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Underground Florida: A Fieldtrip Guidebook Of The West Central Florida Karst, Kali J. Pace-Graczyk, Aurel Perşoiu, Jason Samuel Polk

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

Describes select karst formations in the central Florida region. Open Access World Karst Aquifer Map See Extended description for more information.

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Using Technology To Assist In The Teaching Of Reading Instruction, Hallie M. Wyatt

Graduate Research Papers

A professional literature review was conducted on the use of technology in assisting teaching of reading instruction. Technology reviewed was categorized according to the essential elements of reading as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act (i.e., phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). Vygotskian and Piagetian theories were used to evaluate the technology reviewed. The review ends with a series of recommendations for teachers who may consider integrating technology into their curriculum.

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A Textual And Historical Case Against A Global Constitution, Andrew Kent

Faculty Scholarship

he emerging conventional wisdom in the legal academy is that individual rights under the U.S. Constitution should be extended to noncitizens outside the United States. This claim - called globalism in my article - has been advanced with increasing vigor in recent years, most notably in response to legal positions taken by the Bush administration during the war on terror. Against a Global Constitution challenges the textual and historical grounds advanced to support the globalist conventional wisdom and demonstrates that they have remarkably little support. At the same time, the article adduces textual and historical evidence that noncitizens were among …

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Influence Of Lithophysal Geometry On Uniaxial Compression Of Tuff-Like Rock, Manisha Chawla

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain includes tuff containing lithophysae or natural voids. This study investigated the effect of voids (porosity, distribution, shape and size) on the mechanical properties of cubes of analog lithophysal tuff (HydroStoneTB). A systematic study was made using three different randomly generated patterns of voids varying in shape, size, and geometrical distribution over a void porosity range of 0 to 30%. Each specified void pattern was cast into 6 in. length cubes, in triplicate, and was tested under uniaxial compression to find uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) and Young's Modulus (E); The results indicate that …

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Wilderness Handrails: The Evolution Of Search And Rescue In Yosemite National Park, Christopher Edward Johnson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The evolution of search and rescue in Yosemite after World War II highlighted the ways in which park users and administrators negotiated the contentious discourses of technology, tourism, and wilderness in the modern national parks movement. The establishment of a technologically sophisticated search and rescue force provided free by the federal government blurred the lines between preservation and use in national park policy by allowing administrators to resist development and support wilderness while still providing a safe environment for recreation. The co-evolution of rock climbing and rescue also illuminated the resulting tensions between individual freedom, social responsibility, and class in …

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A Call To Climb, A Call For Consumption: The Role Of Place In Tim Gautreaux’S The Clearing, Heidi Martin

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

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Transforming Ovid’S Metamorphoses: Classical Literature Contextualized, Paul H. Hughes

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

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Evolutionary Systems Theory, Universities, And Endogenous Regional Economic Development, William M. Bowen

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Universities today are increasingly being viewed in terms of serving the purpose of economic development. This paper postulates that their chief purpose is to advance knowledge and that in doing so they effectuate regional economic growth and development through processes specified in the endogenous economic growth model. To achieve this purpose and to contribute optimally to regional economic growth and development arguably requires coherent educational policies. The central proposition is that to formulate coherent educational policies for endogenous regional economic development requires placement of a theory of the advancement of knowledge at the center of related policy deliberations. An evolutionary …

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The Clep Program: An Evaluation And Assessment At A Small Private University, William Beaver, Stephen T. Paul

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The Educational Testing Service (ETS) created the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) in 1965 and over the years it has become a staple of American higher education. In order to better understand the ramifications of the CLEP program, this article provides a brief history of CLEP and reexamines some of the findings of earlier research. The present study investigates new areas by addressing several research questions. For instance, what are the impacts of a student’s age, academic ability, gender, and previous learning experiences in regard to passing a CLEP exam? How much time do students spend in preparing for CLEP, …

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Do You See What I See - Reflections On How Bias Infiltrates The New York City Family Court - The Case Of The Court Ordered Investigation, Leah A. Hill

Faculty Scholarship

That the Family Court is ill-equipped to address the needs of the hundreds of thousands of cases handled therein is not news. Exploding caseloads, complex problems, and minimal resources are just a few of the ingredients that combine to undermine the Court's ability to fulfill its promise. What has been given less attention until very recently is the extent to which the Family Court's failures disproportionately impact low-income families of color. Any analysis of the Court's impact or efficacy must consider the context I have described in my observations of the Court- the images of black and brown litigants hurrying …

