Review of \u3cem\u3ePluto Gets the Call\u3c/em\u3e by Adam Rex

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Review of \u3cem\u3eBlooming Beneath the Sun\u3c/em\u3e by Christina Rossetti

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Review of \u3cem\u3eA Place to Stay\u3c/em\u3e by Erin Gunti

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Review of \u3cem\u3eHow to Read a Book\u3c/em\u3e by Kwame Alexander

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As It Comes

As It Comes is an odd cross between a memoir, an autobiography, and creative non-fiction that was born out of grief, frustration, and my self-perceived inability to be holy

Protective wrapping of off-the-shelf components

System designers using off-the-shelf components (OTSCs), whose internals they cannot change, often use add-on “wrappers” to adapt the OTSCs’ behaviour as required. In most cases, wrappers are used to change “functional” properties of the components they wrap. In this paper we discuss instead protective wrapping, the use of wrappers to improve the dependability – i.e., “non-functional” properties like availability, reliability, security, and/or safety – of a component and thus of a system. Wrappers can improve dependability by adding fault tolerance, e.g. graceful degradation, or error recovery mechanisms. We discuss the rational specification of such protective wrappers in view of system dependability requirements, and highlight some of the design trade-offs and uncertainties that affect system design with OTSCs and wrappers, and that differentiate it from other forms of fault-tolerant design

Review of \u3cem\u3eBilal Cooks Daal\u3c/em\u3e by Aisha Saeed

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Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Scarecrow\u3c/em\u3e by Beth Ferry

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Depredation Patterns and Northern Bobwhite Nest Success in Field Borders

Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) populations have declined because of habitat loss and fragmentation. Field borders provide additional habitat for northern bobwhites and other wildlife that depend on early-succession habitat. However, their proximity to woods as well as other edge types may result in increased bobwhite nest depredation. We examined if northern bobwhite nest survival in field borders decreased with increasing proximity to edges such as woods, crop fields, ditches, and roads; effects of year, camera presence, and field border width also were considered. We examined if snakes are the primary nest predator with 24-hr video camera surveillance. We searched for and monitored northern bobwhite nests on ~ 77 ha of field borders in southeast North Carolina during summers 2010 and 2011. We found 26 nests and monitored them every 3–4 days. Fourteen nests were monitored with cameras. We built nest survival models using the covariates of distance to nearest woody edge, crop field, ditch, and road as well as year, camera effect, and field border width. The most explanatory model was constant northern bobwhite nest survival with an estimated daily nest survival 6 SE of 0.9512 6 0.0119 (AICc weight 1⁄4 0.23). Models with covariates suggested similar daily nest survival rates. Four snake and two mammalian predation events were recorded on camera. Distance to edge types and field border width did not appear to influence the outcome of nests in an agriculture-dominated landscape. Thus, landowners and managers in an agriculture-dominated landscape may have flexibility with field border placement and distance to edge type as they relate to nest success