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The Urban Redevelopment Authority and National Library Board are hosting an exhibition called "To Draw an Idea" at the URA Centre. The exhibition explores the designs of Singapore architectural firms, William Lim Associates and W Architects, and their impact on local buildings over the past four decades. The exhibition features projects such as the renovation of the Victoria Theatre and Victoria Concert Hall in 2010 and the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum. A book accompanying the exhibition has also been published, showcasing the firms' work through sketches, drawings, and historical artifacts. Additionally, a satellite exhibition called "Dare to Design: Singapore Architecture 1960s-2000s" will be held at the National Library Building, and a roving exhibition will travel to various public libraries. [Extracted from the article]

When arts organizations are exiled from their homes, how can theatre practices grow roots over the long term? There is a repeated pattern of theatre companies losing their space—most often owing to reasons beyond their control. This loss is significant, but it is part of an unfortunately predictable cycle. This article asks what artists can do to help sustain artistic practice and the cultural life of our cities and spaces. It turns to creative placemakers Clay & Paper Theatre, MABELLEarts, and Derek Kwan as sources of wisdom. It shares a list of principles gathered from the lived experience of these artists and organizations, showing us delightful, practical, and poetic solutions for sustaining the arts ecosystem. This piece concludes with an up-and-coming creative placemaking initiative in Lakeview, the Art Shelter, led by Frog in Hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nonnative, invasive ants, and especially the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, are a widespread threat to ground‐nesting wildlife. In this paper I describe a method of controlling fire ants using hot water. The hot water approach was applied to reduce fire ant impacts on sea turtles and ground‐nesting songbirds and to demonstrate its utility in protection of different ground‐nesting species in different habitats. Fire ant controls using hot water provided 90% or greater control, significantly improving survival of both turtle and bird hatchlings, without the use of pesticides. The success of the method and the availability of necessary equipment shows that hot water control of fire ant populations should be considered as a tool for wildlife affected by fire ants and is useful for a wide variety of scenarios where fire ant controls are desirable or necessary. The method does require that 1) wildlife nest locations are known and that 2) nearby fire ant colonies can be found and treated with hot water. The method can be used as a complement to broadcast or bait‐station baiting strategies or as a stand‐alone method for managing fire ants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a session held in East Midlands, England titled "Mathematical Theory of Paper Folding" held in the summer of 2013 designed for use in teaching mathematics. Topics discussed include the construction of two- and three-dimensional (3-D) shapes using A-size paper, the use of paper folding to solve mathematical word problems, and tessellations.

