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Familiarity With The Test Environment Improves Escape Responses In The Crimson Spotted Rainbowfish, Melanotaenia Duboulayi, Culum Brown

Sentience Collection

Animals that are familiar with their environment have been reported to have greater survivorship for a number of reasons related to their knowledge of the terrain, which they recall from memory. In an initial experiment rainbowfish significantly improved their escape response towards a novel trawl apparatus over a sequence of five runs. Escape latencies were still low during a subsequent exposure 11 months after the initial exposure. While part of the improvement in escape success was certainly due to learning associated with the location of the escape route, it is likely that this was aided by habituation to the tank …

Signs Of Faith, October 2001

Signs of Faith

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Paterson, NJ

Signs of Faith Finding Aid

Newsletter Catholic Deaf Of Detroit, October 2001

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Detroit, MI

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit Finding Aid

Deaf Dialogue, October 2001

Deaf Dialogue

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Deaf Dialogue Finding Aid

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center, October 2001

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Poughkeepsie,NY

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center Finding Aid

Collections & Connections, Elisabeth Knight, Jack Montgomery

Collections & Connections

Collections & Connections is a newsletter of Western Kentucky University Libraries periodically featuring its major events. This Fall '01 issue highlights the relocation of Glasgow Library, the acquisition of Mammoth Cave Collection, the map donation by Albert Pertersen, Nancy Baird Acting the Head of DLSC as Riley Handy retires, the Picturing Faith exhibit, Kentucky Women Artists, Lowell Harrison, membership, Southern Kentucken Festival of Books, Kentucky Tour of Folk Music, Artist in Residence, a unique gift to ERC, Library Advisory Committee, and Brian Coutts' being featured on the cover of a library journal.

Women And Support Groups: Successful Approaches To Facilitation, Jennifer K. (Jennifer Karlisa) Grods

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Support groups are quite prevalent in our country today. Studies suggest that support groups are beneficial in that they increase survival rates, offer a safe environment for disclosure, improve participant's coping skills and emotional and psychological health, are a platform for sharing information and resources, and give women an avenue in which to help others in similar situations. Different facilitators vary greatly in their roles, as well as in their philosophies and methods. This paper examines the facilitation of support groups to determine what approaches are most effective and healthy for the participants through a review of current literature and …

Winter Severity And Wolf Predation On A Formerly Wolf-Free Elk Herd, L. David Mech, Douglas W. Smith, Kerry M. Murphy, Daniel R. Macnulty

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

We studied wolf (Canis lupus) predation on elk (Cervus elaphus) in Yellowstone National Park from 17 March to 15 April 1997 (severe winter conditions) and from 2 to 31 March 1998 (mild winter conditions) 2-3 years after wolves were reintroduced to the park. Elk composed 91% of 117 kills. Data comparisons for 1997 versus 1998 were: hunting success rate, 26% versus 15%; kill rate, 17.1 kg/wolf/day versus 6.1; percent of kill consumed in first day, 7 versus 86; percent femur marrow fat of adult kills, 27 versus 70; calf:adult ratios of kills, 2:33 versus 17:23; sex …

Review Of American Indian Grandmothers: Traditions And Transitions Edited By Marjorie M. Schweitzer, Paula Bennett

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This well-researched and deeply warm series of essays is intended to acquaint readers with twentieth-century Indian grandmothers as familial bridges between past cultural embeddedness and an increasingly dismembered culture stretched from its roots in myth and practice. The essays range from sociological monographs replete with statistics to intimate first-hand interpretive accounts from the grandmothers themselves. The historical, geographic, and psychological breadth of the vignettes assures their appeal to a wide range of scholars and ethno-elderphiles.

