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The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

LETTER UwiVfeRsnYoFTHfi Pacific, Stockton, CA- Volume 13, Number 4 Fall 2003! uir & his Reading Interests by Ronald Limbaugh (Editor's note: Ronald Limbaugh retired in 2000 after thirty-four years at the University of the Pacific, serving concurrently as director of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies and Rockwell Hunt Professor of California History) ven without considering his published works, John Muir's surviving journals and private correspondence demonstrate that he was a voluminous writer with unusual gifts. With his family and friends— and with himself— he carried on an effusive dialog, describing events, recalling anecdotes, lecturing and philosophizing, opening a …

Graduate Bulletin & Catalog | 2003-2004, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 27, No. 1 (August 2003). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Congress, Courts And Corrections: An Empirical Perspective On The Prison Litigation Reform Act, Brian J. Ostrom, Roger A. Hanson, Fred L. Cheesman

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

08/01/2003 - Continuing Students Scholarship.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2003

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Local Communities In Benin: Spatial Dynamics Before And After The Administrative And Territorial Reforms Of 1999, Andrea Ahouassa

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines decentralized local communities in Benin during the period of a single-party socialist government with a central plan economic system and during the period of a multiple-party capitalist democratic system. Since the country's independence from France in 1960, political leaders claimed to support and implement socioeconomic programs based upon a decentralized public administration system and a decentralized territorial system. For three decades, none of the various territorial administrations' reforms of the single party system achieved the planned goals. However, the change in party structure, government attitudes, and territorial administration reforms since 1990 has achieved the goals set at …

Seasonality In The Surface Energy Balance Of Tundra In The Lower Mackenzie River Basin, Wayne R. Rouse, Andrea K. Eaton, Richard M. Petrone, L. Dale Boudreau, Philip Marsh, Timothy J. Griffis

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

This study details seasonal characteristics in the annual surface energy balance of upland and lowland tundra during the 1998–99 water year (Y2). It contrasts the results with the 1997–98 water year (Y1) and relates the findings to the climatic normals for the lower Mackenzie River basin region. Both years were much warmer than the long-term average, with Y1 being both warmer and wetter than Y2. Six seasons are defined as early winter, midwinter, late winter, spring, summer, and fall. The most rapid changes in the surface energy balance occur in spring, fall, and late winter. Of these, spring is the …

Ua11/1 Echo, August, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

A born digital magazine once delivered over the internet was a continuation of the Echo publication.

Spatial Variations In Wal-Mart Store Location, Clint H. Franklin

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As the world's largest retailer, the Wal-Mart Corporation exemplifies unsurpassed store location strategy. The purpose of this study is to identify socio-economic indicators of store location and to determine whether they vary spatially across the United States. First, a linear regression model is employed to identify key socio-economic variables that associate with store location in four regions of the United States. The study includes analyses of Georgia, Indiana, New York, and Washington, which represent the southeast, midwest, northeast and west, respectively. Discriminant and cluster analyses are used to investigate whether there are spatial variations in Wal-Mart location. The results of …

Environmental Impact Statement, M. Jeff Hagener

Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery: Annual Reports

Introduction

Gray wolves (Canis lupus) are thriving and expanding in number and distribution in Montana. This is because of natural emigration from Canada and a successful federal effort that reintroduced wolves into Yellowstone National Park (YNP) and the wilderness areas of central Idaho. There are probably more wild wolves in Montana now than at any time in the past 70 years. Since 1974, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has managed wolves in Montana, under the authority of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The biological recovery goal for the northern Rockies wolf population is a total of …

Sustainable Agricultural Growth In The Al-Ahsa Oasis Of Saudi Arabia: Harmonizing Wto Goals, Environmental Constraints, And National Food Security Issues, Ahmad Mohammad Al-Mass

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Local agricultural practices in Saudi Arabia today are shaped by local land, labor, and technological conditions, by national governmental regulations, subsidies, and price controls, and by the global impacts of foreign competition and goals of international organizations such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). Human and natural forces over which local oasis residents have no control exert more influence upon their social and economic life than do daily agricultural tasks. These forces are recognized by Saudi national planners, for agricultural development is very important to the government and to oasis dwellers in Saudi Arabia. Reducing the loss of foreign exchange, …

Analysis Of The National Transit Database, Cutr

Research Reports

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Ridership Trends Of New Start Rail Projects, Cutr

Research Reports

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The Texas Caver, Volume 49, No. 4, August 2003, Don Arburn

The Texas Caver

Contents: News: Features, Utg At Beck Ranch Cave -- Trip Reports: High Guads New Mexico, Rucker Bat Cave Circle Ranch -- Tcc Activities Update: Tcma, TSA, From The Files Of The TSS, NSS -- TSA Business: Minutes Of TSA Bog Meeting -- How To & Not To: Cave Digging -- Questionnaire -- Book Review

