The Iowa Homemaker vol.19, no.4

Art, page 1 Caroling Through Christmas, page 3 Personality Packages, page 4 Mask-Making, page 5 Chimes of Christmas, page 6 Fashion in Feasting, page 7 Sally Cheers, page 8 For a Festive Home, page 10 Hold That Tie!, page 11 What’s New in Home Economics, page 12 Packages Go Sophisticated, page 14 Silver Secrets for Santa, page 16 The Plight Before Christmas, page 18 Your Child’s Food, page 19 From Journalistic Spindles, page 20 Alums in the News, page 21 Behind Bright Jackets, page 22 Art with Practice, page 23 Biography of a Home Economist, page 2

Rise of oceanographic barriers in continuous populations of a cetacean: the genetic structure of harbour porpoises in Old World waters

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Understanding the role of seascape in shaping genetic and demographic population structure is highly challenging for marine pelagic species such as cetaceans for which there is generally little evidence of what could effectively restrict their dispersal. In the present work, we applied a combination of recent individual-based landscape genetic approaches to investigate the population genetic structure of a highly mobile extensive range cetacean, the harbour porpoise in the eastern North Atlantic, with regards to oceanographic characteristics that could constrain its dispersal.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Analyses of 10 microsatellite loci for 752 individuals revealed that most of the sampled range in the eastern North Atlantic behaves as a 'continuous' population that widely extends over thousands of kilometres with significant isolation by distance (IBD). However, strong barriers to gene flow were detected in the south-eastern part of the range. These barriers coincided with profound changes in environmental characteristics and isolated, on a relatively small scale, porpoises from Iberian waters and on a larger scale porpoises from the Black Sea.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The presence of these barriers to gene flow that coincide with profound changes in oceanographic features, together with the spatial variation in IBD strength, provide for the first time strong evidence that physical processes have a major impact on the demographic and genetic structure of a cetacean. This genetic pattern further suggests habitat-related fragmentation of the porpoise range that is likely to intensify with predicted surface ocean warming.</p

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The Iowa Homemaker vol.19, no.4

Art, page 1 Caroling Through Christmas, page 3 Personality Packages, page 4 Mask-Making, page 5 Chimes of Christmas, page 6 Fashion in Feasting, page 7 Sally Cheers, page 8 For a Festive Home, page 10 Hold That Tie!, page 11 What’s New in Home Economics, page 12 Packages Go Sophisticated, page 14 Silver Secrets for Santa, page 16 The Plight Before Christmas, page 18 Your Child’s Food, page 19 From Journalistic Spindles, page 20 Alums in the News, page 21 Behind Bright Jackets, page 22 Art with Practice, page 23 Biography of a Home Economist, page 24</p

Art as Research : Opportunities and Challenges

"Art as Research addresses how artistic enquiry has always been a preferred method of investigating the most complex human problems. The book combines two special issues from the Journal of Applied Arts & Health on art-based research which has emerged from applied arts disciplines and is now being used in all situations where the arts can further research. Authors from the arts in therapy are joined by colleagues in philosophy, history, education, social relations, business and organizational studies." - p. [4] of cover