GREAVES, W.S.: Modeling the location of the mammalian tooth row A previous study suggested that mammalian tooth rows should be confined to the anterior seventy percent of total jaw length because that situation maximized the average bite force along the jaw. In the study described here, an estimate of the distance between the right and […]

BRAMBLE, D.M.*; LIEBERMAN, D.E.; DALEY, M.A.: Mechanics of Head-Neck Stabilization in Running Humans: Implications for Hominid Evolution Adequate head-neck stabilization ought to be vital to any running mammal but the phenomenon has been little studied. We investigated the mechanical basis of cranio-cervical stability in humans during treadmill walking and running. Quantitative measures of head-neck and […]

THOMPSON,E.N.*; BIKNEVICIUS,A.R.: A Biomechanical Analysis of the Development of the Masticatory Apparatus of Monodelphis domestica While several studies have found differences in the craniofacial configurations of juvenile and adult mammals, how these differences affect masticatory process has been poorly explored. The present study evaluates the masticatory apparatus in an ontogenetic series of short-tailed opossums(Monodelphis domestica) […]

MEYERS, R.; GEOFFRION, L.: Web-HUMAN: A Comprehensive Systems Physiology Teaching Simulation Is Available On the Web. Prior to web-HUMAN (http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/human) all comprehensive systems physiology computer teaching simulations were hardware and platform dependant. Web-HUMAN makes available to educators the classic HUMAN FORTRAN physiology simulation (author: Tom Coleman) in an updated format via a custom wrapper that […]

HARRIS COTNER, Sehoya; WOODWARD, Denise M; HAYES, C Nelson; CYR, R J: Getting beyond the large-class problem Part II: Can we better tailor science education to the individual student? Introductory biology at Penn State is typically taught in a large (~800+ student), traditional-lecture format. This method is pragmatic but tends to result in a high […]

WOODWARD, Denise M; HARRIS COTNER, Sehoya; HAYES, C Nelson; CYR, R J: Getting beyond the large-class problem Part I: Can we measure and improve student engagement in introductory biology? Introductory biology at Penn State is typically taught in a large (~800+ student) traditional-lecture format. This method is pragmatic but tends to result in a high […]

MYERS, M.J.*: Exposing Undergraduates to Statistics in an Introductory Biology Course These days, many introductory biology courses include a lab component in which students conduct experiments of their own design. It is not as common for these courses to give students the tools they need (i.e., basic statistical principles) to meaningfully analyze the data they […]

STAUB, N.L.*; PAUW, P.G.: Digital Portfolios Are Required of Biology Majors. We are initiating a curriculum that requires students to maintain a digital portfolio of laboratory work. This portfolio links learning throughout the biology curriculum and allows students to develop a sense of ownership of their work. Students are required to save images from inquiry-based […]

MARSHALL, V.T.; SCHWARTZ, J.J.; GERHARDT, H.C.; University of Missouri-Columbia; Pace University; University of Missouri-Columbia: The influence of heterospecific acoustic interference on phonotaxis behavior in the gray treefrog Hyla versicolor In a frog chorus, signalers and receivers face the problem of overlap between the advertisement calls of nearby neighbors. The influence of such overlap on the […]

BEE, M. A.; MARSHALL, V. T.; HUMFELD, S. C.; GERHARDT, H. C.; Carl von Ossietzky Universit�t, Oldenburg, Germany; Univ. of Missouri, Columbia; Univ. of Missouri, Columbia; Univ. of Missouri, Columbia: The Role of Learning in the Formation of Frog Choruses Anuran mating behaviors are usually thought to lack the scope for experience-mediated behavioral plasticity common […]