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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Additionally, I was curious how the ABA arrived at its precarious financial position, so I did some historical research and decided to share the results. The revenue-expenses divergence resulted in several years of negative net income, from 2008 to 2010. Note that I only have access to public documents, and I am not accountant.

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convergent aquatic adaptations of loons and grebes on the morphological side and certain molecular sequences on the DNA side) and that by synthesizing all available information, we can both achieve greater confidence in hypothesized relationships and expose areas needing further research.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2009

They trespassed on his front yard, chanted slogans and accused him of being a murderer because of his use of animals in research. 27, 2008: Demonstrations, including chalking, in front of the homes of several UC researchers. The researcher's husband was hit during the demonstration. We know where you work.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% increase on 2008, government inspectors said on Friday. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. Tags: animal research Netherlands. From the DutchNews.nl.

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JUNE 28, 2009

The Humane Society began a campaign in March 2008 to get 600 university presidents to sign a pledge to prevent severe pain and distress in animals used in research. Tags: university research animal experimentation humane society medical research animal resear. So far only 37 presidents have signed it.

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JULY 24, 2014

Indeed, by 2008, when I first really became aware of the issue, the West Coast of South Island was pretty much their only stronghold. I mentioned 2008 as the year I became aware of the issue. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck. Or so it was assumed.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.

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APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. The refuge has an impressive visitor center that opened in 2008, so it is ADA compliant.

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MARCH 27, 2009

A routine USDA inspection in September 2008 found the center in compliance. # Tags: louisiana animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty new iberia research center animal welfare us. What the documents show # A USDA inspection on Feb. A 2006 inspection found no problems. USDA inspections dated July 19, 2005 and Dec.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Beagle , pt.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

The NSPCA in November 2008 charged Jordaan for his "merciless treatment" of a heavily pregnant vervet monkey. Kotze said Jordaan had apparently doing "stem cell research" to help people walk again after a friend of his had been paralysed in an accident. From news24.com. She had been captured from the wild.

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Jarvis et al.

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MARCH 29, 2009

This conclusion is drawn by Cleve Hicks, based on observations made during his 2007-2008 survey of towns, villages and forests in the Buta-Aketi region of the DRC. Hicks, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), describes the plight of the apes and other forest creatures in a new e-book to be released this week.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though. The UW has been cited in the past for deficiencies in animal research, including allowing a monkey to starve in 2009. In 2008, it had to return $20,000 in federal research grant money after a finding that it had allowed unauthorized surgeries on primates.

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APRIL 30, 2017

Birds of Borneo (2009): based on taxonomic order from 2008, with some changes due to practical reasons, review here. I love taxonomic research, speciation in birds was one of my primary subjects during my university days. Phillipps, Q. & But this is not about the value and meaning of taxonomy.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y.,

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MARCH 8, 2011

But research has shown that some plovers even use the super-sensitive soles of their feet to detect movement beneath the substrate. We filmed these particular birds in early 2008 and this was when my videographer, Aderman, was still getting to grips with bird filming.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

There are over 5,000 species of frogs in existence (5,858 at the time the book was written, the exact number changes as research dictates re-arrangements of taxonomy and new species are discovered). A book about all the frogs and toads of the world is an ambitious undertaking. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Following the 2008 recession, it took larger companies an average of four years to recover their pre-recession level of GDP , while smaller companies took six years. Planned marketing hiring has dropped to its lowest point, going negative for the first time since the survey began in 2008, with average hiring estimated to be -3.5%

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APRIL 2, 2013

For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Press, 2008) commissioned hundreds of black-and-white bird drawings to illustrate its species accounts. A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

This particular group fits in with other Bekoff books as well as those by Jonathan Balcombe and Jeffrey Masson (see here for more on some of them from April of 2008). And those mythical differences, of course, have historically been used to legitimize our use and treatment of our nonhuman cousins.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

This makes researching a species much more time consuming than it should be. They were part of the team that broke the ABA Big Day record in 2008 with 260 species. This means, for example, that I needed to check the Index to find out that Seawatching includes Brown and Masked Booby (in the Sulids section) but not Red-footed Booby.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan According to an April survey by the Incentive Research Foundation, the top concern about participating in work or reward-related travel was the threat of an epidemic/pandemic at 33%, followed closely by severe weather at 29%. This begs the question, what’s up with the weather scaredy-cats ?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

Further, digital self-service tools are increasingly attractive to B2B customers, with live chat the highest-rated channel for researching suppliers and mobile app ordering up by 250% pre-COVID. A pivot to remote selling. In the wake of COVID-19, 96% of B2B companies have shifted their sales model either partially or fully to remote selling.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum.

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JUNE 5, 2008

I was also intrigued to read that “in previous studies, researchers showed that humans who had been paralyzed for years could learn to control a cursor on a computer screen with their brain waves.” May 29, 2008 The writer is in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Colorado. So why were the monkeys used?

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JULY 22, 2008

Several colleagues and I recently conducted a purely observational study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in chimpanzees previously used in experimental research and now living in a sanctuary in Louisiana. Hope Ferdowsian Director of Research Policy Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Washington, July 14, 2008

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2020

If the ultimate open-ended question is the wrong one to ask, what’s the right discussion choreography in a health-turned-economic-crisis that makes the recession of 2008 – 10 look like a one-hour seminar on tough market conditions? How do we actually help customers not just survive this crisis but thrive as we emerge from it?

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Research indicates that sows do just fine in individual housing. 10, 2008 Note from KBJ: Speaking of rhetoric, don't you love "individual housing" for " gestation stalls "? To the Editor: “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. 9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing. Editorial rhetoric won’t help.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 8, 2008

To the Editor: The recent terrorist attacks on scientists (“ Firebombings at Homes of 2 California Researchers ,” news article, Aug. 5, 2008 Note from KBJ: Well put! 4) are abhorrent acts condemned by the vast majority of animal advocates and the organizations who represent them, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Researchers across the world have used the same approach with other groups to replicate the results. Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago, 2008. Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago, 2003. Hawaii is a reward they’ll remember forever. Hsee, C., & & Hastie, R., Jeffrey, S.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The percentage of actively disengaged workers has ranged from a high of 20 percent in 2007 and 2008, immediately before and during the heart of the recent U.S. Many of the managers, sales coaches and consultants who responded to a query we posted while researching this story said purposeful work is the only way to drive engagement.

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MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Is this one of the ornithological highlights on the planet?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

My friend Erik Johnson and I recently visited the home of Dr. Jeff Harris — a birder and research entomologist — who has up to six different species visiting his feeders each day this season. Hummingbirds are one of the joys of wintertime birding here in Louisiana. Some authors (e.g.,

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2009

Another report said a lab assistant reported finding a dead hamster in a cage in June 2008 after the cage was removed from a sterilizer. "It The USDA also entered an out-of-court $10,000 financial settlement with Charles River for a May, 2008 when too-hot temperatures led to the deaths of 32 primates. for finding them.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. Richard ffrench died in 2010 at the age of 80.

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MAY 3, 2022

Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary was an amazing and unexpected treat, but that’s because I failed to do my research. It’s only 15 minutes north of High Island, though in neighboring Chambers County (High Island is part of Galveston County, good to know if you’re going to be researching eBird checklists).

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