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Foodplant Processing Adaptations In Four Hyalophora Species (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): Regional And Taxonomic Specialization, J. Mark Scriber, Eric Grabstein

The Great Lakes Entomologist

To determine whether local populations of four Hyalophora species (Lepidoptera: Satumiidae) had improved survival or were physiologically adapted for rapid and/or efficient growth on their local hosts, a series of larval feeding studies were conducted using gravimetric techniques on several host plant species. Significantly better survival and growth performances were observed for H. columbia (a tamarack specialist) on its host, Larix laricina. Similarly, H. gloveri had the best growth performance on Elaeagnus angustifolia (its favorite) as did certain sympatric populations of H. cecropia on black cherry, Prunus serotina. Hyalophora gloveri and H. columbia are largely sympatric with Betula papyrifera …

An Annotated Checklist Of The Lepidoptera Of The Beaver Island Archipelago, Lake Michigan., Dennis Profant

The Great Lakes Entomologist

A survey of Lepidoptera was conducted in 1987 and 1988 on Beaver Island, Lake Michigan. When combined with a 1930 survey of the Beaver Island Archipelago, 757 species from 41 families have now been recorded from these islands.

Full Issue 46(3)

International Journal of Speleology

No abstract provided.

The Moe Politics In Year, Hare, Affair, Jiarui Sun

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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A Dog's Life, Matt Zachowski

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Application Of Radio Frequency Identification Technology In Libraries And Information Centres: An Indian Perspective, Neeraj Kumar Singh Mr., Preeti Mahajan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the present status of RFID application,benefitsrealisedafterimplementing RFID, problems faced during RFID adoption and its implementation in the libraries andinformationcentresofNorthern India. The survey method of research was adopted in this research. In order to assess the required information about the implementation of RFID technology from the librarian/Inchargeof the library of the nine selected institutions of Northern India, the data was collected through a questionnaire method. Moreover, the respondents were also interviewed to obtain more information.The present study shows that all the selected libraries in Northern India are in the initial stages of RFID …

The Diversity, Costs, And Benefits Of Shelters Built By Lepidopteran Caterpillars In A Costa Rican Dry Forest, Christina Baer

Dissertations

Thousands of Lepidoptera species build shelters as caterpillars using plant material and their own silk. Although these caterpillars and their shelters are recognized as playing important ecological roles, the structural diversity of shelters and the costs and benefits of different shelters to their builders are still poorly understood. In this dissertation, I use natural history observations, observational and manipulative field projects, and molecular and phylogenetic tools to investigate these questions for a diverse and abundant shelter-building caterpillar community within the dry forest of Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica. In Chapter 1, I develop a system for categorizing and describing …

Applying Topographic Classification, Based On The Hydrological Process, To Design Habitat Linkages For Climate Change, Yongwon Mo, Dong Kun Lee, Keunyea Song, Ho Gul Kim, Soo Jin Park

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The use of biodiversity surrogates has been discussed in the context of designing habitat linkages to support the migration of species affected by climate change. Topography has been proposed as a useful surrogate in the coarse-filter approach, as the hydrological process caused by topography such as erosion and accumulation is the basis of ecological processes. However, some studies that have designed topographic linkages as habitat linkages, so far have focused much on the shape of the topography (morphometric topographic classification) with little emphasis on the hydrological processes (generic topographic classification) to find such topographic linkages. We aimed to understand whether …

Columbia Chronicle (11/27/2017), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle (student newspaper)

Student newspaper from November 27, 2017 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 53, Issue 13. Cover story: "Slaying dragons, fears one game at a time". Editor-in-Chief: Zoe Eitel

Ghost Bites, Nicole Pope

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Kay]: Ok so when I was younger and my grandparents still raised me there was a saying where when we wake up to random bruises it's called ghost bites in translation and basically we don't know where the bruises come from and so that's why we call it ghost bites because you sleep and then you wake up with bruises like somewhere strange so that's our thing about ghost bites

[Me]: Was it just your grandparents or your parents that said it or do you know if other families said it?

