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“Neither East Nor West”: Shia Women Negotiating Gender Norms In America, Raheleh Dayerizadeh Apr 2018

“Neither East Nor West”: Shia Women Negotiating Gender Norms In America, Raheleh Dayerizadeh

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With growing hostilities towards the Ummah (Muslim global community and Diaspora) in Western countries and the fear of Sharia laws, the socialization of international human rights norms within religious institutions, makes for a timely case study. Specifically, this dissertation project aims to capture the process of norm transformation at the grassroots level by investigating the religious, cultural, and social encounter between Islam and the West by interviewing Shia women at a local mosque in Florida. Critical constructivism, post-colonial feminism, and qualitative interpretive methods, are used to address the following: how practicing Shia women are navigating between competing liberal gender equality …

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"We're Not Going To Talk About That:" A Qualitative Case Study Of Three Elementary Teachers' Experiences Integrating Literacy And Social Studies, Rebecca L. Powell Apr 2018

"We're Not Going To Talk About That:" A Qualitative Case Study Of Three Elementary Teachers' Experiences Integrating Literacy And Social Studies, Rebecca L. Powell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this interpretive, qualitative multi-case study (Merriam, 2001; Stake, 1995) was to describe the experiences of three elementary classroom teachers as they integrated literacy and social studies during their literacy instruction. This study was grounded in an interpretivist paradigm and a theoretical lens of symbolic interactionism. The guiding questions were: What are the experiences of three elementary teachers when integrating literacy and social studies instruction? What information do teachers use when making decisions about integrated instruction? How do teachers’ beliefs align with their practices? How do teachers organize, plan for, and provide integrated instruction, including how they use …

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The Extreme Karstification Of The Kinta Valley, West Malaysia, Ros Fatihah Muhammad Apr 2018

The Extreme Karstification Of The Kinta Valley, West Malaysia, Ros Fatihah Muhammad

Sinkhole Conference 2018

Surface limestone makes up only about 7% of the whole karst area; the greater subsurface area lies beneath thick alluvial sediments. The depth of the subsurface varies from 9 m to more than 60 m, and shows various topographies from platforms with flat concordant tops to jagged sharp pinnacles with rounded tops. The ratio of surface to subsurface karst can be used as an indication of the intensity of dissolution that occurs and of advanced degradation. Based on its association with tin-rich alluvium, it is believed that the karst in this area developed mostly under a pluvial environment and the …

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Laboratory Testing Of The Potential For The Influence Of Suspended Sediments On The Electrochemical Remediation Of Karst Groundwater, Kimberly Hetrick, Ljiljana Rajic, Akram Alshawabkeh, Dorothy Vesper, Mohammad Shokri Apr 2018

Laboratory Testing Of The Potential For The Influence Of Suspended Sediments On The Electrochemical Remediation Of Karst Groundwater, Kimberly Hetrick, Ljiljana Rajic, Akram Alshawabkeh, Dorothy Vesper, Mohammad Shokri

Sinkhole Conference 2018

Due to the complicated nature of karst aquifers, many groundwater treatment technologies are difficult to implement successfully. A particular challenge arises because sediments are ubiquitous and mobile in karst systems and may either facilitate contaminant transport or act as long-term substrates for storage via sorption. However, electrochemical remediation is a promising technology to be optimized for karst aquifers due to easy manipulation and control of groundwater chemistry, low cost, ability for in situ application, and performance under alternative power sources. This study investigates the effects of suspended karst sediments on the groundwater electrochemical remediation via electro-Fention (EF) mechanism. The EF …

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Bulk Chemistry Of Karst Sediment Deposits, Mohammad Shokri, Dorothy Vesper, Ellen Herman, Ljiljana Rajic, Kimerly Hetrick, Ingrid Y. Padilla, Akram Alshawabkeh Apr 2018

Bulk Chemistry Of Karst Sediment Deposits, Mohammad Shokri, Dorothy Vesper, Ellen Herman, Ljiljana Rajic, Kimerly Hetrick, Ingrid Y. Padilla, Akram Alshawabkeh

Sinkhole Conference 2018

Sediments are ubiquitous in karst systems and play a critical role in the fate and transport of contaminants. Sorbed contaminants may be stored on immobile sediments or rapidly dispersed on mobile sediments. Sediments may also influence remediation by either enhancing or interfering with the process. To better understand the potential effects of sediments on remediation, we conducted physical and chemical characterizations of 11 sediment samples from 7 cave and spring deposits from karst regions of Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The samples were analyzed for particle-size distribution using sieves and laser diffraction particle analysis. The sediment size fraction <2 mm>(sand, silt, …

