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Mark Gibbons Interview, November 1, 2018
No full textMark Gibbons discusses his nearly 15-year friendship with Butte, Montana poet Ed Lahey, author of The Blind Horses and The Thin Air Gang. Gibbons talks about first meeting Lahey in 1996 at the Garden City Reading Series in Missoula, and how much in awe he was of Lahey’s talent and presence. Gibbons describes how author Roger Dunsmore facilitated Gibbons’ first meeting with Lahey at Lahey’s home in Montana, and how that quickly grew into a mutual friendship. Gibbons touches on Lahey’s struggles with alcoholism and mental illness, and notes that he knew Lahey towards the end of his life when he was getting more of his work published. Gibbons recalls Lahey’s struggles with manganese poisoning which causes severe tremoring during his final years. He also discusses Lahey’s writing style, which was a unique voice characteristic of living in Butte, Montana. Gibbons notes how many poets such as himself and Sheryl Noethe were inspired by Lahey’s work.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/edlahey/1008/thumbnail.jp
Author Gail Gibbons Holds Open Book, circa 1988
No full textAuthor Gail Gibbons is shown holding open a book titled, Sunken Treasure by Gail Gibbons. The book was published in 1988. (circa 1988 or after)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1980/1142/thumbnail.jp
Speech of Hon. Charles Gibbons: delivered at National Hall, October 5th, 1860, in reply to the speech of the Hon. W.B. Reed, on the presidential question, and in vindication of the Peoples\u27 Party.
No full textGibbons was also the author of The truth plainly spoken (1865)--cf. M521.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-pamphlets/1068/thumbnail.jp
Food selection by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons (Nomascus annamensis), northern Cambodia
No full textTropical regions have extremely high plant diversity, which in turn supports a high diversity of animals. However, not all plant species are selected by animals as food sources, with some herbivores selecting only specific plants as food as not all plants have the same nutrient make up. Animals must select which food items to include in their diets, as the amount and type of nutrients in their diet can affect lifespan, health, fitness, and reproduction.
Gibbon populations have declined significantly in recent years due to habitat destruction and hunting. Northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon (Nomascus annamensis) is a newly described species, and has a limited distribution restricted to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons play an important role in seed dispersal, yet little is currently known about this species, including its food selection and nutritional needs. However, data on food selection and nutritional composition of selected food items would greatly inform the conservation of both wild and captive populations of this species.
This study aims to quantify food selection by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons by investigating the main plant species consumed and the influence of the availability of food items on their selection. The study also explores the nutritional composition of food items consumed by this gibbon species and identifying key plant species that provide these significant nutrients.
A habituated group of the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons with five members located in northern Cambodia was studied for 12 weeks during the dry season, and focal animal sampling was used to observe individual feeding behaviours. Four main activity categories were recorded including resting, feeding, travelling and socializing. Phenological data was recorded from transect lines, and plant densities from 20 vegetation plots inside the home range of this group of gibbons were also measured. Seventy-four plant samples from 20 tree and liana species that were consumed by this group of gibbons were collected for nutritional analyses. These samples were initially dried in sunlight, and then oven dried before levels of protein, total non-structural carbohydrates, lipids, fibres and condensed tannins were measured at the Nutritional Ecology Lab at Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York.
The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon individuals spent most of the time resting, followed by feeding, travelling and socializing. Their main diet was fruit, supplemented with young leaves, flowers, mature leaves, and occasionally insects. Individuals selected food from 37 plant species, but predominately fed on just 16 of these species. The three most-consumed species were fruit from Ilex umbellulata (tree), Ficus. sp (liana), and young leaves from Lithocarpus elegans (tree). There was a significant relationship between feeding time and the availability of flowers, indicating that flowers were actively selected for when present. However, there was no significant relationship between feeding time and the availability of fruit or young leaves. Only a small number of plants bore fruit, with very low densities in the home range of this gibbon study group, but these plants produced a large abundance of fruit. These findings clearly indicate that fruit is the main diet for northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in the dry season, with young leaves, flowers, mature leaves and insects acting as secondary food sources. The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons selected only a small number of specific plants in their territory for food sources, indicating that any selective logging targeting these plant species would reduce food availability, and restrict the diet of these animals.
