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Chamberlain, Jeremy David. "Life-history and energetics of the diamond-backed watersnake." Thesis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10195147.

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<p> Life-history research explores how environmental variation and physiological constraints shift the energy allocation decisions to competing functions of the body among individuals and populations. Variation in the energy available across the environmental landscape is of particular interest as it dictates the amount energy available for organisms to acquire and allocate to their life-history. Additionally, individuals vary in their ability to capture and assimilate energy from the environment. This dissertation seeks to understand how environmental variation in energy availability and phy
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Sprague, Rachel Seabury. "Glucocorticoid physiology and behavior during life history transitions in Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05192009-102121.

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Heidinger, Britt J. "Physiology of life history trade-offs stress and age in a long-lived seabird /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3277958.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Biology, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: B, page: 5693. Adviser: Ellen D. Ketterson. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 8, 2008).
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Smith, Shona Mary. "The role of oxidative stress as an underlying mechanism in life-history trade-offs." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7684/.

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A key aspect underpinning life-history theory is the existence of trade-offs. Trade-offs occur because resources are limited, meaning that individuals cannot invest in all traits simultaneously, leading to costs for traits such as growth and reproduction. Such costs may be the reason for the sub-maximal growth rates that are often observed in nature, though the fitness consequences of these costs would depend on the effects on lifetime reproductive success. Recently, much attention has been given to the physiological mechanism that might underlie these life-history trade-offs, with oxidative s
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Durso, Andrew M. "Stable Isotopes and the Ecology and Physiology of Reptiles." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5064.

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Animals trade-off limited resources among competing demands. Trade-offs are difficult to quantify because it is challenging to measure investment into disparate physiological systems using a common scale. Additionally, biologists desire methods to more precisely measure energy status in wild animals. I used stable isotopes to help solve both of these problems. I examined natural spatial and temporal variation in stable isotope signatures of wild lizards and found significant variation. In the lab, I was able to demonstrate the utility of nitrogen stable isotope ratios of uric acid pellets for
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Saunders, Kathryn J. "Visual function in infants and young children with, and without, a close family history of strabismus and/or amblyopia." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301246.

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Dyde, Sean Kieran. "Brains, minds and nerves in British medicine and physiology, 1764-1852." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648694.

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Nicolle, Philip David. "The environmental physiology of Bufo bufo L. and Bufo calamita Laur. tadpoles." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 1989. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4987/.

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Using spawn collected from the north Merseyside sand dune system, the effects of temperature on growth, development, metabolism and metamorphosis in B. bufo and B. calamita tadpoles were investigated, together with a limited study on the effects of L-thyroxine. The effects of density on growth, developteI1t and metamorphosis were examined. Physiological and behavioural effects of B. bufo tadpoles on B. calamita tadpoles were also studied. B. calamita spawn and tadpoles survive at higher temperatures than B. bufo. Below20°CB. bufo spawn, and below 15°Ctheir t.adpcl.es, develop at a greater rate
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Puxty, Richard John. "The role of light in photosynthetic cyanophages : from physiology to gene expression." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63551/.

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It is estimated that there are approximately 1030 ocean virioplankton (Suttle 2007; Parsons et al. 2012). A large component of the oceanic viriosphere are the cyanophages, viruses that specifically infect cyanobacteria. Recent advances in genomics has revealed such viruses encode a multitude of genes, often acquired horizontally, that act to redirect metabolism for their own gains (Mann et al. 2003; Lindell et al. 2004a; Millard et al. 2009; Sullivan et al. 2010; Hurwitz et al. 2013; Enav et al. 2014). These genes have been named auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs). They include multiple subunits
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Walker, Alan Melville. "Life history strategies in anadromous trout, Salmo trutta L., with special reference to osmoregulatory physiology." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15003.

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1. Juvenile trout, Salmo trutta L., from three parental groups - sympatric Sea trout and freshwater-Resident trout, and isolated trout from above a waterfall impassable by upstream migrating anadromous trout - were reared under three ration regimes to manipulate growth rates. The development of seawater tolerance was studied by measuring drinking rates after periodic salinity challenges during the first two years of juvenile growth. No trout were observed to undergo the parr-smolt transformation in any of the parental form/ration combinations after two years in freshwater. However, a considera
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Brodnik, Reed Michael. "Impacts of Water Warming on the Physiology and Life-History of a Tropical Freshwater Fish." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429637964.

