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Changes In Bird Species Distribution In Four Altitudinal Zones In Monteverde, Costa Rica, December 2006, Grant Connette Dec 2006

Changes In Bird Species Distribution In Four Altitudinal Zones In Monteverde, Costa Rica, December 2006, Grant Connette

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The impact of climate change on ecosystems has been demonstrated by studies of upper elevation amphibians (Pounds 1997). In spite of this, the degree to which climate change affects birds is not as clear. Two previous studies have found the upward movement of many species of birds in the Monteverde area (Donnelly 1998, Palm 2003). I surveyed birds in four altitudinal zones on the less studied Atlantic slope of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve and compared my findings to the bird distributions reported by Michael Fogden in 1993. I found significant upward movement of bird species (sign test, p < 0.05) as well as a general decline in the abundances of certain bird species (x2 = 27.65, df = 3, p < 0.001). The majority of these declines are probably linked to the reforestation of the Peñas Blancas valley but climate change is likely responsible for the upslope movement and increased abundance of higher elevation birds.

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The Lack Of Consensus Among Catholics For Establishing New Elementary Schools, Michael J. Cieslak Dec 2006

The Lack Of Consensus Among Catholics For Establishing New Elementary Schools, Michael J. Cieslak

Journal of Catholic Education

For a century Catholic schools have formed the basis for a strong system of acculturation into Catholic identity and values. Catholic schools provided a low-cost basic education and served as a common school for all social classes of Catholics. This system has weakened considerably in the last decades. Between 1970 and 2000 there was a net loss of 3,595 Catholic schools in the United States, a 29.9% decline. In addition, the nature of these schools seems to be changing as the percentage of total Catholic school enrollment made up by non-Catholics has increased ten-fold in 30 years. Many Catholic Schools …

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History Lessons: How Textboks From Around The World Portray U.S. History, By Dana Lindaman & Kyle Ward, Cheryl Healy Dec 2006

History Lessons: How Textboks From Around The World Portray U.S. History, By Dana Lindaman & Kyle Ward, Cheryl Healy

Journal of Catholic Education

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Minarets In Dixie: Two 1893 Proposals To Introduce Islam In The American South, Brent D. Singleton Dec 2006

Minarets In Dixie: Two 1893 Proposals To Introduce Islam In The American South, Brent D. Singleton

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

In May 1893, Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, an American convert to Islam, communicated with landowners in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama to purchase property in order to establish colonies of Muslim Indian immigrants. A month earlier, Julius Chambers, a New York newspaper editor, put forth a call to convert the masses of African Americans in the South to Islam. This essay describes the two Islamization schemes, their interrelation, and their ultimate demise. Drawing mainly from Southern newspapers, the resultant press reaction both in support of and in opposition to Webb’s immigration plan is also presented. The essay is a starting point …

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Independent Invention As A Defense To Patent Infringement, Samson Vermont Dec 2006

Independent Invention As A Defense To Patent Infringement, Samson Vermont

Michigan Law Review

Under current law, independent invention is no defense to patent infringement. This Article argues that independent invention should be a defense, provided the independent inventor creates the invention before receiving actual or constructive notice that someone else already created it. The defense reduces wasteful duplication of effort and enhances dissemination of inventions without lowering the incentive to invent below the necessary minimum. To be sure, the defense lowers the incentive for inventions that face significant odds of being invented by more than one inventor By enabling a second inventor to compete with a first inventor the defense essentially breaks up …

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Nineteenth Century Review Of Mental Health Care For African Americans: A Legacy Of Service And Policy Barriers, Tony B. Lowe Dec 2006

Nineteenth Century Review Of Mental Health Care For African Americans: A Legacy Of Service And Policy Barriers, Tony B. Lowe

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The need to focus on service and policy barriers to mental health service delivery for African Americans remains critical. The purpose of this article is to review nineteenth century care as a method for understanding contemporary service and policy barriers. A case study strategy is used to compare the efforts of Pennsylvania and South Carolina using primary and secondary sources to document these developments through a political economy perspective. These findings suggest that the prevailing social, political and economic realities have created mental health disparities along racial lines. Existing barriers are likely rooted in this same reality.

