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The Scientific Conquest Of New Mexico: Local Legacies Of The Manhattan Project 1942-2015, Lucie Anne Genay Apr 2016

The Scientific Conquest Of New Mexico: Local Legacies Of The Manhattan Project 1942-2015, Lucie Anne Genay

American Studies ETDs

In the initial scoping phase of this research project, the main question I used for guidance was "to what extent and how did the Manhattan Project impact New Mexico and New Mexicans?" My first objective was to assess the magnitude of the state's transformation before addressing the other questions that soon ensued from this original reflection. A brief historical review of the state's transformation will introduce these questions, and comparing pre-World War II and post-Cold War New Mexico will justify the term "revolutionized" I used above. This dissertation retraces the story of this scientific colonization from the point of view …


The Roots Of Community In The Historic Rio Arriba: Mutualism, Cultural Endurance And Resilience., José A. Rivera Apr 2016

The Roots Of Community In The Historic Rio Arriba: Mutualism, Cultural Endurance And Resilience., José A. Rivera

The Rio Chama Basin: Land, Water and Community

No abstract provided.


Colombia Revisits The Legacy Of €˜Guerrilla Priest’ Camilo Torres, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Apr 2016

Colombia Revisits The Legacy Of €˜Guerrilla Priest’ Camilo Torres, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Fine Arts 2016 Los Alamos Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus Apr 2016

Fine Arts 2016 Los Alamos Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Los Alamos Fine Arts self-study report, review team report, comments from the dean, and response to review report for Spring 2016.


Sociology 2016 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico Apr 2016

Sociology 2016 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Sociology APR self-study, review team report, response report, and initial action plan for Spring 2016, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.


General Studies 2016 Los Alamos Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus Apr 2016

General Studies 2016 Los Alamos Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Los Alamos General Studies self-study report, review team report, comments from the dean, and response to review report for Spring 2016.


The Malleability Of University Students' Beliefs, Values, And Attitudes In The Classroom Setting, Glory Emmanuel Feb 2016

The Malleability Of University Students' Beliefs, Values, And Attitudes In The Classroom Setting, Glory Emmanuel

Psychology ETDs

Beliefs, values, and attitudes (BVAs) are central to a persons identity and worldview but can be refined and influenced through the individual's surrounding environment and experience. The academic setting is one environment that impacts BVAs. This study examined if university students' BVAs are influenced over a semester by students' attributes, their professor, and the classroom context by testing three main hypotheses: 1) students demonstrate BVA change over time while professors' BVAs remain relatively stable over time; 2) students' attributes influence BVA change; and 3) students, especially those who have a positive experience in the class, assimilate to their professor's BVAs. …


Statistics Of Epidemics In Networks By Passing Messages, Munik Shrestha Feb 2016

Statistics Of Epidemics In Networks By Passing Messages, Munik Shrestha

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

Epidemic processes are common out-of-equilibrium phenomena of broad interdisciplinary interest. In this thesis, we show how message-passing approach can be a helpful tool for simulating epidemic models in disordered medium like networks, and in particular for estimating the probability that a given node will become infectious at a particular time. The sort of dynamics we consider are stochastic, where randomness can arise from the stochastic events or from the randomness of network structures. As in belief propagation, variables or messages in message-passing approach are defined on the directed edges of a network. However, unlike belief propagation, where the posterior distributions …


The Rio Chama Basin: A Social-Ecological History Linking Culture And Nature, Sam Markwell, José A. Rivera, Moises Gonzales, J. Jarrett García Feb 2016

The Rio Chama Basin: A Social-Ecological History Linking Culture And Nature, Sam Markwell, José A. Rivera, Moises Gonzales, J. Jarrett García

The Rio Chama Basin: Land, Water and Community

This monograph of the Rio Chama basin in northern New Mexico resulted from a larger project awarded to New Mexico State University by the National Science Foundation, Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human Systems Program. The project was titled: Acequia Water Systems Linking Culture and Nature—An Integrated Analysis of Community Resilience to Climate and Land Use Changes. The grant was made to New Mexico State University with a sub-award to the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at the University of New Mexico (UNM). As part of the multidisciplinary research team, the CRS investigators selected the Rio Chama watershed as a study area …


