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Interview with Miriam Elizabeth McLaurin Gulledge
Interview with Miriam Elizabeth McLaurin Gulledge, 2012 South Carolina Mother of the Year.
Published by: Winthrop University
Bird Evolution
Daniel J Field
Feb 22, 2019
New fossils help pinpoint when some birds started relying on a seed-based diet and reveal that disparate bill shapes evolved repeatedly throughout bird evolutionary history.
Lectins in Cervical Screening.
Cervical screening in low-resource settings remains an unmet need. Lectins are naturally occurring sugar-binding glycoproteins whose binding patterns change as cancer develops. Lectins discriminate between dysplasia and normal...
Early diagnosis of oesophageal cancer.
Squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus are cancers that develop from distinct epithelial sub-types; however, they are both related to chronic inflammation of differing aetiologies. Inflammation leads to...
Program for the Stage Production Ring Around Elizabeth
Curtain Club
Jan 01, 0001
This four-page program details the Curtain Club of Ursinus College's production of Ring Around Elizabeth, held December 12, 1942 in Thompson-Gay Gymnasium. It includes information about the directors, cast, production of the...
Published by: Ursinus College
The Bird That Flew Backwards
Robin Gow
Jan 01, 0001
The Bird that Flew Backwards examines women poets from literary Modernism in the 1910s and Beat culture in the 1950s. Analyzing these eras in tandem reveals contrasting historical constructions of American womanhood and how...
Published by: Ursinus College
Lectins in Cervical Screening
Cervical screening in low-resource settings remains an unmet need. Lectins are naturally occurring sugar-binding glycoproteins whose binding patterns change as cancer develops. Lectins discriminate between dysplasia and normal...
Thomas and Bird Tapped for University's Teaching Awards
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Marketing Professor Jane Thomas will receive the Kinard Award for teaching. English Professor John Bird will serve as the Thompson Scholar to help teach critical thinking.
Published by: Winthrop University
Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years.
Migration is a widespread response of birds to seasonally varying climates. As seasonality is particularly pronounced during interglacial periods, this raises the question of the significance of bird migration during past...
Published by: Nature Communications
English Professor John Bird Discovers Never-Before-Published Mark Twain Children's Story
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Called "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine," it is the story of a young boy who eats a flower sprouted by a magical seed and gains the ability to talk to animals. Bird said he spotted Twain's notes on the story while...
Published by: Winthrop University
Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years.
Migration is a widespread response of birds to seasonally varying climates. As seasonality is particularly pronounced during interglacial periods, this raises the question of the significance of bird migration during past...
Riparian reserves help protect forest bird communities in oil palm dominated landscapes
Conversion of forest to oil palm agriculture is a significant and ongoing threat to tropical biodiversity. Despite this, little is known about the value of riparian reserves in oil palm and how these conservation set‐asides...
Mortality cost of sex-specific parasitism in wild bird populations
Sex-specific mortality is frequent in animals although the causes of different male versus female mortalities remain poorly understood. Parasitism is ubiquitous in nature with widespread detrimental effects to hosts, making...
Mortality cost of sex-specific parasitism in wild bird populations
Sex-specific mortality is frequent in animals although the causes of different male versus female mortalities remain poorly understood. Parasitism is ubiquitous in nature with widespread detrimental effects to hosts, making...
On the maintenance of bird song dialects
Many bird species, especially song birds but also for instance some
hummingbirds and parrots, have noted dialects. By this we mean that locally a particular song is sung by the majority of the birds, but that neighbouring...
On the maintenance of bird song dialects
Many bird species, especially song birds but also for instance some
hummingbirds and parrots, have noted dialects. By this we mean that locally a particular song is sung by the majority of the birds, but that neighbouring...
Cross-Currents
Isobel Maddison
Nov 05, 2018
When Elizabeth von Arnim's novel 'Introduction to Sally' appeared in 1926, the critical response was divided. Dame Ethel Smyth may have told von Arnim the book was her 'masterpiece' but some were less convinced; the reviewer in...
Lead ammunition residues in a hunted Australian grassland bird, the stubble quail (Coturnix pectoralis)
Scavenging and predatory wildlife can ingest lead (Pb) from lead-based ammunition and become poisoned when feeding on shot game animals. Humans can similarly be exposed to ammunition-derived lead when consuming wild-shot game...
Jug Songs
Hunter Dukes
Dec 14, 2020
Abstract Philomela holds a privileged place in Euro-American poetry. Tracking the nightingales in Ovid, Marie de France, Gascoigne, Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, and Elizabeth...
Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities
Abstract: Roads and their traffic can affect wildlife over large areas and, in regions with dense road networks, may influence a high proportion of the ecological landscape. We assess the abundance of 75 bird species in relation...

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