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Dietary Plasticity Linked To Divergent Growth Trajectories In A Critically Endangered Sea Turtle, Matthew D. Ramirez, Larisa Avens, Anne B. Meylan, Donna J. Shaver, Angela R. Stahl, Peter A. Meylan, Jamie M. Clark, Lyndsey N. Howell, Brian A. Stacy, Wendy G. Teas, Kelton W. Mcmahon

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Foraging habitat selection and diet quality are key factors that influence individual fitness and meta-population dynamics through effects on demographic rates. There is growing evidence that sea turtles exhibit regional differences in somatic growth linked to alternative dispersal patterns during the oceanic life stage. Yet, the role of habitat quality and diet in shaping somatic growth rates is poorly understood. Here, we evaluate whether diet variation is linked to regional growth variation in hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), which grow significantly slower in Texas, United States versus Florida, United States, through novel integrations of skeletal growth, gastrointestinal content (GI), and …

Laboratory Bioassays Of A Native Arkansas Isolate Of Metarhizium Robertsii (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) And The Biopesticide Met52® For The Control Of Amblyomma Americanum (Anactinotrichidea [=Parasitoformes]: Ixodidae)., Allen Szalanski

Entomology and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, is the predominant human-biting tick in Arkansas and a vector of multiple pathogens of medical and veterinary importance. Increasing concerns over acaricide resistance and environmental contamination have prompted evaluation of alternative control strategies. We assessed the pathogenicity of a native Arkansas isolate of Metarhizium robertsii (Savoy P10N1) against laboratory-reared adult and nymphal A. americanum under controlled conditions. Ticks were immersed in a conidial suspension (1 × 10⁸ conidia/ml) and monitored for mortality and fungal sporulation for 77 days post-inoculation. Cumulative mortality followed a time-dependent logistic pattern, with significant fungal-induced mortality beginning at 14 …

A New Art For A New China: Modern Chinese Prints From The Ihrman Collection, Charles Mason, Andie Near

Kruizenga Art Museum Exhibition Catalogs

Kruizenga Art Museum, Hope College Catalog for exhibition: "A New Art for a New China: Modern Chinese Prints from the Ihrman Collection". Exhibition dates: September 1-December 16, 2023. Charles Mason, author. Andie Near, photographer, designer.

Kruizenga Art Museum Online Collection - Exhibition Gallery

Hide And Seek: An Exploration Of Antipredator And Predator Avoidance Mechanisms In Orthopodomyia Signifera In Response To Predation From Toxorhynchites Rutilus, Nathaniel Dahlberg

Master's Theses

There have been many observations of larval Orthopodomyia signifera coexisting with the predator Toxorhynchites rutilus. There are three hypotheses that could explain how Or. signifera resists predation from Tx. rutilus. The first hypothesis states that larvae adapt behavioral changes that limit predation. The second hypothesis states thoracic setae serve as a physical defense that prevents Tx. rutilus from grasping Or. signifera. The third hypothesis states Or. signifera possess a chemical defense indicated by aposematic coloration. To test the first hypothesis larval Or. signifera were exposed to conspecific and heterospecific predation cues and their behavior was observed. Both cues …

The King And His Court: The Culture Of Royal Power And The Creation Of The Angevin Empire Under Henry Ii, Joseph Jarrell

Master's Theses

Legal codes, literature, history, and violence were necessary aspects of royal power that in conjunction with resources gained from familial inheritance and a fortunate marriage allowed King Henry II to build, govern, and legitimize his rule over the Angevin Empire, as well as attempt to create an Angevin dynasty. Examining these subjects advances ideas about medieval royal culture and its relation to political power and legal power in the twelfth century Angevin Empire.

Historiography has long examined this period as the histories of great men, but recent trends have examined the interplay of power, politics, and gender during the Middle …

Porotic Hyperostosis And Cribra Orbitalia In The Adult Population Of Tipu, Miranda Hahn

Master's Theses

Tipu is a contact period Maya site in western Belize where a mission church and cemetery was established around AD 1560. An archaeological excavation in the 1980s recovered the remains of more than 550 individuals. In its unique location on the fringes of Spanish control, Tipu was the site of both acceptance of introduced cultural traits as well as rebellion against them. The series has been intensively studied over the last decades, but an analysis of anemia using more recently developed and widely accepted standards has not yet been completed. Therefore, I scored adults using the new widely accepted standards …

Scale-Free Behavioral Dynamics Directly Linked With Scale-Free Cortical Dynamics, Sabrina A. Jones, Jacob H. Barfield, V. Kindler Norman, Woodrow L. Shew

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Naturally occurring body movements and collective neural activity both exhibit complex dynamics, often with scale-free, fractal spatiotemporal structure. Scale-free dynamics of both brain and behavior are important because each is associated with functional benefits to the organism. Despite their similarities, scale-free brain activity and scale-free behavior have been studied separately, without a unified explanation. Here, we show that scale-free dynamics of mouse behavior and neurons in the visual cortex are strongly related. Surprisingly, the scale-free neural activity is limited to specific subsets of neurons, and these scale-free subsets exhibit stochastic winner-take-all competition with other neural subsets. This observation is inconsistent …

