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Introduction: Fear And Loathing Of Evolutionary Psychology In The Social Sciences, Daniel Leger, Alan Kamil, Jeffrey A. French

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

When one looks at the intellectual landscape of the modern university, at the scholarly and scientific interests of its faculty, the panorama is seamless. There are no discontinuities. The interests of physicists transmogrify into those of chemists, those of chemists into those of biologists, and so on. The lines, the divisions, between departments have been created out of administrative, not intellectual, necessity.
For example, consider the divide between chemistry and biology. There is a set of chemical processes that are characteristic of living systems. Is the study of these processes chemistry or biology? This is a meaningless question. To be …

Integrating Learning Strategies Into Teaching, Terry Doyle

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Students often lack the strategies needed to effectively learn course content. Integrating the teaching of “learning how to learn” strategies into course content is the best way for students to be successful.

The Spatial Distribution Of Diversity Between Disparate Taxa: Spatial Correspondence Between Mammals And Ants Across South Florida, Usa, Craig R. Allen, L. G. Pearlstine, D.P. Wojcik, W.M. Kitchens

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Gap Analysis takes a proactive landscape-level approach to conserving native species by identifying nodes of high biological diversity. It uses vertebrate species richness as an index of overall biological diversity. However, it remains unknownwhether or not the spatial distribution of vertebrate diversity correspondswith the diversity of other taxa. We tested whether landscape-level diversity patterns corresponded between a vertebrate and an invertebrate taxon, mammals and ants, across the southern half of the Florida peninsula, USA. Composite digital maps with a 30-m spatial resolution were produced for each taxon. Spatial correspondence between the taxa was determined by normalizing and then subtracting the …

Ring Current Ion Composition During Solar Minimum And Rising Solar Activity: Polar/Cammice/Mics Results, T I. Pulkkinen, N Yu Ganushkina, D N. Baker, Niescja E. Turner, J F. Fennell, J L. Roeder, T A. Fritz, M Grande, B Kellett, G Kettmann

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Research

This paper shows statistical results of the ring current ion composition and its variability as a function of solar cycle and magnetospheric activity for 3 < L < 8. Spin-averaged energetic particle (1-200 keV) measurements from Polar are combined with geomagnetic indices as well as solar wind and interplanetary observations from the Wind spacecraft during a period from September 1996 to March 1999. The statistics are performed both for time-averaged values for all periods as well as for peak flux values during geomagnetic storms (defined as Dst < -50 nT) that occurred during this period. The average O⁺ energy density increases by about a factor of 5 during the rising phase of the solar cycle from the minimum values in 1996, while the average values of H⁺ and He show variability but no consistently increasing trend. The O⁺ flux is small (below 10%) compared with the hydrogen flux, and the average energy density ranges from a few percent at solar minimum to ∼10% at high solar activity time in …

When A Patent Claim Is Broader Than The Disclosure: The Federal Circuit's Game Has No Rules, 1 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 21 (2001), Robert L. Harmon

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

The Federal Circuit has become much less willing to enforce a claim that is broader than the specific embodiments described in the patent. Unfortunately, its decisions provide no guidelines for identifying such situations. Nor is the court consistent in its attacks on the problem. Sometimes it simply construes the claim as limited to the specific embodiment and finds no infringement. Sometimes it invalidates the claim for want of an adequate written description or for insufficient scope of enablement. It is suggested that a careful use of the reverse doctrine of equivalents would create stability and predictability with respect to this …

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 4, January 2001, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

An eight page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.

Parallel Detection Of Closed Streamlines In Planar Flows, Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Uniform Rules Of Engagement: The New Tax Regime For Foreign Sales, Harold S. Peckron

UC Law SF International Law Review

The World Trade Organization (WTO) administers, enforces, and decides international trade disputes by establishing uniform rules of trade engagement designed to minimize trade wars. Countries that fail to abide by the WTO rules can be taken to the WTO courts and face eventual sanctioned retaliation. Without such rules, global economic competition can be as fierce as the most devastating battle and, as history has shown, can be the catalyst for war.

This Article examines the United States' alleged disregard of the WTO uniform trade rules through the use of foreign sales corporations, and how this tax regime almost ignited an …

The Human Genome In The Public View: Genetics, Geneticists, And Eugenics, Mary Kay Pelias, Nathan J. Markward

St. Thomas Law Review

Recent advances in the technologies of molecular genetics have generated a plethora of questions about how these technologies should be used and what, if any, constraints should be imposed on their use. Commentators on the use of the new genetic technologies have, on the one hand, emphasized the benefits to be realized from genetics research in terms of human health and welfare. On the other hand, a handful of critics have focused on the possible misuses of the new technologies and have urged surveillance of genetics and geneticists, lest we again fall into the morass of coercive, or forcible, eugenics. …

Monthly Fractional Green Vegetation Cover Associated With Land Cover Classes Of The Conterminous Usa, Kevin P. Gallo, Dan Tarpley, Ken Mitchell, Ivan Csiszar, Timothy Owen, Brad Reed

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The land cover classes developed under the coordination of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Data and Information System (IGBP-DIS) have been analyzed for a study area that includes the Conterminous United States and portions of Mexico and Canada

Graduate Record 2001: Centennial Edition, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

SWOSU Yearbooks

It was called Southwestern Normal School. Its yearbook was The Oracle. The year was 1901. Oklahoma wasn't even a state when Weatherford started up the small teacher's school. There was no campus. Instead, the town borrowed office space from a beer company. Finally, a building was set up on a hill north of town. In a grand ceremony one morning, the students, faculty and staff marched from downtown Weatherford to their new home.

On a chilly, rainy March 8, 2001, Southwestern re-created the scene, ending with a campus-wide picture. The event was a 100 years in the making, just as …

The Mockingbird - 2001, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

Devon Koren Asdell [Amateur Astronomy]; Bonnie Boochard [Striped Donkey]; Jessica Brise [Something Golden]; lsaac Denton [Ty Cobb]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Untitled Poem]; Jessica Heschong [Untitled~1]; Monet LaClair [Dysfunctional]; Shanda Miller [Arrested Impasse; The Bridge That Dad Built]; Tonya Moreno [The Dance of Days]; Meghan O'Connor [Chaotic Confusion; Still There]; Craig Bradley Owens [The Great Plains Incident]; Sherri Pugh [Guess What Just Flew Inside My Mouth; Katydid's Bubbles]; Rhonda Richards [Thirteen Views of a Flourescent Light]; Melissa Stallard [Untitled Photograph]; Kevin Stephenson [Two For One Special; Poor Little Thing; Burden; Wake]; Lacey Stewart [Oak Ridge's Forgotten History]; Amelia Stuetzel [Figure]; Pam …

Enrollment Data, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Bulldog Basics

No abstract provided.

Enrollment By Major, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Bulldog Basics

No abstract provided.

Mississippi State University - Student Enrollment Profile - Fall 2001, Office Of Planning, Evaluation & Institutional Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Enrollment Profiles

No abstract provided.

2001 Pod Network Conference Attendees

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Conference Registration Information, Bill Burke, Sally Kuhlenschmidt, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Invitation to Attend

Overview of the POD Network and POD Conference

Conference Theme, Tracks, and Topics

Conference Overview

Plenaries

Pre-Conference Workshops

Educational Expeditions

Hotel Room Reservation

Conference Registration Form

Additional Information

Conference Program: Interfaces, Intersections, And Gateways

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Letter, by Bill Burke (Conference Coordinator), Sally Kuhlenschmidt (Program Chair), Mary Deane Sorcinelli (President)

Core Committee, 2001-2002

POD Presidents / Conference Sites

Conference Overview

Acknowledgements

Conference Tracks

Schedule

Changes to POD Program as of Wednesday noon, October 10

The Probe, Issue 214 – January/February 2001

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Trap-Shy Feral Cats in Public Settings -- Susan Darling Greene
Why Worry About Human-Wildlife Conflicts? -- Mike Conover, President, NADCA
Imunoconctraception For Deer Control Shown to Be Ineffective
The USDA announced a settlement that would extend protection under the Animal Welfare Act to rats, mice, and birds used in laboratory research.
The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management: ttp://wildlifedamage.unl.edu -- Dallas Virchow, Proj. Coord., Distance Ed., Wildlife Damage Management,University of Nebraska
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 has recently ordered New Tech International (Warren, MI) to stop selling the unregistered pesticide Kritter Killer.
Since all snakes lack external ears, …

Task Specific Uncertainty In Coordinate Measurement, R. G. Wilhelm, R. Hocken, H. Schwenke

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

Task specific uncertainty is the measurement uncertainty associated with the measurement of a specific feature using a specific measurement plan. This paper surveys techniques developed to model and estimate task specific uncertainty for coordinate measuring systems, primarily coordinate measuring machines using contacting probes. Sources of uncertainty are also reviewed.

