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Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships: Cultural Site Stewardship Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• Active stewards in the program now total 169, an increase of 497% since December 2004.
• 11 additional major cultural site impacts resulting in measurable damages reported this quarter. Four additional impacts with somewhat lesser significance also reported in the quarter. Total impacts since December 2004 total 36 major and 12 less significant.
• 2006 monitoring plan for Gold Butte implemented.
• Training class on Southern Nevada Pre-history presented to 41 site stewards.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 81, No. 24 [26], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:

• Coulter, Amber. Campus Becomes More Pedestrian-friendly
• McNamara, Andrew. Student Robbed at Knifepoint; Investigation Ongoing – Stacy Sturgeon
• Brandenburg, Katie. Students Abusing ADHD Meds
• Fontana, Alex. Student Government Association Approves Less Legislation This Semester
• Caudle, Leah. Activities to Ease Final Exam Anxiety
• It’s GIFT Time . . .
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. The Herald is Revenue Independent from Western; Staff Screens All Ads
• Paul, Corey. Program Teaches Kwanzaa to Students
• Fontana, Alex. Jeanne Johnson Elected New Speaker of the Senate – Student Government Association
• Richardson, Kelly. Hurricane Katrina …

Pautas Generales De Accesibilidad Física Para Disminuir Barreras Arquitectónicas En Edificios De Bibliotecas Universitarias. Estudio De Caso, César Augusto Casas Velandia

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

No abstract provided.

La Internacionalización De Los Centros Históricos, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El presente artículo busca desarrollar la idea de que los centros históricos sólo pueden entenderse en el marco de ciertas relaciones particulares, una de las cuales se define en el ámbito internacional. Y si llega a esta condición por el grado de las funciones de centralidad que tiene, Se parte de la premisa que el concepto centro es relativo, en el sentido que para ser tal debe definirse en un ámbito específico de relaciones: siempre se es centro de algo que lo contiene. En el caso que nos ocupa, el ámbito de la centralidad se define según el intensidad de …

Translating Research Into Homelessness Policy And Practice: One Perspective From The United States, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

Like social scientists everywhere, homelessness researchers in the US are usually ignored. Good science that identifies what causes homelessness, sound evaluations which document that certain programs will never work, and even evidence that promising solutions deserve broad replication, are often disregarded. Such wanton indifference for science would constitute malpractice in the field of medicine, but it sometimes passes as acceptable policy in the field of social welfare. Ideology, politics and preservation of the status quo usually prevail. So, what’s a well intentioned researcher to do? Persevere and become more tactical. After all, policy failures can’t be ignored forever. Like good …

Ua3/9/2 L.T. Smith Stadium File, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Correspondence between Heery International and Annie Angueira regarding architectural plans for L.T. Smith Stadium which are included.

Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships: Cultural Site Stewardship Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• 17 new site stewards trained during the quarter. Active stewards in the program now total 167, up from 150 in last quarter.
• Three Desert National Wildlife Refuge sites added to monitoring schedule.
• Comprehensive monitoring plan for Sloan Canyon NCA implemented.
• New training classes offered in GPS navigation and Clark County pre-history.
• 3 additional major cultural site impacts resulting in measurable damages reported this quarter. Four additional impacts with somewhat lesser significance also reported in the quarter. Total impacts since December 2004 total 11 major and 12 less significant.
• Federal land managers authorized site stewards to place signage and construct barriers …

Mammalogy At Texas Tech University: A Historical Perspective, Lisa C. Bradley, John R. Suchecki, Brian R. Amman, Joel G. Brant, Hugh H. Genoways, L. Rex Mcaliley, Robert J. Baker, Francisca Mendez-Harclerode, Robert D. Bradley

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

The mammalogy program at Texas Tech University officially was established in 1962, when Robert L. Packard joined the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences. As the institution's first mammalogist, Packard took the initiative to develop a strong program of mammalian research and education. Influenced by the successful program built by his mentor, E. Raymond Hall, at the University of Kansas, Packard modeled similar goals for Texas Tech University. Those goals included a strong emphasis on both undergraduate and graduate education and research, with several mammalogy faculty members, and the establishment and growth of a large and active mammal collection.

Pobres Las Ciudades De Pobres, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En América Latina, los años ochenta, en términos socioeconómicos, fueron definidos como la "década perdida". Las políticas de ajuste estructural dirigidas a solventar las llamadas variables macroeconómicas dejan -a estas alturas-una considerable deuda social que, en lugar de reducirse con el paso del tiempo, se incrementa considerablemente. Según el Banco Mundial, América Latina es la región del mundo con mayor grado de desigualdad social, lo cual hace que la pobreza sea impermeable al crecimiento económico y al gasto social.

