The Tarantula Atypus Milberti in Michigan (Araneae: Atypidae)

Excerpt: The arachnid genus Atypus (family Atypidae, suborder Mygalomorphae) contains four species in North America. These tarantulas are atypical because they have retained remnants of the primitive segmentation characteristic of Mesozoic spiders; the dorsum of the abdomen has tergites which differ little or not at all from those found on Oligocene spiders in the Florissant shales or in Baltic amber. The atypical tarantulas are among the most generalized of all living spiders, lacking the specialized morphological features of more advanced families. They lack reduction, migration, or enlargement of eyes; they have simple dry silk glands only; their legs lack specialization for running or silk handling; the carapace is unspecialized. This genus seems to remain successful in interspecific competition, not because of morphological specialization, but due to behavioral uniqueness. The spider constructs a vertical tube web from an underground burrow up the trunk of a tree. The web acts as a shield, making the spider unrecognizable as a potential predator. The prey is attacked through the silk, pulled inside the tube, and sucked dry. Afterwards the carcass is thrown out and the tube is repaired

Comparison of Flaw Growth Characteristics Under Cryogenic Proof and Ambient Test Conditions for Apollo Titanium Pressure Vessels

Comparison of flaw growth characteristics under cryogenic proof and ambient test conditions for Apollo titanium pressure vessel

Fracture characteristics of 6 AL-4V titanium alloy forgings containing alpha stringer microstructure Final report, 10 Sep. 1968 - 24 Jan. 1969

Fracture characteristics of 6Al-4V titanium alloy forgings containing alpha stringer microstructur

Sequence-based typing to identify novel Polymorphisms among Legionella Pneumophila isolates in Western Pennsylvania

Legionella pneumophila is a gram-negative bacterium that can cause two types of human illness, Legionnaires’ disease and Pontiac fever. The goal of this study was to determine the sequence types (STs) for several L. pneumophila isolates collected in western Pennsylvania and compare them to STs from other geographic areas. Investigating ST of L. pneumophila can help to establish control measures and determine sources of outbreaks, both of which are of great public health significance. Environmental and patient samples were collected in Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania from October 2013 through December 2014. Sequence-based typing (SBT) was conducted to determine the sequence type of L. pneumophila present in the samples. Out of the nine STs that were identified in western Pennsylvania, five were novel. The known STs found in this study were ST 8, 986, 154, and 1941. When compared to similar SBT studies done in Portugal, Canada, England, and Spain, the results of the Pittsburgh study proved to be unique due to the identification of the five novel STs. The known STs found in the study were also not commonly found in investigations in other geographic areas. Overall, the results from the Pittsburgh investigation indicate environmental and patient isolates from western Pennsylvania have a unique ST compared to other isolates of L. pneumophila from around the world

How Well Are Your Police Doing?: The Relationship Between Fear of Crime and Perceptions of the Police

Research on the fear of crime, or the fear of victimization, started becoming a popular topic in the late 1960s and has stayed in the spotlight since then. However, there has been a very small amount of literature that has focused on how an individual\u27s fear of crime impacts their perceptions of the police. There has also been cloudiness in previous literature about how to measure fear of crime. This study examines the relationship between an individual\u27s fear of crime and their perceptions of the police using two different measures of police, perceptions of police effectiveness and perceptions of community policing. Additionally, this study compared two different measurements of fear of crime, a general measure and a specific measure, to determine which is a better predictor of perceptions of police. The data for this study are obtained from the 2008-2009 survey Developing Uniform Performance Measures for Policing in the United States: A Pilot Project in Four Agencies. Results showed that the better predictor of perceptions of police depended on which aspect of police is being measured. Additionally, results showed that as an individual\u27s fear of crime increases, their perceptions of the police become more negative. The results of this study will be useful to police departments, government agencies and communities around the country

The Hughes Project

Flyer for Fall 2016 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by David Bixler.https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ics_fellow_lectures/1101/thumbnail.jp

The American University: Attitudes about Safety and the Impact of Gun Regulations on Campus

An ultimate goal of American universities is to provide a safe and secure environment for all who attend and operate there, but what safety looks and feels like to the individual can vary to a great degree. There are many factors that campus safety departments consider when designing their campus safety policies and regulations. One way universities in the U.S. have chosen to regulate campus safety is by allowing concealed carry (CC) on their campuses. No evidence was found in the state of Kentucky that explains if a CC policy is warranted or being pursued by faculty, staff and students however a recent KY House Bill 542 (2023) would have made it unconstitutional to not allow CC on Kentucky college campuses. Without gauging the culture and opinions of all three populations on a college campus, research cannot improve upon current policy or affect change in a positive direction. Through a campus-wide anonymous survey instrument designed for this study and for a particular Kentucky university campus, results show that there are in fact strong opinions about personal safety, perceptions of campus safety and campus carry with variations among the three groups surveyed. The quantitative method of study was utilized and the instrument was uniquely designed in Qualtrics for accuracy

Private Enforcement of International Human Rights Laws: Could a Small Church Group Successfully Combat Slavery in the Sudan?

State-to-state enforcement is the paradigmatic method of punishing a state\u27s violations of public international law. However, in the face of international political complexities, private citizens must sometimes undertake the heavy task of ensuring international legal protection for themselves. The recent situation in Sudan is one such example. Because of the need for Sudan\u27s help in the war against terrorism, the United States is temporarily unable to pursue the usual means of enforcing anti- slavery mandates against Sudan\u27s Khartoum government. A group of private citizens has thus decided to make an attempt at reparation by striking at a private entity that it sees as central to the evils it has endured-a Canadian oil company. Might this type of private enforcement prove successful on a large scale in combating entrenched human rights violators, untouchable by traditional government action? To what extent should private citizens be enforcers of international law? Were they envisioned as such under the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ), and other such documents? This development will illustrate how private enforcement-though perhaps nontraditional-may be one of the most successful methods of ensuring compliance with human rights laws, especially in the midst of international political pressures. And though it may seem a functionally dangerous practice to invite large-scale private litigation in politically tenuous times, private enforcement of international rights norms has long been contemplated by the Alien Tort Claims Act ( ATCA ), and more recently, the Torture Victims Protection Act ( TVPA ). Although the UN Charter and the UDHR do not provide private causes of action, more recently adopted instruments, such as the TVPA, reflect the modern need for greater flexibility in methods of international legal enforcement. In the Sudan, private enforcement may be the only way for private citizens subjected to slavery to achieve any sort of remuneration, at least as long as the United States continues to need the assistance of the Sudanese government. [CONT

Family-Friendly Science: Increasing Family Engagement in STEM Education

Family engagement is vital to a child’s success in his or her academic career. Current research has focused more specifically on the relationship between parent engagement in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and a student’s success in his or her STEM education. This paper is a summary of present research pertaining to this topic, as well as a summary of the results of a field-based study the author and faculty mentors completed to learn more about methods for engaging families in STEM education, particularly in the area of science. Present research indicates that a successful method for engaging families in education is to provide families with meaningful, home-based activities to complete collaboratively. In order to test the effectiveness of such a method, the student researcher placed it into practice at the 2016 STEM in the Park event on Bowling Green State University’s campus. Activities were distributed to families following an initial survey of their current STEM educational practices and attitudes. Results of this survey are described in this submission, along with the summary of present research