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RattleSnake : stochastic folding for chain programmable matter
The vision of programmable matter is to create a blob of material that can transform itself into an arbitrary form. One promising approach for achieving programmable matter is to construct a chain of identical nodes that can fold into arbitrary threedimensional shapes. Previous active …
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Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness
… my intent is to serve you as a guide to the Rattlesnake Wilderness. I share these 13 personal essays and stories in the attempt to connect you with a place I love. This collection uncovers oral histories of past residents, interviews with biologists and activists who have made substantial …
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Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness
… my intent is to serve you as a guide to the Rattlesnake Wilderness. I share these 13 personal essays and stories in the attempt to connect you with a place I love. This collection uncovers oral histories of past residents, interviews with biologists and activists who have made substantial …
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The Dynamics of Human and Rattlesnake Conflict in Southern California
<p>Human-rattlesnake conflict occurs when rattlesnakes are discovered in human-dominated areas and are deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to humans because of their venomous bite. In this dissertation, I investigated the nature of this conflict from the perspectives of both the behavioral and …
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The geology of the rattlesnake hill granite of Sharon, Massachusetts
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy, 1913.
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The overwintering ecology of a cold-adapted and refugia-dependent rattlesnake
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Distribution, Habitat Analysis, and Conservation of the Timber Rattlesnake in Virginia
The timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) is a forest dwelling terrestrial pit viper that utilizes several types of habitat within the forest environment. One type of habitat crucial to the species' survival in mountainous regions and at more northern latitudes is basking habitat, which typically …
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Movement and Life History Aspects of the Pygmy Rattlesnake in Southwest Missouri
Individual pygmy rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius) (N=7) were monitored with radiotelemetry in Christian and Taney Counties of southwest Missouri. Snakes were tracked for periods of 11-73 days and a total of 264 tracking days. Males exhibited significantly greater (P ﹥ 0.05) movement than females …
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Coloration, Camouflage, and Sexual Dichromatism in the Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus)
… a less sedentary lifestyle. The Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (<em>Crotalus oreganus) </em>is likely the most abundant ambush predator in eastern Washington, yet little is known about its color variation, how color patterns interact with their habitats, and if male and female snakes show …
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Effects of Wildfires on Rattlesnake (Crotalus Oreganus) Growth and Movement in Washington State
… its effects on local predators. Northern Pacific rattlesnakes (<em>Crotalus oreganus</em>) comprise an excellent model to investigate how fire may influence wildlife because they are important predators that contribute to controlling prey populations, but are also unable to readily escape from …
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Morphometrics, molecular ecology and multivariate environmental niche define the evolutionary history of the Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) complex
… comprising the historically enigmatic Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) complex, one that employs three disparate datasets. First, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence data were used to derive a Bayesian phylogenetic hypothesis that revealed two well- supported lineages, each with subspecies …
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Outcrop-derived facies model and cycle architecture of the Tansill G27-G28 high-frequency sequences, Rattlesnake Canyon, New Mexico
… Ochoan Series. The stratigraphic framework at Rattlesnake Canyon for the lower and middle Tansill was built from eight detailed measured sections within the Guadalupian HFS G27-G28 interval, totaling 467 m. Sections were described on the northern wall of Rattlesnake Canyon where detailed …
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The distribution of a toxin isolated from the venom of the Mojave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutalatus scutalatus) among ophidian venoms
This document only includes an excerpt of the corresponding thesis or dissertation. To request a digital scan of the full text, please contact the Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Interlibrary Loan Department (rlmlill@iu.edu).
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The effect of random and spatially explicit lightning and human-caused ignitions on simulated burn probabilities at small scales
… 1282 km2 study area within a 10 km buffer of the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area (RNRA) and Rattlesnake Wilderness (RW), Montana, which also included WUI. These ignitions were on small private landholdings, as well as on public land, for the years 2000-2010, and enabled the identification of …
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The effect of random and spatially explicit lightning and human-caused ignitions on simulated burn probabilities at small scales
… 1282 km2 study area within a 10 km buffer of the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area (RNRA) and Rattlesnake Wilderness (RW), Montana, which also included WUI. These ignitions were on small private landholdings, as well as on public land, for the years 2000-2010, and enabled the identification of …
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Immunological Responses in the Prairie Rattlesnake CROTALUS VIRIDIS VIRIDIS Rafinesque 1818, to Laboratory Infection with Tetrathyridia of MESOCESTOIDES CORTI Hoeppli 1925 (Eucestoda : Mesocestoididea)
<p>Prairie rattlesnakes, of the species Crotalus viridis virldis, were orally, infected with tetrathyridia of Mesocestoides corti to determine the host response to the parasite. Snakes were maintained at constant temperatures of 25, 30, and 35 C for 4--24 weeks. Blood chemistry evaluations of the …
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The Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of The Nucleus of The Lateral Descending Trigeminal Tract: A Nucleus in the Infrared System of the Rattlesnake, Crotalus Viridis
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T15:08:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 8009179.PDF: 4901912 bytes, checksum: e321419617aa77a3281826bf2cad855c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Cahokia's origins: Religion, complexity and ridge-top mortuaries in the Mississippi River Valley
… location of the newly discovered and excavated Rattlesnake Causeway and the ridge-top mounds located along the site axes. In addition to these lines of evidence this study also presents new data from the previous excavations conducted by Preston Holder at the small ridge-top Wilson Mound, as …
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Physiological and behavioral consequences of reptilian life in the slow lane: Ecology of beaded lizards and rattlesnakes.
… I radiotracked Mexican beaded lizards and three rattlesnake species in their natural environments to determine their activity patterns, the time and energy they invest in activity, home ranges, thermal biology, habitat and other resource use, and behavior. I measured metabolic rates in the …
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Optimizing pharmacodynamics and evaluating echocardiographic effects of alfaxalone sedation in bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) and prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis)
… two species: the bearded dragon and the prairie rattlesnake. Bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps), a popular zoological companion species, frequently require sedation for procedures. Prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis) act as a model for that species and other Viperidae housed in zoological …
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