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ContributorsMcNamara, Henry (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Chea, Alexandra (Performer) / Biswas, Debashis (Performer) / Moreno, Dylan (Performer) / Schay, Adam (Performer) / Meatheads Quartet (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2022-02-28
ContributorsStout, Fiona (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Austin, Alex (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2022-02-24
ContributorsEder, Noah (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Kurth, Will (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2022-02-26
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Understanding why animals form social groups is a fundamental aim of sociobiology. To date, the field has been dominated by studies of kin groups, which have emphasized indirect fitness benefits as key drivers of grouping among relatives. Nevertheless, many animal groups are comprised of unrelated individuals. These cases provide unique opportunities to illuminate drivers of social evolution beyond indirect fitness, especially ecological factors. This dissertation combines behavioral, physiological, and ecological approaches to explore the conditions that favor group formation among non-kin, using as a model the facultatively social carpenter bee, Xylocopa sonorina. Using behavioral and genetic techniques, I found that nestmates in this species are often unrelated, and that non-kin groups form following extensive inter-nest migration.Group living may arise as a strategy to mitigate constraints on available breeding space. To test the hypothesis that nest construction is prohibitively costly for carpenter bees, I measured metabolic rates of excavating bees and used imaging techniques to quantify nest volumes. From these measurements, I found that nest construction is highly energetically costly, and that bees who inherit nests through social queuing experience substantial energetic savings. These costs are exacerbated by limitations on the reuse of existing nests. Using repeated CT scans of nesting logs, I examined changes in nest architecture over time and found that repeatedly inherited tunnels become indefensible to intruders, and are subsequently abandoned. Together, these factors underlie intense competition over available breeding space. The imaging analysis of nesting logs additionally revealed strong seasonal effects on social strategy, with social nesting dominating during winter. To test the hypothesis that winter social nesting arises from intrinsic physiological advantages of grouping, I experimentally manipulated social strategy in overwintering bees. I found that social bees conserve heat and body mass better than solitary bees, suggesting fitness benefits to grouping in cold, resource-scarce conditions. Together, these results suggest that grouping in X. sonorina arises from dynamic strategies to maximize direct fitness in response to harsh and/or competitive conditions. These studies provide empirical insights into the ecological conditions that favor non-kin grouping, and emphasize the importance of ecology in shaping sociality at its evolutionary origins.
ContributorsOstwald, Madeleine (Author) / Fewell, Jennifer H (Thesis advisor) / Amdam, Gro (Committee member) / Harrison, Jon (Committee member) / Pratt, Stephen (Committee member) / Kapheim, Karen (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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This study examined perception of K12 schooling systems as experienced by a randomsample of adults in Phoenix, AZ. It explored whether the values purported as key factors
in the American K12 schooling system - as presented in academic literature - were compatible with the lives, interests and goals of ‘users’, student-participants. In addition, it offered opportunity for post-K12 student-participants to share their views on the purposes, goals, and outcomes they held to be important. The sample consisted of 139 post-K12 stu-
dents/individuals residing in Phoenix, AZ. Mean age of student-participants was 29. Results indicated a mismatch between purported K12 schooling goals and important outcomes embedded in the system and values held by the K12 student-participants. The participants in this research generally perceived K12 schooling as valuable, both to themselves and to society at large, but stressed that the deficiencies they perceived in the system were particular to delivery platforms as they relate to the learning styles of students and belonging. Future life skills and success - in and after K12 schooling - whether related to college or not were also of importance. Results revealed that the initial hypothesis of income, age, and ethnicity as
key factors in satisfaction with K12 schooling was not borne-out. Rather it revealed that a sense of belonging and the suitability of learning platforms to the individual learning styles of students were of greatest significance.
ContributorsParker-Anderies, Margaret (Author) / Janssen, Marco (Thesis advisor) / Garcia, David (Committee member) / Mishra, Punya (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
ContributorsEdwards, Brad, 1963- (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2022-10-24
ContributorsWarren, Alexia (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2022-10-30
ContributorsGardner, Joshua (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Pan, Tiffany (Performer) / Murphy, Patrick (Performer) / Gardner, Stefanie (Performer) / Kluesener, Joseph (Performer) / Egide Duo (Performer) / Paradise Winds (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2022-09-04
ContributorsGuevara, Jose Antonio (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Boyd, Liam (Performer) / Fern, Ellie (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2023-10-29
ContributorsStrickland, Kiefer (Performer) / Novak, Gail (Pianist) (Performer) / Hickman, Miriam, 1955- (Performer) / Micklich, Albie (Performer) / Vazquez, Emilio (Performer) / Duke, Alexander (Performer) / Hanno, Kristi (Performer) / Giambruno, Robert Lau (Performer) / Miessler, Cy (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2017-04-11