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Protecting Religious Liberty Through The Establishment Clause: The Case Of The United Effort Plan Trust Litigation, Eric G. Andersen

Utah Law Review

The Fundamentalist Church ofJesus Christ ofLatter Day Saints is best known for its open practice ofpolygamy, long abandoned by the church from which it broke away generations ago. The Fundamentalist Church's particular version of the practice includes· requiring girls in their lower and middle teenaged years to enter into marriages, often with much older men. Less notorious than, and distinct from, these marriage practices is its communitarian economic program involving the centralized ownership and ~anagement ofmany real estate and other assets of the church and its members. Their houses, farms, and businesses, located in a remote community straddling the Utah-Arizona …

Kelo, Parents And The Spatialization Of Color (Blindness) In The Berman-Brown Metropolitan Heterotopia, Tom I. Romero, Ii

Utah Law Review

This article opened by pointing out what on its face seemed to be inconsistencies between Justice Clarence Thomas's opinions in Kelo and Parents. As the rest of the article has attempted to demo.nstrate, however, the color consciousness and color blindness of Justice Thomas in each case was the predictable consequence of the spatial con~truction of metropolitan space in the period between Berman-Brown and Kelo-Parents. This era opened diffidently. Whereas Brown and subsequent school litigation. represented the potential for a fundamental challenge to White supremacy, Berman's color-blind deference to urban and metropolitan fractionalization made it increasingly difficult to overcome the multicolor …

What Google Knows: Privacy And Internet Search Engines, Omer Tene

Utah Law Review

The Gonzales v. Google case and the AOL privacy debacle were not isolated or exceptional occurrences. They are but the tip of the jceberg of an emerging privacy problem on a grand scale, featuring Internet search engines as informational gat<*eepers harboring previously unimaginable riches of personally identifiable information. Billions of search queries stream across Google's servers each month, "the aggregate thoughtstream of humankind, online. Users may stomach such use of their personally identifiable information as part of their transaction with a company that offers an amazing service for no apparent cost. Yet they are less inclined to appreciate the sharing of their data with third parties, be they commercial, governmental, or, of course, criminal.

An Investigation Into The Population Genetics And Ecology Of Gracilariopsis Longissima (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) Around The South West Peninsula Of Britain, Tean Jane Mitchell

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

For the conservation and management of natural resources, a detailed knowledge of the ecology and genetics of individual species is essential. Red seaweeds are an important component of marine ecosystems but few species have been the focus of research. Gracilariopsis longissima is a poorly studied member of a family of agarophytes of commercial importance, although it is thought to occur commonly around the coast of Britain. This report provides new information about the ecology and population genetics of the species with the identification of 11 populations around the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, seven of which were in the Fal …

Linking Biotic Activity To Ecosystem Functioning, Jeanette Sanders

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

The central theme of this thesis was the search for ecologically meaningful ways to quantify the relationships between the biota and ecosystem processes. This thesis investigated whether a "functional group" approach, that characterised the fauna according to similarities in their activities, could be successfully employed to quantifiably link species' performance to important ecosystem processes. Initially the abilities of traditional "trophic" and "bioturbatory" categories to characterise the estuarine macrobenthic fauna and discriminate between estuarine sites were examined. This thesis determined that the perceived inter-site similarity within an estuary varied according to the function being investigated and that the apparent associations between …

Characterisation Of Latent Infections In Aquatic Cyanobacteria And Microalgae, Jayme Elizabeth Lohr

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Aquatic photosynthetic microorganisms were surveyed (algae and cyanobacteria) for novel lysogenic/latent viruses and new methodology was established, using a variety of techniques such as AFC, electron microscopy, and molecular tools. The first study assessed Symbiodinium sp. cultures as a model system to investigate the induction of potential latent vi ruses. The study of Symbiodinium sp. showed that ca. 37% of the strains tested had a group of filamentous VLPs that is inducible by UV-C treatment. Extrapolation of this virus-host interaction and its effects on zooxanthellae viability provides a novel link to the impact of latent infection on symbiotic dinoflagellates of …

