Boise State University

About: Boise State University is a education organization based out in Boise, Idaho, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3698 authors who have published 8664 publications receiving 210163 citations. The organization is also known as: BSU & Boise State.

Body Condition and the Adrenal Stress Response in Captive American Kestrel Juveniles

Abstract: We examined the adrenal response to handling stress of birds in different body conditions In order to affect the birds' body condition, young (73‐d old) female American kestrels (Falco sparverius) were maintained for 6 wk on one of three diets: a control diet (fed ad lib) and two calorically restricted diets To invoke a stress response, we removed birds from their cages and took repeated blood samples over the course of an hour All birds responded to handling stress with an increase in plasma corticosterone, but control birds (in good body condition) showed a more rapid increase to maximum corticoste‐rone levels, followed by a decrease Both groups of food‐restricted birds had a slower rate of increase to maximum corticosterone levels and then maintained high corticosterone levels through 60 min These results suggest that birds in good physical condition respond more quickly to stressors and adapt physiologically to stressful situations more rapidly than do birds in poor physical condition

Distance Education and the Myth of the New Pedagogy

Abstract: Distance education, broadly defined as instruction that is not bound by time or place, is bringing about fundamental changes in higher education. Writing in a recent online newsletter from the American Association for Higher Education, Ted Marchese describes the many “not-so-distant” distance competitors to traditional colleges and universities: the University of Phoenix, the for-profit university with some 50,000 students in 12 states; the Western Governors University, the competency-based consortium that was founded by 17 governors and is supported by 14 business partners, including Sun, IBM, AT&T, and Microsoft; and Britain’s venerable Open University, which has allied with several universities in the United States and will begin offering courses here this year. Marchese also writes that private industry, which spends $58 billion annually on employee training, is realizing that distance education gives employees access to an enormous variety of educational and training opportunities; some 85% of the Fortune 500 companies now subsidize distance education for their employees. Kaiser Permanente even offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in health science through distance education, and MetLife has teamed with Drexel University to offer a distance master’s degree in information systems. In technical communication, a number of universities are creating distance versions of undergraduate and graduate courses. Mercer University, Utah State, Texas Tech, and Sheffield Hallam University in England all have distance versions of master’s programs. The growth of distance education in technical communication is inevitable for two main reasons: