...Bioethical Focus Conservation of Barn Owl These questions are part of an assignment on Barn Owl Conservation. They are paired with a fact sheet on Barn Owls. Be sure to give answers in complete sentences and use more than once sentence per answer. Using Scientific Principles to Solve Problems 1. State a scientific problem with Barn Owl populations in the United States. How do we know this? The problem with Barn Owl populations in the United States is the hunting of the loss of the Barn Owl to stop all of the predation. We know this due to scientific discoveries and the visual interpretation of the Barn Owls not being present in various places. 2. Define two of the hypotheses used to set up experiments for rescuing the Barn Owl populations. If we rescue the Barn Owls then the hunters will not hunt them and predators will not harm them. If we rescue them then the number of prey to Barn Owls will go down to loss of food. 3. Do you consider the idea of nuisance rodents being eliminated through poisoning the only variable for the conservation of Barn Owls or are other variables involved? What are the other variables? How might the environment ultimately be affected? Yes due to death and the vegetation loss and the amount of prey dying due to poison. The other variables are to hunt and kill. The environment will be affected due to less food and messing up the food chain. 4. How would you design a way to conserve Barn Owls in your area of Missouri? What variables...
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...4/11/2016 Purdue OWL Welcome to the Purdue OWL This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/). When printing this page, you must include the entire legal notice at bottom. Contributors:Elyssa Tardiff, Allen Brizee. Summary: This resource describes why outlines are useful, what types of outlines exist, suggestions for developing effective outlines, and how outlines can be used as an invention strategy for writing. Four Main Components for Effective Outlines Ideally, you should follow the four suggestions presented here to create an effective outline. When creating a topic outline, follow these two rules for capitalization: For firstlevel heads, present the information using all uppercase letters; and for secondary and tertiary items, use upper and lowercase letters. The examples are taken from the Sample Outline handout. Parallelism—How do I accomplish this? Each heading and subheading should preserve parallel structure. If the first heading is a verb, the second heading should be a verb. Example: I. CHOOSE DESIRED COLLEGES II. PREPARE APPLICATION ("Choose" and "Prepare" are both verbs. The present tense of the verb is usually the preferred form for an outline.) Coordination—How do I accomplish this? All the information contained in Heading 1 should have the same significance as the information contained in Heading 2. The same goes for the subheadings (which should be less significant than the headings)...
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...Bioethical Focus Conservation of Barn Owl These questions are part of an assignment on Barn Owl Conservation. They are paired with a fact sheet on Barn Owls. Using Scientific Principles to Solve Problems 1. State a scientific problem with Barn Owl populations in the United States. How do we know this? Barn Owls can not survive in places that have a lot of snow. . Long periods of heavy snow can result in high mortalities in barn owl populations since their prey is too far beneath the snow to catch. But a barn may provide an available supply of rodents during these periods, allowing the resident barn owls to survive. 2. Define one of the hypotheses used for rescuing the Owl populations. nest box programs may be necessary to bring back any numbers. 3. Is the idea of nuisance rodents being eliminated through poisoning a variable for the conservation of Barn Owls? No. How might the environment ultimately be affected? Because if the barn owls eat the dead animals the poison might kill them too 4. How would you design a way to conserve Barn Owls in your area of Missouri? What variables would you consider important in your experiment? Well I don’t live in Missouri but since they usually live in barns I would build a barn. I would make sure it was warm and make sure snow or rain couldn’t get in. Evaluating the Evidence and Argument 1. Find the data on the barn owls from Montana by the numbers of sightings of owls that have either declined or risen...
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...Snowy Owls of the Arctic By BadWolf2 Zoology 101 Description of Snowy Owls Scientific name Recently changed genus General size and markings Differences between males and females Diet Primary diet and quantity Hunting Diurnal, not nocturnal Area of hunting ground Decline of food source Breeding Mates for life Protection of nesting area Normal clutch size Food availability effects on clutch size Migration How far do they travel for food? A population decline or local extinction The snowy owl is a larger raptor type carnivorous bird whose body height is between 20 and 28 inches high. The wingspan of this owl reaches 4.2 to 4.8 feet across and its weight is between 3.5 to 6.5 pounds (“Snowy Owls”, 2012). The genus of this bird has recently been changed from Nyetea Scandiata to Bubo Scandiacus from analyzing their DNA they have found that they are more closely related to the Great Horned Owl which makes them a Bubo ("Snowy Owl," n.d.). The snowy owl is also known by other names such as the Arctic owl or the Great White owl. Most people know the snowy owl from the Harry Potter movies and the character Hedwig. Many snowy owls look this way. The younger owls are white with darker markings and as they age they lose the dark markings and become almost completely white. Females, on the other hand, do not lose all their dark markings. They may become whiter as they age, but still retain some darker or grayish marks on their plumage (“Snowy Owls”, 2012)....
