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Bringing Home The Trash: Do Differences In Foraging Lead To Increased Plastic Ingestion In Laysan Albatrosses?, L C. Young, C Vanderlip, D C. Duffy, V Afanasyev, Scott A. Shaffer

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

When searching for prey, animals should maximize energetic gain, while minimizing energy expenditure by altering their movements relative to prey availability. However, with increasing amounts of marine debris, what once may have been ‘optimal’ foraging strategies for top marine predators, are leading to sub-optimal diets comprised in large part of plastic. Indeed, the highly vagile Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) which forages throughout the North Pacific, are well known for their tendency to ingest plastic. Here we examine whether Laysan albatrosses nesting on Kure Atoll and Oahu Island, 2,150 km apart, experience different levels of plastic ingestion. Twenty two geolocators were …

Little Ice Age Glacial Geomorphology And Sedimentology Of Portage Glacier, South-Central Alaska., João Santos, Carlos Cordova

Faculty Publications

The study of glacial landforms and deposits is important, as it is difficult to observe processes under modern glaciers and ice-sheets. Thus landscapes and sediments that are the product of present glaciation can give insight into processes that occurred during Pleistocene times. This study investigates the genesis of little ice age glacial landforms present in Portage Glacier, South-Central Alaska. The present day moraine morphology and sedimentology in Portage Glacier valley reveals the presence of two types of till and moraines. The clast-rich sandy diamicton present on the 1852 moraine is interpreted to be a basal till indicating this feature is …

Appalachian Origin Moderates The Association Between School Connectedness And Gpa, Steffan Wilson, Jonathan S. Gore

Psychology Faculty and Staff Research

The relationship between connectedness to the university, Appalachian regional origin, and self-reported GPA was investigated in two studies. Both studies found that the association between school connectedness and GPA was positive among Appalachian students. However, counter to previous research, there was no association among the non-Appalachian students.

2009: Final Report "Is It Time To Change The Drinking Age In The United States?"

CACTUS--Citizens' Assembly for Critical Thinking About the United States

The 2009 Citizens' Assembly for Critical Thinking about the United States must study proposals for changing the current legal drinking age, identify and analyze the perceived problems leading to these proposals as well as arguments in support of the current legal drinking age, and decide if a change is warranted, at what level of government should it be implemented, and whether other provisions should be mandated as part of the change.

The Costs Of Hurricane Emergency Management Services: A Risk-Based Method For Calculating Property Owners' Fair Share, Robert E. Deyle, Richard A. Smith, Michael R. Boswell, E. Jay Baker, Mary Kay Falconer, Joseph A. Macdonald

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

In Situ Bioremediation Of Perchlorate In Soil And Groundwater, David Christopher Bertolacci

Theses Digitization Project

This project conducted a technology assessment for in-situ bioremediation of perchlorate in soil and groundwater and assessed the suitability of electon donor amendments.

Alpine Ecology Of A C4 Grass, Muhlenbergia Richardsonis In The White Mountains Of California, Archie Thomas Meyer

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis was to understand how this unusual C₄ alpine grass, Muhlenbergia Richardsonis, persists in the alpine zone along the western slope of California's White Mountains.

Cyanide Analysis In Wastewater, Heather Marie Lutes

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to look at and determine the methods that would best prevent the occurrence of false readings durring testing and analysis of cyanide in wastewater. This project was designed to help those wastewater treatment plants in the Santa Ana Watershed who are in the process of developing a uniform method that minimizes or eliminates interferences currently found. Eastern Municipal District, Inland Empire Utilities agency, Orange County Water District, San Bernardino Valley Municipal, Water District, and Western Municipal Water District all are members of the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA).

The Napoleonic Egyptian Scientific Expdition And The Ninetenth-Century Survey Museum, Erin A. Peters

Theses

No abstract provided.

