On the mortality and management of a ubiquitous musteloid: the common raccoon

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel I. Zeveloff
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Current Distribution ◽  
The State ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Common

This chapter initially provides an overview of the current distribution and status of the common raccoon in North America. Its overall numbers and distribution, and even its utilization of certain habitats have changed dramatically; all largely within the past century. This contribution then examines how the numbers of raccoons that are killed or ‘harvested’ have changed during the last century. The term ‘harvest’ is commonly used by wildlife managers in North America to refer to the number of animals taken by hunters and trappers, for sport, or to utilize and sell their fur. The policies that determine raccoon exploitation by such practices are herein reviewed. There is an assessment of whether and how population variables are considered in establishing these hunting and trapping policies. Ultimately, this analysis reveals the state of raccoon management and offers thoughts about its potential paths.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Anne Billson
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right ◽  
World Premiere

This chapter introduces the Swedish vampire film, Låt den rätte komma (Let the Right One In), which not only stands out from contemporary vampire films, but ranks among the very best vampire movies of the past century. The chapter mentions director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist, who adapted Låt den rätte komma from his own novel of the same name. It also mentions a song by the lugubrious British rock singer-songwriter Morrissey as Lindqvist's inspiration for the title of his novel 'Let the Right One Slip In'. It recounts Let the Right One In's world premiere on 26 January 2008 at the Göteborg International Film Festival in Sweden and screening at other festivals in Europe, North America, Australia and South Korea. The chapter explains why Let the Right One In stands head and shoulders above other recent horror movies like Twilight from 2008.

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Teubner Texts

1961 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-171
Author(s):  
Bruno Doer
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Publishing Firm ◽  
The Past ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Future ◽  
Do So ◽  
A Share

It is always agreeable to offer congratulations to someone who is celebrating a jubilee. It is a particular pleasure to do so when the ‘child’ whose birthday it is can look back over 150 years of existence, and all those who have a share in the jubilee may reflect that the thanks for the achievements of the past and wishes for the future serve the cause of publicity. For no one who sets out to discuss the state of classical studies in Germany can, or should, fail to mention the Leipzig publishing firm of B. G. Teubner. Here publishing and scholarship have in the past century and a half formed an indissoluble partnership which has made it its duty to provide the best texts for use in the study of classical antiquity.

scholarly journals Chronology of Range Expansion of the Coyote, Canis latrans, in New York

2005 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather M. Fener ◽  
Joshua R. Ginsberg ◽  
Eric W. Sanderson ◽  
Matthew E. Gompper
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Canis Latrans ◽  
The State ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Proximate Mechanisms ◽  
The North ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
Correlative Relationship

Coyotes (Canis latrans) were historically restricted to central North America. In less than two centuries, however, Coyotes have colonized most of the continent, including much of northeastern North America. Better understanding causes and proximate mechanisms of this expansion requires a detailed understanding of how Coyotes colonized areas on a fine scale. We examined the establishment of Coyotes in the State of New York by collecting and analyzing reports of their first occurrence throughout the state over the past century, and creating a detailed map of range expansion. Coyotes first entered New York from the north, circled the Adirondack region prior to colonizing it, and then expanded southward and westward at ca. 78-90 km/decade. The revealed pattern lends little support to the hypotheses that the range expansion is attributable to translocations and releases, or that Coyotes were historically present in the region and only recently expanded in numbers. Rather, the data suggest a correlative relationship between anthropogenic land use and Coyote range expansion.

scholarly journals Global Hegemony and Place-Based Resistance: Citizenship, Representation, and Place in Canadian Multiculturalism and the Zapatista Movement

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-60
Author(s):  
Cameron J.H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Zapatista Movement ◽  
The Common ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

The Zapatista movement that began in Southern Mexico in 1994 continues to offer a sharp break from the common politics of indigenous communities in North America. In order to develop an understanding of this break, this article contrasts the different conceptions of place and citizenship within the Zapatista movement to those within Canadian multiculturalism. This allows one to see the ways in which colonial representation over space work to redirect conceptions of citizenship from place into the hegemonic ordering of the State and capital. Through this exploration the relationships between conceptions of citizenship, representation over space, and colonial hegemony are presented.

