Books: 'Extinction methods'

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Newman, M. E. J. Modeling extinction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Newman, M. E. J. Modeling extinction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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R, Skaggs Stephanie, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.), eds. Screening methods for agent compatibility with people, materials, and the environment. Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1999.

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International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods. Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods: 20-22 March 2002, Melbourne Exhibitions & Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia. [Bethesda, Md.]: Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2002.

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E, Holmes E., and Northwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.), eds. Cross validation of quasi-extinction risks from real time series: An examination of diffusion approximation methods. Seattle, Wash: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2005.

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McClincy, William D. Instructional methods in emergency services: A resource text designed for EMS, fire, and rescue instructors. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Brady Prentice Hall, 1995.

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Lindsey, Jeffrey. Fire service instructor. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

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Maher, Patrick T. Designing emergency scene simulations for police and fire promotional examiniations. La Palma, Calif: Personnel and Organization Development Consultants, 1993.

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Amato, George. Conservation genetics in the age of genomics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

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Gross, S. S. Improved method for extinguishing coal refuse fires. [Pittsburgh, PA]: Bureau of Mines, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1991.

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Heyden, Jan van der. A description of fire engines with water hoses and the method of fighting fires now used in Amsterdam. Canton, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 1996.

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Canada, Royal Society of, ed. The American bison: Its habits, method of capture and economic use in the north-west, with reference to its threatened extinction and possible preservation. Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1987.

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Canada, Royal Society of, ed. The American bison: Its habits, method of capture and economic use in the north-west, with reference to its threatened extinction and possible preservation. Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1987.

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Mann, Rachel. Race to a fire! Minneapolis, Minn: Compass Point Books, 2004.

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Silverskiöld, W. The Silfvershield method: A radically new ultrashort psychotherapy based on the discovery of the process of emotion-extinction : the therapy generally effects total and lasting elimination of harmful permanent emotions, the pain of traumatic memories normally in one single session. Halmstad, Sweden: Magnus Stenbocks, 1994.

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Silverskiöld, W. EMDR and EE, the Silfvershield method II (emotion eradication): A radically new ultrashort psychotherapy based on the discovery of the process of emotion-extinction : the therapy generally effects total and lasting elimination of harmful permanent emotions, the pain of traumatic memories normally in one single session : added, a translation in English of an internet publication in Swedish 2001 by the author. 2nd ed. Halmstad, Sweden: Magnus Stenbocks, 2003.

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Merci, Bart, A. Enis Cetin, Osman Günay, Behçet Ugur Töreyin, and Steven Verstockt. Methods and Techniques for Fire Detection: Signal, Image and Video Processing Perspectives. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2016.

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McClincy, William D. Instructional Methods in Emergency Services (2nd Edition). 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 2002.

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McClincy, William D. Instructional Methods in Emergency Services (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall, 2002.

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Haines, Linda S. Training children's Sunday School teachers in positive reinforcement and extinction techniques to improve classroom behavior at the First Baptist Church of Macclenny, Florida. 1997.

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(Editor), George Amato, Howard C. Rosenbaum (Editor), and Rob DeSalle (Editor), eds. Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics. Columbia University Press, 2004.

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DeSalle, Rob, George Amato, Oliver A. Ryder, and Howard C. Rosenbaum. Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics. Columbia University Press, 2009.

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DeSalle, Rob, and George Amato. Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics. Columbia University Press, 2010.

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Clark, Caroline, Jeffrey Cole, Christine Winter, and Geoffrey Grammer. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190205959.003.0005.

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Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often fail to resolve with psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, or integrative medicine treatments. Given these limitations, there is a continued push to discover treatment methods utilizing novel mechanisms of action. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offers a non-invasive and safe method of brain stimulation that modulates neuronal activity in a focal area to achieve excitation or inhibition, and may have utility for patients suffering from PTSD, although, to date, evidence of efficacy is limited. The TMS treatment can be varied to suit the needs of the patient by altering the selection of the specific treatment parameters, such as pulse frequency or stimulation intensity. The weight of evidence to date supports treatment of either the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or the medical prefrontal cortex. Coupling treatment with script based exposure therapies may also assist with potentiation of the extinction response. Ultimately, stimulation parameters may be related to secondary downstream effects, and thus current targets may indirectly reverse the underlying neuronal pathophysiology. Given that PTSD is a complex illness with a poorly understood pathophysiology, it often exists with other psychiatric comorbidities or TBI. As such, TMS could be an effective part of a comprehensive treatment program.

