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- "Starvation taught me art": Tree poaching, gender and cultural shifts in wood curio carving in Zimbabwe.
- Creator
- Fadiman, Maria
- Abstract/Description
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This study looks at wood curio carving in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Africa. Although the local people, Ndebele and Shona, have always carved, they now face a weakened economy, due in large part to land reforms in 2000. Thus, more people sculpt wood as a form of livelihood. As one man said “Starvation taught me art”. As a result, gender roles are shifting as men and women begin to enter realms previously reserved for the other. Environmentally, carvers poaching trees deforests the woodlands....
Show moreThis study looks at wood curio carving in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Africa. Although the local people, Ndebele and Shona, have always carved, they now face a weakened economy, due in large part to land reforms in 2000. Thus, more people sculpt wood as a form of livelihood. As one man said “Starvation taught me art”. As a result, gender roles are shifting as men and women begin to enter realms previously reserved for the other. Environmentally, carvers poaching trees deforests the woodlands. As more individuals turn to making crafts sustainability deteriorates. However, people are looking into more sustainable practices. Ndebele and Shona are experimenting with carving smaller items so as to be able to earn more profit from less wood, and to use branches instead of heartwood. Carvers are also using scrap wood from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) lumber mills to lessen dependence on live trees.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/165389
- Subject Headings
- Ethnobotany--Africa, Sustainable development--Zimbabwe, Culture--Africa, Wood sculpture, African, Forest conservation--Africa, Gender identity--Africa, Art, Zimbabwean, Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
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- Document (PDF)
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- A bioengineering approach for rational vaccine design towards the Ebola Virus.
- Creator
- Banton, Sophia, Roth, Zvi S., Pavlovic, Mirjana
- Date Issued
- 2010-07-09
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3326718
- Subject Headings
- Bioengineering, Ebolavirus
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A CALL TO ACTION: REMOVING THE STIGMA OF MENTAL HEALTH IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
- Creator
- Lake, Kendyl
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000451
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) controls synaptic transmission tolerance to acute oxidative stress at the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction.
- Creator
- Caplan, Stacee Lee, Milton, Sarah L., Dawson-Scully, Ken
- Date Issued
- 2013-02-01
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/flvc_fau_islandoraimporter_10.1152_jn.00784.2011_1644861569
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Collaborative Geospatial Shoreline Inventory Tool to Guide Coastal Development and Habitat Conservation.
- Creator
- Mitsova, Diana, Wissinger, Frank, Esnard, Ann-Margaret, Shankar, Ravi, Gies, Peter
- Date Issued
- 2013-05-13
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000175
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- Citation
- Title
- A content analysis of 32 years of Shark Week documentaries.
- Creator
- Lisa B. Whitenack, Brady L. Mickley, Julia Saltzman, Stephen M. Kajiura, Catherine C. Macdonald, David S. Shiffman
- Abstract/Description
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Despite evidence of their importance to marine ecosystems, at least 32% of all chondrichthyan species are estimated or assessed as threatened with extinction. In addition to the logistical difficulties of effectively conserving wide-ranging marine species, shark conservation is believed to have been hindered in the past by public perceptions of sharks as dangerous to humans. Shark Week is a high-profile, international programming event that has potentially enormous influence on public...
Show moreDespite evidence of their importance to marine ecosystems, at least 32% of all chondrichthyan species are estimated or assessed as threatened with extinction. In addition to the logistical difficulties of effectively conserving wide-ranging marine species, shark conservation is believed to have been hindered in the past by public perceptions of sharks as dangerous to humans. Shark Week is a high-profile, international programming event that has potentially enormous influence on public perceptions of sharks, shark research, shark researchers, and shark conservation. However, Shark Week has received regular criticism for poor factual accuracy, fearmongering, bias, and inaccurate representations of science and scientists. This research analyzes the content and titles of Shark Week episodes across its entire 32 years of programming to determine if there are trends in species covered, research techniques featured, expert identity, conservation messaging, type of programming, and portrayal of sharks. We analyzed titles from 272 episodes (100%) of Shark Week programming and the content of all available (201; 73.9%) episodes. Our data demonstrate that the majority of episodes are not focused on shark bites, although such shows are common and many Shark Week programs frame sharks around fear, risk, and adrenaline. While criticisms of disproportionate attention to particular charismatic species (e.g. great whites, bull sharks, and tiger sharks) are accurate and supported by data, 79 shark species have been featured briefly at least once. Shark Week’s depictions of research and of experts are biased towards a small set of (typically visual and expensive) research methodologies and (mostly white, mostly male) experts, including presentation of many white male non-scientists as scientific experts. While sharks are more often portrayed negatively than positively, limited conservation messaging does appear in 53% of episodes analyzed. Results suggest that as a whole, while Shark Week is likely contributing to the collective public perception of sharks as bad, even relatively small alterations to programming decisions could substantially improve the presentation of sharks and shark science and conservation issues.