Software Curating : The Politics Of Curating In/As (An) Open System(S), Joasia Krysa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

The thesis examines how Information technologies have changed the practice of curating. It proposes an Interdisciplinary approach that directly links curating (often understood as an activity of artistic programming), computing (the activity of computer programming) and a relatively recent Interest In software art (in which programming Is understood as artistic practice). Although there Is much contemporary critical work and practice that Is described as art-oriented programming or software art, the thesis aims to explore a perceived gap In discussions around software curating. Curators working with online technologies are presented with the challenge of how to respond to new artistic forms …

Factors Affecting The Production Of Fermented Moist Feed For Chickens And Effects On The Gastrointestinal Environment, Aziwo Tatanja Niba

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Fermented feed technology is a biosafe method of feed preparation and fermentation improves feed quality. Factors affecting lactic acid production in fen-nented moist feed for chickens and the influence of fermented feed on the gastrointestinal environment of chickens were investigated. Water quality was observed to affect lactic acid production in fermentation of cereals (maize, sorghum, wheat and barley). The presence of calcium carbonate in the fermentation mixture significantly (P<0.01) reduced lactic acid production from maize, sorghum and wheat. Grain particle size did not significantly affect feed fermentation as biosafe concentrations of lactic acid (>150mmol/L) were obtained from fermentation of coarse grain particle sizes. Differences in polyphenols content of red and white sorghum varieties did not have a significant effect on 24-hour lactic acid production …

Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning: Experimental Tests Using Rockpools As A Model System, John N Griffin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

How anthropogenic changes to species composition and diversity are likely to affect the properties of the ecosystems of which they are an integral part, and by extension the goods and services humans derive from them, is a key question in ecology. Despite over a decade of vigorous empirical research and theoretical developments, there remain many unknowns. Using intertidal rockpools and laboratory marine mesocosrns, I used a variety of approaches to address several of these relatively poorly studied issues. In particular, the work presented here focused on the relative roles of species composition and richness, as well as the extent to …

Phenotypic Plasticity In Marine Intertidal Gastropods, Ahmed Mohammed Al-Mazrouai

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Phenotypic plasticity, the differential phenotypic expression of the same genotype in response to different environmental conditions, is a paradigm central of the study of evolution and ecology and is at the core of the "nature versus nurture" debate. Here, the marine gastropod Littorina littorea was used as a model to further our understanding of the potential role of phenotypic plasticity in intertidal systems. In the first study L. littorea was included in an investigation of induced defences across six species of intertidal marine gastropods in the families Littorinidae and Trochidae. Species differed in the magnitude and type of plastic response, …

Proteomics And Ecotoxicoldgy:.Marine Invertebrates And Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Anne Bjornstad

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

The key problem faced by environmental scientists is to predictand recognize the damaging effects of chemical pollutants on natural biota. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the potential for proteomics in ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment (ERA), with the hypothesis that proteomic technologies (i.e. ProteinChip technology in combination with SELDI TOF MS) could be a useftil supplement to existing methods of environmental assessment, by providing a sensitive, non-invasive, rapid multi-endpoint assessment of effects of anthropogenic chemicals on organism in vivo. Three invertebrate species, Mytilus edulis, Hyas araneus and Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis was exposed to natural and anthropogenic chemicals in …

Rapid Elearning : Its Impact On Instructional Design In The Corporate World, Stephen W. Acheson

Graduate Research Papers

Rapid eLearning is a present and growing phenomenon in the world of corporate training that is challenging traditional instructional design ideas. The concept of Rapid eLearning represents a class of easy-to-use eLearning development tools, methods designed to shorten course development timelines, and techniques intended to enhance learner understanding and retention. Companies are adopting Rapid eLearning as a way to reduce costs and shorten the time it takes to disseminate new information and concepts to employees in geographically diverse locations. New software tools and instructional design methods are being developed to address the goals of Rapid eLearning.

