...Taxis is a directional movement that veers away from or toward stimuli while kinesis in the context of this lab refers to non-directed movement that is made in response to stimuli. This isopod, which is a sow bug (Oniscus sp. / Porcellio sp.), generally moved to and stayed in the chamber that was under the foil upon the introduction of the lamp. In the darkness, the isopod was considerably more active than in the light. Though Morris’s (1999) study did not explicitly focus on sow bugs and pill bugs, his research is based around isopods and his results support the idea that this was an example of kinesis, in that the presence of the light in one chamber decreased the bug’s activity in that area. Since negative photokinesis describes the increase...
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...taxis and kinesis of the pill bugs. After the experiment and observation, we determined that pill bugs prefer dark areas and require moist in order to survive. Even though all the pill bugs in all test were moving you could see some more random movement and revolution in the dry area compared to the moist area. We observed that they like the dark area and stay close to each other which show they need humid area in order to survive The purpose of this experiment was to determine what environment the pill bugs prefered more, the moist or dry. While performing this experiment we were looking to see what conditions they desired more, the moist or the dry. While observing we could see how they behaved in a dry and dark area and also the moist and dark area, how they interacted with each other,and how many were active out of all five. To have a better understanding of this lab we had to know what pill bugs are before perming our experiment, and we found...
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...Pill bug Inclinations in Regards to Environmental Factors Introduction: Pill bugs are minute crustaceans with nearly ¾ iinch in length with seven pairs of legs and two antennas. The outer layer of the organism is dark brown/black in color and is segmented. They differ from insects in that, pill bugs do not have efficient waterproof features. Due to this, they have to live in damp areas or they will dry out effortlessly. Orienting behavior is present in bill bugs. It is when is an animal recognizes and uses directions to follow a designated path. Usually, this organism will travel in this path in proportion to a spatial attraction of its environment. Pill bugs demonstrate orienting behaviors when they incline towards moisture. Pill bugs need...
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...This data does not support the hypothesis that pill bugs would spend more than 50% of their allotted time in the moss than the rocks. Rather, the data shows the opposite: both pill bugs preferred to spend more time by rocks than moss. Pill Bug #1, specifically, spent an average of more than 50% (66.7%) by the rocks. Furthermore, the moss only accounted for 20% of both the pill bug’s location in the five minutes given. During the observation, each pill bug seemed to have a unique behavior in their movement that differed from each other. Pill Bug #1 seemed to move back and forth the two sides but eventually settle in just the pebble area. Pill Bug #2 moved in a more active manner compared to Pill Bug #1, moving constantly back and forth between the three different areas throughout the entire 5 minutes....
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...In the Isopod behavior lab, pill bugs or roly polys, or scientifically Armadillidiidae, will be examined. A pill bug is a little tiny bug classified as a terrestrial crustacean in the order Isopoda and in a family of woodlice. Armadillidium vulgare is usually what people mean when talking about pill bugs as they are the most commonly seen. Creatures related to Armadillidium vulgare are species of the same family, like A. Eleoniscus or A. Paxodillidium. The family of Armadillidiidae have a special trait compared to other woodlouse families, being that they are able to roll up into a ball, a process called conglobation. Conglobation usually happens in a response to stimuli, as a way to protect themselves from predators and to reduce water loss...
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...if I complete all my tasks and study, I will do fairly well. As a junior, I feel like taking this class now is the best time for me. This course is preparing me for what college classes are like. I am also learning a lot about college applications and what to do in my senior year. The most difficult task in this class so far was the very first lab that we were assigned to do in the summer. It was hard for me because I did not like writing lab reports and I am not good at them. I also did not like working with the pill bugs. My proudest achievement in this course was when I got an 84.5 on my midterm. I studied for a long time and was in fear of how difficult it was. After I took the test, I thought I had failed. I was happy when I saw that I had passed. I think I still need to work on my studying habits. I need to study more before a test and actually read the textbook instead of skimming it for important information. I am a visual learner. I feel...
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...will kill their hosts, or develop a symbiotic relationship, making the human host a perpetual propagator of lethal disease. Here’s the shocking fact: We are the ones creating these super bacteria. While evolution plays a role, we are helping it to strengthen mankind’s number one living enemy. The evolutionary part is simply that some bacteria do survive antibiotic treatment and its drug-resistant genetic material gets passed on to other bacteria. It is precisely because of this that health authorities in developed countries urge us to consume all the pills in a prescription: While we may feel better after a few pills have killed most sieging bacteria, the few that are left behind due to an incomplete treatment are likely to be the strongest, most resistant ones. That batch may lay dormant waiting for the next hiccup in our immune system, or may jump to vulnerable folk around us with little or no defence against such formidable bugs. What’s more, antibiotics are hard on the body: Some bacteria are actually good for us. For example, our digestive system relies on many types of...
