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University Of Northern Iowa Today, V90n2, Summer 2006, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
-- Meet Benjamin J. Allen president of the University of Northern Iowa
-- Contents
-- Impact on Iowa Life - Being forever thankful
-- Customer-focused
-- A lifetime of teaching
-- To touch a life forever
-- "Pinks" is Red-Hot
-- Power From Scratch
-- UNI/PAC Initiative Delivers
-- Built with the Future in Mind
-- UNI Athletics
-- Panther Call Center - Making Connections
-- Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust Funds Projects
-- Community-University Partnership Basis of Koob Endowment Fund
-- UNI Athletic Club Renamed Panther Scholarship Club
-- The UNI Campanile: I'm 80 Years Old, …

Spatial And Temporal Model Validation: Representing Landscape Properties And Processes Across Scales, C. S. Renschler

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Continuous modeling of landscape processes and their validation requires representingenvironmental properties for model input and output across scales. A combination of a scaling theory, aGeospatial Project Management Tool (GeoProMT), and a GIS-based environmental modeling interface,allows interdisciplinary collaborators to efficiently handle and communicate the scaling (or transformation)of geospatial information of properties and processes across scales. This integrated approach of theory,project management tool, and modeling interface can be applied to any environmental model and softwaredevelopment. The integrated modeling is based on the Geospatial Interface for the Water Erosion PredictionProject (GeoWEPP) that enables soil and water conservationists to assess soil erosion taking into …

Beyond Growth – Urban Development In Shrinking Cities As A Challenge For Modeling Approaches, S. Kabisch, A. Haase, Dagmar Haase

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Urban growth has been replaced by stagnation and shrinkage processes at many places in Europe during the last decades. Demographic changes and out-migration because of lack of jobs belong to the main impact factors. Urban planners are challenged by this new and dramatic development that impacts on housing markets, the utilization of infrastructure, local labor markets and the whole viability of urban structures. Urban Research is requested to elaborate new concepts and strategies for cities loosing population, facing a big amount of vacant building stock and a large-area re-use of brown-fields. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the …

Information Integration Through Ontology And Metadata For Sustainability Analysis, V. Brilhante, A. Ferreira, J. Marinho, J. S. Pereira

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Indicators of Sustainable Development (ISDs) make up a sophisticated set of information that can be employedas a means to study many aspects of a system’s sustainability. Methods for producing ISDs, as well as environmentalmodels in general, typically are strongly backed by data, so as to heighten their trustworthiness.This work proposes a sustainability analysis framework where higher level forms of data description, namely,a domain ontology and metadata, are employed to harness the data and to provide relevant elicited informationto a software tool which is ultimately responsible for yielding levels of sustainability of systems under analysis.Having the framework equipped with a metadata …

Hispanic Population Within Kent County, Mi In 2000 (%), Community Research Institute-Johnson Center

Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets

No abstract provided.

Mechanisms Underlying The Phenomenon Of Cluster Formation In The Textile/Apparel Industry In Pakistan, Khadija Bari

Business Review

The objective of this study is to analyze the ability of Pakistan’s textile industry to broaden and upgrade its competitive positions in the face of increasing international competition. It suggests a conceptual framework of organisational characteristics influencing the process and formation of clusters. Clusters are a driving force in increasing exports and magnets for attracting foreign investment. The cluster concept represents a new way of thinking about national, state, and city economies, and points to new roles for companies, governments, and other institutions striving to enhance competitiveness. The paper is based on empirical analysis of the organizational characteristics and intra-cluster …

Influence Of Foreign Media On Fashion In Young Adults In Pakistan, Arif Hasan, Shaza Bari

Business Review

The extent of the influence of Indian media on fashion choices is studied by finding the underlying feelings and motives behind fashion product purchase decisions for young female adults. The results showed that the influence of Indian media on fashion choices is minimal and does not lead to an active search for a particular product. Rather, the exposure is used to make a decision when they are faced with a choice between a product seen on the media versus another product. Accessories are more easily adapted than clothes, which are too glamorized. The soap dramas are more popular among the …

Economic And Cooperative Post-Colonial Borders: How Two Interpretations Of Borders By The I.C.J. May Undermine The Relationship Between Uti Possidetis Juris And Democracy, Andrew A. Rosen

