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Geosciences Newsletter - Fall 2008, Department Of Geosciences

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Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 8, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.

The 1525 Cromberger Crónica Del Cid: From Press To Lap, Anthony Cárdenas-Rotunno

Research Papers

In light of the 800th anniversary and celebration of the Poema de mio Cid, this study takes into consideration the 1525 version of the Cid legend titled Crónica del muy esforçado cavallero el Cid Ruy Díaz Campeador, exemplar R/26575 of the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. It examines the relationship of woodcuts to text, the relationship of the 1525 version to other versions of the Crónica del Cid as these texts are generally known; and finally discusses notions of diffusion and canonicity as regards this particular work, suggesting that this work, along with other Cidian chronicles may have had more to …

The Changing Context, Denise Fort, Helen Ingram, David Feldman, Nathan Mantua, Katharine L. Jacobs, Nancy Beller-Simms

Faculty Book Display Case

Faced with mounting pressures from a changing climate, an increasing population, a transitory populace, and varying access to available natural resources, decision makers, scientists, and resource managers have an immediate need to understand, obtain, and better integrate climate forecasts and observational data in near- and long-term planning. Reducing our societal vulnerability to variabilities and changes in climate depends upon our ability to bridge the gap between climate science and the implementation of scientific understanding in our management of critical resources, arguably the most important of which is water. Our ability to adapt and respond to climate variability and change depends, …

Toward Using National Cancer Surveillance Data For Preventing And Controlling Cervical And Other Human Papillomavirus-Associated Cancers In The Us, Mona Saraiya, Faruque Ahmed, Mary White, Herschel Lawson, Elizabeth R. Unger, Christie Eheman

United States Public Health Resources

This supplement, known as the ABHACUS (Assessing the Burden of HPV-Associated Cancers in the United States) supplement, contains 22 articles. Together, these articles provide a comprehensive snapshot of data related to the occurrence and control of multiple cancers that have been associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV). These analyses highlight the burden of HPV associated cancers in the US population as a whole and among vulnerable population subgroups. We anticipate that these findings will be an important resource for enhancing existing strategies for the prevention and control of HPV associated cancers.

HPV is estimated to be responsible for 5.2% of …

Labor And Employment Law, Anne Richardson Smith

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

God Seeks And Creates Community , Stephen P. Kristenson

Consensus

Historical series, 17. Sermon prepared for and made available to the congregations of the Synod of Alberta, presented at the festival of The Holy Trinity, 6 Je 2004. Prov 8:1-4; Ps 8; Rom 5:1-5; Jn 16:12-15.

Changes In The Seasonality Of Precipitation Over The Contiguous Usa, S C. Pryor, Justin T. Schoof

Publications

Consequences of possible changes in annual total precipitation are dictated, in part, by the timing of precipitation events and changes therein. Herein, we investigated historical changes in precipitation seasonality over the US using observed station precipitation records to compute a standard seasonality index (SI) and the day of year on which certain percentiles of the annual total precipitation were achieved (percentile day of year). The mean SI from the majority of stations exhibited no difference in 1971–2000 relative to 30-year periods earlier in the century. However, analysis of the day of year on which certain percentiles of annual total precipitation …

Putting Missouri V. Holland On The Map, Edward T. Swaine

Missouri Law Review

While I can think of no fitter setting for a symposium on this important topic, it must be admitted that geographically speaking, Missouri v. Holland disappoints. One thrills to the prospect of a divisive dispute between the State of Missouri and a province of the Netherlands - perhaps a sub-national compact on flood control gone sour? It quickly becomes apparent, though, that "Holland" is merely a lower-level federal official. And Missouri's particulars play a limited role in the case, as suggested by the fact that Kansas came to its side in the Supreme Court proceedings. Those who are not students …

The Economic Empowerment Of Women: The Case Of Working Women’S Forum, India, Shanthi Nachiappan, S.N. Soundara Rajan

Journal of International Women's Studies

Dr.Jaya Arunachalam, recipient of Padmasri founded Working Women’s Forum in 1978 with an objective of social and economic up-liftment of poorest of poor women in Tamilnadu, India. Now WWF has more than 700,000 women members. This case study deals with how technology has helped these micro entrepreneurs to accomplish their business more effectively and efficiently and how it has introduced drastic changes to their lifestyle.

Implications Of Missionary Education For Women In Nigeria: A Historical Analysis, Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo, Mary-Noelle Ethel Ezeh

Journal of International Women's Studies

Education is a key factor in human development and social transformation. The problematic of women development in Nigeria traces its roots in the type of education dispensed by missionary agencies and the British colonial administration. Christian Missionaries were the first to initiate the development of western education in Nigeria. Government participation first took the form of giving limited financial assistance to voluntary agencies and gradually developed into the recognition of education as the responsibility of the Government. The present study is a historical analysis of the evolution of the development of education in Nigeria in relation to the contemporary women …

One Share, One Vote And The False Promise Of Shareholder Homogeneity, Grant M. Hayden, Matthew T. Bodie

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Research Note: Using The Iterate And Dots Databases, Peter A. Flemming, Edward Mickolus, Todd Sandler

Journal of Strategic Security

For more than three decades, Vinyard Software's two ITERATE (International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events) datasets have set the standard in events research for terrorism researchers. It has recently been supplemented by the DOTS (Data on Terrorist Subjects) biographies project, which covers all terrorists, supporters, and other individuals mentioned in the ITERATE project.