Schweitzer emphasizes that even when biology is the triggering event for becoming a grandmother, the context of Indian grandmotherhood is culturally construed. Kinship patterns determine …

Review Of The U.S. Army And The Texas Frontier Economy, 1845-1900 By Thomas T. Smith, Andres Tijerina

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

While historians have richly documented Texas's economic growth through its cattle industry and the petrochemical industry, they have paid scarce attention to the US government's major role in that growth as a result of its infusion of capital through the US Army in Texas. According to Thomas T. Smith, the Army channeled its budget from the US Treasury through quartermaster contracts into the hands of civilian vendors, creating an "exponential benefit" for the rest of the frontier community as a consequence of the multiplier effect of the market. Thus, the US Army decisively supported and conditioned the civilian frontier economy …

Review Of Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, And Mortality In American Culture By Richard P. Horwitz, John E. Ikerd

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This book is "an attempt to track moral and practical connections among disparate things" concerning pigs, as Richard Horwitz finally points out in the last chapter. The first part dabbles with the role of pigs in American culture, but the author moves quickly to his personal experiences as a college professor with a part-time job on a hog farm, leading up to a key event in the book-an eyewitness account of a transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) outbreak on a hog farm.

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Charitable Contributions In Rural Nebraska: A Culture Of Giving, John C. Allen, Rebecca J. Vogt, Sam Cordes

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Nebraskans have a history of being charitable. This is important for the future of rural communities since many of them rely on local donations for their civic improvement projects and expansion of capital for new business development. Given that, do rural Nebraskans contribute annually to charitable causes? How much of their contributions go to their local community?

This report details 3,199 responses to the 2001 Nebraska Rural Poll, the sixth annual effort to understand rural Nebraskans’ perceptions. Respondents were asked a series of questions regarding their charitable giving. For all questions, comparisons are made among different respondent subgroups, e.g., comparisons …

A Critique Of Markedness-Based Theories In Phonology, Naomi Gurevich

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

The notion of markedness has been prevalent in phonology since its use by one of the founders of the Prague school of phonology, Trubetzkoy (1939). In contemporary writing it is most often used as a measure of the relative naturalness of linguistic elements. In this paper I explore the use of markedness in phonology literature and argue that it is an ill-defined notion that relies on circular reasoning and, quite often, leads to conflicting or vacuous predictions. Specifically, I question the generative theory-internal notion that markedness is encoded in the grammar. I focus on the multi-dimensional aspect of markedness in …

Communo Magazine, Fall 2001, School Of Communication

CommUNO Magazine

CommUNO magazine is currently produced annually by the UNO School of Communication: 6001 Dodge Street, ASH 140, Omaha, NE 68182: Phone: 402.554.2600. Fax: 402.554.3836. For more information, follow us on Twitter@ CommUNO, join the “UNO School of Communication” page on Facebook or visit communication.unomaha.edu.

2001 Women's Soccer Review, Cedarville University

Women's Soccer Statistics

No abstract provided.

2001-2002 Women's Cross Country Schedule, Cedarville University

Women's Cross Country Schedules

No abstract provided.

2001-2002 Men's Cross Country Roster, Cedarville University

Men's Cross Country Rosters

No abstract provided.

Centennial Library E-News, October 2001, Cedarville University

Centennial Library Shelf Life

Articles in this issue: Library staff changes for 2001/2002, Electronic Reserve begins its second year with additional features, User Education program has productive beginning, Handicapped accessible doors installed, Freshmen Library orientation is back, Electronic Journal Center content and use continues to expand, University faculty in print, University alumni in print, Library policy beat: Library food and drink policy continues.

2001 All-Amc Women's Volleyball Team Roster, Cedarville University

Volleyball Rosters

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Veterans International Technical And Medical Rehabilitation Support Services In Cambodia, Usaid-Leahy

Global CWD Repository

Evaluates project to establish rehabilitation centers for people disabled by war in Cambodia. Interim evaluation covers the period 1996-10/01. Veterans International/Cambodia (VI/C) is the implementing agency. VI/C's USAID-funded rehabilitation efforts are providing highly successful and valuable interventions for people with disabilities. The grant support has enabled people with amputations, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, polio, and a number of other pathologies to receive high-quality rehabilitation and prosthetic and orthotic services. Numerous patients have had significantly positive functional and social outcomes, with particularly good outcomes for patients with amputations and clubfeet, and good outcomes for those with polio and spinal cord …

Are We All Keynesians (Again)?, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, L. Randall Wray Ph. D.