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Schnider, Armin. Orbitofrontal reality filtering. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789680.003.0008.

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Behaviourally spontaneous confabulation denotes a particular form of confabulation characterized by confusion of reality. The patients are disoriented and act according to their confabulations. This chapter describes the clinical course of the disorder and shows how the experimental exploration of patients opened ways to study the underlying mechanism in healthy subjects using brain imaging, electrophysiology, and other methods. These studies revealed a distinct mechanism, now called orbitofrontal reality filtering, which depends on the orbitofrontal cortex and parts of the brain’s reward system. It automatically verifies the relation of upcoming thoughts and memories with ongoing reality. Its relevance for children’s sense of reality is discussed. Comparison with single-cell recordings in animals and investigations in patients suggest that the mechanism depends on a phylogenetically old faculty: an orbitofrontal signal akin to the one necessary for behavioural extinction.

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Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin, and Eduardo Corona-M. Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.40.

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Interest in the first hunter-gatherer populations of Mexico has increased in the last fifteen years. Exploration of the Late Pleistocene localities involved in the early peopling of Mexico, including the discovery of new ones and reanalysis of known ones, and the application of new methods and techniques (e.g. AMS radiocarbon dating, stable isotopes, scanning electron microscopy, palaeobotanical analysis) have increased. Archaeozoology has contributed to this expansion by increasing the record of terrestrial vertebrates, improving understanding of the record and delimitation of distributional ranges of extinct species. There is now more information on the type of diet of some extinct herbivores and hypotheses about the status of local palaeoenvironments have been provided. Questions remain about the interactions between human migrations and the environments, specifically the degree of influence that humans had in the extinction of mega- and mesofaunas, and the diversity of subsistence strategies employed by hunter-gatherers in the Late Pleistocene.

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Heatwole, Harold. The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean. Edited by Neftalí Ríos-López. Pelagic Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53061/hucg2445.

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An expansive and detailed review of the biology of Caribbean amphibians, considering their threats, conservation and outlook in a changing world. Amphibians are the group of vertebrates undergoing the fastest rate of extinction; it is urgent that we understand the causes of this and find means of protecting them. This landmark illustrated volume brings together the leading experts in the field. As well as offering an overview of the region as a whole, individual chapters are devoted to each island or island-group and the measures used to protect their amphibians through legislation or nature reserves. The biological background of insular biogeography, including its methods, analysis and results, is reviewed and applied specifically to the problems of Caribbean amphibians – this includes a re-examination of patterns and general ideas about the status of amphibians in the Anthropocene. The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean offers an important baseline against which future amphibian conservation can be measured in the face of climate change, rising sea level and a burgeoning human population.

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Allendorf, Fred W., W. Chris Funk, Sally N. Aitken, Margaret Byrne, Gordon Luikart, and Agostinho Antunes. Conservation and the Genomics of Populations. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856566.001.0001.

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Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today. Conservation and the Genomics of Populations gives a comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools needed to understand how genetic information can be used to conserve species threatened with extinction, and to manage species of ecological or commercial importance. New molecular techniques, statistical methods, and computer programs, genetic principles, and methods are becoming increasingly useful in the conservation of biological diversity. Using a balance of data and theory, coupled with basic and applied research examples, this book examines genetic and phenotypic variation in natural populations, the principles and mechanisms of evolutionary change, the interpretation of genetic data from natural populations, and how these can be applied to conservation. The book includes examples from plants, animals, and microbes in wild and captive populations. This third edition has been thoroughly revised to include advances in genomics and contains new chapters on population genomics, genetic monitoring, and conservation genetics in practice, as well as new sections on climate change, emerging diseases, metagenomics, and more. More than one-third of the references in this edition were published after the previous edition. Each of the 24 chapters and the Appendix end with a Guest Box written by an expert who provides an example of the principles presented in the chapter from their own work. This book is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of conservation genetics, natural resource management, and conservation biology, as well as professional conservation biologists and policy-makers working for wildlife and habitat management agencies. Much of the book will also interest nonprofessionals who are curious about the role of genetics in conservation and management of wild and captive populations.

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Southgate, Emily W. B. Russell. People and the Land through Time. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300225808.001.0001.

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This extensive revision of the first edition of People and the Land Through Time incorporates research over the last two decades to bring the field of historical ecology from an ecological perspective up to date. It emphasizes the use of new sources of data and interdisciplinary data analysis to interpret ecological processes in the past. It describes a diversity of past ecosystems, and how they affect current ecosystem structure and function as well as offering insight into current structure and process, and assisting in predicting the future. This historical perspective highlights the varied and complex roles of indigenous people in historic ecosystems and as well as the importance of past and present climatic fluctuations. The book begins with an introduction to the importance of history for ecological studies, and then has three chapters which explain methods and approaches to reconstructing the past, using both traditional and novel sources of data and analysis. The following five chapters discuss ways people have influenced natural systems, starting with the most primitive, manipulating fire, and proceeding through altering species ranges, hunting and gathering, agriculture and finally structuring landscapes through land surveys, trade and urbanization. Two chapters then deal with diversity, extinction and sustainability in a changing world. The final chapter integrates the rest of the book especially in terms of the importance of history in basic ecological studies, global change and understanding conservation. Throughout, the emphasis is on the potential for evidence-based research in historical ecology, and the new frontiers in this exciting field.

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Mair, Charles 1838-1927, and Royal Society of Canada. American Bison [microform]: Its Habits, Method of Capture and Economic Use in the North-West, with Reference to Its Threatened Extinction and Possible Preservation. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021.

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Pickering, Andrew. Material Culture and the Dance of Agency. Edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0007.

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This article revolves around the discovery of matter. The first section concerns science studies. It emphasizes the importance of a focus on practice and performance as a way of undoing the ‘linguistic turn’ in the humanities and social sciences. The key concept here is that of a dance of agency. The second section reviews a variety of examples of this dance in fields beyond the natural sciences — civil engineering, pig farming, and convivial relations with dogs, architecture, technologies of the self, biological computing, brainwave music, and certain hylozoist and Eastern spirituality. This article focuses on contrasting forms that dances of agency and their products can take, depending on the presence or absence of an organizing telos of self-extinction. The third and final section reflects on the significance of this contrast for a politics of theory. This article traces the discovery of matter followed by the concepts of method, time, and agency.

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Isendahl, Christian, and Daryl Stump, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672691.001.0001.

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This volume presents theoretical discussions, methodological outlines, and case-studies describing the discursive overlap of the theoretical and methodological framework of historical ecology, and the emerging sub-discipline of applied archaeology. Historical ecology is based on the recognition that humans are not only capable of modifying their environments, but that all environments on earth have already been directly or indirectly modified. This includes anthropogenic climate change, widespread deforestations, and species extinctions, but also very local alterations, the effects of which may last a few years, or may have legacies lasting centuries or more. The volume presents a range of case-studies that highlight how modern environments and landscapes have been shaped by humans, and includes outlines of the methods we can use to better understand these changes. Authors include anthropologists, archaeologists, human geographers, and historians, all of whom are focussed not just on defining human impacts in the past, but on the ways that understanding these changes can help inform contemporary practices and development policies. Some present examples of how ancient or current societies have modified their environments in sustainable ways, while others highlight practices that had unintended long-term consequences. The possibility of learning from these practices are discussed, as is the potential of using the long history of human resource exploitation as a method for building or testing models of future change. Rather than merely acting as advocates for historical data, the chapters collected here also warn of the limitations of drawing simple lessons from the history of interactions between humans and their environments, and note that doing so is potentially just as damaging as ignoring these rich sources of data.

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Garnett, Stephen, Peter Latch, David Lindenmayer, and John Woinarski, eds. Recovering Australian Threatened Species. CSIRO Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486307425.

