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Assessment Of Land Use/Land Cover Change Impact On Water Quality In The Davis Creek Watershed, Southwestern Michigan, Porntip Limlahapun

Masters Theses

This study uses Arc View Nonpoint Source Modeling (A VNPSM), an interface between Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Model and ArcView GIS to assess the impact of land use/land cover change between 1978 and 1996 on water quality in the Davis Creek watershed, southwestern Michigan. The distribution of land use/land cover changes is identified by geographic analysis. Compared to 1978, agricultural land decreased by more than 60 percent while residential land increased by over 170 percent in the watershed in 1996. The hydrologic impact of the urbanization is evaluated by the AGNPS model. AVNPSM is used to derive required input parameters …

Learning In The Prairie, Meredith L. Beilfuss

Masters Theses

This research focused on fieldwork in geography and science education relative to the high school curriculum. First, the literature was reviewed to analyze the pedagogical and cognitive benefits of using fieldwork and how fieldwork might enrich the high school social studies and science curriculum in Michigan. Second, prairie curriculum resources were evaluated for suitability using the Michigan Education Standards and the National Standards for Geography. Finally, two groups of high school students engaged in fieldwork, using two different methods, photography and sketching, and were compared for their pre and post fieldwork knowledge of prairie ecological concepts. The pre and post …

Report On The Spring 2002 Survey Of Umm Seniors: Assessment Of Student Learning: General Education, Umm Institutional Research

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

In April of 2002, an online survey entitled “Assessment of Your Learning Experience: General Education” was administered via the Internet to UMM seniors. The Office of Institutional Research and Reporting in the Twin Cities coded the questionnaire into HTML format and prepared the statistical report. There were 138 responses to the survey. Since the total number of graduates in the spring semester of 2002 was 287, this was a 48% response rate.

Antitrust, Health Care Quality, And The Courts, Peter J. Hammer, William M. Sage

Faculty Scholarship

Antitrust law represents the principal legal tool that the United States employs to police private markets, yet it often relegates quality and nonprice considerations to a secondary position. While antitrust law espouses the belief that vigorous competition will enhance quality as well as price, little evidence exists of the practical ability of courts to deliver on that promise. In this Article, Professors Hammer and Sage examine American health care as a vehicle for advancing understanding of the nexus among competition, quality, and antitrust law. The Article reports the results of a comprehensive empirical review of judicial opinions in health care …

Periodical Price Survey 2002: Doing The Digital Flip, Lee Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Scholarly Papers and Articles

No abstract provided.

Teaching Ethics In An Atmosphere Of Skepticism And Relativism, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

I would like to do several things in this essay. First, I am interested in the sources of students' wariness about moral reasoning and claims about objectivity and truth in ethics. Sometimes I feel like a teacher of geography who must confront a deeply entrenched belief that the earth is flat. The earth is not flat, nor is ethics just a matter of opinion, but one wonders why students persist in thinking the opposite. Teaching effectively requires an understanding of where students are coming from. Accordingly, the opening section of this essay is structured around a series of hypotheses to …

Mechanical Angel: Carolyn Forché And The Material Projection Of Messianic History, Alan Clinton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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The work of Carolyn Forché has always retained a political edge, with works such as the exploration of her Czech background in Gathering the Tribes (1976) and her account of visits to El Salvador in The Country Between Us (1981). Forché has been one of the leading poets who, in her own words, has combatted the self-censorship operative among American poets and writers that seemed to preclude writing about...historical events when those events were still unsafe (qtd. in Stein 147). Her third book of poems The Angel of History (published 13 years later), however, represents a new turn …

Kit Carson And The "Americanization" Of New Mexico, Barton H. Barbour

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Beyond Green Chiles And Coyotes: The Changing Shape Of New Mexico's Political–Cultural Regions From 1967 To 1997, John Gastil, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Gilbert K. St. Clair

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The Compass Rose Vol. Xvi, No. 1, The University Of Texas At Arlington Libraries Special Collections & Archives

The Compass Rose

The purpose of The Compass Rose is to raise awareness of Special Collections' resources and to foster the use of these resources. The newsletter also reports significant new programs, initiatives, and acquisitions of Special Collections. The issues included here are scans of print newsletters from the 1990s and 2000s. Current issues and posts of The Compass Rose can now be accessed on the UTA Libraries Compass Rose Blog.