Presumpscot River Watershed Cd Resource Guide For Teachers, A Product Of The Presumpscot River Targeted Watershed Initiative Grant, Robert M. Sanford Phd, Sarah Plummer, Rosemary Mosher, Matthew Craig

Publications

Overview

This CD resource guide accompanies a series of maps made available to teachers1 for educational use. The maps cover basic geographical data within the Presumpscot watershed in southern Maine, including past and present settlement patterns, dam location, population density, surface water quality classifications, and amount of land that has been paved over or built upon (impervious surfaces). Scientists, scholars, conservation experts, land use managers, and the public use such maps to understand resource issues and help make better decisions about them. This CD provides opportunities for students to explore environmental issues in their own watershed using a Geographic Information …

Bryophytes Of Adjacent Serpentine And Granite Outcrops On The Deer Isles, Maine, U.S.A, Laura R. E. Briscoe, Tanner B. Harris, William Broussard, Eva Dannenberg, Fred C. Olday, Nishanta Rajakaruna

Biological Sciences

The serpentine-substrate effect is well documented for vascular plants, but the literature for bryophytes is limited. The majority of literature on bryophytes in extreme geoedaphic habitats focuses on the use of species as bioindicators of industrial pollution. Few attempts have been made to characterize bryophyte floras on serpentine soils derived from peridotite and other ultramafic rocks. This paper compares the bryophyte floras of both a peridotite and a granite outcrop from the Deer Isles, Hancock County, Maine, and examines tissue elemental concentrations for select species from both sites. Fifty-five species were found, 43 on serpentine, 26 on granite. Fourteen species …

Interleukin-1 Beta Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism's C Allele Is Associated With Elevated Risk Of Gastric Cancer In Helicobacter Pylori-Infected Peruvians, Sebastian Gehmert, Billie Velapatiño, Phabiola Herrera, Jaqueline Balqui, Livia Santivañez, Jamie Cok, Gloria Vargas, Juan Combe, Douglas J. Passaro, Sijin Wen, Frank Meyer, Douglas E. Berg, Robert H. Gilman

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

The Archaeology And Geography Of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies V. 1: Foundations Of Research And Regional Survey In The Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia, Pavel Avetisi︠A︡N

Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)

v. 1 : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 31 cm.

An Inventory And Condition Survey Of The Lower Murchison River Area, Western Australia, P Hennig

Technical Bulletins

The inventory and condition survey of the lower Murchison River area, undertaken by the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA) between 2002 and 2003, describes and maps the natural resources of the region’s pastoral leasehold land. This survey report provides a baseline record of the existence and condition of the natural area’s resources, to assist with the planning and implementation of land management practices. The report identified and described the condition of soils, landforms, vegetation, habitat, ecosystems, and declared plants and animals. It also assessed the impact of pastoralism and made land management recommendations. This survey report presents …

Citizen Sensing, Social Signals, And Enriching Human Experience, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

In this article, I introduce the exciting paradigm of citizen sensing enabled by mobile sensors and human computing - that is, humans as citizens on the ubiquitous Web, acting as sensors and sharing their observations and views using mobile devices and Web 2.0 services.

Book Review, Christian D. Nokkentved Ph.D.

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Bordering Capabilities Versus Borders: Implications For National Borders, Saskia Sassen

Michigan Journal of International Law

A core argument of this Essay is that the capability to make borderings has itself switched organizing logics: from institutionalizing the perimeter of a territory to multiplying transversal borderings cutting across that perimeter. This switch is partly linked to the types of scalar shifts in the operational space of a growing number of systems. To the more economic systems already mentioned above, let me add such diverse instances as the policing of the illegal drug trade, the war on terror, the judicial and political struggle to protect human rights, and the environmental effort to reorganize transnational economic sectors, including the …

Jurisdiction Without Territory: From The Holy Roman Empire To The Responsibility To Protect, Anne Orford

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Essay focuses upon one contemporary manifestation of that ongoing battle over the relationship between jurisdiction and control over territory-the emergence and institutionalization of the "responsibility to protect" concept. The idea that States and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations has shaped internationalist debates about conflict prevention, the use of force, and international administration since its development by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) in 2001. The responsibility to protect concept is premised on the notion, to quote former Secretary- General Kofi Annan, that "the primary raison d'être and duty" of every State is …

Development Of A Distributed Artificial Neural Network For Hydrologic Modeling, Rebecca Logsdon

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Hydrological models are used to represent the rainfall-runoff and pollutant transport mechanisms within watersheds. Accurate representation of these dynamic and complex natural processes within a watershed is an important step in managing and protecting a watershed Artificial neural network (ANN) models are often used in hydrologic modeling. Typical ANN models are trained to use lumped data. However, watershed characteristics used as inputs in hydrological modeling are spatially and often temporally dynamic. Therefore, a lumped model does not have the ability to represent changes in spatial dynamics of a watershed. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop and test …

2008-09 Delaware Study Report, Office Of The Controller, Wright State University

Delaware Study

A comparative analysis of faculty teaching loads and direct instructional cost at the level of academic discipline 2008-2009.

