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Viability And Spatial Assessment Of Ecological Communities In The Northern Appalachian Ecoregion, Mark Gustav Anderson

Doctoral Dissertations

My objective was to design a conservation reserve system that included multiple viable examples of all ecological community types within one specific ecoregion---the Northern Appalachians. I developed and defined the boundaries of the ecoregion, constructed a comprehensive list of the ecological communities and determined their scale of occurrence and distribution patterns. I also assessed the types and distributions of biophysical features within the ecoregion and developed a hierarchical scheme to partition the region into biophysical subregions. Subsequently, I assessed 1500 occurrences of ecological communities in the region compiled from state Natural Heritage databases and an analysis of roadless areas. Each …

Thinking Through Performance: Children Make Sense Of Characters And Social Relationships Through A Gesture-Based Theatre Convention (Tableau), Georgia Patricia Wilson

Doctoral Dissertations

This inquiry considers a gesture-based theatre convention called tableau as used by first and second graders during language arts instruction. I argue that tableau acts as a medium of thinking, used to make sense of literary text and of social relationships. Tableau is largely non-language-based; it augments instructional practices that are primarily language-based. Tableau reveals sophisticated understandings children cannot yet put into language. As such, tableau offers educators a means to cast children as capable analysts of literature.

Qualitatively oriented, this inquiry uses instrumental case study methods of observation and data analysis coupled with a concurrent conceptual study of the …

Atmospheric Transport And Deposition Of Water -Soluble Nitrogen To The Gulf Of Maine, Carolyn Estelle Jordan

Doctoral Dissertations

An intensive sampling program was carried out from May 1994 through November 1997 on the shore of the Gulf of Maine in New Castle, New Hampshire. Daily (24 hour averages) samples of bulk aerosol and gas phase HNO3, precipitation, and 20 aerosol size distributions were obtained. Particulate NH4+ and gas phase HNO3 were the dominant water-soluble nitrogen species in the atmosphere. Nitrate was the dominant inorganic nitrogen ion in precipitation.

These samples were used with 1000 hPa streamlines to classify sampled air masses according to their surface level transport and chemistry. Overall, mixed conditions occurred in 42% of the samples, …

International Secured Transactions And Revised Ucc Articles 9, Neil B. Cohen, Edwin E. Smith

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Effect Of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines On Interjudge Sentencing Disparity, Paul J. Hofer, Kevin R. Blackwell, R. Barry Ruback

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

The Impacts And Implementation Of Integrated Marketing Communications, Min-Fang Wu

Theses

In the current market place, there are two points that occupy the marketer's attention. One is the necessity of integration; the other is the importance of communications. Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) is the crystallization of the two thoughts.

Because the entire market place is changing so rapidly, factors that result in a successful business are too complicated. Integration of all kinds of market resources is no longer a marketing theory which is discussed by academics. It has become a necessary solution to business.

On the other hand, the popular issue of communication does not simply reflect the deep relationship of …

The Herbert Pickering Lewis Collection Of Talavera Poblano, Lynn Carlson

Theses

This thesis describes a one hundred and seventy-nine piece collection of ceramics, the Herbert Pickering Lewis Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. The collection arrived in Chicago seventy-five years ago. The objects were made in Mexico.

Mexico, once home to the deities, sports and commerce of the Aztec, Maya and Olmec civilizations, was settled by Europeans early in the sixteenth century

. . . and New Spain became the first Spanish American viceroyalty, eventually including all of ancient Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, the Caribbean and most of the south-western USA (see Hoggart, page 230).

Though the political map has changed …

Making The "White Man's Country" White: Race, Slavery, And State-Building In The Jacksonian South, Lacy K. Ford, Jr.

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

In-Situ Measurement Of Denitrification In The Elk Valley Aquifer, Allen Schlag

Theses and Dissertations

Groundwater serves more than half of North Dakota's population as a drinking water source. Nitrate (NO₃¯) is a common groundwater contaminant associated with fertilizers, septic systems and livestock waste in shallow unconfined aquifers. As a suspected carcinogen and cause of potentially lethal methemoglobinemia in infants, the natural attenuation of NO₃¯ by denitrification can be an important process in keeping groundwater as a reliable source of clean drinking water for North Dakota. Organic carbon is often considered the most important electron donor for the chemical reduction of NO₃¯ into harmless nitrogen gas. However, several studies have shown that inorganic electron donors …

1999 Cardozo Life (Winter), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Life Magazine

Table of Contents:

Around Campus, page 3

Faculty Briefs, page 12

Millennial Ideas, page 15

The Future of Gaming: Is it on the Internet?, page 20

An Interview with Bonnie Steingart, page 24

Alumni News & Notes, page 28

An International Common Law Of Antitrust, Spencer Weber Waller

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

Borderland "Day Tourists" From The East: Trieste's Transitory Shopping Fair, Julian V. Minghi

Visions in Leisure and Business

Flows of people across international boundaries to shop have long been a common phenomenon. The end of the Cold War removed barriers to such flows from Eastern to Western Europe and gave rise to a distinctive strain of borderland shopper-officially a "day tourist" from Central Europe, but in reality a professional shopper working as an essential part of an international retail distribution system linking supply from the West to consumption in the East. The case of Trieste (Italy) is examined. The city's borderland shoppers became important during the late 1980s and activity peaked in 1993-5 as bus loads of Central …

