of the Fmr1 rat training‚ we have 1 rat that finished the challenge trials running on reminder S8b schedules. It is a male wild type that performed with more than 75% accuracy with fewer than 10% omissions. The second rat was run on baseline schedule today and it performed exceptionally well with 88% accuracy and 8% omission. - The 2 rats running on the baseline trials are performing at less than criterion rates with one rat showing 60% accuracy and 37% omission rate whereas second rat performed
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Endangered Species Kangaroo Rat Habitat The Kangaroo Rat lives in arid areas. Many live in the western and southwestern deserts of the US such as California‚ and between the Sierra Nevada /Cacscade and Rocky mountains from southern Canada to central Mexico. The type of habitat Kangaroo Rats live in are sandy‚ rocky soils in deserts with little vegetation. They live in underground burrows that go in at an angle. Some Kangaroo Rats prefer to live in grass-land habitats that are well developed
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ten years the worlds population has been increasing considerably due to certain factors in different countries. Some of these factors include birth rates‚ death rates and fertility rates. The human population jumped considerably in 100 years from 1.6 billion to 6.0 billion in the years 1900-2000. A new century (20th) meant that despite having two world wars the standards of living started to improve and peoples’ life expectancy increased. In 2002 the worlds population increased by 1.2 percent
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conditioning in rats. The purpose of the experiment was to condition rats to suppress certain hunger behaviors such as water licking. Burdick and James paired the neutral stimulus of white light with shock in a “test chamber” to see if rats would develop an association between the two stimuli. Naturally‚ shock induces a fear-like freezing behavior‚ and after being conditioned the rats displayed the same behavior but only to the white light. Furthermore‚ they would then place the rats back in their
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in this part of the province. The province recorded an economic growth rate of 4.9% in 2004/05 compared with 4.5% in 2003/04. The largest contributors to the GDP of the province in 2004 were the mining and quarrying industries (24.9%)‚ finance‚ real estate and business services (13.6%) and the general government services sector (12.1%). Of the 3‚374‚200 people living in the North West‚ 65% live in the rural areas (Mid-Year Population Estimates‚ 2006). The official unemployment rate is 31.8% (Labour
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(RATS OF FRIGHT MARES!)- BY DIVYA SRIMOHANAKUMAR There was an apartment in the heart of a desolate island. The grim and gloomy building was the worst she’d ever seen; it was rather like a colossal abandoned dungeon unlike a glamorous place to live in. The salvaged‚ antique doors and windows were enshrouded with a solid layer of grime‚ which looked as if it had been untouched for centuries. The shrivelling trees lamented the imminent‚ tragic demise of their dominating‚ sovereign rulers (THE GNAW
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The word “Population Growth” has its origin from the latin words ‘Populus’ meaning people. According to ecological term; “population is group of people of the same species occupying a particular space”. Population is subdivided further into demes or local population which is group of interbreeding organism in demes; they share a common gene pool. Population density is defined as a number of individual per unit area or per unit volume of environment. When the size of the individual is uniform the
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Date: 18th March 2014 Aim/Hypothesis: To compare the anatomy of the cane toad and the rat in order to find the differences of two different animals and how the animal has changed throughout time to suit its living conditions. Materials and Safety/Ethical considerations: List materials used in the dissection Safety and hygiene equipment: Gloves Glasses Newspaper All benches were wiped Method: 1. A rat and a cane toad were dissected to compare their similarities and differences in anatomy
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2) ExxonMobil: Exxon Mobil is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving‚ Texas‚ United States. The world’s largest company by revenue‚ ExxonMobil is also the second largest publicly traded company by market capitalization. Its ranking was #2 on the list of fortune 500 companies-2014. ExxonMobil’s entrance in the market of Qatar is basically a diversification strategy. Tapping into new markets and new products is indicative of this. They are setting up 4 Liquefied
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Population Growth and Competition in Lemna sp. and Spirodela sp.1 Joane C. Tampoco Group 3 Sec. U-1L August 8-29‚ 2009 _____________________ 1A scientific paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements in Ecology laboratory under MS. Faith Maranan‚ 1st sem.‚ 2009-2010. INTRODUCTION Population growth is the change in population over time‚ and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals
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