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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"possum"”.
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Possum Ivory
POSSUM IVORY is a collection of poems written during my tenure as a graduate student at Missouri State University. My principal goal throughout the graduate program was to establish myself as a disciplined apprentice to the study of poetry and its functions as forms of both art and discourse, which …
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Possum magic : exploring colour vision in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
… to examine colour vision in the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). I firstly present a detailed analysis of the spectral transmission of light through the ocular media. Here, I demonstrated the variability of ocular media for three marsupial species: the ultraviolet light sensitive …
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Possum magic : exploring colour vision in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
… to examine colour vision in the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). I firstly present a detailed analysis of the spectral transmission of light through the ocular media. Here, I demonstrated the variability of ocular media for three marsupial species: the ultraviolet light sensitive …
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Retroviruses in the common brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
… in a marsupial, the common brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Initial efforts were directed at detecting exogenous retroviruses in possums, but the majority of the work described in this thesis involved the isolation and characterisation of a possum endogenous retrovirus. …
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Food preferences and demand in the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) has been reported to eat vegetation, fruit, invertebrates, and occasionally fungi, eggs and meat in the wild. The relative preference between food types found in the wild, however, has not been investigated in a controlled laboratory study. In …
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Regulation of LH in the female common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
… been fully investigated in the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). This research aimed to characterise the control of pulsatile LH release and the seasonal change of LH in response to oestradiol in the possum through the development of two main hypotheses. The first hypothesis …
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Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) responses and preferences to novel objects in their environment
The Australian brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr 1792) is a major conservation and agricultural pest in New Zealand, and is currently a focus of much research to improve control efficacy. Traps and toxins stored within bait stations are used to control possums in ground-based operations, …
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The Same Old Blues Crap: Selling The Blues At Fat Possum Records
… the Oxford, Mississippi-based record label Fat Possum, which was founded in the early 1990s by Matthew Johnson with the goal of recording obscure hill country blues artists. Fat Possum gained recognition for its raw-sounding recordings of bluesmen, including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, …
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Life history variation and reproductive success in the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula
… in an arboreal marsupial, the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). A population of T. vulpecula was studied from 2001-2004 on Magnetic Island, north Queensland; the population was censused each month by live-trapping. Demographic changes in the population were modelled using …
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Prospective cohort study on thirty day outcome of perforation peritonitis at the University Teaching Hospitals, Lusaka, Zambia
… for enUmeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) scoring system, was unknown. The study aimed to determine the site of perforation, the post-operative outcomes of leakage, wound dehiscence, re-laparotomy and mortality in relation to the site of perforation, and related the POSSUM score to …
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Phenology and frugivory of large-fruited species in northern New Zealand and the impacts of introduced mammals
… the periods of egg development and nesting. Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) and rodent (Rattus spp., Mus musculus) control was reflected in the number of possums and/or rodents caught in forest patches at the end of the study. Long-term pest mammal suppression resulted in no trappable possums, …
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Comparing mortality calculators for emergency laparotomy in Cape Town
… Physiological and Operative Society Score (P-POSSUM), and African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS) to 215 patients who underwent non-trauma EL in a tertiary level hospital in South Africa. Results Mortality on post-operative day 30 in this cohort was 24.2%. Colorectal resections were most …
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Predicting cardiovascular risks using pattern recognition and data mining.
… for enUmeration of Mortality and morbidity (POSSUM), and Portsmouth POSSUM (PPOSSUM) are introduced as the risk scoring systems used in British surgery, which provide a tool for predicting risk adjustment and comparative audit. These systems could not detect all possible interactions between …
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Visualising continuous intra-landscape isolation for brushtail possums using least-cost modelling
… the intra-landscape isolation for the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), which is a notorious invasive species in New Zealand. Radio-telemetry and landscape genetics data were used to determine the appropriate scale of analysis, and to quantify the effect of landscape features on possum …
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Toby Dick Ellis: Richard Elsenpeter's career in tent repertoire theatre, television, and marionette puppetry
… to the television screen. Elsenpeter spearheaded Possum Holler Opry, a country-music television program that aired for ten years on various local television stations, where he played the host, Toby Dick Ellis. His show was given the Gibson Award, signifying that it was the number-one country-music …
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Bloodmeal analysis of urban Western Australian mosquito species for improved public health outcomes
… humans, one on a crow, one on a common brushtail possum and the remainder were inconclusive. This study suggests that humans are a common source of bloodmeals within urban settings and may form a part of disease transmission cycles. It also further affirms the suggestions that Aedes notoscriptus …
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The construction of a partial least squares biplot
… showing the diversity of arboreal marsupials (possum) in the Montane ash forest. After these applications, it is proposed that the PLS biplot is a useful graphical tool for displaying results from the (univariate) Partial Least Squares-Generalized Linear Model (PLS-GLM) analysis of a data set. …
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