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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"the ornate"”.
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<p>The Lieberman Family has disjoints and disconnection at multiple generation points. Miriam Lieberman, a transmasculine person from Town, MI, got pregnant even though they thought such a basely female process was impossible after his years on testosterone. The pregnancy was viable, and so Miriam …
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A Method for Detecting Nesting Activity, Thermal Implications of Different Nesting Strategies, and Activity Patterns of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene Ornata)
The ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) is a small emydid terrestrial turtle that has experienced declines throughout its wide geographic range. In an effort to provide supporting research for a reintroduction program at the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge in northern …
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Reintroduction Biology of Head-Started Ornate Box Turtles
<p>The ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) is a prairie-dwelling species that has experienced population declines, especially near the northern edge of its range. In order to provide supporting research for a reintroduction program at the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge …
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Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) demography in northern Illinois
… based on general information about a species rather than at the population level. The Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) is a threatened species in Illinois and lacks essential demographic data. Over the last two centuries, nearly all Illinois prairie has been converted to agriculture, and …
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Vivaria
… musical depictions of animalistic ecosystems, the advent of artificial intelligence, and its impact on the natural world and humanity. The rhythmic and gestural freedom in natural ecosystems has always fascinated me and remains a throughline in my art. Vivaria comments on the interaction …
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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
The production style of English actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree embodied the mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. Producing spectacular Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English bourgeois audiences at the turn of the century, Tree filled his stage with …
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The Acropolis at Kaminaljuyu: A Study of Late Classic Occupation
The Late Classic Period at Kaminaljuyú is one of the most poorly understood periods of occupation, possibly because the artifacts and architecture lack the ornate decoration found in earlier periods. One of the largest and best preserved areas of the site is located in the Parque Arqueológico de …
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Exit the King: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in the English Baroque
This dissertation argues for a conception of the English 17th century as participating in a common aesthetic of dissonance – an aesthetic which it calls the “Baroque.” More than just a term for the ornate or profuse, its revival of the Baroque designation (and its contentious application to English …
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Population genetics of the Illinois chorus frog (Pseudacris illinoensis)
The Illinois chorus frog (Pseudacris illinoensis) is a fossorial species found only in sandy substrates of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. The genetic diversity of the Illinois chorus frog (ICF) in Illinois has not been investigated prior to this study. Given its conservation status and the …
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Manners of distinction: nineteenth century urban imaginings, performances and bodies of affect in Havana, Cuba
… interpretation of cultural discourses about the body found in literature, visual narratives and archival sources throughout 19th century in Spanish colonial Havana. These discourses show a pressing concern with the “manners” of bodies, the ways they moved, how they occupied space, and how …
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Modeling the health of free-living Illinois herptiles: an integrated approach incorporating environmental, physiologic, spatiotemporal, and pathogen factors
… environmental crisis and significantly impacted the stability of many wildlife populations. The health of wildlife populations influences their ability to recover from a complex array of anthropogenic and natural stressors. Promotion of positive health status may improve conservation outcomes in …