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Includes a compilation of poetry, life essays, and short stories by the members of the Pixie Chicks' Writers Group.

Improve reading skills with 180 Days of Reading, 2nd Edition, a workbook of exciting and effective daily practice activities. This easy-to-use second grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Watch students learn to read and write more confidently with these standards-based learning activities. The 2nd Edition of this activity book incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. The new edition also reinforces the connection between reading and writing by having students write about what they read. Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and interesting topics that children will enjoy. The daily reading practice is perfect for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on these workbooks to save them valuable time and address learning gaps.

Improve reading skills with 180 Days of Reading, 2nd Edition, a workbook of exciting and effective daily practice activities. This easy-to-use second grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Watch students learn to read and write more confidently with these standards-based learning activities. The 2nd Edition of this activity book incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. The new edition also reinforces the connection between reading and writing by having students write about what they read. Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and interesting topics that children will enjoy. The daily reading practice is perfect for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on these workbooks to save them valuable time and address learning gaps.

To gain a better mechanistic understanding of the observed sex steroid elevations we examined mRNA expression patterns of steroidogenic enzymes (P450SCC) and receptor proteins (ER[Beta] and GR). We found no significant differences in mRNA expression patterns, indicating that the observed sex steroid increases were not likely due to an up-regulation of gonadal synthesis.

"This status review report was conducted in response to a petition received from WildEarth Guardians and Friends of Animals on March 12, 2012 to list 15 species of foreign sturgeon as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It was determined that five of the species fell within NMFS' jurisdiction (Acipenser naccarii (Adriatic sturgeon) and A. sturio (Baltic sturgeon/European sturgeon) in the Western Europe region, A. sinensis (Chinese sturgeon) in the Yangtze River region, and A. mikadoi (Sakhalin sturgeon) and Huso dauricus (Kaluga sturgeon) in the Amur River Basin/Sea of Japan/Sea of Okhotsk region) because of significant use of estuarine and/or marine habitats. Ten of the 15 species occur in habitats that are the responsibility of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and FWS agreed to process the petitions for those species. NMFS evaluated the petition to determine whether the petitioner provided substantial information as required by the ESA to list these species. In A Federal Register notice on 27 August 2012 (77 FR 51767), NMFS determined that the petition did present substantial scientific and commercial information, or cited such information in other sources, that the petitioned action may be warranted for all five species and, subsequently, NMFS initiated a status review of those species"--Executive Summary.

This research aimed to identify glucose transporter proteins (GLUTs) or GLUT-like isoforms in Pacific hagfish and Atlantic hagfish heart tissue. Amino acid and nucleotide comparisons of existing sugar transporter proteins were used in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primer and probe design. Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stouti) and Atlantic hagfish (Myxine glutinosa) tissues (heart, liver, intestine), as well as rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), tilapia (Tilapia nilotica and Tilapia zilli), striped bass (Morone saxatilis), and white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontana) heart tissues were investigated. Reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR) experiments identified gene products resembling general transport genes in Atlantic hagfish and rainbow trout tissues. Northern hybridization experiments identified possible GLUT or other transporter transcripts in heart tissues from Pacific hagfish (5̃.0 kb), sea lamprey (600 bp, 1.5 kb), rainbow trout (980 bp, 1.35 kb, 1.9 kb), striped bass (2.0 kb), and white sturgeon (1.8 to 5.0 kb). A definitive GLUT or GLUT-like isoform was not identified in any hagfish or fish species studied.

Shared by Manitoba, Ontario and Minnesota, Lake of the Woods straddles the Canadian Shield and the Great Plains. This book examines the many faces of the lake, beginning with its geology and examining its long aboriginal past. Author Heather Robertson examines the fur trade years, the settlement and industrial histories and the lake's place today as an exclusive holiday hideaway. Sidebars on the region's wildlife and natural assets round out the book, which is color throughout with archival images, beautiful photographs, hand-drawn illustrations and maps.