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Over The Range, Richard V. Francaviglia Jan 2008

Over The Range, Richard V. Francaviglia

All USU Press Publications

Francaviglia looks anew at the geographical-historical context of the driving of the golden spike in May 1869. He gazes outward from the site of the transcontinental railroad's completion—the summit of a remote mountain range that extends south into the Great Salt Lake. The transportation corridor that for the first time linked America's coasts gave this distinctive region significance, but it anchored two centuries of human activity linked to the area's landscape. Francaviglia brings to that larger story a geographer's perspective on place and society, a railroad enthusiast's knowledge of trains, a cartographic historian's understanding of the knowledge and experience embedded …


A Route For The Overland Stage, Jesse G. Petersen Jan 2008

A Route For The Overland Stage, Jesse G. Petersen

All USU Press Publications

The 1859 exploration of the Great Basin by army topographical engineer James Simpson opened up one of the West's most important transportation and communication corridors, a vital link between the Pacific Coast and the rest of the nation. It became the route of the Pony Express and the Overland Mail and Stage, the line of the Pacific telegraph, a major wagon road for freighters and emigrants, and, later, the first transcontinental auto road, the Lincoln Highway, now Highway 50. No one has accurately tracked or mapped Simpson's original route, until now. Jesse Petersen shows in words, maps, and photos exactly …


Feasibility Study For The Manchester Convention Center, Manchester, New Hampshire, Hvs Convention, Sports And Entertainment Jan 2008

Feasibility Study For The Manchester Convention Center, Manchester, New Hampshire, Hvs Convention, Sports And Entertainment

Manchester Research Group

Study analyzing market potential and anticipated demand for a proposed convention center development in Manchester, N.H.


Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate And Professional Programs Bulletin [2008], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2008

Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate And Professional Programs Bulletin [2008], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Graduate and professional programs bulletin for Virginia Commonwealth University for the academic year 2008-2009. It includes information on academic regulations, degree requirements, course offerings, faculty, academic calendar, and tuition and expenses for graduate programs.


Highlights Of Qrt #S 39-71 (1974-1989; Palmer & Freiday, Eds.), T. Vail Palmer Jr. Jan 2008

Highlights Of Qrt #S 39-71 (1974-1989; Palmer & Freiday, Eds.), T. Vail Palmer Jr.

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.


Taylor University Fort Wayne Catalog, Taylor University Fort Wayne Jan 2008

Taylor University Fort Wayne Catalog, Taylor University Fort Wayne

Academic Catalogs (TUFW & Predecessors)

The 2008-2009 academic catalog of Taylor University Fort Wayne.


Taylor University Fort Wayne Online Course Catalog 2008, Taylor University Fort Wayne Jan 2008

Taylor University Fort Wayne Online Course Catalog 2008, Taylor University Fort Wayne

Institute of Correspondence Studies

The 2008 catalog of Taylor University Online at Taylor University Fort Wayne.


Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 25, Winter-Spring 2008 Jan 2008

Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 25, Winter-Spring 2008

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.


Le Combat Pour La Survie De La Nation Bretonne, René Galand Jan 2008

Le Combat Pour La Survie De La Nation Bretonne, René Galand

French Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Dummer, N.H. For The Year Ending December 31, 2007 Including Dummer School Report., Dummer Town Representatives Jan 2008

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Dummer, N.H. For The Year Ending December 31, 2007 Including Dummer School Report., Dummer Town Representatives

Dummer, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.