Field Research Experience: Earth Science And Iowa Core Curriculum, Michael Goudy

Graduate Research Papers

Due to the retirement of the former earth science teacher I was given the opportunity to take over the earth science elective classes. Oskaloosa Senior High School is based on a trimester school year. The third trimester earth science course was formerly called Wilderness Adventures. I renamed the course as Field Research Experience. This added greater value due to emphasis on more science skills and possible career application. As an active outdoorsman and former Boy Scout leader I was excited to incorporate the skills needed to enjoy outdoor recreation into those required of persons involved in doing scientific field research.

Investigation Of Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions Generated Through The Production Of Portland Cement And A Comparison Of Mitigation Strategies, Sheri Marie Haggard

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project investigates the projected anthropogenic C⁰² emissions generated through the production of Portland cement at three manufacturing facilities in southern California. Research consisted of projecting annual greenhouse gas emission inventories for three case studies pursuant to Assembly Bill 32, The Global Warming Solution Act of 2006, which requires mandatory reporting of large producers of greenhouse gas emissions in California.

Learning Is The Greatest Adventure: A History Of College Of Dupage, 1966-2006, William Benton Whisenhunt

History Scholarship - Books

College of DuPage History Professor W. Ben Whisenhunt's book on the History of the College of DuPage.

Addams And Dewey: Pragmatism, Expression, And Community, Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Chicago in the 1890s was home to two remarkable institutions, started by two remarkable activist-philosophers, experimenting with ideas and with social change. The first was Hull House, a social settlement, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889. The second was the Laboratory School, an experimental school opened in 1896 by John Dewey, along with teachers Katherine Camp Mayhew and Anna Camp Edwards. Interaction was constant between the residents of Hull House and the teachers of the Laboratory School, as the participants learned from and taught each other. Through Hull House and the Laboratory School, Addams and Dewey …

Ecolopolis 4.0: Livability In Cascadia, Portland State University

Regional Planning and Metropolitan Growth Management Research Projects

This is a working document and is the forth report in this series. This document examines the implications for Cascadia of the new federal livability partnership between the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Transportation. This new interest in the role that Federal agencies can and should play in furthering goals for livability and smart growth presents Cascadia and other megaregions an opportunity to articulate their own livability agendas in anticipation of new initiatives emanating from Washington, DC.

This version, 4.0, has been produced by the Fall 2009 class and is edited …

The Architecture Of The Great House In The Contemporary Postcolonial Novel, Julie Kloo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project explores the use of the symbol of the Western European Great House by contemporary postcolonial novelists and consists of four chapters, each focusing on the ways that the power structures connected to the Great House impact the lives of the characters in four different postcolonial locations: Ireland, South Africa, Puerto Rico, and India. The use of the Western European Great House in Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation (1994), André Brink's Imaginings of Sand (1996), Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon (1995), and Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) reveals the continuing impact of colonial power …

No Cop On The Beat: Underenforcement In E-Commerce And Cybercrime, Peter Swire

Colorado Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Human Rights And Arctic Resources, Rebecca Bratspies

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

2009-2010 Graduate Catalog, Northern Illinois University

Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Torture Memos: Perceptual Filters, Cultural Commitments, And Partisan Identity, Cassandra Burke Robertson

Faculty Publications

Who should face accountability for the mistreatment of prisoners in the war on terror? Five years ago, the scope of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib was first revealed; this year, the Justice Department admitted that a single suspect was waterboarded 183 times. Some at the bottom of the political hierarchy have already been convicted for their participation in prisoner abuse. Those closer to the top of the political hierarchy also find their actions subject to scrutiny, as the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility is carrying out an investigation into the professional conduct of the lawyers who authored the …