Phyllodactylus xanti

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Coleonyx variegatus

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Arizona, A. elegans

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Liophis ceii

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Liophis jaegeri

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Bibliography of Sources on Dena’ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology Through 2016

This version 4.3 will be the final version for this bibliography, a project that was begun in 1993 by Greg Dixon. We have intentionally excluded all potential references for the year 2017. This version is about 29 pages longer and has about 211 entries added since the previous version 3.1 of 2012. Aaron Leggett has added over fifty sources many being rare items from newpapers and magazines. Also many corrections and additions were made to entries in earlier versions.I wish to thank Kenaitze Indian Tribe and the “Dena’ina Language Revitalization Project” for their support for several projects during 2017-2018, including this Vers. 4.3. Previous versions have had partial support from "Dena'ina Archiving, Training and Access" project (NSF-OPP 0326805, 2004) and from Lake Clark National Park. I thank Katherine Arndt of Alaska & Polar Regions at UAF for her careful proofreading

Scaling in cognitive performance reflects multiplicative multifractal cascade dynamics

Self-organized criticality purports to build multi-scaled structures out of local interactions. Evidence of scaling in various domains of biology may be more generally understood to reflect multiplicative interactions weaving together many disparate scales. The self-similarity of power-law scaling entails homogeneity: fluctuations distribute themselves similarly across many spatial and temporal scales. However, this apparent homogeneity can be misleading, especially as it spans more scales. Reducing biological processes to one power-law relationship neglects rich cascade dynamics. We review recent research into multifractality in executive-function cognitive tasks and propose that scaling reflects not criticality but instead interactions across multiple scales and among fluctuations of multiple sizes

Brain Activity of Recreational Golfers Under Conditions of Gambling and Non-Gambling

This research examined the behavior and corresponding brain activity of recreational golfers. Experiment 1 examined four recreational golfers’ brain activityin the absence of any task demands. Following this resting baseline, participants were then instructed to putt 10 golf balls from six feet without consequences for accuracy. Following a return to baseline, a final condition was then instituted whereby monetary compensation ($20 gift card) was made contingent upon successfully making 8 of 10 putts. As measured by EEG, levels of alpha, beta, and theta waves, increased during the putting task compared to resting states. Monetary gambling enhanced activity for participants. Experiment 2 extended these findings. It used a condition of uncertain monetary contingencies while continuing to produce similar EEG levels as noted in Experiment 1. Finally, it appears that certain activations and suppressions of brain waves may have an impact on putting accuracy, and that they may be altered when gambling for money

A Case Study of Pathological Gambler Wagering at Golf

The present single case design explored the degree to which a pathological gambler’s golf performance would be affected by monetary consequences. Using an AB design, a twenty-three year old pathological gambler initially hit 10 golf balls on a computerized golfing game that interfaced with Playstation2’s “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006”. Following baseline, the participant was informed that he would be paid 20 dollars if his next 10 swings were closer to the golf hole than the prior 10 swings. The introduction of the monetary consequences resulted in the participant increasing shot variability and decreas-ing shot accuracy