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Patterns In The Jungle, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

There are patterns everywhere. All we need to do is look for them. This book introduces young children to patterns by pointing them out in the jungle. The scales on an iguana and the feathers on a peacock have patterns. Snakes, millipedes, tigers and even vines are great examples of patterns. What patterns do you see around you?

Grandma And The Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

A re-creation of a classic Bengali Folktale, Grandma and the Great Gourd captures new audiences and imaginations alike. Grandma travels alone through the dangerous jungle to visit her daughter. On the way, she meets very hungry, very wild animals who wish to eat her. Grandma outwits them by telling them she's too skinny, but if they would just wait until after her visit they would find her plump and tasty. Towards the end of her visit, Grandma and her daughter construct a tricky plan to help Grandma traverse the jungle again and avoid becoming a wild animal's supper.

The Zoo Box, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to reverse roles with zoo animals? This animated comic strip explores that possibility. Meet Erika and Patrick. Their parents are going out for the night and Erika is in charge. Mom has asked them to be in bed on time with the promise of going to the zoo in the morning. Erika and Patrick enjoy playing until they find a box that says “DO NOT OPEN.” Of course it must be a fun surprise. . .or is it? Once the box is opened zoo animals start coming out of it! The …

Crown Of Three #2: The Lost Realm, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

Escaping the zombie plagued Idilliam, Gulph finds a shaky sanctuary in the lost underground realm of Celestis. Meanwhile, the wizard Melchior arrives at the Trident camp and takes Tarlan on a journey to rejuvenate his wizarding powers. Once Tarlan leaves, Elodie’s adopted father, Lord Vicerin, attacks the Trident troops but Elodie pretends to turn on her soldiers to spare their lives. When Elodie returns with Vicerin, his true intentions are revealed. Vicerin poisons his wife and then blackmails Elodie into marrying him so he can lay claim to Toronia’s crown. Secretly, Gulph makes his way back to Idilliam to free …

Buster The Very Shy Dog In The Great Bone Game, Kristie Hickley

Children's Book and Media Review

Roger brings home a new dog, Buster. Buster is shy and relies on Phoebe, Roger’s other dog, in order to figure out how things work. Phoebe tricks Buster into thinking that he needs to train his bones to stay in order for them to stay put. Phoebe really just takes them and adds them to her bone collection. When they meet an enormous neighbor dog, Gregory, with an enormous bone, Phoebe makes Buster go get the bone. Buster doesn’t want to steal the bone from his new friend. Phoebe tries to steal Gregory’s big bone, but she gets caught with …

The Great American Dust Bowl, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

The settlers of the Great Plains replaced the naturally occurring grasses with wheat. When a drought struck the plains the wheat couldn't hold the soil together and it got swept up into great dust storms that darkened the sky, suffocated animals, and even derailed trains.

Search And Spot Animals!, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

In this early learning picture book for young children, puzzles meet the reader on every page. The colors and illustrations attract little eyes and fingers, making each page an exciting entrapment. From kittens to hens and puppies to horses, Search and Spot Animals utilizes a variety of shapes, colors, silhouettes, and tasks to keep young readers both entertained and curious.

Huff And Puff Have Too Much Stuff!, Kristie Hickley

Children's Book and Media Review

Huff and Puff Have Too Much Stuff! is about Huff the engine and Puff the caboose, two train cars. They push and pull train cars full of stuff. Little rabbits help them collect items to fill their train cars with. When Huff and Puff can’t quite make it over a hill, they realize they have too much stuff! They come across Farmer Fluff, who happens to need things for his farm and animals to fill his barn. The trains have each other and that’s enough, so they don’t need stuff!

Duck On A Tractor, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Duck has a wild idea. One day he sees a tractor and decides to try and drive it. After looking around a bit, he turns a shiny little piece of metal by the steering wheel and he's off! All the other farm animals join him on a trip through town, right past the diner where everyone is having lunch. Everyone stares as the tractor drives by and then run after it. But when they finally catch up to the tractor all the animals have left and everyone thinks they must've been imagining it.