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The Water Chemical Characteristics Of Qinglongdong Karst Spring, Kunming, China, Binggui Cai, Hong Liu Apr 2018

The Water Chemical Characteristics Of Qinglongdong Karst Spring, Kunming, China, Binggui Cai, Hong Liu

Sinkhole Conference 2018

Karst water plays a very important role in providing a municipal water supply in Kunming City, Yunnan Proving, China. It contributes approximately 50% of the drinking water for the city. Given the rapidly growth in urbanization and of the economy of Kunming City in the last decades, most karst springs have been suffering from human impact, in both quality and quantity. Qinglongdong Spring (QLDS) is located in Dabanqiao village, Northwestern Kunming, 23 km away from Kunming downtown and is an important component of the water supply system of Kunming City. It was previously abandoned in 2003 and 2004 due to …

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Mapping Of Potential Show Caves In The Racha Limestone Massif (Country Of Georgia), Lasha Asanidze, Zaza Lezhava, Nino Chikhradze, George Gaprindashvili, Guranda Avkopashvili Apr 2018

Mapping Of Potential Show Caves In The Racha Limestone Massif (Country Of Georgia), Lasha Asanidze, Zaza Lezhava, Nino Chikhradze, George Gaprindashvili, Guranda Avkopashvili

Sinkhole Conference 2018

Abstract: The Racha limestone massif is located in the eastern part of the karst zone of western Georgia. The massif is a typical example of Georgian mountain karst regions, where diverse surface and subsurface karst landforms are found. The main aim of this research is to present mapping of two potential show caves, and document speleological information from the Racha limestone massif. The morphological parameters and tectonic directions of the Muradi and Usholta Caves were mapped using the compass-clinometer and laser distance meter, to compile 3D models of the caves. To our knowledge these are the first 3D models of …

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Essential Ocean Variables For Global Sustained Observations Of Biodiversity And Ecosystem Changes, Frank E. Muller-Karger Apr 2018

Essential Ocean Variables For Global Sustained Observations Of Biodiversity And Ecosystem Changes, Frank E. Muller-Karger

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Sustained observations of marine biodiversity and ecosystems focused on specific conservation and management problems are needed around the world to effectively mitigate or manage changes resulting from anthropogenic pressures. These observations, while complex and expensive, are required by the international scientific, governance and policy communities to provide baselines against which the effects of human pressures and climate change may be measured and reported, and resources allocated to implement solutions. To identify biological and ecological essential ocean variables (EOVs) for implementation within a global ocean observing system that is relevant for science, informs society, and technologically feasible, we used a driver-pressure-state-impact-response …

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Cold-Air Trap Temperature Records Support Simple High-Density Air-Flow Mechanisms At An Appalachian Limestone Cave Entrance Sinkhole, J. Steven Kite, John Tudek Apr 2018

Cold-Air Trap Temperature Records Support Simple High-Density Air-Flow Mechanisms At An Appalachian Limestone Cave Entrance Sinkhole, J. Steven Kite, John Tudek

Sinkhole Conference 2018

Many Appalachian caves act as cold-air traps, widely open systems chilled by high-density cold air during chilly weather that evolve into density-stratified, nearly closed systems in warm weather. Like algific talus slopes, rock cities, and other cold-air traps in the region, these caves appear to function in accordance with a simple natural refrigeration model popularized by Balch (1900), in which circulation is dominated by static, thermally stratified conditions intermittently disrupted by sinking cold air. Crowder Cave, in Monroe County, West Virginia, hosts two separate cold-air traps in chambers contiguous to an entrance pit, a ~12,000 m3 sinkhole lined with 6 …

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Lithology As An Erosional Control On The Cave Branch And Horn Hollow Fluviokarst Watersheds In Carter County, Kentucky, Andrew K. Francis, Eric W. Peterson, Toby Dogwiler Apr 2018

Lithology As An Erosional Control On The Cave Branch And Horn Hollow Fluviokarst Watersheds In Carter County, Kentucky, Andrew K. Francis, Eric W. Peterson, Toby Dogwiler

Sinkhole Conference 2018

Variation in rock erodibility controls the rate of surface development providing information on the landscape evolution. In fluviokarst systems, the contrast between carbonate and non-carbonate rocks may alter the topographic evolution of the system. In Carter County, Kentucky, the Cave Branch and Horn Hollow fluviokarst systems comprise limestone overlain and capped by sandstone. Streams in the watersheds illustrate erosional differences associated with lithology. Developing as a function of the rock erodibility, uplift rates, and stream power, longitudinal stream profiles provide a means to evaluate variability in denudation rates. Using the integral method of channel profile analysis, we examine if variation …