Extracting, Representing And Mining Semantic Metadata From Text: Facilitating Knowledge Discovery In Biomedicine, Cartic Ramakrishnan Jan 2008

Extracting, Representing And Mining Semantic Metadata From Text: Facilitating Knowledge Discovery In Biomedicine, Cartic Ramakrishnan

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

The information access paradigm offered by most contemporary text information systems is a search-and-sift paradigm where users have to manually glean and aggregate relevant information from the large number of documents that are typically returned in response to keyword queries. Expecting the users to glean and aggregate information has lead to several inadequacies in these information systems. Owing to the size of many text databases, search-and-sift is a very tedious often requiring repeated keyword searches refining or generalizing queries terms. A more serious limitation arises from the lack of automated mechanisms to aggregate content across different documents to discover new …


University Place, Aleta Burchyski, Judy Holmes, Amy Speach, David Marc Jan 2008

University Place, Aleta Burchyski, Judy Holmes, Amy Speach, David Marc

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.


Porchscapes: Between Neighborhood Watershed And Home, Community Design Center Jan 2008

Porchscapes: Between Neighborhood Watershed And Home, Community Design Center

Community Design Center Project Reports

Located on the Ozark Plateau, this 43-unit housing development is a LEED-ND (Neighborhood Development) pilot project to be built for $60/sf plus $2.3 million in infrastructure costs. The studio objective is to design a demonstration project that combines affordability with best environmental practices as designated by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Porchscapes is a pioneering Low Impact Development (LID) project funded under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Section 319 Program for Nonpoint Source Pollution. LID manages stormwater runoff through ecological engineering technologies. A contiguous network of rainwater gardens, bioswales, infiltration trenches, sediment filter strips, green streets, and wet meadows …


The City Of Ugarit At Tell Ras Shamra [Review] / Marguerite Yon, Robert D. Bates Jan 2008

The City Of Ugarit At Tell Ras Shamra [Review] / Marguerite Yon, Robert D. Bates

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.


“Common-Sense” Meets The Book Of Mormon: Source, Substance, And Prophetic Disruption, Terryl L. Givens Jan 2008

“Common-Sense” Meets The Book Of Mormon: Source, Substance, And Prophetic Disruption, Terryl L. Givens

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.


Book Notes, Farms Review Jan 2008

Book Notes, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.


Of Science, Scripture, And Surprise, Duane Boyce Jan 2008

Of Science, Scripture, And Surprise, Duane Boyce

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Trent D. Stephens and D. Jeffrey Meldrum. Evolution and Mormonism: A Quest for Understanding.


Danish Immigration To Racine County, Wisconsin: A Case Study Of The Pull Effect In Nineteenth-Century Migration, Pia Viscor Jan 2008

Danish Immigration To Racine County, Wisconsin: A Case Study Of The Pull Effect In Nineteenth-Century Migration, Pia Viscor

The Bridge

The year 1971 marked a turning point in Danish migration history with the appearance of Kristian Hvidt's monumental study of emigration registers maintained by the Copenhagen police. 1 Four years later, the book appeared in an abridged English edition as Flight to America; The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants (New York: Academic Press, 1975).


Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin Courses [2008], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2008

Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin Courses [2008], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of undergraduate courses for 2008-2009.


About The Contributors, Farms Review Jan 2008

About The Contributors, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.


Where Spirit And Bulldozer Roam: Environment And Anxiety In Highland Borneo, Matthew H. Amster Jan 2008

Where Spirit And Bulldozer Roam: Environment And Anxiety In Highland Borneo, Matthew H. Amster

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This paper explores changing perceptions of the natural environment among the Kelabit, an indigenous people of the Borneo interior. It considers both traditional and post-Christian conversion understandings about forest spaces. The former animistic ritual practices of the Kelabit centered on a spiritual dialogue with the natural world and this dialogue was often marked by active efforts to avoid or mitigate danger through ritual practice. One key example presented here is the former ceremony of 'calling the eagle' (nawar keniu), a ritual employed in times of crisis that exemplifies the dialogical and entwined relationship Kelabit had to the natural world. Such …


Expansion Of Golf Courses In The United States, Darrell Napton, Chris Laingen Jan 2008

