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Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog 2008 - 2009

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog

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The Naep Long-Term Trend Assessment: A Review Of Its Transformation, Use, And Findings, Lawrence C. Stedman

Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Faculty Scholarship

During the past 25 years, the country witnessed a dramatic transformation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Actions by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Congress, and the National Assessment Governing Board fundamentally changed NAEP's role in federal educational policy and the nation's schools. Developed in the 1960s through a privately funded initiative, NAEP began as a voluntary program run by a state consortium with financial support from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. It later became a congressionally legislated program administered by one of the country's premier testing organizations and overseen by a federally mandated public board. …

Not Your Father’S Border: An Examination Of The Border In Northern Ireland And Its Relevance To The Global Change In The Importance Of World Borders, Aaron Patterson

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Humanity has long maintained barriers separating specific entities from others. Ranging from cultural, religious, financial, and racial differences among a few others, the reasoning behind borders has remained a purely human endeavor. But our current golden age of technology has somewhat shrunk, or at least reassessed the necessity for borders. The boundaries of today, while many remain in the same locations as in the past, are vastly different from the borders created by previous generations. Globalization, a relatively new term, has made communication simple and fast. The noticeable result has been, of course, better communication between locations, and thus easing …

Preface, Janet M. Ruth, Timothy Brush, David J. Krueper

Studies in Avian Biology

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Voices From The Past And Echoes Of The Future: Management Of Forest And Woodland Resources By Local Religious Institutions Within The Mufurudzi Resettlement Scheme In Zimbabwe, Geoffrey Mukwada

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

The existing body of literature on community-based natural resource management suggests that local institutions are a mainstay, particularly for the management of plants and animals upon which communities depend for livelihood. However, evidence from the Mufurudzi resettlement scheme in Zimbabwe refutes this assertion. This paper examines the effectiveness of local religious institutions in the management of forest and woodland resources at the micro-level. In this setting, communities were “grafted;” that is, their members were arbitrarily selected for resettlement without consideration for the diversity of their cultural backgrounds or whether they were neighbors to one another prior to resettlement. Based on …

In Hot Water? How Climate Change May (Or May Not) Affect The Groundwater Resources Of Texas, Robert E. Mace, Shirley C. Wade

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

"The 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that Texas is likely to see a warmer climate, a decrease in mean annual runoff, an increase in flow seasonality, and an increase in the number of extreme drought events. All of these are likely to affect the water resources of Texas, including the groundwater resources. In our assessment of the susceptibility of Texas's aquifers to climate change, how quickly an aquifer recharges, the geologic setting, and land and water use will dictate how climate change may affect any given aquifer. Groundwater resources with high recharge rates, such as …

Pages News, Volume 16, No. 1, January 2008, Markus Klenast, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Louise Newman

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Contents: Editorial: Paleoceanography -- PAGES calendar -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- Paleo Reconstruction Challenge -- Bipolar Climate Machinery -- Special Section: Paleoceanography -- Program News -- IGBP Ocean Programs -- IMAGES -- Science Highlights -- Carbon burp and transient global warming during the PETM -- Pleistocene records of marine carbonate chemistry -- An increase in ventilation of the abyssal N. Pacific -- Evidence for rapid ice sheet growth during the last glacial -- Control on the W. African monsoon precipitation: Insights from the past -- East-West seesaw of SST variation in N. Pacific during the last 2 cycles …

Precipitation Records Of The Last Century Reconstructed From Annual Growth-Rate Parameters Of Two Ethiopian Stalagmites, Asfawossen Asrat, Andy Baker

KIP Articles

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When (Post)Coloniality Meets Transnationalism, Hsin-I Cheng

Communication

Cultural differences are produced and maintained in numerous relations as spaces and places are. Spaces such as nation-states are made and organized hierarchically through historical agency within the parameter of unbalanced power interactions. They are imagined, contested, and enforced through processes in which multiple sociopolitical structures are implicated. In the de-territorialized age, the ways in which people "confound or reinforce the established spatial orders either through physical movement or through their own conceptual and political acts of re-imagination" are central for any research on people's dynamic acts of cultivating, identifying, and communicating processes (Gupta and Ferguson 17). This is especially …

The Role Of The Epikarst In Karst And Cave Hydrogeology: A Review, Paul W. Willimas

KIP Articles

The epikarst (also known as the subcutaneous zone) comprises highly weathered carbonate bedrock immediately beneath the surface or beneath the soil (when present) or exposed at the surface. Porosity and permeability are higher near the surface than at depth, consequently after recharge percolating rainwater is detained near the base of the epikarst, the detention ponding producing an epikarstic aquifer. Such an aquifer is found only where the uppermost part of the vadose zone is very weathered compared to the bedrock at depth. Sometimes this contrast in porosity and permeability does not occur either because the epikarst has been scraped off …

National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2006-2007 Annual Report Nckri Biennial Report, 2006-2007, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

KIP Articles

Contents: Executive Summary -- A Time of Changes -- Organizational Chart -- Board of Directors -- Board Meetings -- Building Design -- NCKRI Projects -- Visiting Scholar Program -- Distinguished Lecture Series -- Publications -- Website -- Karst Information Portal -- NCKRI Sponsored Projects -- Volunteers -- Budget Information -- Future Directions.