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Linking Geology And Geotechnical Engineering In Karst: The Qatar Geologic Mapping Project, Randall C. Orndorff, Michael A. Knight, Joseph T. Krupansky, Khaled M. Al-Akhras, Robert G. Stamm, Umi Salmah Abdul Samad, Elalim Ahmed Apr 2018

Linking Geology And Geotechnical Engineering In Karst: The Qatar Geologic Mapping Project, Randall C. Orndorff, Michael A. Knight, Joseph T. Krupansky, Khaled M. Al-Akhras, Robert G. Stamm, Umi Salmah Abdul Samad, Elalim Ahmed

Sinkhole Conference 2018

During a time of expanding population and aging urban infrastructure, it is critical to have accurate geotechnical and geological information to enable adequate design and make appropriate provisions for construction. This is especially important in karst terrains that are prone to sinkhole hazards and groundwater quantity and quality issues. The State of Qatar in the Middle East, a country underlain by carbonate and evaporite rocks and having abundant karst features, has recognized the significance of reliable and accurate geological and geotechnical information and has undertaken a project to develop a robust geotechnical relational database and prepare geologic and thematic digital …

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Geochemical Comparison Of Karst And Clastic Springs In The Appalachian Valley & Ridge Province, Southeastern West Virginia And Central Pennsylvania, Emily Bausher, Autum R. Downey, Dorothy J. Vesper Apr 2018

Geochemical Comparison Of Karst And Clastic Springs In The Appalachian Valley & Ridge Province, Southeastern West Virginia And Central Pennsylvania, Emily Bausher, Autum R. Downey, Dorothy J. Vesper

Sinkhole Conference 2018

The Appalachian Valley and Ridge (V&R) Province extends over 11 states and is an essential water supply. The regional geology consists of more resistant clastic rocks, typically sandstones and mixed shales, which form the ridge tops and mountain flanks, and carbonate rocks that underlie the valleys. In this study, we report the geochemistry of different types of springs on and near Peter’s Mountain in Monroe County, WV. More than 250 springs have been mapped in the ~225 km2 study area on and adjacent to Peter’s Mountain. These data are compared with preliminary data collected from sandstone-sourced springs from central PA …

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The Concept Of Water Storage On Agriculture Lands: Exploring The Notion In South Florida, Kayla Ouellette, Kamal Alsharif, John C. Capece, Hannah Torres Apr 2018

The Concept Of Water Storage On Agriculture Lands: Exploring The Notion In South Florida, Kayla Ouellette, Kamal Alsharif, John C. Capece, Hannah Torres

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Lands in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) can be used for increased water storage in order to relieve coastal estuaries of excess runoff in the rainy season. The goals of this study were: (1) to quantify the environmental and economic tradeoffs of different water storage scenarios using water tolerant sugarcane cultivars; and (2) to quantify the amount of water storage possible in the EAA under different water storage scenarios. A mathematical model was developed to calculate soil depth, soil subsidence, depth to the water table, and water storage for three different sugarcane cultivars with different water tolerances. The …

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Impacts Of Transit-Oriented Compact-Growth On Air Pollutant Concentrations And Exposures In The Tampa Region, Sashikanth Gurram, Amy L. Stuart Mar 2018

Impacts Of Transit-Oriented Compact-Growth On Air Pollutant Concentrations And Exposures In The Tampa Region, Sashikanth Gurram, Amy L. Stuart

Environmental and Occupational Health Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to model the potential impacts of alternative transit-oriented urban design scenarios on community exposures to roadway air pollution. We used a modeling framework developed previously for the study area that includes activity-based travel demand modeling (Tampa Bay ABM), a dynamic traffic assignment model (MATSim), a mobile-source emissions model (MOVES), a line-source dispersion model (RLINE), and a population exposure estimator to simulate ambient concentrations and population exposure to oxides of nitrogen (NOx) under alternate urban design scenarios for Hillsborough County, Florida. Data from the 2040 transit plan envisioned by the Tampa Bay Area …

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Remote Sensing And Spatial Metrics For Quantifying Seagrass Landscape Changes: A Study On The 2011 Indian River Lagoon Florida Seagrass Die-Off Event, René Dieter Baumstark Mar 2018

Remote Sensing And Spatial Metrics For Quantifying Seagrass Landscape Changes: A Study On The 2011 Indian River Lagoon Florida Seagrass Die-Off Event, René Dieter Baumstark

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Florida’s seagrasses are ecologically important marine environments which have suffered major degradation caused by increasing anthropogenic pressures. A 2011 seagrass die-off event caused by an algal bloom in the Florida Indian River Lagoon (IRL) was particularly severe with a majority of seagrass lost in areas such as the Banana River. An understanding of how this coastal marine environment changed is an important step toward better managing resources for conservation. Modern tools and methods provide new opportunities to study these changes at the landscape scale, a scale that informs on the larger more comprehensive state of a system. Classified satellite imagery …

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Crow's Nest, March 26, 2018, Crow's Nest Staff Mar 2018

Crow's Nest, March 26, 2018, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 26, 2018, issue of the Crow's Nest.