Voice Your Celebration was a public computing installation at Canada's National Music Center, which offered a re-staging of computer code as a heterotopic form of participatory theatre. In the same way that the stage and the script can stand in between the audience on one hand, and actors and creators of a play on the other, in performances involving live digital art, pre-written code can also separate the coder and creators from the interacting audience. In this paper, we illustrate how Voice Your Celebration sought to address this divide by creating opportunities for the audience to become participants in the code itself by incorporating their voices and stories as integral parts of a widely used computational algorithm (Reynolds's algorithm) for simulating flocking behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within academia and research, publishing peer‐reviewed articles is expected for dissemination of knowledge and is used as a measure of professional performance. However, few papers have been published on professionals' and graduate students' perceptions of student publication performance, how professionals encourage student publishing, and what types of publication barriers exist for graduate students to publish. In 2019, we emailed a survey to professional and student attendees of the 2013 and 2016 North American Duck symposia as a representative cadre of waterfowl and wildlife biologists. We surveyed 469 professionals and 98 students who attended the symposia. Response rates were 42% and 45% for professionals and students, respectively, and deemed reliable as response rates approached 50%. Fifty percent and 69% of professional respondents indicated they felt frustration motivating their Ph.D. and M.S. students to publish, respectively. Of strategies used to motivate graduate student publishing, 79% of students ranked providing congenial encouragement most effective, while 60% of professionals ranked playing a major role in drafting and editing as most effective. Both professionals and students considered lack of time during and outside work hours as barriers to publishing graduate work. Professionals and students agreed that asking students to sign a contract at time of their initial matriculation may be an effective strategy to publish. Information from this study adds to knowledge on graduate student publishing practices and can be used to improve methods to increase graduate student publication rates in wildlife science and conservation. Similar surveys can be conducted face‐to‐face or remotely at international wildlife and other ecological conferences to broaden application of our results. We encourage students to generate publications from their research by writing separate thesis/dissertation chapters to expedite the publication process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The grain supply chain is a complex network of various stakeholders, processes, and process-related in- formation. The supply chain includes various stakeholders such as commodity producer (farmer), handler (warehouse), carrier (logistic units- trucks, railcars), processor (food or feed manufacturing unit), and distributor. Business management tools such as Lean Practices are potential methodologies that provide an efficient framework for application of traceability in the supply chain. Lean Practices such as the Deming cycle is a quality management strategy. The Deming cycle is a continuous process that aims to resolve errors in the supply chain. In general, the Deming cycle consists of four phases- (1) Plan; (ii) Do; (iii) Check; (iv) Act. In this study the Deming cycle is modified into five phases to create a Lean traceable framework. The five phases of the modified Deming cycle are- (i) Plan- identify the traceability objectives; (ii) Do- list processes in the supply chain; (iii) Check- Check for any errors and its impact in the supply chain; (iv) Act-find solutions to- wards eliminating errors; (v) Control-establishing protocol for monitoring the implementation of solutions. Both traceability and lean practices attempt to improve existing processes through identifying sources of errors and developing standard protocols. In addition, Deming cycle provides a common language for all sup- ply chain participants to express process performance. This paper establishes a framework for improving processes using both lean principles and concepts of traceability in the supply chain. Also, this study aims to determine appropriate tools and techniques that assist in meeting requirements of a traceability system in the bulk grain supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the guest editors discuss the theme of the issue, eliminating paper processes in the analytical phase of Covid-19 testing.

Traceability events involved in any grain supply chain includes storage, handling, transformation, and movement within and across multiple supply chain participants. Traceability events includes both internal and external operations in a supply chain. This paper demonstrates, an approach to identify critical traceability events and key data elements (KDE). Developing a traceability system for Bay State Milling's speciality wheat supply chain includes consideration of various events and transition points through the supply chain. Many wheat varieties are stored, handled, transformed, and moved within and across the wheat supply chain, which makes it difficult to record attributes for various events. This paper examines, a system modelling design approach used to implement traceability through identifying critical traceability event (CTE) and recording key data elements (KDE) for each CTE. Key data elements are listed for each CTE, as mandatory documentation to meet traceability requirements. The model uses the information from the CTE and KDE for each supply chain stakeholder, recording mandatory documentation for each CTE required for traceability in the speciality wheat supply chain. The developed model shows the nature of interactions among supply chain participants and assigns a specific owner to information recorded. The model is transferrable to many software languages such as XML, which facilitates easy convertibility to a software program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features artist Lisa Nilsson and her artworks using the art of quilling, which involves the use of small strips of paper to create elaborate designs and objects. Also cited are how Nilsson used quilling techniques to create representations of the human body from narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books, and her training at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The green anole (Anolis carolinensis) has been introduced to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and has adversely affected native fauna through predation and competition. To eradicate green anoles, adhesive traps for capture and Teflon™‐sheet fencing to restrict movement have been used, however, their efficiency needs to be improved. Using behavioral experiments, we evaluated colors that would attract green anoles to traps and repel them from fences. We also conducted similar experiments on the native snake‐eyed skink (Cryptoblepharus nigropunctatus) to establish color preferences in an effort to reduce bycatch. We presented choices of 2 out of 6 colored papers (blue, brown, green, purple, red, yellow) to green anoles and 3 colored papers (blue, brown, red) to snake‐eyed skinks to observe which color of paper the animals walked on first. Both species chose blue significantly less often than the other colors (blue was chosen only in 29% of runs). Green anoles demonstrated a preference for brown, whereas snake‐eyed skinks favored red. Our results suggested that using blue Teflon™‐sheet fence might reduce the transborder crossing rate of green anoles. Furthermore, bycatch of native snake‐eyed skinks may be reduced by changing the adhesive trap color to brown, from the currently used red. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the post-WWII period, the claims over the savoirdévelopper were numerous, coming from diverse ideological and institutional origins, and dealing with multiple topics, from rural welfare to community development, from education to health and labour. Many were the competing arguments and plans to intervene about those topics in various geographic spaces. Among the international actors participating in the promotion of a developmentalist agenda with global impacts, two interimperial organizations were particularly active, sometimes cooperating, sometimes rivalling with the specialized agencies of the United Nations system: The International Institute of Differing Civilizations (INCIDI, 1949) and the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara (CCTA, 1950). Associated to projects of imperial and colonial resilience in contexts characterized by mounting anti-colonial pressures, both organisations contributed to the growing internationalization of social policies, gathering numerous experts in various conferences, in Europe and in Africa, promoting the production and transfer of original knowledge, publishing diverse reports and enquiries with considerable reach, and even sponsoring specific interventions on the ground. These dynamics were meaningfully, and frequently, shaped by disputes about the motivations and applications of social policies that occurred at the imperial metropoles. This paper addresses these two institution’s roles in the internationalization of social policies, analysing some of their major meetings, key publications, and significant projects, taking the topics of education, ‘social’ and ‘rural welfare’ and, mostly, labour as main observatories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Included in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Designtex's Loop to Loop yarn consists of 87% post-consumer and 12% pre-consumer recycled polyester. Offered with a new traditional pattern, these 24"-square vinyl wall and ceiling tiles contain up to 100% recycled material-including scrap plastic from Ceilume's own plant in Graton, Calif.- and are in turn recyclable. ceilume.com The 20cm-by-22.5cm hexagonal wall tile can feature almost any pattern and be made in any thickness. papertile.ca. [Extracted from the article]

