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Showing 1 to 20 of 1341 for “"Threatened"”.
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Career-Threatened Principals: Virginia Superintendents' Views
The characteristics of career-threatened principals in Virginia as identified by Virginia superintendents were examined. All superintendents of operating school divisions in Virginia were selected as the population for this study. A survey was used to generate data on demographic characteristics of …
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'No hard feelings': Resolving and Redefining Threatened Masculinity
… them a way to do gender when confronted with threatened masculinity in the form(s) of subordination to women, sexual dysfunction, and older age. In each project, men rely on displays of heterosexual dominance and objectification of women as a compensatory means to do masculinity. However, …
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Intimate Violence: The Effects of Family, Threatened Egotism, and Reciprocity.
… an attempt to investigate the impact of family, threatened egotism, and reciprocity on a person’s use of intimate violence. Threatened egotism proposes that aggression is the result of high but unstable self-esteem, which is conceptualized as high self-esteem coupled with high narcissism. …
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Restoration of threatened species populations: tuatara rehabilitations and re-introductions
… and accountability for the restoration of threatened species populations is assessed for an endemic New Zealand reptile, the tuatara Sphenodon spp. The value of examining assumptions underlying concepts such as 'habitat requirements' theory and incorporating scientific principles into …
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A conservation genetic study of threatened, endemic southern African seabirds
… consequences for both commercial fisheries and threatened marine top-predators. Seabirds are valuable indicators of the state of marine ecosystems, and changes in their distribution and dispersal patterns may reflect those of species in lower trophic-levels. This is the case in the ABE, where …
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Probability model for a convoy threatened by a submarine launched missile
The advent of the missile firing submarine has added yet another dimension to the problem of defending convoys and task groups during ocean transit. The specific situation wherein the submarine must surface to fire a relatively short range missile against a convoy of ships is considered. The model …
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Population Dynamics of Threatened Piping Plovers on the Niobrara River, Nebraska
… USA, provide important habitat for the federally threatened piping plover (“plover”, Charadrius melodus). Plovers nest on open to sparsely vegetated river sandbars, and their demographic rates are closely linked to habitat availability and quality, as well as river flow. The Niobrara River in …
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Controlled cultivation techniques for the recovery of threatened fishes in Virginia
… captive propagation methods for the Federally threatened spotfin chub, Cyprinella monacha, and yellowfin madtom, Noturus flavipinnis, by using closely related, but unthreatened species, to evaluate potential techniques. The surrogate species used were the whitetail shiner, Cyprinella galactura, …
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Channel erosion projections for threatened Alaska-Native communities along the Kuskokwim River
… along the Kuskokwim River are regularly threatened by ongoing riverbank erosion, including catastrophic events. Erosion is causing the river to encroach on AN villages, threatening infrastructure and community sustainability. Current trends in precipitation and warming in the Arctic …
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Empathy and Threatened Egotism in Men’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships
… between self-esteem and narcissism as a test of threatened egotism, defined as high self-esteem coupled with high narcissism, which was not expected in the current study. Empathy was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between intimate violence perpetration and threatened egotism, such that …
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Molecular markers for the assessment of genetic variability in threatened plant species
La variabilità genetica è un importante strumento per lo studio e la conservazione della biodiversità in specie rare e minacciate di estinzione. Durante il mio dottorato mi sono quindi occupata di mettere a punto diverse metodologie molecolari al fine di valutare la diversità genetica in due specie …
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Flora of the Cape Peninsula : endemism, threatened plants and conservation in perspective
… taxonomic and biological aspects of endemic and threatened taxa and the conservation status the flora and endemic fauna of the Cape Peninsula were then investigated. A large nomenclatural and taxonomic change was detected with % of having undergone name changes since the last taxonomic survey in …
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Influences of Historical and Contemporary Environmental Conditions on Threatened and Endemic Aquatic Organisms
… hybridization dynamics between the endemic and threatened Macrhybopsis australis and the widespread M. hyostoma in the Red River basin of Texas. This work found hybridization in a reach of the river upstream from Lake Texoma, and the distribution of hybrid and pure organisms is associated with …
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Threatened child health through lack of immunization: Identification of risk groups in Uganda.
Despite the great success of the worldwide Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), there are still 2 million third world children who die every year from the vaccine-preventable diseases. While the great majority of children in Uganda and other third world countries receive vaccination against …
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Threatened identities: The mothering experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee women in England
… violence (IPV). Some of these experiences threatened the expressed maternal identity of some women. These experiences were threatening because they created a barrier between mothering expectations and actions. However, some women seemed more able to maintain a sense of competence in their …
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Conserving the iconic and highly threatened mahseer fishes of South and Southeast Asia.
… ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This has in turn impacted on regional and national fishery and wildlife policy and affected a concerted international effort to apply a multidisciplinary and multiple stakeholder approach to saving this iconic species of …
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