Archives of the Levy Economics Institute

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Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2001, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

Table of Contents: From the Director: 21^st Century Library Welcomes Friends (Robin Wagner); A New Initiative (Reverend Fredrick Weiser '57); Come, On October 15^th and Meet the Wizard (Anna Jane Moyer, L. Frank Baum); Beyond Books: Tap the Research Potential of Musselman Library (Janelle Wertzberger); Volunteer Help Needed; How Can Friends Gifts Help Musselman Library?; Profile of Two Friends—Robert '44 and Esther Kenyon Fortenbaugh '46, Thank You Friends!

Hsu Library Newsletter, 2001-2002 Volume 1, Humboldt State University Library

Library Publications

• MARTIN WONG PAINTING IN THE LIBRARY
• ARRIVALS PROGRAM IS A NEW FEATURE OF THE LIBRARY’S CATALOG
• PHAROS: A NEW SERVICE OF THE COMBINED CSU LIBRARIES
• ERICSON PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBIT
• NEW DATABASES
• LIBRARY JOINS NEW CASCADE PACIFIC LIBRARY NETWORK
• CAMPUS WEEK OF DIALOGUE ON RACE

Hardy Carroll: "Gladly Wolde He Learne...And Gladly Teach", Laurel A. Grotzinger

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

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Ms-033: The Papers Of H. Ralph Burton, Christine M. Ameduri

All Finding Aids

H. (Hiram) Ralph Burton's obituary dated August 12, 1971 (Washington Post) states that he was a lifelong resident of Washington, D.C., aged 89 years old when he died on August 5, 1971 and a graduate of Georgetown University Law School. He served as Special Investigator for the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, 1938-1939 and 1940-1941, and House Appropriations Committee in charge of NYC and State, investigation of the W.P.A. 1939-1940; General Counsel to the House Military Affairs Committee, 1941-1947; Chief Investigator for the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, 1947-1948; General Counsel for the House Campaign Expenditures Committee, 1948-1949 …

Management Basics For Information Professionals, 1st Ed. [Book Review], Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

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Handheld Metal Detectors: Nicaraguan Field Test Report October 2001, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research And Development

Global CWD Repository

This final technical report details the results of a joint project between the United States Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (OASD-SO/LIC), the US Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), the Organization of American States (OAS) (Organizacion de los Estados Americanos [OEA]), the Assistance Mission for Mine Clearance in Central America (la MisiÛn de Asistencia para la RemociÛn de Minas en CentroamÈrica, [MARMINCA]), the Program for Demining in Central America (el Programa de Apoyo al Desminado de CentroamÈrica, [PADCA]), and the Inter-American-Defense Board (IADB) (Junta Interamericana …

An Ethnographic Study Of Participants' Perceptions Of Character Education Including Students, Parents, Teachers, Club Sponsors, Administrators, And Community Support People, Lily Odessa Hogan Stoppleworth

Doctoral Dissertations

This qualitative study examined character education within one educational setting. The researcher created a holistic, narrative description of the extent, quality, and impact of character education at one North Louisiana high school. An emergent design was utilized to examine inductively participants' perceptions of character education initiatives within this single, educational site.

The research questions in this study were: (a) How do participants (students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members) define character education, and what do they perceive its value to be? (b) How do participants perceive character education in relation to values? (c) How is character education viewed by the …

Left Behind: The Persistence Of Poverty Through The 1990s, Randy Albelda, Donna H. Friedman

Economics Faculty Publication Series

The Commonwealth’s economic growth over the past decade has led to more jobs and an increasing median income, but the rising tide has not lifted the boats at the bottom. The bottom 20 percent of the Commonwealth’s families with children have not found relief. Growth in earnings has been almost completely offset by the loss of public support, which in turn has strained the private sector’s emergency support system. Poverty rates for families have dropped only slightly, child poverty rates and the percentage of families who are very poor have increased, and the need for emergency housing and food services …