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Transition Of Persons With Developmental Disabilities From Parental To Sibling Co-Residential Care: Effects On Sibling Caregiver Well-Being And Family Functioning, Richard Steven Glaesser Mar 2018

Transition Of Persons With Developmental Disabilities From Parental To Sibling Co-Residential Care: Effects On Sibling Caregiver Well-Being And Family Functioning, Richard Steven Glaesser

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Comprehensive improvements in medical care, technology and residential settings have resulted in persons with developmental disabilities (DD) advancing to older age and outliving parental caregivers (Heller & Arnold, 2010). Typical siblings are expected to become the primary caregiver to their sibling with DD when parents become ill or die and unable to provide care (Burke, Fish, & Lawton, 2015; Heller & Arnold, 2010). This dissertation looks at the wellbeing and family functioning of siblings who become the co-residential caregiver following the transition of a brother or sister with DD from parental to sibling co-residential care. The family systems framework was …

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Operationalizing The Pressure And Release Theoretical Framework Using Risk Ratio Analysis To Measure Vulnerability And Predict Risk From Natural Hazards In The Tampa, Fl Metropolitan Area, Jessica A. Wilder Mar 2018

Operationalizing The Pressure And Release Theoretical Framework Using Risk Ratio Analysis To Measure Vulnerability And Predict Risk From Natural Hazards In The Tampa, Fl Metropolitan Area, Jessica A. Wilder

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Significant damage and loss is experienced every year due to natural hazards such as hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, wildfires, volcanoes, and earthquakes. NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) reports that in 2016 the United States experienced more than a dozen climate disaster events with damages and loss in excess of a billion dollars (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 2017). Identifying vulnerabilities and risk associated with disaster threats is now a major focus of natural hazards research. Natural hazards research has yielded numerous theoretical frameworks over the last 25 years that have explained important elements of risk and vulnerability …

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Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Academic Programs Committee Meeting, March 23, 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts And Sciences Mar 2018

Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Academic Programs Committee Meeting, March 23, 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts And Sciences

Academic Programs Committee Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the March 23, 2018, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts & Sciences's Academic Programs Committee.

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Understanding The Effects Of Demographic And Socio-Economic Factors On Public Transit Ridership Trends, Kurt Lehmann Mar 2018

Understanding The Effects Of Demographic And Socio-Economic Factors On Public Transit Ridership Trends, Kurt Lehmann

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Public transit, an important mobility service for many, has incurred ridership decline in the U.S. for the past three years. In 2014, U.S. transit ridership was 10.74 billion unlinked passenger trips. In 2015, total ridership was 1.0 percent fewer, and the 2016 decrease was 2.2 percent from 2015. The consistent abandonment of transit in the U.S. does not seem to be ending. In 2017, ridership predicted from year-to-date data is 2.4 percent less than 2016. Furthermore, per capita ridership has decreased 17 percent since 1980. Both the short-term ridership trend and long-term per capita ridership trend is concerning given the …

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Assessment Of Drinking Water Quality Management And A Treatment Feasibility Study For Brick By Brick Water Storage Tanks In Rakai Uganda, James V. Murduca Mar 2018

Assessment Of Drinking Water Quality Management And A Treatment Feasibility Study For Brick By Brick Water Storage Tanks In Rakai Uganda, James V. Murduca

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Reliable access to safe drinking water is one necessity for humans to live without concern for major health risks. The overall goal of this research is to improve the public health, through improved drinking water, for communities in the Rakai District in Uganda, directly, and other communities in the world, indirectly, via dissemination of knowledge. This study specifically assessed the knowledge of drinking water quality in regards to public health, their sanitation measures, and water treatment methods for users of Brick by Brick rainwater harvesting tanks in the Rakai District (N = 28) by using a knowledge, attitudes, and practice …

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Food Insecurity And Age Of Menarche: Using A Biocultural Approach And Life History Theory To Assess Risks Of Food Insecurity Among Girls In Tampa Bay, Fl, Mecca Burris Mar 2018

