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Tracking the Cougar: Performing the Over-Thirty-Five Single Woman In Everyday Life and Media Representations
… who dated younger men began to be known as cougars and concomitantly, representations of cougars began to appear in various media. In this thesis I ask how women are discursively and socially constituted as cougars and how our choices are thereby limited. Given that I arrive at this topic …
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The Economic Impacts of Cougars in Western Washington
The combination of increasing cougar populations and the rising human population in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas suggests that the number of human-cougar encounters will rise as well. The increase in human-cougar encounters creates potential issues in regard to public safety, public policy, …
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Population Demographics of Cougars in the Black Hills: Survival, Dispersal, Morphometry, Genetic Structure, and Associated Interactions with Density Dependence
The cougar (Puma concolor) is the remnant apex predator of South Dakota. Cougars were extirpated from the majority of the Dakotas by the early 1900s, and severely reduced or extirpated from the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming during this same time. Many factors led to the demise of cougars …
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Short-term effects of wildfire on Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep habitat ecology
… biomass and spatial models of predation risk by cougars (Puma concolor), the main predator of Sierra bighorn. In the first year post-wildfire, Sierra bighorn increased selection for new growth herbaceous biomass in response to the reduced biomass caused by wildfire. While wildfire initially …
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Short-term effects of wildfire on Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep habitat ecology
… biomass and spatial models of predation risk by cougars (Puma concolor), the main predator of Sierra bighorn. In the first year post-wildfire, Sierra bighorn increased selection for new growth herbaceous biomass in response to the reduced biomass caused by wildfire. While wildfire initially …
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Determining Impacts of Mountain Lions on Bighorn Sheep and Other Prey Sources in the Black Hills
<p>From 2009 to 2013, we assessed cougar (Puma concolor) feeding habits and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) population dynamics in the Black Hills, South Dakota. We used Global Positioning System (GPS) telemetry to locate 1,506 cougar feeding events and found deer (Odocoileus spp.; 83%), primarily …
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WCUG Continuity Book: Building Organizational Robustness Through a Framework Model
<p>WCUG Cougar Radio is a student led and community driven radio station housed in the Department of Communication at Columbus State University (CSU) in Columbus, Ga. Since 2015, WCUG Cougar Radio (now written as WCUG) created a learning lab environment, focused on training the next generation of …
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CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY OF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP LAMBS IN THE FRA CRISTOBAL MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO, USA
… recruitment and high mortality of adults due to cougar predation. No one has previously reported cause-specific mortality rates for desert bighorn lambs. My objectives were to determine the causes, extent, and timing of lamb mortality in the Fra Cristobal Mountains, New Mexico, USA. I tested 3 …
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CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY OF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP LAMBS IN THE FRA CRISTOBAL MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO, USA
… recruitment and high mortality of adults due to cougar predation. No one has previously reported cause-specific mortality rates for desert bighorn lambs. My objectives were to determine the causes, extent, and timing of lamb mortality in the Fra Cristobal Mountains, New Mexico, USA. I tested 3 …
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Distribution and Abundance of American Martens and Cougars in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming
American martens (Martes americana) and cougars (Puma concolor) are 2 carnivores that have become reestablished in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. I predicted current distributions and estimated population sizes for both species in the Black Hills. Using geographical information system …
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Effects of predator urine on deterring ungulate browsing of aspen on the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
… pressure on aspen in those areas. I examined if cougar and/or wolf urine were effective at deterring elk browsing in non-hunt areas of the refuge where there may be higher browsing pressure. I established 24 6x6m aspen plots throughout non-hunt areas with 8 plots per treatment (control, wolf, and …
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Such an Effortful Green
… recurring images throughout, such as the shrimp, cougar, and the speaker's childhood. The speaker is preoccupied with such uncertainty in herself, but she finds awe, and comfort, in the natural world that exists outside of the human world. At its core, this book attempts to name, to understand, …
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FIV-FCA and FIV-PCO Reverse Transcriptases: Expression, Purification and Activity Comparison
… virus from domestic cats (FIV-Fca) and cougars (FIV-Pco) are genetically related but they have significantly different evolutionary rates and virulence in their natural hosts. Additionally, recombination in FIV infested cats is common but there is no evidence for recombination in endemic …
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FIV-FCA and FIV-PCO Reverse Transcriptases: Expression, Purification and Activity Comparison
… virus from domestic cats (FIV-Fca) and cougars (FIV-Pco) are genetically related but they have significantly different evolutionary rates and virulence in their natural hosts. Additionally, recombination in FIV infested cats is common but there is no evidence for recombination in endemic …
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IDENTIFYING WILDLIFE CROSSING ZONES FOR THE PRIORITIZATION OF HIGHWAY MITIGATION MEASURES ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 2: WEST GLACIER, MT TO MILEPOST 193
… of coyote, black bear, snowshoe hare, wolf, and cougar. Camera images showed that wildlife tended to use roadside trails during hours of lower traffic volumes. I used multiple logistic regression at three scales (50 m, 250 m, and 500 m) followed by model selection with Akaike’s Information …
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IDENTIFYING WILDLIFE CROSSING ZONES FOR THE PRIORITIZATION OF HIGHWAY MITIGATION MEASURES ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 2: WEST GLACIER, MT TO MILEPOST 193
… of coyote, black bear, snowshoe hare, wolf, and cougar. Camera images showed that wildlife tended to use roadside trails during hours of lower traffic volumes. I used multiple logistic regression at three scales (50 m, 250 m, and 500 m) followed by model selection with Akaike’s Information …
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Monitoring Program and Assessment of Coyote Predation for Olympic Marmots
… coyote, 10% from bobcat (Lynx rufus) and 5% from cougar (Puma concolor). Twelve out of 13 coyote individuals identified with genetic markers included marmots in their diet. Overall, occurrence of marmot remains in coyote scats observed could be considered high, especially if relatively low marmot …
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Monitoring Program and Assessment of Coyote Predation for Olympic Marmots
… coyote, 10% from bobcat (Lynx rufus) and 5% from cougar (Puma concolor). Twelve out of 13 coyote individuals identified with genetic markers included marmots in their diet. Overall, occurrence of marmot remains in coyote scats observed could be considered high, especially if relatively low marmot …
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MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION FOR SUB-MICRON SUPERCONDUCTING INTERCONNECTS IN RECIPROCAL QUANTUM LOGIC CIRCUITS
Today's server based computing consumes a considerable amount of energy.Reciprocal Quantum Logic (RQL) is a classical logic family within superconducting electronics, and is a candidate for energy efficient computing technologies. Similar to the current complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor …