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Understanding "Spanglish" And "Flemch": A Comparative Analysis Of American And Belgian Language Politics, Urvashi Wattal

Macalester International

No abstract provided.

Dewitt Wallace Library Biennial Report 2007-2009, Teresa A. Fishel, Jacquelyn F. Betsworth

Annual Report - DeWitt Wallace Library

This report summarizes the activities in the DeWitt Wallace Library for the years 2007-09. This report is a collaborative effort by the entire staff and features highlights including new services, new people, new collections, new spaces, new technologies, and celebrations.

Eloquence De Rigueur For California Deserts, Robert A. Leidy

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

California’s deserts are characterized by meager rainfall and, consequently, scattered sources of permanent surface water, extreme seasonal and diurnal fluctuations in temperature, diverse landforms, tortured geologic complexity, and myriad biogeochemical interactions. Together these factors support an often unappreciated, yet astonishingly singular and productive, biota. Environmental gradients in deserts are at once subtle and complex, or what author Bruce Pavlik in The California Deserts: an Ecological Rediscovery artfully terms a “conspiracy of extremes.” There have been numerous books written on the natural history of the Earth’s various bioregions, including deserts; however, it is rare that such works have successfully woven ecological …

Wrapped In Pride: Ghanaian Kente And African-American Identity, Booth Library

Wrapped in Pride: Exhibit Booklet

Exhibit Dates

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library February 1 - March 10, 2009

About the Exhibit

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity featured an impressive collection of artifacts and artisan works for Eastern Illinois University's celebration of African American Heritage Month 2009.

The display of so much African weaving close enough to touch was unique for the Charleston region. The exhibit demonstrated the rich cultural heritage of Ghana. The exhibit gave spectators the ability to become more attuned to the art of weaving and use of raw materials to make cloth, skills highly prized in …

The Equity Illusion Of Surface Ownership In Coalbed Methane Gas; The Rise Of Mutual Simultaneous Rights In Mineral Law And The Resulting Need For Dispute Resolution In Split Estate Relations , Lovalerie Mullins

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Classification Of Urban Features Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data, Bharath Ganesh Babu

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Accurate mapping and modeling of urban environments are critical for their efficient and successful management. Superior understanding of complex urban environments is made possible by using modern geospatial technologies. This research focuses on thematic classification of urban land use and land cover (LULC) using 248 bands of 2.0 meter resolution hyperspectral data acquired from an airborne imaging spectrometer (AISA+) on 24th July 2006 in and near Terre Haute, Indiana. Three distinct study areas including two commercial classes, two residential classes, and two urban parks/recreational classes were selected for classification and analysis. Four commonly used classification methods – maximum likelihood (ML), …

Iowa Academy Of Science: The New Bulletin, V05n4, Winter 2009, Iowa Academy Of Science

New Bulletin

Inside This Issue:

--Message from the Executive Director

--President's Message: Each One, Reach One

--122nd Annual Meeting

--Images from the 2009 ISTS Fall Conference

--Excellence in Science Teaching Awards (ESTA)

--Distinguished Science Awards

--IJAS Silent Auction

--Announcements, Events & Deadlines

--IAS Corporate Memberships

Cities, Economic Development, And The Role Of Place-Based Policies: Lessons For Appalachia, Matthew Kahn

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

This paper surveys economic research on the association between economic development and urban areas, links this summary to some important trends in economic outcomes in Appalachia in recent decades, highlights areas in need of future research on the role of urban areas as engines of economic development in Appalachia, and discusses what types of place-based policies might be effective to promote economic growth and development in the Appalachian region.

2008-2009 Nsu Sharks Women's Basketball Media Guide, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Athletics Sports Programs and Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Assessing Facilitating Factors And Barriers To Body Mass Index Screening Among School Nurses, Ann M. Stalter

Nursing Faculty Publications

Child obesity among school age children is epidemic in the United States (U.S.). A critical review of literature was completed that concluded that Body Mass Index (BMI) screening for early identification and growth surveillance is needed for successful school-based obesity prevention intervention programs. This study used total survey design methods to identify the BMI screening practices of school nurses (SNs) and to identify the facilitating factors and barriers to BMI screening in public elementary schools among school age populations. Focus groups were used to identify current BMI screening practice in terms of facilitating factors and barriers. Survey methods were used …

Pathway Of Professionalism - The First Day Of Law School At The University Of Idaho, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

Articles

No abstract provided.

"No Modern Joshua": Nationalization, Scriptures, And Race, Vincent L. Wimbush

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

With the United States as primary context and point of reference, this essay aims to show how inextricably the modern world phenomena of nationalization, scriptures, and race have been inextricably woven together in the United States. The rhetorics and ideological and political orientation of Frederick Douglass offer an analytical wedge. A speech Douglass delivered in Washington, D.C., in 1883 was part of the celebration of the twentieth year of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, an event seen as an appropriate and meaning-charged occasion to take stock of the plight of black peoples in the country. His assessment that in …

Taylor University Online Course Catalog 2009, Taylor University Fort Wayne

Institute of Correspondence Studies

The 2009 catalog of Taylor University Online at Taylor University Fort Wayne.

Inside Stories: Stories Within, Personal Narrative In The Classroom, Carol Block

MA TESOL Collection

This discussion of a project conducted in 2004 involved two ESOL Middle School Students. The project used personal narrative and autobiographical elements to produce booklets based on these students’ experiences which created a bridge into the academic community, for themselves and their families. This paper discusses the elements that made this project successful and the reasons that personal narrative is so powerful and meaningful for all students and, most especially, second language learners.

Accountants' Responsibility For The Information They Report: An Historical Case Study Of Financial Information, Ellen J. Lippman

Accounting Historians Journal

This paper describes an instructional case that uses historical documentation to enable the reader to consider his/her own responsibility for the preparation and reporting of information. In this case, the reader is provided a summarized income statement. Then, as detailed information about the financial statement is introduced, the reader is asked to consider the ethics of preparing and using the statement. The financial statement represents a projected income statement for a Holocaust camp prisoner during World War II. The statement includes anticipated revenue from the selling of body parts upon the prisoner's death, estimated as nine months from the time …

Two More Waves, Grant Hardy

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Robert A. Rees and Eugene England, eds. The Reader's Book of Mormon. and Review of The Book of Mormon. Translated by Joseph Smith. Introduction by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp.

Evaluation Of Total Runoff For The Rio San Pedro Sub-Basin (Nayarit, Mexico) Assessing Their Hydrologic Response Units

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

The Rio San Pedro sub-basin runoff was estimated using the curve number method (NRCS-CN) applied to hydrologic response units (HRU’s), derived from remote sensing and GIS analysis. The sub-basin (around 2900 km²) was delineated from digital elevation models (DEM), that also were used to obtain the slopes in the study area. A landscape characterization (overall accuracy > 80%), based on Landsat ETM+ imagery, was obtained using standard classification methods, and together with a rainfall data series, were the input information for the sub-basin discretization in HRU’s and the runoff calculation. Seventeen HRU’s were obtained, that can be arranged in …

Deathscapes, Topocide, Domicide The Plains In Contemporary Print Media, Christina E. Dando

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

The American print media are a powerful mechanism for communicating information about places and environment to the American public. When it comes to a landscape such as the Great Plains, experienced by many Americans as either sleep-through land in a car or flyover land in a plane, the print media may be their only real source of information about this landscape, excluding 30 second soundbites which occasionally appear in electronic media. Often perceived as monotonous or dull, the Plains has been overlaid with powerful images, of garden or desert, of Dust Bowl or Buffalo Commons. But recent media coverage of …

Sites 2c @ Und, University Of North Dakota

UND Publications

A 2009 brochure for a walking tour of buildings and landmarks on the University of North Dakota campus.

