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Survival and Growth of Northern Bobwhite Offspring Post-Translocation
Continual population declines in northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have prompted the use of population restoration techniques in conjunction with habitat management to restore their populations. We tested the site familiarity hypothesis to determine if translocation to new environments affected offspring survival and growth rates of bobwhites. We used bobwhites from north Florida and translocated them to a study site in Brunswick County, North Carolina, USA, and monitored birds during April–October 2016 and April–October 2017. We used the corral capture method and modified-suture technique to capture and radio-tag chicks to evaluate offspring growth and survival rates of resident and translocated bobwhites. Offspring survival varied by year and age. We did not find any difference in offspring survival rates of resident and translocated individuals, lending no support to the site familiarity hypothesis with regards to survival. Offspring of resident bobwhites did not grow at a faster rate than offspring of translocated bobwhites, indicating a lack of support for the site familiarity hypothesis in terms of physiological development. Survival, however, is a more important metric for determining post-translocation population dynamics, and our results indicated that translocated bobwhites can reproduce and raise offspring similar to resident counterparts, but both had low survival.
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Transformers, G.I. Joe : first strike. Champions
The Transformers, G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Rom, and M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand get to shine in standalone stories setting up the ultimate Hasbro comic book event! First, with Cybertron under seige from Baron Ironblood, it's up to Optimus Prime and Arcee to defend their homeland, and the Revolutionaries team is caught in the middle! Then, back on Earth, Rom finds himself teaming up with the world's smallest heroes, the Micronauts! Can they prevent catastrophe, or is it already too late? And, with the team divided, G.I. Joe must confront dangers both in space and Earthside. Looks like they'll need some help from M.A.S.K.!
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Reflections on Maslow's Early Writings: Transcendence, Psychedelics, Grof, and the Future
[...]I would now add to the peak-experience material a greater consideration, not only of nadir-experiences, the psycholytic therapy of Groff, [sic] confrontation with and reprieves from death, postsurgical visions, etc., but also of the \"plateau experience.\" (pp. 75-76) From The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. 1971. * Self-Actualizing and Beyond, Chapter 3 After I published my investigations, there appeared perhaps six, eight, or ten other lines of evidence that supported the findings, not by replication, but by approaches from different angles. Some of the work with LSD (Mogar, 1967), some of the effects of therapy (good therapy, that is) some test results-in fact, everything I know adds up to corroborative support, though not replicated support, to that study. Professor Emeritus in the Honors Program and in Educational Psychology at Northern Illinois University, his books can be found at https://www.amazon.com/-/ e/B00MD4IUXA NOTES 1 In addition, subsequent to those early efforts, a rudimentary draft with a list of Maslow quotes, but without narrative or references, had been posted on academia.edu (a member repository site for drafts and other unpublished material), and was taken up by Research Gate as well (a site for researchers to share their work).
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FREUDIAN, JUNGIAN, GROFIAN - STEPS TOWARD THE PSYCHEDELIC HUMANITIES
In Cleansing the Doors of Perception (2000), Smith updated a collection of his earlier papers plus some new ones and reiterated his view that the entheogenic uses of psychedelics enrich our understanding of religion. [...]to Grofs finding that later stages in the LSD sequence conform sufficiently to the stages of the birth process to warrant our saying that they [religions] are influenced by those stages, tradition adds: \"influenced by\" only, not caused by. Ryan (2004) spotted perinatal elements in the Gettysburg Address, and one of my students wrote an insightful perinatal interpretation of Churchill's \"Iron Curtain\" speech. Because the feelings that produce these images come from the deep BPM unconscious, people who use them may do so completely unaware of their origins. Classical Studies Beyond a strictly Grofian approach but providing supporting intellectual background, Ruck, Staples, and Heinrich trace the origins and esoteric meanings of early Greek myths and culture to psychoactive plants-notably mushrooms in The Apples of Apollo (2001). [...]classicists may be jollied (or annoyed) to hear that the Pythia of Delphi received her inspiration by inhaling psychoactive gasses emerging from the earth (Piccardi et al., 2008). According to the men who accompanied Michael Foucault on his first LSD trip, the experience was deeply transformative.
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Haiku: Language, Communication, and Hypnosis
This article will illustrate how effective hypnotic communication closely resembles the Haiku form. Working with the Haiku form is an effective and dynamic approach that encourages the therapists to keep their awareness sharpened and observation astute. Haiku is not just a type of poetry; it is a way of looking at the world with a heightened level of attentiveness. Crafting effective and evocative hypnotic suggestions requires that the therapist become immersed in the world of passion, images, sounds, sights, opposites, humor, creativity, and perceptive consciousness. Enhancing our skills of observation is an important aspect of the continuing experience of the hypnotherapist. The Haiku method can help us enhance our observation and utilize what we observe in developing evocative hypnotic suggestions that help the client access their internal representational systems to stimulate their healing response. A systematized method for learning to write Haiku is presented.
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Turning off the alarm: The application of somatosensory-hypnotherapy in the treatment of a chronic physiological alarm state
There have been significant advancements in our understanding regarding the transducing, and encoding process related to state dependent stressful/threat experiences. This article presents the theory that under certain circumstances, a persons state dependent alarm response remains active giving rise to symptoms such as anxiety and panic. A case study is presented that illustrates how the functioning of state dependent learning memory and behavior operate to maintain the body in a chronic state of alarm. The application of Somatosensory-Hypnotherapy will be presented to demonstrate a method to help the client turn off their alarm response and promote the healing required.
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Burden attributable to suboptimal breastfeeding: a cross-country analysis of country-specific trends and their relation to child health inequalities
In 2010, more than 7·7 million children died before their fifth birthday. Over 98% of these deaths occurred in developing countries. Within these countries, child mortality is concentrated in the lowest wealth quintile. Breastfeeding is a proven child health intervention available to almost all mothers and it does not require additional health infrastructure. However, breastfeeding prevalence remains low in many developing countries. This paper seeks to examine how breastfeeding prevalence and associated disease burden vary across countries and how breastfeeding interventions may affect child health inequalities.
Using data from more than 400 health and nutrition surveys and spatial temporal regression models, the prevalence of suboptimal breastfeeding was estimated for 137 developing countries from 1990 to 2012. These estimates were compared against WHO infant feeding recommendations and combined with effect sizes from existing literature to estimate associated disease burden using a standard comparative risk assessment approach. These data were disaggregated by wealth quintile and compared with coverage rates for other child health interventions to assess how improved rates of breastfeeding may affect child health inequalities.
In 2010, the estimated prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding ranged from 3·5% in Djibouti to 77·3% in Rwanda. The estimated proportion of child disability-adjusted life-years attributable to breastfeeding is 7·6% at the global level and as high as 20·2% in Swaziland. Breastfeeding is a leading childhood risk factor in all developing countries and consistently ranks higher than water and sanitation. Within countries, breastfeeding practices vary considerably across wealth quintiles.
Breastfeeding is an effective child health intervention that does not require extensive health-system infrastructure. Improvements in rates of exclusive and continued breastfeeding can contribute to the reduction of child mortality inequalities in developing countries. Active promotion of breastfeeding can prevent a large proportion of child deaths and disease burden.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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When the Drug War Hits the Fan
A growing number of experts and ordinary citizens are realizing that our current drug policies are immoral, wasteful, inefficient, un-American, and more harmful than beneficial. The Drug War places U.S. liberties, communities, and children at risk. A sidebar outlines drug abuse lies promulgated by the media. Another sidebar provides seven references challenging the current one-sided perspective. (MLH)
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