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Tools For Evaluating And Monitoring The Effectiveness Of Urban Landscape Water Conservation Interventions And Programs, Diana T. Glenn, Joanna Endter-Wada, Roger Kjelgren
Tools For Evaluating And Monitoring The Effectiveness Of Urban Landscape Water Conservation Interventions And Programs, Diana T. Glenn, Joanna Endter-Wada, Roger Kjelgren
Diana T. Glenn
We investigated ways to evaluate landscape water use to help cities more effectively direct water conservation programs to locations with capacity to conserve. Research was conducted in connection with a landscape irrigation evaluation delivered through a city-sponsored Water Check Program. Research efforts led to development of several assessment and monitoring tools including: Landscape Irrigation Ratio (LIR), Participant Outcome Evaluation Tool, and Program Evaluation Tool. We utilized these tools to identify locations with capacity to conserve water applied to landscapes, compare water use before and after the water check, and evaluate Water Check Program effectiveness. We found the LIR approach successfully …
Geometrization Conditions For Perfect Fluids, Scalar Fields, And Electromagnetic Fields, Charles G. Torre, Dionisios Krongos
Geometrization Conditions For Perfect Fluids, Scalar Fields, And Electromagnetic Fields, Charles G. Torre, Dionisios Krongos
Charles G. Torre
Rainich-type conditions giving a spacetime “geometrization” of matter fields in general relativity are reviewed and extended. Three types of matter are considered: perfect fluids, scalar fields, and electromagnetic fields. Necessary and sufficient conditions on a spacetime metric for it to be part of a perfect fluid solution of the Einstein equations are given. Formulas for constructing the fluid from the metric are obtained. All fluid results hold for any spacetime dimension. Geometric conditions on a metric which are necessary and sufficient for it to define a solution of the Einstein-scalar field equations and formulas for constructing the scalar field from …
A Solution In Weyl Gravity With Planar Symmetry, James Thomas Wheeler
A Solution In Weyl Gravity With Planar Symmetry, James Thomas Wheeler
James Thomas Wheeler
We solve the Bach equation for Weyl gravity for the case of a static metric with planar symmetry. The solution is not conformal to the solution to the corresponding Einstein equation.
Moose-Wilson Corridor Use Levels, Type, Patterns And Impacts In Grand Teton National Park- Summer/Fall 2014 Technical Report, Christopher Monz, A. D'Antonio, K. Heaslip
Moose-Wilson Corridor Use Levels, Type, Patterns And Impacts In Grand Teton National Park- Summer/Fall 2014 Technical Report, Christopher Monz, A. D'Antonio, K. Heaslip
Christopher Monz
No abstract provided.
Recreation Impact Monitoring Analysis And Protocol Development, Glacier Bay National Park, K. C. Goonan, Christopher Monz, B. Bruno, T. Lewis
Recreation Impact Monitoring Analysis And Protocol Development, Glacier Bay National Park, K. C. Goonan, Christopher Monz, B. Bruno, T. Lewis
Christopher Monz
No abstract provided.
The Spacetime Co-Torsion In Torsion-Free Biconformal Spaces, James Thomas Wheeler
The Spacetime Co-Torsion In Torsion-Free Biconformal Spaces, James Thomas Wheeler
James Thomas Wheeler
In preceding studies, [TR Gamma minus, TR Gamma plus] we showed that the solution for the connection of flat biconformal space also solves the curved space field equations for the torsion and co-torsion. We continued this investigation with an attempt to solve the full set of torsion and co-torsion field equations, with only the assumption of vanishing torsion and the known form of the metric. We successfully reduced the torsion equations to a single equation. Here, we reduce that equation to its essential degrees of freedom. We find that the spacetime co-torsion is entirely determined by the scale vector and …
Variation Of The Weyl Action, James Thomas Wheeler
Variation Of The Weyl Action, James Thomas Wheeler
James Thomas Wheeler
We show how to vary the fourth order Weyl gravity action to derive the Bach equation.
Torsion Free Biconformal Spaces: Reducing The Torsion Field Equations, James Thomas Wheeler
Torsion Free Biconformal Spaces: Reducing The Torsion Field Equations, James Thomas Wheeler
James Thomas Wheeler
Our goal is to solve the full set of torsion and co-torsion field equations of Euclidean biconformal space, with only the assumption of vanishing torsion. Here we begin by resolving the involution constraints, symmetry conditions and torsion field equation into a single equation for further study.