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Simon, Carol Anne. "The life history patterns of the polychaete, Terebrasabella heterouncinata, a pest of cultured abalone." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005632.

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Terebrasabella heterouncinata is a small K-selected sabellid polychaete. It is a simultaneous hermaphrodite with a semi-continuous mode of reproduction, producing relatively few large eggs that are brooded within the parental burrow until the larvae emerge, to settle on the growing edge of the abalone shell. Despite its low fecundity, this worm has become problematic on abalone farms in South Africa. The present study was conducted to gain an understanding of the life history patterns of T. helerouncinata to determine how they contributed to the success of these worms under altered conditions.
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Campbell-Staton, Shane C. "Phylogeographic History and Temperature-Mediated Evolution of the Green Anole, Anolis Carolinensis." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467389.

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Temperature plays an important role in shaping the form and function of every species. Ectothermic organisms are particularly sensitive to fluctuations in their thermal environment. Their inability to produce appreciable amounts of heat through physiological mechanisms makes them particularly vulnerable to thermal shifts, and ideal for the study of temperature-mediated evolution. The central goal of this dissertation is to understand how temperature shapes the evolutionary history of terrestrial ectotherms during the colonization of novel environments. Towards this aim, I focus on a single spe
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Scott, Ryan 1981. "Investigating the natural history of human islet-derived duct-like structures transplanted subcutaneously into nude mice." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112362.

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Islet plasticity has proven to be an important platform for the engineering of alternative islet tissue for transplantation. In vitro studies have shown the ability of islets to transdifferentiate into duct-like epithelial structures (DLS) thought to possess progenitor cells capable of replenishing damaged tissue within the pancreas. The aim of this study was to investigate the natural history of human derived duct-like epithelial structures transplanted into nude mice.<br>Human islet derived duct-like structures from three cadaver pancreases were subcutaneously transplanted into 6-8 week old
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Attisano, Alfredo. "Life-history variation and evolved response to food stress in Oncopeltus fasciatus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4373.

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Every organism needs to survive and successfully reproduce in the face of changing environmental conditions in which variation in resource availability can seriously limit performance. Organisms can respond to the variation in quality or availability of food resources with behavioural and physiological accommodations going from the baseline physiological response to environmental stressors to complex life-history strategies like migration and diapause. In insects, one avenue to cope with the resources’ variation is to plastically tune the reproductive system to the environmental conditions in
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Townsend, Dana Komarek. "Insulin resistance and roncomitant macro- and microvascular dysfunction in normoglycemic college-age subjects with a family history of type 2 diabetes." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/445.

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Contreras, Heidy Lorena. "Effects of natural history on osmoregulatory behaviors in two stream-dwelling frogs (Pseudacris cadaverina and P. regilla)." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3253.

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Differences in osmoregulatory behaviors were studied in two stream-dwelling tree frogs (Pseudacris cadaverina and P. regilla) with different natural histories. This study supports the idea that the natural history of a species has a strong effect on behavior associated with osmoregulation.
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McAdams, Rachel. "Learning to breathe : the history of newborn resuscitation, 1929 to 1970." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/841/.

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The history of newborn resuscitation in the twentieth century presented thus far in the writings of practitioner-historians describes a ‘hands-off’ attitude to newborn care prior to the 1950s. These practioner-historians tend to recount a positivist narrative with the rapid expansion of newborn care after WWII and the eventual logical uptake of endotracheal intubation and positive pressure resuscitation as the most effective method for treating asphyxia neonatorum. This thesis challenges this positivist narrative my examining the resuscitation of the newborn in Britain and America during the i
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Wood, Philip Howard. "Biochemical sensing mechansims in olfaction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1985. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3943/.

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The present work, employing biochemical, biophysical and electrophysiological techniques, attempted to identify specific receptor sites in the vertebrate olfactory system for heterocyclic odorants. An in vitro rat preparation was developed and characterised for use in vapour-phase chemical modification experiments; the EOG responses obtained from this preparation were stable for up to 5 hours after the death of the animal. The signals to various compounds were differentially reduced when brominated odorants were employed as vapour-phase labelling reagents; the responses obtained to these deriv
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Nuckols, Virginia R. "Cognitive and vascular function in women with a history of preeclampsia." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6822.