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Wooster Magazine: Summer 2006, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the summer of 2006. Sally Whitman's 13 year journey on completing her bachelors degree is featured on page three. Students will no longer be registering for classes in person, but rather online through the Scotweb system. Twenty student's IS abstracts are featured from page eight to thirteen. English professor, Daniel Bourne is featured along with a few of the poems he has written. Professor Anne Nurse's sociology class, Criminology and Deviance, is highlighted for the fact that half of the class is made up of inmates from the Indian River Juvenile …

Journeys: Monograph Prepared For The Maine Mathematics And Science Teaching Excellence Collaborative (Mmstec) Project, Richard Stebbins Phd, Amy Johnson

Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Books

A collection of papers describing the impact of the Maine Mathematics and Science Teaching Excellence Collaborative on the improvement of student learning and teaching practices.

Internationalism And The Dilemmas Of Strategic Patriotism, John Fabian Witt

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Value Of Professional Development Activities In Advancing The Careers Of Women Chief Academic Officers In Community Colleges, Brent D. Cejda

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Previous research has shown that there are not distinct career lines leading to the chief academic officer (CAO) position in community colleges. Rather, it appears that a variety of skills and experiences contribute to advancement to this position. This paper examines the perceptions of women CAOs as to the importance of professional development activities to their career advancement. Responses from women community college CAOs from nine states (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming) indicate that current position holders perceive that a number of professional development experiences were important to their advancement to the CAO position.

Sunrise… Sunset…, Alex Friedlander, Tzippora Resnick

The Mathematics Enthusiast

Sunrise and sunset are obviously a part of our everyday life. Our connection to the movement of celestial bodies, including the Sun, has been somewhat diminished by modern life, in contrast to the practical interest, fascination or even awe of earlier civilizations. Mathematics and astronomy have a long history of cooperative work, but due to their complexity and technical difficulty, usually those who participated in this endeavor were at the advanced studies level, or occupied high religious positions.

Bus Rapid Transit In Australasia: Performance, Lessons Learned And Futures, Graham Currie

Journal of Public Transportation

This paper presents a review of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in Australasia. It describes the major systems operating in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, outlining their infrastructure, operations and development characteristics. The performance of these systems in terms of patronage, markets, operations and overall urban development impacts is described. Lessons learned in their implementation and operation are also reviewed. The paper concludes with an outline of future prospects for BRT development in Australasia and a discussion of the major findings of this review.

The Potential For Bus Rapid Transit To Reduce Transportation-Related Co2 Emissions, William Vincent, Lisa Callaghan Jerram

Journal of Public Transportation

This article examines Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as a near-term strategy for reducing CO2 emissions in a typical medium-sized U.S. city. The paper compares the expected CO2 emissions from three scenarios to meet the city’s growth in work trips by 2011: a no-build option that relies upon private automobiles and a diesel bus fleet; building a light rail (LRT) system; and building a BRT system using 40-ft or 60-ft low emission buses. The paper calculates a CO2 emissions inventory for each scenario and finds that BRT offers the greatest potential for greenhouse gas reductions, primarily because BRT vehicles generally offer …

Full Issue 9(3)

Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.

Acuta Journal Of Telecommunications In Higher Education

ACUTA Journal

In This Issue

Network Security: An Achilles Heel for Organizations of All Sizes

Providing Backup in a VolP World

Security Concerns Shift lnward

Cell Phones, Land Lines, and E911

Security Checklists

Higher Ed's Tricky Equation: Directories Help Balance Availability with Security

Disaster Recovery Planning Essentials

Passing the Test of productivity

Interview

President's Message

From the Executive Director

Here's My Advice

The Voice, Summer 2006: Volume 51, Issue 4, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Business Internships Give "Added Value"; A College Without Borders; English 305 Teaches Students How to Write for Their Specific Career; Ideafest 2006; Ag Majors Teach Farm Safety Course for Teens; Education Students Put on Community Story Hour; Club Plans Justice Week; Math Majors Make Good Showing in Competition; John Van Dyk Leaves a Legacy of Scholarship and Service; The Concert Choir... Takes to the Road: A Choir Journal from This Year's Spring Tour; Campus "Celebrities" Featured in Library Posters; Gen 300: Dordt's Senior Capstone Course Serves as a Bridge Between the Classroom and Adult Society; Spring Sports Updates; Dordt College …