Cybersecurity In The Payment Card Industry, Richard A. Epstein, Thomas P. Brown

Faculty Articles

The payment card industry has of late received an enormous level of critical academic scrutiny. The two issues that have dominated the literature are antitrust and consumer protection. The former deals with the various ways in which credit card companies structure themselves and their possible exposure to charges of monopolization. The latter deals with various forms of legislation that ask whether, and if so how, state regulation should mandate disclosure on the one hand and limit the substantive terms of consumer contracts on the other. From our classical liberal perspective, we think that these two jumping- off points are odd …

Judging The Voting Rights Act, Adam B. Cox, Thomas J. Miles

Faculty Articles

The Voting Rights Act has radically altered the political status of minority voters and dramatically transformed the partisan structure of American politics. Given the political and racial salience of cases brought under the Act, it is surprising that the growing literature on the effects of a judge's ideology and race on judicial decisionmaking has overlooked these cases. This Article provides the first systematic evidence that judicial ideology and race are closely related to findings of liability in voting rights cases. Democratic appointees are significantly more likely than Republican appointees to vote for liability under Section 2 of the Voting Rights …

A Tale Of Two Poles: A Comparative Look At The Legal Regimes In The Arctic And The Antarctic, Erika Lennon

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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2007-2008 Faculty Senate Annual Report, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

The primary file includes the 2007-2008 Bookstore Committee Annual Report. Additional annual reports are attached.

Comparisons In The Cranial Form Of The Blackfeet Indians: A Reassessment Of Boas' Native American Data, Jenee Caprice Gesler

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Franz Boas proposed almost one hundred yeas ago that cranial plasticity explained the differences in cranial form between European-born immigrants and their American-born children. Plasticity refers to the idea that the body responds to environmental forces during growth and development. If the environment does affect cranial growth and development, than differences should be seen in populations living under different ecological conditions. In this study anthropometric measurements will be used to test for differences in head and face measurements of members of the Blackfeet Nation using multivariate statistics. The tests are designed to detect differences between the three tribes of the …

El Milagro De Almeria, Espana: A Political Ecology Of Landscape Change And Greenhouse Agriculture, Robert Tyrell Wolosin

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate changes in the landscape of Almería in southeastern Spain, particularly in relation to the emergence of the 80,000-acre greenhouse sector. This thesis questions why the province of Almería has the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world and determines what processes led to this industry. The research focuses on local-global scale interactions and environmental history analysis within a political ecology framework. The methods for data collection included literature review of secondary sources and four months living in Almería conducting interviews and field observations. Located in Europe’s driest desert, the greenhouses of Almería …

Evaluating The Design And Management Of Community-Based Ecotourism Projects In Guatemala, Kassandra Lynne Miller

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Community-based ecotourism (CBE) has become the newest buzzword in development circles for its purported ability to provide alternative income generation for families and incentives to protect natural resources. Organizations such as the World Bank, World Wildlife Federation and USAID have supported these small-scale projects across the globe. However, there has been much debate over the efficacy of these projects. They are often developed, managed, and even owned by NGOs, not by local communities. Economic benefits resulting from the project are often directed toward one or two people in prominent positions within the community and not evenly distributed. The increase in …

Conservation Of Pheasants In North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, Iftikhar Uz Zaman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Pheasants belong to the avian order Galliformes and are important environmental indicators. Among 49 species of pheasants in the world, 5 of them are endemic to Pakistan with distribution in the Himalaya and remote northern parts of the country. Due to increase in human population, encroachment, poaching, and habitat disturbance pheasants are threatened and vulnerable. Besides ecological importance of pheasants they have also aesthetic values which mainly contribute to their decline in population in wake of poaching in their native local habitat. Because cheer pheasant was extirpated locally and other pheasants were declared endangered or threatened by the 1UCN, the …

The Construction Of A Plutonic Complex In A Continental Arc Setting: The Skookum Butte Stock, Western Montana, Connie Lynn Brown

