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Showing 1 to 20 of 910 for “"endangered"”.
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Rescuing endangered knowledge : a systems approach
… involves the identification and definition of"Endangered Knowledge" and outlines a tool that a firm can use to identify, capture, and reutilizes endangered knowledge. Endangered knowledge (EK) is valuable knowledge firms acquire during product development that has a high potential to be erased …
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Tragic Moral Conflict and Endangered Species Recovery
Given the state of the art of conservation, and given the rapidity with which species are disappearing as the result of human economic activities, members of the societies that encourage and benefit from these activities, and that undertake the species recovery process, often face a terrible …
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Impacts of degradation on critically endangered Oudtshoorn Gannaveld
… the impacts of degradation on this critically endangered vegetation type. The diversity of this vegetation type is added to by the occurrence of mima-like circular soil mounds, termitaria, which support distinctive plant assemblages. Perennial plant data and soil data were collected from the …
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A Policy Analysis of the Endangered Species Act
… are shared by recovering species listed in the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NatureServe population data was used to determine which listed species were recovering, and a logistic regression analysis was performed to identify which aspects of the ESA most contribute to recovery. Of the 747 …
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Men in public relations: saving an endangered species
It has been 25 years since the publication of The Velvet Ghetto, the seminal work on gender in public relations. Looking ahead, the study forecast a field that was "ghettoized" as the workforce became increasingly female. Has that been the case? Since the mid-eighties, women have solidified their …
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Assessment of the microbiome associated with endangered orchids
… of climate change. We studied two species of endangered terrestrial orchids in Missouri and, using DNA collected from soil and high throughput sequencing, evaluated the bacterial microbiome associated with these two orchid species.
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The New Endangered Species: Community-Anchoring Public Schools
Often, school closures are seen as a "natural order" of events in communities with extreme economic struggles. My work challenges this premise. </p><p>In Pennsylvania, communities where schools selected for closure are often composed of rural, largely white or urban, largely minority, populations …
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Effects of Inbreeding on Endangered Red Wolves (Canis rufus)
… disease susceptibility, and mating behavior in endangered wild red wolves (Canis rufus). I also evaluated mitochondrial DNA from ancient canid bones to inform an ongoing debate regarding the species status of red wolves. I found evidence for an ancient red wolf origin which supports contemporary …
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Systematics of the Endangered Mauremys mutica and Mauremys annamensis
<p>Almost all turtle species in Asia are going extinct due to the demand for turtle products as food and medicine. A difficulty in creating effective conservation measures is that very little is known about the evolutionary relationships between populations and species. It is believed that several …
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Evaluating Climate Change Policy Through the Endangered Species Act
… over the southwest Arkansas, and a specific endangered species, the Leopard Darter. Upon examination of previous environmental and ecological climate change related research it became clear that the general focus was placed on regional bodies of the U.S., instead of state and county …
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Endangered species: the hope for students in Mexican Chicago
"This dissertation is an ethnographic study that documents the educational experiences of Mexican Boys and Men (MBM) in a predominately Mexican immigrant neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. A Chicago Public High School (CPS) and the local community are ""analyzed as an account in which young …
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Assessing Habitat Quality for the Endangered Red-cockaded Woodpcker
This project had 2 major objectives. The first objective was to assess how well the revised U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Foraging Habitat Guidelines depict good quality habitat for the red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) at Camp Lejeune, NC. To accomplish this, I used multiple linear and …
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Endangered species : the harpsichord and its new repertoire since 1960
The twentieth-century harpsichord has an unusual history: coming out of oblivion at the end of the nineteenth century, it was given a new lease of life, but at the same time acquired a mistaken identity. This thesis examines, from the perspective of the harpsichordist, the two types of harpsichord …
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Population Dynamics of the Endangered Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapilla)
… for wildlife management, particularly of endangered species. The black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla; vireo) is an endangered songbird that suffers from high rates of parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) across its breeding range from northeastern Mexico to southern …
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Prohibitive policy and the implementation of the endangered species act.
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Biology and conservation of the endangered Bahama Swallow (Tachycineta cyaneoviridis)
… 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 diversity and population structure, breeding …
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NON-FEDERAL/FEDERAL COLLABORATORS IN ENDANGERED SPECIES DRIVEN RIVER RESTORATION: HOW RISK AND INCENTIVE MOBILIZE INSTITUTIONAL SUPPLY IN THE MIDDLE RIO GRAND ENDANGERED SPECIES COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM
The Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program is an interagency, multiple-stakeholder organization, which works to enable cooperative solutions to endangered species issues on New Mexicos Middle Rio Grande. The Program is a product of what some authors describe as a 'new age' of …
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