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 65, No. 2, August 2003, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

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Book Reviews, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Who Are The Tcks In Your Life?, Susan E. Murray

Lake Union Herald

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Building A Vision For Our Weir River Estuary: An Inventory Of Open Space And Public Access Around The Weir River Area Of Critical Environmental Concern And Summary Of The Weir River Estuary Visioning Workshop, Chantal Lefebvre

Urban Harbors Institute Publications

The Weir River Estuary Park Open Space and Public Access Inventory is a planning document designed to provide collective information on public open space and water access opportunities around the Weir River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC). It catalogs what is known about all undeveloped lands and accessways around the estuary and draws from existing reports and plans, interviews with government officials, and comments conveyed during a day-long public visioning workshop in May 2003. The inventory is intended as a support document to augment existing open space plans, master plans, and harbor management plans in Hingham, Hull, and Cohasset …

Directory, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Directory, Academic Year 2003-2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Screenshots of the faculty directory of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the 2003-2004 academic year.

Roster, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Roster, Fall 2003 And Spring 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Roster of faculty at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the academic year 2003-2004.

The Case Against Libraries As ‘Safe Places’, Anthony Bernier

Faculty Publications

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"Placing" Health Risks In The Karakoram: Local Perceptions Of Disease, Dependency, And Social Change In Northern Pakistan, Sarah Halvorson

Geography Faculty Publications

This article examines local perceptions of health risks in a mountain community in the Karakoram of Northern Pakistan. Specifically, it aims to show how the tremendous social and economic transformations taking place in this region are experienced and understood by the people most affected by them. The case study draws from ethnographic data collected through a range of methods, including personal narratives, focus groups, interviews, household surveys, conversations, and participant observations. Central to this analysis is the role that social change plays in mediating and shaping residents’ worries, and perceived vulnerabilities within this particular economic and cultural context. Furthermore, the …

Nutrient Stoichiometry In Algal Responses To Multiple Stressors In Experimental Agricultural Wetlands, William Robert White

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was part of an EPA-funded experimental investigation of multiple stressor effects on agricultural wetlands. A 27-1 center point enhanced fractional factorial design was applied to 72 wetland mesocosms to examine 7 main effects and 21 two-way interaction effects (Montgomery 1997). Treatments included the agrichemicals monosodium methane arsenate (MSMA), chlorpyrifos and atrazine, inorganic nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and silicon), the fathead minnow, suspended sediments (kaolinite), and UV radiation. Dissolved, suspended (sestonic), and periphyton C, N, and P, along with C:P, C:N, and N:P in each fraction were measured 2, 12, 24 and 48 days after treatments were added to the …

2003 August, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for August of 2003.

Roberto Badenas, Ph.D., Roberto Badenas, Martin Pröbstle

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

Phylogeography And Population Structure Of The Prairie Skink (Eumeces Septentrionalis), Gregory S. Fuerst

Theses and Dissertations

The geographical and geneological limits of species are firmly rooted in historical and current processes. Phylogenetic studies focus on the historical aspect and examine character states to estimate ancestor-descendent relationships. The number of described species in the world has been estimated at 1.4 to 1.8 million and other estimates suggest that as many as 30 million species may exist (May, 1990; Wilson, 1992). Phylogenetic studies provide the information needed to delimit and classify these species based on their historical relationships. Studies on species population structure focus on the current and historical processes acting on a species. These studies use a …

Reading The Song Iconographically, Ellen Davis

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

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Prophets Or Praetorians? The Uptonian Paradox And The Powell Corollary, Robert M. Cassidy

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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A Spatial Temporal Analysis Of Infant Mortality In The Midwest Industrial Belt: 1940 And 2000, Julie Macarthur

Masters Theses

This study compares and analyzes the spatial patterns of infant mortality (IM) for 1940 and 2000 using county-level socio-economic variables in the Industrial Belt, assesses the changes in IM as an indicator of the living standards for the population over time and space, and explains the changes. The region was delineated using 1940 employment data. OLS, spatial regression, and exploratory spatial data analysis were used on IM (the dependent variable) and socio-economic variables to study the standard of living in the region. Some important factors were statistically significant in the various models including: minority population, levels of industrialization, and urbanization …

Technology And Time, Jon Vanwieren

Masters Theses

This thesis sets out to further reveal the technology and time interrelationship in human society. It is through an investigation of an array of sociological, theoretical, philosophical, historical and artistic responses to modernity that this relationship is explored. Primary analytic focus is placed on two contemporary authors who have addressed the technology and time relationship. These authors are Manuel Castells and Paul Virilio. Castells and Virilio offer two distinct portraits of the modem-technological world. By contrasting these authors' projects, methods and intellectual heritage, the question of technology and time is further scrutinized. Advanced here is an argument that time is …

Pipedreams, Matt Trebelhorn

Theses

None provided.