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Geologic Maps And Geologic Issues In Kentucky: A Citizen's Guide, Carol Ruthven, John D. Kiefer, Stephen F. Greb, William M. Andrews Jr.

Special Publication--KGS

Citizens in all walks of life benefit from the information on geologic maps. Geologic maps are used to:

• Identify areas prone to natural hazards, such as landslides, erosion, sinkholes, and flooding
• Select locations that are suitable for tunnels, bridges, dams, and quarries
• Identify suitable sites for safe construction of homes and commercial buildings
• Select safe places for building septic systems and landfills to minimize the risk of polluting soils and groundwater
• Help farmers, landowners, and government officials locate groundwater resources and protect water quality
• Help citizens understand geologic features (such as faults, mineral deposits, and impact structures) in the landscape …

Herons And Brown Pelicans Use Cormorants And A Grebe As “Beaters”—Why Does This Foraging Behavior Occur?, William E. Davis Jr.

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Artificial Neural Networks, Paul S. Shaver

Senior Seminars

No abstract provided.

Vocational Science And The Politics Of Independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754--1812, Matthew Gaston Mckenzie

Doctoral Dissertations

Between 1754 and 1812 the Boston Marine Society developed vocational scientific practices adapted from day-to-day work routines to expand the navigational knowledge of New England's coastlines. For this reason, the Marine Society's navigational work suggests important parallels with the history of colonial science in other areas during the late eighteenth century. Notwithstanding most other studies in the history of American science, the Boston Marine Society indicates that colonial Boston shipmasters were not dependent upon learned societies for their navigational research needs. Rather, they adapted their mutual aid society and developed methodologies to collect navigational observations, analyze them for reliability and …

It 501 Technology In Ministry, Kenneth A. Boyd

Syllabi

Slaughter, Michael. Out On the Edge. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1998. Wilson, Len. The Wired Church. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1999 Wilson, Len. Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2002.

Calliope, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Calliope Magazine

Volume 19

The Rhetoric Of Ritual Instruction In Leviticus 1-7, James W. Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

Formal and structural features of Leviticus 1-7 distinguish these chapters as some of the most systematic texts in the Hebrew Bible. In a collection of literature otherwise noted for its sweeping narratives and urgent sermons, these methodical instructions for the performance of five kinds of offerings, presented twice in different arrangements, have suggested to many interpreters that they preserve examples of an ancient genre of ritual instruction. However, the identification of a ritual genre in these chapters (and elsewhere in the Pentateuch) has failed to account for all the features of this material. The present form of Leviticus 1-7 can …

University Place

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Su People

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

University Place

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Alumni Journal

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Guidelines For The Development Of Computer-Based Instruction Modules For Science And Engineering, Jessica R. Lux, Barry D. Davidson

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - All Scholarship

The design and development of a prototype computer-based instruction (CBI) module is described. The module covers introductory structural analysis techniques and demonstrates the practicality of CBI for undergraduate engineering education. The module’s generic learning objectives are used to develop a set of guiding principles for CBI development. Choice of authoring software and the module architecture are presented, followed by the details of the user interface, logic, and screen layout. The module design and software development process outlined here are easily extended to computer-based tutorials that present problem solving methods for engineering, mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Increasing The Supply Of Organs In Transplantation Through Paired Organ Exchanges, Michael T. Morley

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Estimating Queen Conch (Strombus Gigas) Home Ranges Using Acoustic Telemetry: Implications For The Design Of Marine Fishery Reserves, Robert A. Glazer, Gabriel A. Delgado, James A. Kidney

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Marine reserves (MRs) may function as a vital tool in the conservation and management of marine resources if source populations are managed for the benefit of those downstream. Consequently, it is critical to evaluate the home range of marine animals to ensure that MRs are large enough to protect source populations. We used acoustic telemetry to study movements of adult queen conch (Strombus gigas) within aggregations at two sites in the Florida Keys from June 1997 through July 1998. A total of 68 conch were tagged and tracked for up to one year. Latitude and longitude of each …

The Montana Constitution: A National Perspective, G. Alan Tarr

Montana Law Review

The Montana Constitution: A National Perspective

The Evolution Of Montana's Privacy-Enhanced Search And Seizure Analysis: A Return To First Principles, Melissa Harrison, Peter Mickelson

Montana Law Review

The Evolution of Montana's Privacy-Enhanced Search and Seizure Analysis

Technology's Future Impact On State Constitutional Law: The Montana Example, Mark S. Kende

Montana Law Review

Technology's Future Impact on State Constitutional Law

Graduate Programs Commencement, 4th Class (2003), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Commencements

This digital project provides access to PCOM Graduate Commencement Programs. Commencement is a collaborative effort by the offices of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, and Registrar, with support from a variety of other college departments.