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni And Friends (Spring 2002), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Spring 2002 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Yale Nurse, Yale School Of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing Alumni Newsletters and Magazines

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note, Pranita A. Raghavan

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Policies Of Implementing Traffic Calming In The Las Vegas Valley, David A. Guerra

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This paper illustrates how policies that relate to traffic calming devices are implemented in the Las Vegas Valley. Traffic calming is the attempt to achieve calm, safe, environmentally improved conditions on streets, and the lowering of speeds. Traffic calming measures reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street users. An analysis of The Nevada Revised Statutes was conducted to understand state directives pertaining to the implementation of policies at municipal levels of government. The study investigated how four governments (Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Clark County, and Henderson) implement traffic calming …

Vol. 24 No. 3/4 (2001): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 24, No 3/4-Sept/Dec 2001 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.

Library Perspectives, Issue 26, Spring 2002, Friends Of The Oberlin College Libraries

Library Perspectives Newsletter

This issue includes items about the Library's Excellence in Academic Libraries award, Science Librarian Alison Ricker, the first annual Friends of the Library Excellence in Research award, and much more.

Hyperspectral Reflectance From Restored Tallgrass Prairie Under Different Management., Sung-Jun Kim

Student Work

Tallgrass Prairie has been highly fragmented and severely disturbed by overgrazing and land development with most of the tallgrass prairie remnants less than 100 hectares in size. The small size results in increased edge effects, potential invasion by undesirable or exotic species, low genetic diversity in local populations and increased extinction rates. To conserve tallgrass prairie remnants, some types of active management are needed. The most common management methods are prescribed burning, haying and mowing. It is essential to monitor the status of tallgrass prairie in order to determine if management objectives are being met. In this study, close-range hyperspectral …

Nebraska Public High School Principals' Perceptions Of How State Standards Impact Schools, Mark William Weichel

Student Work

The purpose of this survey study was to test whether Nebraska high school principals perceive state standards will greatly impact schools in the state of Nebraska. Specifically, research questions sought to determine principals' perceptions of the possible effects of Nebraska state standards and whether or not differences existed between areas such as principals' gender, age, schools' free and reduced lunch percentage, school classification, years as an administrator, and amount of prior standards/assessment/accountability training.

Protected Areas And Intergovernmental Cooperation In The St. Elias Region, Ryan K. Danby, D. Scott Slocombe

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Neiu Magazine- Spring 2002, Neiu Magazine Staff

NEIU Magazine

No abstract provided.

Columns Spring 2002, Southern Adventist University

Alumni Newsletter

Features the article "The Chattanooga Turn Around". Once the dirtiest city in America, Chattanooga has revitalized itself and is now a vacation and tourism hotspot for millions of people each year, including students and families of Southern.

Variables Associated With A Sense Of Classroom Community And Academic Persistence In An Urban Community College Online Setting, Cynthia P. Cadieux

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

No abstract provided.

East European Security Revisited: Institutions, Power, And Security, Blagovest Tashev

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Drawing on the literatures on democratization, security studies, and small states this dissertation explores the relationship of small states' domestic and international institutionalization and their security. Small states have limited power not only to affect their environment but also to guarantee national security. Small states, it is hypothesized, enhance their security through the consolidation of domestic institutions and the accumulation of capacities provided by their participation in capacity-reach international institutions.

The dissertation tests the hypothesis by applying the comparative method to the post-communist states of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. The three case studies analyze the effects of domestic …

“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic On Negative And Positive Liberty In Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel

Law and Contemporary Problems

Matthew Hale is a white supremacist who likes to attract media attention. He set himself up as the leader of a racist "church" called the World Church of the Creator and immediately went about attempting to put an articulate, polite face on the organization. Hale's application to become a licensed attorney in Illinois, his subsequent denial and the litigation that followed are discussed.

Legal Challenges And Market Rewards To The Use And Acceptance Of Remote Sensing And Digital Information As Evidence, Kenneth J. Markowitz

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

Situating Liberalism In Transnational Legal Space, Don Suh

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

Defining And Achieving Decisive Victory, Colin S. Gray Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author explores the concept of victory in the war in terrorism, but he does so by placing it within the larger currents of change that are sweeping the global security environment. He contends that the time-tested idea of decisive victory is still an important one, but must be designed very carefully in this dangerous new world. To do so correctly can provide the foundation for an effective strategy. To fail to do so could be the first step toward strategic defeat.

The Impact Of The Norman Conquest On Christ Church Cathedral Priory And Worcester Cathedral Priory: A Survey Based On Library Holdings, Toruko Ishihara

Masters Theses

Book collections reflect the intellectual climate of the period. This study examines the important area of intellectual life in the English church between 700 and 1130. It will show how the Norman Conquest affected the intellectual life of the Anglo-Saxons. I chose the libraries of Christ Church, Canterbury and Worcester Cathedral Priory for their large collections of surviving manuscripts.

The thesis first analyzes and compares the pre-Conquest and post-Conquest collections as a whole. This comparison shows slight, but important differences in the tastes of collecting between the two libraries. It also demonstrates the changes in the library holdings caused by …