Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia

UNLABELLED: Newly discovered fossil assemblages of small bodied Homo sapiens from Palau, Micronesia possess characters thought to be taxonomically primitive for the genus Homo. BACKGROUND: Recent surface collection and test excavation in limestone caves in the rock islands of Palau, Micronesia, has produced a sizeable sample of human skeletal remains dating roughly between 940-2890 cal ybp. PRINCIPLE FINDINGS: Preliminary analysis indicates that this material is important for two reasons. First, individuals from the older time horizons are small in body size even relative to "pygmoid" populations from Southeast Asia and Indonesia, and thus may represent a marked case of human insular dwarfism. Second, while possessing a number of derived features that align them with Homo sapiens, the human remains from Palau also exhibit several skeletal traits that are considered to be primitive for the genus Homo. SIGNIFICANCE: These features may be previously unrecognized developmental correlates of small body size and, if so, they may have important implications for interpreting the taxonomic affinities of fossil specimens of Homo

Introduced Annual Eriogonum in Minnesota

A selected summary of the utility of data derived from the recording and analysis of immigrant plant species is considered in relation to an apparently Introduced Minnesota population of Eriogonum annuum Nutt., the Annual Eriogonum. Fruiting specimens and one flowering-specimen of this species, heretofore reported on xeric sites from the western Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming south into Mexico, were collected October 13, 1982, on the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge near Zimmerman, Minnesota, and represent the first records of an Eriogonum in this state

Comparative thermal stability study

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Thermal stability of charged cathode materials

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Removal of heavy metals and phosphorous from waste-waters using attrition resistant, porous pellets made from coal combustion by-products

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Remediation of heavy metal contaminated solid wastes

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Treatability testing for the fixation of heavy metals in hazardous furnace dusts sample

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The effect of preparation method and calcination temperature on the crystallite size and surface area of perovskite-type SrFeOx

Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

Separation of high surface area mineral solids from suncor coke fly ash

Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

Preparation of SrFe~O2.85 perovskite using a citric acid assisted Pechini-type method

Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye