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Molt and bioenergetics of Pacific black brant (Branta bernicula nigricans) on the arctic coastal plain, Alaska
No full textI examined feather molt and bioenergetics of nonbreeding and failed-nesting Pacific Black Brant near Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska. Molt initiation primarily occurred during the first week in July but extended from 26 June through 29 July. Total molt score, a measure of wing and body contour feathers in blood quills, increased from arrival to early molt, but changes thereafter were generally nonsignificant. Age and sex classes showed little variation in total molt score. Primary feather growth averaged 7.2 mm/day for 249 individuals banded and recaptured and growth rate showed no significant difference when analyzed across year, age and sex class, stage of molt or date. Primary feather growth rate of captive birds equaled 7.0 mm/day but significantly declined during molt. Some Pacific Black Brant flew when the 9th primary averaged 61-64% of mean final length, but most regained flight when the 9th primary reached 70%. Flightless Pacific Black Brant occurred in the Teshekpuk Lake molting area from 26 June through 19 August. Pacific Black Brant significantly lost weight during molt. Adults molted at heavier body weights than subadults. Body weight - primary length relationship did not change during molt except for failed-nesting adult females. Lipid reserves declined 71-88% and comprised only 2-4% of corrected fresh body weight at late molt. Protein reserves significantly declined except in subadult males. Ether-extracted lipid was accurately estimated by internal fat deposits and percent carcass water. Carcass protein was predicted by a multiple regression using corrected fresh body weight, breast muscle weight and leg muscle weight. Grasses (Poaceae) comprised 75% of the diet and occurred in 100% of 24 birds examined; mosses averaged less than 1% of the diet. With an estimated net caloric intake of 815 kJ/d and an average daily energy expenditure of 994 kJ/d, adult female Pacific Black Brant required 139 g of endogenous lipid over the 31 d flightless period. Diet and endogenous lipid met 82% and 18% of daily energy expenditure, respectively. Pacific Black Brant may select this molting area more because of protection and seclusion than the quality of food resources
The Driving Force Behind Theater : an Examination of Three Facets of Professional Theater : The Theater, Theatrical Companies, and the Freelance Designer
No full textiv, 66 p.The author interned with freelance lighting and stage designer Steven R. Espach, working on three shows for two non-for-profit theater companies on Long Island, New York.East Hampton, New York
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Illustrated key to the Dendroctonus of North America
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Steven A. Valley, Oregon Dept. of Agriculture.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 11, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Illustrated key to the species of Ips, Orthotomicus, and Pseudips of North America (or spines, spines, and more spines)
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Steven A. Valley, Oregon Dept. Agriculture.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 11, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Screening aid for the Buprestidae of the western United States of America
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Steven A. Valley, Christine Niwa.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 26, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Professor Steven R. Morrison appointed to NACDL Amicus Curiae Committee
No full textAssistant Professor Steven R. Morrison has been appointed to as the Eighth Circuit\u27s Vice Chair for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer\u27s Amicus Curiae Committee.
The Amicus Curiae Committee’s mission is to provide amicus assistance on the federal and state level in those cases that present issues of importance to criminal defendants, criminal defense lawyers, and/or the criminal justice system as a whole. Membership in NACDL is not a prerequisite either for amicus assistance from the Committee, or for authorship of an NACDL amicus brief. However, the Committee’s amicus endeavors offer an excellent opportunity to recruit new members among those we assist, and those who author NACDL amicus briefs. In that context, members who bring amicus issues to the Committee’s attention are encouraged to urge attorneys for parties benefitting from such assistance to recognize the work NACDL performs on behalf of the criminal defense community, and to join NACDL to support further activities of the organization
Unified mathematical treatment of complex cascaded bipartite networks: The case of collections of journal papers
No full textIn this study, a mathematical treatment is proposed for analysis of entities and relations among entities in
complex networks consisting of cascaded bipartite networks. This treatment is applied to the case of
collections of journal papers. In this case, entities are distinguishable objects and concepts, such as papers,
references, paper authors, reference authors, paper journals, reference journals, institutions, terms, and term
definitions. Relations are associations between entity-types such as papers and the references they cite, or
paper authors and the papers they write. An entity-relationship model is introduced that explicitly shows
direct links between entity-types and possible useful indirect relations. From this a matrix formulation and
generalized matrix arithmetic are introduced that allow easy expression of relations between entities and
calculation of weights of indirect links and co-occurrence links. Occurrence matrices, equivalence
matrices, membership matrices and co-occurrence matrices are described. A dynamic model of growth
describes recursive relations in occurrence and co-occurrence matrices as papers are added to the paper
collection. Graph theoretic matrices are introduced to allow information flow studies of networks of papers
linked by their citations. Similarity calculations and similarity fusion are explained. Derivation of feature
vectors for pattern recognition techniques is presented. The relation of the proposed mathematical
treatment to seriation, clustering, multidimensional scaling, and visualization techniques is discussed. It is
shown that most existing bibliometric analysis techniques for dealing with collections of journal papers are
easily expressed in terms of the proposed mathematical treatment: co-citation analysis, bibliographic
coupling analysis, author co-citation analysis, journal co-citation analysis, Braam-Moed-vanRaan (BMV)
co-citation/co-word analysis, latent semantic analysis, hubs and authorities, and multidimensional scaling.
This report discusses an extensive software toolkit that was developed for this research for analyzing and
visualizing entities and links in a collection of journal papers. Additionally, an extensive case study is
presented, analyzing and visualizing 60 years of anthrax research through a collection of journal papers.
When dealing with complex networks that consist of cascaded bipartite networks, the treatment presented
here provides a general mathematical framework for all aspects of analysis of static network structure and
network dynamic growth. As such, it provides a basic paradigm for thinking about and modeling such
networks: computing direct and indirect links, expressing and analyzing statistical distributions of network
characteristics, describing network growth, deriving feature vectors, clustering, and visualizing network
structure and growth
Coordinating compliance and face goals within persuasive messages: A Cognitive Rules model of communicative goals and strategies
No full textA substantial body of research has examined relationships between individual-difference or situational variables and selection of compliance-gaining strategies. The present thesis extends this research in two respects. First, the thesis explores how people pursue multiple goals (e.g., enhancing or diminishing a target individual\u27s identity and autonomy, presenting a favorable self image) while seeking compliance, and how they coordinate compliance and face goals in persuasive messages. Second, the author presents a Cognitive Rules (CR) model which offers one explanation for how individual-difference and situation variables influence the production of persuasive messages coordinating multiple goals. Four experiments testing predictions about the effects of exposure to priming and level of construct differentiation on open-ended reports of communication goals or persuasive messages are reported. The results of Study 2 support predictions derived from the CR model. Specifically, when participants sought compliance with an obligation, priming and construct differentiation both exerted significant effects on reported frequencies of supportive interpersonal goals. Studies 1 and 4, however, provide no support for the model\u27s predictions. In those studies, priming and construct differentiation failed to influence goals or persuasive strategies. The final investigation (chronologically), Study 3, examines whether the effects of priming and differentiation are moderated by situational factors. As predicted, priming influenced goal reports only in attributionally ambiguous compliance-gaining situations, where the cause for the target\u27s failure to fulfill an obligation and the target\u27s intent were open to multiple, plausible interpretations. Unexpectedly, the effects of priming in those situations were limited to highly differentiated participants. These findings have implications for models of message production, conceptions of communicative situations, and research on compliance-gaining strategies
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