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"Seen And Not Heard" Sociological Approaches To Childhood: Black Children, Agency And Implications For Child Welfare, Mekada Graham, Emily Bruce Dec 2006

"Seen And Not Heard" Sociological Approaches To Childhood: Black Children, Agency And Implications For Child Welfare, Mekada Graham, Emily Bruce

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In this article, the authors consider the socio-historical conceptions of childhood in relation to Black children and their unique relationship with child welfare institutions. Against this background we apply models of childhood to issues of race and social agency and argue that these elements have been inadequately addressed in developmental models of childhood. Following these concerns, we present a social model of childhood and consider how these distinct and different ways of understanding children might be applied to child welfare practice. This child centered approach presents a unique opportunity to incorporate the differential positioning of Black children in the wider …

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Ethiopian Language Policy And Health Promotion In Oromia, Begna Dugassa Dec 2006

Ethiopian Language Policy And Health Promotion In Oromia, Begna Dugassa

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In the time of HIV/AIDS, epidemics for which we have no vaccination or cure, public health is bound entirely to depend on the traditional health education strategies to stop or contain this disease. This reality demands that we travel extra miles and thoroughly employ every health promotion tool at our disposal. The Ottawa Charter for health promotion stressed the need for public policy to create supportive social conditions for health. This necessitates a commitment to enduring social conditions for health and raises topics that have been neglected by the traditional public health scholars. A close examination of the colonial language …

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Review Of Beyond Segregation: Multiracial And Multiethnic Neighborhoods In The United States. Michael T. Maly. Reviewed By Christopher R. Larrison., Christopher R. Larrison Dec 2006

Review Of Beyond Segregation: Multiracial And Multiethnic Neighborhoods In The United States. Michael T. Maly. Reviewed By Christopher R. Larrison., Christopher R. Larrison

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Michael T. Maly, Beyond Segregation: Multiracial and Multiethnic Neighborhoods in the United States. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2005. $68.50 hardcover, $22.95 papercover.

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Multiracial America: A Resource Guide On The History And Literature Of Interracial Issues. Karen Downing, Darlene Nichols, And Kelly Webster., Rose M. Barreto Dec 2006

Multiracial America: A Resource Guide On The History And Literature Of Interracial Issues. Karen Downing, Darlene Nichols, And Kelly Webster., Rose M. Barreto

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Karen Downing, Darlene Nichols and Kelly Webster, Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2005. $35.00.

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The Origins Of Social Work. Malcolm Payne. Dec 2006

The Origins Of Social Work. Malcolm Payne.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Malcolm Payne, The Origins of Social Work. New York: Palgrave, 2005. $ 75.00 hardcover, $ 26.95 papercover.

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Advocacy Practice For Social Justice. Richard Hoefer. Dec 2006

Advocacy Practice For Social Justice. Richard Hoefer.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Richard Hoefer, Advocacy Practicef or Social Justice. Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books, 2005. $ 29.95 papercover.

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Conformality And Q-Harmonicity In Carnot Groups, Luca Capogna, Michael Cowling Dec 2006

Conformality And Q-Harmonicity In Carnot Groups, Luca Capogna, Michael Cowling

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We show that if f is a 1-quasiconformal map defined on an open subset of a Carnot group G, then composition with f preserves Q-harmonic functions. We combine this with a regularity theorem for Q-harmonic functions and an algebraic regularity theorem for maps between Carnot groups to show that f is smooth. We give some applications to the study of rigidity.

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Ahlfors Type Estimates For Perimeter Measures In Carnot-Carathéodory Spaces, Luca Capogna, Nicola Garofalo Dec 2006

Ahlfors Type Estimates For Perimeter Measures In Carnot-Carathéodory Spaces, Luca Capogna, Nicola Garofalo

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We study the relationship between the geometry of hypersurfaces in a Carnot-Carathéodory (CC) space and the Ahlfors regularity of the corresponding perimeter measure. To this end we establish comparison theorems for perimeter estimates between an hypersurface and its tangent space, and between a CC geometry and its "tangent" Carnot group structure.

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Local Energy Decay For Solutions Of Multi-Dimensional Isotropic Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems, Thomas C. Sideris, Becca Thomases Dec 2006

Local Energy Decay For Solutions Of Multi-Dimensional Isotropic Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems, Thomas C. Sideris, Becca Thomases

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

The local decay of energy is established for solutions to certain linear, multidimensional symmetric hyperbolic systems, with constraints. The key assumptions are isotropy and nondegeneracy of the associated symbols. Examples are given, including Maxwell's equations and linearized elasticity. Such estimates prove useful in treating nonlinear perturbations.