scholarly journals Russian Turkestan Expeditions in 1909–1910 and 1914–1915: Findings and Prospects of the Study of Archives

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Mihail Buharin
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Oriental Studies

In 2018–2020, a group of researchers of the project “The Second Russian Turkestan Expedition of Academician Sergei Oldenburg in 1914–1915. Unpublished Materials from RAS Archives” have identified and prepared for publication the entire body of primary scientific documents from RAS archives. The documents fully cover the work of Russian researchers in studying Qianfodong and Turpan Oasis. Through their efforts, the works that undoubtedly represent the greatest achievements of Russian Oriental studies in their entire history are being introduced to academia. The biographies of all the participants of the works have been largely restored, and their previously unknown correspondence has been prepared for publication. The key result of the research was the preparation for publication of Academician Sergei Oldenburg’s “Description of the Qianfodong Caves near Dunhuang”. The importance of Oldenburg’s paper in the site study has only increased over the past century. The most promising areas for further work include the restoration and preparation for printing of the photographic archive of the Second Russian Turkestan Expedition consisting of over 2,000 images stored in the State Hermitage Museum. The publication of this photographic archive will completely fill a major gap in the history of Russian Oriental studies.

American Religious History—Decentered with Many Centers

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Stein
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Correct Answer ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious History ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Rich

This panel poses the question, “Is there a center to American religious history?” We historians live in a world and work in a period when the politically correct answer to the question is, “Of course not!” In this day of decentered religious historiography the celebration of radical diversity seems to prohibit any other response. In our publications and teaching we set out to expose readers and students to the rich religious pluralism in America. We catalogue the traditions that reach back to colonial times, the communities that filled out the wider spectrum of religious options during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, and the new religious movements that have appeared since the midpoint of the past century. One publication that provides a contemporary index to this inclusive catalogical approach is J. Gordon Mellon's Encyclopedia of American Religions, which in its fifth edition filled 1,150 pages with data regarding more than 2,100 discrete religious organizations in America, from the Aaronic Order to the Zoroastrian Associations in North America.

scholarly journals Pandemics and the role of governments

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (S1) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Of The State

Abstract The recent pandemic has raised fundamental questions about the traditional role of government. That role has stressed the pursuit of national interests and identified the tools that governments should use in the pursuit of those interests. While over the past century the desirable role of the state was amended to include new objectives (such as equity and stabilization) the focus had remained national interests. This paper argues that this national focus has become increasingly anachronistic and damaging.

scholarly journals Sovereignty this Century - Maori and the Common Law Constitution

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
P G McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

This paper is an attempt to give a panorama of constitutional life in New Zealand this century as viewed through a particularly important window, the status of the aboriginal Maori people of these islands. Questions of Maori rights and their position in the constitutional order have become burning issues in this final quarter century and represent an immense challenge for the next. This exploration is particularly appropriate as we celebrate a century of law teaching in this capital city at a University which has produced many if not most of this country's distinguished and influential public lawyers. In many respects, the history we are about to review is also a history of common law constitutionalism in this country as well to a lesser extent as similar Anglophonic jurisdictions. We are looking not just at how that part of the common law we call "public law" has dealt with a particular ethnic group. Through this aboriginal window we are looking at the changing logic and reach of public law through the past century and at the nature and character of the common law itself.

scholarly journals Anthropogenic impacts on mosquito populations in North America over the past century

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilia Rochlin ◽  
Ary Faraji ◽  
Dominick V. Ninivaggi ◽  
Christopher M. Barker ◽  
A. Marm Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past

Dr. Olga Jonasson: A Pioneer for Women in Surgery

2021 ◽  
pp. 000313482110545
Author(s):  
Emily Hejna ◽  
Thea Price
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Transplantation ◽  
The State ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Female Physicians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tremendous Progress ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

The advancement of women in surgery has seen tremendous progress over the past century. Among the many physicians who paved the way for women in surgery is Dr. Olga Jonasson, a Chicago-based transplant surgeon who performed the first kidney transplantation in the state of Illinois in 1969. Her passion for service and drive for greater female representation in medicine was massively influential to the field. Aspiring female physicians are forever indebted to the efforts of Dr. Jonasson and the bold women who came before us.

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