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Environmental Economics A Teacher's Guide, Sandra Allmond Bagley Dec 2001

Environmental Economics A Teacher's Guide, Sandra Allmond Bagley

Theses & Honors Papers

The purpose of this thesis is to incorporate economics into lectures on environmental issues. This guide introduces several environmental issues, discusses the laws and regulations governing these issues, and discusses the economic instruments discussed in this guide are those that have been incorporated into environmental laws. These instruments allow environmental protection goals to be met at the least cost. Economic instruments are more flexible than command and control regulations and allow firms to choose the least cost method of reaching goals. Economic instruments also encourage advances in new technology. Students will be more receptive to the concept of using economics …

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Ratio Of Isolated Photon Cross Sections In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 630 And 1800 Gev, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration Dec 2001

Ratio Of Isolated Photon Cross Sections In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 630 And 1800 Gev, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

Gregory Snow Publications

The inclusive cross section for production of isolated photons has been measured in pp̅ collisions at √s = 630 GeV with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The photons span a transverse energy (ET) range from 7–49 GeV and have pseudorapidity∣η∣ < 2.5. This measurement is combined with the previous D0 result at √s = 1800 GeV to form a ratio of the cross sections. Comparison of next-to-leading-order QCD with the measured cross section at 630 GeV and the ratio of cross sections show satisfactory agreement in most of the ET range.

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2001-2002 Elán Wind Quintet, David Suarez, Lee Berger, Stas Pomerants, Alexander Plotkin, Sharon Case, Mihaela Buhaiciuc, Arthur Weisberg Dec 2001

2001-2002 Elán Wind Quintet, David Suarez, Lee Berger, Stas Pomerants, Alexander Plotkin, Sharon Case, Mihaela Buhaiciuc, Arthur Weisberg

Other Student Recitals

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12/17/2001 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2001

12/17/2001 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/17/2001. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

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12/17/2001 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2001

12/17/2001 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/17/2001. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

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S Camden Citizens V. Nj Dept Env Prot Dec 2001

S Camden Citizens V. Nj Dept Env Prot

2001 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

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Otter Realm, December 17, 2001, Vol. 7 No. 5, California State University, Monterey Bay Dec 2001

Otter Realm, December 17, 2001, Vol. 7 No. 5, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Otter Hockey can get rough -- CSU budget cuts: tough times ahead -- Be part of The Otter Realm -- Looking Back... -- And so we say goodbye to the growing crowds on campus... -- Cutting the ribbon -- Blast off: The new and improved SV website is up and running -- Student Voice develops a new constitution -- CSUMB student will cast votes -- Panetta's Friday night forum on terrorism -- Otter Blotter -- A prisoner of prejudice breaks out -- Finding Christmas -- High hoops for women's basketball

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Lu 8th In Nation In Race For Sears Directors’ Cup, Lindenwood University Dec 2001

Lu 8th In Nation In Race For Sears Directors’ Cup, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Transportation. Allocation Of Sales And Use Taxes Raised From Sale Or Lease Of Motor Vehicles. Initiative Statute Dec 2001

Transportation. Allocation Of Sales And Use Taxes Raised From Sale Or Lease Of Motor Vehicles. Initiative Statute

Initiatives

TRANSPORTATION. ALLOCATION OF SALES AND USE TAXES RAISED FROM SALEOR LEASE OF MOTOR VEHICLES. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Reallocates 30% of certain state revenues collected on motor vehicle sales or leases from the General Fund to the Traffic Congestion Relief and Safe School Bus Trust Fund. Allocates money for transportation programs including: highway expansion, specific freeway interchange improvements, mass transit improvements, purchasing buses, and expanding light and commuter rail. Provides funds for environmental enhancement, transportation impact mitigation programs, and transportation safety programs. Allocates money to 45 specific projects and for remainder specifies distribution percentages, restricts fund uses, and provides accountability measures. Summary …

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Discovery Gives New Meaning To An Old Drug And Novel Insight For Treatment Of Sickle Cell Disease, Staff Dec 2001

Discovery Gives New Meaning To An Old Drug And Novel Insight For Treatment Of Sickle Cell Disease, Staff

Browse All News

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Uab Celebrates 10 Years Of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Staff Dec 2001

Uab Celebrates 10 Years Of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Staff

Browse All News

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New Unh Business Degree Will Highlight Technology Business Mix, Janet Lathrop Dec 2001

New Unh Business Degree Will Highlight Technology Business Mix, Janet Lathrop

Media Relations

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 17, 2001, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2001

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 17, 2001, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Registration Under Way For Spring Semester, Winter Quarter, Lindenwood University Dec 2001

Registration Under Way For Spring Semester, Winter Quarter, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Newscope - December 17, 2001 Dec 2001

Newscope - December 17, 2001

Newscope

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The Eyes Have It: New Year's Eve Eye Safety, Staff Dec 2001

The Eyes Have It: New Year's Eve Eye Safety, Staff

Browse All News

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D'Arcangelo, Joanne Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll Dec 2001

D'Arcangelo, Joanne Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Joanne D’Arcangelo was born on April 20, 1954 in Haverill, Massachusetts. She attended state college in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, then received a teaching assistantship at the University of Maine at Orono and concurrently earned her master’s degree in English. She taught English at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, and worked on the town committee with Dick Davies, a local legislator. She also worked as a press aide to Jim Tierney, as a constituent case worker for House Speaker John Martin during early 1980s, and for Jerry Conley. She assisted with the Carter and Mondale presidential campaigns. D’Arcangelo was involved …

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Glycoprotein K Specified By Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Is Expressed On Virions As A Golgi Complex-Dependent Glycosylated Species And Functions In Virion Entry, T. P. Foster, G. V. Rybachuk, K. G. Kousoulas Dec 2001

Glycoprotein K Specified By Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Is Expressed On Virions As A Golgi Complex-Dependent Glycosylated Species And Functions In Virion Entry, T. P. Foster, G. V. Rybachuk, K. G. Kousoulas

Faculty Publications

To facilitate detection of glycoprotein K (gK) specified by herpes simplex virus, a 12-amino-acid epitope tag was inserted within gK domain III. Recombinant virus gKprotC-DIII, expressing the tagged gK, was isolated. This virus formed wild-type plaques and replicated as efficiently as the wild-type KOS virus in Vero cells. Anti-protein C MAb detected high-mannose and Golgi complex-dependent glycosylated gK within cells as well as on purified virions. The gK-null virus ΔgK (gK-/-) entered Vero cells substantially more slowly than the wild-type KOS (gK+/+), while ΔgK virus grown in complementing VK302 cells (gK-/+) entered with entry kinetics similar to those of the …

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Spatial Distribution And Temporal Variability Of Lithogenic Particles In First-Year Sea Ice And Conditions Responsible For Particle Entrainment, Aaron Patrick Stierle Dec 2001

Spatial Distribution And Temporal Variability Of Lithogenic Particles In First-Year Sea Ice And Conditions Responsible For Particle Entrainment, Aaron Patrick Stierle

Geosciences

Processes controlling the spatial and temporal variability of sea ice sediment inclusions in the shallow-marine environment of Elson Lagoon near Barrow, Alaska, were studied by modeling the potential for sediment resuspension during the 1998, 1999 and 2000 fall freeze-up events and examining sea ice cores from the post-freeze-up ice cover. Resuspension potential was controlled spatially by the local bathymetry and interannually by wind speed and fetch. Increases in resuspension potential corresponded to greater sea ice sediment content. Sediments occurred exclusively as aggregates confined to brine inclusions in the ice and exhibited a tendency toward a clustered spatial distribution, because of …

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Role Of Wetlands And Endogenous Factors On Incubation Behavior Of Nesting Spectacled Eiders On The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, William Todd O'Connell Dec 2001

Role Of Wetlands And Endogenous Factors On Incubation Behavior Of Nesting Spectacled Eiders On The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, William Todd O'Connell