Resolving Model Parameter Values From C And N Stock Measurements In A Wide Range Of Tropical Mature Forests Using Nonlinear Inversion, Shuguang Liu, Pamela Anderson, Guoyi Zhou, Boone Kauffman, Flint Hughes, David Schimel, Vicente Watson, Joseph Tosi

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Objectively assessing the performance of a model and deriving model parameter values from observations are critical and challenging in landscape to regional modeling. In this paper, we applied a nonlinear inversion technique to calibrate the ecosystem model CENTURY against carbon and nitrogen stock measurements collected from 33 mature tropical forest sites in seven life zones in Costa Rica. Net primary productivity from the MODIS, C and N stocks in aboveground live biomass, litter, coarse woody debris (CWD), and in soils were used to calibrate the model. To investigate the resolution of available observations on the number of adjustable parameters, inversion …

Resolving Model Parameter Values From C And N Stock Measurements In A Wide Range Of Tropical Mature Forests Using Nonlinear Inversion, Shuguang Liu, Pamela Anderson, Guoyi Zhou, Boone Kauffman, Flint Hughes, David Schimel, Vicente Watson, Joseph Tosi

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Objectively assessing the performance of a model and deriving model parameter values from observations are critical and challenging in landscape to regional modeling. In this paper, we applied a nonlinear inversion technique to calibrate the ecosystem model CENTURY against carbon and nitrogen stock measurements collected from 33 mature tropical forest sites in seven life zones in Costa Rica. Net primary productivity from the MODIS, C and N stocks in aboveground live biomass, litter, coarse woody debris (CWD), and in soils were used to calibrate the model. To investigate the resolution of available observations on the number of adjustable parameters, inversion …

Environmental Policy Aid Under Uncertainty, J. Myšiak, J. D. Brown

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Uncertainty pervades all aspects of environmental policy making. Numerous typologies and techniques have been developed to conceptualise, classify, assess (qualitatively and quantitatively), propagate, control, reduce and communicate uncertainty. Such assessments are a necessary but insufficient condition for reducing uncertainty in environmental decision making. In this paper we discuss how uncertainty is translated into decisions. Since this entails numerous value judgements and trade-offs which are sensitive to how policy problems are framed, we argue that perceptions of uncertainty cannot be viewed independently of the (quality of) the policy process that it intends to inform. Thus, uncertainty management should not be limited …

Spatial And Temporal Model Validation: Representing Landscape Properties And Processes Across Scales, C. S. Renschler

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Continuous modeling of landscape processes and their validation requires representingenvironmental properties for model input and output across scales. A combination of a scaling theory, aGeospatial Project Management Tool (GeoProMT), and a GIS-based environmental modeling interface,allows interdisciplinary collaborators to efficiently handle and communicate the scaling (or transformation)of geospatial information of properties and processes across scales. This integrated approach of theory,project management tool, and modeling interface can be applied to any environmental model and softwaredevelopment. The integrated modeling is based on the Geospatial Interface for the Water Erosion PredictionProject (GeoWEPP) that enables soil and water conservationists to assess soil erosion taking into …

Environmental Policy Aid Under Uncertainty, J. Myšiak, J. D. Brown

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Uncertainty pervades all aspects of environmental policy making. Numerous typologies and techniques have been developed to conceptualise, classify, assess (qualitatively and quantitatively), propagate, control, reduce and communicate uncertainty. Such assessments are a necessary but insufficient condition for reducing uncertainty in environmental decision making. In this paper we discuss how uncertainty is translated into decisions. Since this entails numerous value judgements and trade-offs which are sensitive to how policy problems are framed, we argue that perceptions of uncertainty cannot be viewed independently of the (quality of) the policy process that it intends to inform. Thus, uncertainty management should not be limited …

Towards Better Water Governance: Putting Integrated Water Resource Management In Place, J. Myšiak, Carlo Giupponi

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Water is a finite, renewable, yet in certain circumstances depletable, natural resource with essential value for life. The uneven distribution of water resources, amplified by numerous conflicting water uses, constrains economic development and the wellbeing of humans. The excessive quantity of water as a result of land use and/or climate change (and thus at least partly accountable to human activities) poses additional threats. To ensure an efficient allocation and protection of water, a holistic (integrated/comprehensive) management based on the principles of the ecosystem approach was endorsed by a broad scientific and policy community. Such management was aimed at promoting pro-active, …

