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The Weekly Challenger, May 24, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The May 24, 2007, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Providing Lumber For The ‘Sawed’ House: The Repeal Of The Southern Homestead Act And Euro-American Settlement Of The Plains, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Within five years, two separate homestead acts became law in the United States. Congress passed the first during the Civil War, which applied to public domain lands primarily in the western half of the U.S. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of public domain and receive title after a period of residence and “improvement.” It also featured other methods to gain title, including cash purchase. Following the war, the Southern Homestead Act became law in 1866. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi collectively held nearly 47,000,000 acres open to claim as a result, although in …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Spousal abuse in Albania will be subject of June 8 lecture
• Annual Paulson Student Research Awards presented to 15 undergraduates

The Fittingness Of Fitness: The Movement Of Architecture At A Human Scale: A Reinvention Of The Typical Workplace, Emily Parris

Architecture Theses and Projects

The intent of this proposal is to create a prototypical office building that promotes health and individual well-being. The architecture will focus on the needs and concerns of each worker in relation to their physical, emotional and spiritual health. Due to the fast-paced American lifestyle, individual health is suffering. The rates of obesity and depression in the United States are skyrocketing and architecture has an obligation to address this urgent issue in terms of design.

An International Prospectus For Library & Information Professionals: Development, Leadership And Resources For Evolving Patron Needs, D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons

The roles of library and information professionals must change and evolve to: 1. accommodate needs of tech-savvy patrons; 2. thrive in the Commons & Library 2.0; 3. provide integrated, just-in-time services; 4. constantly update and enhance technology; 5. design appropriate library spaces for research and productivity; 6.adapt to new models of scholarly communication and publication, especially: the Open Archives Initiative and digital repositories; 7. remain abreast of national and interanational academic and legislative initiatives affecting the provision of information services and resources.

Professionals will need to collaborate in: 1. Formal & informal networks – regional, national, and international; and; 2. …

Daily Eastern News: May 22, 2007, Eastern Illinois University

May

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, May 21, 2007

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Interview With William Donovan, Professor Of Classics, William Donovan

Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Oral Histories

No abstract provided.

Ddasaccident567, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On the morning of 21st May 2007 at approximately 0630hrs [Demining group] BAC Team 2 re-deployed back to CBU 040 to start operations. At approximately 1140hrs, an uncontrolled explosion occurred at the building site adjacent to the rear of the BAC Team 2 CP, UTM 712082/3681844, involving a civilian worker, Mr. [the Victim], who was delivering building material to the construction site. Mr. [the Victim] had reversed his truck on the area adjacent the construction site and had commenced to unload the vehicle. During this process Mr. [the Victim] kicked, stepped or dropped some building materials on a M77 sub-munition …

Commencement Program [Spring 2007], Clark University

Commencement Programs

Annual Commencement Program for graduation ceremonies at Clark University, held on May 20th, 2007.

Technology Bridge To Employment: A Community Technology Initiative, Rosalind Bain

Theses

As the economic gap continues to widen between the rich and poor, we will continue to see people (primarily the poor) experiencing a number of social problems, including being cut off from accessing modern technology. In many small cities and rural areas throughout the United States, there is sufficient evidence that shows poor people are not as connected to or knowledgeable about modern technological advances and their application within the wider society. This puts them at a disadvantage and hinders their chances for both professional and economic growth. The author involved in the capstone served as the volunteer lead instructor …

2007 Commencement Program, Taylor University

Commencement

The program of the 2007 Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 19, 2007.

School Of International Studies Diploma And Hooding Ceremony, University Of The Pacific

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

We Are…Marshall, May 18, 2007, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Curriculum And Academic Policy Committee Minutes, May 18, 2007

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee meeting held on May 18, 2007.

Some Permanent Part, Jeff Grieneisen

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Historical Land Fragmentation And Its Effects On Genetic Diversity And Parasitism Of Island Populations Of Podarcis Erhardii (Lacertidae, Reptilia), Heather Hurston

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Pleistocene land bridge islands in the Aegean Sea make an ideal natural experimental system for testing how island age, area and isolation affect genetic variation. My research focuses on the population genetics of the Aegean wall lizard Podarcis erhardii (Lacertidae, Reptilia), which because of its wide distribution, and poor dispersal abilities is a sensitive indicator of fragmentation history. I predict that genetic diversity will be positively correlated with island area and negatively correlated with age. I also predict that island characteristics, host genetic variability or grazing may impact parasite prevalence. Findings showed that larger islands maintained more genetic diversity …

What Is An American?, Stan West

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Smart Growth Initiatives And Their Ability To Enhance The National Security Of The U.S., Donald Letterle