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...Folk Beliefs about the Patoo The Patoo or Patu is the Jamaican name for the owl. The name patoo is given both for the Jamaican owl and another bird, the night jar, which is sometimes mistaken for an owl. It is said that patoo is the same name given to the owl in parts of West Africa, particularly Ghana. It is not surprising that the name is prevalent in Jamaica as this is due to our West African linkage. In Jamaica there are two types of owls to which the name patoo is given. They are the white owl or screech owl and the Jamaican brown owl. The latter is said to be found only in Jamaica. Observation of the patoo shows that it has an upright perch which makes it rather easy for it to catch moths, lizards and rats. However moths are supposed to be its favourite food. Screech owl The patoo is seen in other cultures as representing wisdom. However, it is an object of great superstition in Jamaica. The sound of the cry of a patoo is believed to signify death. Many people stand by this belief as a fact and relate that after hearing the call of a patoo outside their window at night, somebody dies shortly after. Many such stories exist among people especially in the rural areas. It is also said that, during the slavery period in Jamaica, the slaves used to link the owl with death and therefore they would run away whenever they saw one. It is this fear that has been passed on to this generation by the ancestors. The patoo is also a symbol of ugliness...
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...In the novel Bless Me, Ultima religion, family and culture play a huge part into the book, these topics make the reader understand and connect to the characters. Without those major points presented in the novel the reader wouldn’t be as interested in reading the book. Bless Me, Ultima if the type of novel of coming of age, this is represented by one of the main characters. This novel is important to Chicano literature because it was a way to fashion the culture to individuals and communities. Much of the experiences and events in the novel reveal the finding of cultures and search of identity in multiple associated spanish culture. Anotonio Marez is writing as an adult about the events he recounts that occured when he was six years old. Ultima who is a curandera, or healer, who comes to live with Anotiono and his family. When Antonio meets Ultima for the first time and shakes her hand he senses some type of power whirlwind around him. Antonio is on the brink of discovery and starting to figure out what it means to grow from a boy to a man. It all begins...
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... ! WEEK 9 - SIMPLE ANIMATION WITH PHOTOSHOP: HD VIDEO ! Installing the font ! 1. Double click on Righteous-Regular.ttf 2. Click on the Install Font button ! a New Document for HD video output Creating ! 1. Open Photoshop 2. File > New a. Width: 1920px b. Height: 1080px c. 72ppi d. RGB e. OK 3. File > Save As a. Name the file “hungryOwl_video” b. Set the file format to Photoshop (.psd) c. Save ! the background Creating ! 1. Rename the first layer “background” 2. Double-click on foreground color and set it to #242424 3. Select the bucket tool (G) 4. Click anywhere on the canvas to fill it with dark grey ! the text Creating ! 1. Select the type tool (T) 2. Set the font-family to Righteous, Size to 320px, Color to #4d4d4d 3. Click anywhere on the canvas and type “hungry owl” a. Click on the Check Mark in the top options bar to commit 4. To center the text on the canvas: a. Select All (Cmd + A) b. Activate the move tool c. Use the centering icons in the top option bar d. Deselect (Cmd + D) 5. Make 2 copies of the font layer (Cmd + J) 6. Rename the layers “font1”, “font2”, “font3” 7. Add noise to each layer: a. Activate the “font1” layer b. Filter > Noise > Add Noise i. OK the rasterize alert window ii. Set the amount to 20 iii. OK c. Activate the “font2” layer d. Filter > Noise > Add Noise i. OK the rasterize alert window ii. Set the amount to 21 iii. OK e. Activate the “font3” layer f. Filter > Noise > Add Noise ...