Prism #35, January 2009, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Asian Americans In New England: Culture And Community, Monica E. Chiu

University of New Hampshire Press: Open Access Books

This collection, the first to address Asian and Asian Americans' contributions to New England, highlights a broad range of Asian American communities and historical experiences. From the poignant writings of a young Chinese immigrant to the influence of hip-hop in a New Hampshire Lao community, this original and unique collection seeks to establish a regional template for the study of Asian American lives and art far from the West Coast. These essays provide not just a record of particular achievements but a full and vigorous engagement with Asian American culture along with an analysis of the depiction of Asian Americans …

The "Unnecessary" In-State Relocation Standard, Andrea Niemi, John Jerabek, Andrew Birkeland

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Addressing Business Agility Challenges With Enterprise Systems, D. L. Goodhue, D. Q. Chen, M. C. Boudreau, J. Cochran

Faculty Articles

It is clear that systems agility (i.e., having a responsive IT infrastructure that can be changed quickly to meet changing business needs) has become a critical component of organizational agility. However, skeptics continue to suggest that, despite the benefits enterprise system packages provide, they are constraining choices for firms faced with agility challenges. The reason for this skepticism is that the tight integration between different parts of the business that enables many enterprise systems' benefits also increases the systems' complexity, and this increased complexity, say the skeptics, increases the difficulty of changing systems when business needs change. These persistent concerns …

How Do We Come To Know? Exploring Maple Syrup Production And Climate Change In Near North Ontario, Brenda Murphy, Annette Chrétien, Laura J. Brown

Geography

This paper reports on a pilot project exploring the impacts of climate change on maple syrup production in understudied near north, Ontario spaces. Maple syrup is produced by settler, Métis and First Nations communities for commercial distribution and as part of a mixed subsistence economy. The focus on maple syrup is opportune, since syrup production and sugar maple trees (Acer saccharum) are extremely susceptible to climate change and the biophysical and social impacts of climate change on maple syrup production in the near north of Ontario have yet to be understood. Given that the process of developing research …

Sustainable Trail Management: A Transdisciplinary Approach, Sinead O'Connor-Gotra

Theses, Doctoral

The research reported has created a holistic model for sustainable trail management that is broader than the quantitative assessment of ecological trail degradation. The range of quantitative and qualitative results gathered show that a more realistic treatment of sustainable trail management needs is achieved through a qualitative, participative and flexible research process. The investigation focuses primarily on the assessment of trail degradation in the uplands of Co. Wicklow, Ireland where signs of deterioration have been observed as a consequence of recreational use. The nature and extent of trail degradation was assessed using a variety of techniques including qualitative and quantitative …

The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers topics in American history from the Enlightenment to the Modern Era, 1700-2009. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.

The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test. Section 3: 1914-1933 The Legacy Of The Great War, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from section 3 of the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers the legacy of the Great War from 1914-1933. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.

The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test. Section 2: 1890-1920 Industrialization And Imperialism, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from section 2 of the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers Industrialization and Imperialism from 1890-1920. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.

Of Spanish Cows, Wild Boars, Unpredictable Weather, And Other Oddities, Lydia Sanchez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this collection of connected stories, the inhabitants of the imaginary Mediterranean village of Marcenac struggle with daily situations that often take allures of a farce, simply because they occur in Marcenac. The stories explore the influence southern France's Roussillon region has on people, the way the proximity of the Spanish border and the Mediterranean shapes the inhabitants of Marcenac's daily lives, and the influence of the climate. Often, the Tramontane, the region's predominant wind, becomes a character. While some of the stories are told from a collective point of view, others reveal the inner thoughts of children and adults, …

‘Whore-Friendly People’: Heritage Tourism, The Media And The Place Of Sex Work In Butte, Montana, Christina E. Dando

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

In 1997, the International Sex Workers Foundation for Arts, Culture and Education (ISWFACE) began the process of purchasing a historic parlor house brothel (the Dumas) in Butte, Montana to create a cultural center and museum. This business transaction drew national and international attention while Butte citizens questioned the presence of ISWFACE in their community. Using media accounts of the Dumas, I examine the framing of sex work and its place in the heritage tourism landscape of the American West. The case of the Dumas captures the complicated relationship between history, a community, tourism and the media on local as well …