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Background: Women are more likely to develop age-related cognitive impairment compared with men of the same age. Pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia (PE), and menopause may contribute to an elevated risk of cognitive decline with aging in women potentially through an adverse impact on vascular function. PE is associated with a heightened risk of hypertension and large elastic artery stiffness (i.e., aortic and carotid arteries) for several years postpartum. Persistent large artery stiffness may be further amplified in women with a history of PE during the menopause transition, which
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Svensson, Daniel. "Scientizing performance in endurance sports : The emergence of ‘rational training’ in cross-country skiing, 1930-1980." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-195830.

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Elite athletes of today use specialized, scientific training methods and the increasing role of science in sports is undeniable. Scientific methods and equipment has even found its way into the practice of everyday exercisers, a testament to the impact of sport science. From the experiential, personal training regimes of the first half of the 20th century to the scientific training theories of the 1970s, the ideas about training and the athletic body shifted. The rationalization process started in endurance sports in the 1940s. It was part of a struggle between two models of training; natural
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Calhoon, Elisabeth Ann. "Lipids of mitochondria in fibroblasts and their nexus to life history in temperate and tropical birds." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306866847.

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Blount, Susan. "Damage to DNA by reactive oxygen species : relevance to the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1991. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8827/.

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The purpose of this work was to study the effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on DNA and to investigate the relevance of ROS-induced DNA damage in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Using model systems of ROS generation, it was found that DNA was damaged by ROS at all levels of its structure, causing strand breaks, base modifications and conformational changes. Hydrogen peroxide, a ROS generated during inflammation in vivo, produced a characteristic type of site-specific damage dependent on the DNA-bound metal ion catalysis of its degradation. 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8OHDG), a modified
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Milenkaya, Olga. "Validating Body Condition Indices As Indicators Of Individual Quality: Does Condition Explain Intraspecific Variation In Reproductive Success And Survival Among Crimson Finches (Neochmia Phaeton)?" Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23937.

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Body condition is expected to reflect individual quality because high quality individuals should be better at acquiring and using resources, resulting in higher fitness. However, the hypothesis that condition indices are meaningful indicators of individual quality has been questioned. I monitored a population of crimson finches (Neochmia phaeton) for reproductive success and survival over four breeding seasons. My study population is well suited for this research because individuals forage in common areas and do not hold territories such that variation in condition between individuals is not c
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Wilson, Amy Sue. "A saga of power, money, and sex in women's athletics: a presidents' history of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW)." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2661.

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In 1971, female professional physical educators in higher education formed the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) to govern women's college athletics. The AIAW presidents gathered at the University of Iowa in July 1980 for a five-day conference: "AIAW . . . A Decade of Progress: Presidential Review" to create a "living history" of their Association. This qualitative research project uses a critical feminist cultural studies approach to analyze the Presidential Review, a primary source that has never
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Narcotta-Welp, Eileen Marie. ""The future of football is feminine" : a critical cultural history of the U.S. women's national soccer team." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2125.

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“The Future of Football is Feminine”: A Critical Cultural History of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team,focuses on the historical and cultural construction of the U.S. women’s national soccer team. The public and academic discourse that constitutes women’s soccer in the U.S. consistently links the game with the feminist legislation of Title IX, and positions male coaches as benevolent patriarchs who grant young girls and women the right to play. The combination of these two dominant narratives confronts the historical n
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Halverson, Kristin. "Physiological Cruelty? : Discussing and Developing Vivisection in Great Britain, 1875-1901." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30336.

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This thesis examines the development of vivisection as a method of physiological research between 1875 and 1901 in Great Britain, by examining some of the arguments, discussions, and ideas put forth by physiologists for the utilisation of vivisection in their research. Because this study operates within the context of medical history, questions of legitimacy, scientific development, and professional image are lifted. The development of vivisection during this period took place with a larger shift in scientific practice playing out in the background, where experimentalism began overtaking the p
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Green, Jonathan Andrew. "The behaviour and energetics of macaroni penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4758/.