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...Moore and Gibbons show how that a few of the vigilantes have a problem with juggling their masked persona and their every day persona. We can see a constant tug of war between who the vigilantes truly see themselves as and what is accepted in their society. We see the pull or hold that each vigilante masked persona has on them on a daily. So, we constantly see how Rorschach and Dan are battling within themselves about who they truly are. Rorschach is one of the first masked heroes we get to meet. We meet Rorschach after the death of another masked hero Edward Blake aka The Comedian. We go throughout most of the graphic novel without knowing the identity of Rorschach or his "real name". We quickly learn that Rorschach is a very black or white type of person, there is no in between with this guy. Rorschach is unapologetic too; he doesn't go by what society sees as bad or good, but off of his own judgment of right or wrong. He is also the only masked hero still fighting crime even though the Keene Act made it illegal to do so. It is not until the end of chapter 5, we get to actually see the human face behind the mask. Rorschach happens to be "The End Is Nigh" guy from earlier chapters, whom "real" name is Walter Joseph Kovacs. We learn this after Rorschach is framed for killing Moloch (a villian) and is in prison talking with Dr. Malcolm Long. Rorschach believes that his true identity is Rorschach and that Walter is his disguise. On page 162, Rorschach says " I abandoned my disguise...
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...knowledge about this snowy owl would be able to great way to provide better insight on the subject, especially since my angle of the story would be to see why they think the snowy owl has been migrating in an unfamiliar way. Interviewing the Ornithologists will introduce the subject to the audience and will help us come to a conclusion on what is causing the migration. I will also interview some of the locals who have spotted the snowy owl and get their opinion on them as well. Since this is a story for the Cincinnati Enquirer the audience is mainly news watchers so this type of format will be keep the story short and strictly to the point and will help guide the viewers better to the topic as well. I do not think the format of video diary would be great for this story because I do not think that it would be as educational as I would like it to be and I believe that video diary is most effective if the story covers a person about his or her life experiences. Like I mentioned this story is for the Cincinnati Enquirer which has an audience mainly looking for short stories or news and in this case mini-documentary in my eyes would still be too long for the audience to digest. Mini-documentary on this topic would be best for channels like the animal planet or the discovery channel. The moving pictures format would this type of story would be hard to understand and much harder to try deliver a message, since there is no narration and it will be very hard for this type of video to speak...
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...Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide 7/21/15, 11:51 AM General Writing • Research and Citation • Teaching and Tutoring • Subject-Specific Writing • Job Search Writing • ESL This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/). When printing this page, you must include the entire legal notice at bottom. In-Text Citations: The Basics Summary: APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (6th ed., 2nd printing). Contributors:Joshua M. Paiz, Elizabeth Angeli, Jodi Wagner, Elena Lawrick, Kristen Moore, Michael Anderson, Lars Soderlund, Allen Brizee, Russell Keck Last Edited: 2014-11-11 10:20:40 Reference citations in text are covered on pages 169-179 of the Publication Manual. What follows are some general guidelines for referring to the works of others in your essay. Note: APA style requires authors to use the past tense or present perfect tense when using signal phrases to describe earlier research, for example, Jones (1998) found or Jones (1998) has found... APA citation basics When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text...
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...very easy to identify the basic elements of its particular rhetorical situation. Text The text in question is a 17-minute speech written and delivered by Dr. King. The basic medium of the text was an oral speech that was broadcast by both loudspeakers at the event and over radio and television. Dr. King drew on years of training as a minister and public speaker to deliver the speech. He also drew on his extensive education and the tumultuous history of racial prejudices and civil rights in the US. Audiences at the time either heard his speech in person or over radio or television broadcasts. Part of the speech near the end was improvised around the repeated phrase “I have a dream.” Author http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/625/08/ Page 1 of 9 Purdue OWL: The Rhetorical Situation 9/11/13 7:53 PM Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most iconic leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He was an African-American Baptist minister and prominent civil rights activist who campaigned to end segregation and racial discrimi- nation. He gained inspiration from Howard Thurman and Mahatma Gandhi, and he drew extensively from a deep, rich...
