—Alteration and loss of habitat is a major factor in the recent declines of many turtle populations. However, there are few studies of turtle populations in areas that are used intensively by humans. We used temporal symmetry modeling and an information-theoretic approach to model selection to estimate survival and recruitment in a population of Ornate Box Turtles, Terrapene ornata, in fragment...

Turtle Mountain, the site of the 1903 the Frank Slide, has been widely studied. A large database of structural measurements allows the comparison and testing of recently developed techniques. This paper commences with a review of recent mapping of Turtle Mountain. A report on a recent investigation of the mountain using a combination of airborne and terrestrial laser scanning techniques is then...

Baby boomers will begin entering old age in 2011. They will be the largest and most diverse cohort ever to experience this life-course transition. The sheer number of baby boomers has challenged institutions time after time (Dychtwald, 1990). Despite extensive speculation regarding the political, economic, and social impact that the aging of baby boomers will have on American society, no one ha...

We argue that the giant graviton configurations known from the literature have a complementary, microscopical description in terms of multiple gravitational waves undergoing a dielectric (or magnetic moment) effect. We present a non-Abelian effective action for these gravitational waves with dielectric couplings and show that stable dielectric solutions exist. These solutions agree in the large...

All seven extant species of sea turtles are considered endangered or threatened with extinction. Because of their commercial value for food (particularly the green turtle) and for craft materials (bekko or tortoiseshell from the hawksbill turtle) they have been heavily exploited around the world. Sea turtles are also charismatic animals to view in large aquaria and three species have proven eas...

A common analogy for describing newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients is to think of turtles, rabbits, and birds. This is an analogy that prostate cancer appears to be attributable to Hinman, who borrowed from Crile when applied to breast cancer (1). Turtles are patients with very slow growing disease. Their disease grows so slowly that they need not be diagnosed, for the disease will never ...

Increases in the spatial scale and intensity of activities that produce marine anthropogenic sound highlight the importance of understanding the impacts and effects of sound on threatened species such as marine turtles. Marine turtles detect and behaviorally respond to low-frequency sounds, however few studies have directly examined their behavioral responses to specific types or intensities of...

A picture produced by logo on the screen can be mirrored into its SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) description on the file. These files provide a high quality records (snap-shots) of logo screen to be included in other documents – web pages. Logo2SVG is a collection of logo commands, for MSW Logo, that by redefining turtle commands support the mirroring of turtle movement into the SVG.

An adult Ouachita Map Turtle (Graptemys ouachitensis) was presented for consultation with multifocal, erosive and ulcerative lesions, multiple fissures on the plastron shell, dermatitis members head. Samples of shell scrapings were collected routine microbial culturing Fusarium solani isolated from samples. To author’s knowledge, this is first reported case F. associated cutaneous mycosis in tu...