Georgia Journal of Science articles from September 1999

Georgia Journal of Science archives from September 1999

GAS President's Comments and Report from the Academy Council.(Georgia Academy of Science)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The conversion to the semester system at all University System institutions compelled us to move ahead all our meeting dates for 1998-99 academic year. The Georgia Academy of Science leadership was able to accomplish the task without much...

ZOO ATLANTA'S SCIENTIFIC VISION.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT Founded in 1889 as the G. V. Gress Zoo in Grant Park, Atlanta's zoo was envisioned by its founder as one of the nations premier zoological parks. Its humble beginnings, however, did not provide for a specific vision to guide its...

NOTES ON THE MICROHABITAT ASSOCIATIONS OF THE HISPID COTTON RAT (SIGMODON HISPIDUS) AND WHITE-FOOTED MOUSE (PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS) IN THE PIEDMONT PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCE.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT We examined the microhabitat associations of the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) and white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus). The distribution of sympatric rodent species is influenced by the distribution of preferred...

OBSERVATIONS OF SATURN IN 1997.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT Photometric measurements of Saturn were carried out between October 20 and December 7, 1997 using filters closely matching the Johnson B, V and R system. The measured normalized magnitudes corrected to a ring tilt angle of...

OCCURRENCE OF SIREN INTERMEDIA LE CONTE (AMPHIBIA: CAUDATA) IN CENTRAL GEORGIA.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT From April, 1994 and May, 1998, seven adult Siren intermedia were collected from an oligoxeric marsh habitat in Baldwin Co., central Georgia. Characters found useful in differentiating S. intemedia and S. lacertina were...

REGULATION OF THE SYNTHESIS OF [beta]-GALACTOSIDE SPECIFIC LECTIN BY DEXAMETHASONE IN CULTURED VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE AND PULMONARY ENDOTHELIAL CELLS.
September 22, 1999... Gary L. Sanford [*] Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, GA 30310 ABSTRACT The effects of dexamethasone (Dex) on the synthesis and externalization of [beta]-galactoside specific lectin...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEATIONAL NETWORKS, SYSTEMIC KNOWLEDGE, AND APPLICATION ABILITIES IN PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS WHO STUDIED A LABORATORY UNIT ON ECOLOGY.
September 22, 1999... ABSTRACT A class of pre-service early childhood teachers who studied a laboratory unit on ecology was interviewed on three occasions. The first and second interviews were to determine gains in ideational complexity, higher order cognition...