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...your paper) and delete the text below.] Your paper should have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion (a minimum of three paragraphs). Margins should be 1 inch at the top, bottom, left, and right of every page. Do not justify the right margin, instead leave it ragged by using left justify. Entire paper should be double-spaced. Use Times New Roman using font size of 12. Type no more than 27 lines of text on each page (not counting the header at the top of the page). Make sure you use in-text citations for all direct quotes and summaries of information you have recently read/researched. ANY and ALL borrowed information must be cited. Example of an in text citation: Jones (2009) argues, “quote from reliable sources” (p. 45). OR “Quote from reliable sources” (Jones, 2009, p. 45). OR In your writing it is important to quote from sources that are reliable (Jones, 2009). The period should always come after the parenthetical citation. For more details on APA citations, refer to the APA Manual 6th edition or you can refer to the OWL at Purdue for help: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ References Basic format for articles in periodicals (such as academic journals): Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. Example: Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(30), 5-13. Basic format for Books: Author, A. A. (Year of publication)...
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...Improved Matchmaking Algorithm for Semantic Web Services Based on Bipartite Graph Matching Umesh Bellur, Roshan Kulkarni Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay umesh@it.iitb.ac.in, roshan@it.iitb.ac.in Abstract The ability to dynamically discover and invoke a Web Service is a critical aspect of Service Oriented Architectures. An important component of the discovery process is the matchmaking algorithm itself. In order to overcome the limitations of a syntax-based search, matchmaking algorithms based on semantic techniques have been proposed. Most of them are based on an algorithm originally proposed by M. Paolucci, et al. [21]. In this paper, we analyze this original algorithm and identify some correctness issues with it. We illustrate how these issues are an outcome of the greedy approach adopted by the algorithm. We propose a more exhaustive matchmaking algorithm, based on the concept of matching bipartite graphs, to overcome the problems faced with the original algorithm. We analyze the complexity of both the algorithms and present performance results which show that our algorithm performs as well as the original. 1 Introduction Loose Coupling is an important principle underlying Service Oriented Architectures. One aspect of loose coupling is the ability to invoke a service provider with little (or no) prior knowledge about it. The publish-find-bind architecture is intended to facilitate this process. Service providers create WSDL [9] descriptions...
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...from its connection to mathematics. The first step in controlling anxiety is to understand the connection and just how useful statistics can be for comprehending information that has been gathered. A statistic is a representation of information, and its function is to help researchers either to organize, summarize, or understand data. The ability to describe data is essential when gathering statistics. Statistics can be broken down into two basic types: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics are a summary of information that makes the data presented more easily understood. The descriptive method is limited to only the population in which the researcher is dealing with, and only describes that particular group (Purdue OWL, 1995-2013). Inferential statistics offers a more detailed conclusion regarding the hypothesis. A benefit of the inferential method is that it can be used to take a broader view of populations, making it possible to draw conclusions about sizeable groups of people (Purdue OWL, 1995-2013). In a nutshell, the simple way to distinguish between the two would be that descriptive statistics summarize and inferential statistics draw conclusions. Both descriptive and inferential statistics not only allow the researchers to present the data gathered in a professional manner, they also enable them to move from hypothesis to conclusion with greater ease. Functions of Statistics Statistics are used to collect, analyze and interpret...
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...mind during certain stages of sleep. Frequently dreams are said to portray events and images that are highly unlikely to occur in physical reality. In Francisco de Goya's portrayal in his art “The Sleep (or dream) of Reason Produces Monsters” he expresses a rare yet common type of dream commonly referred to as a nightmare. Nightmares consist of the same traits and qualities of regular and more common dreams but are filled with frightening thoughts, feelings, and/or images. In this print Goya expresses his fears of the society surrounding him he feels is unwilling to change for the better. Goya mockingly expresses his fears by perhaps portraying the society as the demonized bats, owls and the craze eyed lynx that linger and swarm behind him. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monster is a work of art created by Franciso de Goya. The art is a self-portrait of de Goya. His head is face down, asleep amid his drawing tools, while owls and bats menacingly surround him. At his feet a lynx sits motionless, alert, and staring. The owls, symbols of folly, and bats, symbols of ignorance, are poised to attack the artist. Also, the bats, bloodsucking creatures of the night, evoked associations with the devil. Owls were symbols of mindless stupidity at the time. Goya is a man exhausted; beset by demons that haunt him, assault him, but might, after all, serve to inspire him; a man seeking wisdom, yet subject to a swirling maelstrom of stupidities and evils. Yet there is an intimation of...
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