Elmer And The Flood, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

It has been raining for days and Elmer, the patchwork elephant, is tired of being stuck inside a cave with the rest of his herd. Many animals suggest to him that he should come inside their caves because of the rain, but Elmer still wants to go for a walk. The jungle is partly flooded, but the crocodiles are excited to swim in new places and the ducks are enjoying the weather. Elmer learns that Young Elephant is missing, so he goes to rescue Young, who is stuck on an island. Elmer gets all of the other elephants to help …

Bear In Love, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

Bear usually wakes up every morning and goes to find food, but one day someone has already left him something to eat! As the days go by, more carrots are added to the pile and Bear starts to leave presents of his own. He keeps leaving presents of his own and hoping to stay awake to meet his mysterious friend, but he keeps falling asleep. Finally, he meets the bunny that has been leaving him the presents and they become friends.

Stickmen's Guide To Oceans In Layers, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Explore the depths of the ocean through the sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone, black abyss, and the ocean trenches. Each layer of the ocean is explored as readers learn about the life that is found there, each habitat's characteristics, and how humans influence or study each particular area.

I'Ll Wait, Mr. Panda, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Mr. Panda is making a surprise. His friends are very curious about what the surprise is, but waiting is boring and hard. Only Penguin stays to find out. His patience is rewarded with a GIANT doughnut!

Wilderness: An Interactive Atlas Of Animals, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Explore the amazing world of animals with this interactive book. Discover the panther chameleon in the rain forest, the sociable weaver bird of the savanna, and many other animals of the six main habitats. Each habitat introduces a bunch of animals and some little known facts about them.

The Orchestra Pit, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

A snake is lost. This snake is very sure that it’s in the wrong pit, because instead of a snake pit, it’s found its way into the orchestra pit. The snake explores the orchestra pit for a while, discovering that trumpets are loud, tubs are roomy, and trombones are long. The snake is unaware of what is spooking the orchestra members and keeps looking at the different kinds of instruments. Soon the orchestra begins playing and the snake leaves the wrong pit and finally makes it into the right one.

The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

In another great addition to the Scientists in the Field series, readers can discover the mysterious tapir and the people who study them. Tapirs, prehistoric tropical animals that live in Brazil, are creatures that most people have never heard of, but scientists like Pati Medici have dedicated their lives to the study and protection of tapirs. The book has fact sheets, biographies of the scientist team, and descriptions of the region that the tapirs live in.

The Elephant's Friend And Other Tales From Ancient India, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Elephant's friend Dog is sold away and Elephant mourns until the king returns Dog to him. The scrawny tiger tricks a greedy man to cross the river for a gold bangle, but then eats him. The wise little parrot tricks the cat so that he won't eat her babies who are learning to fly. The fishermen catch two large fish who believes in fate, but the wise fish and the clever fish escape. The foolish lion is tricked into jumping down a well. The golden swan's kindness is repaid with greed. The crocodile is a disloyal friend and the monkey …

Morris R. Cohen: A Philosopher's Influence On The Law, Harry N. Rosenfield

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

The Contexts Of Behn's Oroonoko, And Its Role In The Canon, Ben Progany

Articulāte

No abstract provided.

Número 42: Domingo 7 De Septiembre De 2003-Domingo 28 De Septiembre De 2003

Estudios Exégeticos Homiléticos

Domingo 7 de Septiembre de 2003

Salmo 146; Is 35:4-7; Santiago 2:1-17; Marcos 7:24-37

Domingo 14 de Septiembre de 2003

Salmo 116:1-8; Is 50:4-9; Santiago 3:1-12; Marcos 8:27-38

Domingo 21 de Septiembre de 2003

Salmo 54; Jer 11:11-18; Santiago 3:13-4:3.7-8; Marcos 9:30-37

Domingo 28 de Septiembre de 2003

Salmo 19:7-14; Num 11:4-6.10-16.24-29; Santiago 5:13-20; Marcos 9:38-50

Neuroprotective Mechanisms Of Ischemic Tolerance Induced By Resveratrol Preconditioning, Kevin B. Koronowski