The toxic effects on wildlife of lead ingested from spent hunting ammunition have long posed a conservation challenge for wildlife biologists, managers, and hunters. We got commitments for 7 papers that address the issue of lead hunting ammunition from a number of perspectives. The focus of the symposium and this special section was on lead from spent hunting ammunition, not lead ammunition associated with all forms of shooting. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents the discussion on testing across compulsory education having negative impacts upon children's mathematics education. Topics include encapsulating twelve years of compulsory mathematics education using three examination papers over the course of a few weeks in May/June; and examination question being used for assessing students' engagement with relationships and the interconnectedness of mathematics.

ABSTRACT Greater sage-grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse) are highly susceptible to infection with West Nile virus (WNV), with substantial mortality reported in wild populations and in experimentally infected birds. Although sage-grouse are hunted throughout much of their range, they have also recently been considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act. We used blood samples collected on filter-paper strips during the 2006-2010 Oregon, USA, annual sage-grouse hunt to survey for specific WNV-neutralizing antibodies that indicate a previous infection with WNV. During this period, hunters submitted 1,880 blood samples from sage-grouse they harvested. Samples obtained were proportional for all 12 Oregon sage-grouse hunting units. Laboratory testing of 1,839 samples by the WNV epitope-blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (bELISA) followed by plaque reduction neutralization test on bELISA-positive samples yielded 19 (1%) and 1 (0.05%) positive samples, respectively. These data provided early baseline information for future comparisons regarding the prevalence of WNV-specific neutralizing antibodies in sage-grouse in Oregon. This methodology may provide other states where sage-grouse (or other species) populations are hunted and where WNV constitutes a species conservation concern with a viable option to track the relative prevalence of the virus in populations. © 2014 The Wildlife Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at demonstrating the methodological and epistemological added value of secondary analysis of qualitative data (SAQD) in political science research on defence issues. Although mainly under-used, the SAQD is of convincing interest for researchers working on defence issues, as the collection of first-hand qualitative data can be complex on this type of research topics. Starting with an epistemological and methodological reflection on the SAQD’s method itself, the article proposes an application of this approach to political science research on defence issues. It also highlights, in a reflexive manner, the inevitable challenges and pitfalls to be taken into account and proposes a reflexive use of SAQD as well as perspectives particularly on the issue of storing the primary qualitative data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the guest editors discuss the theme of the issue, a web-based portal allows healthcare providers or patients to enter test orders and demographic and insurance information into an electronic system, which creates an order and a bar-coded label for the specimen.

