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The relationship of Teilhard de Chardin's law of complexity/consciousness to the mechanism/vitalism debate in biology

Creator:: Weierich, Andre Jean
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Teilhard"is a central theme in the his- tory and philosophy of biology. This debate focuses on how we are

Candidate Causes, Consequences, and Estimation of Individual Diet Specialization

Creator:: Coblentz, Kyle E.
Abstract:: Diet variation among individuals within populations is widespread. Often diet differences among individuals are attributable to obvious differences among individuals such as age, sex, or morphology. However, growing evidence suggests that individual diet variation is also common among seemingly identical individuals within populations. This phenomenon has been termed individual diet...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on September 6, 2018. Title: Candidate Causes

Experimental taxonomy, 1930-1950 : the impact of cytology, ecology, and genetics on ideas of biological classification

Creator:: Hagen, Joel Bartholemew
Abstract:: During the years between 1930 and 1950 a number of attempts were made to introduce techniques and ideas from cytology, ecology, and genetics into the field of taxonomy. Advocates of this "experimental taxonomy" believed that cytological, ecological, and genetic techniques would provide a rigorous, objective methodology to replace the traditional...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Bartholemew Hagen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in General Science (Biological Science)presented on

Diverse consumer guilds in intertidal communities of Oregon and the Republic of Panama and their effects on prey assemblages

Creator:: Gaines, Steven D.
Abstract:: Low intertidal communities of Oregon and Panama have many predator and herbivore species. This diversity of consumers is important to the organization of both communities because of qualitative differences among the consumer species in their ability to circumvent specific prey defenses. In Oregon, the red alga Iridaea cordata is protected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on September 28, 1982

Structural effects of intrinsic and extrinsic perturbations to model membranes

Creator:: Church, Sara E.
Abstract:: The observed and calculated structural parameters of three systems of phosphatidylcholine bilayers in fully-hydrated multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) were determined using x-ray diffraction techniques. The analysis used the x-ray reflections from the low-, intermediateand wide-angle regions of the diffraction patterns in the subgel, gel, rippled and fluid phases to determine the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Philosophy in Chemistry presented on April 23. 1987. Title: Structural Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic

Radically reframing environmental problems : The Salmon 2100 case study

Creator:: Lane, David Earl
Abstract:: There are typically two responses to the complex environmental problems of our time: 1) doom and gloom and 2) optimism. There is a lot of doom and gloom in the environmental literature. This literature warns that the future portends danger for humans and their life support systems. But when one...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: David Earl Lane for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences on December 16, 2009

A determination and selection of a biology course content of significance for a freshman level general education course

Creator:: Hankins, Lela Ruth
Abstract:: The purposes of this investigation were twofold: 1. To determine important criteria for making a selection of course content in general biology. 2. To ascertain what should be the content emphasis in biology for the purposes of general education at the freshman college level. The literature pertinent to the problem...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: A determination and selection of biology course content of

Plant-Pollinator Interactions in a Changing World: Cryptic Specialization, Pollinator Movement, and Landscape Genetics of Pollinator-Dependent Plants

Creator:: Gannon, Dustin G.
Abstract:: Plant-pollinator mutualisms are one of the most prevalent and economically important mutualisms in nature. Like many other ecological systems, plant-pollinator communities are threatened by anthropogenic activity, both directly (e.g., habitat conversion and fragmentation) and indirectly (e.g., climate change). While we are aware of many of the activities that adversely impact...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Botany and Plant Pathology presented on March 17, 2022

Exploring the structural dynamics of human understanding : an historico-philosophical analysis of the problem of meaning in Heidegger and Bohr

Creator:: Tattersall, Mason
Abstract:: This dissertation explores the structural dynamics of human understanding and particularly the concept of meaning and its connections to concepts of ultimate ground, necessity and contingency, language, and perception. It focuses on the history of the concept of meaning in early twentieth-century European physics and philosophy, through an analysis of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mason Tattersall for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of

An evaluation of an experimental biology course employing some cognitive and noncognitive achievements as criteria