Open Access Dissertations

Ischemic stroke is a devastating neurological disorder that currently has no clinically approved neuroprotective treatments. Resveratrol is a naturally occurring polyphenol that protects against cerebral ischemic injuries when administered in a prophylactic manner. Yet, the molecular underpinnings of resveratrol-induced neuroprotection are still unclear. This is partly because the metabolic adaptations induced by a major target of resveratrol, the NAD+-dependent deacetylase Sirt1, have not been characterized in the brain. The goal of this study was to better understand the efficacy of resveratrol as a therapeutic agent in ischemic stroke and the metabolic pathways regulated by brain Sirt1 that promote ischemic tolerance. …

Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Induces Cardiac Hypertrophy, Karla Schramm

Open Access Dissertations

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a diabetes-associated cardiovascular disease (CVD), which causes heart dysfunction. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a key feature of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Molecular mechanisms underlying this condition are largely unknown. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 21, an adipokine that regulates metabolism, has been found to be elevated in the circulation of type 2 diabetic patients. This thesis evaluates the long-term effects of increased serum FGF21 levels on the heart. It reveals that FGF21 induces hypertrophy of cardiac myocytes via FGF receptor (FGFR) 4-dependent activation of the pathological and pro-hypertrophic PLCγ/calcineurin/NFAT pathway, but independently of β-klotho, the canonical co-receptor for FGF21 …

Desert Pool {If Every Desert Was Once A Sea}, Karen Miranda Abel

The Goose

Desert Pool {If every desert was once a sea} is a site-specific art project by Canadian artist Karen Miranda Abel completed in 2016 while artist-in-residence at Joya: arte + ecología, an arts-led research centre situated in an alpine desert within a national park in southern Spain. The elemental installation represents an envisioning of the ancient sea that occupied the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park millions of years before the current desert ecology, a time when its highest mountain peaks may have been islands.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

No abstract provided.

Phosphate Removal From Agricultural Tile Drainage With Iron Enhanced Sand, Andrew J. Erickson, John S. Gulliver, Peter T. Weiss

Engineering Faculty Publications, Patents, Presentations

No abstract provided.

Wilderness On The Page, John Steffler

The Goose

This essay explores the role that literature can play in a rethinking of Western culture's relationship with the natural environment.

Flyer News, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Sept. 6, 2017), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Parasite Biodiversity Faces Extinction And Redistribution In A Changing Climate, Colin J. Carlson, Kevin R. Burgio, Eric R. Dougherty, Anna J. Phillips, Veronica M. Bueno, Christopher F. Clements, Giovanni Castaldo, Tad Dallas, Carrie A. Cizauskas, Graeme S. Cumming, Jorge Doña, Nyeema C. Harris, Roger Jovani, Sergey Mironov, Oliver C. Muellerklein, Heather C. Proctor, Wayne M. Getz

Faculty Publications

Climate change is a well-documented driver of both wildlife extinction and disease emergence, but the negative impacts of climate change on parasite diversity are undocumented. We compiled the most comprehensive spatially explicit data set available for parasites, projected range shifts in a changing climate, and estimated extinction rates for eight major parasite clades. On the basis of 53,133 occurrences capturing the geographic ranges of 457 parasite species, conservative model projections suggest that 5 to 10% of these species are committed to extinction by 2070 from climate-driven habitat loss alone. We find no evidence that parasites with zoonotic potential have a …

The Lumberjack, September 06, 2017

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Long-Term Impact Of Changing Childhood Malnutrition On Rotavirus Diarrhoea: Two Decades Of Adjusted Association With Climate And Socio-Demographic Factors From Urban Bangladesh, Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker, Jui Das, Shawnawaz Ahmed, K. M. Shahunja, Shamsun Nahar, Nora Gibbons, Tahmeed Ahmed, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Mustafizur Rahman, George J. Fuchs Iii, Abdullah Al Mamun, Peter John Baker

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Background

There is strong association between childhood rotavirus, diarrhoea, climate factors and malnutrition. Conversely, a significant nutritional transition (reduced under-nutrition) with a concurrent increasing trend of rotavirus infection in last decade was also observed among under 5 children, especially in developing countries including Bangladesh. Considering the pathophysiology of rotavirus, there might be an interaction of this nutrition transition which plays a pivotal role in increasing rotavirus infection in addition to climate and other man-made factors in urban areas such as Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Methods

Relevant monthly data from 1993–2012 were extracted from the archive of the Diarrhoeal Disease Surveillance System of …