The novella Coraline follows a young girl as she rescues her parents from an alternate reality. In his short story, author Neil Gaiman covers scarcely one week of Coraline’s life. Still, the descriptions of Coraline’s experiences and thoughts can engage Carl Jung’s psychological theories of personality structure and individuation. In particular, I will analyze how Coraline’s character illustrat...

Provisioners capture items both for delivery and for self-feeding. In doing so, they may travel directly to and from a single location, visit several patches on each excursion from a delivery point, or alternate excursions to different destinations. Prey suitable for self-feeding versus delivery have differing attributes, which means that they are often best sought in different places. Visiting...

Apples show biennial fluctuations in yields (alternate bearing). The alternate bearing cycle can be broken by reducing excessive flowers using either chemical or mechanical means. Currently, automatic thinning systems are treating the trees uniformly despite the fact that neighbouring trees can have a very different numbers of flowers resulting in different thinning requirements. In order to so...

Tu, Yicheng, M.S., Purdue University, December, 2000. Endogenous Gibberellins in Developing Apple Seeds in Relation to Biennial Bearing. Major Professor: Peter M. Hirst. It is believed that Gibberellins (GA) produced in apple seeds act as an inhibitory signal to flower induction in the neighboring buds. As an exception, GA4 is not inhibitory and sometimes found to be promotive to apple flowerin...

Effects of girdling on carbohydrate status and carbohydrate-related gene expression in citrus trees were investigated. Alternate-bearing 'Murcott' (a Citrus reticulata hybrid of unknown origin) trees were girdled during autumn (25 Sep. 2001) and examined 10 weeks later. Girdling brought about carbohydrate (soluble sugar and starch) accumulation in leaves and shoot bark above the girdle, in tree...

Using HPLC, the seasonal changes in the phenolic compound content of the leaves of the Gemlik olive cultivar (Olea europaea L) has been investigated with respect to the effects on the alternate bearing of the cultivar. For this purpose, the leaf concentrations of oleuropein, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, 3-hydroxycinnamic acid, scopolin and pcoumaric acid were analyzed at 10 day intervals aro...

Quercus crispula (=Q. mongolica var. grosseserrata) is the predominant tree species in cool temperate, mixed broadleaf/conifer forests in northern Japan. We compared 11 years of data on acorn production in a population of Q. crispula, with data on seed-insect populations, to try to answer the following questions: (1) Does Q. crispula show a regular pattern of masting? (2) How long do principal ...