Biological Sciences

Patterns of nest attendance in ducks vary with endogenous and environmental factors. We examined variation in nest attendance of spectacled eiders on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, during 1997-1998. We also examined spatial and temporal variation in wetland characteristics and potential foods available to nesting spectacled eiders. Time spent foraging was greater when spectacled eiders traveled farther to feed, and nest attendance was lower when food was more abundant, suggesting that females made tradeoffs between foraging and energetic requirements of nesting in response to food abundance and wetland conditions. Wetlands were dynamic, and food abundance varied with pond depth and total …

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Cross-Seasonal Effects On Reproductive Performance Of Pacific Black Brant, Jason Lee Schamber Dec 2001

Cross-Seasonal Effects On Reproductive Performance Of Pacific Black Brant, Jason Lee Schamber

Biological Sciences

We used re-sightings of Pacific Black Brant from San Quintin Bay, Ojo de Lieber Lagoon, and San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California and Boundary Bay, British Columbia, to examine winter population structure, variation in structural size and the importance of winter location to individual reproductive performance at the Tutakoke River colony. Sexes of adults and juveniles were distributed equally among winter locations. Adult structural size and mean age were similar among winter locations. A higher proportion of juveniles over-wintered in San Quinton Bay and Ojo de Liebre Lagoon. Individuals wintering at Ojo de Liebre and San Ignacio lagoons were less likely …

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The Origin And Composition Of Aerosols In The Alaskan Airshed, Walter James Wilcox Dec 2001

The Origin And Composition Of Aerosols In The Alaskan Airshed, Walter James Wilcox

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Since the Alaskan airshed north of the Alaska Range receives a substantial portion of its anthropogenic aerosol and gaseous pollutants through long-range transport, Alaskan air quality is influenced to an unusually high degree by the political and economic events of other countries. An understanding of the political and economic forces at work in the various circumpolar nations is key to an understanding of the observed decline in Arctic haze, the present state of Arctic air pollution, and likely future developments. It is shown in this thesis that Arctic haze has declined in Interior Alaska over the last decade and a …

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Trace Mineral Reserves For Reproduction And Development In Muskoxen, Emmajean Pearl Rombach Dec 2001

Trace Mineral Reserves For Reproduction And Development In Muskoxen, Emmajean Pearl Rombach

Biological Sciences

In muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), trace minerals required for reproduction and development are unknown. I described use of copper in pregnant muskoxen and concurrent accumulation of copper in fetuses. Utilization of copper was examined in neonates during early development and importance of milk as a source of copper was assessed. Additionally, I examined the effect of maternal copper supplementation during gestation on copper reserves acquired in-utero, and during lactation on mineral status of milk. During gestation, the fetus must acquire reserves of copper adequate to support early neonatal development because milk is a poor source of copper. The transition from milk …

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Abundance And Ecology Of Martens (Martes Americana) In Interior Alaska, Brad Shults Dec 2001

Abundance And Ecology Of Martens (Martes Americana) In Interior Alaska, Brad Shults

Biological Sciences

I studied marten (Martes americana) abundance and ecology in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve during 1991-1993. Using a multiple sample, mark-recapture estimator, I estimated marten densities to be 0.69, 0.41, and 0.45 martens/km² during each August for 1991-1993, respectively. Density estimates were derived with the boundary-strip method to address the edge effect inherent in live-trapping studies. During the study, marten density declined 43% between 1991 and 1992 and remained low during 1993. I hypothesize that a decline in primary prey (i.e., microtine rodents) and increased environmental stress (i.e., cold temperatures and snow cover) contributed significantly to the decline in marten …

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Calving Ground Habitat Selection: Teshekpuk Lake And Western Arctic Caribou Herds, Rebecca A. Kelleyhouse Dec 2001

Calving Ground Habitat Selection: Teshekpuk Lake And Western Arctic Caribou Herds, Rebecca A. Kelleyhouse

Biological Sciences

Barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) exhibit relative fidelity to calving grounds each spring. The Western Arctic Herd (WAH) and Teshekpuk Lake Herd (TLH) calve separately on Alaska's north slope, each selective of the dominant vegetation type. The WAH consumed mostly sedges, though the TLH diet varied. Despite differing snow conditions between the calving grounds, both herds were selective of the lowest snow cover class. Rugged terrain was avoided by both herds. While the TLH selected a high rate of increase in biomass, the WAH selected high biomass at calving and at peak lactation. Climate trends (1985-2001) were variable. There was …