To gain a broad …

Insects Inhabiting The Burrows Of The Ozark Pocket Gopher In Arkansas, Peter W. Kovarik, Stephen W. Chordas Iii, H. Robison, P. Skelley, M. Connior, J. Fiene, G. Heidt

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Pocket gopher burrows provide a stable environment for a variety of inquilines; hence this mammal is regarded as a keystone species. Most of the arthropods inhabiting pocket gopher burrows are restricted to this microhabitat. As part of a planned state-wide biotic survey of insects inhabiting this unusual microhabitat, we have focused our initial sampling efforts on the Ozark pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius ozarkensis; Geomyidae). In 2004 and 2005, pitfall traps were established in pocket gopher burrows and in 2007 and 2008, nests and associated chambers were excavated. Retrieved samples contained scarab, histerid, and rove beetles, cave crickets and anthomyiid flies. …

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Turkish Journal of Physics

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Turkish Journal of Physics

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Biogeography Of South-West Asian Bryophytes – With Special Emphasis On The Tropical Element, Harald Kürschner

Turkish Journal of Botany

The recent bryophyte flora of South-West Asia is heterogeneous and consists of 6 floral elements [(Sub)cosmopolitan taxa, northern taxa, xerotherm-Pangaean taxa, circum-Tethyan taxa, tropical taxa, and endemics of various origins] that are derived from the different Pangaean ancestral floral stocks. Analysis of the flora and vegetation indicates that there is a very strong tropical - and especially palaeotropical and Afromontane - influence in the bryophyte flora of the area. Altogether, more than 95 taxa, or nearly 10% of South-West Asia´s total known bryoflora, are of xero-tropical origin. They concentrate mainly in the escarpment mountains of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra …

Conservation In Developing Countries, Shahina A. Ghazanfar

Turkish Journal of Botany

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) set a number of targets to work towards by 2010 in order to aid conserve the world´s biodiversity. Several countries are now aiming at ex-situ and in-situ programmes for the protection and conservation of plant species through the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation targets (GSPC). Is it possible to achieve these targets in rapidly developing countries where the usage of land for urban expansion and agriculture to support basic human needs holds priority? How can conservation and development be sustainable? I take examples from a rapidly developing country in the Arabian Peninsula to show …

The Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans: Vestiges Of A Neighborhood, Adam N. Hess

LSU Master's Theses

The Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans: Vestiges of a Neighborhood is a photo-documentary of the remnants of one of America’s most unique and culturally distinct neighborhoods. Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated this neighborhood, it lies in ruin, slowly returning to nature. All that remains of the community that once occupied the Lower Ninth are the dilapidated buildings, the crumbling homes, and the small possessions left behind. For the past three years I have explored the Lower Ninth Ward, discovering the remains of a community rich in tradition, family, and religion. Through the use of black and white photographs and …

Insects: A Sixth Grade Curriculum Unit, Katherine Schultz

Graduate Research Papers

This unit is designed to teach sixth grade students the importance of insects to our world. Insects appear everywhere on Earth in an amazing number and with great diversity. There are over a million species (York, 2002) identified and more are being discovered. Insects have adapted and multiplied to the point where they represent over eighty percent of the animal species that are found on Earth (Walters& Johnson, 1999)

Curriculum Reform: A Comparison Of A Teacher Created Rock Unit And The Sepup Rock And Mineral Unit, Derek Thomas Wibe

Graduate Research Papers

When the Cedar Rapids Community School District selected a new science curriculum for the fall of 2007, questions arose about how this new curriculum compared with the old curriculum. The new curriculum is similar to the old curriculum when compared by content standards and benchmarks but when the curricula as a whole are compared there are some differences. The seventh grade content curriculum did not experience many significant changes since the new curriculum still covers a large amount of Earth science. Specifically both curricula covered rocks so I decided to focus my research study on comparing the two curricula and …

