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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"ecological context"”.
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Ecological Context of Friendship Development in an Inclusive Classroom
… was to create a detailed description of the ecological context of friendship development in an inclusive classroom. Of specific interest, was the friendship development of a target child with a diagnosed special need. This topic was investigated from multiple perspectives: the …
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Resilience in marine ecosystems: the effects of environmental and ecological context on ecosystem multistability
… The mechanisms that determine multiple forms of ecological stability by manipulating key components of a food web that are thought theoretically to drive stability, i.e. food web connectance, predator-prey interaction strengths and species richness; 2) The effects of multiple stressors or press …
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Sexual immune dimorphism in ecological context : the impact of estrogen on human immune function and development of bacteria killing assay.
… examines these differences through an ecological and evolutionary lens, focusing on the role of estrogen in immune modulation and the development of a bacteria killing assay to assess innate immunity in human saliva. Females generally exhibit stronger immune responses than males, …
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Bacterial collectives
… constraints (Part I) to their Darwinization via ecological scaffolding with the imposition of a life cycle regime with a lineage-level death-birth process (Part II). Together, these results show that group emergence and Darwinization are tightly linked through genetic architecture and ecological …
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Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, and Performance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
… to separate body from theory from text from ecological context. To engage with this form of ecofeminism, I center an autotheoretical methodology with voices from ritual theory and performance theory in order to examine how Yeong-hye, the titular vegetarian of Han Kang’s novel, operates as a …
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Contrast Sensitivity to One- and Two-Dimensional Luminance Patterns
… research with spatial vision behavior in an ecological context. Future research directions are suggested.
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Advancing Vegetation Monitoring Strategies in Arid Ecosystems Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems
… that adapt to management priorities and the ecological context within arid ecosystems.
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Expansion of Deltaproteobacteria diversity from marine sediment reveals unique metabolic features
… of Deltaproteobacteria and provides a better ecological context for Deltaproteobacteria worldwide. The description of these new lineages highlights that there is much to be learned about this globally distributed proteobacteria
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Disfellowshiped: Pentecostal responses to fundamentalism in the United States, 1906-1943
… new species that is introduced into a particular ecological context, new religious movements grow and develop in response to their surrounding environment. This study divides pentecostalism’s growth (particularly that of the Assemblies of God and the Church of God [Cleveland, TN]) into three …
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Effects of friend support on the parenting behavior of Latina adolescent mothers
… of friend support as separate measures in an ecological context that takes into account mother’s individual and developmental characteristics.
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Remembering where we’re from: Community and individual predictors of college students’ White privilege awareness
… importance of examining how different facets of ecological context matter in relation to White Americans’ racial attitudes.
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A study of the relationship between environmental conditions and salt marsh zonation at Langebaan Lagoon
… in historical geological hydrological and ecological context. The zonation of the plant communities is a distinctive feature of the salt marshes at Langebaan. To establish the nature of this zonation and to achieve the stated objectives, transects were established at three sites around the …
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Studies in biotic persistence and the taxonomic stability of traits over geological time
… between a trait’s clade fidelity and its ecological context as well as evolutionary fate. The case studies in the thesis show that the proposed theoretical frameworks are applicable in practice and carry considerable explanatory power for the understanding of evolutionary processes on a …
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation of the Florida Scrub Lizard (Sceloporus Woodi)
… studies, however, use methodologies that lack ecological context by failing to consider the complex habitats many animals live in. Here, I filmed running lizards to address how behavioral and performance strategies change as lizards approach obstacles of varying height. Obstacle size had a …
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sourdough architecture
… show, divorced from the larger preexisting ecological context that long precedes it. We only understand it as beginning from and within the site, without any awareness of the consequences of material conditions before or after the architecture occurs. Architecture dominates nature, rendering …
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Evolution and Anatomy of Early Terrestrial Arthropods: Insights from the Rhynie Chert
… the Rhynie chert in its broader evolutionary and ecological context, outlines the challenges and opportunities inherent in studying fossils entombed in chert, and introduces the objectives and methodological innovations underpinning this research. Chapter 5 synthesises the findings of this thesis, …
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Photography and the Extractive Gaze: Visual culture and natural resource extraction on the Canadian Shield, 1900-1930
… production has unfolded within a broader ecological context, challenging the separation of art from the natural world. This dissertation makes a material link between silver and photography during a period where the demand for silver bullion exploded due to the rise of amateur photography. …
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The Response of a protandrous species to exploitation, and the implications for management: a case study with patellid limpets
… production model to be examined in a wider ecological context. Due to evidence of a recent population bottleneck in the Azorean P. candei population no firm conclusions could be drawn from this study as to the scale of larval dispersal.
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The role of seed attributes in eastern gray squirrel foraging
… behavior from an evolutionary, economic, ecological and biochemical perspective. From an evolutionary perspective (chapter 2), I found that squirrel foraging behaviors are influenced by a combination of phylogenetically conserved and evolutionarily labile seed traits, which supports a …
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Autism and Parental Marital Satisfaction: The Role of Adequacy of Resources
… the nuances of family functioning. Using an ecological/context approach, stemming from an ongoing research program conducted within a university-based treatment center, the present study attempted to improve on the conceptualization of interrelationships among family members and the role that …
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