ions/ Intangibles činŭ ‘rank’, sanŭ ‘rank’, darŭ ‘gift’, rodŭ ‘clan’, grěxŭ ‘sin’, polŭ ‘half’, mirŭ ‘peace’ Associated with Czech, Polish, and Russian Gsg -u and Lsg -u We will focus our attention on the short-u-stem endings that survived the collapse of their paradigm. The few nouns that were associated with the old short-u-paradigm were absorbed into the o-stem masculine paradigm, but retain...

Our increasingly urbanized society and our technology-mediated lifestyles distance most of us from the biological and non-human physical world. Environmental problems present a challenge for education and outreach because they are inherently complex, interdependent, and interrelated. The need for environmentally literate citizens has never been greater. We need people who can work toward an eco...

1. Understanding and accurately predicting the spatial patterns of habitat use by organisms is important for ecological research, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. However, this understanding is complicated by the effects of spatial scale, because the scale of analysis affects the quantification of species-environment relationships. 2. We therefore assessed the influence of en...

Developmental, learning, and behavioral disabilities are a significant public health problem. Environmental chemicals can interfere with brain development during critical periods, thereby impacting sensory, motor, and cognitive function. Because regulation in the United States is based on limited testing protocols and essentially requires proof of harm rather than proof of lack of harm, some un...

Stochasticity alters the nonlinear dynamics of inherently cycling populations. The power spectrum can describe and explain the impacts of stochasticity. We fitted models to short observed time series of flour beetle populations in the frequency domain, then used a well fitting stochastic mechanistic model to generate detailed predictions of population spectra. Some predicted spectral peaks repr...

We cannot "imagine a visual or auditory event that is nonspatial or atemporar' (Handel, 1988, p. 315); this statement either begs the question or is false. He claims that people mentally transform space and time in both modalities; I argue that we never mentally transform auditory space but often transpose in pitch and translate in time. Handel claims that all other "modality translations," inc...