Surrey's Silence: Subpart F And The Swiss Subsidiary Tax That Never Was, Steven Dean

Faculty Scholarship

Was Stanley Surrey racist? Was he a coward for not speaking as plainly about the Swiss tax haven problem in public as the Surrey Papers reveal his team did in private? In the broad sweep of history Surrey’s silence may have mattered a great deal or it may have mattered very little. The quiet aspect of the Liberia problem that it highlights undoubtedly does. Exploiting the public’s misunderstanding of the term tax haven as Surrey quickly learned to do has become second nature to scholars and policymakers alike. No less powerful than the loud aspect of the Liberia problem, the …

How Much Do Investors Care About Social Responsibility?, Scott Hirst, Kobi Kastiel, Tamar Kricheli-Katz

Faculty Scholarship

Perhaps the most important corporate law debate over the last several years concerns whether directors and executives should manage the corporation to maximize value for investors or also take into account the interests of other stakeholders and society. But, do investors themselves wish to maximize returns, or are they willing to forgo returns for social purposes? And more broadly, do market participants, such as investors and consumers, differ from donors in the ways in which they prioritize monetary gains and the promotion of social goals?

This project attempts to answer these questions with evidence from an experiment conducted with 279 …

How Do Glp-Ira Medications Affect Gut And Brain Hunger Signaling To Allow For Reduction In Weight And Better Glycemic Control In Adults With Obesity And Type 2 Diabetes?, David White

Graduate Research Projects

No abstract provided.

All The Way To Hell: An Artist's Legal Descent Into The Underworld Of Oil And Gas, Madison S. Marlow

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

Eliza Evans’ project, All the Way to Hell, employs a novel legal strategy to challenge Oklahoma’s permissive fracking regulations by fragmenting mineral rights among thousands of co-owners, aiming to disrupt the forced pooling process. While her approach highlights systemic legal and environmental issues, the state’s industry-friendly framework and regulatory capture present significant barriers to meaningful change. The note argues that Evans’ activism underscores the need for legislative reform to balance individual property rights with environmental protection.

Teen Appeal, Memphis, 19:04, 2015

Documents

Issue 19.4 of the "Teen Appeal" published by the University of Memphis Journalism Department and Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on December 2, 2015.

Joseph Miles' Civil War Diary, 1864

Documents

A pocket diary belonging to Joseph Miles dated September – November 1864. He served in the 53rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Corps.

Miles' diary very briefly describes a boat trip down the Mississippi to Natchez in September 1863 (pages i-iii) but the bulk of the 118 pages documents his eventual return to his regiment, after his home furlough, near Atlanta in 1864 September-November. In this near-daily record, Miles records events and details as he made his way from the Midwest through Nashville, Chattanooga, and north Georgia, commenting on the scenery, living conditions, and service with provisional …

Teen Appeal, Memphis, 04.06, 2001

Documents

Issue 4.6 of the “Teen Appeal” published by the University of Memphis Journalism Department and Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on February 27, 2001.

Advances In Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery: Management And Diagnostic Techniques, Gregory L. Falk

Theses

Upper gastrointestinal surgery has progressively moved from the surgically open abdomen to minimally invasive surgery, largely due to technological improvements in instrumentation. A direct result of this Gestalt has been improved patient comfort, rapid recovery and significantly less length of stay in the hospital and therefore significant cost-savings. This was the key impetus to my development of many of the skills in minimally invasive surgery and the subsequent dissemination to other surgeons in an organized and well-recognized teaching system. Many of the novel techniques of this type of surgery led to several publications both in the English and French oncological …

The Influence Of Personal Traits, Individual Behaviours And Population Health Determinants On The Epidemiology Of Facial Injury: Psychiatric Comorbidity, Substance Abuse, Sars Social Distancing Measures, Gary Russell Hoffman

Theses

ABSTRACT Introduction Injury can be defined as an act or event that causes harm, hurt or damage. It occurs as a result of the transfer of energy to living tissue. The biological response to such an insult is inflammation and is based on the activation of immune competent cells in tandem with alterations in vascular permeability. The process is orchestrated at a subcellular level by the release of immunomodulatory molecular mediators. T

he bones of the skull and face are the key determinant of human appearance. They form the framework to which other tissues are attached. The variability of facial …

Multiple Interacting Stressors Influence Development, Growth, And Morphology Of Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris Regilla) Larvae, Abby Dalke, Allie M. Erickson, Bailey R. Tasker, Skylar Riley, Paul Hurst, Sarah Cooney, Scott A. Griffith, Betsy A. Bancroft

Biology Faculty Scholarship

Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by climate change and invasive species. Amphibians are important members of freshwater communities and are susceptible to negative effects of climate change and invasion. Furthermore, both climate change and invasion can influence density of amphibian larvae at the microhabitat scale because of larval clustering. To understand the effects of climate change and invasion on Pacific Chorus Frog Pseudacris regilla (Baird and Girard, 1852) larvae, a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial experiment was carried out with a climate treatment (future/historical; simulated as changes in both temperature and hydroperiod), indirect exposure to the invasive Brook Stickleback Culaea …