Relationally Constructing Sexual Identity: The Effect Of Friendship Networks On Same-Sex Sexuality Development, Alena Kuhlemeier Feb 2016

Relationally Constructing Sexual Identity: The Effect Of Friendship Networks On Same-Sex Sexuality Development, Alena Kuhlemeier

Sociology ETDs

Drawing upon social network and sexual identity literature, this study investigates the extent to which social integration can influence the development of non-normative sexuality. Existing literature demonstrates the significance of social support in predicting health outcomes. This study seeks to broaden existing understandings of the importance of friendships to encompass their influence on identity development among adolescents questioning their sexual identity. Specifically, this study uses logistic regression to analyze data from two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Logistic analyses examine the interactive effects of adolescent same sex attraction and each of three distinct friendship network variables …


On The Widening Transfer Aspiration-Achievement Gap: Contextualizing The Transfer Intentions Of Community College Students In New Mexico, Thomas M. Maestas Feb 2016

On The Widening Transfer Aspiration-Achievement Gap: Contextualizing The Transfer Intentions Of Community College Students In New Mexico, Thomas M. Maestas

Sociology ETDs

This study examines the character and potential changes of transfer intention to attend four-year institutions among community college students in New Mexico. Since the early 1970s, national transfer achievement rates have declined in spite of high transfer aspirations resulting in a widening national transfer aspiration-achievement gap. Given that initial education expectations are often unmet, I study how the variability of students development and maintenance of transfer intentions may partly account for the gap. This project, designed as an inductive descriptive study, pursues one central research question: What does transferring mean to students? This question elicits more inquiry: How does a …


Cultivating Community: Political Identity And Civic Agriculture Among Small-Scale Organic Farmers In North Central New Mexico, Rose Elizabeth Rohrer Feb 2016

Cultivating Community: Political Identity And Civic Agriculture Among Small-Scale Organic Farmers In North Central New Mexico, Rose Elizabeth Rohrer

Sociology ETDs

Little work has been done exploring the sociological experiences of individuals working in organic agriculture, a type of farming primarily characterized by rigorous restrictions on chemical inputs. Unlike the massive corporate farms that have become commonplace in much of the United States, farms in North Central New Mexico tend to be small and diverse, with a political focus on community-building. In this study, thirty in-depth interviews of ten producers/owners and twenty farmworkers on organic farms in the region were conducted over the course of the 2014 growing season. I use the interview data to examine how small-scale farm work and …


Human Trafficking Victims Are Everywhere And Nowhere: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of The United States Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign, 2000-2012., Billy James Ulibarri Feb 2016

Human Trafficking Victims Are Everywhere And Nowhere: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of The United States Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign, 2000-2012., Billy James Ulibarri

Sociology ETDs

This dissertation explores the oppositional framing techniques used by actors in the United States anti-human trafficking (AHT) campaign. Theoretically based in symbolic interactionism, I conduct a frame analysis of 12 years of newspaper articles (2000-2012), which comprises the official discourse of the AHT campaign in the United States. I unpack three frame disputes, where claims are challenged and the challenges are rebutted in three primary disputes: 1) the characteristics and experiences of human trafficking victims, 2) the credibility of quantitative estimates of the prevalence of human trafficking, and 3) the justification for the development of new AHT policy tools. Using …


Using Student Feedback To Enhance Teacher Evaluation, Douglas Wine Feb 2016

Using Student Feedback To Enhance Teacher Evaluation, Douglas Wine

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

Teacher evaluation literature presents a history that reflects the increasing need to account for the role of the teacher in the classroom. Extensive research has identified a series of best teaching practices but not a means to know in what context they work best, nor why they do not work for some students. Recently, student surveys provide a snapshot into teacher practices as well. This study held student conversations with underachieving and high achieving students to seek answers to the following two questions: What perspectives can students provide about what influences their achievement in the classroom? How do students perceptions …


