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Effects of body size on goose behavior: lesser snow goose and Ross's goose
… effects of intraspecific body size variation on goose behavior by studying movements and behavior of snow geese in southwest Louisiana. I found that both adult and juvenile snow geese from coastal marshes had larger bodies and bills than did those from rice-prairie habitats. Adult snow geese from …
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Simulátor IED s podporou komunikace GOOSE
… pracujícího jako publisher protokolu IEC 61850-GOOSE. Pro dosažení tohoto cíle byla použita knihovna libIEC61850. V rámci práce bylo naimplementován emulátor zařízení komunikujícího pomocí protokolu GOOSE. Zpráva obsahuje experimenty validující emulovanou komunikaci. Přínosem této práce je …
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Parasite-host interactions in an arctic goose colony
… parasite on Ross’s (Chen rossii) and lesser snow goose (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) reproductive success in the Karrak Lake goose colony, Nunavut, Canada from 2001 to 2004. The nest parasite, identified as the flea Ceratophyllus vagabundus vagabundus, was associated with goose eggs covered …
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Transformer load tap changer control using IEC 61850 GOOSE messaging
… Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) messages are used to facilitate all required communication. A set of two Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) devices is used for the demonstration. IEC 61850 has many benefits including great flexibility and improved …
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Evaluation of Giant Canada Goose Restoration in Western South Dakota
<p>A study of giant Canada goose (Branta Canadensis maxima) restoration in western South Dakota was conducted during 1970 and 1971. Nesting, production and mortality, homing, and pioneering were evaluated both years. Nesting began April 4 in 1970 and extended for 73 days, but the peak of nesting …
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The Last Goose on Earth: A Tale Told in Verse
<p><em>The Last Goose on Earth</em> follows, poem by poem, the burgeoning relationship between Bea, a young human girl, and Goose, the last Canada goose on earth—it simultaneously traces the tenuous, vitalized connections between human and animal, person and environment, family grief and species …
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Panmixia Across the Range of the Assortatively Mating Lesser Snow Goose
<p>The Lesser Snow Goose has been shown to exhibit imprinted positive assortative mating on the basis of its color phases, blue and white, and it has been proposed that the geographic cline of the color phases reflects a historic allopatry of the phases. Using ddRAD-seq, thousands of SNPs were …
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Productivity of A Resident Giant Canada Goose Flock in Northeastern South Dakota
. A 2-year study (1974-1975) of a resident Canada goose (Branta canadensis maxima) flock is reported. Twenty-four percent of the artificial nest structures (ANS) available were used by nesting geese. Artificial nesting structures, islands, muskrat houses and peninsulas were used by geese as nesting …
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Remaking lives and community in the gooseless goose capital of the world /
… in response to a shift in trans-national goose migration patterns that was facilitated, at least in part, by climate change. I make the following three arguments. First, lives and communities will be remade through coconstitutive interactions between multiple (non)human things, beings, and …
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Energy Requirements of the Canada Goose in Relation to Distribution and Migration
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:13:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6507183.pdf: 3097441 bytes, checksum: 0798301781dab344b65a3b38d7722936 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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Geology and mineral resources of the Goose Creek area near Roanoke, Virginia
The Goose Creek area in parts of Roanoke, Botetourt, and Bedford counties, Virginia, comprises about 170 square miles of complexly folded and faulted Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks of the Blue Ridge and Great Valley physiographic provinces. The Precambrian rocks are divided into three different …
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Evaluation of Various Foliar Sprays for Use as a Canada Goose Grazing Deterrent
… Shield®, Avian Control®, and Avipel® as Canada goose grazing deterrents. I applied these sprays on test plots in soybean (Glycine max) fields throughout Day County, South Dakota. Electric fences were placed around test plots. Once use by Canada geese had been established, sites were immediately …
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Band-Recovery Analysis and Survival Estimates for South Dakota Giant Canada Goose Populations
… were calculated for South Dakota giant Canada goose (Branta canadensis maxima) populations. I analyzed Canada goose bandrecovery data obtained from the USGS's Bird Banding Laboratory consisting of 26, 141 bandings and 6,837 recoveries (1955 - 95). Only Canada geese banded preseason (June - …
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The MOAN-MOWN and MOAN-GOOSE mergers in Lowestoft English: Perception and production
… by a pre-existing merger between the MOAN and GOOSE vowels. This dissertation utilises and statistically models data from both production and perception for a holistic view of merger. Production data come from 30 interviews in which production of minimal pairs, word lists and spontaneous speech …
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Utilization, preference and nutritional value of winter-green agricultural crops for goose food
… because of its high preference by deer and low goose preference. There is a need for additional investigation to permit the accumulation of more conclusive data. Presently reported results reflect limitations which might be overcome with additional investigation.
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"The Goose that Lays the Golden Egg"?: The "Bio-Med" Industries of New Orleans
This thesis addresses New Orleans' "Bio-Med" sector, a broad category that includes biosciences research, health care, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing. Biotechnology, in particular, has emerged as an attractive target for economic development in New Orleans, in …
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Flightless Giant Canada Goose Depredation Abatement and Disgestibility of Selected Crops in South Dakota
… of the food plot forages to the stress of goose grazing. Food plot forage preference was determined by the cage comparison technique. The alfalfa visual barrier was evaluated by establishing a height-density index and comparing breakthrough points to the barrier as a whole. Observation was …
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Golden goose or white elephant? Exploring lifelong learning through the professional group of operating department practitioners
General findings indicated practitioners were engaging in a variety of learning as advocated by their regulatory body, and thus meeting their professional and organisational responsibilities. Further investigation presents a tale of contrasts:from the positive experiences of learning which are …
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Nesting and Brood Rearing Ecology of the Vancouver Canada Goose on Admiralty Island Southeast of Alaska
… behavior is considered unique among all Canada goose subspecies. An average of 86.3 search hours were conducted for each of 19 active nests located in 1979. Seven additional nests from previous years were also located. Twenty-two nests were located in forest habitat •. All forest nests were in …
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