[Kay]: I asked my friend about it too and …

Rotunda - Vol 96, No. 12 - Nov. 27, 2017, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

Week Of November 27, 2017 - December 1, 2017, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Today at Cardozo 2017

Events occurring this week have been sponsored by:

• Black Law Students Association (BLSA)
• Cardozo Advocates for Kids
• Cardozo Criminal Law Society (CCLS)
• Cardozo Family Law Society
• Cardozo OUTLaw
• Cardozo Startup Society
• Cardozo Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF)
• Innocence Project Clinic

Enacs As Both Effectors And Regulators Of Mirnas In Lung Epithelial Development And Regeneration, Yan Ding, Runzhen Zhao, Xiaoli Zhao, Michael A. Matthay, Hong-Guang Nie, Hong-Long Ji

Cellular and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Epithelial sodium channels (ENaC) play an important role in re-absorbing excessive luminal fluid by building up an osmotic Na+ gradient across the tight epithelium in the airway, the lung, the kidney, and the colon. The ENaC is a major pathway for retention of salt in kidney too. MicroRNAs (miRs), a group of non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level, have emerged as a novel class of regulators for ENaC. Given the ENaC pathway is crucial for maintaining fluid homeostasis in the lung and the kidney and other cavities, we summarized the cross-talk between ENaC and miRs and …

Changes In The Cholinergic, Catecholaminergic, Orexinergic And Serotonergic Structures Forming Part Of The Sleep Systems Of Adult Mice Exposed To Intrauterine Alcohol, Oladiran I. Olateju, Adhil Bhagwandin, Amadi O. Ihunwo, Paul R. Manger

Brain and Mind Institute

We examined the effect of chronic prenatal alcohol exposure on certain neuronal systems involved with the sleep-wake cycle of C57BL/6J mice exposed to prenatal alcohol once they had reached 56 days post-natal. Pregnant mice were exposed to alcohol, through oral gavage, on gestational days 7–16, with recorded blood alcohol concentration (BAC)s averaging 1.84 mg/ml (chronic alcohol group, CA). Two control groups, an oral gavage sucrose control group (chronic alcohol control group, CAc) and a non-treated control group (NTc), were also examined. At 56 days post-natal, the pups from each group were sacrificed and the whole brain sectioned in a coronal …

Ghost Warnings, Nicole Pope

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Kay]: Ok so this next story is basically an eerie type of ghost story which um my grandparents told me. a lot of things come from my grandparents because they're freakin cool [smiles] anyway um so we have a saying where if you ever see a ghost or a relative like especially like a dead relative as a ghost ever in your life that means that they are warning you or you're life is near end. it's just kind of creepy and the eery thing about it is that they will just look at you I don't know I think …

Dragonflies And Swimming, Nicole Pope

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Me]: So do you want to tell me a little bit about the dragonfly story you were telling me earlier?

[Kay]: Ok so when I was younger my grandparents would tell me that I needed to swim and they threatened all the children to ugh catch a dragonfly they'll use the dragonfly and put it on your belly button and let it bite us until we could swim and [pauses] I am terrified until now about dragonflies [laughs]

[Me]: you don't like dragonflies? [Kay]: I don't like dragonflies. yep

In Search Of A Parsimonious Model Of Personal Jurisdiction, Roger Michalski

Other Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 27, 2017, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 27, 2017. Volume 97-Issue 30.

Study Break, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (Saldf)

2017–2018 Flyers

Take a study break from studying, grab some food & relax before finals!

Estimating The Range Shift And Harvesting Intensity Of Junipers In Bhutan (Eastern Himalaya), Rinchen Namgay

Theses

The authors of more than 97% of the scientific publications on climate change agree that global temperature has increased in the last six decades and is caused by human beings via emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This phenomenon has altered natural ecosystem functions, causing many species to shift to a more suitable habitat. Throughout the world, because of recent climate warming, many forms of range shift associated with climate warming has occurred. While animals can move as warming happens, plants being stationary organisms cannot move, so the difference in the distribution of different plant life stages is an …

Morphological And Molecular Divergence Of Rhipicephalus Turanicus Tick From Albania And China, Hong-Yu Li, Shan-Shan Zhao, Sándor Hornok, Róbert Farkas, Li-Ping Guo, Chuang-Fu Chen, Ren-Fu Shao, Ji-Zhou Lv, Yuan-Zhi Wang

