SalesFuel

APRIL 18, 2024

Listen, Learn and React is How to Succeed in Sales Sellers apply the science of emotional intelligence (EI) to gain distinct advantages in knowing their prospects’ needs, wants and aspirations. Emotions play an outsized role in human decision-making. Short of that, we must try to read human emotions. Why is this important?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology. Beagle , pt.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here!

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2010

million dollar research lab. And research for drug development, which means more MONEY and JOBS! And research for drug development, which means more MONEY and JOBS! The laboratory will be used to study human diseases and treatments. Tags: west virginia university animal research Obama tax dollars us.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

Given the men some women choose, it seems these results are directly transferable to humans as well. ” Researchers studying these birds must be grateful for camera traps – one study using such traps obtained 1.74 In contrast, the courtship behavior of the males did not make much of a difference ( source ).

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Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2010

Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I really believe the more people learn about what research animals go through, the more common decency becomes a factor. But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? Tags: animal experimentation UK europe research alternatives medical research.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

Shorebird identification takes time and is often stressful, there’s heat glare and bugs and drones and dogs and humans. It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

That’s the finding of researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (If If you’re feeling particularly science-y, the full paper is here.). This differs from humans and other mammals, in which the addition of extra sperm essentially destroys the egg.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

Animal Person , someone who is clearly smarter than me, has a great analysis about the recent "Pepper" series in Slate about animal research. At least he didn't try to make me feel happy or warm and fuzzy about animal research. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

I responded to a post on animalblog that cited a recent article in the journal "Proceedings" of the National Academy of Sciences. Here's my response on medical research in general. I recently had a discussion about medical research using animals. This story on HIV research is one example. Perhaps it was a necessary “evil.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2013

One the one hand, science is awesome. It seemed like a Rubicon for birding in general, and citizen science in particular, if you now need specialized recording equipment to even know what you’re seeing. But that’s not the fault of the science. Citizen science is not dead yet. What’s a birder to think?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2024

I am sure some people will hate this photo of a Eurasian Hoopoe , framed as it is by human artifacts. As I am sure I have mentioned before, a lot of science work seems to aim to prove the obvious – though the researchers still phrase their results very carefully. Of course, me being me, this is a good reason to show it.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

If you want to know why most scientists support collecting this piece in Science explains it better than I can. I can understand why some people are conflicted, but the value to science of the collections is immense. This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). More work, less fun, all because humans introduced some stupid fish into kingfisher habitat.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. New research suggests that the phenomenon of contagious yawning can also be seen in birds. (Our first victim appears to be the Ring-billed Gull above, photographed by Corey.)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

(A press release about the study likened the contrast to “the differences between humans with and without freckles.”) Genetic differences in throat color illustration by Liz Clayton Fuller/Bartels Science). On the opposite end of the spectrum is new research considering Yellow-rumped Warblers. But do keep an eraser handy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Having warned to her theme she introduces her villain of the piece, the AMNH researcher Chris Filardi, who collected a kingfisher. Throughout his professional career, Chris has maintained a commitment to bridging his research interests with grassroots conservation. How it is being affected by human intrusions? Science Schmience.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As I frequently mention, science is quite wonderful. Contrary to my usual habit, I will not try to transfer this finding into the human world as I am too afraid of being accused of fat-shaming. If you are tired of watching action movies, take a look at one minute of non-action by a female Red-flanked Bluetail.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. So, for example, humans are apes. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

AI can diagnose diseases faster than human doctors. At its most basic level, AI is the branch of computer science that deals with making computers behave like humans. At its most basic level, AI is the branch of computer science that deals with making computers behave like humans. So, what is AI?

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Critter News

MARCH 21, 2012

But I want to be able to argue about it intelligently, citing science, not just morals. Apparently, there is a lot of argument out there than animal experimentation is even good for humans. A drug may work on an animal, but fail miserably on a human. Drugs are not always predictable from human to human even.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.” Not in the Mohave Desert.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Unfortunately, in the science of language, this does not sound particularly raunchy but rather like a rational decision: “A rare species such as the Chinese Pond Heron might choose heterospecific mates rather than abandoning all chances of reproduction.” How efficient. How surprising. No wonder it looks a bit pissed off.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In the meantime, research into ways to make buildings safer for birds is ongoing. The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. An “invisible” building sounds infinitely more dangerous; let’s hope the architects have a plan to stave off bird fatalities.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But not everyone sees things through such an avian-positive lens, and hence science often has to make the case for birds’ intrinsic worth. The scientists hope to expand the scope of their study to examine how humans affect global ecosystems. The latest such argument focuses on birds’ value to the well-being of rainforests.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today, the vast tract of land is protected, managed for science and conservation. At dawn, my feet hit one of the protected beaches with Wendy Allen, the manager of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the science and outreach organizations working within Hobcaw.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations). I am sure one could make a very boring movie based on the events described in this paper.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Forest Service research biologist Vicki Saab studies, birds evolved alongside fire and flee in the face of conflagrations. This is about 35 miles West of my home.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Here's a site for kids to program them to become "the next generation of laboratory animal science professionals." the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation. Also, it's a great way to get girls interested in science! Talk about an unholy alliance.beef and medical research.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

In humans, adults (probably mainly mothers) do this thing called “motherese” which is talking in a way one would normally not talk to another adult, to a baby. Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive. Researchers have been studying song learning in birds for some time. Nord, and S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

Also, as researcher Rufus Johnstone of the University of Cambridge notes, “The question I come away with is whether it’s possible to distinguish between blackmail and honest signalling of hunger.” In other bird science news, we should be concerned about waterfowl in China.

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