National Parks and Self-Restraint

Drebrin shows self-restraint

Injured neurons pump up the volume A wounded axon sends out a long-distance distress signal. HuntworkRodriguez et al. uncovered a positive feedback loop that might amplify the alarm and help it spread along the axon. A damaged axon dispatches an alert to the cell body, which fi res up genes that— depending on the neuron’s location—trigger healing or cause the axon to degenerate and the cell to ...

Exploitation of freshwater eels in National Parks

Mercury in Fish from National Parks

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic, global contaminant that threatens ecosystem and human health. Human activities have increased atmospheric concentrations 3-5 fold during the past 150 years. Airborne Hg enters environmental cycles in complex ways, resulting in the contamination of even remote places. The National Park Service (NPS) protects some of the most pristine and sensitive wilderness in North Ame...

Conservation Geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of National Parks, Community Conservation and Peace Parks

Sub-Saharan Africa has been the location of intense conservation planning since the colonial era. Under the auspices of wilderness protection, colonial authorities established national parks largely for the purpose of hunting and tourism while forcibly evicting indigenous populations. Concerns about the ethical and economic impacts of protected areas have generated interest in community conserv...

Self-esteem, restraint, and eating behavior.

The mediating influence of self-esteem on disinhibited eating was assessed in restrained and unrestrained subjects. Self-esteem was unrelated to the eating behavior of unrestrained subjects following a preload, but did moderate the disinhibitory effects of a preload on restrained subjects. Specifically, only those restrained subjects with low self-esteem displayed disinhibited eating after a pr...