Why Must I Remain In Shadows

Kayla O’Neal is an MFA candidate in studio art with an emphasis in drawing and illustration at Louisiana Tech University. She earned her BFA in Game, Animation, and Simulation Design from Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia. After completing her undergraduate degree, O’Neal interned as a photographer through the Disney College Program. Her photographs have been exhibited in several galleries, including the LoosenArts Gallery in Rome, Italy. TeenInk, Emergence, and The Friend magazines have published O’Neal’s writings. She is currently writing and illustrating Noor, a children’s book featuring characters with chronic illnesses. O’Neal is a storyteller passionate about creating worlds through writing and image making

Animal Enrichment Strategies for Promoting Natural Behaviors in Captive Populations of Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)

The population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) is in rapid decline due to Devil Facial Tumour Disease, and insurance populations have been created in captivity for potential future introduction into the wild. Many problems can arise within captive animal populations including loss of natural behaviors, and development of negative stereotypical (i.e. pacing) behaviors. These issues can decrease ecological fitness, potentially jeopardizing success of introductions of animals into the wild. By providing captive animals with enrichment, natural behaviors can be increased, and stereotypical behaviors can be decreased. Enrichment is defined as an activity or item that promotes the mental and physical well-being of an animal. In this study, ten different enrichment items were given to a group of captive devils to assess their effects on activity levels and behaviors. Data regarding items was also analyzed to see how long the enrichment was useful for, and how often it could be given to the devils for it to seem be conceived as novel. Results suggested that most enrichment items decreased stereotypical behavior and promoted natural behaviors

Vida

Kayla O’Neal is an MFA candidate in studio art with an emphasis in drawing and illustration at Louisiana Tech University. She earned her BFA in Game, Animation, and Simulation Design from Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia. After completing her undergraduate degree, O’Neal interned as a photographer through the Disney College Program. Her photographs have been exhibited in several galleries, including the LoosenArts Gallery in Rome, Italy. TeenInk, Emergence, and The Friend magazines have published O’Neal’s writings. She is currently writing and illustrating Noor, a children’s book featuring characters with chronic illnesses. O’Neal is a storyteller passionate about creating worlds through writing and image making

The Utility of Intravenous Acetaminophen in the Perioperative Period

Intravenous acetaminophen (IVA) has rapid and effective analgesic properties. Recent studies have shown several benefits of using IVA perioperatively. However, due to its relatively high cost and limited clinical data concerning its efficacy compared with other agents, physicians are hesitant to use IVA in the perioperative period. This brief review examines the utility of this medication in the perioperative period and highlights future areas of clinical and epidemiological research regarding its use

On monochromatic sets with nondecreasing diameter

Our problem comes from the field of combinatorics known as Ramsey theory. Ramsey theory, in a general sense, is about identifying the threshold for which a family of objects, associated with a particular parameter, goes from never or sometimes satisfying a certain property to always satisfying that property. Research in Ramsey theory has applications in design theory and coding theory. For integers m, r, and t, we say that a set of n integers colored with r colors is (m, r, t)-permissible if there exist t monochromatic subsets B1, B2, . . . , Bt such that (a) |B1| = |B2| = · · · = |Bt | = m, (b) the largest element in Bi is less than the smallest element in Bi+1 for 1 ≤ i ≤ t − 1, and (c) the diameters of the subsets are nondecreasing. We define f(m, r, t) to be the smallest integer n such that every string of length n is (m, r, t)-permissible. In this thesis, we first look at some preliminary results for values of f(m, r, t), specifically when each individual parameter is 1 as the others vary. We then show that f(m, r, t) exists for all possible positive parameters. We proceed by determining f(2, 2, t) for all positive integers t. We conclude by considering colorings with more than two colors and monochromatic sets that have more than 2 elements, as well as investigating an enumeration of the number of ways a string could be realized as (m, r, t)-permissible

Possibilities for Migration Anthropology

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136460/1/ae.1999.26.1.221.pd