Food Insecurity And Age Of Menarche: Using A Biocultural Approach And Life History Theory To Assess Risks Of Food Insecurity Among Girls In Tampa Bay, Fl, Mecca Burris

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Using life-history theory within a biocultural perspective, this research explores whether household food insecurity correlates with early or delayed menarche among adolescent females in Tampa Bay, Florida. Early onset of puberty and menstruation is connected with numerous health consequences including growth stunting, obesity, type-2 diabetes, adult-onset asthma, reproductive cancers, increased risk for depression, behavioral problems, and early sexual activity which increases the risk for STIs and ovarian cancer. Early menarche also seems to disproportionally impact disadvantaged and minority groups. While there are many known factors that influence age at menarche (e.g.: genetics, diet), little is understood regarding the effect of …

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Reconstructing Historical Hurricane Tracks In The Atlantic Basin: Three Case Studies From The 1840s, Emily L. Cerrito Mar 2018

Reconstructing Historical Hurricane Tracks In The Atlantic Basin: Three Case Studies From The 1840s, Emily L. Cerrito

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Analyzing past tropical cyclone activity enables researchers to recognize patterns of hurricane variability, estimate hurricane return periods, and assess local risk to future storms. This paleotempestology study used original primary data to make the historical record as comprehensive and accurate as possible for three major hurricanes: October 1844, October 1846, and September 1848. This thesis presents the reconstructed storm tracks, assesses the societal impacts, and evaluates the storm intensity of these three major hurricanes for the eastern U.S. and Cuba. The data utilized in this study include ship logbooks, newspapers, diaries, and instrumental meteorological records. A geographic information system (GIS) …

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"The Most Well Utilized Building . . . In The United States": Citrus Park Colored School, Geoffrey Mohlman Mar 2018

"The Most Well Utilized Building . . . In The United States": Citrus Park Colored School, Geoffrey Mohlman

Sunland Tribune

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Policing The Riverfront: Urban Revanchism As Sustainability, Jared J. Austin Mar 2018

Policing The Riverfront: Urban Revanchism As Sustainability, Jared J. Austin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An unnoticed shift is underway in the revanchist model of accumulation by dispossession (Harvey, 2005) that is rebranding the neoliberal reorganization of space and economic growth. I call this shift “Urban Revanchism as Sustainability,” following Mike Davis and Daniel Monk (2007). In this study, I describe how Tampa elites, led by Democratic Mayor Bob Buckhorn, use politically popular discourses of ‘sustainability’, ‘walkability’, ‘bike-ability’, among others, to coopt the rhetoric and symbols of social and environmental justice as cover for urban capital accumulation. I describe how in the wake of 2008 which devastated Tampa, and in the context of the subsequent …

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The Weekly Challenger, March 15, 2018, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Mar 2018

The Weekly Challenger, March 15, 2018, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 15, 2018, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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The Promised Body: Diet Culture, The Fat Subject, And Ambivalence As Resistance, Jennifer Dolan Mar 2018

The Promised Body: Diet Culture, The Fat Subject, And Ambivalence As Resistance, Jennifer Dolan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Since the turn of the twentieth century, middle-class Americans have considered the thin body--ostensibly the result of self-control and self-discipline--a moral imperative and a symbol of good citizenship. In this thesis, I provide a critical perspective on fat studies by examining the ways in which the field authorizes itself in a society that deems the fat body unhealthy, costly, and immoral. As one potential solution to fat-hatred, fat studies proposes fat-positivity, but I argue that fat-positivity requires an extraordinary act of imagination in which the fat person overcomes what I term the ideology of thinness and subsequently feels good about …

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Accounting For The Homeless In The 1900 Census, Catherine E. Dixon Mar 2018

Accounting For The Homeless In The 1900 Census, Catherine E. Dixon

Sunland Tribune

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Forty Years Of The Tampa Port Authority, Thomas J. O'Connor Mar 2018

Forty Years Of The Tampa Port Authority, Thomas J. O'Connor

Sunland Tribune

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New Records Of Guano-Associated Minerals From Caves In Northwestern Borneo, Donald A. Mcfarlane, Joyce Lundberg Mar 2018

New Records Of Guano-Associated Minerals From Caves In Northwestern Borneo, Donald A. Mcfarlane, Joyce Lundberg

International Journal of Speleology

Recent studies of ancient bat guano deposits in the caves of Gunung Mulu National Park and Niah National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia, have resulted in noteworthy records of phosphate minerals from these environments, including variscite, nano-particulate silica, fluorapatite, and niter.

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