Si bien la pobreza no es un fenómeno nuevo, sí se puede afirmar que durante los últimos años creció, se transformó …

Hacia Una Definición De Políticas De Conservación De Áreas Históricas Mexicanas: La Conservación Integrada Y La Rehabilitación De Las Zonas De Monumentos Históricos En El Estado De Querétaro / Towards A Definition Of Conservation Policies Of Historic Areas: The Integrated Conservation Of Historical Mouments' Zones In The State Of Queretaro, Yanet Lezama-López

Yanet Lezama-López

Tomando como base dos de los paradigmas presentes en la práctica de la conservación (Ashworth, 1994), la preservación y el heritage, el artículo presenta, desde la perspectiva del diseño urbano contemporáneo, los principios de la conservación integrada de paisajes históricos construidos propuestos por la autora para el contexto mexicano. El estudio de caso, el centro histórico de la ciudad de Santiago de Querétaro, en México, permite presentar algunas recomendaciones que pueden ser aplicadas en los planes de manejo o gestión en otros sitios mexicanos inscritos en la lista del Patrimonio Mundial, a fin de contribuir constructivamente en la práctica de …

Time-Series Analysis Of Clusters In City Size Distributions, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, K. Michael Bessey

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Complex systems, such as urban systems, emerge unpredictably without the influence of central control as a result of adaptive behavior by their component, interacting agents. This paper analyses city size distributions, by decade, from the south-western region of the United States for the years 1890–1990. It determines if the distributions were clustered and documents changes in the pattern of clusters over time. Clusters were determined utilizing a kernel density estimator and cluster analysis. The data were clustered as determined by both methods. The analyses identified 4–7 clusters of cities in each of the decades analysed. Cities cluster into size classes, …

La Inseguridad Ciudadana En La Comunidad Andina, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Durante los últimos años la violencia urbana se ha convertido en uno de los temas más importantes de la ciudad andina, debido a las nuevas formas que asume, a los impactos sociales y económicos y al incremento de su magnitud. Las violencias se han extendido en todos los países y ciudades de la región con peculiaridades y ritmos propios, provocando cambios en las urbes. Allí las transformaciones en el urbanismo (amurallamiento de la ciudad, nuevas formas de segregación residencial), en los comportamientos de la población (angustia, desamparo), en la interacción social (reducción de la ciudadanía, nuevas formas de socialización) y …

Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships: Cultural Site Stewardship Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending June 30, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• List of cultural resource sites and locations for monitoring completed
• Outline for recruiting and training site stewards completed
• Protocol for response to site impact/destruction completed
• Field Manual complete and available on CD
• Database set up with 150 site stewards, 144 of whom are currently active
• Identification Card designed and accepted by Interagency Team
• Training manual completed
• Training classes initiated
• Educational program for elementary students in planning stages

Visualizing Complexity : A Spatial Analysis Of Decorative Geometric Pattern In The Islamic World, 900-1400 Ad, Tracy Elizabeth Harrison

Dissertations and Theses

This study explores how the use of complex decorative geometric patterns in Islamic architecture spatially relates to advances in the fields of science and philosophy in the Islamic world between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. This project examines hypotheses developed by vario~s scholars on the forces that shaped the use of these patterns (known as the geometric mode) in Islamic architecture. The prevailing assumption that advances in mathematics contributed to the use of the geometric mode is used as a starting point for subsequent analysis.

For this study, two spatial databases were created. One contains over two hundred and twenty …

Letter To The Editor, Barbara Miller Lane

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Examining The Basis For Change In Clark County Non-Conforming Zone Change Process, Was It Needed?, Maria D. Kaseko

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study reviews Clark County's non-conforming zone change process from 1990 to 2002. A non-conforming zone change, sometimes known as a non-conforming zone boundary amendment is a proposed request that is not within the range of residential densities and/or non-residential intensities indicated on the applicable land use plan map, master plan, or concept plan. This research explores and examines two questions raised by the Clark County's new implementation plan, which was approved in April 2003 to amend the non-conforming zone change process. 1) Clark County assumed there was a public perception that non-conforming zone changes were being approved without regard …

Quito Imaginado, Fernando Carrión Mena, Milagros Aguirre A., Eduardo Kingman G.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Apreciado lector, investigador, viajero, habitante de estas urbes: en las páginas siguientes encontrará usted uno de los resultados más sugestivos de la que también es una de las investigaciones más originales e interesantes generadas en América Latina sobre las formas y maneras de ser habitante de una ciudad iberoamericana; labor realizada por numerosos especialistas que nos aportaron miradas locales, de conjunto y comparativas. Este trabajo fue realizado con el auspicio del Convenio Andrés Bello y el aporte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y de múltiples instituciones académicas, oficiales y de la sociedad civil en todo el continente y España. …

Citizen Based Public Health Surveillance, Monitoring And Post-Event Assessments, Thomas Lyons Carr Iii