Fruits consumed by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons were rich in carbohydrates and lipids, while young leaves were richest concentration of protein. Mature leaves had a high moisture content, whereas flowers contained condensed tannins more often than other plant tissues. All plant tissues consumed had similar amount of fibres. Generally, the food items consumed had higher concentrations of carbohydrate than protein or lipids. The overall diet of this group of gibbons was low in lipids. These results indicate that northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon consumed food items with high concentrations of carbohydrate, and only selected a few food sources with high level of protein.
Overall, these findings have contributed important knowledge that can be used for long-term conservation of this gibbon species. There are a small number of key food species in the home range which need special protection. The northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons consumed food items from different plant species, and as a consequence, all plant species selected play an important role for nutritional requirements by this gibbon species. When considering feeding requirement by the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons for captive breeding programs, diets should include fruit, which is rich in carbohydrates, and young leaves, which have high levels of protein
Gibbons (Floyd Phillips) Papers, 1900-1940
No full textFloyd Gibbons was an author, journalist, and radio personality. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1887 and died in 1939. He was on the staff of the Chicago Tribune starting in 1912 and was a war correspondent during World War I. Papers contain correspondence, columns, comic strips, manuscripts of his writings, radio scripts, recordings, news clips, photographs, and Gibbons family memorabilia.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/1262/thumbnail.jp
Veronica Ryan
No full textText in exhibition catalogue published to accompany the Arts Council Collection touring exhibition. Publication contains a survey text by Jon Wood and texts by the curators who were involved in the public presentation and discussion of the work at the time
Exhibition features works by Edward Allington, Eric Bainbridge, Kate Blacker, Helen Chadwick, John Cobb, Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Kenneth Draper, Gareth Fisher, Barry Flanagan, John Gibbons, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tim Head, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anish Kapoor, Michael Kenny, Andrew Logan, David Nash, Martin Naylor, Julian Opie, Eduardo Paolozzi, Emma Park, Cornelia Parker, Carl Plackman, Elizabeth Rosser, Veronica Ryan, Michael Sandle, Geoffrey Smedley, William Tucker, William Turnbull, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Richard Wentworth, Alison Wilding, Richard Wilson and Gary Woodle
Analysis of two genomic variants of orang-utan hepadnavirus and their relationship to other primate hepatitis B-like viruses
No full textWe recently described orang-utan hepadnavirus (OuHV) (Warren et al., Journal of Virology, 73, 7860–7865, 1999). Phylogenetic analyses indicated that the various isolates of OuHV can be divided into two genomic variants. Two representatives from each genomic cluster were analysed both molecularly and phylogenetically. Their genome organization was highly similar to other hepadnaviruses of apes and humans. The complete genome sequences of the two OuHV types had an overall 5% sequence difference. Research on 25 seropositive Bornean orang-utans showed that, of the 19 animals infected with one variant, 12 originated from East Kalimantan. Phylogenetic analysis was performed using the full-length genomes of various primate hepadnaviruses. The tree topology revealed one cluster of Old World hepadnaviruses that is divided into two subclusters, one consisting of the ape viruses, and the other comprising the human genotypes A–E. These data suggest that the great apes and gibbons have been infected with a common ancestor hepadnavirus
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
Gibbons-Hawking entropy as entanglement entropy
No full textIDEXACIÓN:SCOPUSWe consider a deformed version of four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. The setup consist of two (antipodal) disconnected Rindler observers, each one with an S4 topology. We show that the two observers have an entanglement entropy, in the low energy sector, given by a quarter of the area of a pair minimal surfaces, that corresponds to the set of fixed points of an Zq orbifold. The result matches with the Gibbons-Hawking entropy when we restrict the Zq action to a single Rindler wedge. © 2019 Author(s)
CCDC 2069455: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
No full textMAXVIU : 5-bromo-10,15,20-triphenylporphyrin Related Article: Keith J. Flanagan, Maximilian Paradiz Dominguez, Zoi Melissari, Hans-Georg Eckhardt, René M. Williams, Dáire Gibbons, Caroline Prior, Gemma M. Locke, Alina Meindl, Aoife A. Ryan, Mathias O. Senge|2021|Beilstein J.Org.Chem.|17|1149|doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.8
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