Biology Commons^™

About Web Human, Roy Meyers

Web-HUMAN Systems Physiology Simulation

A comprehensive pedagogically-oriented overview for users of how to use the model, what its main features are and how to employ each of those features. Links lead to screen by screen documentation from the User's Manual of how to employ each of the main features of the model.

Web Of Human Code, Leo D. Geoffrion

Web-HUMAN Systems Physiology Simulation

No abstract provided.

Final Analysis Of Use, Roy Meyers

Web-HUMAN Systems Physiology Simulation

A statistical analysis documenting the use of the model by the Skidmore and general external physiologic user community.

What Is Web Human, Roy Meyers

Web-HUMAN Systems Physiology Simulation

A condensed overview of what the model is, what its main features are and who uses the model. Written originally to introduce the Dean of Faculty to model.

Human Versions, Roy Meyers

Web-HUMAN Systems Physiology Simulation

A version by version (1.0-9.0) log of each of the major features, improvements added and changes made to the model code.

Version 9 New Features, Roy Meyers

Web-HUMAN Systems Physiology Simulation

An in-depth write-up stressing how pedagogical consideration drove the structuring of the version 9 Patient's section.

Intro Tutorial, Roy Meyers

Web-HUMAN Systems Physiology Simulation

The introductory screen by screen tutorial designed so that users can teach themselves how to use the model.

3d Morphometric Analysis Of Fossil Canid Skulls Contradicts The Suggested Domestication Of Dogs During The Late Paleolithic, Abby Grace Drake, Michael Coquerelle, Guillaume Colombeau

Biology

Whether dogs were domesticated during the Pleistocene, when humans were hunter-gatherers, or during the Neolithic, when humans began to form permanent settlements and engage in agriculture, remains controversial. Recently discovered Paleolithic fossil skulls, Goyet dated 31,6801/2250 YBP and Eliseevichi MAE 447/5298 dated 13,9051/255 YBP, were previously identified as dogs. However, new genetic studies contradict the identification of these specimens as dogs, questioning the validity of traditional measurements used to morphologically identify canid fossil skulls. We employ 3D geometric morphometric analyses to compare the cranial morphology of Goyet and Eliseevichi MAE to that of ancient and modern dogs and wolves. We …

Contrasting Patterns Of Selection On The Size And Coloration Of A Female Plumage Ornament In Common Yellowthroats, Corey R. Freeman-Gallant, Rebecca L. Schneider, Conor C. Taff, Peter O. Dunn

Biology

Females often possess ornaments that appear smaller and duller than homologous traits in males. These ornaments may arise as nonfunctional by-products of sexual selection in males and cause negative viability or fecundity selection in females in proportion to the cost of their production and maintenance. Alternatively, female ornaments may function as signals of quality that are maintained by sexual or social selection. In a 4-year study of 83 female common yellowthroats (Geothlypis trichas) and their 222 young, we found strong viability and fecundity selection on the yellow bib, a carotenoid-based plumage ornament that is a target of sexual selection in …

Oxidative Damage To Dna Related To Survivorship And Carotenoid-Based Sexual Ornamentation In The Common Yellowthroat, Corey R. Freeman-Gallant, Joel Amidon, Brittany Berdy, Stephanie Wein, Conor C. Taff, Mark F. Haussmann

Biology

Carotenoid-based sexual ornaments are hypothesized to be reliable signals of male quality, based on an allocation trade-off between the use of carotenoids as pigments and their use in antioxidant defence against reactive oxygen species. Carotenoids appear to be poor antioxidants in vivo, however, and it is not clear whether variation in ornament expression is correlated with measures of oxidative stress (OXS) under natural conditions. We used single-cell gel electrophoresis to assay oxidative damage to erythrocyte DNA in the common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), a sexually dichromatic warbler in which sexual selection favours components of the males' yellow 'bib'. We found that …

The Process Of Listening To Music: How It Modulates Nervous System Activity And Affects Emotion, Maryann H. Gulyas

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

Music as a force, affects us from within us and can arouse us emotionally and physically. Music has been an important element in our culture since the beginning of time. Its power has been documented back to primitive times and has continued through early civilization, biblical times and now, to the twenty-first century. Recently, an emphasis on the music of Mozart has prompted researchers to look more closely at the power of music and examine its effect on human learning. Also, ongoing research is done on exactly how we hear and how we react to this powerful force.

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