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Workplace Creativity And Motivation Among Counselors In A Residential Summer Camp Setting, Myles L. Lynch

Doctoral Dissertations

The following dissertation includes an overarching introduction and three conceptually linked articles described below. First, the introduction describes the educational and programmatic components of summer camp, a non-formal educational setting, based on the foundational writing of educational philosopher John Dewey. The introduction also identifies key definitions, concepts, and theoretical frameworks related to outdoor education, creativity, and motivation. The three articles, briefly described below, are self-contained and include distinct introductions, discussions, and implications for future research. Article 1. Summer camp is often anecdotally described as a context which may support creativity due to its unique programmatic features. For instance, residential summer …

Informal Caregiver Identity: Voluntary Job Fit, Teamwork, And Tools, Erica Spunt Jablonski

Doctoral Dissertations

According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, an informal or family caregiver is “an unpaid individual . . . involved in assisting others with activities of daily living and/or medical tasks.” As informal caregiving in the United States has increased, research on the topic has been published in a myriad of disciplines (e.g., sociology, nursing, social work, and medicine). The literature has defined informal caregivers (ICGs), described their role and its impacts, detailed the costs and benefits of informal caregiving, and evaluated interventions to assist ICGs. Scholars have also investigated more natural, less experimental use of informational and support resources for …

Navigating The Path To Presence: Ideology, Politics, And The Campaign For Gender Balanced Boards And Commissions In Iowa, Ezra Joseph Temko

Doctoral Dissertations

From 1986 through 1988, Iowa adopted and strengthened a gender balance law that required men and women be equally represented on state boards and commissions. In 2009, Iowa extended this law to also require its counties, municipalities, and school districts to gender balance their boards and commissions. Iowa’s law remains unique in the United States. Through archival research and interviews, my research investigates how advocates navigated the ideological landscape associated with this policy issue. My research unveils the mechanisms that substantially deradicalized gender balance in Iowa, enabling its passage and shifting Iowans’ perceptions of gender, governance, and affirmative action—disembedding gender …

Households' Preferences And Willingness To Pay For Hydrological Services In Veracruz, Mexico, Ian Mcginnis

Master's Theses and Capstones

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are transfer payments from governing bodies, households, firms, or non-governmental organizations to incentivize natural resource owners and managers to carry out environmental conservation efforts that promote the provision of ecosystem services. PES programs targeting reduction of deforestation have gained popularity due to the extensive ecosystem services of forests including carbon storage, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and the provision of hydrological services (HS), the ecosystem services that provide benefits such as water quality improvement, water damage mitigation, and non-use value.

There is evidence in the literature that PES programs, while theoretically beneficial, face issues with long-term financial …

Effects Of Land Use On Wild Bee Functional Diversity, Katherine Akemi Odanaka

Master's Theses and Capstones

Globally, wild bees are facing major declines due to many different factors. Land use is regarded as one of the most damaging of these factors as changes in land use can result in the destruction of critical wild bee habitat and foraging resources. Relative abundance and species richness have been used as standard methods for measuring the health of wild bee communities yet neither abundance nor richness are able to quantify how landscape change affects the traits found in members of the population. Phylogenetic methods are a novel tool that can measure community structure by examining how traits influence population …

Measuring, Modeling, And Evaluating The Spatial Properties Of Northeast Oregon Forests Using Unmanned Aerial Systems, James Perkins

Master's Theses and Capstones

There is an ever expanding range of applications for the aerial images that unmanned aerial systems can uniquely provide. One such application is the use of high-resolution imagery for stand-level forest inventory. Inventory techniques utilizing unmanned aerial systems could be attractive where conditions demand high-resolution data, or where other aerial imagery sources are cost prohibitive. Here the effectiveness of unmanned aerial systems in this application was tested. Over the summer of 2015, a remote-controlled hexacopter equipped with a micro four thirds camera was flown over multiple 1600 meter-squared forested plots in Eastern Oregon. Additional ground-level validation measurements were collected including …

Hospital Mergers Regulatory Review For Nh Senate Judiciary, Lucy Hodder

All Materials

A review of the recent merger/affiliation activity in the Northern New England region, as well as regulations and requirements in New Hampshire and nearby states.

