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Drought Experience And Perception Of Climatic Change Among Great Plains Farmers, David M. Diggs

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

How humans perceive, respond, and adapt to long-term climatic change are questions of fundamental interest to nature and society researchers. This paper analyzes the effect of drought experience on Great Plains farmers' perceptions of long-term climate change. Approximately three-quarters of all farmers surveyed believed that the climate is, or is possibiy, changing. Drought experience, while perhaps not initiating concern for climate change, can solidify peoples' perceptions of the certainty and nature of the change. The potential cognitive heuristics used in the formation of climate change perceptions are discussed.

Introduction: Climate Change On The Great Plains, Paul A. Kay

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Center for Great Plains Studies has, for the past decade and a half, hosted annual symposia that draw scholars to address topics of regional interest. The symposium topic for 1990, "Climate Change on the Great Plains," was most timely, given the growing concern with global warming heightened by several years of drought stress in the late 1980s. Interest in this topic has a long lineage in the Center: the ninth symposium, in 1985, addressed "Social Adaptation to Semiarid Environments," and issues of drought and environment have appeared often in the pages of Great Plains Quarterly. The 1990 symposium …

Relationships Between 700 Mb Circulation Variations And Great Plains Climate, Daniel J. Leathers

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The relationship between monthly midtropospheric circulation variations, occurring in the North American sector, and surface temperature and precipitation across the Great Plains is evaluated for the middle month of each season (January, April, July, and October). The results demonstrate that monthly Great Plains temperature variability is strongly associated with the major pattems of midtropospheric circulation variation during all months considered. Temporally, the strongest associations are observed during October. However, January, July, and April also exhibit spatially coherent regions of strong association. Spatially, the relationship tends to be strongest in the northern Plains, with decreasing association to the south. Precipitation-midtroposphere relationships …

Drought And Precipitation Fluctuations In The Great Plains During The Late Nineteenth Century, Cary J. Mock

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Monthly precipitation data in the Great Plains from the late nineteenth century (1851–1890) were compared with modem analogs. Seasonal precipitation changes were identified since 1858–1877, depending on the amount of data available, and additional droughts were inferred back to 1851. Regional droughts did not clearly fit any cycle. Precipitation during fall and winter was less than 1951–1980 averages during most of the late nineteenth century. Wetter than modern average springs and summers occurred in the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s. Relationships of these conditions to changes in mid-tropospheric circulation are suggested. Results from this study can be used for verification of …

Hydroclimatic Variability On The Great Plains, Michael J. Keables

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This study identifies the spatial variability of the hydroclimatology of the Great Plains. Spatial associations of monthly midtropospheric circulation anomalies, total precipitation, and mean stream discharge are identified using an unrotated principal component analysis. Three hydroclimatic associations, representing synoptic circulation features and associated precipitation and stream discharge patterns, identify specific circulation anomalies and corresponding spatial pattems of surface hydrology in the northern, central, and southern Great Plains. Results indicate that nearly 47% of the hydrologic (precipitation and stream discharge) variability during summer is attributed to synoptic-scale midtropospheric circulation anomalies, with sub-synoptic convectional processes accounting for approximately 42% of the hydrologic …

The Geologic Record Of Wind Erosion, Eolian Deposition, And Aridity On The Southern High Plains, Vance T. Holliday

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Evidence of wind erosion, accumulation of airborne sediments, and drought is preserved on the Southern High Plains. Eolian deposition in the Holocene concentrated between 6000 and 4500 years ago. The Blackwater Draw Formation indicates episodic wind erosion and deposition in the past 1.6 million years. The Ogallala Formation suggests a vast, sandy eolian plain accumulated episodically between 4 and 11 million years. Warmer and drier conditions predicted for the region in a globally-warmer climate will thus be superimposed upon prevailing characteristics of wind and relative aridity that have dominated recent geologic time.

