Desert Rituals/Campus Rituals: Tempe, Arizona

Impact of shade on outdoor thermal comfort—a seasonal field study in Tempe, Arizona

Shade plays an important role in designing pedestrian-friendly outdoor spaces in hot desert cities. This study investigates the impact of photovoltaic canopy shade and tree shade on thermal comfort through meteorological observations and field surveys at a pedestrian mall on Arizona State University's Tempe campus. During the course of 1 year, on selected clear calm days representative of each ...

Food Habits of Bald Eagles Breeding in the Arizona Desert

-of 1814 foraging attempts, prey captures, or nest deliveries by Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus Zeucocephalus) in 14 Arizona breeding areas during 1983-1985, 1471 observations were identifiable to at least class: fish (76%), mammal (18%), bird (4%), and reptile/ amphibian (2%). Forty-five species were recorded: catfish (Zctalurus punctatus, fylodictis olivaris), suckers (Catostomus ins&k, C. clarki), ...

Bed-site Selection by Desert Mule Deer in Southern Arizona

We compared bed sites selected by desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus eremicus) to nearby random sites to assess bed site features. Thermal cover of bed sites (i.e., vegetation -75 cm high that provided shade for a deer) was highest in summer (X = 43.7% + 4.1 SE) compared to spring (29.7% + 4.4), winter (33.5% ? 3.1), and autumn (39.8% + 4.0); however, selection for bed sites with thermal cov...

Bryant Creel. The Voice of the Phoenix: Metaphors of Death and Rebirth in Classics of the Iberian Renaissance. Tempe: Arizona

Reproductive rituals

TEIZO OGAWA (editor), History of obstetrics (Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine-East and West), Tokyo, Division of Medical History, Taniguchi Foundation, 1984, 8vo, pp. viii, 283, illus., [no price stated]. ANN OAKLEY, The captured womb. A history of the medical care of pregnant women, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1984, 8vo, pp. x, 351, illus.,...