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Development Of A Benthic Foraminifera Based Marine Biotic Index (Foram-Ambi) For The Gulf Of Mexico: A Decision Support Tool, Bryan O'Malley

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is an economically important region (e.g. oil and gas, fisheries) and with the expansion of oil drilling, harmful algal bloom events, oil blowouts, dead zones, anthropogenic eutrophication and contaminant loading, it is important that the ecological quality statuses (EcoQS) of different localities in the Gulf are closely monitored. The EcoQS, as implemented by the European Water Framework Directive, is an effective tool for monitoring ecological health and developing reference conditions. One such index used to define EcoQS is the AZTI Marine Biotic Index (AMBI), which pairs species abundance with environmental stressors. Benthic foraminifera are ideal …

A Dangerous New Era: Analyzing The Impact Of Cyber Technology On International Conflict, Kenneth Brown

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines the causal relationship between cyber technology’s deep global integration and changes in how states struggle for power in the international system. Specifically, it argues that cyber technology has changed international conflict by providing external actors the ability to penetrate states’ grand strategy decision-making and implementation processes to an unprecedented degree and scope. As a result, the meaning of power has changed from a material-centric metric to one that is more nuanced and difficult to measure.

To explore this hypothesis, the study follows a three-step process. First, it examines the history of cyber technology, how it has become …

Impact Of Heat-Related Illness And Natural Environments On Behavioral Health Related Emergency And Hospital Utilization In Florida, Natasha Kurji

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Behavioral health disorders are the leading cause of disability in the United States and are known to have multidimensional effect on wellbeing. Several environmental factors are known to impact behavioral health such as weather (i.e. heat) and access to natural environments (i.e. parks and beaches). The study goals were to identify contextual factors that increase the co-occurrence of heat-related illness and behavioral health disorders, illustrate the re-utilization patterns of these co-occurring cases in Florida emergency and inpatient settings, and explore the association between behavioral health disorders such as anxiety and depression, and natural environments such as parks and beaches. The …

A Visit To Cuba: Performance Ethnography Of Place, Adolfo Lagomasino

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Bestowed to the Cuban government in 1956, The Parque Amigos de José Martí in Ybor City, FL is a historical site intended to symbolize the relationship between Tampa and Cuba that facilitated Cuba’s independence. Cuban cultural identity and the sense of Cubaness are confounded by the history of exile and the constraints of the United States Embargo. This project articulates the experience of the Cuban exile community and their descendants through descriptive accounts of visiting the Parque Amigos de José Martí. Visiting a place is framed as a means of identity performance and a method of performance ethnography, enabling discursive, …

The Weekly Challenger, June 11, 2020, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The June 11, 2020, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Exploring The Potential Of Nutrient Retention And Recycling With Wetlaculture Systems In Ohio With Physical And Landscape Models, Bingbing Jiang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Significant expansion of agricultural land use has been widely recognized for leading to global and regional negative environmental impacts, especially increased eutrophication of surface water systems for the last half-century. The landscape-scale environmental problem of overloading nutrients to lakes and streams by excessive fertilizer use and increased human-caused N-fixation is in urgent need of a sustainable landscape-scale solution. Wetlands have long been considered as an effective way to remove nutrients from surface water. However, the influence of regional seasonality and hydrologic conditions on agricultural runoff treatment wetlands still needs more investigation. A new approach, “wetlaculture,” has recently described as a …

Covid-19 And Numeracy: How About Them Numbers?, Joel Best

Numeracy

Quantitative efforts to understand the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic need to be viewed through the lens of social construction. I begin by comparing the efforts to quantitatively measure the plague in London in 1665. Then I develop five propositions for studying the social construction of statistics: (1) facts are social constructions; (2) measuring involves making decisions, (3) counting is not straightforward; (4) all comparisons involve choices; and (5) social patterns shape numbers. After examining how these propositions affect what we know about COVID-19, I consider their implications for moving beyond mathematics when approaching numeracy.