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Ultrascreen - Sight And Sound Barrier Partition Walls, Purdue Ect Team

ECT Fact Sheets Archive

Panels have been widely used for many years to act as sight and sound barriers in most of the highways and in residential areas where visual privacy is needed. The United States Gypsum Company, early in the 1980's started developing technologies to improve and reduced costs using lightweight cement panels. Recently, USG along with AFM Corporation introduced ULTRASCREEN: Sight and Sound Barrier. This lightweight panels require no special equipment for installation, maintenance, or replacement making them beneficial. This latest development also creates a system with good acoustical performance and excellent strength to weight ratio.

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Distanciation And The Recontextualization Of Space: Finding One’S Way In A Small Western Community, Lisa Gabbert

English Faculty Publications

In the 1990s, the city of McCall, Idaho, and the surrounding region implemented the Rural Addressing System. The system assigned a name to every street and a number to every house and erected visible signage for both. Although a seemingly minor bureaucratic operation, the Rural Addressing System is a concrete example of Anthony Giddens's concept of space distanciation, and as such, it is a significant component of modernity and globalization. By investigating the impact of the Rural Addressing System on this region—particularly on the ways in which people give directions and think about space there—this article sheds light on how …

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Latitudinal And Longitudinal Adaptation Of Switchgrass Populations, Michael D. Casler, Kenneth P. Vogel, C. M. Taliaferro, N. J. Ehlke, J. D. Berdahl, E. C. Brummer, R. L. Kallenbach, C. P. West, R. B. Mitchell

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a warmseason native grass, used for livestock feed, bioenergy, soil and wildlife conservation, and prairie restoration in a large portion of the USA. The objective of this research was to quantify the relative importance of latitude and longitude for adaptation and agronomic performance of a diverse group of switchgrass populations. Six populations, chosen to represent remnant prairie populations on two north–south transects, were evaluated for agronomic traits at 12 locations ranging from 36 to 47°N latitude and 88 to 101°W longitude. Although the population × location interactions accounted for only 10 to 31% of …

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Genetic Diversity, Plant Adaptation Regions, And Gene Pools For Switchgrass, Michael D. Casler, Chad A. Stendal, Ludmila Kapich, Kenneth P. Vogel

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a perennial grass native to the North American tallgrass prairie and broadly adapted to the central and eastern USA. Transfer of germplasm throughout this region creates the potential of contaminating local gene pools with genes that are not native to a locale. The objective of this study was to identify structural patterns and spatial variation for molecular markers of switchgrass populations from the northern and central USA. Forty six prairie-remnant populations and 11 cultivars were analyzed for random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. Although there was significant population differentiation, little of this variation was …

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A Comparison Of Housing Unit Estimates To The American Community Survey Master Address File Extract, Andrew J. Reese

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Mississippi Mahjar : The History Of Lebanese Immigration To The Mississippi Delta And The Role Of The Group Within A Traditionally Black-And-White Social System / By James George Thomas, Jr, James George Thomas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Train Wrecks And Other Endeavors, Adam Houle

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Stratigraphy And Structural Geometry At The Leading Edge Of The Montana Thrust Belt, East Of Sun River Canyon, Lewis And Clark And Teton Counties, Montana , Michael David Bradway

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Detailed geologic mapping east of Sun River Canyon in northwest Montana reveals the presence of a triangle zone: a folded, imbricate duplex-structure that forms a wedge at the leading edge of mountain thrust-belts. Triangle zone geometry is well documented in a series of structures that stretch approximately 900 kilometers, from northeast British Columbia into southwest Alberta, Canada. Triangle zones provide the structural traps that contain hydrocarbon (oil and gas) reservoirs in southwest Alberta, but little research has been conducted south of the Canadian-United States border along structural trend into Montana. Relating the structural geometries and stratigraphy of the Sun River …

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A Comprehensive Case Report Of University Of Montana Forensic Collection Case #141, Yasuko Takebe

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

UMFC case #141 was acqired in spring 2006, as a commercially prepared anatomical specimen, reportedly from the Peoples Republic of China. It is a nealy complete skeleton that exhibits severe trauma of hte lower limbs. I reviewed the literature on methods of estimating age from the skeleton, because age is difficult to estimate for this case nad presents an interesting challenge. I then proceeded to estimate sex, ancestry, age, stature, and weight. I conclude that UMFC #141 is a White male, 39 to 45 years old, 5'0" to 5'4" in height, 110 to 161 pounds in weight. Healed fractures of …

