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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Swallow"”.
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The relationship between temperature, rainfall, and tree swallow fledging times
… average daily rainfall on how long it takes tree swallow nestlings in Tennessee to fledge using multi-linear regression and linear mixed-effects modeling. I found that minimum temperatures, maximum temperatures, maximum rain experienced in a one-day period, and total rain all had a significant …
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Impact of Reconstructed Wetlands on the Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) nestlings were used as a sentinel species to evaluate the bioavailability and effect of contaminants to terrestrial life at reconstructed wetlands, Kingman Lake and Kenilworth Marsh, on the Anacostia River. Nesting success, survival, growth and developmental …
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Biology and conservation of the endangered Bahama Swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis)
… often impedes conservation efforts. The Bahama Swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis) is an endangered secondary cavity-nester that only breeds on three islands in the northern Bahamas: Abaco, Grand Bahama, and Andros. I investigated questions related to population size and distribution, genetic …
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The Grief You Can Swallow and the Rage You Can't
"The Grief You Can Swallow and the Rage You Can't" investigates the evolution of elegiac form through a collection of interconnected poems exploring contemporary loss. The manuscript develops new poetic architectures for expressing grief, employing multiple formal strategies including clinical …
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The association between frontal lisping and an anterior open bite, a tongue thrust swallow, the concurrence of an anterior open bite and a tongue thrust swallow and slow diadochokinetic rate
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-111).
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Colony structure and function in the Bank Swallow, <i>Riparia riparia</i>, L.
<p>The bank swallow, <em>Riparia riparia</em>, is a common colonial swallow of the Northern Hemisphere. It nests in burrows which it digs in stream banks or in man-made excavations in sand and gravel banks. Colonies located in seven sand banks near Ellenville, New York, were studied.</p> <p>Data …
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Measuring swallow speed in healthy young adults during repetitive water and saliva swallowing conditions
1 PDF file (1 volume (unpaged))
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DYSPHAGIA TREATMENT PLANNING: ASSESSING CLINICIANS’ TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MODIFIED BARIUM SWALLOW STUDY REPORTS
The Modified Barium Swallow (MBS) study is a commonly used radiographic procedure for diagnosis and treatment of swallowing disorders. Despite attempts by dysphagia specialists to standardize the MBS, most settings have not adopted such standardized procedures. High variability of assessment …
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DYSPHAGIA TREATMENT PLANNING: ASSESSING CLINICIANS’ TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MODIFIED BARIUM SWALLOW STUDY REPORTS
The Modified Barium Swallow (MBS) study is a commonly used radiographic procedure for diagnosis and treatment of swallowing disorders. Despite attempts by dysphagia specialists to standardize the MBS, most settings have not adopted such standardized procedures. High variability of assessment …
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The diagnostic test accuracy of clinical swallow assessment for oropharyngeal aspiration: a systematic review.
… and/or dehydration. Video fluoroscopic swallow study is the Gold Standard assessment of oropharyngeal aspiration but is resource intense, exposes the patient to radiation and is not available in all hospitals and centres. The Clinical Swallow Assessment is a bedside swallow assessment …
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The effects of temperature on the Ethiopian Bush-crow and the White-tailed Swallow
… climatic variables alone? That the White-tailed Swallow Hirundo megaensis occurs in a near identical area only adds to this curiosity; how can two unrelated species be globally restricted to the same small area? I address the following questions. What are the effects of temperature on the …
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Citizen science reveals complex changes in barn swallow phenology in South Africa over three decades
Palearctic migrants, including barn swallows Hirundo rustica, responded to climate change in Europe from the mid to late 1900s with phenological changes, mostly showing earlier arrival and start of breeding. During this period, barn swallows in the Palearctic exhibited variable patterns of change …
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Detection, Identification and Classification of Suck, Swallow and Breathing Activity In Premature Infants During Bottle-Feeding
… of premature infants including sucking, swallowing and breathing were measured. The objective of this work was to detect, identify and classify these three signals independently and in relation to each other. The goal was to look at the specification of sucking, swallowing and breathing …
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Indirect effects of agricultural intensification on tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging behaviour, body condition, and physiology
… – have exhibited sharp declines, with tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) experiencing a 2.8% annual decline in Canada since 1989. The timing of these declines coincides with major changes in agriculture, perhaps signaling a potential causal link. Declines may be influenced indirectly by …
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"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn
<p>This project examines the roles of animals and animal figures in the Native American novels <em>House Made of Dawn </em>(1968)<em></em>by N. Scott Momaday and <em>Ceremony </em>(1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko. Both novelists consistently evoke animal imagery within their respective texts often …
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Standardizing a freely-behaving canine videofluoroscopic swallow study protocol to investigate dysphagia in primary aging and neurological diseases
… to establish a freely-behaving videofluoroscopic swallow study protocol (VFSS) for dogs that permits identification of translational biomarkers of dysphagia in primary aging and neurological disease conditions. A VFSS protocol was established using 49 dogs, divided into seven conditions: control, …
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Designing a Quantitative Videofluoroscopic Analysis Approach in Infants with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1
… study, we aimed to establish a videofluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS) analysis method that optimizes analysis time yet is sensitive to detecting small changes in swallowing physiology to elucidate these deficits. We explored this by comparing kinematic and timing measures obtained using three VFSS …
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Studies of the Annual Cycle of the Swallow-Tailed Kite (<em>Elanoides forficatus</em>): Migration, Habitat Use, and Parasites
<p>The Swallow-tailed Kite (Elatwides forficatas) is a rare Neotropical migrant raptor that breeds in the United States and winters in South America. Despite intense conservation concern, relatively little is known about the factors that may limit Swallow-tailed Kite populations. I examined three …
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