Bufo houstonensis

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Rana blairi

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Similarities in Evasive Behavior of Wolf Spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae), American Toads (Anura: Bufonidae) and Ground Beetles (Coleopterea: Carabidae)

(excerpt) While collecting newly metalnorphosed American toads, Bufo anlericanus Holbrook, we have observed that they exhibited evasive behavior similar to that of adults of the wolf spiders, Pardosa saxatilis (Hentz), Pirata insularis Emerton, Pirata arerzicola Emerton, Pirata piratica (Oliver), and adults of the ground beetle, Elaplrrus ruscarius Say. When pursued or disturbed, the spiders, beetles and toads ran across the pound rapidly for short distances (ca. 1-50 cm). They then stopped abruptly and remained motionless. If they were further pursued, this escape sequence was repeated in the same or another direction. Toads and spiders occasionally moved to shallow water to avoid capture. Spiders ran across the water surface whereas the toads swam partially submerged. N\u27e observed this resemblance in evasive behavior on numerous occasions at ponds on the south edge of Carbondale, Illinois (spiders and toads), 1 krn west of Grinnell, Iowa (spiders and toads), and 1.5 km west of Bloomington, Illinois (spiders, toads and beetles). (Specimens were collected for identification from the latter site.

A Call to Action: An Integrated Approach to Youth Permanency and Preparation for Adulthood

Addresses the unique needs of adolescents in foster care, and highlights efforts to ensure that youth in the foster system benefit from the most strategic preparation and supports for entering adulthood

Rethinking Teacher Evaluation in Chicago

Presents findings from the Excellence in Teaching Pilot, which included training and support, classroom observations, and feedback in principal-teacher conferences. Examines implementation issues and the validity and reliability of observation ratings

Quantifying impacts of climate change on headwater streamflow regime in Robinson Forest: Insights from 35-years of data collection.

Climate change may shift patterns of streamflow permanence in headwater systems by altering the frequency, magnitude, duration, timing, and rate of change of surface streamflow, impacting both local ecosystems as well as regional water budgets and availability. While much uncertainty surrounds modeling-based methods to quantify the impacts of climate change on water budgets, long-term hydrologic data collected from headwaters in experimental research forests serve as critical evidence to reduce such uncertainty. The objective of this study is to quantify shifts in frequency, magnitude, duration, timing, and rate of change of streamflow in two headwater catchments with relatively little recent disturbance on the Cumberland Plateau using a suite of emerging hydrological statistics and trend analyses. This study determined that each catchment resulted in different streamflow permanence trends over time. Climate and evapotranspiration (ET) may have a significant impact on processes impacting streamflow permanence in each catchment as the major structural differences between the two catchments are slope and aspect

Investigating the instruction of the therapeutic alliance in speech-language pathology clinical education

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the instruction of the therapeutic alliance in the graduate education of future speech-language pathologists. Method: Surveys were created for graduate student clinicians and supervising clinicians consisting of three Likert scale questions and open-ended questions. T-tests were performed on the scaled questions and the open-ended questions were analyzed with thematic analysis. Results: Graduate student clinicians reported being taught the therapeutic alliance less than clinical supervisors reported teaching it. Both populations emphasized the bond as an important aspect of the alliance with less emphasis on collaboration on goals and tasks of therapy. Modalities in which different skills were taught varied by population and skills. Conclusion: Clinical supervisors agree that the therapeutic alliance is an important skill for students to learn and are currently implementing it in their teaching. However, the instruction of the therapeutic alliance may need to be more explicit in the future and emphasize more aspects and strategies to build an alliance

A Performer\u27s Guide to Joelle Wallach\u27s A Revisitation of Myth

The purpose of this document is to serve as a performance guide to Joelle Wallach’s A Revisitation of Myth, a song cycle containing four songs scored for viola, piano and medium voice. Discussed within this guide will be important characteristics found in the songs, overview and analysis of each song, as well as performance recommendations. According to Wallach, this cycle has never been successfully performed to completion. This document will include biographical information about the composer, Joelle Wallach, as well as commentary about the four poets, Luann Keener, Muriel Rukeyser, Denise Levertov, and Delmore Schwartz, whose texts are set in this cycle. Appendices include: a complete list of vocal works by Joelle Wallach and a transcript of a Skype interview with Wallach

A Behavior Analytic Account of Stereotype Threat

Although behavior analysis has contributed substantially to the understanding and study of learning in humans, cultural influences are often either overlooked or not accounted for in how they impact individuals in their day-to-day lives. One example in which this has occurred is in accounting for stereotypes. The field of Social Psychology has contributed a significant body of research on stereotypes and discusses in detail the conditions under which individuals are likely to be impacted by stereotypes. One common finding, often referred to as stereotype threat (Steele & Aronson, 1995), refers to how stereotypes can negatively impact individual performances under certain testing conditions. While data on stereotype threat indicates a clear pattern of decreases in performance scores for individuals in the threatened group, studies on stereotype threat have not examined: 1) whether stereotype threat occurs when arbitrary, non-stereotyped tasks are presented, 2) trends in individual data, or 3) how each individual is impacted by threat, lift, and neutral statements across similar tests. In addition, although researchers have offered many assumptions why stereotype threat occurs, none have evaluated the function of language in stereotype threat (c.f., Relational Frame Theory; Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, & Roche, 2001). The current study aimed to examine whether stereotype threat and stereotype lift by group affiliation (i.e., gender) would occur on an arbitrary, computer-based memory test and if other test-taking behaviors were affected by performance differences across four studies. Results indicated overall patterns consistent with the research base. Typical stereotype threat and lift patterns emerged more frequently when longer scripts were provided to participants prior to testing