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Heart rate (f\(_H\)) and rate of oxygen ( V\(_{O2}\) consumption were recorded from adult macaroni penguins while exercising on a treadmill. No differences were found in the relationship between f\(_H\) and V\(_{O2}\) in breeding and moulting female penguins, but a significant difference was found between male and female penguins. These relationships were used to estimate field metabolic rate (FMR) for free-ranging female penguins, which were implanted with heart rate and temperature data loggers. While foraging to provision their chick, FMR was 8.92 ± 0.44 W kg\(^{-1}\) and 9.07 ± 0.42 W kg\(
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Osborn, Rupert W. "The action of ricin A chain on eukaryotic ribosomes." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1990. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/108875/.

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The action of ricin A chain on eukaryotic ribosomes was investigated from a number of different angles. It was shown that ricin A chain modified the rRNA from the 60S subunit of a number of eukaryotic ribosomes, including plant ribosomes, and that the site of action was at the same position in a highly conserved sequence which had previously been identified as the site of action in rat liver 28S rRNA. Investigations into the partial reactions of protein synthesis inhibited in ricin A chain-treated ribosomes showed that both initiation and elongation were inhibited, contradicting the assumption
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Reeves, Philip J. "Molecular genetic analysis of extracellular enzyme secretion by Erwinia carotovora." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/109532/.

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Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora (Ecc) secretes a variety of extracellular enzymes, namely pectinases (Pel), cellulases (Cel) and proteases (Prt). Some of these extracellular enzymes are considered to be the major pathogenicity determinants of this bacterium. Using the chemical mutagen ethyl methyl sulphonate (EMS), a range of Ecc mutants defective in extracellular enzyme production have been generated. One class was found to be pleiotropically defective in the production of Pel and Cel but unaffected for Prt production. Pel and Cel were still synthesised in this class of mutant but both e
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Munoz, Mateo Jasmine. "Lawrence Joseph Henderson: Bridging Laboratory and Social Life." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11624.

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This study uses the professional trajectory of the Harvard-trained physical chemist and physiologist Lawrence Joseph Henderson to show how the nascent and highly mobile interconnections between biomedicine and social theory began to crystallize around the concept of the social system in the middle decades of the twentieth century. The social system became a powerful and persuasive way of relating vastly different concepts and their consequences, e.g., the laboratory and social life. By focusing on L.J. Henderson and the social system, this study brings the history of biomedicine into dialogue
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Calhoon, Elisabeth A. "Lipid class and phospholipid species composition associated with life history variation in north temperate and neotropical birds." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1450091613.

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Le, Roux Benjamin. "Comprendre la structure moléculaire du vivant au début du XXe siècle : Une biographie scientifique d'Henri Devaux (1862-1956)." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0068/document.

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Formé auprès de Gaston Bonnier (1853-1922) à Paris à la fin des années 1880, Henri Devaux (1862-1956) s’impose comme l’un des botanistes prometteurs de sa génération en travaillant sur les échanges gazeux chez les plantes aquatiques. De 1906 à 1932, il occupe la chaire de physiologie végétale de la Faculté des sciences de Bordeaux. Bien que ce ne soit pas son domaine de prédilection, il s’intéresse progressivement à la physico-chimie des lames (ou couches) minces et devient l’une des figures de l’école française qui émerge dans les années 1910 autour de ces questions. Tout au long du premier t
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Tkaczynski, Patrick. "The behavioural ecology of personality in wild Barbary macaques." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/the-behavioural-ecology-of-personality-in-wild-barbary-macaques(023582d2-2214-448c-bf12-c1bef7d5549e).html.

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Personality, that is intra-individual consistency and inter-individual variation in behaviour, is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. This challenges traditional evolutionary assumptions that selection should favour behavioural flexibility, and that variation in behavioural strategies reflects stochastic variation around a single optimal behavioural strategy. Adaptive models to explain personality within the framework of evolutionary and behavioural ecology exist, and are typically empirically explored by identifying proximate associations to, and the functional consequences of, personal
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Fetters, Tamara Lynn. "Phenotypic Responses to Invasion in the Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei)." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96486.

