This article examines archaeological studies of the cultural heritage and social dynamics of African descendant populations in the United States and Canada from AD 1400 through 1865. European colonial enterprises expanded in Africa and the Americas during that time span, effecting an accompanying movement of free and captive Africans into North America. Archaeological investigations of early Af...

......................................................................................viii Publications and presentations.............................................................x Acknowledgements...........................................................................xi Chapter 1: Sleep-related activities of monkeys and the great apes..................1 1.1 Biological functions and deter...

The documentary film Blackfish (2013; www.blackfishmovie.com) follows Tilikum, a captive SeaWorld prisoner-orca responsible for the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau and two others. The film has had a profound effect on public perceptions of orca captivity creating the “Blackfish Effect.” Our critical analysis of the film engages Plec’s (2013) internatural communication categories of complicity, ...

This study, using the method of direct collection feces, investigated captive giant pandas daily intakes and apparent digestibility coefficients of diet dominantly comprised of Phyllostachys vivax bamboo shoots. The results showed that the captive giant pandas daily ingested ~2818 g (dry mass) of bamboo shoots (corresponding to ~42 kg of fresh bamboo shoots with shells). Based on this daily int...

Purpose – The motivation for this research is to contribute towards development of a management framework for offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Design/methodology/approach This paper utilises longitudinal case studies to identify success factors in managing offshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) via the captive model (i.e. wholly-owned subsidiary). Findings – Success in offshore...

the number of lambs sold per ewe mated in the breeding flock has a considerable impact on sheep operation profitability. this depends primarily on fertility, prolificacy (# of lambs), and lamb survival, mothering ability, milk production of the ewe and lamb growth rate. optimal reproduction does vary by environment and management system – some sheep operations don’t want a lambing rate over 200...

This document describes a DHCP option (and a Router Advertisement (RA) extension) to inform clients that they are behind some sort of captive-portal device and that they will need to authenticate to get Internet access. It is not a full solution to address all of the issues that clients may have with captive portals; it is designed to be used in larger solutions. The method of authenticating to...

This paper represents a review of different tagging activities carried out on bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Except in Croatia where tagging has been done on captive specimens, all other tagging campaigns, performed within framework of joint European Tuna Tagging Programme, have been done on bluefin tuna released in the open sea. Besides the taggin...

Dama wallabies (Macropus eugenii) are considered significant pests in the Bay of Plenty. FeraCol, a possum control product, was tested for palatability and efficacy on eight penned male dama wallabies. FeraCol had very low palatability to captive wallabies. Only one wallaby ate a lethal dose, and it died 4 days later. FeraCol, in its present form, would be unsuitable for controlling dama wallab...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between stres and cortisol levels in captive animals. Stress is defined as a physiologic response to events perceived as potentially or actually threatening the integrity of the body. Serum, saliva or urine cortisol has been extensively used as a stress indicator in many mammalian species. Stereotypic behavior is exhibited by a wide ...