<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Lacey Maryott Roerish <<a href="mailto:lkm9@duke.edu">lkm9@duke.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 23, 2010 3:21:30 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Susan Alberts <<a href="mailto:alberts@duke.edu">alberts@duke.edu</a>>, Jeanne Altmann <<a href="mailto:altj@princeton.edu">altj@princeton.edu</a>>, Niki Learn <<a href="mailto:nlearn@princeton.edu">nlearn@princeton.edu</a>>, Karl Pinc <<a href="mailto:kop@meme.com">kop@meme.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Canine Conditions</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div>I am finding myself struggling to come up with a succinct list of canine conditions from the various notations that are made in the field. I have attached text files (zipped so hopefully susan can view) of all of the different descriptions that are used.<div> <br></div><div>It is definitely the case that 'Sharp','Good',and 'Blunt' are the 3 most commonly used descriptions, however I'm not sure that any of them accurately encompass things like 'worn, tip broken' etc. These seem like they could fit into 'blunt' but I didn't know if I should make that kind of generalization without running it by you all.</div> <div><br></div><div>Information such as "chipped/broken' etc is redundant with the toothstates data, so it may also be hard to decide how to code those which just say 'tip broken' as there is no way to know if it is sharp or blunt...</div> <div><br></div><div>The count in the attached files refers to the number of times that description is used for the column.</div><div><br></div><div>Lacey</div><div><br>-- <br>- -<br>Lacey K. Maryott Roerish<br>Alberts Lab<br> Department of Biology<br>Duke University<br>ph: 919-660-7306<br>fax: 919-660-7293<br><a href="mailto:Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu">Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu</a><br> </div> </blockquote></div></body></html>