Cutr Connections [June 2020], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

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Learning To Survive: Wicked Problem Education For The Anthropocene Age, William J. F. Keenan

Journal of Global Education and Research

This article addresses major lacunae in higher education from the standpoint of Anthropocenic survival. Wicked problems transcend national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Eco-survival, international migration, destabilized global markets, shifts in the balance of strategic power, population pressures, cultural imperialism, post-secular quests for meaning-in-life, ambivalence of bio-scientific progress, to name a selection, are global. The case is put that features of a postmodern orientation to the academic curriculum—transdisciplinarity, transnationalism, wicked problem engagement—are better equipped to meet the fuzzy knowledge interests of tomorrow’s world than traditional mono-disciplinary curricula. However, both subject-based and transdisciplinary approaches can coexist with profit in the education …

Emergent Model For Community Engagement: Developing Courses And Programs, Barbara S. Spector, Cyndy S. Leard

Journal of Global Education and Research

This retrospective emergent design qualitative evaluation study documents the development of a unique model for community engagement and engaged scholarship in higher education. The primary novel aspect of the model is participatory involvement of both the target audience for the program and representatives of various stakeholder groups who initiated, conceptualized, tested, assessed, and evaluated the courses and program with the professor. Members of the target audience and stakeholder groups also recruited participants, contributed to refining the courses and program to meet the needs of the stakeholder groups, and contributed to redesigning courses for online learning. The model emerged while developing …

Cases Studied In Genocide Studies And Prevention And Journal Of Genocide Research And Implications For The Field Of Genocide Studies, Jeffrey Bachman

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

The adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948 was accompanied by the emergence of genocide as a field of study, first in the form of Holocaust Studies, followed by Genocide Studies, then Comparative Genocide Studies and, most recently, Critical Genocide Studies. Over the last 20-30 years, the field of genocide studies has greatly expanded. According to Alexander Hinton, “As the outlines of the field emerge more clearly, the time is right to engage in critical reflections about the state of the field.” This article seeks to enhance the field of genocide studies by answering Hinton’s call for reflective analysis. It …

"Currency Is A Most Poisonous Tool": State Capitalism, Nonmarket Socialism, And The Elimination Of Money During The Cambodian Genocide, James A. Tyner

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea sought to establish a non-monetary and non-market economy. In the process, however, upwards of 1.7 million men, women, and children perished. This paper provides a critical evaluation of the CPK’s decision to eliminate money in its attempt to transform Cambodia’s pre-revolutionary economy into a communist mode of production. First, I provide some general remarks on Marx, money, and markets; the purpose here is to establish a common foundation for readers, in order to properly assess Khmer Rouge monetary policies with those of orthodox reading of Marxism. Second, I position CPK macro-economic …

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Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

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Visions Of Greater Serbia: Local Dynamics And The Prijedor Genocide, Damir Kovačević

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article examines the process of genocide in the Prijedor municipality during the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s. In this article, genocide is understood as a dynamic and extraordinary phenomenon, which requires a subnational, or meso-level analysis, to capture the complexities of the case and to account for the shortcomings in the previous literature focusing mostly on the national-level. By narrowing the analysis to a more in-depth level, two explanatory factors help us understand the escalation and radicalization of violence to genocide: structural control and agency collaboration. Specifically, overwhelming political authority, territorial dominance, and a highly coordinated effort between …

The Politicization Of The Genocide Label: Genocide Rhetoric In The Un Security Council, Michelle E. Ringrose

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article examines the intersection of language, power and national interest by discussing how the UN Security Council permanent five (P5) members navigate the linguistic rhetoric of genocide in debates surrounding the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A discourse analysis methodology is adopted to ascertain how P5 member-states framed the genocide in Srebrenica through an analysis of linguistic themes and silences in council debates. This article argues that UN P5 members use language as a mechanism to frame a conflict in a particular way that aligns with their own national political interests. The article reaffirms the importance of genocide recognition, …

The Relationship Between Cave Temperature And Local Atmospheric Mean Temperature In Monsoonal China, Binggui Cai, Miafoa Li, Yanghong Chen, Yongli Gao

Sinkhole Conference 2020

It is widely claimed that temperature inside a deep Karst cave without significant human influence is similar to local mean atmospheric temperature. To test this assumption, we collected temperature data for caves through China from published documents. The difference between cave temperature and local annually mean temperature (ΔT) were then calculated. The results show that theΔT is larger than 2 Celsius degrees for nearly half of caves. Among these caves, ΔT is larger for caves from Northern China than those from southern China. Many of them have underground river. This indicates that underground river may be one of the influencing …