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- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000533
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Critical Evaluation of the Nonparametric Approach to Estimate Terrestrial Evaporation.
- Creator
- Yang, Yongmin, Su, Hongbo, Qi, Jianwei
- Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000191
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- Citation
- Title
- A generalized model for communicating individuality through teleost swim bladder modulation.
- Creator
- Matthews, Cameron A., Beaujean, Pierre-Philippe J.
- Date Issued
- 2018-01-01
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/flvc_fau_islandoraimporter_10.1242_bio.023515_1632231130
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- Citation
- Title
- A Genuine Win‐Win: Resolving the “Conserve or Catch” Conflict in Marine Reserve Network Design.
- Creator
- Chollett, Iliana, Garavelli, Lysel, O'Farrell, Shay, Cherubin, Laurent, Matthews, Thomas R., Mumby, Peter J., Box, Stephen J.
- Date Issued
- 2017-09-16
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/flvc_fau_islandoraimporter_10.1111_conl.12318_1642016370
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A hybrid color‐based foreground object detection method for automated marine surveillance.
- Creator
- Furht, Borko, Kalva, Hari, Marques, Oge, Culibrk, Dubravko, Socek, Daniel
- Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/358420
- Subject Headings
- Computer vision., Automatic tracking., Digital video., Image processing., Optical pattern recognition.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A improved video codec supporting error resilience and resource adaptation.
- Creator
- Furht, Borko, Sanigepalli, Praveen, Kalva, Hari
- Date Issued
- 2005-01-8 - 2005-01-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/351015
- Subject Headings
- MPEG (Video coding standard), Digital video., Mobile communication systems.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A Measurement Based Analysis of the Hydrokinetic Energy in the Gulf Stream.
- Creator
- Machado, Maria Carolina P. M., VanZwieten, James H.
- Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000361
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- Citation
- Title
- A Metatheory for Cognitive Development (or “Piaget is Dead” Revisited).
- Creator
- Bjorklund, David F.
- Date Issued
- 2018-01-16
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/flvc_fau_islandoraimporter_10.1111_cdev.13019_1634307082
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- Citation
- Title
- A new approach in radio and television broadcasting over the Internet.
- Creator
- Furht, Borko, Westwater, Raymond, Ice, Jeffrey
- Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/345861
- Subject Headings
- Broadcasting --Technological innovations., Multimedia systems., Webcasting.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A New Role for TIMP-1 in Modulating Neurite Outgrowth and Morphology of Cortical Neurons.
- Creator
- Ould-yahoui, Adlane, Tremblay, Evelyne, Sbai, Oualid, Ferhat, Lotfi, Bernard, Anne, Charrat, Eliane, Gueye, Yatma, Lim, Ngee Han, Brew, Keith, Risso, Jean-Jacques, Dive, Vincent, Khrestchatisky, Michel, Rivera, Santiago, Chédotal, Alain
- Date Issued
- 2009-12-14
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000096
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- Citation
- Title
- A Protocol to Infect Caenorhabditis elegans with Salmonella typhimuri.
- Creator
- Jiuli Zhang, Kailiang Jia
- Abstract/Description
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In the last decade, C. elegans has emerged as an invertebrate organism to study interactions between hosts and pathogens, including the host defense against gram-negative bacterium Salmonella typhimurium. Salmonella establishes persistent infection in the intestine of C. elegans and results in early death of infected animals. A number of immunity mechanisms have been identified in C. elegans to defend against Salmonella infections. Autophagy, an evolutionarily conserved lysosomal degradation...
Show moreIn the last decade, C. elegans has emerged as an invertebrate organism to study interactions between hosts and pathogens, including the host defense against gram-negative bacterium Salmonella typhimurium. Salmonella establishes persistent infection in the intestine of C. elegans and results in early death of infected animals. A number of immunity mechanisms have been identified in C. elegans to defend against Salmonella infections. Autophagy, an evolutionarily conserved lysosomal degradation pathway, has been shown to limit the Salmonella replication in C. elegans and in mammals. Here, a protocol is described to infect C. elegans with Salmonella typhimurium, in which the worms are exposed to Salmonella for a limited time, similar to Salmonella infection in humans. Salmonella infection significantly shortens the lifespan of C. elegans. Using the essential autophagy gene bec-1 as an example, we combined this infection method with C. elegans RNAi feeding approach and showed this protocol can be used to examine the function of C. elegans host genes in defense against Salmonella infection. Since C. elegans whole genome RNAi libraries are available, this protocol makes it possible to comprehensively screen for C. elegans genes that protect against Salmonella and other intestinal pathogens using genome-wide RNAi libraries.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000528
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- Document (PDF)
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- A Rational and Manageable Value-Added Model for Teacher Preparation Programs.
