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noxious

[nok´shus]

hurtful; injurious; pernicious.

nox·ious

(nok'shŭs),

Injurious; harmful.

[L. noxius, injurious, fr. noceo, to injure]

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nox·ious

(nok'shŭs)

Injurious; harmful.

[L. noxius, injurious, fr. noceo, to injure]

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noxious

Harmful to health.

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nox·ious

(nok'shŭs)

Injurious; harmful.

[L. noxius, injurious, fr. noceo, to injure]

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(2) The noxiousness of effluents, based on selected parameters, is assessed in the Appendix of the Abwasserabgabengesetz (AbwAG) and forms the assessment basis of the charge.

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Though perhaps less tainted than punishment," both "negative consequences" and "suppression" maintain the confound of effectiveness and noxiousness within the same term.

Terminology and behavior reduction: the case against "punishment."

We also wanted to determine if there was a difference in predator tolerance to noxiousness. We did this by combining all palatability scores from the 12 species of larval anurans for each predator species and comparing the means.

Because our response variable (palatability) is ordinal, we used Kruskal-Wallis tests (Agresti, 1984) to test the statistical hypotheses of no differences in palatability among anuran species, no differences in overall palatability of each anuran species and no difference in predator tolerance to noxiousness. Each test was followed by Tukey's post-hoc test to separate species (P < 0.05).

Our analysis also revealed a significant difference in predator tolerance to noxiousness (Kruskal-Wallis, [H.sub.31,320] = 25.18, P < 0.001).

These trials were the only trials that showed potential noxiousness across all species when fed to crayfish and can likely be explained as simple variation in predator-prey interactions rather than toxicity.

We clearly demonstrated the occurrence of significant noxiousness in several species in this study.

We did not demonstrate noxiousness in any species of Hylid, Pelobatid or Microhylid used in this study.

Previous studies have documented noxiousness, at the tadpole stage, in 2 of the 12 species in our study; Lithobates clamitans and L.

We also documented noxiousness in Lithobates sphenocephalus, Incilius nebulifer and Anaxyrus woodhousii.

We also documented some noxiousness in the intermediate stages of I.

Noxiousness was previously undocumented in three of the five unpalatable species in this study.