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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"red deer"”.
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Control of LH secretion in red deer (Cervus elaphus)
… and season on the pulsatile secretion of LH in red deer (Cervus elaphus). In the first experiment two groups of long-term ovariectomized hinds (n=10, with and without intravaginal progesterone pre-treatment) were injected i.m. with 0, 5, or 100 µg oestradiol-17β, 24 h after the withdrawal of …
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A Study of NHL Fan Identification in Red Deer, Alberta
… team’s fans. Participants were recruited in Red Deer, Alberta, a city that is 84 miles or 135.2 km from both Edmonton and Calgary. Using Rooney’s (1974; 1975) spheres of influence for sport teams, Red Deer falls equally within the sphere for both teams. As a result of the equi-distance, …
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Place on the Plains: Modelling Past Movement Along the Red Deer River
… in the province of Alberta - the edges of the Red Deer River valley and adjoining coulees. Models of movement through the environment that reflect actual avenues of travel rather than just gross movement patterns of people are constructed employing Geographic Information Systems techniques. …
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Collaborative Policing: A Case Study of the Red Deer Domestic Violence Collaborative Court Program
… Violence Collaborative Court Program (DVCCP) in Red Deer, Alberta. DVCCP is a response to domestic violence initiated by partnerships among the police, the judicial system, as well as social and community services. Twelve DVCCP agency representatives and three DVCCP clients were interviewed. The …
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Landscape protection and urban development setbacks : establishing policy recommendations for the city of Red Deer
… planning policies. This thesis uses the City of Red Deer as a single case study to examine a municipality's vision of urban sustainability within the context of ecological planning and protection. Concepts of ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity protection, and enhanced water quality were …
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The activity and functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis of the red deer stag (cervus elaphus)
… functioning of the HPA axis was investigated in red deer stags under basal and stress induced conditions. In order to overcome the confounding effects of stress inherent in standard methods of blood collection, a portable remote blood sampling device (“DracPac”) was developed and tested. Stags …
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Linking environmental variation across the Scottish Highlands with red deer (Cervus elaphus) trace element status, parasite burden, and skeletal morphometry
… is important to remote and rural economies. Wild red deer (Cervus elaphus) in the Scottish Highlands have long been recognised as occupying a sub-optimal (i.e., limiting) environment in terms of nutrition and shelter. Despite this wide recognition, no studies regarding the population have …
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Paleoenvironmental Variability across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Alberta Foreland Basin, as Interpreted from Fluvial Deposits and Paleosols, Red Deer River Valley, Alberta, Canada.
… paleosols. Waning orogenesis is characterized by reduced fluvial sedimentation rates and an increase in the number of mature paleosols. Orogenic quiescence is associated with an increase in channel sinuosity, and poorly drained, gleyed, coal-capped paleosols. The KT boundary is located three …
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Competitive Effects of Honey Bee (Apis melifera) Hives on Morphology and Morphology-Based Abundance of Bumble Bees (Apidae: Bombus) in an Urban Prairie Landscape (City of Red Deer, Alberta)
… bumble bee (Bombus) populations in the City of Red Deer, with an intent to aid wild bee conservation in the area as well as decision-making regarding possible legislation of honey bee keeping within the city. A growing body of research has documented the negative effects of managed honey bees on …
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Zum Vorkommen Transmissibler Spongiformer Enzephalopathien und bakterieller ZNS-Infektionen beim Reh-, Rot- und Gamswild in Bayern
… and bacterial CNS infections in roe deer, red deer and chamois in Bavaria Brain samples of 849 wild ruminants (654 roe deer, 189 red deer and 6 chamois) from Bavaria were examined for the occurrence of TSE and encephalopathies caused by bacteria, respectively. For this, the following …
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A natural adaptation : Elsie (McAlister) Cassels, Scottish immigrant and naturalist on the Albertan prairie, 1889-1938
… immigrant who homesteaded with her husband near Red Deer, Alberta, she corresponded with such Canadian ornithologists as Percy A. Taverner and William Rowan. Strongly opposed to shooting birds for identification, she kept meticulous field notes and focused on the life-histories of birds. As an …
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Staphylococcus aureus en animales de vida libre y medioambiente. Resistencia a antimicrobianos, virulencia, líneas genéticas circulantes y genómica comparativa
… (WWTP)], and free-living animals [small mammals, red deer and white storks] have been studied for the isolation and characterization of Staphylococcus. Likewise, using the whole genome sequencing, a comparison of CC130 strains of different origins and of CC398 strains was made, both clonal …
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Authentication of Species in Bison Products Using Molecular Methods
… and domestic cattle, additional testing is required to confirm species. The objective of this study was to perform a market survey of products sold as bison meat and verify the species of each product using a combination of DNA barcoding and polymerase chain reaction-satellite fragment length …
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Étude paléogénétique du cerf élaphe (Cervus elaphus) au cours de la transition Tardiglaciaire - Holocène ancien du Jura (15 000 – 6 000 BP) : relations entre changements morphologiques, environnementaux et génétiques
… survey has been led on bones from Red Deer, Cervus elaphus, found in the shelter associated with remains of lithic industry and prehistoric art let by the hunters-gatherers during this unstable time. Isotopic geochemistry has already showed that during this period, the habitat and …
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Investigations into the roles of potassium channels in hair growth. Studies confirming the presence of several ATP-sensitive potassium (K+ATP) channels in hair follicles and exploring their mechanism of action using molecular biological, cell culture, organ culture and proteomic approaches.
… hair follicles. To expand our understanding, the red deer hair follicle model was used initially. Deer follicles expressed the same KATP channel genes as human follicles when growing (anagen), but no channels were detected in resting follicles. This reinforces the importance of KATP channels in …
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Excitation sources for structural health monitoring of bridges
… simple, considerable research is still required before VBDD methods can be applied reliably to complex structures such as bridges. VBDD methods require reliable estimates of modal parameters (notably natural frequencies and mode shapes) in order to assess changes in the condition of a …
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HUMAN RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE DURING THE YOUNGER DRYAS IN NORTHWEST EUROPE
… on the Younger Dryas Stadial event, which occurred around 12,900 cal BP to 11,700 cal BP. A set of predicted archaeological indicators were formed from existing theoretical models, based largely on Binford’s logistical and residential mobility model, with the expectation that a more residential …
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Phthiraptera Anoplura della Sardegna: analisi delle coinfestazioni ectoparassitiche rilevate su animali d'allevamento e selvatici
… as humans. One of the most famous can be considered the epidemic typhus whose etiologic agent is Rickettsia prowazeki. It is to be noted that the Anoplura have been little studied all around Italy and the few available published papers are occasional, sporadic and, apart from some recent works, …
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