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The Role Of Sister Cities’ Staff Exchanges In Developing “Learning Cities”: Exploring Necessary And Sufficient Conditions In Social Capital Development Utilizing Proportional Odds Modeling, Patrick H. Buckley, Akio Takahashi, Amy D. Anderson Jun 2015

The Role Of Sister Cities’ Staff Exchanges In Developing “Learning Cities”: Exploring Necessary And Sufficient Conditions In Social Capital Development Utilizing Proportional Odds Modeling, Patrick H. Buckley, Akio Takahashi, Amy D. Anderson

Mathematics Faculty Publications

In the last half century former international adversaries have become cooperators through networking and knowledge sharing for decision making aimed at improving quality of life and sustainability; nowhere has this been more striking then at the urban level where such activity is seen as a key component in building “learning cities” through the development of social capital. Although mega-cities have been leaders in such efforts, mid-sized cities with lesser resource endowments have striven to follow by focusing on more frugal sister city type exchanges. The underlying thesis of our research is that great value can be derived from city-to-city exchanges …


Possible Precursor Events To Earthquakes And The Resulting Effects On Organic Material In The Surrounding Water Bodies, Kiyoko Nakatsui May 2015

Possible Precursor Events To Earthquakes And The Resulting Effects On Organic Material In The Surrounding Water Bodies, Kiyoko Nakatsui

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Being located on the “Ring of Fire” Japan experiences many seismic events. Adding to this, it is located at the convergence of four fault lines where seismic activity will be even more frequent and severe. Although small tremors occurring in an area are indicators of an earthquake to come it only gives minutes of warning. Scientists are now trying to see if latent heat and gas release from fault lines can indicate an earthquake to come with hours or even days of warning. MODIS aqua and terra data will be analyzed in order to see if such precursors can be …