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Literacy, Technologies, And The 21st Century: Scenarios On Technology, Literacy, And The Making Of Meaning, Kathleen Blake Yancey

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Underground Aesthetics: Rethinking Urban Computing, Arianna Bassoli, Johanna Brewer, Paul Dourish, Karen Martin, Scott Mainwaring

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

An ethnographic study and a design proposal for a situated music-exchange application suggest how explicitly foregrounding the experiential qualities of urban life can help rethink urban computing design.

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Property Outlaws, Eduardo Moises Peñalver, Sonia K. Katyal

Faculty Scholarship

Most people do not hold those who intentionally flout property laws in particularly high regard. The overridingly negative view of the property lawbreaker as a "wrongdoer" comports with the status of property rights within our characteristically individualist, capitalist, political culture. This reflexively dim view of property lawbreakers is also shared, to a large degree, by property theorists, many of whom regard property rights as a relatively fixed constellation of entitlements that collectively produce stability and efficiency through an orderly system of ownership. In this Article, Professors Peihalver and Katyal seek partially to rehabilitate the reviled character of the intentional property …

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Paleolithic Flints: Is An Aesthetics Of Stone Tools Possible?1, Riva Berleant

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper asks whether an aesthetics of Paleolithic tools is possible, and if so, what it might be. The application of our own aesthetic sensibilities to artifacts of prehistory is not difficult. We easily recognize and appreciate their visual and tactile qualities. The more complicated questions that the paper explores are whether we can uncover the aesthetic sensibilities of their makers and, if we cannot, whether aesthetic examination of prehistoric tools from our own perspectives is adequate or useful. The paper is based on study of Paleolithic flints from French archaeological sites dating from about 500,000 years ago to about …

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Nunavut: The Road To Indigenous Sovereignty, Paul Okalik

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Remarks by The Honorable Paul Okalik, Premier of Nunavut entitled "Nunavut: The Road to Indigenous Sovereignty".

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Are Public Facilities Different From Private Ones: Adopting A New Standard Of Review For The Dormant Commerce Clause, Bradford C. Mank

SMU Law Review

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Getting Just Deserts? Policing, Governance And Rurality In Western Australia, Richard Yarwood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This paper examines the perceived shift from police to policing in developed world countries. It focuses on the development of multi-agency policing in rural Western Australia and, using ideas from governance theory, questions whether these partnerships are leading to more inclusive policing and new forms of rural governance. Evidence is taken from the development of a Rural Crime Prevention Strategy and interviews with various stakeholders in rural Australia. It is concluded that multi-agency work does offer a more inclusive way forward but that it is still mainly driven by government, rather than radical changes in rural society and power.

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Bishopness, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The publication of "Edgar Allen Poe & the Juke-Box" modifies Elizabeth Bishop’s established oeuvre in ways that demonstrate the anxiety throughout her work regarding the concealment of sexual difference—a concealment she often takes part in. As the poems reveal, by putting emphasis on particular kinds of clothing, Bishop emphasizes the necessary—but flawed—methods for that concealment. Black stockings, gloves, sailors hats, and other garments of traditional gender representation work as useful metaphors, symbolically engaging the construction of the literary image accepted in the academy which has produced the unified notion of “Bishopness” some critics still wish to uphold. When themes of …

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Hunters In The Garden: Yup’Ik Subsistence And The Agricultural Myths Of Eden, Benjamin Kuntz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Yup’ik writers and Yup’ik subsistence offer valuable challenges, parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island provides context for Chapter 1, which demonstrates the fluidity of cultural, geographical, and historical margins through discussion of the works of Yup’ik journalist John Active and historian and ethnographer James Clifford. Chapter 2 provides an overview of Yup’ik subsistence centered around the community of Bethel, Alaska, then subjects mainstream nature writing, represented mostly by Wendell Berry, to critiques supplied by Canadian anthropologist …

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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles In Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry And Winter Wheat, Pandora Andre-Beatty