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Rhipicephalus turanicus is an important tick species potentially carrying tickborne pathogens. Several tick species have obvious subspecies divergence. However few studies aimed to examine the existence of divergence within R. turanicus. Therefore, a detailed morphological and molecular analysis was conducted for comparing R. turanicus from the Mediterranean Basin (represented by Albania) and Central Asia (Northwestern China). Altogether 315 adult ticks of R. turanicus (103 from Albania and 212 from China) were morphologically and molecularly analysed. DNA samples were used for mitochondrial 16S rRNA and cox1 gene sequences analysis. In addition, as potentially genetic markers, three fragments including partial nad1-16S …

Empirical, Brianne Nelson

Theses

This thesis discusses the relationship between presence and void in relation to two pieces being found within one. A product of my upbringing, the monotony and multiples gave me the opportunity to continue my pattern of processing personal emotions through the artistic process. Very physically and conceptually fluid, the pieces are all visually singular with ties to architecture or city planning as well as influences from other artists that work with positive and negative.

Forestry, Illegibility And Illegality In Omkoi, Northwest Thailand, Bobby Anderson, Patamawadee Jongruck

Forest and Society

Opium poppy cultivation in Thailand fell from 12,112 hectares in 1961 to 281 ha in 2015. One outlier exists: Chiang Mai province’s remote southwestern district, Omkoi. 90% of the district is a national forest reserve where human habitation is illegal. However, an ethnic Karen population has lived there since long before the law that outlawed them was created, unconnected to the state by road, with limited or no access to health, education and other services: they cultivate the majority of Thailand’s known opium poppy, because they have little other choice. They increasingly rely on cash-based markets, their lack of citizenship …

Material Forms: What Is Really Going On? Shaping Who We Are And What We Do, Vicky J. Grube

The Qualitative Report

Using visual and ethnographic methods the author forms a connection between materiality and the memories of childhood. The researcher begins by asking the question, “Can a studio environment create encounters between a researcher and preschool children that deepen understanding of culture?” To this end, the researcher engaged in sensory research practices through ethnographic methods in a preschool art studio. Through free choice art making, children were found expressing their emotions and demonstrating an awareness of adult culture. In particular, the researcher’s encounter with four-year old George was enriched through sensory participation and triggered embodied and empathetic knowing. As it happens, …

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 27, November 27, 2017, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Agenda, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda (Archived)

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Agenda

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Social Structure In The Shannon Estuary, Ireland, Is Distinguished By Age- And Area-Related Associations., Simon N. Ingram, Isabel Baker, Joanne O'Brien, Katherine Mchugh, Simon Berrow

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Classification Of Daily Activities For The Elderly Using Wearable Sensors, Jian Liu, Jeehoon Sohn, Sukwon Kim

Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research

Monitoring of activities of daily living (ADL) using wearable sensors can provide an objective indication of the activity levels or restrictions experienced by patients or elderly. The current study presented a two-sensor ADL classification method designed and tested specifically with elderly subjects. Ten healthy elderly were involved in a laboratory testing with 6 types of daily activities. Two inertial measurement units were attached to the thigh and the trunk of each subject. The results indicated an overall rate of misdetection being 2.8%. The findings of the current study can be used as the first step towards a more comprehensive activity …

11/26/2017 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/26/2017. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Statistical Optimization Of The Induction Of Phytase Production By Arabinose In A Recombinant E. Coli Using Response Surface Methodology, Farouk Abd-El Aziem, Hussin Anis Shobirin Meor, Greiner Ralf, Ismail Shareef Mohideen, Lubis Hamadah Mohd Nur

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

The production of phytase in a recombinant E.coli using the pBAD expression system was optimized using response surface methodology with full-factorial faced centered central composite design. The ampicilin and arabinose concentration in the cultivation media and the incubation temperature were optimized in order to maximize phytase production using 2 3 central composite experimental design. With this design the number of actual experiment performed could be reduced while allowing eludidation of possible interactions among these factors. The most significant parameter was shown to be the linear and quadratic effect of the incubation temperature. Optimal conditions for phytase production were determined to …