Thomas Lyons (Thom) Carr III Appl.Sc., CEM

When a sudden on-set emergency or disaster affects a region or the whole country, communities and neighborhoods should plan for the possibility that emergency and other civic services will be disrupted and unavailable (District of Columbia 2003a, 2003b, 2004; Doyle 2004; Siskiyou County Public Health/NorCalBT.com 2004). The event may be severe enough that the routine public health surveillance and monitoring system will be disrupted or the system will not be able to provide data quickly enough to support state and local decisionmaking. A temporary post-disaster system should be planned for and implemented. The epidemiologist supporting the local decision makers must …

2005 - The Tenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Tenth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 8, 2005. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

Inside Unlv, Gian Galassi, Nancy Syzdek, Erin O'Donnell, Carol C. Harter, Diane Russell, Cate Weeks

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships: Cultural Site Stewardship Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending March 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• List of cultural resource sites and locations for monitoring is 100% complete
• Outline for recruiting and training site stewards is now complete
• Law enforcement protocol for response to site impact/destruction has been established
• Field manual has been completed and computerized
• Training manual 90% complete and awaiting team approval
• Database loaded with 122 site steward records, of whom 88 are active
• Site steward identification card designed and approved by Cultural Resources Team; NCA and NRA fee waivers for site stewards approved by BLM and NPS
• Open house held March 19, 2005, to introduce program to site stewards

Land Planning And Development Mitigation For Protecting Water Quality In The Great Lakes System: An Evaluation Of U.S. Approaches, Elizabeth Brabec, Peter Kumble

Elizabeth Brabec

A review of the land use/water quality interface of the Great Lakes system, and the monitoring programs in place. The paper reviews the weakness in the system and suggests opportunities for improvement.

What Communities Should Do Pre-Event To Support Public Health Post-Event Assessments, Surveillance And Monitoring, Thomas Lyons Carr Iii

Thomas Lyons (Thom) Carr III Appl.Sc., CEM

[Abstract written March 2008, TLC] Under worst-case planning assumptions used by some major metropolitan areas, a Neighbor-to-Neighbor self-help program model is the primary link between citizens and the professional response personnel of the responsible government agencies.

In the Neighbor-to-Neighbor self-help program model or a Community Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) calls on the citizens in neighborhoods to identify and establish cluster emergency preparedness committees, Cluster Emergency Coordination Centers (CECC) and Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT). Missing from these plans or what is not articulated is how constant Public Health Post-Event Surveillance, Monitoring and Assessments will be done. Given the worst-case planning …

Ua1b1/7 Complex For Engineering & Biological Sciences Dedication, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Program for the Complex for Engineering & Biological Sciences dedication, includes image of the building and floor plans.

Houses Of Straw, David A. Bainbridge

David A Bainbridge

Straw bale building offers high performance at a low cost. Bale building, developed on the grasslands of Nebraska at turn of the last century, has been rediscovered. High insulation values and high interior thermal mass make straw bales a good choice for passive solar design.

Update New England, Pingkang Yu

Pingkang Yu

Quarterly publication from 2003 to 2005 for the comprehensive coverage of economic conditions

Did The Maya Build Architectural Cosmograms?, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Renovación Urbana Y Proyecto Nacional, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El Proyecto de Estudios Urbanos Comparativos del Woodrow Wilson Internacional Center For Scholars (WWIC) y el Programa de Estudios de la Ciudad de FLACSOEcuador organizaron los días 16 y 17 de diciembre de 2004 el seminario internacional bajo el nombre: “Hacia un Estado Estable: Regeneración y Revitalización Urbana en las Américas”.

Para el efecto se presentaron 14 ponencias expuestas por académicos, autoridades y funcionarios; provenientes de profesiones diversas (arquitectos, sociólogos, economistas, antropólogos), enfocando sus presentaciones desde ámbitos locales, nacionales y latinoamericanos. A la reunión asistieron más de 80 personas, con una composición similar a la de los ponentes; esto es: …

El Centro Histórico Como Objeto De Deseo, Fernando Carrión Mena, Lisa Hanley

Fernando Carrión Mena

Con este trabajo se busca presentar algunas hipótesis e ideas respecto de la relación entre centro histórico, espacio publico y grandes proyectos urbanos, en el entendido de que el centro histórico es un espacio público por excelencia y, por tanto, es un elemento articulador de la ciudad; lo cual le convierte -por si y ante si- en un gran proyecto urbano (GPU). Esta propuesta se desarrollará en el contexto optimista de la ciudad como solución y en la consideración del centro histórico como objeto del deseo. Para desarrollar esta idea se parte de los siguientes tres principios orientadores.

Primero, es …

Los Centros Históricos En La Era Digital En América Latina, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Este trabajo nace de un proceso de estudio y reflexión realizado sobre la base de lo que se ha venido haciendo y estudiando en algunos de los centros históricos más importantes de América Latina. Para su desarrollo se plantea una lógica expositiva a través de tres preguntas clave y una conclusión general.

La primera se refiere a lo que está sucediendo en los centros históricos o por qué esta temática ha cobrado tanto peso en el continente: ¿qué ocurre hoy en día con el proceso de globalización en los centros históricos en la región? Su pertinencia proviene del hecho de …