Their Lives, Michael Sharp

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Rescuers and volunteers converge on a Florida construction site to unearth members of a threatened but ecologically critical species who would otherwise be entombed alive.

Ecological Agriculture. Integrating Low Input, High Productive Farming With Wildlife Conservation. Results From The Experimental Farm La Combe, Drome France, Marthe Kiley-Worthington

Ecological Impacts of Animal Agriculture Collection

Wildlife conservation must be integrated with energy and resource efficient agriculture for the human population to survive. Modern high input energy and resource inefficient agriculture does not address these problems. An efficient food producing system which marries wildlife conservation with resource and energy efficient human food production is needed. This is Ecological Agriculture, modelled on how natural ecosystems work. It is defined as: The establishment and maintenance of a diversified, self-sustaining low input farming system managed to maximize net production without causing large or long term changes to the environment. It must be economically viable, and ethically and aesthetically acceptable …

Expectations Of Peace: Documentation, Memorialization, And Construction Of The Archive In Northern Uganda, Matthew Sebastian

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

This thesis considers how documentation and memorialization initiatives curate historical narratives in contemporary northern Uganda since the collapse of the Juba peace talks in 2008. Taking the collapse of political settlement as my starting point while staying attuned to the history of humanitarian activity in the region more broadly, I address how each of these initiatives produces knowledge about the war between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army and its aftermath despite the lack of a formal resolution or cessation of hostilities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted annually between 2009 and 2014, I argue that sites of …

Fable, Method, And Imagination In Descartes, James E. C. Griffith

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation traces the effects that attending to Descartes' deployment of fable have on our understanding of the Cartesian method and its conception of the imagination. Descartes must take on the task of inaugurating a break from Scholastic metaphysics and physics. Because of the limitations he sees in Scholasticism’s methods, especially in syllogisms and syntheses of previously established knowledge, Descartes frequently finds it impossible to defend his own approach to metaphysics and physics through those methods. Thus, he must find a way to establish his method without deploying it. To claim that his method is useful is not helpful in …

Nack Is An Integral Component Of The Notch Transcriptional Activation Complex And Is Critical For Development And Tumorigenesis, Kelly L Weaver, Marie-Clotilde Alves-Guerra, Ke Jin, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiaoqing Han, Prathibha Ranganathan, Xiaoxia Zhu, Thiago Dasilva, Wei Liu, Francesca Ratti, Renee M Demarest, Cristos Tzimas, Meghan Rice, Rodrigo Vasquez-Del Carpio, Nadia Dahmane, David J Robbins, Anthony J Capobianco

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

The Notch signaling pathway governs many distinct cellular processes by regulating transcriptional programs. The transcriptional response initiated by Notch is highly cell context dependent, indicating that multiple factors influence Notch target gene selection and activity. However, the mechanism by which Notch drives target gene transcription is not well understood. Herein, we identify and characterize a novel Notch-interacting protein, Notch activation complex kinase (NACK), which acts as a Notch transcriptional coactivator. We show that NACK associates with the Notch transcriptional activation complex on DNA, mediates Notch transcriptional activity, and is required for Notch-mediated tumorigenesis. We demonstrate that Notch1 and NACK are …

Analysis Of Alternative Captive Bat Management Strategies In Response To White-Nose Syndrome, Mary Parkin, Robert Tawes, Lori Pruitt, Noelle Rayman, Richard Stark, Robyn Niver, Susi Von Oettingen, Barbara Douglas, Paul Mckenzie, Jeremy Coleman, Aaron Valenta

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

This report describes the process and presents the results of a structured decision making effort that was initiated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in November 2010. This initiative addressed the potential efficacy of captive bat management to as one means of addressing white-nose syndrome for seven species of concern. This was done by comparing alternative management strategies against identified objectives, and by comparing captive management against no captive management. Expert elicitation was used to conduct the analyses, which concluded in 2012. Afterwards, the team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologists that was convened for the decision making effort …