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In this thesis, I discuss the significance of gender in Mildred Walker’s novels The Curlew’s Cry and Winter Wheat. Walker wrote and situates both narratives in Montana, supporting my argument that literature of the American West remains a productive area for examining gender roles. The Curlew’s Cry is set at the closing of the American frontier in the early 20th century, while Winter Wheat is set during the settled agricultural era of the 1940s. I argue that instead of re-enforcing gender stereotypes commonly found in novels set in the American West during and after the white settlement of the plains, …

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Tracking The Trickster Home: The Animal Nature Of Words In The Writing Of Gerald Vizenor And Barry Lopez, Steven Jubitz Hawley

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Underground Florida: A Fieldtrip Guidebook Of The West Central Florida Karst, Kali J. Pace-Graczyk, Aurel Perşoiu, Jason Samuel Polk

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

Using Technology To Assist In The Teaching Of Reading Instruction, Hallie M. Wyatt

Graduate Research Papers

A Textual And Historical Case Against A Global Constitution, Andrew Kent

Faculty Scholarship

Influence Of Lithophysal Geometry On Uniaxial Compression Of Tuff-Like Rock, Manisha Chawla

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Wilderness Handrails: The Evolution Of Search And Rescue In Yosemite National Park, Christopher Edward Johnson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

A Call To Climb, A Call For Consumption: The Role Of Place In Tim Gautreaux’S The Clearing, Heidi Martin

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

Transforming Ovid’S Metamorphoses: Classical Literature Contextualized, Paul H. Hughes

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

Evolutionary Systems Theory, Universities, And Endogenous Regional Economic Development, William M. Bowen

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The Clep Program: An Evaluation And Assessment At A Small Private University, William Beaver, Stephen T. Paul

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Do You See What I See - Reflections On How Bias Infiltrates The New York City Family Court - The Case Of The Court Ordered Investigation, Leah A. Hill

Faculty Scholarship

Ultrascreen - Sight And Sound Barrier Partition Walls, Purdue Ect Team

ECT Fact Sheets Archive

Distanciation And The Recontextualization Of Space: Finding One’S Way In A Small Western Community, Lisa Gabbert

English Faculty Publications

Latitudinal And Longitudinal Adaptation Of Switchgrass Populations, Michael D. Casler, Kenneth P. Vogel, C. M. Taliaferro, N. J. Ehlke, J. D. Berdahl, E. C. Brummer, R. L. Kallenbach, C. P. West, R. B. Mitchell

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Genetic Diversity, Plant Adaptation Regions, And Gene Pools For Switchgrass, Michael D. Casler, Chad A. Stendal, Ludmila Kapich, Kenneth P. Vogel

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

A Comparison Of Housing Unit Estimates To The American Community Survey Master Address File Extract, Andrew J. Reese

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mississippi Mahjar : The History Of Lebanese Immigration To The Mississippi Delta And The Role Of The Group Within A Traditionally Black-And-White Social System / By James George Thomas, Jr, James George Thomas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Train Wrecks And Other Endeavors, Adam Houle

All NMU Master's Theses

Stratigraphy And Structural Geometry At The Leading Edge Of The Montana Thrust Belt, East Of Sun River Canyon, Lewis And Clark And Teton Counties, Montana , Michael David Bradway

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

A Comprehensive Case Report Of University Of Montana Forensic Collection Case #141, Yasuko Takebe

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Literacy, Technologies, And The 21st Century: Scenarios On Technology, Literacy, And The Making Of Meaning, Kathleen Blake Yancey

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Underground Aesthetics: Rethinking Urban Computing, Arianna Bassoli, Johanna Brewer, Paul Dourish, Karen Martin, Scott Mainwaring

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Property Outlaws, Eduardo Moises Peñalver, Sonia K. Katyal

Faculty Scholarship

Paleolithic Flints: Is An Aesthetics Of Stone Tools Possible?1, Riva Berleant

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Nunavut: The Road To Indigenous Sovereignty, Paul Okalik

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Are Public Facilities Different From Private Ones: Adopting A New Standard Of Review For The Dormant Commerce Clause, Bradford C. Mank

SMU Law Review

Getting Just Deserts? Policing, Governance And Rurality In Western Australia, Richard Yarwood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Bishopness, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Hunters In The Garden: Yup’Ik Subsistence And The Agricultural Myths Of Eden, Benjamin Kuntz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles In Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry And Winter Wheat, Pandora Andre-Beatty

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Tracking The Trickster Home: The Animal Nature Of Words In The Writing Of Gerald Vizenor And Barry Lopez, Steven Jubitz Hawley

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers