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1-Back Matching And Mismatching By Pigeons, Thomas Zentall

Psychology Research Data

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Sample Hummingbird Feeder Resource Depletion Investigation, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 13: Birds in the Urban Landscape

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Alphabetical Bird Checklist, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

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La County Drought-Tolerant Plant List, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 10: Garden Ecology

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Alphabetical Bird Checklist, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 13: Birds in the Urban Landscape

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Alphabetical Bird Checklist - Ca, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 13: Birds in the Urban Landscape

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Web Cam Feeders Data Collection Sheet, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 13: Birds in the Urban Landscape

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Alphabetical Bird Checklist - Ca, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 11: Bird Migration

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Biodiversity Measures Spreadsheet - Calculation Of Shannon-Wiener And Simpson's Index With Up To 10 Species, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 06: Urban Biodiversity

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Game Spreadsheet, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 06: Urban Biodiversity

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Data Spreadsheet - Mortality Rates Of Children In Urban Populations Around The World, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 05: Public Health & Water Quality

This lesson introduces students to the module about public health by getting them to consider what does it means for a country, city or neighborhood to be healthy", what factors impact the health of people and what unique challenges do cities face in terms of public health. The goal of the lesson is to get students to brainstorm ideas and begin to start thinking about this topic. The concepts in this lesson will be revisited throughout the module. Students analyze public health data from across the world. These data sets are used to introduce the driving question for the module …

Carbon Calculator, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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An Exploration In The Tools Of Options Pricing - Data, Ryan Hinson, Chris Schroeder

2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations

Stock options can be a useful tool in any investor’s portfolio. They allow the skilled investor to increase their leverage and possibility for a higher payout with less risk. However, they are only beneficial if the investor knows how to use them, and if they accurately reflect the price of the option. This presentation hopes to offer some insight into the binomial method of options pricing along with new adjustments to the model in hopes of reflecting a more accurate options price. This, along with the Monte Carlo simulation presented, will hopefully offer some insight into the mathematical investor’s toolbox.

Using Ecological Analyses To Characterize Socio-Economic Food Deserts, Annie Goyanes, J. Matthew Hoch

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Datasets

“Food desert” refers to an area where citizens lack access to fresh, affordable, nutritious food. Food deserts are generally in low-income urban neighborhoods or rural towns and can be considered environmental or economic injustice. South Florida and Broward County have been documented as having a high food insecurity rate, indicative of households having difficulty putting food on the table. Given the high rate of food insecurity, it was hypothesized that a lack of access to food and the presence of socio-economic food deserts was at least partially responsible. Data was collected by visiting three supermarkets in each of the 13 …

Meandering Water Dataset, Matthew Elliott

Matthew Elliott

2019 - Chinese Pamphlets On Immigration And Exclusion - Inventory - Draft

Chinese Immigration-Exclusion Pamphlet Inventory

An inventory of a group of pamphlets published from 1855 through 1929 detailing the perceived problems associated with the Chinese in America, the efforts made to deprive Chinese rights granted others including citizenship, the depiction of Chinese as inferior humans in terms of intellect and morals standing, the inability of Chinese to assimilate into the American culture, laws enacted to limit the ability of Chinese to participate in the economy, anti-Chinese organizations, speeches before various legislative bodies in opposition to the Chinese, Chinese responses to the anti-Chinese publications, and responses by religious organizations on the subject of race and equality. …

2019 - Japanese Pamphlets Inventory - Draft

Japanese-American Pamphlet Inventory

An inventory of a series of pamphlets published from 1906 through 1925 focused on the presence of Japanese in America, the perception by some that Japan was taking steps to take over America, the great lengths gone to deprive Japanese residing in the United States of land either by purchase or lease and even citizenship, the depiction of Japanese as inferior humans in terms of intellect and morals standing, agreement and laws enacted to limit the ability of Japanese to participate in the economy, anti-Japanese organizations, speeches before various legislative bodies in opposition to the Japanese, Japanese responses to the …