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Australia’s nature is exceptional, wonderful and important. But much has been lost, and the ongoing existence of many species now hangs by a thread. Against a relentless tide of threats to our biodiversity, many Australians, and government and non-government agencies, have devoted themselves to the challenge of conserving and recovering plant and animal species that now need our help to survive. This dedication has been rewarded with some outstanding and inspiring successes: of extinctions averted, of populations increasing, of communities actively involved in recovery efforts. Recovering Australian Threatened Species showcases successful conservation stories and identifies approaches and implementation methods that have been most effective in recovering threatened species. These diverse accounts – dealing with threatened plants, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals – show that the conservation of threatened species is achievable: that it can be done and should be done. They collectively serve to inform, guide and inspire other conservation efforts. This is a book of hope and inspiration. It shows that with dedication, knowledge and support, we can retain and restore our marvellous natural heritage, and gift to our descendants a world that is as diverse, healthy and beautiful as that which we have inherited. Joint recipient of the 2018 Whitley Certificate of Commendation for Conservation Zoology

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Langlitz, Nicolas. Chimpanzee Culture Wars. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691204284.001.0001.

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In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share social knowledge, and thus possess culture? The subsequent debate has rocked the scientific world, pitting cultural anthropologists against evolutionary anthropologists, field biologists against experimental psychologists, and scholars from Asia against their colleagues in Europe and North America. This book presents first-hand observations gleaned from months that the author spent among primatologists on different sides of the controversy. The author travels across continents, from field stations in the Ivory Coast and Guinea to laboratories in Germany and Japan. As he compares the methods and arguments of the different researchers he meets, he also considers the plight of cultural primatologists as they seek to document chimpanzee cultural diversity during the Anthropocene, an era in which human culture is remaking the planet. How should we understand the chimpanzee culture wars in light of human-caused mass extinctions? The book takes the reader on a journey into high-tech laboratories and wilderness, all in pursuit of an answer to the question of the human–animal divide.

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Nettleton, Claire Correo, Ellen K. Levy, Molly Duggins, Jane Prophet, Marie-Pier Boucher, Louise Mackenzie, Charissa N. Terranova, et al., eds. Art and Biotechnology. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350376069.

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This interdisciplinary anthology examines the relationship between developments in biotechnology and both artistic and literary innovation, focussing in particular on how newfound molecular technologies and knowledge regimes, such as CRISPR gene editing, alter conceptions of what it means to be human. The book presents 21 essays, split across five parts, from a coterie of artists, scientists, and theorists, which examine the symbiotic relationship between humans, animals, and viruses as well as the impossibility of germ-free existence. The essays in this volume are urgent in their topicality, embodying the exhilarating yet alarming zeitgeist of contemporary nonhuman-to-human viral transmission and gene editing technologies. Ultimately, Art and Biotechnology reveals how art has influenced biotechnological innovation and has shaped the discussion around gene editing and the socio-cultural aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is essential reading for students and researchers focussing on science and art, environmental humanities, and ethics. In the age of biotechnology, is it possible to conceive of microbes as our new paintbrush, DNA as our typewriter and organic tissue as our new clay? Through an interdisciplinary approach, we examine how newfound molecular technologies and knowledge regimes, such as CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and the recent COVID-19 pandemic, alter understandings of the human experience. We ask: Where do the arts, which have been at the forefront of technological innovation, sit in relation to our ongoing viral and biomedical entanglement? How have the arts shaped discussion and ethical considerations around genome editing and COVID-19? How have the pandemic and biotechnological innovation—from CRISPR to vaccines with messenger RNA (mRNA)—transformed what it means to be human? To answer these inquiries, we assembled interdisciplinary artists and scholars with a keen interest or background in biology to examine interconnections between artistic and literary and biotechnological innovation. Whether studies, reflections, or artistic practice engaging with biotechnology or COVID-19, the chapters draw inspiration from one another and the practices of fellow artists, scientists, humanists and from the non-humans inside and around us. Their narratives complement research by the medical community—especially those who documented personal experiences with COVID-19 or engaged directly with the virus in their creative work. Artists are particularly suited to making the seemingly imperceptible visible, including microscopic entities, thus contributing to our collective understanding of public health. Manipulating genetic sequences has had a transformative impact on both scientific and artistic narratives. The humanities are a method of thinking critically and ethically about emerging biotechnologies, especially in the realms of genetics and disease control and their societal impact at a time of rapid acceleration. In an era of mass extinction and global heating, biotechnological arts offer hope for ecological restoration while cautioning against the technological dominance of the planet. Art can also aid us in processing the vast racial and economic disparities surrounding the pandemic and the profound loss of millions of lives. This anthology is urgent in its topicality, epitomizing the zeitgeist of contemporary nonhuman-to-human viral transmission and genome editing technologies.

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