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Invasive species often encounter climatic conditions that differ significantly from those of their native range. These environmental shifts may trigger phenotypic responses, resulting through some combination of adaptation and plasticity, that enable the invader to persist under novel thermal regimes. In this dissertation, I examine phenotypic changes in a tropical lizard that has successful invaded a cooler temperate climate, specifically examining traits that may promote survival and reproduction in their new range. First, I examined physiological traits, as I predicted greater cold toleranc
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Freese, Daniela [Verfasser], Barbara Akademischer Betreuer] Niehoff, and Wilhelm [Akademischer Betreuer] [Hagen. "Life history traits of copepods in a changing Arctic : seasonal patterns in the physiology of Calanus glacialis [[Elektronische Ressource]] / Daniela Freese. Gutachter: Barbara Niehoff ; Wilhelm Hagen. Betreuer: Barbara Niehoff." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1075609275/34.

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Madimenos, Felicia C. 1980. "Reproductive Trade-Offs in Skeletal Health and Physical Activity among the Indigenous Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia: A Life History Approach." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11977.

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xx, 229 p. : ill. (some col.)<br>Reproductive effort is a central element of human biology and ecology. Particularly for females, reproduction is energetically demanding, with elevated metabolic costs during pregnancy and lactation, followed by high child care costs. To satisfy energetic needs, women can adopt various physiological and behavioral strategies. On a physiological level, the energetic requirements of offspring may be met by adjusting metabolic allocation and/or drawing on maternal bodily reserves. On a behavioral level, women may reduce energy expenditure and/or increase energy in
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Woronik, Alyssa. "A functional genomic investigation of an alternative life history strategy : The Alba polymorphism in Colias croceus." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Zoologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147351.

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Life history traits affect the timing and pattern of maturation, reproduction, and survival during an organism’s lifecycle and are the major components influencing Darwinian fitness. Co-evolved patterns of these traits are known as life history strategies (LHS) and variation occurs between individuals, populations, and species. The polymorphisms underlying LHS are important targets of natural selection, yet the underlying genes and physiological mechanisms remain largely unknown. Mapping the genetic basis of a LHS and subsequently unraveling the associated physiological mechanisms is a challen
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Proust, Jeanne. "La volonté et ses pathologies : psychologie expérimentale et théorie de l'âme chez Théodule Ribot." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H214/document.

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Considéré comme le père de la psychologie expérimentale en France, fondateur de la Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger, Théodule Ribot a joui de son vivant d'une autorité largement reconnue, difficile à mesurer aujourd'hui. On lui reconnaît l’ambition d’avoir voulu émanciper la psychologie de la philosophie pour tenter d’en faire une science indépendante, mais sa pensée s’en trouve souvent réduite à une sorte de positivisme physiologique, qui ne rend ni raison de l’empreinte qu’a laissée la philosophie sur son œuvre de psychologue, ni plus généralement de la complexité et de l’or
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Glass, Jordan R. "Should I stay or should I go? Complex environments drive the developmental plasticity of flight capacity and flight-related tradeoffs." Scholarly Commons, 2018. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3535.

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Animals must balance multiple, fitness-related traits in environments that are complex and characterized by co-varying factors, such as co-variation in temperature and food availability. Thus, experiments manipulating multiple environmental factors provide valuable insight into the role of the environment in shaping not only important traits (e.g., dispersal capacity or reproduction), but also trait-trait interactions (e.g., trade-offs between traits). We employed a multi-factorial design to manipulate variation in temperature (constant 28°C vs. 28±5°C daily cycle) and food availability (unlim
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Nolte, Zianca. "The natural history of the humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa : age, growth and reproduction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013178.

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Globally, inshore cetaceans are being threatened by a number of anthropogenic activities. The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis, is currently listed as ‘near threatened’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In order to be able to advise on management and conservation strategies, knowledge on the life history of the species is required. To date very little is known about the biology of humpback dolphins. The aim of the present study was to determine basic life history parameters, including age, growth and reproduction of humpback dolphins incidentally c
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O’Brien, Conor Savage. "Evolution of Photoperiodism in the Threespine Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12104.

