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Classical conditioning of attack behavior in squirrel monkeys.
(Dalhousie University, 1976)
A review of the literature on classical conditioning of pain elicited attack suggested that the use of a bite-tube as a CS should produce strong conditioned attack in Squirrel monkeys. In Experiment I, however, it was found ...
The Physiological Significance of the Peculiar Morphology of the Pitcher-Like Leaves of Sarracenia Purpurea L.
(1974-09-11)
The physiological interaction of the pitcher-leaves of Sarracenia purpurea L. with its immediate environment is described quantitatively, in terms of radiant and detrital energy fluxes. The insectivorous nature of the plant ...
Breeding Biology and Behaviour of the Piping Plover (Charadrius Melodus) in Southern Nova Scotia
(1977-05)
Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) were studied in 1975 and 1976 in southern Nova Scotia. The birds arrived on the breeding grounds in late April and soon occupied nesting and feeding territories and initiated courtship. ...
Urban Development in Eastern Nigeria -- to 1952
(1975-06)
This thesis examines the problem of modernisation in a colonial context. It is not a critique of colonialism as such. It seeks rather to analyse the irony of a colonial situation in which change and modernisation were ...
A Clarification of the Secrecy Debate
(1976)
This study had three aims: to identify the presuppositions on both sides of the dispute about secrecy; to assess philosophically
these presuppositions in terms of stated principles of politics and government; and to ...
Aviation and Empire : The British African Experience, 1919-1939
(1974-08)
The period 1919-1939 was the pioneer age of air transport, the newest and most promising of man's efforts to improve and accelerate his means of transport and communications. The agent of that purpose was the aeroplane, ...