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  1. Hormones and Body Size *Evolution in Old World Monkeys

    Bernstein, Robin MiriamUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    This research shows that similar adult body size can be attained despite differences in levels of growth regulatory hormones during development. Results also demonstrate that absolute hormone levels during growth do not necessarily relate to adult size, contrary to the findings of previous research …

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  2. Enrichment Assessment for Geriatric African Old World Monkeys under Human Care

    Osborne, Amanda E.2020

    … enrichment regimes used for geriatric African Old World monkeys living under human care are effectively eliciting affiliative and active behaviors. I wanted to determine if alternating enrichment types used by the zoo staff were eliciting different social behaviors and locomotion in non-human …

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  3. Behavior and Ecology of New and Old World Luperini Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

    Lewis, Phillip AndrewUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    In summary then, in my study I have been able to provide additional evidence of the close relationship between the Aulacophorina and the Diabroticina. The similar response and adaptation to cucurbitacins by these beetles suggests a common evolutionary origin of these two groups. However, the …

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  4. The Morphology, Systematics, and Evolution of The Old World Treefrogs (Rhacophoridae and Hyperoliidae)

    Liem, Sioe SingUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:13:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000911.pdf: 4832785 bytes, checksum: 894e4554d35579ed6ea4fd3f150be066 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969

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  5. Creating Christian Granada: Religion and community on the old-world frontier, 1492-1570

    Coleman, David W.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2011

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  6. Washington Irving's The Sketch Book-A romantic excursion into old world tradition

    Gage, MerriamTexas Woman's University1972

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  7. The Evolution of the Viral RNA Sensor OAS1 in Old World Monkeys and Cetartiodactyls

    Fish, IanThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

    … by a broader survey of the gene in nineteen Old World monkeys. My research found that at the species level, macaques exhibit extremely high diversity with intriguing similarities to that previously found in chimpanzees. Across Old World monkeys, I identified commonly shared patterns of …

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  8. The origins and spread of the Neolithic in the Old World using Ancient Genomes

    Gallego Llorente, MarcosUniversity of Cambridge2018

    One of the biggest innovations in human prehistory was the advent of food production, consisting of the ability to grow crops and domesticate animals for consumption. This wide-scale transition from hunting and gathering to food production led to more permanent settlements, and set in motion major …

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  9. Old World Serpents and New World Dragons: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Pythons and Liolaemid Lizards

    Esquerre Gheur, Damien2019

    … across the tropics and subtropics of the Old World. Their moderate species diversity (44 currently recognized species), is eclipsed by their remarkable morphological and ecological diversity. Liolaemid lizards (Liolaemidae), found in the southern portion of South America, also are diverse …

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  10. Old World Serpents and New World Dragons: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Pythons and Liolaemid Lizards

    Esquerre Gheur, Damien2019

    … across the tropics and subtropics of the Old World. Their moderate species diversity (44 currently recognized species), is eclipsed by their remarkable morphological and ecological diversity. Liolaemid lizards (Liolaemidae), found in the southern portion of South America, also are diverse …

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  11. Reappraising an American Jewish Nostalgic Image: The Old World as Mid-20th Century Visual Experience

    Teitelbaum, ElijahUniversity of Cambridge2020

    … Eastern European Jewish past, valourized as “the Old World,” as a source of heritage and a stable point of reference for American Ashkenazi identities. A plethora of books, plays, films, and other cultural materials emphasize that, while Jews certainly belonged in the American middle class, their …

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  12. Performance of light vs. heavy weight steers grazing Plains Old World bluestem at three stocking rates

    Ackerman, Callan J.Oklahoma State University1999

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  13. "In that New World which is the Old": New World/Old World inversion in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

    Melton, Oliver Quimby

    "'In That New World Which Is The Old': New World/Old World Inversion In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World" examines the inversion of the concepts Old World, specifically associated with England, and New World, specifically associated with America, in the novel Brave New World. After examining and …

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  14. The Stratified Views of West Africa and Brazil in the Portuguese Mentality and its Importance in the Old World Versus New World Debate

    Gilliland, Andrew W.Southwest Texas State University1996

    No abstract prepared.

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  15. The Old World in the New: theories of pre-Columbian contact in science and society, 1860–1920: theories of pre-Columbian contact in science and society, 1860–1920

    Ward, WilliamQueen's University Belfast2020

    … to be discovered: intercourse between the two worlds had never from the day the Americas were peopled halted or ceased. The following, therefore, seeks to contextualise and explain various late nineteenth-century conceptions of pre-Columbian contact between the Old World and the New. Such ideas …

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  16. Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38Bk1633

    Clifford IV, Walter Allen

    … Towne in 1670. I investigate the absorption of Old World crops into Native American subsistence regimes. The Daniel Island site provides a fine-scaled point of analysis for viewing changes in quotidian subsistence patterns and how the incorporation of Old World crops influenced Native Americans …

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  17. Biogeography and phylogenetics of grassland auchenorrhyncha

    Catanach, ThereseUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … representatives from all major grasslands of the world. Along with individual phylogenies of each lineage, a combined dataset of Hecalini, Paralimnini, Deltocephalini, and the taxa included by Zahniser and Dietrich (2013) was also constructed. My phylogenetic analyses were used to both infer …

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  18. EFFECTS OF SLEEP DISRUPTION AND QUETIAPINE ON COCAINE ABUSE: THE PATH TO DEVELOPMENT OF A MONKEY MODEL OF PTSD

    Brutcher, Robert EdwinWake Forest University2013

    … disruptions and drug abuse. These studies used Old World macaques, rhesus monkeys, because of their close phylogeny to humans, their similar sleep-wake patterns and their cognitive abilities.

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  19. Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure

    McCollum, Peter2014

    … style of a former slave telling tales of “the old days,” and though Chesnutt's work may have mirrored such authors as Thomas Nelson Page, the tales broke from tradition with surprisingly stark accounts that are clearly based on Chesnutt's own conversations with former slaves. Much like another …

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  20. Genetic Variation and Differentiation in Honey Bees (Apis) (Electrophoresis)

    Sheppard, Walter StevenUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … to Europe, Africa and Asia. Therefore, New World populations of A. mellifera, the familiar honey bee of commerce, are descended from importations that began with early European colonization in the Americas. In the Old World, at least two dozen geographical races of A. mellifera are known to …

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