- Creator
- Brady, Michael P., Miller, Katie, McCormick, Jazarae, Heiser, Lawrence A.
- Date Issued
- 2018-07-21
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/flvc_fau_islandoraimporter_10.1177_0895904816673741_1637163768
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A refined age for the earliest opening of Bering Strait.
- Creator
- Oleinik, Anton E., Gladenkov, Andrey Yu, Marincovich, Louie, Jr., Barinov, Konstantin B.
- Abstract/Description
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Biostratigraphically and chronostratigraphically important diatoms from the Milky River Formation, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska, imply an age range of 5.4-5.5 Ma for the oldest North Pacific Cenozoic occurrence of the marine bivalve mollusk Astarte, which migrated from the Arctic Ocean into the North Pacific when Bering Strait first flooded. The data presented here are a refinement of the age range of 4.8-5.5 Ma reported earlier and imply that Bering Strait first opened very near the...
Show moreBiostratigraphically and chronostratigraphically important diatoms from the Milky River Formation, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska, imply an age range of 5.4-5.5 Ma for the oldest North Pacific Cenozoic occurrence of the marine bivalve mollusk Astarte, which migrated from the Arctic Ocean into the North Pacific when Bering Strait first flooded. The data presented here are a refinement of the age range of 4.8-5.5 Ma reported earlier and imply that Bering Strait first opened very near the end of the Miocene at 5.32 Ma.
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/165902
- Subject Headings
- Paleoecology--Bering Sea Region, Diatoms, Fossil--North Pacific Region, Geology, Stratigraphic--Miocene, Paleoceanography--North Pacific Region, Mollusks, Fossil--Arctic Ocean
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- Document (PDF)
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- A Remote Sensing Method for Estimating Surface Air Temperature and Surface Vapor Pressure on a Regional Scale.
- Creator
- Zhang, Renhua, Rong, Yuan, Tian, Jing, Su, Hongbo, Li, Zhao-Liang, Liu, Suhua
- Abstract/Description
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This paper presents a method of estimating regional distributions of surface air temperature (Ta) and surface vapor pressure (ea), which uses remotely-sensed data and meteorological data as its inputs. The method takes into account the effects of both local driving force and horizontal advection on Ta and ea. Good correlation coefficients (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE) between the measurements of Ta/ea at weather stations and Ta/ea estimates were obtained; with R^2 of 0.77, 0.82 and 0...
Show moreThis paper presents a method of estimating regional distributions of surface air temperature (Ta) and surface vapor pressure (ea), which uses remotely-sensed data and meteorological data as its inputs. The method takes into account the effects of both local driving force and horizontal advection on Ta and ea. Good correlation coefficients (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE) between the measurements of Ta/ea at weather stations and Ta/ea estimates were obtained; with R^2 of 0.77, 0.82 and 0.80 and RMSE of 0.42K, 0.35K and 0.20K for Ta and with R^2 of 0.85, 0.88, 0.88 and RMSE of 0.24hpa, 0.35hpa and 0.16hpa for ea, respectively, for the three-day results. This result is much better than that estimated from the inverse distance weighted method (IDW). The performance of Ta/ea estimates at Dongping Lake illustrated that the method proposed in the paper also has good accuracy for a heterogeneous surface. The absolute biases of Ta and ea estimates at Dongping Lake from the proposed method are less than 0.5Kand 0.7hpa, respectively, while the absolute biases of them from the IDW method are more than 2K and 3hpa, respectively. Sensitivity analysis suggests that the Ta estimation method presented in the paper is most sensitive to surface temperature and that the ea estimation method is most sensitive to available energy.
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- 2015-05-13
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000053
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- Citation
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- A review of the colonization dynamics of the northern curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus Carinatus Armouri) in Florida.
- Creator
- Smith, Henry T., Engeman, Richard M.
- Date Issued
- 2004-09
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11527
- Subject Headings
- Lizards--Florida, Lizards--Reproduction, Reptiles--Florida, Ecosystem management--Florida, Curlytail lizards
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- Document (PDF)