Pedagogical Agents, Yanghee Kim
Effects Of Learner-Instructor Relationship Building Strategies In Online Video Lessons, Yanghee Kim, Jeffrey Thyne
Effects Of Learner-Instructor Relationship Building Strategies In Online Video Lessons, Yanghee Kim, Jeffrey Thyne
Yanghee Kim
Although research has demonstrated that an increased rapport between instructors and learners can positively relate with increased learning gains, perhaps mediated by the positive attitudes toward the course and self-efficacy beliefs in the coursework, little has been done to test what instructional strategies might increase this rapport in online video-based instruction. This study compared online video-based instruction that made use of relationship-building strategies with online video-based instruction that did not use those strategies. The two instructions were identical in every other way. The results showed that the attitudes of the college students were positively affected by the relationship building strategies …
Technology Meets Body, Body Meets Techology, Victor R. Lee
Technology Meets Body, Body Meets Techology, Victor R. Lee
Victor R Lee
This chapter is an introduction to the larger edited volume. The primary goal of this chapter is to overview the different ways in which the body is thought of as essential for learning, also known as the embodiment or embodied cognition perspective, and to situate that perspective against behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and sociocultural learning theories. A brief overview of the chapters in the volume is also provided.
Pedagogical Agents, Yanghee Kim
Opportunistic Uses Of The Traditional School Day Through Student Examination Of Fitbit Activity Tracker Data, Victor R. Lee, Joel Drake, Ryan Cain
Opportunistic Uses Of The Traditional School Day Through Student Examination Of Fitbit Activity Tracker Data, Victor R. Lee, Joel Drake, Ryan Cain
Victor R Lee
In large part due to the highly prescribed nature of the typical school day for children, efforts to design new interactions with technology have often focused on less-structured after-school clubs and other out-of-school environments. We argue that while the school day imposes serious restrictions, school routines can and should be opportunistically leveraged by designers and by youth. Specifically, wearable activity tracking devices open some new avenues for opportunistic collection of and reflection on data from the school day. To demonstrate this, we present two cases from an elementary statistics classroom unit we designed that intentionally integrated wearable activity trackers and …
Let’S Get Physical: K-12 Students Using Wearable Devices To Obtain And Learn About Data From Physical Activities, Victor R. Lee, Joel Drake, Kylie Williamson
Let’S Get Physical: K-12 Students Using Wearable Devices To Obtain And Learn About Data From Physical Activities, Victor R. Lee, Joel Drake, Kylie Williamson
Victor R Lee
Accessibility to wearable technology has exploded in the last decade. As such, this technology has potential to be used in classrooms in uniquely interactive and personally meaningful ways. Seeing this as a possible future for schools, we have been exploring approaches for designing activities to incorporate wearable physical activity data tracking technologies to help students learn how to interpret data. This article describes four instances of designed learning activities in which wearable physical activity data tracking devices in use with K-12 students. Of special note is how the devices could be used to help students learn both content related to …
Looking At How Technology Is Used With The Bodies Over There To Figure Out What Could Be Done With The Technology And Bodies Right Here, Victor R. Lee
Looking At How Technology Is Used With The Bodies Over There To Figure Out What Could Be Done With The Technology And Bodies Right Here, Victor R. Lee
Victor R Lee
No abstract provided.
Grassroots Or Returning To One’S Roots? Unpacking The Inception Of A Youth-Focused Community Makerspace, Victor R. Lee, Whitney L. King, Ryan Cain
Grassroots Or Returning To One’S Roots? Unpacking The Inception Of A Youth-Focused Community Makerspace, Victor R. Lee, Whitney L. King, Ryan Cain
Victor R Lee
In this paper, we describe the individuals and factors contributing to the emergence of a community makerspace in a small city in the United States. As research into how makerspaces have come into existence is still in a nascent stage, this single case study is intended to describe and highlight some of the complexities involved in creating such a facility. Based on analysis of onsite observations, interviews of adults connected with the space, and electronic communications, we present a story of how two co-founders of a youth-focused makerspace went from having initial interest in extracurricular activities for their own children …
Kpelle Children At Play, David F. Lancy
Kpelle Children At Play, David F. Lancy
David Lancy
Although children’s play has been a relatively popular subject for anthropologists who study childhood, comprehensive studies of the entire play repertoire in a society are rare. One such study was carried out among the Kpelle people in the remote Liberian village of Gbarngasuakwelle four decades ago. A summary of that study reveals that Kpelle children have access to a rich store of traditional play-forms including make-believe, board-type games, active play, contests and folklore. A major finding affirmed that play, far from being the antithesis of work or a reversal of cultural ideals, fundamentally supports and affirms the child’s acquisition of …
Giving Birth To Self, Gene Washington
Giving Birth To Self, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
In GIVING BIRTH TO SELF, the author, using the techniques of "thought-runs," meditates on Marquez's statement that "human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them to give birth to themselves. The focus in this essay is then on context and use, the "where" and the "how" of self. Where do representations of self, oneself and that of the other, typically occur in written texts and how does the author use self: how does it perform?