In this article, the author presents an activity for children to explore root 2 rectangles by using A4 sheet of paper.

The article discusses the upcoming American Recorder Society (ARS) Board election, covering candidate selection and voting processes. It reports that the voting period starts on April 1, 2024 with June 1,2024 as the deadline. It mentions that current members will receive a unique link to vote for five candidates via email or paper ballot. It highlights incumbent Board members, including Peter Faber and Virginia Felton, and new candidates, including Gwyn Roberts and Barbara Stark.

African Swine Fever (ASF) is an economically important reemerging infectious disease (EID) that has spread phenomenally throughout the world. Although it does not pose direct health risks to humans, the disease can cause devastating losses in livestock production due to its almost 100% mortality rate in domestic pig populations. Trade and commerce has caused the virus to travel to different parts of the globe, infecting domestic and wild pigs in Europe and China. The recent outbreak has affected the Philippines, affecting food security and the economy. The disease is also a looming danger to the future of the Philippines four endemic pig species, a number of which are threatened with extinction. This paper reports a case of a mass dieoff of an IUCN vulnerable Philippine warty pig (Sus philippensis) population in a privatelymanaged forest patch in Tagum City, Mindanao, Philippines. Tissue samples were collected, and were sent to the Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory XII (RADDLXII) tested positive for ASFV using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). This is the first report of ASF affecting a wild pig population in the Philippines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cougars (Puma concolor) have been recolonizing portions of their historic range over the last few decades and are currently a rare, transient species in the western Great Lakes Region. Anticipatory attitude surveys can identify potential management challenges, stakeholder groups, and conservation and educational priorities for recolonizing cougars. We implemented an anticipatory attitude survey to better understand attitudes towards transient cougars in northern Wisconsin, USA. We distributed the survey in fall and early winter of 2014–15 (n = 423) and 2015–16 (n = 594). We compared attitudes towards transient cougars to attitudes towards other established large carnivores and white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). We also explored factors that may affect human attitudes towards cougars, such as hunter identity, livestock ownership, risk perception, and the loss of a domestic animal to wildlife. Despite the rare, transient status of cougars in Wisconsin, many respondents (mean of 29%) reported to have observed a cougar or sign of one in the wild in Wisconsin. Cougars had a mean favorability score similar to coyotes (Canis latrans) and wolves (Canis lupus) and less than bobcats (Lynx rufus), bear (Ursus americanus), and white‐tailed deer. Comparatively, respondents' risk perception for all categories of risk (i.e., fear for personal safety, the safety of children, and the safety of domestic animals) was higher for cougars than for wolves. Hunter identity and loss of livestock to wildlife were determined by multinomial logistic regression as the most important parameters affecting respondents' favorability towards cougars (ωi = 0.71). Using the 2015–2016 survey data, we found that as cougar risk perception increased, favorability towards cougars decreased similarly for both hunters and non‐hunters. Hunters were less likely to be favorable towards cougars, more likely to be neutral, and equally likely to be unfavorable towards cougars compared to nonhunters. We identify potential management challenges, stakeholder groups (e.g., hunters and those who have experienced loss of livestock to wildlife), and conservation and educational priorities for recolonizing cougars. © 2021 The Wildlife Society. As cougars recolonize portions of their former range, understanding what influences attitudes towards this large carnivore is a critical step in guiding their conservation. Using anticipatory attitude surveys, this paper provides insights into the factors that shape attitudes towards transient cougars prior to recolonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explore how origami can support learners development of visualisation skills. It mentions that benefits of visualisation with origami including visual proofs being problematic, and the materiality of paper undermining the mathematics, wherein these limitations should be considered like those of any mathematical model or method. It also mentions about the use of algebra and trigonometry for the same.