Bioinformatic Analysis Of Streptomyces To Enable Improved Drug Discovery, Kaitlyn Christina Belknap

Master's Theses and Capstones

Biotransformation is the use of an organism’s metabolic system to process compounds of interest and induce chemical modifications. Natural products, including those that have antitumor properties, can be biotransformed in an effort to increase the potency of the synthesized bioactive chemicals. This study investigated the potential of a bacterial isolate of the Streptomyces genus to biotransform ursolic acid (UA). Ursolic acid (UA) is an antileukemic compound derived from the ethnobotanical Northern Labrador Tea. Streptomyces derived natural products have been developed into chemotherapeutics including Daunorubicin and Doxorubicin, among others. The collection, isolation, purification, sequencing, and identification of a Streptomyces species from …

Spatio-Temporal Niche Patterns And Thermal Environmental Cues: Implications For The Persisitence Of Nicrophorine Burying Beetles, Maranda Lillian Keller

Master's Theses and Capstones

The persistence of burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus) depends on the successful acquisition of a highly competitive resource. Breeding pairs of the Nicrophorine genus work together to bury and prepare a suitable carcass as food for their developing larvae. To understand the mechanisms allowing for the persistence of multiple burying beetle species in Nicrophorine-rich communities, this thesis explores how sympatric burying beetles utilize space and time to partition the carrion resource. Further, to explore how thermal environments influence the reproductive biology of burying beetles, the response of Nicrophorus marginatus, both within and across generations is measured by monitoring rearing behaviors, movement …

Distribution, Presence, Ecology, And Harvest Dynamics Of The Chaga Fungus (Inonotus Obliquus) In The White Mountain National Forest, Rhys Thomas Brydon-Williams

Master's Theses and Capstones

Inonotus obliquus is a fungal infection of birch trees that produces a large sterile conk, known colloquially as Chaga. When dried, Chaga has medicinal value as an anti-mutagen and for gastro-peptic relief. With the growth of the natural remedies market over the last decade, Chaga has increasingly become the target of harvest in the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF). Forest managers of the WMNF have asked USFS Forest Health Protection staff whether special use permitting for Chaga as a Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) should be allowed. However, it is difficult to make management recommendations or best management practices for harvesting …

The Anti-Internet Crusade: A Rhetorical Analysis, Kelsey Flannery

Comm-entary

Honors Research Project.

Advised by Michelle Gibbons.

The purpose of this analysis is to understand the successful uses of rhetorical strategies in “tech backlash” discourse, taking Tristan Harris’s TEDTalk “How a Handful of Tech Companies Control Billions of Minds Every Day” and the website Center For Humane Technology as examples. Harris is one of the few speaking out on the necessity for a “tech backlash.” The tech back lash is a term created to explain the current reaction to increased technology use and internet dependence. I will introduce research completed on the creation of the digital society over the last …

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Ag Census Reveals First Reports Of Kiwiberry Production In The Northeast; Unh Leader In Research And Breeding, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

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2018-19 Faculty Senate Xxiii - April 29, 2019 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 26 (Apr. 25, 2019), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Unh Announces 2019 Granite State Award And Honorary Degree Recipients, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Sen. Maggie Hassan Keynotes Unh Panel On Healthcare Costs, Callie Carr

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Scientists Find Auroral "Speed Bumps" Are More Complicated, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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How Violence Impacts Our Lgbtq+ Community, Colleen Spear

UNH Today Archive

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New Unh Speaker Series Explores Business As A Force For Good, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Every Day Is Earth Day At The Nh Agricultural Experiment Station, Lori Wright

UNH Today Archive

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Finish-Line Fellowship, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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The Worth Of Walkability, Keith Testa

UNH Today Archive

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The Poverty-Reducing Effect Of Five Key Government Programs In Rural And Urban America, Jess Carson, Marybeth Mattingly

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Jessica Carson and Marybeth Mattingly explore the extent to which rural and urban residents access five social programs—Social Security, disability benefits, federal and state cash assistance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—and the effect of these programs individually and collectively in bringing family incomes closer to the poverty threshold. They report that these programs combined keep 11.5 percent of rural and 7.6 percent of urban residents out of poverty. Social Security is especially important: without it, poverty would increase by 4.4 percentage points in urban places and by 7.6 percentage points …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 24 (Apr. 11, 2019), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Aacsb Accreditation Extended For Unh’S Business College, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Unh Research Finds Wildfires Alter Stream Chemistry For Years, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

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Unh Researchers Find Unusual Phenomenon In Clouds Triggers Lightning Flash, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Master Of Social Work Program Adopts Hybrid Model, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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Scholarship Success, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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