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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"leech"”.
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Investigation of Groundwater- Surface-Water Interactions – Application to Leech Lake Aquifer,
… This study is conducted for one of the aquifers (Leech lake aquifer) of the City of Yorkton which is recognized as one of the largest urban centers in Saskatchewan depending entirely on groundwater. Finite element based fully coupled model, HydroGeoSphere (HGS) has been selected because it acts as …
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Considering a Seismically Active Leech River Valley Fault Zone in Southwestern British Columbia
The transpressional reverse Leech River fault (LRF) extends across the southern tip of Vancouver Island and beneath the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. New paleoseismic studies suggest at least three surface-rupturing earthquakes have exceeded a moment magnitude (M) of 6 within a …
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Preparation for Nerve Membrane Potential Readings of a Leech, Laboratory Setup and Dissection Process
A well documented laboratory setup, leech preparation process, and bio-potential data recording process are needed. Repeatability and quality data recordings are essential and thus dictate the requirements of the laboratory setup and processes listed above. Advances in technology have both helped …
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Biology and Impacts of Leech Infestation in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) in Back Bay, Virginia
… a brackish ecosystem with salinity of 2004, leeches have been observed in the oral cavities of Largemouth Bass (<em>Micropterus</em> <em>salmoides</em>) in Back Bay. Leeches (<em>Myzobdella lugubris</em>) have previously been documented in the oral cavities of largemouth bass in the Currituck …
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Quantitative Studies on the Relation of Oxygen Concentration to Oxygen Consumption in the Leech Erpobdella Punctata
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. May 1919. Major: Biology. Advisor: Dr. E. J. Lund. 1 computer file (PDF); 31 pages.
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Labeled Trees and Spanning Trees: Computational Discrete Mathematics and Applications
… two topics. In the first part, we consider Leech tree which is a tree of order n with positive integer edge weights such that the weighted distances between pairs of vertices are exactly from 1 to n choose 2. Only five Leech trees are known and some non-existence results have been presented …
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Mercury concentration and aquatic food web alterations associated with zebra mussel invasion in Minnesota lakes
… use and community structure, food webs in Leech Lake were analyzed pre- and post- invasion using stable isotope analysis of δ13C and δ15N. Fish community response to zebra mussel invasion varied spatially in Leech Lake. Bays on the western shoreline of Leech Lake with heterogeneous habitat …
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The Influence of Environmental Conditions and Co-Occurring Parasites on Blood Physiology in Eastern Hellbenders (<i>Cryptobranchus alleganiensis</i>)
… and have frequent encounters with parasitic leeches (<i>Placobdella appalachiensis</i>) that transmit hematophagous endoparasites (Trypanosoma sp.), often resulting in coinfection. Results indicate that hematocrit and hemoglobin increase in response to acute stress and with temperature. …
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Spectral Identification of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) Using Indigenous Knowledge and Landsat Multispectral Data
… aquatic vegetation growing on area lakes of the Leech Lake Native American reservation in northern Minnesota. Leech Lake is located within the Mississippi River Headwaters drainage ecosystem and contains some of the largest natural stands of wild rice in the country. Local indigenous knowledge; …
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Spectral Identification of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) Using Indigenous Knowledge and Landsat Multispectral Data
… aquatic vegetation growing on area lakes of the Leech Lake Native American reservation in northern Minnesota. Leech Lake is located within the Mississippi River Headwaters drainage ecosystem and contains some of the largest natural stands of wild rice in the country. Local indigenous knowledge; …
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The Aesthetic Use of Syntax: Studies on the Syntax of the Poetry of E. E. Cummings
… study of the aesthetic use of syntax. Following Leech and Nowottny, it is argued that these effects represent the various ways authors and speakers use syntax to "particularize" (perceptually, emotively, and conceptually) the informational content of a text of discourse--these effects being the …
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Differential glycosylation of Tractin and LeechCAM, two novel Ig-superfamily members, regulates neurite extension and fascicle formation
… is in the projections of sensillar neurons in leech. At least five different monoclonal antibodies (Lan3-2, Lan2-3, Lan4-2, Laz2-369, Laz7-79) which recognize different glycoepitopes specific to the entire population as well as distinct subsets of these sensillar neurons have been identified. …
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The mediation of consciousness in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
… of consciousness. The two models I test are Leech and Short's model, which arranges the various modes of speech and thought along a dine of narratorial control, and a frame-theoretical approach deriving from the work of Werth (1999) and Fludernik (1993, 1996). After an initial overview of …
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An Introduction to S(5,8,24)
… how the 8-sets of S(5,8,24) can be used to form Leech's Lattice, which Leech used to create the densest known sphere packing in 24-dimensions. The appendix contains code written for Matlab which has the ability to construct the octads of S(5,8,24), permute the elements to obtain isomorphic …
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Neuro-Silicon Interface of a Hirudo medicinalis Retzius Cell Integrated with Field Effect Transistor
… with technologies available at Cal Poly. Leech Retzius cells were isolated and cultured from <em>Hirudo Medicinalis </em>and joined to the gate oxide of a P-channel field effect transistor using SU-8 photoresist wells treated with poly-l-lysine. Transistors were operated in strong …
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Solidarity and power in German : language as political action : a contribution to the socio-cultural history of the German language
… which performs identifiable functions. Following Leech, five functions are distinguished, two of which (the regulative and the phatic) are regarded as central to political processes. The phatic function is tested against the role of the German language as a creator and symbol of national identity, …
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The pragmatics of palavering in Kikoongo
… to Pragmatics as defined by Levinson (1983) and Leech (1983). This study provides a body of information that supports the new discipline as an adequate means for demonstrating that any language is an entity that is divisible into units of a higher order than sentences and/or utterances. The …
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Internet users' responses to ai through the prism of politeness /
… politeness and its principles proposed by Leech, computer-mediated communication, and the history and the current application of AI. For the methodological part the non-experimental method of data collection and the computer-mediated-discourse analysis were used. The cognitive and …
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The relationship of the transformational leadership process and group mood among musicians and their effects on artistic quality within the American orchestral organization
… approach was used (Gliner, Morgan, & Leech, 2009). Given the two independent variables within this study, the conductor’s transformational leadership and musician group mood, associational inferential statistics was used to analyze the data collected (Gliner et al., 2009). The Pearson …
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