Great Plains Research: Editorial Matter, Volume 1, Number 1

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Includes:

Cover
Publisher Information (The Center for Great Plains Studies)
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
News and Notes
Calls for Papers (2)
Advertisements (2)
Instructions to Authors

Weimar Culture And The Rise Of National Socialism: The Kampfbund Für Deutsche Kultur, Alan E. Steinweis

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Between 1928 and 1932, the National Socialist movement transformed itself from an insurgent fringe party into Germany's most potent political force. The most important factor in this dramatic turnabout in political fortunes was the rapid deterioration of the German economy beginning in 1929. It does not, however, logically follow that the German people simply fell into the lap of the party and its charismatic leader. To the contrary, the party aggressively employed sophisticated propagandistic and organizational strategies for attracting and mobilizing diverse segments of German society. With the onset of the economic crisis, and the consequent social and political turmoil, …

8. Issues In Intelligent Computer-Assisted Instruction: Eval Uation And Measurement, Harold F. O'Neil Jr., Eva L. Baker

The Computer and the Decision-Making Process

In this chapter we plan to explore two issues in the field of intelligent computer assisted instruction (ICAI) that we feel offer opportunities to advance the state of the art. These issues are evaluation of ICAI systems and the use of the underlying technology in ICAI systems to develop tests. For each issue we will provide a theoretical context, discuss key constructs, provide a brief window to the appropriate literature, suggest methodological solutions and conclude with a concrete example of the feasibility of the solution from our own research.

INTELLIGENT COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION (ICAI)

ICAI is the application of artificial intelligence …

Membership Directory And Networking Guide 1990-1991

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Membership Directory

Members by Location

Members by Institutional Type

Words And Music: The Assembling Of Traveling West, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

This paper is a consideration of the art song as a unique collaboration of poet and composer, the result of which, rarely achieving a balance between the two, often resulting in a creation that comprises the predominant artistic vision of one or the other, with poetry usually getting short shrift. This discussion will examine how dfferent methods of text setting can affect the intended meaning of the poem, citing examples of poet-composer relationships. Then I will discuss how these concepts are utilized in my song cycle, Traveling West, settings of poems by Susan Strayer Deal, Marjorie Saiser, Hilda Raz, …

Review Of George Eliot's Midlands: Passion In Exile, Graham Handley

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Various biographies and critical studies argue that Mary Ann or Marian Evans's formative years in the Midlands influenced George Eliot's art. They do so by explaining that memories of Robert Evans contributed to George Eliot's conceptions of Adam Bede and Caleb Garth, that Cheverel Manor is Arbury Hall, that Amos Barton is largely based on the Rev. John Gwyther, the curate of Chilvers Coton whom Mary Ann knew as a child, that a good deal of autobiographical material went into the creation of Maggie Tulliver, and so on.

Is there a need, then, for Graham Handley's George Eliot's Midlands when …

Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Indians on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history of …

Climate And Vegetation In Central North America: Natural Patterns And Human Alterations, John A. Harrington Jr, Jay R. Harman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The characteristic patterns of climate and natural vegetation in central North America are strongly interrelated and result from an atmospheric circulation system that responds to both global and continental scale mechanisms. Climatic patterns arise in the region between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes or Mississippi River from the interactions between two major components of the global atmospheric circulation system, the tropical Hadley Cell and the extratropical, upper-level Westerlies. The Westerlies, particularly, are influenced and steered by thermal inequalities over the earth's surface as well as by terrain barriers such as the Rocky Mountain Cordillera. In addition, both the …

Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The objectives of this encyclopedia, as explained by the author in the introduction, are "to present the widest possible body of reference material on the Central West" and also "to offer a readable work, one to be dipped into for enjoyment as well as information" (5). There is no disputing the breadth of the coverage, which extends geographically from North Dakota to Texas and from Nebraska to western Colorado and topically from geology to tourism. Nor can it be denied that the entries are interesting. But conceptually the choice of area is open to dispute, and a close reading of …

Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The definition, surveying, and particularly the marking, with quartzite monuments, of the state boundary between North and South Dakota provide the major themes for this study. It is obvious that the author, who was born and raised in South Dakota and now teaches history in North Dakota, has a special fondness for these monuments. While the study will be of primary interest to North and South Dakota state and local history enthusiasts, the book will also interest political geographers and historians (as a case study in the establishment of two states and their boundary) and cartographic historians (as an example …

Starting Out: Experiences Of New Faculty At A Teaching University, Virginia Van Der Bogert

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

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Collegial Support

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The Medicine Wheel: Emotions And Connections In The Classroom, Peter J. Frederick

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Emotions in the Classroom

Connections in the Classroom

The Medicine Wheel in the Classroom

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The Pangaean Megamonsoon- Evidence From The Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Colorado Plateau, Russell F. Dubiel, Judith Totman Parrish, J. Michael Parrish, Steven C. Good

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

The Upper Triassic Chinle Formation was deposited at an exceptional time in Earth's paleogeographic and paleoclimatic history. During the Triassic, the supercontinent Pangaea was at its greatest size, in terms of both aggregated continental crust and exposed land area. Moreover, the exposed land was divided symmetrically about the paleoequator between the northern and south- ern hemispheres. These conditions were ideal for maximizing monsoonal circulation, as predicted from paleoclimate models. The Chinle was deposited between about 5° to 15° N paleolatitude in the western equatorial region of Pangaea, a key area for documenting the effects of the monsoonal climate. This study …

Doctoral Dissertations As Liminal Journeys Of The Self: Betwixt And Between In Graduate Sociology Programs, Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The sociology dissertation process is a liminal journey, a passage characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, and crisis in which the student self is abandoned and a new professional self claims a world of power. authority, maturity, and responsibility. The theoretical perspectives of Victor Turner, Arnold Van Gennep, and George H. Mead are extended to conceptualize the “liminal self who undertakes this difficult and problematic journey of transformation. Experiential methodology, in which theory and autobiography are combined, is employed to explicate the dissertation as a conflictful rite de passage and to critique doctoral projects that unrefexively adopt “technical formulas” for success and …

Introgression Of Coyote Mitochondrial Dna Into Sympatric North American Gray Wolf Populations, Niles Lehman, Andrew Eisenhawer, Kimberly Hansen, L. David Mech, Rolf O. Peterson, Peter J. P. Gogan, Robert K. Wayne

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genotypes of gray wolves and coyotes from localities throughout North America were determined using restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Of the 13 genotypes found among the wolves, 7 are clearly of coyote origin, indicating that genetic transfer of coyote mtDNA into wolf populations has occurred through hybridization. The transfer of mtDNA appears unidirectional from coyotes into wolves because no coyotes sampled have a wolf-derived mtDNA genotype. Wolves possessing coyote-derived genotypes are confined to a contiguous geographic region in Minnesota, Ontario, and Quebec, and the frequency of coyote- type mtDNA in these wolf populations is high (> 500%). The …

Early Eocene Biotic And Climatic Change In Interior Western North America, Scott L. Wing, Thomas M. Bown, John D. Obradovich

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Imprecise correlation of the marine and terrestrial fossil records has been a major obstacle to understanding migration and extinction of continental biotas and early Cenozoic climate change

A Statistical Approach To The Objective Differenciation Of Hirschmanniella Oryzae From H. Belli (Nemata : Pratylenchidae), Renaud Fortuner, Armand R. Maggenti

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Alternate English title: A Statistical Approach to the Objective Differentiation of Hirschmanniella oryzae from H. belli (Nemata : Pratylenchidae)

English language abstract: California populations attributed to Hirschmanniella belli were compared i) to paratypes of this species, ii) to topotypes of H. oryzae, and iii) to other populations of the same genus from other parts of the world. Comparisons were made using discriminant function analyses. Some small differences between California populations and paratypes of H. belli were attributed to artifacts caused by the long storage of these paratypes. Several characters were selected that were not affected by these artifacts, but …

An Outline Development Plan For The Cngla Region, N. Brito Mutunayagam, Matthew C. Brammeier, Randall J. Weaver

Community and Regional Planning Program: Theses

The CNGLA is an organization of citizens from central Nebraska representing Loup, Garfield, Wheeler, Greeley, Valley, Ouster, Howard, and Sherman counties concerned with the future of their region. The mission of the CNGLA is to initiate and promote the development of the region and to stimulate the economy and quality of life of all of its residents. It is a key objective of the CNGLA to develop a plan for accomplishing its mission.