Lateral Spacing Of Subsurface Poultry Litter Bands: Effect On Gaseous Nitrogen Emissions, Nutrient Uptake, And Maize Yield, Jason R. Simmons

Theses and Dissertations--Plant and Soil Sciences

Poultry litter (PL) is traditionally applied to no-till maize (Zea mays L.) cropping systems by surface broadcast. Poultry litter is nutrient dense, and it has been repeatedly shown that surface applied PL nitrogen (N) is vulnerable to losses to the atmosphere and nearby water systems. An application method was developed by USDA-Agricultural Research Service scientists for banding poultry litter (PL) below the soil surface with minimal soil disturbance to reduce ammonia (NH₃) volatilization and surface run-off. It is well documented that subsurface applied poultry litter (PL) reduces N losses by ammonia (NH₃) volatilization; however, the …

Evaluation Of Chemical Control Options, Environmental Factors, And Management Practices Associated With Angular Leaf Spot (Pseudomonas Syringae Pv. Tabaci), Andrea Brooke Webb

Theses and Dissertations--Plant and Soil Sciences

Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci tox^- is the causal agent of angular leaf spot in dark tobacco. Since 2015, angular leaf spot has become the most significant foliar disease in dark tobacco production in Kentucky and Tennessee. Dark tobacco producers utilize one main tool, streptomycin sulfate, for the management of this bacterial disease. Resistance to streptomycin sulfate in P. syringae pv. tabaci isolates from dark tobacco fields in western Kentucky was first observed in 2015.

Field spray trials were developed to evaluate the efficacy of alternative active ingredients compared to the grower’s standard, streptomycin sulfate. Two separate field trials were …

Individual Home-Work Assignments For State Taxes, Hayes R. Holderness

Law Faculty Publications

The surge in work-from-home arrangements brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic threatens serious disruptions to state tax systems. Billions of dollars are at stake at this pivotal moment as states grapple with where to assign income earned through these remote work arrangements for tax purposes: the worker’s home or the employer’s location? States intent on modernizing their income tax laws by assigning such income to the employer’s location have faced persistent challenges on both constitutional and policy grounds.

This Article provides a vigorous defense against such challenges. The Supreme Court has long interpreted the Constitution to be deferential to state …

Beyond Problem-Solving Courts, Erin Collins

Law Faculty Publications

Problem-solving courts were borne out of a well-meaning experimentalist spirit, one that inspired judges to attempt to close the so-called “revolving door” to the courthouse by providing treatment instead of, or in addition to, incarceration. The problem-solving court movement is now more than thirty years old and the results of this experiment in court reform are underwhelming. Viewed in the most favorable light, studies suggest that problem-solving courts can modestly reduce the likelihood that some court participants will be arrested or convicted again. Meanwhile, the 40% to 60% of people who begin but do not complete problem-solving court programs often …

Physical Scars Are Not The Only Evidence: Crucial Expansion Of New York's Penal Law To Define Coercive Control And Technological Abuse As Domestic Violence, Bailey D. Appel

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that New York's domestic violence laws are insufficient as they fail to recognize non-physical forms of abuse, specifically coercive control and technological abuse. It emphasizes the need to expand the legal definition of domestic violence to include these forms, particularly in light of the increased prevalence during the COVID-19 pandemic, which trapped victims at home with their abusers.

Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, Matthew B. Goldman

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

The note explores the challenges of music copyright law, particularly in determining the protectability of fragmented elements within musical works. It argues that by applying doctrinal tools such as the idea-expression distinction, merger, scenes a faire, and thin copyright, courts can better balance the protection of original expression with the need to allow future creativity. The analysis focuses on two key cases, Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin and Gray v. Perry, to illustrate how these tools can be effectively used to resolve music copyright disputes.

Randomness, Ai Art, And Copyright, Richard H. Chused

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

The article argues that art created with the assistance of AI tools should generally be eligible for copyright protection. It posits that human agency is present in the creation of AI-generated art, as traditional artistic works also incorporate randomness and unpredictability. By examining works by artists like Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage, the analysis demonstrates that randomness and unpredictability have long been protected under copyright law, suggesting that AI-generated art should receive similar treatment.

Mute Eloquence: A Gallery Of Contracting Emojis, Courtney Leon

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

The increasing use of emojis in electronic communications, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has introduced complexity into contract law due to the lack of standardized interpretation. Courts are encountering disputes over emoji meanings, highlighting the need for a uniform framework. The proposed Emoji Codebook aims to address this by categorizing emojis and providing consistent interpretations, aligning with existing laws like the UCC and E-SIGN Act to facilitate clearer contract formation and mitigate misunderstandings.

Front Matter, Journal Editors

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.

Blade Of Lamb, Megan Hall

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.

An Animal Learning, Nisha Atalie

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.

2023 Jan Term Course Catalog, Saint Mary's College Of California

Jan Term Course Catalog

No abstract provided.

Sugar Land: A Conversation With Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman, Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman, Conor Hultman

Yalobusha Review

No abstract provided.