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This study addresses the petrogenesis of a plutonic complex in a continental magmatic arc setting by examining the Skookum Butte stock (SBS), a satellite pluton of the Idaho-Bitterroot batholith (IBB). The SBS is part of widespread middle to Cretaceous to Eocene magmatism that occurred in the Cordilleran Interior and is dominated by biotite-muscovite granite/granodiorite and biotite-hornblende granite/granodiorite, to subordinate quartz monzodiorite, and monzogabbro. Both field evidence and geochemical data indicate that SBS magmas were generated from at least two distinct sources: a primitive source of mafic to intermediate composition and a more evolved felsic source. The mafic primitive members of …

Fact Book 2008-09, Western Michigan University

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Faculty Senate Yearbook, 2008-09, Wmu Faculty Senate

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Plagiarism And Legal Scholarship In The Age Of Information Sharing: The Need For Intellectual Honesty, Carol M. Bast, Linda B. Samuels

Catholic University Law Review

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The Colour Of Time: Head Pots And Temporal Convergences, Charles R. Cobb, Eric Drake

Faculty Publications

Colour symbolism permeated the world of indigenous North America. This symbolism was often tied to the cosmos where the earth was viewed as a quadrilateral disk and each of the four cardinal directions was linked with a colour array such as red, white, black, and blue. We suggest that the recurring use of certain colours and colour contrasts comprised a suite of long-term historical practices that were essential for reproducing certain views about the world and about being in the world. Further, the rendering of colour had a plasticity that allowed it to enter a discourse about daily life that …

Coin Of The Realm: U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy, Steven Metz Dr., Ralph Wipfli Mr.

Articles & Editorials

Participants at the seminar developed these key insights: ? Regardless of whether counterinsurgency (COIN) will be the dominant form of military activity in the future or simply one of several, the United States needs an effective national strategy which explains when, why, and how the nation should undertake it. ? The basic assumptions of the current approach need revisited, especially those dealing with the role of the state, the strategic framework for American involvement, and the whole-of-government approach. ? Given the demands placed upon the armed forces by the current campaigns, most of the effort has been on tactics, training, …

Pfo Law Reform, A Crucial First Step Towards Sentencing Sanity In Kentucky, Robert G. Lawson

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The purpose of this article is to engage in some analysis and discussion of the part of this sentencing law that cries out loudest for reform (the state's persistent felony offender law), reform that in short order would begin to deflate the population that has our prisons and jails grossly overcrowded. In this analysis and discussion, there is some brief consideration of the justifications used to support repeat offender laws (Part I), a segment on the history and evolution of Kentucky's law (Part II), an examination of a selection of repeat offender laws from other states (Part III), a report …

Tribal Nation Economics: Rebuilding Commercial Prosperity In Spite Of U.S. Trade Restraints–Recommendations For Economic Revitalization In Indian Country, Angelique Eaglewoman

Faculty Scholarship

Tribal commerce created the current highways that stretch from coast-to-coast in North America today. The roads that are traveled by semi-trucks full of cargo, grocery produce, and all manner of commercial goods are on top of the ancient trade routes Natives have traveled for centuries. Unfortunately, the history and sophistication of Native commercial activities have been largely suppressed and left out of the story of the North American continent as Euro-Americans rewrote the continent’s history to reflect the glorification of colonization. The truth is that there was no need for the 'rugged pioneer' to cut through tall grass to head …

Danger In 12,008 A.D.: The Validity Of The Epa's Proposed Radiation Projection Standards For The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository, Katherine J. Middleton

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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(Post-) K New Orleans And The Hispanic Atlantic: Geographic Method And Meaning, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

An explicitly methodological case study conducted for a multidisciplinary symposium on the Atlantic relationships of pre- and (post-)Katrina Louisiana illustrates some methods that geographers might usefully contribute to an emergent Atlantic Studies. Three general types of method apply to a substantive question related to the hurricane that struck on the morning of 29 August 2005: Is (post-)Katrina New Orleans emerging as a Hispanic place in contrast to its predominant pre-Katrina associations with the Black and French Atlantics? One type of method involves spatial analysis of data, whether social survey data such as census enumerations, environmental data such as flood depth …

A Phase I Survey Of The Blue Licks Battlefield, Adrian Mandzy, Daniel Sivilich, Erik Hale, Joe Marin

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

In March and April 2008, faculty and students from students frorn Morehead State University's History prograrn, along with members of the Battlefield Restoration and Archeological Volunteer Organization (BRAVO) conducted a survey of the Blue Licks Battlefield. The Battle of Blue Licks is best known as the "Last Battle of the American Revolution" and was a rnajor defeat for the colonists. Previous studies of the battlefield suggested that the area had been adversely impacted by modern development and that little or no resources connected with the events of 1782 remain.

The resulting metal detecting survey identified remains frorn the Battle of …