Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie

Laura Carruth

LH: Tell me more about your work with teachers. LC: I run a week-long professional development workshop for K–12 teachers called “Why They Do What They Do at the Zoo: Animal Behavior and the Brain.” Also, I facilitate a summer neuroscience-themed camp for middle school-aged children. Both are sponsored by the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. These projects have also received support from the...

No specialty alone: the Wilder Penfield strategy.

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...

Family Life on the Prairie

The prairie vole has become a flagship species for the biomedical exploration of the neurobiology of social bonding (Carter et al., 1995; Young et al., 2005). It is a species native to the prairies of Midwest North America, and adults show social “ monogamy” – a suite of behaviors including the formation of an emotional pair-bond with an adult partner; shared care of offspring including male ca...

Recent range expansion and divergence among North American Prairie Grouse.

Prairie grouse (genus: Tympanuchus) once existed throughout much of North America but have recently experienced significant population declines, isolation, and extinction. In previous molecular studies, contrasting patterns or an unresolved polytomy among Tympanuchus taxa (Tympanuchus phasianellus, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, and Tympanuchus cupido) have resulted from traditional phylogenetic m...