Creator:: Durst, Harold Everett
Abstract:: This study was designed to evaluate the relative effectiveness of a new college general biology course which utilized an audio - tutorial laboratory as contrasted with a traditional lecture course. Five biology classes with 720 students at the Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas, participated in the study. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: An evaluation of an experimental biology course employing

Human biology for the liberal arts student

Creator:: Love, Chaille Mosely
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Human Biology for the Liberal Arts Student HU1Wl BIOIOOI

Determination and comparison of biological principles in the public press and in BSCS biology texts

Creator:: Adams, Ruth Helen
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were threefold: (1) to formulate a current list of biological principles to use as a checklist in this study; (2) to utilize the formulated checklist in identifying those principles required for reading comprehension of news articles concerning the various areas of biology or biology-related social...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the public press and in BSCS biology texts AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF RUTH HELEN ADAMS for the

An evaluation of expressed level of aspiration as a determinant of performance in an undergraduate biology course

Creator:: Pearce, Richard Mott
Abstract:: The purpose of this investigation was to determine if the level of aspiration procedure consisting of knowledge of results plus goal-setting possesses a motivational property as reflected in performance on subject matter criterion instruments above that of knowledge of results alone in an undergraduate biology course. In addition the study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: determinant of performance in an undergraduate biology course AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF RICHARD MOTT

Effects of Predator Introductions on Population and Community Dynamics

Creator:: Ingeman, Kurt E.
Abstract:: There is increasing awareness that human activities are altering the ways that natural systems operate and that local shifts in species composition and abundance can lead to abrupt and irreversible global change. Therefore, understanding the processes that buffer biological communities from critical shifts and how our actions affect natural stabilizing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Kurt E. Ingeman for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on July 28, 2016

Physiological ecology and structure of benthic communities in a woodland stream

Creator:: Reese, Weldon Harold
Abstract:: This thesis reports a portion of a general ecological study of a stream under conditions of controlled flow and low levels of organic enrichment. It is concerned with the effects of experimental variations of light intensity and concentration of soluble organic enrichment imposed on seasonal variations of temperature and total...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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New perspectives in archosaur biology

Creator:: Harwell, Amy E.
Abstract:: The respiratory and metabolic biology of dinosaurs is poorly, if at all, reflected in the fossil record. By comparing anatomical features of modern taxa that are functionally linked to specific biology with the remains of theropod dinosaurs (Archosauria: Theropoda) and early birds, we may reasonably infer the physiology of long...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Amy E. Harwell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

John Fiske's philosophy of science : the union of science and religion through the principle of evolution

Creator:: Lester, Jacob Franklin
Abstract:: Modern science was produced by a Christian society, and although science has had an effect on Christianity, it could not itself remain unaffected. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the subject of evolution was as much a religious as a scientific issue. The battle line was drawn and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: John Fiske's Philosophy of Science: The Union of Science

Multiobjective model of the Pacific whiting fishery in the United States

Creator:: Enríquez Andrade, Roberto R.
Abstract:: Pacific whiting (Merluccius productus) is commercially and ecologically one of the most important fishery resources in the Pacific coast of the United States. The fishery is currently going through a period of rapid and profound transformation that could cause a substantial redistribution of benefits among domestic users. Benefits from the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of Philosophy in Agricultural and Resource Economics presented on August 10, 1992. Title: A

Secreted Agrobacterium rhizogenes Effector Protein GALLS Interacts with Arabidopsis Host Proteins and Stimulates Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation

Creator:: Wei, Wei
Abstract:: Agrobacterium species transform plant cells by targeting a portion of plasmid-encoded bacterial DNA to the host nucleus. Genetic transformation by A. tumefaciens and A. rhizogenes requires secreted effector proteins. The tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid from virulent A. tumefaciens encodes VirE2, a secreted single-stranded DNA-binding protein required for efficient transformation of hosts....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology presented on June 12, 2018. Title: Secreted Agrobacterium

Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

Creator:: Blanchard, Nicholas
Abstract:: By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Philosophy in History of Science presented on August 7, 2014. Title: Second Nature: Domestication as

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