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The Zoobitat Animal Rescue early reader series introduces young readers to wildlife conservation through gentle, engaging stories about wildlife in need. In Zoobitat Animal Rescue: The African Savanna Elephant, children follow kid ZoobiRangers Jolly and Jordy across the vast grasslands habitat. As they save an elephant from a wildfire, readers learn about these "gentle giants" and the savanna in which they live. Designed for early readers, this full-color picture book supports emerging literacy while fostering curiosity, empathy, and environmental awareness. The Zoobitat Animal Rescue series is STEM.org Accredited and created to help children build reading confidence while learning why animals and habitats matter. Proceeds from this book support wildlife conservation education.

Firms typically treat their costs as tightly-guarded secrets. In six studies, we test the effect of firm disclosure of the costs to produce a given product (i.e., cost transparency) on purchase interest. We begin with a natural field experiment conducted with an online retailer, in which cost transparency increased sales (Study 1A). We subsequently replicate this field experiment in a controlled lab setting (Study 1B), and show that cost transparency is particularly potent in boosting purchase interest above other forms of transparency (Study 2). Guided by our theoretical framework, Studies 3 and 4 show that the effect is mediated by consumers trust in the firm, with Study 4 showing that this mediator explains variance above and beyond perceptions of price fairness. Finally, Study 5 demonstrates the critical role of the voluntary nature of the disclosure, by showing that cost transparency boosts purchase interest only when voluntarily instated by the firm, as opposed to involuntarily (e.g., as required by law). These results imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm s bottom line.

Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff between making an optimal decision and sending a favorable signal. We provide experimental evidence on the choices made by decision makers in such settings. Equilibrium assumptions that are commonly applied to analyze these situations yield the least cost separating outcome as the unique equilibrium. In this equilibrium, the more informed party undertakes a costly signal to resolve the information asymmetry that exists. We provide evidence, however, that participants are much more likely to pursue a pooling outcome when such an outcome is available. This result is important for research and practice because pooling and separating outcomes can yield dramatically different results and have divergent implications. We find evidence that the choice to pool is influenced by changes in the underlying newsvendor model parameters in our setting. In robustness tests, we show that choosing a pooling outcome is especially pronounced among participants who report a high level of understanding of the setting and that participants who pool are rewarded by the less informed party with higher payoffs. Finally, we demonstrate through a reexamination of Lai et al. (2012) and Cachon and Lariviere (2001) how pooling outcomes can substantively extend the implications of other extant signaling game models in the operations management literature.

Jesus' prayer of forgiveness in Luke 23:34a, one of the "seven words from the cross," remains disputed among textual critics. Although some scholars argue that external evidence supports the short reading, others see the external evidence as inconclusive. This thesis analyzes the arguments for and against the prayer's originality, and renders a judgment for the long reading based on a combination of external, internal, and transcriptional evidence. In addition, it suggests a possible explanation for the excision of the prayer, namely, that an attitude of anti-Judaism among some second century scribes, combined with the logion's interpretation as a prayer for Jews, led some scribes to remove the prayer from a text which originally included it.

Exposure to environmental or physiological stress results in a decrease in mental and physical performance. The less control the individual has over these stresses, the greater the decrement. The decrease in performance, particularly mental performance, results from a depletion of catecholamines within the brain. This decrease, especially in norepinephrine, leads to alterations in normal brain function and an increase in error rates, decreased decision making ability, mental confusion, and an overall decrease in cognitive performance. All of these are compounded the longer the individual is unable to remove the stress. Previous studies involving rats and humans have shown that supplemental tyrosine (levels above normal dietary intake) prevent the normal decrease in performance in stressed individuals. Tyrosine, the initial precursor in catecholamine synthesis, works by increasing the availability of the precursor and thereby slowing the rate of norepinephrine depletion. Nine healthy subjects from the Colorado State University community were exposed to a 3-hour protocol that was repeated for 4 different environmental conditions. During each exposure profile, the following stressors were placed on the subjects: (1) hypobaric environment of 21,000 feet (only for two of the four exposure profiles); (2) immobilization in the form of a confined space (4' x 3'), the restriction of movement for a period of three hours, and the use of a breathing hood; (3) boredom associated with periods of prolonged inactivity; (4) behavioral and psychophysiological testing; (5) cool temperatures and low humidity; and (6) a sustained 71 dB(A) noisy chamber environment. During the course of each exposure, subjects performed several computerized vigilance and cognitive tests and completed a mood questionnaire. Each test was separated by a period of inactivity. Prior to each exposure, subjects were given either 100 mg/ kg body weight of a placebo or tyrosine in capsule form.

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"This thesis project was centered on developing an electronic tool for collecting observation data that could be used for functional behavioral assessments and individualized education programs. Currently, most behavioral data collection methods utitilize paper forms to record observations. Using paper forms and transcribing the information to another format for analysis is a long and arduous process. As a result, less data is collected and analyzed. The electronic tool developed for thesis project uses a Google Sheet that is owned and controlled by the user. The information in the spreadsheet is used to create a customized observation checklist and store the observations. Since the observations are recorded directly into an electronic format it is immediately available for analysis, saving the teacher a significant amount of time. The teacher has an instantaneous view of behavior trends, can track student progress and spend more time working with students in a meaningful way."--Abstract, leaf vi.

The potential impact of combined optical and electrochemical measurements goes well beyond the study of basic biophysical mechanisms. This strategy can provide significant technological benefit. In biodetection, for example, this scheme offers the specificity of biochemical interactions, the sensitivity of single molecule fluorescence detection, and the amplification afforded by the opening of a membrane channel. In medicinal chemistry, similar strategies provide new ways of testing drug candidates under high - throughput conditions.

ABSTRACT: Chronic inflammation stimulates mammary tumourigenesis by disrupting signalling interactions between the epithelial ducts and the surrounding stromal microenvironment. Adipocyte enhancer-binding protein 1 (AEBP1) promotes mammary epithelial cell hyperplasia as a stromal factor that enhances activity of the proinflammatory transcription factor Nuclear Factor-?B (NF-?B) in macrophages. Aberrant NF-?B activity in macrophages elevates production of proinflammatory signals and the ligand sonic hedgehog (Shh), a significant contributor to tumourigenesis. In this study, Shh expression was elevated in macrophages isolated from transgenic mice (AEBP1TG) that overexpress AEBP1. Transient overexpression of AEBP1 in a macrophage cell line resulted in increased Shh expression. Furthermore, hedgehog target genes Gli1 and Bmi1 were up-regulated in mammary epithelium of AEBP1TG mice and HC11 mammary epithelial cells co-cultured with AEBP1TG macrophages. Growth of HC11 cells and mammary tumours was enhanced in response to AEBP1TG macrophages. These findings suggest that macrophage AEBP1 overexpression contributes to mammary hyperplasia through enhanced hedgehog signalling.