Taps (2001), Clemson University

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Report, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Part A, Institutional Characteristics, 2001, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Part A of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's application for accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges.

University Of South Florida Fact Book, 2001, University Of South Florida. Office Of Budget And Policy Analysis

USF Fact Book

A statistical fact book for the University of South Florida for 2001-2002. The book is broken into ten sections: Introduction: History and Historical Trends; Current University Characteristics; Student Profile; Enrollment; Courses and Degrees; Faculty and Staff; Awards and Honors; Fiscal Resources; Physical Resources; and Glossary. A table of contents lists all the tables within each section.

Annual Report 2000-2001, Imsa Fund

IMSA Fund Reports

How will the state, nation and world we know change in this new century? How will we produce our food, travel from place to place, care for our fellow human beings and sustain the energy to power it all? How will nations communicate and citizens receive news? What medical, ecological or informational challenges are on the horizon? Who will initiate life-changing innovations, and how will the next generation learn to do the same? The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy asks these questions of its students and teachers, other Illinois students and teachers, and the public at large - and in …

Clemson Graduate School Catalog, 2001-2002, Clemson University

Clemson Graduate Announcements

No abstract provided.

A Multigrid Method For Elliptic Grid Generation Using Compact Schemes, Balaji S. Iyangar

Doctoral Dissertations

Traditional iterative methods are stalling numerical processes, in which the error has relatively small changes from one iteration to the next. Multigrid methods overcome the limitations of iterative methods and are computationally efficient. Convergence of iterative methods for elliptic partial differential equations is extremely slow. In particular, the convergence of the non-linear elliptic Poisson grid generation equations used for elliptic grid generation is very slow. Multigrid methods are fast converging methods when applied to elliptic partial differential equations. In this dissertation, a non-linear multigrid algorithm is used to accelerate the convergence of the non-linear elliptic Poisson grid generation method. The …

Enrollment By Major, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Bulldog Basics

No abstract provided.

2001 File Geodatabase Containing Aerial Photos, Pete Reehling, Richard Mckenzie, City Of Tampa Department Of Sanitary Sewers Bay Study Group

Images

The Bay Study Group was created by the City of Tampa in 1976 to monitor the effects of pollution abatement that occurred in Hillsborough Bay when the city’s wastewater treatment plant was upgraded from primary to advanced treatment in 1979. The Bay Study Group documented a remarkable restoration of water quality parameters and biological indicators in Hillsborough Bay from the mid 1980s until 2009, when it was disbanded. This zip Geodatabase file contains the aerial photos for the year 2001.

In Memoriam: Larry Eilers, Paul A. Christiansen

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Larry came to botany along an unusual route. His first college degree was in engineering. After a stint at secondary teaching Larry worked at Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids, then returned to UNI (SCI then) and took a master's degree in biology, He continued his study at the University of Iowa under Dr. Robert Thorne and took his Ph.D. in 1964. He did the flora of the Iowan Surface (the Iowan Drift in those days). He taught at Syracuse University and University of Indiana at Terra Haute before joining the faculty of the University of Northern Iowa.

Satellite Observations Of Upper-Ocean Currents In Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica, Michael Van Woert, Walter Meier, Cheng-Zhi Zou, Andy Archer, Andrea Pellegrini, Paola Grigioni, Cheryl Bertoia

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Ship and iceberg drifts, along with data from modern satellite-tracked drifting buoys, portray generally northward flow in the southwest Ross Sea. Less is known, however, about the ocean variability in this region. Here we use Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) imagery to describe a cyclonically rotating gyre in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica (75° S, 165° E). The image sequence is taken from an exceptionally clear, calm, period during winter 1998. Surface currents, derived from tracking drifting ice with a maximum cross-correlation algorithm, were found to be ~20 to 30 cm s^-1. Based on scaling …