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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Companion Species"”.
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Establishing Native Grasses Along Maryland Roadways
The use of native grasses and other meadow species in roadside rights-of-way is perceived as environmentally and economically beneficial. There is a need for more information about successful establishment procedures appropriate for the mid-Atlantic region. This study examined the use of companion …
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Situating documentary film in a speculative future: an exploration in multi species entanglements
… what it means to be human in an entangled multispecies world. The research consists of A Terrible Beauty, a feature length documentary, and this dissertation. The film was largely shot in Yiwu, home to one of the largest wholesale markets in the world and an important node in the New Silk Road. …
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Optimizing pharmacodynamics and evaluating echocardiographic effects of alfaxalone sedation in bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) and prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis)
… and monitoring the effects of alfaxalone on that species (i.e. heart rate, respiratory rate, depth of sedation (Bertelsen 2011, Ferreira 2019, James 2018, Strahl-Heldreth 2019, Jurox 2020, Perrin 2017, Scheelings 2011). This thesis research examines the use of the new formulation of alfaxalone in …
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Systems of Becoming: Mediating Dialogue between Nature and Design
… by Agamben (2004) and the investigation of “companion species” by Haraway (2013), this dichotomy has assumed different forms and has been influential in how we both perceive the world and generate knowledge. In the field of Design, theoretical research has been accompanied by physical …
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AMD&ART: performativity and participation in ecological remediation
… with land art, Systems Theory, Network Theory, Companion Specieshood and others. The theoretical focus of this paper is the emergent importance of the concept of performativity—“that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains” (Butler, Bodies 2)—in …
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STABLE ISOTOPIC INSIGHTS INTO THE SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS OF PREHISTORIC DOGS (CANIS FAMILIARIS) AND THEIR HUMAN COUNTERPARTS IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… scavengers, but they were also intentionally fed companions. The suggestion that dog diet in some way mimics human diet means that stable isotope ratios from their bone will reflect the type of resources available for consumption by their human counterparts. As such, this investigation may also …