Author Jennifer K. Sutton shares fragments from her birth, dance performance profession, massage therapy profession, self-healing, birth of son, and mothering. Natural adventures in search for greater good from the heart with all of her ancestors.
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP Environmental Science exam About the book: Introduction Reviews of the AP exam format and scoring Proven strategies for answering matching; problem solving; multiple choice; cause and effect; tables, graphs, and charts; and basic math questions Hints for tackling the free-response questions Part I: Subject Reviews Cover all subject areas you'll be tested on: Earth's systems and resources The living world Population Land and water use Energy resources and consumption Pollution Global change Part II: Practice Exams 3 full-length practice exams with answers and complete explanations Proven test-taking strategies Focused reviews of all exam topics 3 full-length practice exams
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP Environmental Science exam About the book: Introduction Reviews of the AP exam format and scoring Proven strategies for answering matching; problem solving; multiple choice; cause and effect; tables, graphs, and charts; and basic math questions Hints for tackling the free-response questions Part I: Subject Reviews Cover all subject areas you'll be tested on: Earth's systems and resources The living world Population Land and water use Energy resources and consumption Pollution Global change Part II: Practice Exams 3 full-length practice exams with answers and complete explanations Proven test-taking strategies Focused reviews of all exam topics 3 full-length practice exams
Meet Katie Sutton. She may just look like your average thirteen-year-old girl but in reality, she's the world's leading expert in Grown Up behavior. And you're in luck because in your hands you hold a one-of-a-kind guide to training your parent and becoming highly skilled at: understanding their insane behavior, predicting their next moves, and operating them to your best advantage. So please keep this book out of the way of your grown up, we don't want them going into "grumpy mode" too soon.
When romance finally blossoms in her life, will it grow in the right direction? Emma Sutton knows she should be satisfied with her life. She has a position at London's Central Telegraph Office, and behind her rented rooms is a small plot where she can indulge her passion for gardening. But ever since she was orphaned as a child, she has longed for a family of her own and the stability and consistency it provides. Her deepest wish appears realized when a handsome engineer is thrown into her orbit and sends her a thrilling love note. Mitchell Harris's sharp wit and facility with a pen have enabled him to thrive despite serious obstacles. That the woman of his dreams works just two floors above his should make life perfect. But a childhood accident has left Mitchell convinced he'll never draw a woman's affection, especially from someone like Emma. When his best friend--who once saved his life--falls in love with Emma too and asks for help writing her love letters, Mitchell must choose between desire and loyalty.
Pigeons' attention to time, space, and visual pattern was investigated in a series of experiments. Birds were trained on two delayed symbolic matching-to-sample tasks: a judgement of the duration of a white key arid a line orientation discrimination (Experiment 1) or a duration discrimination of a center white key and a left or right spatial location discrimination (Experiment 2). When pigeons were required to estimate the duration of the stimulus used in the non-temporal conditional discrimination task, they performed at chance level. Birds were then explicitly trained to time the duration of the visual pattern or spatial location stimulus. Test sessions consisted of trials which tested duration and trials which tested line orientation (Experiment 3a) or spatial location (Experiment 3b). Pigeons judged duration on these tests at a high level of accuracy. These results indicate that pigeons can simultaneously process time and visual pattern or spatial location.
Using the landmark transformation technique, previous research on multiple landmark use by pigeons (Columba livia) has shown that pigeons tend to encode a goal location relative to a single landmark instead of a group of landmarks. Based on these findings, it has been assumed that pigeons are unable to encode a goal location relative to the entire configuration of a landmark arrangement. The current experiments sought to determine whether making the configuration of landmarks in an arena a discriminative cue to the location of food would result in accurate piloting to the goal, and whether the goal location would be encoded relative to the configuration of landmarks, instead of just one. Four uniquely colored and shaped landmarks were presented in one of two configurations within a square-shaped arena. The buried food goal was located in different areas of the arena based on the landmark configuration. In Experiment 1, pigeons were given unbaited search trials with each of two configurations, as well as trials when the landmarks were not present in the arena. Pigeons searched accurately with the two configurations, but searched between the two goal locations on trials with no landmarks present. In Experiment 2, after training with the two configurations, pigeons were given unbaited tests on which the arena was rotated and the configurations were approached from novel perspectives. Results showed disruption in search accuracy on novel perspective trials. In Experiment 3, pigeons were give experience with two approach directions for each configuration in training and were tested with novel perspectives. There was no improvement in search accuracy after such training. In Experiment 4, test trials were conducted where one landmark was shifted away from its position in training to determine whether a single landmark was used to encode the goal (by resulting in a shift of pigeons' searching). Pigeons did not shift their searches to follow any specific landmark, indicating that information from the remaining landmarks was sufficient to search accurately. These experiments demonstrate that landmark piloting in pigeons is more flexible than previously thought, and that procedural differences may be the cause of discrepant findings.
National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
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ISBN 10
0612671976
ISBN 13
9780612671973
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