Anglim\u27s Encyclopedia of religion and the law in America, 2nd ed. (Book Review)

A review of Anglim, C.T. (2009). Encyclopedia of religion and the law in America, 2nd ed. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing. 847 pp. $165.00. ISBN 978159237298

The time budget and feeding ecology of the pukeko (Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus, Temminck 1820) a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology at Massey University

The annual and seasonal time budget and feeding ecology of pukeko Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus are described both as a composite day and diurnally. The study shows pukeko do not spend equal time in all activities in all habitats over the day, for each season or over the year. They spend by far the bulk of their time feeding (75-90%), and less time to attentiveness, bodily maintenance, and social encounters. However time allocated to all activities varies with habitat. By far most time is spent in dryland (pasture), and less in turn in rush margins, swamp and water. Bimodal activity patterns (dawn and dusk) are described for each season, whereas feeding effort is unimodal peaking in the mid to late afternoon. Direct sampling of an adjacent population indicates pukeko gradually increase the length of tiller taken and quantity of ingesta consumed over the day. Pukeko do not peck at the same rate or feed at the same intensity in all habitats, at all times of the day, for each season or over the year - feeding fastest and most intensely in rush margin and mud areas, and slower and less intensely in dryland, swamp and water. However considering use of habitats over the year pukeko feed most intensively and extensively in dryland, but less in rush margin, mud, swamp and water. Feeding in the latter three habitats is linked notably with seasonal availability (and/or quality) of forage. Evidence indicates pukeko are able to gauge seasonally the availability (and/or quality) of forage, and allocate their feeding effort appropriately

Abundance, Diversity and Distribution of Benthic Macro-Invertebrates in the Flat Bayou Drainage Area, Jefferson County, Arkansas

The main ditch of Flat Bayou Drainage in north central Jefferson County carries water southward into Plum Bayou which then shortly empties into the Arkansas River. Flat Bayou proper flows northward into Wabbaseka Bayou which in turn flows into the Arkansas River in northeastern Lincoln County. Two sites on the main ditch were sampled for physico-chemical parameters and benthic macroin vertebrates on 9 September, 7 October and 11 November 1978. No visible detrimental effects were attributed to physico-chemical characteristics. Thirty-one below-family taxa and 19 families were found in abundance from zero at one site and date to 3580 per m² at one site and date. Corbicula was by far the most numerous taxon whereas several taxa (e.g. Placobdella, Piscicolarla, Lampsilis, Uniomerus, Campeloma, Berosus and Palpomyia) were represented by a per m² density of 8.6 on one date at one site. Dominance indices were generally greater, and distribution values indicated stronger clumping at Site 1 whereas diversity values were generally greater at Site 2. These indicated the substrate at Site 2 was more suitable for community development

The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Law, History, and Recommendations for Reform

Handout for The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Law, History, and Recommendations for Reform.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_miscellaneous/1002/thumbnail.jp

Induction without Probabilities

A simple indeterministic system is displayed and it is urged that we cannot responsibly infer inductively over it if we presume that the probability calculus is the appropriate logic of induction. The example illustrates the general thesis of a material theory of induction, that the logic appropriate to a particular domain is determined by the facts that prevail there