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Herbivore-Mediated Effects On Ecosystem Processes In A Near-Arctic Salt Marsh, Brian Thomas Person Dec 2001

Herbivore-Mediated Effects On Ecosystem Processes In A Near-Arctic Salt Marsh, Brian Thomas Person

Biological Sciences

Herbivores influence, and often regulate energy flow. I investigated interactions between herbivory and the foods on which geese rely while nesting and rearing their broods on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in southwestern Alaska. In a captive Cackling Canada gosling (Branta Canadensis minima) experiment I decoupled the effects of seasonal declines in forage quality and availability on gosling development. An 11% decline in forage quality translated to goslings that were structurally smaller and 100 g lighter at 31 days of age. Forage availability had similar effects on gosling size, and the combined magnitude of these effects are similar to those observed in …

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The 1951 Bristol Bay Salmon Strike: Isolation, Independence And Illusion In The Last Frontier, Nicole Susan Mccullough Dec 2001

The 1951 Bristol Bay Salmon Strike: Isolation, Independence And Illusion In The Last Frontier, Nicole Susan Mccullough

Arctic and Northern Studies

Many people consider Alaska the last frontier, isolated and independent from the rest of the United States. An analysis of the salmon industry in Bristol Bay and a strike that occurred in 1951 cast doubt upon this belief. The labor dispute and preceding events paint a vivid picture of a population clearly dependent on a fishing industry controlled by absentee owners who manipulated events from Seattle and San Francisco. The strikers included Natives and Non-Natives who joined together to fight the powerful cannery owners and west coast unions who sought to expand their membership. Some of these unions had suspected …

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Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Willingness To Pay Estimates Across Geographically Nested Samples: Case Study Of Alaskan Steller Sea Lion, Branka Turcin Dec 2001

Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Willingness To Pay Estimates Across Geographically Nested Samples: Case Study Of Alaskan Steller Sea Lion, Branka Turcin

Economics

This thesis examines Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) for an endangered species across geographically nested samples using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). The samples range from the boroughs that contain critical habitat for the Steller sea lion to the state that contains these boroughs to the entire United States. Depending on the assumptions of the model, WTP varies tremendously from sample to sample. When WTP is unrestricted to the non-negative region, mean WTP for the United States is the highest and it is the lowest for the boroughs. The null hypotheses that mean WTP estimates are greater than zero were rejected for the …

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Understanding The Lived Experience Of Racist Hate Speech On American University Campuses, Jonathan Andre Matusitz Dec 2001

Understanding The Lived Experience Of Racist Hate Speech On American University Campuses, Jonathan Andre Matusitz

Communication

This research employs narrative methodology in order to understand the lived experience of students who have experienced racist racist hate speech on American university campuses. Thematic analysis of in-depth, conversational interview capta (Kvale, 1996) was used to find commonalities in co-researchers' experiences. The literature review includes a contextual and historical section on racism, and a detailed, standard definition of racist hate speech. Emergent themes from these narrative interviews were found in regard to victims' experiences of racist hate speech on American university campuses. Those themes are discussed in the order of the co-researchers' experience: (1) indignation and anger, (2) stereotyping, …

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Finite Element Analysis Of Yield Functions Of Kelvin Foams With Open Cells, Beiqing Huang Dec 2001

Finite Element Analysis Of Yield Functions Of Kelvin Foams With Open Cells, Beiqing Huang

Engineering

Proper design of foams requires an understanding of the response of the materials to stress. This thesis, based on finite element analysis, provides numerical solutions in modeling the yield behavior of Kelvin foams. The FEA model, representing a complicated unit cell, was calculated and meshed. C++ programs were designed and implemented to generate meshes for unit cells. Finite element analyses were performed for many cases. Multiple methods were employed for the determination of yield points which form yield surfaces. Comparisons between several results have been made. Our FEA results, Zhang's function and Gibson's theory show good agreements except some differences …

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