Sinkhole Susceptibility Mapping In The Kuala Lumpur And The Need For A Buried Karst Database, Vanessa J. Banks, Elanni Affandi, Tham Fatt Ng, Christian Arnhardt, Zamri Ramli, Ferdaus Ahmad, Joy Pereira, Helen Reeves

Sinkhole Conference 2020

One of the deliverables for the Newton Ungku Omar funded project: Disaster Resilient Cities: Forecasting local level climate extremes and physical hazards for Kuala Lumpur, awarded in 2016, was the development of a sinkhole susceptibility map for Kuala Lumpur. The purpose of the map was to contribute to the examination atmospheric and physical hazards in the context of climate extremes. At the commencement of the project there was no sinkhole database available to either inform or validate the mapping. The geology of the Kuala Lumpur area comprises a flat, alluvial plain underlain by a bedrock inlier of Cambrian Dinding Schist, …

Cutr Connections [May 2020], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

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Sinkholes And Karst In Puerto Rico: Picturesque And Problematic, Patricia Kambesis, Ira D. Sasowsky, Brittiny P. Moore

Sinkhole Conference 2020

The karst landscapes of Puerto Rico cover nearly 30% of the island, occurring on the north and south coasts and in small patches throughout the central part of the Commonwealth. The karst is expressed through dramatic inland and coastal landforms, extensive limestone aquifers, coastal wetlands and estuaries, and through the many caves and cave systems that drain the landscape. An important feature of Puerto Rico’s karst are sinkholes which form from a variety of processes including dissolution of underlying strata, collapse of subterranean voids, and landslides. From a touristic perspective, sinkholes have served as major attractions in Puerto Rico i.e. …

Sinkholes Developed In Sandstone, Ira D. Sasowsky, E. Calvin Alexander Jr.

Sinkhole Conference 2020

Caves and closed depressions developed in carbonate rocks are defining features of karst terranes. With the increasing recognition that significant caves can develop in quartz (siliciclastic) sandstones, it is natural that we should start to examine their surficial counterparts, sinkholes. A review of the literature shows rather limited attention given to these features. In the glaciated region of northeast Ohio (USA) colleagues and I have examined numerous sinkholes in sandstones, with a variety of morphologies. The most commonly found type is cover subsidence sinkholes, where thin overlying regolith (usually till) has sagged into escarpment-parallel widened fractures. The most significant of …

Are The Groundwater Levels Falling In Puerto Rico Between 1982 And 2017: Comparing A Karst Aquifer With Non-Karst Aquifers, Ronald T. Richards

Sinkhole Conference 2020

Puerto Rico is an oceanic tropical archipelago with about 3.2 million inhabitants, located between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It has a land area of 9104 km². Groundwater provides about 15 percent of the freshwater used in Puerto Rico and is an important reserve during droughts. A monthly groundwater level index was calculated for Puerto Rico from 1982 to 2017. Sub-indices were calculated for the karst North Coast Limestone aquifer, the non-karst South Coastal Plain aquifer, and for the non-karst Rest of Puerto Rico. The index was calculated with data from 80 non-pumping observation wells operated …

Anchorite Sacred Caves In Serbia: Balancing Between Pilgrimage And Religious Tourism Development, Aleksandar Antić

KIP Articles

Serbia is a country with diverse karst terrain, full of various surface and underground karst formations. This terrain is one of the factors that influenced the development of cultures and civilizations in this area. Many archaeological findings indicate that prehistoric people found refuge, safety and peace in many caves in present-day Serbia. The natural environment has also influenced many spiritual endeavours, which have shaped cultural identities throughout history. In this study, Orthodox anchorite sacred caves in Serbia are explored, as well as their related pilgrimage activities and potential for religious tourism development. For the purpose of this research, three pilgrimage …

Evaluating The Influences Of Harvesting Activity And Eutrophication On Loss Of Aquatic Vegetations In Taihu Lake, China, Juhua Luo, Ruiliang Pu, Hongtao Duan, Ronghua Ma, Zhigang Mao, Yuan Zeng, Linsheng Huang, Qitao Xiao