Culture And Coping: A Qualitative Study Of A Sri Lankan Village Post Tsunami, Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena, Damien Sanchez, Piyadasa Kodituwakku, Michael Hollifield, Chandanie Hewage, Kalum Bopagoda, Krishantha Weerarathnege Feb 2016

Culture And Coping: A Qualitative Study Of A Sri Lankan Village Post Tsunami, Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena, Damien Sanchez, Piyadasa Kodituwakku, Michael Hollifield, Chandanie Hewage, Kalum Bopagoda, Krishantha Weerarathnege

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

On the tenth anniversary of the Tsunami on December 26, 2014, Sri Lankan newspapers highlighted the issues that still prevail in Peraliya and other tsunami affected regions in Sri Lanka such as unresolved housing problems, displacement from homes near the ocean, poor infrastructure, and loss of livelihood (Hussain, December 26, 2014, p. AA1), and at the same time commemorated “the resilience of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who rose from the debris and the carnage, picked up the pieces and soldiered on amidst the tears and the pain” (Editorial, Sunday Times, December 21, 2014, p. 12). A …


Application For Extension: Dual Credit Faculty Qualifications, Higher Learning Commission Documents Jan 2016

Application For Extension: Dual Credit Faculty Qualifications, Higher Learning Commission Documents

UNM HLC 2018-19 Assurance Argument Evidence

The application for an extension “related to compliance of faculty qualifications” in dual credit programs for the university, filled and submitted to the HLC in 2016.


The Connection, Volume 10, Issue 01, Spring 2016, Linda Beltran, Renee J. Robillard, Kathryn Peters, Emily A. Lilo, Andrea Cantarero Jan 2016

The Connection, Volume 10, Issue 01, Spring 2016, Linda Beltran, Renee J. Robillard, Kathryn Peters, Emily A. Lilo, Andrea Cantarero

Newsletters

The Connection is published by the Prevention Research Center (PRC), Prevention & Population Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The purpose of The Connection is to provide reports and updates on programs of the PRC and those of its Community Advisory Council and other partners.


If Corporations Are People, Why Can't They Play Tag?, Cody J. Jacobs Jan 2016

If Corporations Are People, Why Can't They Play Tag?, Cody J. Jacobs

New Mexico Law Review

The Supreme Court’s decision in Burnham v. Superior Court—despite producing a splintered vote with no opinion garnering a majority of the Court—made one thing clear: an individual defendant can be subject to personal jurisdiction simply by being served with process while he or she happens to be in a forum regardless of whether the defendant has any contacts with that forum. This method of acquiring personal jurisdiction is called transient, or “tag,” jurisdiction. Tag jurisdiction is older than minimum contacts jurisdiction, and once was the primary method for determining whether an out of state defendant could be hauled into a …


Linking Forests To Faucets: Investigating Alternative Approaches For Securing Long-Term Funding For Watershed Restoration In New Mexico., Edward Neil Mccorkindale Iv Jan 2016

Linking Forests To Faucets: Investigating Alternative Approaches For Securing Long-Term Funding For Watershed Restoration In New Mexico., Edward Neil Mccorkindale Iv

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Due to a mix of inter-related human and natural factors, such as climate change, drought, beetle damage, 20th century fire suppression policy and associated hazardous fuels build-up, and the expansive growth of the Wildland-Urban Interface, many montane forests in New Mexico and elsewhere in the western United States have become increasingly susceptible to high-severity wildfires. Critical sources for public drinking water systems often originate in montane forests, where wildland fires can alter hydrologic systems and degrade watersheds, while creating significant runoff, debris, and water quality impacts downstream. As the impact of high severity wildfires expands significantly beyond the proximal burn …


The Connection, Volume 10, Issue 02, Fall 2016, Renee Robillard, Sarah Sanders, Sally Davis Jan 2016

The Connection, Volume 10, Issue 02, Fall 2016, Renee Robillard, Sarah Sanders, Sally Davis

Newsletters

The Connection is published by the Prevention Research Center (PRC), Prevention & Population Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The purpose of The Connection is to provide reports and updates on programs of the PRC and those of its Community Advisory Council and other partners.