Immigration And Political Equality, Michael Blake

San Diego Law Review

The act of immigration alters several forms of human relationship simultaneously. It represents a change in physical location and so alters the relationship between persons represented by geographic concepts such as territory and property. In immigrating, immigrants acquire a new place in the world that they may understand, in some sense of the word, as their own. Immigration also alters a political relationship insofar as the immigrant acquires a new political status in virtue of that new home in the world. The immigrant ought to be understood as creating through the act of immigration a new set of relationships to …

Rural Life Census Data Center Newsletter: The U.S. Census Bureau And American Community Survey: Advantages, Uses, And Limitations, Trevor Brooks, Saileza Khatiwada, Joel Vargas, Michael Mccurry

Census Data Center Newsletter Archive: 2007-2010

The U.S. Census Bureau is supported and funded by the U.S. government and is a widely used source for demographic data. Social, housing, and economic data can easily be obtained from the bureau’s website (www.census.gov). There is broad range of information presented (for example, data on age, sex, household structure, and/or income levels can be shown for any U.S. location [Edmonston and Schultze 1995]). The bureau provides data to the block level (Weeks 2005). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the block is the smallest geographical unit in which census data can be collected. Blocks usually correspond with city blocks …

Unprofitable Lending: Modern Credit Regulation And The Lost Theory Of Usury, Brian M. Mccall

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Urban Sprawl On The Vulnerability To A Significant Tornado Impact In Northeastern Illinois, Walker S. Ashley, Soren G. Hall

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

A sprawling U.S. population continues to spread into the fringes of urban development placing both populations and property in areas that were once largely unoccupied. Population tallies, housing unit totals, and housing values for 1990 and 2000 are examined to determine the extent to which this growth has affected the tornado hazard in northeastern Illinois. The growing town of Plainfield, Ill., located southwest of Chicago, is examined to determine how vulnerability to a tornado impact has changed in the town since an F5 tornado struck the community in 1990. The population and housing data indicate an increase of 8,629 persons …

Ipulse: November 2008, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• November 3, 2008
• November 4, 2008
• November 5, 2008
• November 7, 2008
• November 10, 2008
• November 11, 2008
• November 12, 2008
• November 14, 2008
• November 17, 2008
• November 18, 2008
• November 19, 2008
• November 20, 2008
• November 30, 2008

The Impact Of Hiring Practices On The Employment Of Urban Teachers In Secondary Shortage Areas, Narlene Ragans

Education Doctoral

This study examined the teacher hiring process as one possible cause of urban districts' difficulty to recruit and hire highly qualified teachers. The study examines how new teachers experience the hiring process, reviews the information they receive from the hiring process, and captures teachers' perspectives of how the hiring process assisted them to adjust to their new positions. The following research question guided the study: What are the perceptions ofthe hiring procedures in one Western New York school district among newly hired teachers in secondary subject areas experiencing teacher shortages? The study is a quantitative research project based on findings …

The Pope's Copyright? Aligning Incentives With Reality By Using Creative Motivation To Shape Copyright Protection, Lydia Pallas Loren

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Blanco V. Burton: Louisiana's Struggle For Cooperative Federalism In Offshore Energy Development, Patrick B. Sanders

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

2008 November 11 Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 6, November 11, 2008

University Reporter - Volume 13, Number 03 - November 2008

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about budget cuts at the university, fundraising and grant programs (including the GI Bill), urban schools programs like Teach Next Year, the launch of the Collins Center, the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution program for young Nigerian leaders, and other news from UMass Boston.

Vivo: Simplifying Research Discovery In The Life Sciences, Jaron Porciello, Medha Devare, Jon Corson-Rikert

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Reconsidering Virginia Judicial Selection, Carl W. Tobias

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

International Dateline -- Peer: A European Project To Gather Evidence On The Effects Of Widespread Open Access Publishing, Peter T. Shepherd

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Preparing To Honor The Past In The Future: Collection Development In The History Of The Health Sciences, Melissa M. Nasea, Ruth M. W. Moskop Ph.D.

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

People Profile: Medha Devare, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Roman Imperial Iconography And The Social Construction Of Early Christian Identity , Harry O. Maier

Consensus

Issue topic: Festschrift in honour of Erwin Buck.

Reconsidering Afghanistan: Time For An “Azimuth Check”, Richard Devillafranca

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.