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

A rapid degradation of aquatic vegetations in Taihu Lake has roused a wide attention in recent years. Giving large-scale harvesting activity on aquatic vegetation since 2012, whether water eutrophication or the human harvest activity induced the degradation remains controversial and unclear. In this study, based on Landsat and HJ-CCD data acquired from 1984 to 2016 and a 12-year field observation (2005–2016) of water quality, a method was proposed to quantitatively assess impacts of harvesting activity and water quality change on degradations of both floating-leaved aquatic vegetation (FAV) and submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in Taihu Lake. First, areas of FAV and …

Biogenic Silica And Organic Carbon Records In Zhoushan Coastal Sea Over The Past One Hundred Years And Their Environmental Indications, Hao Xu, Shangwei Jiang, Jialin Li, Ruiliang Pu, Jia Wang, Wanghai Jin, Longbin Sha, Dongling Li

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The influence of terrestrial and marine input has dramatically changed eutrophication in coastal seas over the past 100 years. In this study, Zhoushan coastal sea (ZCS) is taken as a study area. We studied ZCS as it is a sink of the temporal and spatial variation of primary productivity, dominant species of algae, and the variation of provenance in this area over the past 100 years. We performed analysis using three sediment cores and the carbon and silicon deposition records. The analysis results demonstrate that: (1) The primary productivity in the northern area of the ZCS close to the Yangtze …

Cutting Edge Courtship In Eighteenth-Century London, Margaret E. France

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

In 1759, an anonymous twenty-two year-old woman placed an advertisement for a husband in the London Daily Advertiser that inspired an unusual sequel: a pamphlet purporting to collect her responses. Exploring the context of this woman's actions and the letters themselves reveals attitudes regarding matrimony and the dangers of virtual social networks that feel surprisingly contemporary.

Biking Corclima, April 25, 2020, Eleanor Yeomans

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

Corclima is an organization that works closely with the Monteverde Institute and the Monteverde community to promote climate resilience and to help people make significant sustainable actions within their own homes. They help the community in lots of different ways with different plans and actions. Mostly they help facilitate action and motivate people to help out in those actions (Corclima). Originally, I was hoping to work with them and interview members of the community about biking and Corclima’s biking initiatives specifically. When did they begin cycling, what got them interested etc. However, due to the Coronavirus, this no longer became …

Ciclismo Corclima, April 25, 2020, Eleanor Yeomans

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

Corclima is an organization that works closely with the Monteverde Institute and the Monteverde community to promote climate resilience and to help people make significant sustainable actions within their own homes. They help the community in lots of different ways with different plans and actions. Mostly they help facilitate action and motivate people to help out in those actions (Corclima). Originally, I was hoping to work with them and interview members of the community about biking and Corclima’s biking initiatives specifically. When did they begin cycling, what got them interested etc. However, due to the Coronavirus, this no longer became …

The Evolution Of Esea: A Language And Four-Dimension Analysis, Ann M. Meggs

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Title I of ESEA was and continues to be the largest single funding source to support our nation’s most struggling students (Davis, 1999). The purpose of this study was to draw on policy and language analysis perspectives to examine changes in ESEA, specifically in Title I Part A, through its reauthorizations as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). A language analysis of the texts of these acts found changes in key specific language between each reauthorization, affecting the intent and scope of the original ESEA (1965) legislation. Four dimensions of a conceptual …

Cave Airflow Mechanism Of A Crevice-Type Cave: A Case Study From Czechia, Martin Kašing, Jan Lenart

International Journal of Speleology

At present, crevice-type caves are investigated mainly by means of geomorphic and geophysical methods. Microclimatic research of this type of caves is underrepresented and is often limited to temperature and humidity measurement only. Yet, microclimatic research of such caves can significantly help in the management and conservation of caves, speleological exploration or analysis of speleothems. Being the first ever research of ventilation within a crevice-type cave, a complex analysis of cave ventilation was performed within the Velká Ondrášova Cave, a crevice-type cave in the Outer Western Carpathians, Czechia. Long-term temperature recording, airflow tracing within the cave, and a total of …

Cutr Connections [April 2020], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

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