Signaling And Regulation Of G Protein-Coupled Receptors In Airway Smooth Muscle., Charlotte K Billington, Raymond B Penn

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Signaling through G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediates numerous airway smooth muscle (ASM) functions including contraction, growth, and "synthetic" functions that orchestrate airway inflammation and promote remodeling of airway architecture. In this review we provide a comprehensive overview of the GPCRs that have been identified in ASM cells, and discuss the extent to which signaling via these GPCRs has been characterized and linked to distinct ASM functions. In addition, we examine the role of GPCR signaling and its regulation in asthma and asthma treatment, and suggest an integrative model whereby an imbalance of GPCR-derived signals in ASM cells contributes to the …

Understanding "Dance Understanding", Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Natural Law And Natural Rights, Howard P. Kainz

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Market Principles For Pesticides, Andrew P. Morriss, Roger E. Meiners

Faculty Scholarship

Overall, pesticide use is growing in developing countries. United States' pesticide use changed in content, but remains substantial in volume. Critics of pesticide policy, including many of the speakers at this symposium, are concerned that pesticide problems are worsening. Surprisingly, thirty years after the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ("FIFRA") reforms and the victory over DDT, the critics are not yet prepared to declare victory. Even worse from the perspective of environmental pressure groups is the change in attitude toward DDT, a substance whose name invokes extraordinary invective, where the current picture is not quite what the advocacy groups …

A Hydrogeological Approach To Transboundary Ground Water Resources And International Law, Gabriel Eckstein, Yoram Eckstein

Faculty Scholarship

Ground water resources have long been the neglected stepchild of water law. While agreements focusing on transboundary rivers and lakes have been relatively common, there is a paucity of treaties and international norms squarely addressing shared ground water resources. As a result, the rules governing the use, management, and conservation of transboundary ground waters is unclear at best.

This dearth is, in large part, the result of a deficit of scientific understanding among legislators, policymakers, and the judiciary. This is evidenced in many international and domestic laws and policies that have little or no scientific underpinning. Accordingly, there is a …

Linking Intellectual Property Rights In Developing Countries With Research And Development, Technology Transfer, And Foreign Direct Investment Policy: A Case Study Of Egypt's Pharmaceutical Industry, Sahar Aziz

Faculty Scholarship

This Note focuses on TRIPS' impact on the pharmaceutical industry as well as health care in developing nations. By using Egypt as a case study, this Note aims to emphasize that the benefits of TRIPS for developing nations depends on the linkage between intellectual property rights (IPR) and other legal regimes, particularly drug regulation, technology transfer, and foreign direct investment (FDI) policies. The failure to adopt a holistic approach to the creation of effective and beneficial intellectual property rights regimes will merely increase the western pharmaceuticals' market share and increase drug prices in developing nations.6 By asking whether Egypt, versus …

The Effect Of Aposematic Coloration On The Food Preference Of Aphelocoma Coerulescens, The Florida Scrub Jay, Mary Elizabeth Hill

Theses and Dissertations

Aposematic coloration, commonly observed in noxious organisms, serves as a warning to predators to avoid attacking specific prey. This coloration is conspicuous in nature, with one of the most common examples being a red and black pattern. The plant Abrus precatorius exhibits this warning signal in its seeds, which resemble lady beetles and contain the concentrated toxin abrin. Aphelocoma coerulescens, an endemic and federally threatened bird in the state of Florida, shares a similar distribution with Abrus precatorius, making interaction between the two species possible. Using an edible model of the Abrus seed, this potential interaction was tested in Martin …

The Reversibility Of Differential Rearing In Rats, Leann M. Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

Two groups of rats were raised in two different environments for 75 days beginning at 25 days of age. One group was raised in an enriched condition (EC), and one group in an impoverished condition (IC). At 91 days of age, all rats were tested on a spatial reversal learning task to determine if their early environments had affected their learning ability (Test 1). After Test 1 was completed, the rats were then placed in the opposite environment for another 75 days, with a second testing (Test 2) beginning at 165 days of age to determine if the new environment …

The Mechanisms Of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias, Ronald J. Gilson, Reinier Kraakman

Faculty Scholarship

Twenty years ago we published a paper, "The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency," that sought to describe the institutional underpinnings of price formation in the securities market. Since that time, financial economics has moved forward on many fronts. The sub-discipline of behavioral finance has struggled to bring yet more descriptive realism to the study of financial markets. Two important questions are (1) how much has this new discipline changed our understanding of the efficiency and nature of the institutional mechanisms that set price in financial markets; and (2) how far does this discipline carry novel implications for the regulation of financial …

Protecting Human Research Subjects: A Jurisdictional Analysis, Jennifer Llewellyn, Jocelyn Downie, Robert Holmes

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The most recent speech from the throne contained a pledge from the federal government to "work with provinces to implement a national system for the governance of research involving humans, including national research ethics and standards." This commitment signals a desire on the part of the federal government to address concerns about the inadequacies of the current governance of health research involving humans (RIH). To this end, Health Canada's Ethics Division is currently exploring the ways in which such a national governance system for RIH might be implemented. It is important for the federal government, as it moves toward making …

Understanding Dance Understanding, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Bayh-Dole Reform And The Progress Of Biomedicine, Arti K. Rai, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Articles

Advances in fundamental biomedical research play an important and growing role in the development of new therapeutic and diagnostic products. Although the development of pharmaceutical end products has long been a proprietary enterprise, biomedical research comes from a very different tradition of open science. Within this tradition, long-standing norms call for relatively unfettered access to fundamental knowledge developed by prior researchers. The tradition of open science has eroded considerably over the past quarter century as proprietary claims have reached farther upstream from end products to cover fundamental discoveries that provide the knowledge base for future product development.