E2sp. The Business Case Of An Environmental Information System In Asp Mode., M. Cislaghi, G. Corbetta, R. Mazzilli, F. Scanzani, M. Caselli, L. Trizio, C. Derognat, R. Dunal, K. Klejnowski, A. Bucko-Serafin

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

According to PSR (OECD) and DPSIR (EEA) models, environmental agencies are in charge of measuring the State and Pressure and evaluate the Impact in order to define the most suitable Responses; this implies data analysis and reporting activities, as one of their core responsibilities. Environmental Information Systems support these activities by combining the advantages of first-rate consolidated technology (such as Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses) to specific technical architectures tailored to environmental management tasks. E2SP (Environmental Enterprise Service Provider) is a online reporting and forecasting platform, providing a cost effective, Internet based Environmental Information System and Decision Support System in …

A New Raster-Based Spatial Modelling System: 5d Environment, S. Mazzoleni, F. Giannino, M. Mulligan, D. Heathfield, M. Colandrea, M. Nicolazzo, M. D'Aquino

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The functional description of natural systems requires the representation of different classes of processes including chemical, biochemical, and physical functions, with or without their spatial representation. On the other hand, there are several cases where a realistic representation of the process dynamics needs a spatially explicit implementation of the model (eg. hydrological flows, fire propagation, pollution diffusion, etc.). In more general terms, and for different scientific fields, scaling problems and the issue of linking dynamic and spatial processes require an integrated logic and appropriate software solutions. Different tools aimed at implementing spatial modelling capability (PCRaster, SME, SimARC) have not yet …

Ecohydraulics In The Mississippi River: Freshwater Mussel Dynamics Model, J. A. Daraio, Y. Morales-Chaves, Arthur E. Mynett, L. Weber

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The family Unionidae (freshwater mussels) is geographically diverse with species found worldwide; their greatest diversity is found in North America. Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are an exotic species introduced into North America in the 1980’s that has since become a threat to economic interests and native mussel species in the region. IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering and WL|Delft Hydraulics are developing a numerical model of mussel population dynamics for the purpose of analyzing alternative management strategies of zebra mussels and Unionidae in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR). The Mussel Dynamics Model (MDM) simulates interaction of mussels and the hydraulic environment. This paper …

Weap Water Evaluation And Planning System, Jack Sieber

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

WEAP is a microcomputer tool for integrated water resources planning. It provides a comprehensive, flexible and user-friendly framework for policy analysis. A growing number of water professionals are finding WEAP to be a useful addition to their toolbox of models, databases, spreadsheets and other software. This introduction summarizes WEAPΥs purpose, approach and structure. A detailed technical description is available in a separate publication, the WEAP User Guide.

Information Integration Through Ontology And Metadata For Sustainability Analysis, V. Brilhante, A. Ferreira, J. Marinho, J. S. Pereira

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Indicators of Sustainable Development (ISDs) make up a sophisticated set of information that can be employedas a means to study many aspects of a system’s sustainability. Methods for producing ISDs, as well as environmentalmodels in general, typically are strongly backed by data, so as to heighten their trustworthiness.This work proposes a sustainability analysis framework where higher level forms of data description, namely,a domain ontology and metadata, are employed to harness the data and to provide relevant elicited informationto a software tool which is ultimately responsible for yielding levels of sustainability of systems under analysis.Having the framework equipped with a metadata …

Uncertainty Management, Spatial And Temporal Reasoning, And Validation Of Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Karina Gibert, Rick Sojda, Jean-Philippe Steyer, Peter Struss, Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

There are inherent open problems arising when developing and running Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems (IEDSS). During daily operation of IEDSS several open challenge problems appear. The uncertainty of data being processed is intrinsic to the environmental system, which is being monitored by several on-line sensors and off-line data. Thus, anomalous data values at data gathering level or even uncertain reasoning process at later levels such as in diagnosis or decision support or planning can lead the environmental process to unsafe critical operation states. At diagnosis level or even at decision support level or planning level, spatial reasoning or temporal …