RECENT EXPLORATIONS IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

Recent Discoveries Oe Cambrian Beds in the Northwestern United States

Diets of Swift Foxes (vulpes Velox) in Continuous and Fragmented Prairie in Northwestern Texas

Distribution of the swift fox (Vulpes velox) has declined dramatically since the 1800s, and suggested causes of this decline are habitat fragmentation and transformation due to agricultural expansion. However, impacts of fragmentation and human-altered habitats on swift foxes still are not well understood. To better understand what effects these factors have on diets of swift foxes, scats were ...

Survival of Female Northern Pintails Wintering in the Playa Lakes Region of Northwestern Texas

The continental population of northern pintails (Anas acuta; hereafter pintails) has declined since the late 1970s, possibly due to poor breeding propensity, low nest success, and low survival rates in response to habitat loss. Survival estimates are unavailable for several winter and migration areas including the Playa Lakes Region (PLR) of northwestern Texas, USA. We investigated winter survi...

Buddhism Architecture in Northwestern Iran

Architecture is not only a complex including materials and methods to provide a shelter for human beings, but also it is an expression of the society, which created that. Its form will be the reflection of values and religious orientation besides social maturity of the related society and its structure will narrate the nature, power and different dimensions of mythical and psychological aspects...

Explorations in AlphaWorld

In this paper I will examine the geography of one particular type of virtual reality virtual worlds. They are publicly available on the Internet and are designed for social interaction in real-time. The two key elements of these systems that move them beyond conventional computer-mediated communication channels into the realm of virtual reality are the shared graphical environment in which inte...