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xvi, 112 p. : ill. (some col.)<br>In seasonal environments, the ability to take advantage of the favorable seasons and avoid or mitigate the effects of the unfavorable ones is essential for organismal fitness. Many polar and temperate organisms use photoperiod (length of day) to time seasonal life history events because photoperiod's regular annual cycle makes it a very reliable indicator of seasonality. This reliability allows organisms to anticipate and properly prepare for seasonal change. Although photoperiodism is widespread in polar and temperate vertebrates, little is known relative to
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Couto, Cristiana Loureiro de Mendonça. "Alimentação no Brasil Imperial: elementos para um estudo de questões dietéticas, químico-médicas e da fisiologia do gosto." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13248.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristiana Loureiro de Mendonca Couto.pdf: 3677576 bytes, checksum: 0b48f87fd728b7c7e4c80b13f2c75885 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-20<br>Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo<br>The aim of this study is to understand the dietary habits current in Rio de Janeiro at the time of the Brazilian Empire (1822-1899) through contemporary discussions on science, its relationship to alimentation and implications on issues related to taste and gastronomy. An analysis of documents written at that time such a
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Silva, Lourenço Fernandes Neto e. "O animal em Condillac ou as reinvenções do humano." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-09052016-102454/.

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Este trabalho acompanha o desenvolvimento da filosofia de Condillac do Ensaio sobre a Origem dos Conhecimentos Humanos até o Tratado dos Animais, obra em que o autor se aplica à definição daquilo que é próprio do humano e que se pode considerar a mais completa descrição de seu sistema de pensamento. A partir da reconstrução da noção de Metafísica do abade, encontramos uma interessante articulação entre as discussões científicas da época e a tentativa de estabelecer um novo fundamento para todo discurso possível, apoiado nas noções de natureza, humano, língua e moral. A crítica à racionalidade
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Navarro, Antonio Coppi. "Um estudo de caso sobre a ciência no Brasil: os trabalhos em fisiologia no Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas e no Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2005. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13263.

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Posavec, Melanija 1984. "The Role of histone variant macroH2A1 in muscle physiology and pathophysiology." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/316789.

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MacroH2A1.1 is one of the least understood histone variants and structural components of chromatin. Generated by alternative splicing, macroH2A1.1 differs from the other macroH2A1 isoform in its capacity to bind NAD+-derived metabolites in vitro. This observation intrigued us to speculate that macroH2A1.1 could link metabolic and epigenetic regulation. To test the importance of this observation, we turned to skeletal muscle as this tissue is expressing the highest levels of the metabolite-binding isoforms. We demonstrate a switch in macroH2A1 splicing from the metabolite non-binding isof
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Balland, Véronique. "Histoire du fluor : decouverte, physiologie, utilisation en art dentaire." Strasbourg 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988STR1D059.

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Rinke, Karsten. "Species-oriented model approaches to Daphnia spp.: linking the individual level to the population level." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1146736164110-76933.

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Die Gattung Daphnia nimmt eine zentrale Position im pelagischen Nahrungsnetz vieler Standgewässern (Seen, Talsperren) ein. Aufgrund hoher Filtrierleistungen sind Daphnien für das integrierte Gewässermanagement, z.B. im Rahmen einer Nahrungskettenmanipulation (Biomanipulation), von großem Interesse. Ihre relativ einfache Kultivierbarkeit machte sie außerdem zu einen weit verbreiteten Modellorganismus limnologischer Grundlagenforschung. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, ein umfassendes Modellsystem für die Gattung Daphnia zu entwickeln, das wesentliche Kenntnisse der Ökologie von Daphnia mit
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Margolis, Julie Anna. "Tetracycline Labeled Bone Content Analysis of Ancient Nubian Remains from Kulubnarti." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429808453.

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Leclerc, de la Verpillière Lorraine. "Visceral creativity : digestion, earthly melancholy, and materiality in the graphic arts of early modern France and the German-speaking lands (c. 1530-1675)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288424.

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Building on recent scholarship in the history of art which has started to reappraise the meaning of grotesque and scatological motifs, this thesis examines how digestion was conceived of as a model of creation, and how this was translated visually. Renaissance creativity was increasingly modelled on a series of natural processes like digestion, following a trend in favour of Aristotelian psychology. However, it has been largely overlooked in comparison to the bleeding, the pneumatic, and especially the procreative natural models, which have been extensively studied. The central argument of thi
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