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...1. Nurse Tim is caring for a client diagnosed with bulimia. The most appropriate initial goal for a client diagnosed with bulimia is to: a. Avoid shopping for large amounts of food b. Control eating impulses c. Identify anxiety-causing situations d. Eat only three meals per day Answer C. Bulimic behavior is generally a maladaptive coping response to stress and underlying issues. The client must identify anxiety-causing situations that stimulate the bulimic behavior and then learn new ways of coping with the anxiety. 2. For a female client with anorexia nervosa, the nurse is aware that which goal takes the highest priority? a. The client will establish adequate daily nutritional intake b. The client will make a contract with the nurse that sets a target weight c. The client will identify self-perceptions about body size as unrealistic d. The client will verbalize the possible physiological consequences of self-starvation Answer A. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, all humans need to meet basic physiological needs first. Because a client with anorexia nervosa eats little or nothing, the nurse must first plan to help the client meet this basic, immediate physiological need. 3. A female client who’s at high risk for suicide needs close supervision. To best ensure the client’s safety, the nurse should: a. Check the client frequently at irregular intervals throughout the night ...
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...32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow The electric light was a failure. gets you there. It’s bad financial decisions and blueprints for machines that weren’t built until decades later. It’s the important leaps forward that synthesize lots of ideas, and it’s the belly-up failures that teach us what not to do. When we ignore how innovation actually works, we make it hard to see what’s happening right in front of us today. If you don’t know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it’s easy to write off some modern energy innovations — like solar panels — because they haven’t hit the big time fast enough. Worse, the fairy-tale view of history implies that innovation has an end. It doesn’t. What we want and what we need keeps changing. The incandescent light was a 19th-century failure and a 20th- century success. Now it’s a failure again, edged out by new technologies, like LEDs, that were, themselves, failures for many years. That’s what this issue is about: all the little failures, trivialities and not-quite-solved mysteries that make the successes possible. This is what innovation looks like. It’s messy, and it’s awesome. Maggie KoerthBaker Invented by the British chemist Humphry Davy in the early 1800s, it spent nearly 80 years being passed from one initially hopeful researcher to another, like some not-quite-housebroken puppy. In 1879, Thomas Edison finally figured out how to make an incandescent light bulb that people would buy. But...
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...The Emerging Issue of Crystal Methamphetamine Use in First Nations Communities A Discussion Paper First Nations Centre May 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE: WHAT IS IT? WHO USES CRYSTAL METH HOW CRYSTAL METH IS USED HOW CRYSTAL METH IS MADE HOW CRYSTAL METH AFFECTS THE BODY, MIND, RELATIONSHIPS AND THE ENVIRONMENT PART II GOVERNMENT, ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES CRYSTAL METH AND ILLEGAL DRUG STRATEGIES IN CANADA FIRST NATIONS AND CRYTAL METH TREATMENT STRATEGIES PART III TALA TOOTOOSIS’ STORY CRYSTAL METH ON THE NAVAJO NATION CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX A 1 INTRODUCTION Crystal methamphetamine 1 use among people in some First Nations communities (both in Canada and the United States) has evolved into an issue that is requiring more and more attention. Indicative of this, in July of 2005, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) in Canada passed a resolution specifically directed at this emerging issue. 2 As a result of this resolution, the AFN has identified the need for the development of a First Nations National Task Force on Crystal Meth to develop a Strategic Action Plan to Address the Emerging issue of Crystal Meth in First Nations Communities. Generally speaking, this paper provides basic information about crystal methamphetamine as well as information that is First Nations specific. The first part of the paper discusses: what crystal meth is; who is using it;...
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...The country I know and love is gone. The land of the free and the home of the brave has become a seething cesspool of underpaid, uncaring, Godless, inconsiderate bastard children. Our commander-in-chief has become nothing more than a slumlord, demanding higher and higher taxes in various forms from his subjects, while the infrastructure of the nation crumbles beneath his feet. How long will it take before the infrastructure of our nation crumbles to the point of total disaster? How long can the government provided, prescription happy pill fed citizens of this once great nation support the burdens which are being placed on them? How long will it be before the demands of the rich can no longer be met? Demands such as ever-increasing safety ratings, ever-increasing profits, ever-increasing greed, ever-increasing cost of living and ever-increasing fees that are continually handed down to the poor, reaches a point that the poor can no longer afford to be poor? The day IS coming. Our once great nation will crumble under its own weight when the infrastructure gives way. The poor will scatter out of the way, and the rich will have the farthest to fall, and the hardest time adjusting. The poor (not including the government supported) have been trained for so long at surviving with a mere fraction of what is necessary for survival, that they will band together, and live off the land as they must. The rich, on the other hand will suddenly find that their wealth now holds no...
