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Comparing interrelated stress measures to differentiate acute and chronic stress in urban freshwater turtles
Get PDFAs urban areas grow in size and number, there are increasing impacts on the wildlife. While some species adapt, others cannot thrive in these conditions. Stress is the biological response to a stimulus that threatens homeostasis, which can be used to understand the condition of an individual. While acute stress is beneficial for survival, chronic stress can lead to deleterious impacts. A majority of turtles can be classified as declining in number or endangered, yet there is little understanding of their physiological stress response. This study examined how various stress measures—including corticosterone (CORT) in plasma, nails and leeches, metabolic measures, H:L ratio, and parasite prevalence—are related. We sampled freshwater turtles from two locations in the city of Winter Park, Florida, over a period of seven months. While there were no correlations between CORT measures, we were able to find various associations between metabolism, size, and immune measure. Additionally, we have identified further research needed to have a more complete understanding of stress in freshwater turtles
A Comparison Study: The Shift in Chinese Youth’s Values
No full textYouth is the most important group when examining a society because it typically drives the society forward by favorably adopting liberal or radical norms. Social movements are aroused in a country by those educated young people who observe issues and ambitiously initiate changes. Youth helps society renew and refresh itself by keeping the circulation running, therefore, youth plays an essential role in society. This paper is going to compare the post-90s (jiulinghou) group, the current Chinese youth, to their parent\u27s generation, known as the post-70s (liulinghou) in order to examine changes in values and norms between the two generations in China. As the youth group is traditionally the most active and influential in a society, the research could further indicate the current political and social atmosphere in China. As the hypothesis assumed the post-90s generation would be more open-minded who has a strong preference for Westernized values than the post-70s generation, the results turned out to be unexpected. The post-90s generation appeared to be confused and unconfident in terms of their opinion on many of the current social issues. There is rising popularity of nationalism in youth groups, and it remains unknown whether the political atmosphere would shift more towards freedom and democracy, especially with President Xi\u27s more centralized control recently
On the anguish of going: an actor’s Endgame
Get PDFSometimes a theatrical production comes along that illuminates a familiar text, bringing parts of the story into a new focus or revealing other parts hitherto unseen. The Endgame Project, conceived by veteran New York actors Dan Moran and John Christopher Jones, is one of these productions. In this conception of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Clov and Hamm, two characters with diminishing physical abilities, are played by Jones and Moran, two seasoned actors who are both living with Parkinson’s disease. The Endgame Project creates a powerful joining of Beckett’s script and the Parkinson’s disease that holds the principal actors in its gri