In the summer of 1990, the CNGLA engaged the Department of Community and Regional Planning of the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln to …

Recent Secular Variations In The Extent Of Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, David A. Robinson, Kenneth F. Dewey

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Northern hemisphere snow cover during 1988 and 1989 was at its lowest extent since the advent of reliable satellite snow-cover monitoring 1972; running some 8-10% below the eighteen-year annual mean of 25.7 million km² . Monthly minima for the period of record occurred six times during these two years. In general, the last nine years of the satellite record had less extensive cover than the 1972-80 interval. Negative anomalies during the 1980s were largest over Eurasia in all seasons, and in the Spring over North America. Hemispheric seasonal means for the most recent nine years were 3.7% to 8.4% …

Review Of David Chuenyan Lai, Chinatowns: Towns Within Cities In Canada, Robert Stoddard

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

In the past, a Chinatown was “a self-contained urban enclave” where nearly all Chinese people, their businesses, and their social institutions were confined. Today, however, a Chinatown “is an ill-defined perceptual area because its characteristics, structure, images, and townscape have changed over time.” Lai classifies Chinatowns into four types, one of which, an old Chinatown, is the topic of most of the book. He summarizes the history of Old Chinatowns as involving four stages: budding, blooming, withering, and reviving. For example, Chinatown in Victoria experienced these four particular stages during the following periods: 1858-1870s, 1880s-1910s, 1920s-1970s, and 1980s. The Chinatowns …

Water Current, Volume 22, April 1990

Water Current Newsletter

Environmental Studies Part of Geography Department, Jeanne Kay
Twentieth Annual Earth Day Observed April 22
NATO Advanced Research Workshop to be Held at UNL in September
First Irrigation Day Held February 22
Just Give Us a Call for Water Seminar Proceedings
Festival Highlights Importance of Nebraska's Groundwater
Prevention Key to Pollution
Assessment Atlas Now Available
Water Conference Council Awards
Agency Cooperation Urged at Water Conference
90s Exciting Times in Water Resources
Nebraska Counties Included in High Plains Irrigation Research
Mid-Nebraska Water Quality Demo Project Combines State and Federal Agencies to Research Irrigation Efficiency
Irrigation Bolsters Nebraska's Economy
First Nebraska Instream …

Oaxacanthaxia Viridis, A New Genus And Species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) From Mexico With Old World Affinities, C. L. Bellamy

Insecta Mundi

A new genus and species, Oaxacanthaxia viridis, is described from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The genus is distinguished in a key to the related taxa from Mesoamerica and tabularly from the Old World Philanthaxia, its putative sister genus. A brief discussion is given towards placing this new genus within the tribe Anthaxiini sensu Holynski. Philanthaxina Holynski is reduced to junior synonymy of Thomassetiina Bellamy, stat. nov.

Back To The Future Of The Great Plains, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Americans have never really known what to do with the Great Plains. The future of this huge area stretching from Texas to Montana--roughly 20 percent of the contiguous forty-eight states--has been debated for more than a century, even before the term "Great Plains" itself had come into common usage. In 1878, for example, John Wesley Powell argued in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States that fundamental changes had to be made in the American land system in order to bring government policy into conformity with environmental realities in the Great Plains and other …

Ec90-435 Let's Preserve: Vegetables And Vegetable Products, Julie A. Albrecht

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

High quality home canned vegetables can add nutrients and variety to your meals throughout the year. Canning favorite and special products can be a rewarding experience and a source of pride for many people. Vegetables can be safely preserved at home by following the procedures in this publication.

Pressure canning is the only recommended method for canning low-acid vegetables.