Expansion Of Golf Courses In The United States, Darrell Napton, Chris Laingen

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Twenty-five million Americans play golf on the nation's 16,000 courses each year. These golf courses constitute a significant national landscape feature. Since 18789, when the game arrived in the United States, golf has filtered down the urban, economic, and social hierarchies to become accepted by and accessible to most Americans. During the ensuing thirteen decades the number, location, and layout of the nation's golf courses have responded to many of the same driving forces that impacted the nation, including decentralization, growth of the middle class, war, economic depression, suburbanization, and the increasing role of the federal government. Four epochs of …


Exploring The Boundaries Of Historic Landscape Preservation, Cari Goetcheus, Eric Macdonald Jan 2008

Exploring The Boundaries Of Historic Landscape Preservation, Cari Goetcheus, Eric Macdonald

Environmental Studies

During the past thirty years, the sensitive management of historic landscapes has emerged as a prominent concern among those who appreciate how preserving a rich and vital past is integral to successful community and environmental stewardship. Accompanied by a critical introduction and concluding essay, the papers in this volume convey the diversity of contemporary historic landscape preservation projects located in North America, England, Germany, India, and Australia. Exploring the Boundaries of Historic Landscape Preservation offers an excellent summation of the current state of discussion and practice in this exciting field and casts light on some of the active frontiers of …


Teachers' Perceptions Of Field Trips, Austin Steward Jan 2008

Teachers' Perceptions Of Field Trips, Austin Steward

Urbana University Master’s Theses

No abstract provided.


Assessing Urban Environmental Quality At Multiple Spatial And Temporal Scales Using Remote Sensing, Gis, And Geospatial Algorithms, Bingqing Liang Jan 2008

Assessing Urban Environmental Quality At Multiple Spatial And Temporal Scales Using Remote Sensing, Gis, And Geospatial Algorithms, Bingqing Liang

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Timely and regular information on urban environmental quality (UEQ) is essential for urban planning. UEQ studies using the technologies of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) have not been extensive. There are a few attempts to focus on the properties of spatial context and scale-dependency in UEQ. This research provided a multiple spatial and temporal scale analysis of UEQ in Indianapolis, U.S.A, based on the synthetic indicators of physical components extracted from remotely sensed data and socioeconomic components derived from census data. The geospatial algorithms applied in this study included fractals, texture, spatial autocorrelation indexes, and spatial metrics of …


A Literature Review On The Relationship Between School Funding And Childhood Obesity, Casey Hardwick Jan 2008

A Literature Review On The Relationship Between School Funding And Childhood Obesity, Casey Hardwick

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone literature review will aim to investigate the correlation between childhood obesity and school finances by looking at incentives, budget cuts and other relative information that may link the two together. Variables including environment, advertising, regulation, and funding are all addressed and analyzed in this literature synthesis.


Macalester Today Winter 2007-2008, Macalester College Jan 2008

Macalester Today Winter 2007-2008, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Jan 2008

Full Issue

The Bridge

No abstract provided.


University Of Southern Maine Graduate Catalog 2008-2009, University Of Southern Maine Jan 2008

University Of Southern Maine Graduate Catalog 2008-2009, University Of Southern Maine

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Determinants Of Life Expectancies In Mountain States Counties, 1990 And 2000, L. Dwight Israelsen, Ryan D. Israelsen, Karl E. Israelsen Jan 2008

Determinants Of Life Expectancies In Mountain States Counties, 1990 And 2000, L. Dwight Israelsen, Ryan D. Israelsen, Karl E. Israelsen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Recent studies indicate that the economic value of a single year of life is about $70,000, and increases in life expectancy in the U.S. since 1950 are worth $12,000 or Inore per person per year. Hence, understanding the determinants of life expectancy have looked at relatively small cohorts of people over time, or have looked at mortality or life expectancy have looked at mortality or life expectancy at the national or state level. Recently, the authors con1pleted a study of the determinants of life expectancies for n1ales and females in Mountain States counties for 1990. The current study updates the …