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Carrion - It's what's for dinner: Wolves reduce the impact of climate change.
Get PDFHumans have viewed wolves as competitors, threats to personal safety, and symbols of evil throughout history. By the early part of the 20th century, grey wolves (Canis lupus) had been eradicated from 42% of their historic range in North America (Laliberte & Ripple, 2004). In Yellowstone National Park, grey wolves were hunted to local extinction by 1926, but were reintroduced in 1995 after a decades-long process involving biologists, politicians, ranchers and the general public. By the end of 2006, the wolf population in the park was at least 136 wolves in 13 packs (Smith et al., 2007). In this activity, high school students use mathematical models to explore how the presence of wolves buffers other carnivores and scavengers from the effects of climate change. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
Define and give examples of keystone species,
Demonstrate, using mathematical models, that ecosystems are more resilient to environmental change, when they contain a full complement of species, including top carnivores,
Recognize that math is a vital tool in scientific investigations
Seasonal variation in the hepatoproteome of the dehydration- and freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica
Get PDFWinter’s advent invokes physiological adjustments that permit temperate ectotherms to cope with stresses such as food shortage, water deprivation, hypoxia, and hypothermia. We used liquid chromatography (LC) in combination with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) quantitative isobaric (iTRAQ™) peptide mapping to assess variation in the abundance of hepatic proteins in summer- and winter-acclimatized wood frogs (Rana sylvatica), a northerly-distributed species that tolerates extreme dehydration and tissue freezing during hibernation. Thirty-three unique proteins exhibited strong seasonal lability. Livers of winter frogs had relatively high levels of proteins involved in cytoprotection, including heat-shock proteins and an antioxidant, and a reduced abundance of proteins involved in cell proliferation, protein synthesis, and mitochondrial function. They also exhibited altered levels of certain metabolic enzymes that participate in the biochemical reorganization associated with aphagia and reliance on energy reserves, as well as the freezing mobilization and post-thaw recovery of glucose, an important cryoprotective solute in freezing adaptation
Physical Chemistry Interactive Plot: Kinetics: Parallel First Order Reaction, v1.1
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The Evolution of Easy, Breezy, Beautiful
Get PDFExamines the changes in the CoverGirl brand over time from its origination to now
Using LibGuides in Technical Services
Get PDFTechnical services departments in academic libraries have struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of digital resources, technical services departments are increasingly responsible for providing current information about those resources to public services staff. In this webinar, the presenter will discuss the process of creating, testing, and implementing a LibGuide as a way of communicating much-needed information between technical services and public services staff at Miami University Libraries
Sustainably Supporting Assessment Work with Communities of Practice
No full textThis session brings together five librarians to discuss their recent projects assessing student success and learning, as well as the communities of practice--the ACRL Assessment in Action learning community environment and cohort group, plus local campus teams--in which they worked and found support. Join this session to explore meaningful ways communities of practice can enhance your work and identify strategies for creating your own communities to sustainably support assessment initiatives
Engaging with Wikipedia via Article Creation
Get PDFThe dichotomy of Wikipedia: many love it, and many others love to hate it. While students may not entirely understand the process behind Wikipedia, they do know that they can get information fast (and generally of high quality). Rather than just discussing Wikipedia quality, students in a three credit-hour digital literacy course were challenged to create Wikipedia articles on topics pertinent to their university. Students engaged in the entire process from Wiki syntax to proper Wikipedia formatting and editorship. After making their articles live, students let them lay for a few weeks (allowing others to edit), and then reflected on the power of peer review, the difficulty of creating an article, and how both of these contribute to the overall quality of the tool. This poster will detail the entire assignment, focusing on process and the learning that resulted
Perpetual Motion: Running a 24/7 Library in a 9 to 5 World
Get PDFThe 24/7 availability of information has led to the demand for 24/7 library services. Miami
University increased operations of its central facility, King Library, incrementally, until it
began 24/7 operations in 2000. Demand for 24/7 access among students remained so strong
that the University reinstated 24/7 hours after an attempt to scale back hours during the
recent recession. Issues have included identifying essential services, staffing / scheduling,
maintaining two-way communication between overnight and weekday staff, obtaining IT
Support, responding to security and safety issues, and relations with other entities at the
University. Despite these challenges, the availability of overnight hours continues to be
valued and used by our student body