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The beginning of the 21st Century has presented the United States with many new challenges. One of the most significant challenges we face are domestic and foreign security issues. Though traditionally the U.S. has relied on military and law enforcement agencies to address security related matters, in the wake of new pressing concerns such as terrorism, foreign fuel reliance and environmental degradation it has become apparent that other alternatives must be examined. One such alternative is the implementation of smart growth initiatives into current urban and sub-urban planning processes. The implementation of these initiatives into existing and new development will …

Planning For Chaos: Cluster Strategies Of Economic Development, Lisa Brosnan

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

With this thesis I will attempt to demonstrate the value of using chaos theory as a framework for understanding the emergence and development of clusters as a strategy for economic development. The application of the principles of chaos theory will be used to judge the relative success of specific clusters through a case study approach and historical analysis to determine the change agents and other significant factors influential to the growth of economic clusters. Because clusters are turbulent, non-linear systems that are sensitive to endogenous and exogenous triggers, chaos theory may provide the conceptual foundation appropriate to the study of …

Lanthorn, Vol. 41, No. 61, May 17, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 41, July 13, 2006 - June 14, 2007

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, May 17, 2007, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Arkansas' Implementation Of An Elementary Art Program, Angela Harris

Education

The purpose of this case study was to describe how Arkansas was able to mandate and implement their elementary art education program, as well as the possibility of using Arkansas' program as a model for implementing art education at the elementary level in schools in other states. Based on what I discovered through interviews and publicly available documents, Arkansas' program was mandated and designed in such a manner that other states could modify the process used to create an elementary art program to fit their own individual needs. The findings from this study of the elementary art program in Arkansas …

Exchange And Interaction In Western Aleutian Prehistory: The Efficacy Of Geochemical Analysis Of Lithic Raw Material Procurement On Amchitka Island, Nicholas P. Jew

Anthropology

There are two main objectives of this thesis; the first is to evaluate the efficacy of geochemical techniques for the identification of lithic raw materials used to make stone tools in the Aleutian Islands. The second objective is to use the data set acquired from the analytical methods to generate hypotheses pertaining to exchange and interaction on Amchitka Island. Looking at Amchitka's geology using x-ray fluorescence will provide the basis for examining the elemental characterization for identification of basalt materials. From this analysis, I compared the elemental concentration of basalt artifacts between six archaeological sites found on Amchitka. Through the …

Transport Of Dungeness Crab (Cancer Magister) Megalopae Into Glacier Bay, Alaska, Heidi L. Herter

Fisheries

Areas of high Cancer magister larval recruitment and transport mechanisms were identified in the lower portion of Glacier Bay, Alaska. Megalopae were collected at three sites in 2004 and 2005 using light traps positioned within 1 m of the surface and bottom at 10 m depth. Surface traps captured 96.5 - 99.4 % of megalopae collected. Megalopae abundances were highly pulsed and decreased with increasing distance from the mouth of Glacier Bay. Spatial variation was similar between years with significant differences among all sites in 2005. Half of the total annual megalopae supply occurred over just two nights in September …

The Kandik Map: Cultural Exchange Along The Yukon River, Linda R. Johnson

Arctic and Northern Studies

The Kandik Map drawn in 1880 by Yukon Indian Paul Kandik and annotated by French Canadian fur trader François Mercier and U.S. Census Agent Ivan Petroff is a unique record in the documentary history of Northwestern North America. It traces the Yukon, Tanana, and Kuskokwim Rivers from their headwaters to the Pacific, showing trading posts, trails, and place names in several Athabascan languages, as well as French and English. As one of the oldest maps of the Alaska-Yukon borderlands it documents indigenous knowledge and the dynamic cultural exchange between Native residents and non-native newcomers along the Yukon River prior to …

05/15/2007 - Eiu Faculty Members Receive Promotions Other Recognition.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2007

No abstract provided.

Faculty Newsnotes 2007 No. 398, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

Using Gis-Based Methods Of Multicriteria Analysis To Construct Socio-Economic Deprivation Indices, Nathaniel Bell, Nadine Schuurman, Michael V. Hayes

Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Over the past several decades researchers have produced substantial evidence of a social gradient in a variety of health outcomes, rising from systematic differences in income, education, employment conditions, and family dynamics within the population. Social gradients in health are measured using deprivation indices, which are typically constructed from aggregated socio-economic data taken from the national census--a technique which dates back at least until the early 1970's. The primary method of index construction over the last decade has been a Principal Component Analysis. Seldom are the indices constructed from survey-based data sources due to the inherent difficulty in validating …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• NCATE continues accreditation of teacher preparation at Georgia Southern
• Geisler receives $135,000 grant for study of evolution of dolphins and porpoises