A Resource Handbook for Planning and Implementing an Integrated Preschool Program

The purpose of this project was to design and develop a resource handbook to assist teachers and administrators responsible for implementing an integrated preschool program. To accomplish this purpose, research and literature relative to current integration delivery models, primarily those in Washington State were reviewed. The handbook developed was piloted in the Taholah, Washington School District

Empire Under the Microscope

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today

Population Estimate for the Bluenose-East Caribou Herd Using Post-calving Photography

Genetic and spatial analyses suggest that what was previously described as the Bluenose herd of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) comprises three separate populations. Of these, the Bluenose-East caribou herd (BECH) has received little coverage in past surveys. Existing estimates of abundance suggested that current harvest rates of Bluenose-East caribou (~5000 animals/year) might be excessive. We used post-calving photography in June-July 2000 to estimate the size of the BECH. A maximum of 33 radio-collared caribou were available for location in June 2000. We located 30 of these caribou and photographed distinct groups containing 23 collared individuals. Excluding caribou assumed to belong to the neighboring Bluenose-West herd, we photographed a minimum of 84 412 adult and 4193 calf caribou. Using a simple mark-recapture model to account for caribou associated with collared individuals not photographed, we calculated an estimate of 104 000 ± 22 100 (95% CI 84 412 - 126 100) non-calf caribou. A recently published stochastic model produced a considerably higher and more variable estimate of 208 700 (95% CI 112 600 - 474 700). In March 2001, we deployed seven more radio collars in anticipation of repeating the census in 2001, but poor weather conditions precluded the formation of large aggregations. Present densities of Bluenose-East caribou seem high, and we recommend regular monitoring of body condition to assess the potential for a forage-induced population crash.Des analyses génétiques et spatiales suggèrent que ce que l'on a décrit précédemment comme le troupeau de caribous des toundras Bluenose (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) est en fait composé de trois populations distinctes. De ces trois hardes, le troupeau de caribous Bluenose de l'Est (TCBE) n'a pas reçu beaucoup d'attention au cours des relevés antérieurs. Les estimations d'abondance qui existent ont suggéré que le taux de prélèvement actuel de ce caribou (~ 5000 animaux/an) pourrait être excessif. On a eu recours à des clichés pris immédiatement après la mise bas en juin-juillet 2000 pour évaluer la taille du TCBE. En juin 2000, un maximum de 33 caribous munis de colliers émetteurs étaient disponibles pour la localisation. On en a repéré 30 et on a photographié des groupes distincts contenant 23 individus équipés de colliers émetteurs. Si l'on exclut les caribous qui feraient partie de la harde voisine Bluenose de l'Ouest, on a photographié un minimum de 84 412 adultes et 4193 veaux. En utilisant un simple modèle de marquage-recapture pour tenir compte des caribous reliés aux individus munis de colliers émetteurs non photographiés, on en arrive à une estimation du nombre de caribous excluant les veaux de 104 000 ± 22 100 (intervalle de confiance de 95 %: 84 412 - 126 000). Un modèle probabiliste publié récemment a donné une estimation nettement plus élevée et plus variable de 208 700 (intervalle de confiance de 95 %: 112 600 - 474 700). En mars 2001, on a eu recours à sept colliers émetteurs supplémentaires en prévision d'une reprise du recensement en 2001, mais le mauvais temps a empêché la formation de grands regroupements. Les densités actuelles du caribou Bluenose de l'Est semblent élevées, et on recommande une surveillance continue de l'état corporel afin d'évaluer le potentiel d'un effondrement de la population dû à un manque de fourrage

Out of Africa and into the Sunshine State : tracking an exotic invader

Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-33).This is the story of an invasive species and one man's quest to eradicate it. The Nile monitor lizard (Varanus niloticus), smaller cousin of the famed Komodo dragon, grows into six feet of carnivorous, ill-tempered muscle. The animal's size and aggression make it a poor candidate for the exotic pet trade, but the species nevertheless obtained popularity in the 1990s. Two decades later, the descendants of released Nile monitors are breeding in the coastal town of Cape Coral, Florida, where the lizards benefit from extensive drainage canals and a buffet of native wildlife-and they're spreading. Herpetologist Todd Campbell has devoted more than a decade of his research to these reptiles, attempting to understand how they got here, how their invasion is wreaking havoc on native ecosystems, and most of all, how to eliminate them for good. The challenges he's faced along the way echo the wider concerns of fighting invasive species, which represent one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity and ecosystems but are poorly studied and rarely prioritized. This thesis follows the trajectory of the Nile monitor from its native Africa to southern Florida, exploring what it is about this lizard's natural history, ecology, and allure to reptile enthusiasts that has made it a charismatic symbol of the perils of biological invasion.by Erin Maureen Weeks.S.M.in Science Writin

Enhancing Productivity of Recruitment Process Using Data Mining & Text Mining Tools

Digital communication has significantly reduced the time it takes to send a résumé, but the recruiter’s work has become more complicated because with this technological advancement they get more résumés for each job opening. It becomes almost impossible to physically scan each résumé that meets their organization’s job requirement. The filtering and search techniques provide hundreds of résumés that can fulfill the desired criteria. Most approaches focus on either parsing the résumé to get information or propose some filtering methods. Moreover, résumés vary in format and style, making it difficult to maintain a structural repository which would contain all the necessary information. The goal of this project is to examine and propose an approach which would consider the skill sets from the potential résumés, along with expertise domains like related work experience and education, to score the selected “relevant résumé.” This approach aims at highlighting the most important and relevant résumés, thus saving an enormous amount of time and effort that is required fo

Empire Under the Microscope

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today

Animal people

Animal People is an ethnography of contemporary animal-centric subcultures including furry fans, zoophiles, exotic animal keepers, trophy hunters, taxidermists, horse show competitors, and pit bull advocates, inviting the reader into their hidden worlds, their desires, their culture, activities, and gatherings. These essays examine the impacts of these subcultures on individual people and animals as well as the human and animal worlds, exploring how animals function as vehicles for human desires and why humans are drawn to extremes in our relationships with them. Why do some people want to kill a lion and others want to be a lion? Why do some people want a pet lion and others want to have sex with a lion? What makes people respond to the same animal in such vastly different ways? Sociologists have largely overlooked animal-related subcultures, but there’s a lot to be to learned from knowing them. The nine subcultures described in these chapters represent the enormous variety, breadth, and depth of human relationships to animals. They have taken their relationships with animals to the edge

In Our Very Bones: Poems by Twyla Hansen

DISTANCES 1 Midwestern Autumn, 2 Going to the Graves, 3 Memorial Day, 4 On the Screen Porch, 5 Gophers, 6 Lilac Tripping, 7 The Separator, 9 Conspiracy, 11 My Neighbor\u27s Daughter Learning To Drive, 12 Platte River State Park, Late January, 13 Spring Equinox, 14 When You Leave, 15 My Husband Snoring, 16 Full Moon, Total Eclipse, 17 My Father\u27s Miniatures, 18 Wind, 20 If My Father Were Still Alive ON THE PRAIRIE 23 Song of the Pasque Flower, 24 Blue Moon, 25 Crane River, 26 Nine-Mile Prairie, 27 Late May, 29 Prairie Trout, 30 Vines, 31 Building a Bat House, 32 Blue Herons, 33 Dragonfly, 34 Morning, 35 Mid-September, 36 Warbler, 37 Autumn, 38 Turkey Vultures, 39 Harvest Moon, 40 Winter IN OUR VERY BONES 43 At the Hospital, 45 Brother Story, 46 In Early Fall, 47 Each Time I Look Up, 48 Behind My Back, 49 Cedar Waxwings, 50 Planting the Garden, 51 At the Prairie, the Day Before, 53 Beginning Dance, 54 Full Moon, Partial Eclipse, 55 Annular Eclipse, 56 Walking, Early Spring, 58 Dog Days, 59 Poem for Madelyne, 60 First the Yellow, 61 Winter Solstice, 62 Not Even the Wind, 63 Full Moon Rising, February, 64 Backyar