Literature Search Strategy For Reversible And Permanent Contraception In India, Neha Bhardwaj Jan 2016

Literature Search Strategy For Reversible And Permanent Contraception In India, Neha Bhardwaj

Clinical and Translational Science Center Scholarly Output

This is a literature search strategy for a project understanding the perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs towards reversible and permanent contraception among Indian women and men in an urban setting.


New Trends In Neutrosophic Theory And Applications - Vol. 1, Florentin Smarandache, Surapati Pramanik Jan 2016

New Trends In Neutrosophic Theory And Applications - Vol. 1, Florentin Smarandache, Surapati Pramanik

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Neutrosophic set has been derived from a new branch of philosophy, namely Neutrosophy. Neutrosophic set is capable of dealing with uncertainty, indeterminacy and inconsistent information. Neutrosophic set approaches are suitable to modeling problems with uncertainty, indeterminacy and inconsistent information in which human knowledge is necessary, and human evaluation is needed. Neutrosophic set theory was proposed in 1998 by Florentin Smarandache, who also developed the concept of single valued neutrosophic set, oriented towards real world scientific and engineering applications. Since then, the single valued neutrosophic set theory has been extensively studied in books and monographs introducing neutrosophic sets and its applications, …


Book Reviews Jan 2016

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Nidus Idearum. Scilogs, Ii: De Rerum Consectatione, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2016

Nidus Idearum. Scilogs, Ii: De Rerum Consectatione, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Welcome into my scientific lab! My lab[oratory] is a virtual facility with noncontrolled conditions in which I mostly perform scientific meditation and chats: a nest of ideas (nidus idearum, in Latin). I called the jottings herein scilogs (truncations of the words scientific, and gr. Λόγος – appealing rather to its original meanings "ground", "opinion", "expectation"), combining the welly of both science and informal (via internet) talks (in English, French, and Romanian). In this second book of scilogs collected from my nest of ideas, one may find new and old questions and solutions, some of them already put at work, others …


From Parks To Partnerships: National Heritage Areas And The Path To Collaborative Participation In The National Park Service's First 100 Years, Alan W. Barton Jan 2016

From Parks To Partnerships: National Heritage Areas And The Path To Collaborative Participation In The National Park Service's First 100 Years, Alan W. Barton

Natural Resources Journal

National parks have been characterized as a democratic institution, a window on natural and cultural history open to all. Over its first century, however, the National Park Service’s (NPS) approach to participatory democracy has evolved. In its early years, NPS professionals applied their expertise to make decisions about park policy, administration and management with little input from the public aside from the interests of businesses that operated within the parks. Public participation in the parks was limited to using the facilities that the NPS provided for public enjoyment. Beginning in the 1930s, the NPS expanded public participation by adding management …


Expanding Comparative Literature Into Comparative Sciences Clusters With Neutrosophy And Quad-Stage Method, Fu Yuhua Jan 2016

Expanding Comparative Literature Into Comparative Sciences Clusters With Neutrosophy And Quad-Stage Method, Fu Yuhua

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


U.S. & Global Diversity & Inclusion Undergraduate Requirement - Approved Courses, Division For Equity And Inclusion Jan 2016

U.S. & Global Diversity & Inclusion Undergraduate Requirement - Approved Courses, Division For Equity And Inclusion

UNM HLC 2018-19 Assurance Argument Evidence

This is a list of courses that were approved by the Diversity Council to fulfill the 'U.S. & Global Diversity & Inclusion' undergraduate requirement.


American Indian Women In Academic Libraries: Progress And Challenges., Sarah R. Kostelecky Jan 2016

American Indian Women In Academic Libraries: Progress And Challenges., Sarah R. Kostelecky

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Standard Neutrosophic Soft Theory - Some First Results, Bui Cong Cuong, Pham Hong Phong, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2016

Standard Neutrosophic Soft Theory - Some First Results, Bui Cong Cuong, Pham Hong Phong, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.


Triangular Dense Fuzzy Neutrosophic Sets, Sujit Kumar, Ismat Beg Jan 2016

Triangular Dense Fuzzy Neutrosophic Sets, Sujit Kumar, Ismat Beg

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.