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Linear Conditions Imposed On Flag Varieties, Julianna S. Tymoczko Dec 2006

Linear Conditions Imposed On Flag Varieties, Julianna S. Tymoczko

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

We study subvarieties of the flag variety called Hessenberg varieties, defined by certain linear conditions. These subvarieties arise naturally in applications including geometric representation theory, number theory, and numerical analysis. We describe completely the homology of Hessenberg varieties over GLn(ℂ) and show that they have no odd-dimensional homology. We provide an explicit geometric construction which partitions each Hessenberg variety into pieces homeomorphic to affine space. We characterize these affine pieces by fillings of Young tableaux and show that the dimension of the affine piece can be computed by combinatorial rules generalizing the Eulerian numbers. We give an equivalent formulation of …

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Front Matter, Journal Editors Dec 2006

Front Matter, Journal Editors

Journal of Space Law

Includes table of contents.

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Foreword, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz Dec 2006

Foreword, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Call For Papers, Journal Editors Dec 2006

Call For Papers, Journal Editors

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Outer Space Activities And Intellectual Property Protection In Nigeria, Tare Brisibe Dec 2006

Outer Space Activities And Intellectual Property Protection In Nigeria, Tare Brisibe

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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How On Earth Terrestrial Laws Can Protect Geospatial Data, Julie D. Cromer Dec 2006

How On Earth Terrestrial Laws Can Protect Geospatial Data, Julie D. Cromer

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Copyright Claims For Meteosat And Landsat Images Under Court Challenge, Martha Mejía·Kaiser Dec 2006

Copyright Claims For Meteosat And Landsat Images Under Court Challenge, Martha Mejía·Kaiser

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Comment. Intellectual Property In Outer Space: International Law, National Jurisdiction, And Exclusive Rights In Geospatial Data And Databases, Lee Ann W. Lockridge Dec 2006

Comment. Intellectual Property In Outer Space: International Law, National Jurisdiction, And Exclusive Rights In Geospatial Data And Databases, Lee Ann W. Lockridge

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Of Gardens And Streets: A Differentiated Model Of Property In International And National Space Law, Kali N. Murray Dec 2006

Of Gardens And Streets: A Differentiated Model Of Property In International And National Space Law, Kali N. Murray

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Report Of The Iisl Space Law Colloquium In Fukuoka, Japan, October 2005, Tanja Masson-Zwaan Dec 2006

Report Of The Iisl Space Law Colloquium In Fukuoka, Japan, October 2005, Tanja Masson-Zwaan

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Symposium Transcript: Opening And Closing Statements; Practitioner's Panel. Intellectual Property Resources In And For Space: The Practitioner's Experience, Gary G. Borda, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, Pamela L. Meredith, Gary Myers Dec 2006

Symposium Transcript: Opening And Closing Statements; Practitioner's Panel. Intellectual Property Resources In And For Space: The Practitioner's Experience, Gary G. Borda, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, Pamela L. Meredith, Gary Myers

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Bibliography: Space Law And Relevant Publications, Macey L. Edmondson Dec 2006

Bibliography: Space Law And Relevant Publications, Macey L. Edmondson

Journal of Space Law

Includes errata and advertisements

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Agreement Framework Agreement Between The Government Of The United States Of America And The Government Of The French Republic For Cooperative Activities In The Exploration And Use Of Outer Space For Peaceful Purposes, United States Dec 2006

Agreement Framework Agreement Between The Government Of The United States Of America And The Government Of The French Republic For Cooperative Activities In The Exploration And Use Of Outer Space For Peaceful Purposes, United States

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

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Molecular Systematics And Population Structure In The North American Endemic Fish Genus Cycleptus (Teleostei: Catostomidae), Michael Lee Bessert Dec 2006

Molecular Systematics And Population Structure In The North American Endemic Fish Genus Cycleptus (Teleostei: Catostomidae), Michael Lee Bessert

School of Biological Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The overarching theme of this research was to investigate hierarchical levels of relatedness in natural populations of the cycleptid fishes (blue suckers), a widespread genus in North America that is of conservation concern throughout. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences revealed that the two described Cycleptus species, C. elongatus and C. meridionalis are not reciprocally monophyletic, yet do not share any haplotypes. Although lineage sorting is incomplete, Bayesian coalescent analyses indicate that the two groups diverged early in the Pleistocene and have been reproductively isolated since. Whether they should be synonymized as C.elongatus and recognized as subspecies is open for …

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Information Outlook, December 2006, Special Libraries Association Dec 2006

Information Outlook, December 2006, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2006

Volume 10, Issue 12

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