A World Without Borders, Ashlea Evans

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

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Cultivating Baby Boomers And Generation Xers: An Examination Of The Pertinent Literature Of The Motivational Techniques For Nonprofit Organizational Fundraisers To Consider When Cultivating Donors Categorized As Baby Boomers And Generation Xers, Jane A. Flanagan

Graduate Research Papers

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The Comparison Of The National Park Service Between Korea And The Us, Beom Park

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this research was to demonstrate to the comparison of the National Park Service between Korea and the US. I hope that this research is helpful to those who wish to understand the difference between the two countries and their land and natural resources. Also, I would like to share how to preserve natural and cultural resources between the two countries.

The research analyzed the properties, mission, strategy & goal, history, the number of visitors in National Park, budget, employees, the largest/smallest National Park, wildlife (biology), organization, special policy for nature restoration, and restoration project about National Park …

Agritourism: Success Factors Of Leisure Farm Business In Taiwan, Yin-Ya Huang

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to examine success factors of agritourism diversification in Taiwan and provide agritourism development strategies to be used to improve success of the agritourism industry in the future. The objectives of this study were to identify success factors, challenges, and motivations of agritourism businesses in Taiwan.

Due to the agricultural depression, agritourism diversification has become a popular option for farmers to increase income and keep rural landscapes. Taiwanese agritourism plays a significant role in Taiwanese agricultural industry. Since Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2002, the Taiwanese agriculture has faced more challenges. Also, …

A Literature Review Examining The § 501 (H) Election And § Irc 501 (C)(3) Organizations, Kimberly Anne Hefernan Moss

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of the study was to conduct a literature review to determine what IRC § 501(c)(3) organizations know about the§ 501 (h) election, and why they do or do not take it. The literature review is divided into three sections: 1) IRC 501 (c) Organizations and Legislation; 2) IRC § 501 (c) lobbying; and 3) IRC § 501(c)(3) Lobbying Rules/Regulations. There has been scant research conducted surrounding lobbying by nonprofit organizations. The first national study that addressed IRC § 501 (c)(3) organizations' lobbying was the Strengthening Nonprofit Advocacy Project (SNAP). Despite the fact that very few organizations have taken …

Importance Of Teaching Reading Comprehension With Nonfiction Texts, Valeria Jo Frey

Graduate Research Papers

Can comprehension strategies be taught as a learning skill for expository text reading in content area? What strategies in combination best benefit the reading comprehension of students who struggle with reading? How can reading comprehension strategies be taught so that skills are maintained and transferred across settings? In her book Exploring the Literature of Fact, Barbara Moss (2003) suggests that the items needed to be successful in reading nonfiction include accessing quality literature, learning reading strategies, understanding the use of text structure, and responding to the literature.

The following literature review will define reading comprehension using nonfiction material. The research …

The History Of The Iowa Teen Award, Joni K. Hoing

Graduate Research Papers

The major purpose of this research paper was to document in a written form the history of the Iowa Teen Award (ITA). This purpose was accomplished through interviews and examination of IEMA Archival materials located in the University of Northern Iowa Rod Library Archives Collection. The results of this study showed a dedicated group of school librarians who organized a state-wide plan for a book award chosen by students in grades six through nine. Over a five-year period, plans were made for the award to be similar to the Iowa Children's Choice Award. The study presented the growth and development …

Evaluating Ecological Equivalence In Created Marshes, Christopher Bromley Llewellyn

LSU Master's Theses

The overall goal of coastal wetland restoration is to achieve ecological equivalence through the reproduction of structural and functional characteristics. This study sought to examine ecological equivalence using a chronosequence of temporal replicates of created marshes using traditional structural measures of equivalence and tested the use of stable isotopes as a measure of functional equivalence. The objectives of this study were to: (1) compare measures of structural equivalence at created and reference marshes; (2) use stable isotope analysis of blue crab muscle and hepatopancreas tissues to compare functional equivalence at created and reference marshes; and (3) determine if there is …

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Turkish Journal of Biology

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