This paper explores recent trends in culinary representations in British television, and global food biographies, going back to Victorian or Edwardian Raj, i.e., the popular imperial television saga, Downton Abbey (2010-15), and two histories on the Curry, by Lizzie Collingham (2006) and Colleen Taylor Sen (2008). Just as Bengali or other subregional specializations in Indian cuisines could not entirely disavow nineteenth-century European influences, the British too could not entirely retreat from their culinary miscegenation, which they later sought to refine and reify into their own culture, in a brand of food described herein as currigatawny. While historians like Susan Zlotnick, Sharmila Sen, Modhumita Roy, and others contend that British imperial politics was closely linked to the domain of food, Collingham and this paper argue that the culinary domain was not consequential but indeed fundamental to British imperialism. In doing so, the paper offers a travelogy of the curry, in imperial and contemporary Britain, which has recently seen the shutting down of over one thousand curry-houses, since the time of the Brexit-leave-campaign (November, 2016). The paper ends with a comparative perspective into the place of the curry in contemporary Britain, and in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars (1815) -- a phase marked by industrial revolution, growing middle-class literacy, print cultures, and a subsequent rise in the publication of Victorian cookbooks, that are beginning to be fetishized today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper addresses the notion of listening as a method of analysis. Our reflections stem from our development of an interactive sound art piece entitled Selfie Orchestra. This work is produced with sound, image, and GPS data gleaned from audience members' cell phones. It features an interactive 3D simulation of the La Friche la Belle de Mai district in Marseille, France. We begin with a brief description of this project, highlighting our attempts to provoke expanded forms of listening through the technological innovations at the heart of the work. We then turn to a theoretical examination of listening as a method for reflection and research in the social sciences, with specific reference to Henri Lefebvre's evocative concept of 'rhythmanalysis.' We reflect briefly on John Cage's work 4'33" (1952) and Max Neuhaus's Listen (1966) as precedent artworks that make space for attentive listening. We then contrast the open-ended interactivity promoted by these works with the more constrained forms we have been developing with Selfie Orchestra. We conclude with thoughts on how Selfie Orchestra demonstrates the strengths of listening as a method of analysis when the latter is understood following its ancient Greek conception as a form of 'loosening.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) populations in North America were once estimated at nearly 30 million. However, unrestricted harvest of pronghorn was one of the major factors that led to 25,000 individuals by 1924. Through rigorous management, pronghorn populations rebounded to an estimated 1 million individuals by 1984. Within Texas, USA, by the late 1980s, the pronghorn population had recovered to a new estimated historic high of 17,226 individuals through restoration efforts. However, by 2010, the Texas Trans‐Pecos population declined to approximately 4,700 individuals, and declined even further to only 2,751 in 2012. A main contribution to successful recovery has been large‐scale translocations. Since the early 1920s, >30,000 pronghorn have been translocated in 17 states. As one large restoration project in Texas, translocation of pronghorn from the Texas Panhandle to Marfa and Marathon grasslands in the Trans‐Pecos region occurred in January–February 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017. However, within the available literature on pronghorn translocations, it was difficult to find a scientific paper that provides sufficient detail to guide the translocation process. Our intent is to summarize the effective methodology behind 5 years of pronghorn translocations, inform others to make evidence‐based recommendations and justifiable‐decisions when selecting translocation methodology, and provide insight regarding design and application of our translocation methodology. Based on our translocation experience, we recommend using halperidol as a sedative given to pronghorn at the site of capture and keeping handling times to ≤4 minutes as well as maintaining pronghorn body temperatures below 40° C during processing. Flunixin meglumine should be used when body temperatures exceed 40° C. In addition, we also recommend utilizing larger, more spacious livestock trailers to transport captured pronghorn versus transport boxes or smaller, more enclosed trailers. We also recommend releasing a minimum of 50–100 individuals/release site to minimize stress from group separation and improve long‐term population sustainability. © 2020 The Wildlife Society. Translocations are done as part of restoration efforts for pronghorn due to population declines. We describe and consolidate evidence from our experience to make translocation guidelines for future management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on teaching shapes and patterns to children and mentions the Pattern Project team, formed to develop young children's pattern awareness in a school in Australia. The team consisted of early years teachers and authors' Helen Thouless, Sue Gifford. It includes the mathematic activities designed by teacher Simon Lewis for his students. Simon designed an activity where the students could stick blocks on a piece of paper to show the pattern.

The article offers information on Astronomical Society of the Pacific members-only quarterly publication, and being part of "Spotlight on Hawai'i" special coverage. Topics include the impact of the ongoing dispute on the Thirty Meter Telescope quickly became apparent, the history of building anything on Maunakea has some opposition, going back over half a century, and high-impact science paper on average and Maunakea is responsible for forty percent of astronomical research in the world.

Keeping and adapting existing buildings eliminates much of the materials-related emissions of new buildings. A recent paper released by Seattle-based LMN Architects states: "Net Zero Carbon claims ... may include only a 25% or 50% reduction toward carbon neutrality when a full scope is included. The AEC industry has made significant progress toward reducing the energy that buildings use and the carbon they emit. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a lyrical and poignant dramatisation of translation-loss and the complexities of immigration. Topics discussed include memory of Australia involving raising a milk carton metropolis; gratitude towards such immortals across the ocean who drink milk; and information on documentary called Living on Light.

This report describes the discovery and detailed description of a new morph of Ocellated lizard from the Northern slopes of the Sierra de Gredos (Castilla y Leon, Spain). Morphological and molecular analysis showed that this new morph is different from the common species of ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) on the Iberian peninsula in body size, sexual size dimorphism and cytochrome b haplotype. DNA sequencing revealed a unique and highly divergent cytochrome B haplotype indicating a long-term separation from other species of ocellated lizards. In view of its remarkable small stature I have chosen minor ("minor" meaning smaller) as an appropriate name for this new morph. Evolutionary mechanisms that may have contributed to the formation of T. lepidus "minor" are discussed. The results presented in this paper suggest that this new morph is likely to be recognized as a full species in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like many other lizards the Leopard gecko, Eublepharis macularius, can drop off its tail when frightened via tail autotomy, and regenerate a new tail. Anatomically the tail consists of skin with fat and muscle tissue underneath, which envelopes the vertebrae with blood vessels and nerves in the centre. On selected places in the tail a “fracture plate" of connective tissue exists, which is visible on the outside as constrictive rings. This fracture plate is a predilected place for the tail to rupture; here the vertebra consists of demineralized zones and cartilage to ensure a smooth rupture without fractures, special connective tissue plates in the muscle and fat tissue ensure a smooth rupture and the blood vessels have sphincters to minimize blood loss. When the tail is dropped due to autotomy it will always be ruptured on a fracture plate, when the tail is ripped off, it can also rupture on a different location. As soon as the tail is autotomized a thrombus forms to minimize blood loss and to cover the exposed spinal cord. The tail regeneration starts immediately, this process can be divided in seven phases and takes up to 25 days. During the regeneration, new skin tissue that covers the wound is developed first, followed by the growth of new blood vessels. As the development of new nerve cells is impossible, axons from the nerve cells in the existing part of the tail are further extended into the regenerative tissue. This new spinal cord is then enveloped by cartilage and muscle tissue and the outer skin layer starts to keratinize and pigmentate. When the tail is fully regenerated it has the same diameter and colour as the original tail, but without constrictive rings as there are no new fracture plates formed. The regenerated tail has a smaller mobility range, and this impairs the movements of the gecko, which is visible as a change in locomotion and different tail movement. A Leopard gecko that has lost its tail needs special care, as it has lost its primary fat reserves. The animal needs to be put in a quarantine box with paper towel bedding, and has to be fed more often, preferable every other day, to prevent further weight loss. Feed the gecko by hand until it declines the offered insects, no live crickets should be left in the box, as they can harm the regenerating tail. Place a dish with calcium + vitamin D3 in the box and use UVB lighting as the animal needs to replenish the lost calcium from the tail vertebrae loss. Remove faeces daily to prevent wound infection. When the tail is fully regenerated the gecko can be returned to its original terrarium. However, if it has an aggressive cage mate it should be housed solitary from now on. Young animals may develop a growth retardation and their weight needs to be monitored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses how the Soroban can help children understand the decimal system. Topics include Soroban is a Japanese abacus, which can help children to understand number concepts and visually demonstrates the decimal system; It enables you to add, subtract, multiply and divide much faster and more confidently than you can with a paper and pencil, and, with practice, as quickly as a calculator; and the Soroban consists of a frame, a beam, and beads on digit rods.

Since 2006, the Conservative government has consistently supported the state of Israel. This support creates a lot of controversy because it is interpreted as a break with the traditional Canadian position on the Israel-Palestine conflict. In this paper, we examine the position of Conservatives Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney, in order to evaluate how the Conservatives' current position, under Harper, is different from those of the past. Finally, the paper reviews the explanations that have been suggested to understand the current Conservative support and we conclude that if there is break, there is also some continuity between Harper and other Conservatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of patent analysis on examining technological innovations within the science sector. Mentioned are papers released at American Economic Association journals regarding the utilization of patent analysis in search engines. Tables are presented which include top companies in the U.S. based on patent applications and market capitalization and patent versus average productivity growth in the U.S.

ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, declines of Canadian populations of boreal caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) have received considerable attention from scientists, government agencies, environmental nongovernmental organizations, Indigenous communities, and the forest industry. Boreal caribou (also known as boreal woodland caribou) was listed as a threatened species in Canada when the Species at Risk Act came into force in June 2003. Many boreal caribou populations have been shown to be decreasing, in some cases precipitously, and empirical evidence from adult survival and calf recruitment surveys indicates that the cumulative effect of habitat disturbance, including that which results from industrial development, is a key driver in the decline. Yet, as scientific understanding of the decline has become clearer, and agreement among scientists and governments about habitat management requirements has increased, campaigns of denial have intensified in the public sphere. In this paper, we examine parallels with climate change rhetoric prolific in the 2000s and show that willful ignorance disguised as skepticism has resulted in public uncertainty despite robust scientific evidence. We show how these strategies of manufactured uncertainty used in climate change denial campaigns have seeped into wildlife management debates, with pernicious results. In this case, it has successfully delayed efforts to effectively address the decline of boreal caribou, which is protected under federal, provincial, and territorial legislation, and inhibited meaningful dialogue about socially acceptable conservation solutions. © 2018 The Wildlife Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses whether Kenya should re-introduce sport hunting to save its wildlife. A paper published by two Kenyan academics in December 2016 claimed that wildlife populations especially for elephants, rhinos and buffaloes are increasing in the countries where sport hunting is promoted. Big game hunting was banned in Kenya in 1977 in light of declining wildlife populations.

This paper reignites the debate on the relevance of the Kohinoor diamond in the twenty-first-century, re-evaluating its links to India, with respect to travelogy, reparations and the British Raj. It aims at drawing common strings between the notions and implications of colonialism on India and Britain. The discussion on travelogy retraces the history of geographies that Kohinoor has travelled, thus moulded unto its present form. Ideas of reparations and claims, enunciated by Shashi Tharoor William Dalrymple are brought into a dialectic with the question of the ownership of the Kohinoor, and if there could be a sole owner, and whether the idea of ownership of such an artefact is problematic in itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The performance venue of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre is 178 acres of varied farmland that surrounds the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, near Canning, Nova Scotia. Forest, fields, and ponds provide creative contexts that influence the selection of works for development and production. After working as Artistic Director in this place for the last eleven years, I have a new perspective on theatre and its possibilities for immersion. Much of the work we create in Canadian theatre depends on the infrastructure we have built in order to deliver it. The theatre spaces built since 1950 have as much influence on our programming choice as personal taste, appetite for risk, or the over-arching social trends. In this paper I explore the notion that if the theatre is to be capable of bringing new perspectives and experiences to our audiences, we must attempt to strip it of the distractions and gimmicks that make the theatre a cardboard cut-out that resembles our contemporary world. When we consider immersion as our theatrical goal, we must ask ourselves: immersed into what? My central argument will be that surrounding audience members is not the same as engaging them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focused on native forest remnants in the state of Paraná. Its aim was to map areas of occurrence of the whitelipped peccary. The sources were the collection of information from the conservation units' management plans, from fauna monitoring reports and other scientific papers, and from environmental impact studies among other documents. All of the sources were available for public consultation. Research about the Araucaria Ecological Corridor was also made by the authors. Methods of sampling consisted of an expeditious survey in the study areas, unstructured interviews with land owners and local communities, and observation of vestiges. Historical and current data regarding the species occurrence were collected and places were identified where the species was extinguished locally and where there are still remnant populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]