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...The Emerging Issue of Crystal Methamphetamine Use in First Nations Communities A Discussion Paper First Nations Centre May 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE: WHAT IS IT? WHO USES CRYSTAL METH HOW CRYSTAL METH IS USED HOW CRYSTAL METH IS MADE HOW CRYSTAL METH AFFECTS THE BODY, MIND, RELATIONSHIPS AND THE ENVIRONMENT PART II GOVERNMENT, ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES CRYSTAL METH AND ILLEGAL DRUG STRATEGIES IN CANADA FIRST NATIONS AND CRYTAL METH TREATMENT STRATEGIES PART III TALA TOOTOOSIS’ STORY CRYSTAL METH ON THE NAVAJO NATION CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX A 1INTRODUCTION Crystal methamphetamine 1 use among people in some First Nations communities (both in Canada and the United States) has evolved into an issue that is requiring more and more attention. Indicative of this, in July of 2005, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN in Canada passed a resolution specifically directed at this emerging issue. ) f 2 As a result o this resolution, the AFN has identified the need for the development of a First Nations National Task Force on Crystal Meth to develop a Strategic Action Plan to Address the Emerging issue of Crystal Meth in First Nations Communities. ...
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... vocals), Bernard Butler (music, guitar, some piano), Mat Osman (Bass), Simon Gilbert (drums) producer and some piano: Ed Buller Shot in grainy fag-ash monochrome, he sits sideon with head back, long hair draped over one half of his face, filter-tip in paw, and a distant, unreadable experience in his eyes. The credit says simply: “Beckenham ‘69” Now 1969 was a strange year for Bowie. He had just been turned down by a fourth record company. His improbable, over-ambitious folk01 so young 02 animal nitrate 03 she's not dead mime trio Feathers was going nowhere. His 04 moving 05 pantomime horse 06 the drowners relationship with self-styled actress Hermione 07 sleeping pills 08 breakdown 09 metal mickey Farthingale was on the skids. And his grandiose10 animal lover 11 the next life sounding Beckenham Arts Lab – the venue where the photo was taken – was in truth just a So Young back room of the Three Tuns boozer in anderson / butler Beckenham high street. It was not a great time to be the future Thin White Duke. she can start to walk out when she wants because we're young, because we're gone But weird karma was afoot. He had written a we'll take the tide's electric mind, oh yeah? oh song called “space oddity”, Neil Armstrong was yeah fourth months away from sketching that crucial inaugural moonwalk. And David Bowie was five we're so young and so gone, let's chase the months away from making that giant step into dragon, oh what, in the vernacular, would be called “headfuck stardom”...
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...Employers, job seekers, and puzzle lovers everywhere delight in William Poundstone's HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? "Combines how-to with be-smart for an audience of job seekers, interviewers, Wired-style cognitive science hobbyists, and the onlooking curious. . . . How Would You Move Mount Fuji? gallops down entertaining sidepaths about the history of intelligence testing, the origins of Silicon Valley, and the brain-jockey heroics of Microsoft culture." — Michael Erard, Austin Chronicle "A charming Trojan Horse of a book While this slim book is ostensibly a guide to cracking the cult of the puzzle in Microsoft's hiring practices, Poundstone manages to sneak in a wealth of material on the crucial issue of how to hire in today's knowledge-based economy. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? delivers on the promise of revealing the tricks to Microsoft's notorious hiring challenges. But, more important, Poundstone, an accomplished science journalist, shows how puzzles can — and cannot — identify the potential stars of a competitive company.... Poundstone gives smart advice to candidates on how to 'pass' the puzzle game.... Of course, let's not forget the real fun of the book: the puzzles themselves." — Tom Ehrenfeld, Boston Globe "A dead-serious book about recruiting practices and abstract reasoning — presented as a puzzle game.... Very, very valuable to some job applicants — the concepts being more important than the answers. It would have usefulness as well to interviewers with...
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...Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Go Ask Alice By Anonymous If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book." First paperback edition March 1998 Go Ask Alice taken from "White Rabbit," written by Grace Slick. Copyright 1967. Irving Music. Inc. Copper Penny Music Publishing Co., by permission, all rights reserved. Go Ask Alice Author anonymous Copyright © 1971 by Simon & Schuster Inc. Simon Pulse An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Also available in a Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers hardcover edition. Printed and bound in the United States of America 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number-. 74-159446 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html ISBN 0-671-66458-1 (hc) ISBN 0-60-81785-1 (Pulse pbk.) Go Ask Alice is based on the actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user. It is not a definitive statement on the middle-class, teenage drug world. It does not offer any solutions. It is, however, a highly personal and specific chronicle...
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