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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Brant"”.
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Fitness Consequences of Clutch Size Decisions and Mate Change in Black Brant
… 2) and mate change (Chapters 3-5) in black brant geese (Branta bernicla nigricans, hereafter brant), an Arctic nesting goose species with precocial young. I used a 25 year (1990-2014) dataset collected at the Tutakoke River brant colony (TRC), in southwestern Alaska, USA to investigate these …
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A Bricolage Approach to Cultural Heritage Concerns: Brant, Ontario, Canada/Turtle Island
… advocates, and community members of County of Brant/City of Brantford and Six Nations regarding access, interpretation, and dissemination of complex cultural heritage information. The stewardship of material culture within the critical museological context remains contentious, particularly …
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Fitness and Implications of Reproductive Decisions for Black Brant Nesting on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
… numerous decisions during reproduction. In black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans; hereafter brant), an arctic goose, I studied effects of choices individual female brant which influence numerous life history traits. For birds maintaining long-term monogamous relationships, mate loss might be …
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Mediation and Middlemen Undone: The Demise of the Colonial Go-Between in Revolutionary New York
… destroyed during the American Revolution. Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, and Guy Johnson, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the British, were two go-betweens whose powers and roles as mediators were subverted, even extinguished, by the conclusion of the War for Independence. This thesis examines …
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Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean
… 2015-07-22T22:33:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BRANT-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf: 873814 bytes, checksum: 7861ab78154f8f3c085fd8dc8a2b9d89 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: 0e0db1b465aed3e14fd22e9ad9443f49 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-16
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Population Dynamics of Common Carp in Eastern South Dakota Glacial Lakes
… 17 through July 3 and May 9 through June 14 in Brant and Campbell lakes, respectively. Age-0 common carp in Brant Lake grew approximately 0.96 mm/day (N=78; SE=0.02). Further, hatch date was negatively related to total length (r = -0.84, df = 77, P < 0.001) indicating that earlier-hatched common …
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Factors Affecting Recruitment of Black Crappies in South Dakota Waters
… (Richmond Lake) and one natural lake (Brant Lake). Individually coded ultrasonic transmitters were implanted into the body cavity of 15 adult male black crappies in each water body prior to spawning. Available habitat characteristics were recorded at 75 random sites within each water …
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Seasonal Movements and Spatial Distributions of Common Carp in an Interconnected Glacial Lake System in Eastern South Dakota
… ultrasonic telemetry were used year-round on Brant and Round lakes, a 500-ha interconnected glacial lake system in eastern South Dakota. Twenty adult common carp (586 to 807 mm TL; large size class) were implanted with large ultrasonic transmitters (CHP-87-L, 18 months, Sonotronics, Inc) and …
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Contextualizing the Vast and Varying Landscape of Secondary EL Programs and Services
Despite a large and growing population of English learner (EL) students in middle and high schools, research on EL education has focused on elementary grade services, with very little understanding of how ELs are served in the secondary grades. Drawing on a National Center for Education Statistics …
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The diffusion of health information technology: practice characteristics and competition as drivers of adoption
This paper considers the adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) by physician clinics with ten or fewer physicians. The paper considers the theoretical economics literature on technology adoption for a new technology and has a place in the empirical tests of these models. The two major …
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Blurring the Lines Between Instructor-Led and Online Learning: an Evaluation of an Online Composition Curriculum on the Bleeding Edge
The contemporary classroom currently faces an evolving world of computer based training, online courses, instructor-led learning and several blended approaches in-between. With the increased presence of computers and communication in every facet of students' lives, students have changed to adapt to …
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Reinforced concrete columns of variable cross section
The results of a series of 19 full scale tests carried out on pin-ended reinforced concrete columns are reported. The columns tested had either tapered rectangular sections along the length or octagonal cross sections. All columns, except the last 6, were subjected to uniaxial eccentricities at one …
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Aboriginal women in education : Honouring our experiences a vision of access to and success within the university
This thesis explores Aboriginal women's access to and success within universities through an examination of Aboriginal women's educational narratives, along with input from key service providers from both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community. Implemented through the Wildfire Research Method, …
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The Role of G-Protein Signaling in Pathogenesis in Cercospora zeae-maydis
<p>Gray leaf spot, caused by Cercospora zeae-maydis, is one of the most destructive foliar diseases of maize worldwide. C. zeae-maydis orients hyphal growth towards stomata (stomatal tropism) and forms infectious structures (appressoria) that are necessary for successful infection. Although some …
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Exploring machine learning techniques using patient interactions in online health forums to classify drug safety
This dissertation explores the use of personal health messages collected from online message forums to predict drug safety using natural language processing and machine learning techniques. Drug safety is defined as any drug with an active safety alert from the US Food and Drug Administration …
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Der Narr in der Oper : eine kulturwissenschaftliche Annäherung.
… moralphilosophischen Ansätze von Sebastian Brant, Thomas Murner, Erasmus von Rotterdam und Martin Luther untersucht und die Narrenidee auf der Folie von Komiktheorien begreift. In diesem Rahmen spielt die verkehrte Welt des Fastnachtsbrauchtums eine ebenso bedeutende Rolle, da es den Narren …
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Dynamic Behaviors of Langerhans Cells In Situ
The epithelial surfaces of the body, being constantly exposed to both innocuous and potentially harmful substances and organisms, are protected by an array of immune cells called Langerhans cells (LCs). As a bridge between the innate (non-specific) and adaptive (specific) immune responses, LCs …
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Journeying Through a Pedagogy of Peace: Creating and Translating an Indigenous Critical Pedagogical Framework from Theory to Practice
The COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 not only disrupted the world but also sparked a profound period of reflection for me. It became clear that my core values and beliefs, particularly as they relate to teaching and learning, needed a significant shift. The pandemic forced us to reconsider how we …
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