The Professional Beliefs And The Conditions That Support Integrated Curriculum In A New England Middle School, Cheryl Lynn Davis

Educational Studies Dissertations

Research on the best practices at the middle school level suggests that early adolescent students need an educational environment that is unlike elementary or high school. Young people between the ages of 10 and 14 are experiencing rapid changes in their cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. In order to meet these needs, middle school curriculum must provide opportunities for students to broaden their knowledge base, explore areas of interest, and acquire a sense of self as they seek to understand their place within the larger society. An effective way to reach such goals, at the middle level, is through …

Starting Or Expanding An Out-Of-School Program: Five Steps To Starting Something New, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Guides

Step 1: Perceive the Need; Step II: Connect with Others; Step Ill: Conduct a Needs Assessment; Step IV: Utilize Information Gathered to Design a Program or Component; and Step V: Formulate an Action Plan.

Creating A Balanced Program, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Guides

This resource contains: Assessment of needs/interests in the room; Introduction to the Agenda; Defining Aspects of a Quality Program; Defining "Program" and "Components"; Designing an Appropriate Environment; Designing Appropriate Routines/Schedules; Ideas for Themes; Integrating Service-Learning; Keys and Summary; Program Design Tools; and Resource list.

Designing Collaborations Between Community Based Organizations And Schools .To Produce Curriculum Models For Service-Learning Programs (Abraham Lincoln High School), Abraham Lincoln High School

Guides

Abraham Lincoln High School (formally The High School for New Americans) and the Institute for Education and Advocacy used this project as a community awareness and outreach program. The project was created to help immigrant and refugee students introduce themselves to their new community, to foster self-reflection and self-expression in the students, to bring the different academic departments together in a hands-on project, and to help in the healing process of the students in overcoming their recent transition and often traumatic experiences.

Service Learning Project Matrices, Providence College's Slate Project

Curriculum

Service learning project matrices for Kindergarten, 3rd grade, 3rd/4th grade, and upper elementary levels.

Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Master's Degrees, Educational Specialist Degrees, Certification Programs 1999 Program Brochure, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Sustainable Development: A Five-Dimensional Algorithm For Environmental Law, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This article describes sustainable development as involving five dimensions: environment, economy, equity, time, and space (or scale). I suggest that the complexity inherent in balancing these five dimensions demand algorithmic approaches like those being explored in complex adaptive systems theory.

Review Of Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Resource Management, By Fikret Berkes, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Second Redemption?, Bradley W. Joondeph

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

1999-2001 Bgsu Undergraduate Catalog, Bowling Green State University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Physical Controls On The Taylor Valley Ecosystem, Antarctica, Andrew G. Fountain, W. Berry Lyons, Melody B. Burkins, Gayle L. Dana, Peter T. Doran, Karen J. Lewis, Diane M. Mcknight, Daryl L. Moorhead, Andrew N. Parsons, John C. Priscu, Diana H. Wall, Robert A. Wharton, Ross A. Virginia

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Reveille - 1999, Fort Hays State University

Reveille Yearbooks

Fort Hays State University 1999 Reveille

Whitebark Pine (Pinus Albicaulus) Decline And Restoration In Glacier National Park, Kristopher T. Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Colonialism And Modern Constructions Of Race: A Preliminary Inquiry, Tayyab Mahmud

Faculty Articles

This article aims at an examination of the colonial career of the modern construction of race and its traces in post-coloniality. It locates race in regimes of legality and illegality attendant to British colonial rule over India to underscore the defining role of colonialism in modern constructions of race. The first part recounts the modern grammar of racial difference rooted in the colonial encounter between modern Europe and its colonies. The second part identifies three specific sites of deployment of colonial racial stereotypes in colonial India, namely, "martial races," "criminal tribes," and indentured labor. The last part traces the shadow …

Runaway Nuns, Runaway Bestsellers: Representations Of Gender And *Class In Antebellum Convent Captivity Narratives And Fictions, John J. Regan

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Digital Change Detection Methods For Identification Of Tree Cutting Activities, 1974-1985, Flathead National Forest, Montana, Usa, Robert B. Nicholson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Identifying The Maya Through A Study Of Their Theatrical Practices| A Textual And Contextual Dramaturgy Of The Mayan Cultural Performance Heritage, Ann C. Wright

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Protected Area Planning Principles And Strategies, William T. Borrie, Stephen Mccool, George H. Stankey

Society and Conservation Faculty Publications

In this chapter, the challenges of protected area planning are explored by addressing the latter question. The chapter focuses on maintaining protected area values in face of increasing recreational pressure, although these general concepts and principles can be applied to other "threats" as well (Machlis and Tichnell 1985). First, the social and political contexts within which such planning occurs are outlined. It is to these complex contexts that an interactive, collaborative-learning based planning process would seem most appropriate. Next, an overview of eleven principles of visitor management is presented. These principles must be acknowledged and incorporated in any protected area …