The Fascination Of The Unfinished, Abandoned And Wrecked, Gene Washington
The Fascination Of The Unfinished, Abandoned And Wrecked, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
The unfinished, abandoned (e.g., ruins), and wrecked provoke a strong reaction in such diverse persons as antiquarians, artists, writers and journalists. One can say that the UAW cause the new thing to appears. They are "news." In this book are a collection of unfinished MSS. The author invites the reader to, if not finish them, at least continue the ideas of each
Free Web App Trello: Your Key To Institutional Memory In Your Subject Librarian Departments, Robert Heaton
Free Web App Trello: Your Key To Institutional Memory In Your Subject Librarian Departments, Robert Heaton
Robert Heaton
A new subject-liaison assignment carries with it a daunting information-management challenge: Who are the faculty members in this department, and how have they worked with the previous subject librarian? Often librarians step into such a role completely blind to this history, but with an easy-to-use online tool, helpful information such as faculty photos, CVs, syllabi, assignment descriptions, research interests, collection needs, teaching schedules, notes on planning meetings and library-instruction sessions, and more can be given to a librarian along with their new subject assignment. Legwork to gather the information from department websites and personnel is required up front, but Trello, …
An Application Of Recreation Resource Assessment Techniques To Inform Management Action In An Urban-Proximate Natural Area, Ashley D'Antonio, Christopher Monz, Nell Larson, Amy Rohman
An Application Of Recreation Resource Assessment Techniques To Inform Management Action In An Urban-Proximate Natural Area, Ashley D'Antonio, Christopher Monz, Nell Larson, Amy Rohman
Christopher Monz
No abstract provided.
A Systems-Based Approach To Address Unintended Consequences Of Demand-Driven Transportation Planning In National Parks And Public Lands, Steven Lawson, Peter Newman, Christopher Monz
A Systems-Based Approach To Address Unintended Consequences Of Demand-Driven Transportation Planning In National Parks And Public Lands, Steven Lawson, Peter Newman, Christopher Monz
Christopher Monz
No abstract provided.
The Ecological Implications Of Visitor Transportation In Parks And Protected Areas: Examples From Research In Us National Parks, Christopher Monz, Ashley D'Antonio, Steve Lawson, Jesse Barber, Peter Newman
The Ecological Implications Of Visitor Transportation In Parks And Protected Areas: Examples From Research In Us National Parks, Christopher Monz, Ashley D'Antonio, Steve Lawson, Jesse Barber, Peter Newman
Christopher Monz
The demand for recreation and nature-based tourism experiences in parks and protected areas continues to grow in many locations worldwide and in response, many parks are employing transit services designed to improve visitor access. Transit services (e.g., public bus service) are a component of the overall park transportation system and are very desirable in park settings as they yield many advantages over personal auto access including reduced congestion in parking areas, reduced carbon footprint, and an enhanced visitor experience. However, a growing body of research also suggests that the delivery of visitors via transit to destinations within a park or …
Linkages Between Water Challenges And Land Use Planning In Megacities, Enjie Li, Joanna Endter-Wada, Shujuan Li
Linkages Between Water Challenges And Land Use Planning In Megacities, Enjie Li, Joanna Endter-Wada, Shujuan Li
Joanna Endter-Wada
No abstract provided.
Contrasting Effects Of Different Mammalian Herbivores On Sagebrush Plant Communities, Kari E. Veblen
Contrasting Effects Of Different Mammalian Herbivores On Sagebrush Plant Communities, Kari E. Veblen
Kari E. Veblen
Herbivory by both grazing and browsing ungulates shapes the structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, and both types of herbivory have been implicated in major ecosystem state changes. Despite the ecological consequences of differences in diets and feeding habits among herbivores, studies that experimentally distinguish effects of grazing from spatially co-occurring, but temporally segregated browsing are extremely rare. Here we use a set of long-term exclosures in northern Utah, USA, to determine how domestic grazers vs. wild ungulate herbivores (including browsers and mixed feeders) affect sagebrush-dominated plant communities that historically covered ~62 million ha in North America. We sampled …